Sat Dec 20
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 webcams of the surrounding area and noticed fog blanketing the region around...
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.
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 the past. This took me in recent times to take a dive into the past like with a...
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. What exactly is going on behind the scenes during a Windows update? Is it...
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 Internet that otherwise may not be surfaced through the big search engines or AI...
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 and board alarmingly out of touch with transit riders, placing Muni’s ridership,...
Before you get too giddy, it's a work trip. But yes, I'm excited.
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 … The other half is verifying that your backups can actually be restored. A...
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, the indie web must be open both technically and have a culture that supports...
This year has been a return to the routines that once defined how I lived my life
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. Nel vero senso della parola. Se il vostro target sono i 40-60enni, assicuratevi...
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 this. Most software works as it is written. The code does not run out of date. I...
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 mistakes. The third looked realistic, but the strange concept and use of AI gave...
★★☆☆☆ This could have been an essay. When I first learned about this book from Jacob Geller’s video just months ago, I thought this was another example in the vein of The Power Broker – a perfectly Marcin-coded book that somehow escaped me knowing about it for decades. “Pilgrim” is from 1983, and is a story of a...
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 everyone! As always, God bless, and until next time. If you enjoyed this post,...
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 set of gears — glass gears apparently. I can’t help thinking about the teeth...
TitleAtlantis: The Lost Tales CreatorCryo Year1997 Kindgame Played2025-12-21
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 mandate from our parent company in the core to hire two temporary workers, until the...
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 keep with the whole "winter" theme and it had a winter variation! Win win! Fri...
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 respected. I also added arrow keys (⬅️ for the previous post and ➡️ right for the next...
📷 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, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
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 over which it runs. ~ seventeen days since i last felt the granules rub gently...
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 it for ~45 minutes each time somebody asks, I can simply link this post. A trip...
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 neural infrastructure of our dreams. They challenge our assumptions about the...
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.
"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 Christmas if you haven't heard Noddy Holder screaming "It's Christmas!" like a...
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 products wireless or smart, so that they can sell your data or have your product...
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 until August 2020 before importing everything to ListenBrainz. I have no way of...
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 if a dyslexia which makes me anxious to press send on emails and used to make me...
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 tenemos lo del año, así que vamos a echarle un ojo rápido a la información que...
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 anything about the band had me thinking that maybe he was part of the band....
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 field. But everything also takes a lot longer in Antarctica so little in the way of...
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 began attributing their own thoughts to previous speakers. What follows is the...
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?
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 compiled the best art in this post. The other day a friend ran some of my old...
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 Vestiges of Magic world, cambions serve as bounty hunters for Hell, ensuring the...
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 minutes by rail brings you to Hastings, which has shops and pubs. Oddly, I...