Fri Dec 26
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 150 mm focal length – 1/220″ at f/8 – ISO 8000 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
It's been about a year since the latest instance of one of my “I Get Around”-style posts (in which I reflect on how I've adjusted my daily personal social media habits), so it's time for a refresh as we head into 2026!
“Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated response to the natural universe, which is part of our humanity,” wrote Rachel Carson. “Our world, and the worlds around and within it,” wrote Sy Montgomery a generation later, “is aflame with shades of brilliance we cannot fathom… far more...
[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.] Yesterday morning, before Christmas got going, I read about the big Powerball win Wednesday night. I figured that was as good an excuse as any to practice my new lotto math...
There’s a cool new thing you can do in HTML that is supported by all the major web browsers, including Safari. But I can’t use it because, well, Safari. You see, if you want the latest version of Safari, which has this cool new thing, you also need the latest or near-latest version of macOS. It’s been like this for...
I’ve been a little quiet on here (and honestly across most of my socials), because I’ve been attempting to focus more on myself offline. It’s no secret that I’ve been having a hard time the past few months. Even with all my posts about not letting the loss of my job define my worth, I still managed to lose myself...
I start so many things and then talk about them and then don’t finish them. I thought it might be fun to compile them all here so that they’re not lost to the sands of time. Incomplete projects that I posted about that are more or less abandoned in their current state Weeknotes but fashion In February (February!...
It’s my last day of writing for the year, so I’m going to try keep this one quick – it was knocked out over three hours, so I hope you can forgive me if it’s a bit clumsier than my usual writing. For some strange reason, one of the few clear memories I have from growing up in Malaysia is a particular moment when I...
Back in late September last year, I talked briefly about this film at the end of this post; I mentioned wanting it to do well in the U.S. so that it would be picked up for streaming somewhere (footnote 1). As amazon picked it up, I have now watched it. A capybara, a dark grey cat, a lemur, a yellow Lab and a...
Recording. Presentation slides available via Google Slides. Fahrplan entry on CCC website. Blurb Despite how it's often portrayed in blogs, scientific articles, or corporate test planning, fuzz testing isn't a magic bug printer; just saying "we fuzz our code" says nothing about how effectively it was tested. Yet,...
It’s been a good but hectic week. Lots of work coming together, so it’s a lot of coordination, talking, and generally being busy. My painting project #30DaysOfWatercoloring is two weeks old now. It’s been going well. I am learning a lot. I am also happy that I have been able to keep it up, even though the days have...
December 2025. Sheffield. Will had curated an itinerary for our mini-Sheffield Black Eye Friday crawl. As a southerner, he’d never actually ever heard of Black Eye Friday, but then unlike me he’s not slave to biblically-inspired Christmas rituals like dressing up as Santa and falling over. Pic : Daily Mail (sorry)...
Well, my festive 'cold' reached something of a peak (or trough) yesterday, and I had to absent myself from the festivities for a chunk of the afternoon and lie down in a darkened room. It was just like the old days, i.e. the days of my working life, when every Christmas (or so it seemed) I would be struck down by...
Did you hear? Apparently, Chinese entertainment is dying. If you listen to CDrama pundits or spend enough time on Chinese social media, the narrative for 2025 is pretty bleak: the Chinese entertainment industry is “devolving”, production numbers are down (we’re looking at just over 200 dramas this year, with fewer...
Earlier today I noticed the syntax highlighting on this website was broken. But not fully: on reload I’d see a flash of highlighted text, that then turned monochrome. The raw HTML from curl showed rouge tags, but the web inspector showed raw text inside the <code> elements. This didn’t happen in Chromium. My first...
Empecemos diciendo las cosas claras: yo no soy una mujer así que qué sabré yo de muchos temas de aquí hoy. Nací, he sido socializado, y me identifico como hombre. Tengo sesgos latentes, como cualquiera criado en sociedad, pero hay que trabajar por despojarse de los mismos. Por eso hago disclaimer de que hoy toco...
Most of the time, Santa Claus is a warm-hearted person, friendly to everyone around him, handing out gifts left and right. He's the man you can count on, the one who's always punctual, always there to bring you a joyous Christmas. Except for when he's on his one day off, siting on a totem, and—given the look and...
A funny 12-minute video by Chris Spargo about why traffic signs in the world are standardized only to some extent. This was interesting to me generally in the context of Europe being more iconographic, and America being more “word-y” in their sign design, which extends to devices, keyboards, and (presumably?)...
Looking southwest from the Carrot Tower in the Sangenjaya district, the setting sun illuminates Tsurumaki Dori street. 三軒茶屋のキャロットタワーから南西を見ると、夕日が鶴巻通りを照らしている。
After years using the default prompt from grml-zsh-config (with minor modifications), I adopted starship: The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell! My ~/.config/starship.toml is meant to resemble the zsh prompt I’ve been using, with minor tweaks and improvements: toml # Minimal...
I wanted to review a Christmas-themed visual novel on NLJ (having previously reviewed io [Christmas Eve] and Plain Song Christmas Special in 2022 and Christmas Rose in 2024 (with hindsight being 20/20, I should have reviewed A Winter’s Tale for Christmas instead of Valentine’s Day in 2022). I settled on Christmas...
2025 was the first year that I maintained a physical journal for the entire year. I had never been able to continue the habit, and admired people who could. My goal was pretty simple – at the end of the year, have a journal that I wrote in consistently for 12 months. This has been a success! What to write I have...
It's almost the end of the first quarter of XXI century. I may not know what the "age of AI" is, but I am apparently living in it. At the same time, people all around me are attacking it on all fronts, some even call for a complete ban. This not where I stand. You see, I believe AI has the power to transform the...
I read demons recently, and it reminded me of my favourite godard movie, la chinoise.
It costs one Starbucks sausage, cheddar and egg breakfast sandwich (my favourite!) a month to keep my blog running, so its not money I'm concerned about. Do I want people to see my art and ramblings? Yes, but that's not all. I don't think I'm interesting enough because my analytics don't 'reflect' that. I really...
Hace tiempo que esta circulando la famosa teoría del internet muerto. Luego de un pequeño descuido en mi server me puse a meditar en que tal vez sea real. Introducción A saber cuando publicare esta entrada, pero a fecha del 18 de noviembre del 2025, estuve haciendo algo de limpieza en mi server. Como ya no iba a...
All the tokens fit to embed.December 26, 2025 THE LEDE: VISUAL DATA OVERLOAD The Context: Times photographers captured a turbulent year, from a president returning to power and wildfires ravaging Los Angeles to conflicts in Sudan and Gaza. Images include a destroyed house with a intact pool in Pacific Palisades and...
Siempre me ha gustado escuchar anécdotas de personas mayores, me gusta por un momento imaginarme como sería vivir en aquella época y en las circunstancias en las que se cuenta la historia. No sé, es lindo escuchar las historia de vida de una persona, unas veces puede que no sea tan diferente por lo que yo he pasado...
I just added .epub and .pdf versions of my free book Emacs Lisp Elements. All files are available in the Git repository: https://github.com/protesilaos/emacs-lisp-elements. I produced both of those from the source Org file. Here are the steps for posterity: From the elispelem.org use the Org export mechanism to...
New links… “Some objects and properties that make up a body are too specific or small—too deep—to properly count as parts of the body in a morally significant sense” — Christopher Register on the ontological “depth” of bodies, and why it is important “Why shouldn’t we think of men as characterized by the gentleness...