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Just a little announcement today regarding Peregrine Lake and the update schedule for the next two weeks. Last year, we did a flashback story called The Move where we saw a brief little tale of how Lynn and Megan moved from Eau De Puanteur, WI to Peregrine Lake, WI drawn by me instead of Ethan. It was just a fun...
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Miss Shuttle-cock. Public domain image via British Museum and Wikimedia Commons. Try staying calm and sanguine about humanity after going through an hour lying prone and exposed while a radiographer conducts an ultrasound complete with color commentary. Maintaining closed eyes to keep from...
Sakamoto Days es un anime que puede verse en Netflix y adapta el manga del mismo nombre. Estamos ante una disparatada historia que nos trasladará al mundo de los sicarios y matones japoneses. Lo que empieza como una graciosa historia de un sicario retirado que vive apaciblemente con su familia y gestionando una...
From a post on the Firefox for Web Developers Mastodon account: Something that hasn’t been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We’ve been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I’m sure it’ll ship with a less murderous name, but that’s how seriously and absolutely we’re...
Christmas time # Sol sneakily decorated the apartment while I was busy earlier in the month, with two wreaths they made a year or two ago with parts from a trip to Michaels, and some paper chains we made last year (?) out of cardstock printed with plaid patterns and gold foil. They also left some of those tiny fake...
An Ethiopian washed heirloom that finally came out smooth after a week of dialing in—used ChatGPT for help and cracked the Ethiopian code.
The Apocalypse of Herschel Schoen by nostalgebraist. A revelation (ἀποκάλυψις = “unveiling”) told through the eyes of a developmentally-disabled teenager. You will never guess where it goes. This came across my desk because I really enjoyed The Northern Caves, which is both a great horror story and an evocation of...
This year, I’ve reported more issues via bug bounties than perhaps the past 10 years combined. The issues were all in completely random places, and the only reason they were reported via bug bounty programs is because it is generally impossible to get a human response any other way from tech companies (even when you...
While going through recently merged PRs in Rails, I came across a new feature from DHH, that handles a common concern in app configuration: managing credentials across different configuration backends in a single, consistent manner. [Link to the PR]When you're going through the PR, I highly recommend you also read...
Don't worry. The evidence is indisputable. I have a long history of worrying and I can tell you off the top of my head how many times it has helped. Uh, zero. What I can't tell you is the number of hours I have spent worrying about something that didn't come to fruition. Way more than zero. And yet, I worry. What a...
December 21, 2025 I’m tired of these leagues sprinkling their games across a million different outlets so I have to have a million different subscriptions to watch them all. jcarucci It's not just the NFL; it's true for all sports. I used to watch way more sports than I do now because of this very reason.
In his book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis explains the Christian perspective on the relationship of human individuals to one another, and two errors we are tempted to fall into. Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body – different from one...
It’s not that i don’t have enough tools to write how i want when i want it, it’s that i have too many. I have at least one computer from each of the last five decades, enough fountain pens to open a nice store and twelve – twelve! – typewriters. I have so much stuff that i almost forgot that i had a Freewrite Alpha....
Sebelumnya, saya mau berterima kasih untuk teman-teman yang sudah mampir ke blog ini, membaca cerita keseharian saya, mengirim pesan di buku tamu (sayang sepertinya sekarang sedang error), dan mengirim email. Terlebih yang sesama blogger juga. Bertemu dengan teman-teman sesama blogger, di luar rekan blogger yang...
A few weeks ago a copy of Unix V4 which was thought to be lost was discovered on a storage tape at the University of Utah. It was then sent to the Home Computer Museum in California, and well, they managed to read it out and put its contents on the Internet Archive. I haven't seen any news articles about this yet,...
Following yesterday's post I decided that I should also mention some of my favourite discoveries of the year that didn't make it to my most-listened-to charts, as well as some other amazing releases that deserve attention.Gent1e $oulGent1e $oul makes bass music. There is a little dubstep (not brostep) and garage in...
404 MediaUsers voted to restrict Anthropic’s Claude to its own channel, but Jason Clinton, Anthropic’s Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and a moderator in the Discord, overrode them.The word of the year might be Slop, but the theme of the year is companies forcing things on their users that they...
🎵 Christmas time is here. Happiness and cheer. Fun for all… that children call… their favorite time of year. School’s out. The work laptop’s closed. Now is a good time to recount the vibes. I wanted to get out this vibecheck before embarking on the annual recap that way it’s less moodier than years prior. Fixing my...
This was a week of a lot of travel and not much sleep. I was in Köln and had a great dinner with da boys (sans Dino-Dominik, sadly) and just now I had a phở on a little plastic chair next to a busy intersection in the middle of Saigon. Fantastic end to a very weird week. Reply by email
I've been writing here for about a year and this is my 100th post. It's been quite a year for all of us, that much is certain.I went to IrelandI have been at my current employer for longer than I've been at any startup (though a fraction of the time I spent at a corporate job)I traveled to Boston at least 6 times to...
Today has felt like a deep, deep exhalation, an enormous, slow, long sigh of relief and releasing. Fitting, perhaps, that it is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. I don’t have any rituals to mark it except for this one, what I’m doing right now: sitting on the couch with a cat curled by my legs, sipping...
"Christmas in Hollis" by Run-DMC Another unmistakable riff; that funky brass, mixed with sleigh bells and scratching, supports a hilarious tale of finding Santa's lost wallet. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.
Often when I see someone doing something unique or impressive I'd think "Wow, we evolved into this, how did humans end up here?", In retrospective, it's just crazy how we make some things possible. At some point it feels weird thinking about it, like when you repeat a word over and over until starts loosing meaning,...
There are so many - but when you spin the wheel you'll only get one. What will your selection mean for 2026? It's that time of year again! We've reached the winter solstice (here in the northern hemisphere anyway - and if I've timed this right, posting at the exact moment thereof) which means y'all get a little...
These aren’t genuine proposals to fix social media sites, but thought experiments that I wonder about in terms of how it would affect online discussion culture. Wouldn’t mind seeing it on alternative platforms that want to try out something new or weird, though. Idea 1 Social media site where you can’t leave a...
As I write this very post, this is what my git repository status looks like: % git st ## master...origin/master ?? content/posts/2025-12-22-git-stash-untracked.md % git stash No local changes to save % git st ## master...origin/master ?? content/posts/2025-12-22-git-stash-untracked.md % git stash -u Saved working...
As with last year’s Top Lists Top List List, these are pools, not ranked lists. NEVERTHELESS, read on with the knowledge that they are definitive, binding, and can be used to settle disputes at family holiday gatherings, prove precedent in a court of law, and win rap battles. I. Books (Fiction) Slow Horses (Slough...
December 2025. Faversham. Part 2 of Mrs RM’s eve of birthday bash, though a drier “bash” you’ll never see. A dozen “must sees” marked on our Faversham map, the most exciting of which was “warm sausage roll from Tommy Butcher the Butcher“. At least, I think the surname was Butcher. It was a sensational sausage roll,...
My lack of blogging recently has bothered me. Part of it was that I was a little burnt out. I just had very little to talk about. But there was something else. Around that same time Umami decided to go to version 3.0. For those of you who don’t know, Umami is a Google Analytics alternative that is self hostable and...
Atlantis: The Lost Tales is a 1997 point & click adventure game in FPP. It's a bit like Myst, but while Myst is generally considered a milestone game and a bag of fun, Atlantis is much more divisive. There are folks who swear by it, and there are those who love it. And there is a lot to love here, starting with the...
MKBHD gave the “Burst of the Year” award to the iPhone 16e, Apple’s entry-level phone released in the first half of 2025 to replace the tired (but beloved) iPhone SE. The Basic Apple Guy, in his annual Apple product releases tier list, placed the iPhone 16e in tier C. Those two examples show the “cheap” iPhone...
It’s Blogvent, day 22 where I blog daily in December! I write my blog posts in markdown, and I write quotes like so: > I miscounted the men! > > - Gavin Volure This results in the following: I miscounted the men! Gavin Volure It always bugged me how the HTML generated a <ul> for the quote author, because the default...
Vá Você Mesmo Reader, un-numbered one-shot on newsprint. Panel 1-300, Sketchy un-inked pencils of the same character in mid close-up saying the identical statement: I'll live out my life in the twilig...
Ho ho hooooo! Buon Natale! Prima di giungere a te, questo regalo ha fatto mezzo Winterrail 2025/2026 insieme a me, dunque ha percorso centinaia di chilometri in treno nel mio zaino. Ti prego di perdonare se non è in ottimo stato 😬 Questi stroopwafels sono stati acquistati nel fantasmagorico mercato di Blaak a...
This mostly-forgotten device was the very first commercially-available all-digital music synthesizer. It was also a lot of fun.
Pre-Christmas season is my time to retrospect, reflect, and reminisce. I didn’t plan on letting my mind wander back as far as November 2012, but I guess that’s what you get for browsing through old hard drives. Back then, I seem to have tried to express my love for minimalist graphic design and coming-of-age movies...
Creative Goals for 2026 I have never been one for new years resolutions, being of the opinion that if you want to make a change in your life do it when you think of it, not waiting for some arbitary date to re-assess. That said, I am now going to set myself some little creative goals for 2026. I used to fairly...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 377 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/9 – ISO 1000 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
The sky was getting ready to storm as I took this. The tide rushing out, sand swirling in the deep-blue fast-running water. We are taking a Christmas break in my old home, Sawtell. I went for a walk along Boambee creek to Trapdoors, what the local surfers call the break off the headland. The surf was muddy and...
Ah, programming language choices - the great philosophical debate of our time. While I am sure I will have a gazillion comments about “why not X?” or “why X?” - I figured I would still put out there the languages I am pursuing and wanting to grow in as we near the end of the year and head into the next. Without...
El tiempo se está acabando. -Se acabó . Este 21 de diciembre será el día más corto del año en México y en el hemisferio norte conociéndose como el solsticio de invierno esté sucede porque la Tierra se encuentra inclinada 23.5 grados respecto al Sol, y en esta fecha el hemisferio norte recibe la menor cantidad de luz...
Happy holidays everyone. Consider this as your holiday card from me. I will be taking short break from KDE stuff for now, though I will be around. (I tagged KDE so that readers of planet have to see these, mwahaha.) And happy new year 2026, let's hope it gets better from here.