Wed Dec 24
My latest post generated an unusual amount of email exchanges. The back-and-forth was fantastic, rich, and inspiring, pushing me to contemplate more ways in which noise affects me these days. One letter, in particular, picked my curiosity. Wrote by Noa, its overture was: I’m a fairly long term reader of your blog. I...
Oh, this is a fantastic adage I haven’t heard before, mentioned here in 1978, arguing against distorted, or “faux” typography: A Linotype assembly elevator with the gate closed. This is the center of an operator’s attention as the mats tumble down and are arranged automatically in lines. The spacer bands adjust...
note to self: scan line art, then color digitally reply via email
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tues 12/23/2025 - Tyrunt This was the first fossil pokemon I got in Z-A; I named him Grumpus and he was part of my team for a pretty long time (and is still my rock type backup when needed for bonus cards in the battle zone). He's a Tyrantrum now...
In 2026, my focus is going to be self-care. I feel trapped by the volatility and voracity of this epoch and this world. I want to slow down and learn to listen, to care for, and to love myself. I have always seen caring for myself through the lens of achievements, problems to fix, relationships to cherish. I now see...
On Mastodon, I just found a link to the Terrible Software Blog. (Definitely a blog to follow, I just added it to my RSS reader). I found this article pretty good: What Actually Makes You Senior. But if you strip away the title, the salary, and the years of experience, there’s one core skill that […]
Well yeah that week was packed with stuff at work, and I really wasn’t in the mood for writing blogposts, so two weeknotes back to back, like the good old days. And Christmas is upon us! I hope those who celebrate get to have a great time with family and friends. Be kind to each other in these tyring times, all of...
Table of Contents The Map and the Territory Moving around Hold Move Support Convoy Turns Country Strategies England France Turkey Russia Austria Italy Germany I am hosting a new game of the board game Diplomacy, as usually hosted on Backstabbr, for students of the bachelor’s programs at SEDU. Since there are new...
Some of you might be using browser extensions to handle the flood of cookie consent banners. Popular choice used to be the browser extension "I don't care about cookies", followed up by "I still don't care about cookies" when the former was bought up by Avast. These browser extensions try to block the cookie banners...
Wherever you are, dear reader — whenever you might see this and however you choose to celebrate — I send good tidings and greetings for the season.Reply via email
The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for the Ethics and the Common Good (ECG), directed by philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan, has received a $50.8 million grant for work on various moral problems related to artificial intelligence (AI). The grant is from the Lilly Endowment, a private foundation that supports...
SQLite does not have built-in UUID functions, but by getting creative with the randomblob(N) function we can generate version 4 (random) UUIDs. Before we continue, it's important to note that you should verify whether SQLite's random functions are adequate for your usecase. They may not return truly random data....
Greg Pierce, top turtle wrangler at Agile Tortoise, posted this to Mastodon last week: Since updating to watchOS 26, about every third time I go to start a workout, I find later it didn’t start. The way the button animation swiping between workout types works creates an unnecessary delay activating the start button....
Problem statement: Replace nginx with caddy for miniflux on my Alpine Linux VPS host. First, install caddy: shell Copy doas apk add caddy Next, migrate the existing nginx config to caddy. The stock config: shell Copy % cat /etc/caddy/Caddyfile # Caddy's configuration file # see:...
Album#17 哈雷妈妈 图1 《哈雷妈妈》专辑封面 黑暗有一种疗伤的温度 会让灵魂蒸发掉痛楚 回到羽毛的重量开始 旋转着自由轻轻飘浮 一个人跳舞 解脱束缚 让小小舞台也能够容纳幸福 征服着午夜就像征服了自己 明亮的自我原来藏在暗处 黑暗中跳舞 品尝孤独 让依赖奢侈的情感回归纯朴 白天的脆弱 在夜里发现勇气 像一颗珍珠 最明亮的孤独 暗舞 专辑信息 专辑名称：哈雷妈妈 (Harley Mama) 歌手：陈小霞 年份：2005-12-30 风格：流行 时长：约 48 分钟 无意中听到了陈小霞的歌，被她的嗓音、歌词吸引了，找到了这张专辑。...
December 2025. Hollowshore, Faversham. Just for Dave, a Christmas Eve post even though I’ve just had 4 pints and a Nepalese curry with my boys. Oddly, there’ll probably be less spelling mistakes than normal. Mrs RM’s actual birthday starts in a luxury Premier Inn with bath that fills up in 2 minutes and nearly...
I never really notice my dyslexia, unless I try to read a book full of LONG words and the aesthetic reasoning of using italic serif grey font with no line spacing, and my brain hurts so much I just can't keep trying to read it... which makes me also feel stupid at times for not being able to read academic non...
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📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 320 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
Fuerte y frágil es la primera obra de Marta Martín y ha sido, de nuevo, una recomendación de mi mujer. Se trata de un cómic que también se centra en la salud mental y que es utilizado en terapias para ayudar a los pacientes. De la misma manera que ocurría con Todas las personas que fui, estamos ante una obra donde...
I wanted a distributed system where the client submitting the job has the code and logic, but the workers don’t. They just execute the workload they get. I had used Dask in the LocalCluster mode, where everything runs on the same computer but in different processes/threads. It works well, and I have used it a bunch...
This is a Christmas child story for my five year old niece. So you can just ignore it. आज 2025 का क्रिसमस डे है। सुबह-सुबह बाहर सड़क पर कोहरा छाया हुआ है। ठंड के मारे लोगों की किड़किड़िया बंधी हुई हैं। पर सभी बच्चे बहुत खुश हैं, क्योंकि स्कूल की छुट्टी है। सुबह उठते ही बच्चों ने हंगामा मचाना शुरू कर दिया है। दूर से...
This is the inverse of my recent post about stuff I’d like to dump in 2026. It is inspired by Jon’s blog where he added an invest list under his own to dump list. I suppose they are a bit like new year resolutions, but framing in terms of spending more time rather than something I could ‘tick off’ feels like a...
Other than looking cool to your friends, owning your own domain increases your digital self-reliance. It's kind of like having your own phone number. Just like switching cell phone carriers if you don't like your provider, you can easily switch registrars, hosting companies, or email provider and the world would be...
I have been fascinated with planes, civil aviation in particular for as long as I can remember. I faintly remember my father’s newspaper cutouts of aircraft like the Airbus 300, stuck on our apartment door like a collage when I was 4 or 5. It was around the age of six that we moved to my parents’ own apartment in...
The following is an excerpt from a private exchange. I am reproducing it with th permission of my correspondent without disclosing their identity. I am sharing this because it might be useful to others as well. I was wondering what your daily routine is. You seem a very disciplined person. You said you walk 2 hours...
Kitty updateEarlier this morning, at about 6am, Tico-Tico passed away in the ICU. I had gone to see her yesterday during visiting hours. Even though she tried to escape her enclosure (weak as she was) I could see she was pretty exhausted. The blood bag arrived after I left, and the transfusion went well. My heart...
"I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" by Wizzard I own two Roy Wood singles; this and "Music to Commit Suicide By". This is the more festive. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.
I have been playing a lot of Season 11 ( THE NEW PALADINS ARE HERE, THE NEW PALADINS ARE HERE! ) Diablo IV over the last week or so and was looking for a good tier list of all the Nightmare Dungeons for this season since I always seem to be full of entry Sigils ( aka Dungeon Keys. ) Here is a good Google Doc in...
Light display in the courtyard of the KITTE building. Shot on Cinestill 800T film. KITTEビルの中庭のライト・ディスプレイ。Cinestill 800Tフィルムで撮影。
The games industry is famously tough and insecure to be in, as it is hit-driven: rush the right game to market at the right moment and you can rake in the big bucks as your game becomes the current cultural phenomenon, or miss it and die in ignominy. This leads to a bunch of pathologies: the persistence of crunch,...
TitleCurb Your Enthusiasm (Season 1) CreatorLarry David Year2000 Kindtv Watched2025-12-25
I’m not one who ever makes New Year’s resolutions. Picking a date and announcing all the Great Things I Shall Endeavor to Accomplish in the New Year has historically been a recipe for failure, and so I’ve learned over time to just shut up about it and keep my head down when the resolutions start flying. But you...
About a year ago, in January 2025, I started an experiment which was meant to help me retain what I study better and for longer. I had an exam coming up, and unlike previous exams, this exam was closed book, so I could no longer rely on my battle-tested technique of looking things up that I don’t remember. I needed...
Enabling an external USB Wi-Fi dongle on a Linux machine is a skill that is hardly in high demand these days -- until you have a Wi-Fi-deficient machine, and you want to add it to your wireless network. That was the exact problem I faced when I discovered an old Edimax EW-7811Un Wi-Fi dongle in a storage box, and I...
Here, by way of food for Christmas thought, are two Nativity poems by the great R.S. Thomas.First –'Christmas Eve! Fivehundred poets waited, penpoised above paper,for the poem to arrive,bells ringing. It was becausethe chimney was too small,because they had ceasedto believe, the poem passed themby on its way outinto...
Continued from Books I Read in 2025 Part 1 Fenner Brockway, Towards Tomorrow To return to the High Wycombe theme from the Martin O'Neill book outlined in part 1, I met Fenner Brockway in December 1982. When I say 'met', we both spoke at a demonstration, him aged 94, me a long-haired 18-year-old. I was a member of a...
It’s 2 AM. A thumb hovers over a smartphone screen, switching between a crisis report from thousands of miles away and a banking app showing a low balance. Heart racing, breathing shallow—your body treats both as identical threats. One you can act on. The other you cannot. The Problem With Caring About Everything...
I ran a full upgrade on my desktop workstation (EndeavourOS, which is based on Arch). One of the upgraded packages was nvidia-open-dkms. After the upgrade was complete, applications were flickering on my desktop. The same thing happened last week (I fixed with a “downgrade”). I decided that I did not want to...
Assim como toda pessoa civilizada e que vive na internet, eu também gosto de dar meus pitacos no que eu achei de melhor nesse ano que tá acabando. Fazendo o post agora já que acho difícil surgir algo nessa última semana que vá superar tudo que eu já pude ver, ouvir e ler durante todas as outras 51 semanas do ano....
Do numbers exist? I can count three mangoes, or four pebbles. They’re right there, I can pick them up, I can touch them with my hands. But where is this number called 3 or 4? Well, you might say that the mangoes may rot and the pebbles may get lost, but there is something eternal, a unique value behind the multiple...
Can you believe another year is almost over? It’s been a whirlwind of learning, growth, and new beginnings. As I look back on 2025, I am filled with gratitude for the incredible journey that has brought me here. With all these services doing their “Wrapped” featured, I thought it would be fun to share my own year in...