Mon Dec 22
"Baby It's Cold Outside" by Cerys Matthews and Tom Jones The knowing gravel of Cerys Matthews somehow steers this song from creepy to funny. Welsh pop powerhouse Tom Jones also appears. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.
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.Add Rails.app.creds to provide combined credentials lookup in ENV and encrypted file...
Jake Saunders wrote about discovering that a recent Next.js vulnerability allowed hackers access to their server through an Umami instance. I use Umami, too! I logged into my VPS and didnât see any suspicious files or running processes. I then opened my Umami dashboard to poke around, and my browser immediately...
Itâs Blogvent, day 23, where I blog daily in December! This month I went to the GitHub office in San Francisco and met up with some coworkers and put together some videos for work. While working on other content, we got a lot of b-roll of me around the office just like⊠walking, typing, and being dumb. So, when I...
It feels as if 2025 has flown by. Looking back it always interesting around this time, so letâs see what this year has brought. Personal# This year was a great one for our family. We⊠took a trip to Hawaii in November got formally engaged our daughter started daycare and is enjoying it immensely baby #2 on the way...
Previously. KOReader does not come with many installed dictionaries out-of-the-box, but itâs possible to download a few extras. The default ones leave a lot to be desired. Follow these steps: Connect your Kindle to Wi-Fi Open KOReader in your Kindle Click the magnifying glass at the top menu Settings > Dictionary...
"Senatore con stola di duolo" (Senator with a mourning stole) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
Today was our last Kyoto Tech Meetup event of the year! As a quick recap, our first meetup was in September, and since then we've done 8 events:6 Morning Tech & Coffee sessions2 Community Hack DaysI want to say a massive thanks to everyone in the group. My original intent was to do 3â4 coffee sessions this year to...
Cela faisait de nombreux mois que je voulais changer et mettre Ă jour la conception graphique du carnet. Depuis quelques semaines, jâai commencĂ© Ă y rĂ©flĂ©chir de façon plus concrĂšte. Puis Ă travailler sur diffĂ©rentes Ă©bauches, de façon itĂ©rative, jusquâĂ arriver Ă une version assez stable et satisfaisante pour la...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Both pokemon in today's post are tangentially related to sidequests in the Mega Dimension DLC for Z-A; I don't think this is super spoilery but just tossing that out there in case you care and want to avoid (or you can just not read the...
Se nos vienen las fiestas de Navidad y con ello una baja en la actividad en el jale y en todo en general. Quise escribir este post para dejar como un tipo registro de mi actividad durante el año y tambiĂ©n como para despedirlo⊠Un 2025 lleno de altas y bajas. Echemos un vistazo a lo que pasĂł pues. âïž Escritura Este...
Hace unos meses, mientras estaba en un museo, comprĂ© un cactus (del cual no conozco su especie) y por ciertos meses fue mi Ășnica planta, hasta que a finales de noviembre comprĂ© una flor de nochebuena a la que, por mi desconocimiento sobre sus cuidados, se le cayeron las hojas verdes, pero las rojas siguieron bien....
BirchtreeIâve come to the conclusion that streaming music platforms are a shared lie we all agree to that suggests weâre paying for music when weâre actually may as well be pirating it, we just pay $10 a month to keep the cops away.Itâs been fun to see Mattâs evolution of thought here, going from not thinking...
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Tras ver esta serie (que me ha sorprendido para bien), me queda una duda: Âżno entiendo la comedia o esto no es una comedia? Porque salvo unos momentos muy puntuales esto lo que me ha parecido es un drama terrorĂfico. Me ha alegrado ver a Ana Polvorosa trabajando en esta serie de Eduardo Casanova, y el cameo de Paco...
PART 1: THE SYSTEM PROMPT (v2.3) â(Copy/Paste this into the LLM) Purpose: This is a creative writing exercise designed to generate structurally novel, low-predictability conceptual artifacts. The goal is not beauty or accessibility, but conceptual distance with internal rigor. If an output feels intuitive, poetic,...
I often suffer from technical issues related to the imperfect functioning of processes, applications, or workflows I use daily, which really irritate me. These frustrations drag on for months before finding a definitive solution because, essentially, Iâm lazy. I realize that with very little effort and just a...
Last 'cool links' post was in July! I really dropped off there for a while. What I read or watched worth sharing since last time (that I didn't lose sight of): Blog/Website Discovery Sortition Social - a community RSS feed reader. Every day, a random feed is selected from our database and added to the timeline....
Some people have the ability to look at a mess and see the makings of something beautiful. I donât know David Kishik personally, but judging from what he is doing in the classroom, it seems like he is one of those people. A professor of philosophy at Emerson College, he looked at contemporary college courses and...
Mozilla said Firefox will have a âkill switchâ that disables all AI features in the browser. Someone witty quipped it will be the âUninstallâ button.
In the most recent episode of Mac Power Users, David and Stephen discuss Keyboard Maestro, a longtime favorite automation app and the main topic of at least three previous episodes of MPU. If youâre an ANIAT reader, itâs reasonably likely that youâre already using Keyboard Maestro, and you may think this is an...
New category in the links The demise of the search engines and the embrace of untrustworthy, useless AI-generated results, optimistically referred to as "AI-powered" are upon us. The web is turning into a web for profit. Individual websites and blogs, that make up the smol web, are almost impossible to find. Some...
Started on: Dec 20th, 2025 Abandoned on: Dec 23rd, 2025 Also published on Goodreads I picked up this book expecting it to tread into the choppy waters of war, ethics of killing and the psychological costs associated, something that the title itself told me to expect. Alas, as I continue reading, two things became...
I found this weirdly delightful: There are a few new ringtones in iOS 26, but theyâre not new new ringtones â theyâre sort of âriffs,â or maybe remixes of a default Reflection ringtone. If you donât have an iPhone, hereâs a short video where you can hear them. Iâm guessing Apple sees the default ringtone as sort of...
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I just watched The Egyptian, a 1954 movie. Itâs very interesting in a number of respects. Itâs not good â the acting is almost uniformly poor, though Peter Ustinov is enjoyable as a roguish servant â but itâs interesting. The titular character is played by a little-known English actor named Edmund Purdom, and he is...
Recentemente vi a notĂcia: Windows 11 vai pedir permissĂŁo antes que agentes de IA acessem arquivos pessoais (Fonte) Bem sabemos que nenhuma promessa vinda da Microsoft deve ser acreditada; depois de tantas quebradas, o que faz essa ser diferente das outras? InĂșmeras vezes desabilitei alguma funcionalidade que, na...
Less was more this year. I listened to less, but found more that I loved. I spent a lot of time revisiting old albums, listening with intent. Drumming also took a lot of my time, and rekindling my study drove me to those older albums. But, these new releases were on heavy rotation. Previously: 2024, 2020. Even in...
Last December, I published a series of Spotify Wrapped-inspired infographic images with a series of statistics for Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! shows from 2024 called "Wait Wait Stats Wrapped" on Mastodon and Instagram (I have since deleted my Instagram account). I also published the set of images to the "Wait Wait...
In preparation for a future project, I was thinking about at the unix find utility. It operates a file system hierarchies, with basic operations selected and filtered using a specialized expression language. Users compose operations using unary and binary operators, grouping with parentheses for precedence. find may...
December 2025. Herne Bay. Yes, itâs my birthday (22/12) and Iâm in a caravan writing blog posts for you (after a dayâs walking in Hastings). Mrs RM did the same on her birthday, weâre dedicated to our art. Still on Mrs RMâs Birthday Eve, as we continue along the coast to Herne Bay, for reasons you may guess. Itâs...
Yesterday a dear friend went to Buenos Aires to spend Christmas with his mom for the first time in, idk, ten years maybe. We were pretty happy for him when he told us he had managed to save up to finally visit his mom in Argentina! And of course we offered for him to stay here with us before his red eye flight --...
Dockerâs recent article âDo You Really Need Microservices?â delivers a good dose of pragmatism with regards to Microservices. The article doesnât dismiss microservices outrightâ it acknowledges their value at massive scale â but it also hightlights an uncomfortable truth: most teams simply donât operate at that...
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Yes, this is the umpteenth article about AI and coding that youâve seen this year. Welcome to 2025. Some people really find LLMs distasteful, and if thatâs you, then I would recommend that you skip this post. Iâve heard all the arguments, and Iâm not convinced anymore. I used to be a fairly hard-line anti-AI zealot,...
Expedition 33 is a game that used ai to generate some placeholder assets early in development. The assets were later removed after new assets were made by human digital artists. Expedition 33 was going to win an Indy Game Award, but was kicked because of this. Part of the problem was that E33 SAID they used no ai...
Flash at full volume: Jamiroquaiâs website in 2003. By 2003, the internet had weathered the worst of the dot-com crash and developers and entrepreneurs were beginning to come out of hibernation. While it would take another year for Silicon Valley to start inflating another bubble â this one would be named "Web 2.0"...
How to inspect hover elements in Chrome by pressing F8 twice while DevTools is open to the Sources tab
Posted on December 23, 2025 This post was written as a guest post for Cycling in Christchurch. The version there has some good images nabbed from Streetview too. Last weekend I had an overnight trip to Auckland booked. So I thought I could ride my bike for once and save myself two daysâ parking or a return Uber...
Ya en 2016 comentĂ© la apariciĂłn del navegador web Min. En aquel momento era un sencillo proyecto que se mantenĂa en GitHub, añadiendo, sobre todo, correcciones. A dĂa de hoy, es un navegador consolidado que permite interactuar con la web de manera rĂĄpida y sencilla. Hay muchas tendencias en el mundo de los...
Time for another proverbial cheese sandwich post1. Thinking about the end of the year and whatâs coming up for me.This isnât my annual aspiration wrap-up post; thatâll come later. Mental stateI am currently very fatigued. I have a lot of music Iâd like to be working on but Iâm having trouble gathering the energy to...
After doing the soft launch a few weeks ago I started looking into feedback from friends and such. The majority of people had issues with not knowing what to do on the site. The CTA is just a link to an about modal and a sign up form. I often have to explain how to use the site to people, etc. That's all getting...