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I had the pleasure to collaborate with tony-btw on a Christmas stream, where we discussed all things free and open source, Nix, Guix, BSD, programming languages, screens, philosophy and more. You can follow Tony here. Merry Christmas to...
After launching MN Coffee I decided to create the New York City version of the app to display all the coffee shops around New York City.
My latest book is out: Reflections Upon the Anniversary of My Descent. This is kicking off a new series, the Cambion Chronicles, but still in the same Vestiges of Magic world as the Revenant Records. Series pitch: In the shadows of the...
Some time ago, a friend of mine and I hired a helicopter to fly us from Vienna to Wrocław. The story regarding this is, in my humble opinion, extremely funny, albeit long. Therefore, I decided to write it up so that instead of explaining...
I am reminded by Amanda Walker that today is DEC-20 Day — it’s the date, kids — causing me to recall times working at research labs that used DEC-20s as their shared workhorse machines. This DEC-20 brought me two cartoons, the first a...
This is so sad. These people are so smart they manage to work around not being able to read or write. But what's sadder is how no one could see their struggles and help. What's sadder even is that it is still happening. While all I have...
This page references my ListenBrainz Profile and my favourite albums page. With the year winding down, it is time to talk tunes. That seems to be the trend at least. I have never used a music streaming service, but I did use Last.fm...
the rolling tide has crept in, and out forth, and back, seventeen times. ~ seventeen times, since i have last drawn my fingers across the bubbling froth it carries and dared dip them beneath, to carve sweet nothings into the soft sand...
Photo by Randy Jacob Happy solstice! The shortest day of the year is a fine day to think back on another time 'round the sun. What's gone on with me and the FOSS Academic dream this past year?
I use Windows for work (I have a laptop which belongs to the firm). When it is update time, I often wonder how the world copes. It is utterly amazing how much time it takes to apply a Windows update when compared to, say, a Linux update....
Title: Dirchansky freetalk Website: dirchansky.com/freetalk RSS Feed: dirchansky.com/freetalk/rss.xml Personal life updates and stuff I make (art, comics, zines, crafts, etc.) RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing...
Iocane as a tool to prevent AI bots from scraping your website, and feed the bots endless gibberish instead, to poison their data. The name Iocane is derived from Princess Bride.
"Merry Xmas Everybody" by Slade There's a line in this song that says “Does Granny always tell you the old songs are the best?” which is funny because now this is the "old song" my kids' Granny thinks is best. Anyway, is it really...
Note: This dialogue has been condensed from a multi-model transcript. The original conversation involved recursive loops where models (Grok, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot) read each other’s outputs, lost track of their own identities, and...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/9 – ISO 640 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla,...
It’s been a good start to the field season, incredible competent logistics, great field equipment, super helpful colleagues and incredible food by the station cook. For the first time ever I suspect I’ll be putting on weight in the...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters takes the form of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior tempter. Screwtape gives advice on how to lead a human patient away from God and towards...
In the past week, I've seen AI generated ads in the last place I thought I would: TV. Two of the ads were obviously AI: the subjects were stiff, smooth and glossy, with quick cuts to 'ooh-ahh' you into buying thier product while hiding...
Upon writing the date for today's entry, I realized that today is the first day of winter. That's a nice thing. Today, then, signals a transition of some kind. A transition into what? I'm not sure, but a transition nonetheless. That's...
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya: How To Celebrate ‘Carol’ Day, Which Is Today! A very happy Carol Day to all who celebrate. 👭 SFMTA board poised to approve another fare increase, by Scott Feeney. [The] overall picture was that of an agency staff...
Last weekend, I didn’t feel like doing a long hike. The weather seemed uninviting, or perhaps I was just feeling lazy. Work had drained much of my energy, and the thought of a demanding trek didn’t appeal to me. Instead, I checked the...
Everyone else has had their say about the Liquid Glass design adopted by Apple, so why shouldn’t I? Actually, I’m mostly fine with it, but some of those icons just don’t make sense. The one that jumps out at me is Settings. The icon is a...
Per gestire campagne visuali davvero efficienti, lasciate perdere la vecchia SEO, la Generative AI e la nuova GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). C’è una verità molto più semplice, e anche molto più ignorata: bisogna essere visibili....
There are some products that I just don’t need to be wireless or smart. I think that is true for a lot of people, but surprisingly neither customer nor manufacturers seem to get it. My (conspiracy) theory is that they are manufacturing...
Sabéis que la música es bastante importante en mi vida. Escucho mucha música (y, al trabajar desde casa, es bastante raro que no tenga un altavoz de fondo con alguna emisora de radio o alguna lista de reproducción rara). Y en Apple Music...
December 2025. Hastings. You’ll know that I fund my hedonist lifestyle by not buying clothes, but by Monday I realised I was going to have to replace my dark fleece, inexplicably left on the 17:35 from Uttoxeter after 4 pints of Bass. 20...
Backups should be routine not only for folks in the IT. If you’re reading this you probably already have SOME backup process in place. Ideally automatically or with a scheduled reminder. But doing backups regularly is just half the story...
Day 47, Have you ever had a brush with celebrity? Write about It. I’m pretty sure I met a band member from White Snake while on a smoke break in Denver, around 2013. Not 100% sure, but the way he was talking and kind of probing if I knew...
When DALL-E came out, it took me a couple of weeks to pick my jaw up from the floor. I would go to sleep excited to wake up to a full quota, with a backlog of prompts to try. It was magical, miraculous. Like discovering a new universe. I...
I wouldn't believe today if I hadn't experienced it myself. Shah came and brought me into his office so I could read the official memo and ensure he wasn't fucking with me. On his screen, official handshake icon in the corner, was a...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thu 12/18/2025 - Sawsbuck This one was a double hitter; one of my kids gave me the number randomly and while I'd never heard of this particular pokemon, I wanted to...
Perhaps there is a baby bear strategy? Archive: Anything you have a feeling might be useful Delete: Anything you’re pretty sure would be useless in the future Like Chris Coyier, I also archived practically all my messages with Gmail in...
📍Warsaw, Poland.
In 2030, my greatest hope for the indie web is that it is a place where people feel free to create, to experiment, and to always be able to ask – and act on the answers to – the question “what do I want this place to be?”To enable this,...
It’s Blogvent, day 21, where I blog daily in December! I saw a post on Mastodon recently: We need to normalize declaring software as finished. Not everything needs continuous updates to function. In fact, a minority of software needs...
Over the past few years, I’ve seen some wonderful tools sprout up that encourage and facilitate the exploration of independent websites and blogs. These are fun and useful places to explore, helping you to dig around corners of the...
Soaring hollow-boned and prehistoric over our infant species, birds live their lives indifferent to ours. They are not giving us signs, but we make of them omens and draw from them divinations. They furnish our best metaphors and the...
Before you get too giddy, it's a work trip. But yes, I'm excited.
I just added vim-style keybindings to this site. Press j to go to the previous post (chronologically, going down the list ⬇️) and k to go to the next post (going up the list ⬆️)1. The boundary between general vs coding posts is...
This year has been a return to the routines that once defined how I lived my life
