Thu Dec 18
I haven't been posting lately, I know... This is kinda related to a lot of stuff I've been doing with both my life and my job recently, but this isn't what I'm here to talk about today. Since I'm really far from my country now, enjoying some vacay and visiting other places, I’ve noticed how small we are. I'm kinda...
Album#13 The Études 图1 《The Études》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称：The Études 歌手：Joyce Cheung (張貝芝) 年份：2024-03-06 风格：爵士、古典、纯音乐、钢琴曲 时长：约 70 分钟 之前分享了 JOYCE 的 Album#12 - 才華換桃花(Talent Flower)，再分享一张 Joyce 的专辑，不过这个 Joyce 叫 Joyce Cheung。 《The Études》即「练习曲」的意思，专辑整体来说是一张钢琴曲，结合了古典和爵士，搭配提琴、鼓、贝斯等乐器，是一张听起来很舒服的专辑。 如果你喜欢一些爵士的话，应该会挺喜欢这张专辑的。 《The...
The past few months, I have thought a lot about aging, retirement and disability a lot. I’m often surrounded by people who take their health for granted, and where degenerative effects on the body are something they leave to their future selves to deal with, being almost in denial that it will happen. There is...
I’ve been reading on a Kobo Libra Colour for more than a year. It has wonderfully clicky buttons, a nicely textured back, a well thought-out “origami” cover, outstanding battery life, a more than decent reading environment, and a well-stocked bookshop. I like it! You shouldn’t buy it. In fact, you shouldn’t buy any...
Here’s a curated collection of reels because I don’t want to work. Astor Piazzolla explaining (in an uncanny level of English) the origins of the Argentine “bandoneón” An allegory of the place I’m currently living in, soon to stop being a mere allegory I’m afraid if things keep going the way they are Contrast: the...
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“Is there something in my teeth?” “Dude, can’t you just be normal for like, one second?” 📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 502 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/9 – ISO 400 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla...
A Discord debian repository, set up to keep Discord up to date on Debian and Ubuntu based GNU/Linux systems. Without the need for Snap or Flatpak. Hopefully another easy method to keep Discord up to date on Debian based systems.
🗓️//December Audition Round-up A roundup of auditions, recalls, and booked jobs from December 2025 Published by AHE. on 19th December 2025 Auditions - 0 No auditions this month, and on reflection that's probably been a good thing. As it is every year, December is deceptively busy. For some reason I thought taking on...
Esta semana me tocó vivir una situación algo incómoda y algo hiriente. No puedo dar muchos detalles, más allá de que en mi trabajo estamos desarrollando un e-commerce para un cliente en Estados Unidos. El punto es que había que hacer la carga del catálogo de productos en la plataforma y para ello, el cliente nos...
A couple of days ago - in light of Mozilla (once again) doubling down in poor decision making - I was saying how it’s a good idea to donate to alternative projects instead, every time Mozilla fails us. But all joking aside, given the state of the world, it’s indeed a good time to support our best shots at...
Because I’m nothing if not predictable: of course I had to watch this one after all the noise about Heated Rivalry I haven’t Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston, the genre romance novel that this movie is based on (footnote 1), so I cannot speak to how well it may or may not have been adapted; what I can say...
In 1981, a new TV station dedicated to playing music videos appeared in the US. It famously started its programme by playing The Buggles' Video Killed the Radio Star. In 1987, MTV Europe began its broadcast with an equally fitting video: the Dire Straits song Money for Nothing, which opens with the line "I want my...
Fix ZSH ‘illegal modifier’ errors with Git Conventional Commits by disabling the NO_BANG_HIST option.
Technically, zuihitsu are longer reflections than what I tend to collect. But, the general idea is right. Here’s this month’s installment. If you want the complete set, please download the fortune file. History doesn’t turn on hunger. It turns on humiliation. Transparency loses to power unless failure becomes...
I felt the aches and the limits of templating languages since my very first website made with Jekyll. At the time, I was super scared of any sort of language beyond Liquid, and this is how I got comfortable, but also stuck, with it. What if I want to do something that is not possible to do in Liquid, or if it...
I spent all year whining about stuff I hate, so here's a list of stuff I didn't hate. Not everything was released in 2025, but it's all stuff I happened to stumble across this year that made a lasting impression. The key word here is lasting as I consume a ton of content every year, but most of it gets filtered out...
A relative bought us movie tickets to see Avatar: Fire and Ash with them on Christmas Day. Since I have never seen the first two films, I thought it would be a good idea to catch up. So I subscribed to Disney+ for a month (and promptly cancelled) and finally watched Avatar and its sequel Avatar: The Way of Water...
Social media is a hellhole, even Mastodon. I mute toots based on words usage and since Ruben has their public, so why not me?! Catsofmastodon Caturday Charlie Kirk Goodreads Kamala Word puzzle abotak bluesky bsky hangtrek jewdle kamalharris pastpuzzle puzzles trump wordle
There are good reasons why these handsets are so popular with de-Googlers, even if we have to grit our teeth and try to ignore the vendor.
Parece surreal que já fazem seis meses que eu comecei a fazer esses posts de recomendações musicais. Nesse meio tempo eu já pensei em desistir, já me empolguei na quantidade (esse mês). E já considerei fazer um programa de rádio mensal com as recomendações. Assim eu poderia explicar o que me faz gostar de cada faixa...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: What could I possibly say that could even begin to sum up 2025, other than to remind (caution? warn?) you that it’s not over yet? Keep your head on a swivel, and as always, thanks for reading! _ONE The dystopian Pottersville in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is starting to feel...
Just wanted to complain a little, bear with me. Something that pisses me off to the moon and back is when people say your disability is a "superpower". With all due respect, super power my ass. It's called a disability for a reason. It's disabling. It prevents me from doing things as they should be done. It stops me...
It’s Blogvent, day 19, where I blog daily in December! If you’ve bounced around GitHub before, it’s likely you’ve seen a .github/ folder at the top-level of a repository. You might have even seen a .github repository in some organizations! This is incredibly hard to look up online, as you can imagine. It’s even...
Nothing changes the history of the world more profoundly than changing the landscape of permission and possibility for people — what is possible and permissible for whom in a given culture. And no one has changed the history of the world more profoundly than the people who, with the self-permission to defy the...
There's this tenacious idea that in an unequal society, those at the top are the winners. That is, if you manage to avoid oppression, and if you manage to do the oppressing yourself, then you've got yourself a good life. I'm a white man in an affluent country, and I'm here to tell you why that's bullshit. Why that's...
Just kidding. But it’s a happy 20th annivesary to the little interactive explainer I made of Fitts’ Law back in 2005! It’s charming in a sort of early-web kinda way, but still holds up – at least on bigger screens. I even ran it on my iPad and it worked. #marcin wichary #principles
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve been meaning to follow up on the “sense of structure” post I wrote just after Thanksgiving. I don’t have anything profound to say, but I did want to give complete...
Libros leídos en 2025 Al igual que hice al terminar el año pasado voy a utilizar el blog para dejar por aquí la lista de libros que he leído este año. El 2025 ha sido un gran año lector, de eso no tengo duda. Digo esto, primero por los 45 libros que he leído (nunca había llegado a esa cifra), sino porque también ha...
Last year I wrote my first music recap and I had so much fun so I'm planning to continue it for the next years. This year I gave up on Spotify and because of this I would no longer have a Spotify wrapped, I'll still have one from YouTube, but besides statistics, I want to write what I think was my music recap, what...
Me-maintain kosmetik yang saya miliki menjadi salah satu tujuan saya di tahun 2025. Sesuai rencana, tahun ini saya nggak terlalu banyak beli beauty products karena fokus untuk menghabiskan produk yang dimiliki. Selain itu, saya juga bereksperimen dengan membeli merek yang murah dulu untuk memastikan apakah produk...
Manuel Moreale: How about, instead of preventing “the kids” from accessing social media, we go in the opposite direction and keep all the adults out? Wouldn’t that be wonderful? You also get the added benefit of kicking probably billions of people off social media, and that would for sure screw with the finances of...
December 2025. Bexhill-on-Sea. Mrs RM enjoyed our lunchtime in Sussex-by-the-Sea, remembering the times that her aunt (it was probably her granny but I’m not strong on genealogy) took her to Bexhill for whatever people used to do at the seaside in the 70s. Look out to sea and shout at France, I guess. The houses on...
Prepare for That Stupid World You probably heard about the Wall Street Journal story where they had a snack-vending machine run by a chatbot created by Anthropic. At first glance, it is funny and it looks like journalists doing their job criticising the AI industry. If you are curious, the video is there (requires...
Red and gold maple leaves scattered along the path at Ryoanji Temple. 龍安寺の地面に敷き詰められた赤と金のもみじ。
Thou shalt not believe in that which cannot be demonstrated empirically Thou shalt not worship anyone, regardless of their social influence Thou shalt strive to improve the situation for everyone, including yourself Thou shalt allow yourself rest and hydration Thou shalt leave yourself open to possibilities Thou...
Flora Botanical Incense is the brainchild of Alyssa Severeid, who is also behind the Incense Explorer podcast[1]. I’d been keen to try her sticks for some time, but I admit the price tag kept me at bay until a recent sale. Not long after ordering I was delighted to receive a rather pretty compostable mailer along...
Straive is a firm that uses AI to, among other things, help publishers with various tasks “across the publishing value chain”. One of its clients is Springer Nature, the publisher of many philosophy journals. Recently, Harry R. Lloyd, assistant professor of philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill, had an article accepted for...
Hyperlinks Should Have Context 2025-12-18 While poorly implemented links can cause minor annoyances for users, improper interactive links can often lead to a loss of users. That’s why, if you have interactive links on a website or application, it helps to include detailed context. This avoids incorrect actions being...
I caught an advert for Google AI × Netflix × Stranger Things or something that said (paraphrasing) "3000 minutes of Stranger Things between you and the finale? You can summarise each episode in a sentence with Google AI! 🎉" And, like, what is the fucking point in that? Either watch the show or don't! I presume it's...
Finally, on the very last day for me in the office this year, I managed some collaboration. Oh, the irony! Just when I posted about the lack thereof YESTERDAY MORNING! Maybe, just maybe this is how the universe works. You’ve got to speak it/think it and it will manifest, right there and then. OK then, in that case:...