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For the second year, I’m following Tom Whitwell’s lead and keep track of some things I learned throughout 2025. Be sure to read his list for this year. Once again, my list has far fewer than one-per-week (it even has fewer than my skimpy...
Well well well, despite all the delays, I managed to push quite a bit of blogposts last week! And now a new it is time for weeknotes again, can you believe it? It’s fine though, even though I was a little late last time, and I didn’t...
I am not snobbish about the television shows I watch. I don't declare a new series to be a failure if it isn't the second coming of The Wire. Sure, some shows are just watchable, while others make me count down the days until the next...
Here’s a fun post by Andrew Plotkin. He’s a late riser, so the shortest day of the year, which is on the solstice, means nothing to him. He’s interested in the date of the earliest sunset, because that means his sunlight hours will be...
Video: https://youtu.be/bcYJY7Ci9i8?si=vmNhbY8XkmErkgUfTaylor Bell Running the NYC MarathonI couldn’t walk a mile if you paid me to do so. But I found this video incredibly inspiring.
It has become apparent that these links are not of the week or month but whenever I have the need to share. So here we go. Otherworldly Photos of Forests by Michelle Blancke Explore Mysticism and Transformation via Colossal. Just...
The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI – The Atlantic: James Bedford, an educator at the University of New South Wales who is focused on developing AI strategies for the classroom, started using LLMs almost daily after ChatGPT’s...
If you have a long password, running a command with sudo can be a bit of a pain. Luckily if you have a recent Macbook with Touch ID you can use it for sudo as well. Just run the following command:
pkethWhen that happens, companies (especially the VC-backed kind) now need to contrive new and increasingly stick-like reasons for customers to pay again. From made-for-marketing ‘features’ that suck to use IRL, to breaking compatibility...
The Holy Bible is a collection of books. So I have split them up. I will read it in 1 year, every day ~15 minutes of reading. Why read it? The Letter to the Philippians is Paul’s joyful note from a Roman prison around 61–62 AD. He thanks...
You make yourself happy. Happiness is a self decision :)
A Pickleball Christmas: just one of the dozens of made-for-tv movies in the crop for this Christmas. I was dumbfounded when an ad for it came up repeatedly on the Lifetime network. What next?, I wondered, will there be A Grand Theft Auto...
All the Spotify Wrappeds have dropped, so for the past week I've had at least one student a day show me theirs - and ask to see mine. They get very confused when I tell them I don't have Spotify. They get even more confused when I tell...
Llevo un ratote evitando hablar de política. No porque no me importe, sino porque más de una vez me ha traído discusiones innecesarias con amigos, conocidos y gente cercana. Y este blog tampoco ha sido un espacio donde suela meterme a...
We’ve always been able to search for details about famous people on the internet. “When was Albert Einstein born?” has always returned “March 14, 1879”. However, Google’s AI mode will also happily answer questions about every day people,...
博客静态资源缓存问题 TL;DR 博客的图片由于设置了 cache-control public,max-age=31536000,immutable ，导致一直使用缓存的图片，而不会更新。 我的解决办法是给图片资源添加 ?timestamp=xxxx 的后缀，让浏览器识别到是一个新的资源，从而触发更新。 前些天在折腾 ImageMagick，看看能不能把 Album Wall...
Cometi um dos maiores crimes que nunca imaginei que cometeria: estou usando um navegador baseado no Chromium. Depois de tantos anos usando Firefox, recomendando Firefox, migrando pessoas para o Firefox, agora estou usando Vivaldi, um...
I took a microeconomics class my first semester of college as an undergraduate. It was part of the core curriculum requirements. I found it incredibly boring. My distaste for it was part of the motivation for me to declare a major in...
December 2025. Whitstable. “Sittingbourne !!! Why on EARTH would I want to go there ?” said Mrs RM, crossing the road to Whitstable Spoons. And so I left her to charge her phone in the Peter Cushing while I nipped to the Park Tavern on...
It’s Blogvent, day 9, where I blog daily in December! CSS animations are cool, but sometimes you want them to just cool it. You can pause them by using the getAnimations() method! When you call getAnimations() on an element, you get an...
Two weeks ago I added dark mode to this website. It was late one night and I was revisiting an article and my eyes were tired, so that was that. It was based solely on system dark mode settings, and I started using some more nice, modern...
Google anunció a comienzo del otoño que prepara un nuevo sistema operativo para PC. En realidad, su idea es unificar Android y ChromeOS, accediendo así a un campo controlado por Microsoft y Windows desde hace décadas. Qualcomm se...
On December 8th 2009 the first strip of UnCONventional went online. UnCONventional wasn't the first webcomic I ever attempted (the first was "Room 825" which ran for a few months back in the year 2000), but it's the first one that stuck...
The only reason me and my partner considered a PC was playing games. If the Steam Machine can also be easily used to stream/record gameplay, and maybe even run Discord too, there’s no longer a reason for me to see Windows again in the...
Dead Man's Folly by Agatha ChristieI was a reader of Christie long before I saw any of the film or TV adaptations, so I formed my own imaginary versions of her characters long before I saw any actors interpreting them. But for some...
It started with a broken hinge in our kitchen cabinet. I am no handyman, but I like to do as much as I can around the house and I dare say I’ve gotten pretty okay at it. The one thing that can set me back, though, is not knowing the...
📚 Book 25 of 2025 - Finished: House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas (4.5/5⭐) After finishing the Throne of Glass series, I debated with myself whether I wanted to start book 1 of Crescent City at all. It took some convincing to...
With push! from miscmacros you can cons onto that particular name whereas with mutate-cons! defined like this: (define (mutate-cons! val lis) (set-cdr! lis (cons (car lis) (cdr lis))) (set-car! lis val)) You can change all instances of...
When choosing a machine, you face the Trilemma Of Choice: The Computing Constraint Trilemma# Portability - weight, battery life, form factor Performance - CPU headroom, GPU capability, thermal sustained load Economy - initial cost,...
I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book to raise the Ghost of an Idea which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their house pleasantly, and no one wish...
From Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership, by Chris at Entropic Thoughts: In my book, a good leader coaches people, connects people, [. . .] creates direct links between supply and demand (instead of deliberately making...
Title: Sam Smith Website: sams96.github.io RSS Feed: sams96.github.io/index.xml My personal blog, just writing about whatever I find interesting. So far that's photography and programming. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Day 12/06/2025 - Maractus The work continues!! Another random number generator find - I guess I'm not surprised there are cactus pokemon but I've never seen any before...
The Republic of Venice issued a wide range of coins, of many, and changing, denominations, including the ducato, scudo, soldo, lira, and many more.
A year ago, I tested the responses from Google's Vision API using a tool called They See Your Photos which showed Google's analysis was riddled with inaccuracies and weird judgements. I ran another experiment this year to see what, if...
After Devtoberfest comes TechEd and the long tail of conferences that lead into the holiday season. Then comes the new year, and a restart of our long running live stream show "Hands-on SAP Dev" on the SAP Developers YouTube channel....
“What did the Buddhist say to the hot-dog vendor?” “Make me one with everything.” And then, somebody’s later addition… The hot-dog vendor makes him his hot-dog with all the trimmings, and says, “That’ll be $7.50.” The Buddhist reaches...
Christmas bells outside the Holy Sepulchre Church in the City of London. The past couple of weeks have given us properly grotty weather. Wind and rain with a few days of freezing temperatures thrown in. This was another busy week where...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 640 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla,...
ATUIN WRAPPED 2025 Your Year in Shell History In 2025, you typed 55465 commands! That's ~151 commands every day Your Top Commands: [] 9998 vim [ ] 4772 git status [ ] 4634 rg [ ] 2823 git diff [ ] 1966 cd [ ] 1924 ls [ ] 1493 git co [ ]...
New and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, and more—including, now, a section on recently published open access philosophy books (if you tell us about them). This update...
BowieNet version 3. Screenshot circa September 2003, via Web Design Museum. At the end of July 2003, in the lead-up to the release of David Bowie's latest album, Reality, BowieNet teased members with a promotional splash page and a new...
I finished the video game Stray tonight and thought the ending was rewarding — Edie was even glued to the screen during the last few chapters. Two thumbs and two paws up!Currently Listening: Yann Van Der Cruyssen “Stray (Original...
Snakes in SuitsUnderstanding and Surviving the Psychopaths in Your OfficeAuthors: Paul Babiak, Robert D. Hare I read the Polish translation titled “Psychopaci w pracy: Jak ich rozpoznać i jak sobie z nimi radzić”. Psychopaci w pracyJak...