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December 2025. Faversham. Back in Faversham from Herne, and an early tea on Mrs RM’s eve of birthday. The Sun isn’t in the GBG, but it had the most convincing menu, and it pays to treat a girl to somewhere nice, once or twice. Apparently. NOT a heritage pub by CAMRA definition, but 14th century and heavily beamed...
Men in their latter years fall into three general types, which can to some degree overlap but are nonetheless distinct: Grumpy old men Explorers (“Old men ought to be explorers,” T. S. Eliot said, but this is not common) Wise elders Dan Treier would have been a wonderful wise elder, had he not died very prematurely,...
I am piloting a transition from vim to nvim. Here is the least disruptive way I found to accomplish that. First, install neovim. shell Copy brew install neovim Now, create ~/.config/nvim/init.lua. I decided to populate it based on my original ~/.vimrc, without attempting to share configuration settings between the...
[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 planned to talk about this post from Mathew Ingram, but things went in a different direction, and I learned something new. The story is about a couple who recently won their...
The most assuring thing about life is that we can change, that things can change, that they are always changing. The most maddening is that despite living in a universe that is one constant transmutation of energy and matter, despite living in bodies and minds whose cells and ideas are constantly being replaced, we...
I don't know if bit rot can be a real problem, but I have zero desire to find out when it's too late. So I've tweaked and extended the Bash shell scripts I use to back up data to my data fridge. Now, instead of a single script, I have three.
He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. What else does Santa Claus know, and how does he know it? These are the questions Derek Anderson (Boston University) examines in his timely investigative report, below. Seasons greetings, everyone! (A version of this post first appeared at Dr. Anderson’s...
Album#16 Season's Greetings 图1 《Season's Greetings》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称：Season's Greetings 歌手：山下達郎 (Tatsuro Yamashita) 年份：1993-11-18 风格：日语、节日歌曲、City Pop、流行 时长：38:51 马上就是圣诞夜和圣诞节了，分享一张充满圣诞节日气息的专辑 ⸺ 山下达郎的《Season's Greetings》。 专辑中我最喜欢的是 Christmas Eve，曲子开头缓缓的吉他声像是缓缓飘落的雪，营造了一种隔离感，然后「🔔」的一声，仿佛整个城市都被点亮了，接着山下达郎那好听的嗓音唱到「Silent...
Let’s take a look back and remember some of what this year brought. commits At more than 3,400 commits we did 40% more commits in curl this year than any single previous year! Since at some point during 2025, all the other authors in the project have now added more lines in total to the curl repository than I have....
Here's the list of questions in different languages. 1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Got married, stayed in hotels with friends, visited France, had a butterfly on my hand, finished up 45 ECTS in education, started volunteering for noyb, visited a conference in my desired field :) 2. Did...
Finished reading How to Do Nothing: Resisting The Attention Economy by Jenny Odell. Early in the book the author herself says that: …you’ll find that this book is a bit oddly shaped. The arguments and observations I’ll make here are not neat, interlocking parts in a logical whole. Rather, I saw and experienced many...
Here is the recipe! Ingredients Filling 275g breadcrumbs from a gluten free loaf – Shär Vitality Loaf 225g grated mature Cheddar cheese 1 large onion grated 3 tablespoons of The Coconut Collab Double Cream 3 tablespoons chopped sage 1.5 teaspoons mustard powder 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper Pastry Two 280g packs of...
On December 17, 2024, I published a list tiled 54 Things I Learned in 2024. The article was inspired by Tom Whitwell’s 52 things I learned in 2024 and came very much as advertised by the title (see also his list of 52 things he learned in 2025). I enjoyed making the list enough that I followed it up with 50 Things I...
Less Overthinking Scrolling Sitting Negativity Postponing Perfectionism Context switching Consuming More Movement Early mornings Deep work Iteration Positivity Ruthlessness Focus Reading Gratefulness Creating
In the last Mediations, I discussed economics, in particular, how better technology, processes and infrastructure increase efficiency and effectiveness. However, economics alone can’t cover all six pillars of socio-technical systems. I also realized that in the last issue, I made socio-technical systems theory look...
[!information] Caveat This is, naturally, not exhaustive. I use last.fm on my phone and my laptop to scrobble music I listen to while I'm on my own. As other people have pointed out, this doesn't capture music listened to with friends and family, nor does it log public music from the radio, bars, or shopping...
Use Black Friday through Cyber Monday as “Unsubscribe Weekend,” since every company that has your info will email or text you. — Sam Friedlander, Los Angeles
Hello and fuck you, my new favorite game For the last three nights, I've been experiencing panic attacks aboard the USG Ishimura. Despite being a horror fan, I somehow completely missed the Dead Space games, and now I'm tearing through the remake I received as a freebie with my PlayStation Plus subscription. The...
Jump-scared by an update for a dead game Steam has this 'What's new' section on your library page; it highlights developer posts, patches for things you actively play etc - and this morning I noticed there was one for Hyper Light Breaker that was posted yesterday. This is confusing for a lot of reasons but mostly...
It’s 4am and I’m waiting for the sunrise. I can’t remember the last time I did this—perhaps back in college after the season finale of Lost? But right now it’s pitch black outside. I can’t sleep thanks to the jet lag and my body’s stubborn inability to sleep on long haul flights so I’m sat in our hotel room that...
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️As much as I enjoy books, comics, music and animation, I find it easiest to write about video games. So instead of an all-encompassing media...
In a land were people (still) do not generally expect to pay a tip at food and beverage venues, a practice called automatic tipping is sure to be poorly received. Industry workers are reasonably well paid in Australia (or are meant to be), so customers see little need to offer tips. This is not the case for all...
GitHub’s new guide, How to write a great agents.md: Lessons from over 2,500 repositories, pulls lessons from over 2,500 repositories to show how to document AI agents effectively. It’s not just about clarity but also about making collaboration, reproducibility, and scalability possible. The guide breaks down how to...
Yesterday I came across this YouTube video explaining what exactly a GPT does behind the scene. It kinda reveals the mystery of the black box, which is known as Grokking. This is a weird phenomenon which indicates when a GPT model moves from learning to creating. Interestingly, this transition is not immediate....
Guess who's on vacation?For your bus stop reading pleasure, a continuation of my wrapped collection for 2025. This time, a quick listing of the games I played (or finished (or gave up on)) this year.As you can see, it was a year of older games with one of my favourites being a game from 1995.Highly RecommendedRanked...
Spoiler WarningIf you want to go through the Final Fantasy 14 duty Hell on Rails (Extreme) blind, don't read this guide as it spoils how to easily solve one of the mechanics in it. If you don't play Final Fantasy 14, most of the words in this article are going to make no sense to you and I will make no attempt to...
Learn how to squash Docker images using Buildx to create smaller, more efficient images by consolidating layers.
December 23, 2025 I like tinkering with 11ty projects for learning and fun. Most of the time I work on them locally, and sometimes I later decide I want the project on GitHub. As someone who isn’t a developer and isn’t comfortable with the command line, I need a different option. The usual advice looks something...
It’s been a hectic, busy month, truly so so busy, but I blogged every day for Blogvent! In case you missed it, my goal was to blog daily in December. I missed it! No you didn’t! Check out alllll the posts here: Automatically mark pull requests and issues as stale with GitHub Actions Change commit timestamps in Git...
blockquote { font-style: italic; } Time is one of those things that is significantly harder to deal with than you’d naively expect. Its common in computing to assume that computers know the current time. After all, there are protocols like NTP for synchronizing computer clocks, and they presumably work well and are...
Apologies for the hiatus. I was away at the weekend and, since coming back, have been afflicted with a stinking 'cold' – yes, just in time for the festivities, though I'm hoping it might be a short-lived one. Anyway, I see that today is the 220th birthday of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism and, ultimately, the...
As the year draws to an end now is a good time to review where we are with Europe’s cloud situation, and what has been achieved. One thing is certain, a lot has happened, and also quite a lot has become clearer. tl;dr: Great strides have been made in 2025, especially in convincing people that something must be done,...
An evening view of Tokyo Station's Marunouchi entrance from the KITTE former post office building next door. 隣のKITTE(キッテ)ビルから見た東京駅丸の内口の夕景。
This is Part 3 of the Everyday Defense track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. The goal here is simple: make your browser boring to attackers without making your browsing miserable. Browsers are the front door to most modern compromises. Phishing starts in a tab. Drive-by downloads happen in a tab....
As I walk through the countryside with grass on one side and a babbling brook on the other I look into the distance and I wonder if Vincent saw the same as me: a church and sunlight all around. I wonder but I can imagine it.
Un bilancio su alcune delle cose che mi sono piaciute di più nel 2025