Mon Dec 29
Hoy da comienzo la primera semana del año 2026. ¿Sabéis lo que eso significa? ¡Que hoy es día de estrenar agenda! Este año me hice con una agenda super cuqui, china, de tapas duras y papel más que decente (aquí en AliExpress). Tiene escritas muchas cosas en chino, como una serie de ejercicios para relajar la cara,...
Sydney based Australian journalist and speech writer Brigid Delaney, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): Arriving, a friend asked me how I was. I was OK, I replied, but still disorientated from my time on X. “I don’t know what’s real anymore,” I said. It was dawning on me that this feeling of...
A quick post to celebrate 11 years of jeddacp.me. This year, I set out to share 100 photos in 365 days. Even though I didn’t hit the full goal, the 67 posts I did publish (with this one making 68) still feel like something worth celebrating. Or maybe it just means more photos in my backlog to make up for next year!...
Pitchfork's 2003 review of MP3 blogger favorite, The Rapture. Season 4 of Cybercultural has been focused on the rise of digital culture from 1994 through to 2003, a period that encompasses the beginning of the web, moves through the dot-com boom and bust, and ends the year before Web 2.0 emerges. During this season,...
Sigh This is a hard post to write, because it's pure bait. I'm just to cheap to pay for the 6$ a month. That's it. If you have the cash and want to support the indie web, go ahead and blog there, Herman seems like a great guy. If you want to blog, but you're as cheap as me, check out this post of mine
Two days ago, Rails added a new feature that makes working with bearer tokens easier. Before, you had to parse the Authorization header to extract them. Now, there's a dedicated bearer_token method on the request object that handles this for you.Link to the PR: Add ActionDispatch::Request#bearer_token to extract the...
Eduardo Mendieta, professor of philosophy at Penn State University, has died. Professor Mendieta, described by some as a “giant” in Latin American and Latinx philosophy, wrote on various topics in ethics, social and political philosophy, the human condition, animals, critical theory, and philosophy of race. He is...
December 2025. Ashford. Kent. The journey from Sheffield (Home 1) to Rye (Home 3) ticked into an 8th hour as we pulled into Ashford International, which I’ve seen far too much of these last two months. 36 minutes between trains, too long to admire the art trail, so I felt compelled to seek solace in Spoons. Grief,...
"Ignorance is bliss" usually has a negative connotation, a way to refer to someone who is ignorant on some topic that someone else has deemed very important (sometimes meant as an insult). In my view, ignorance can be a positive thing when it comes to most topics. It's not so much about a lack of information on a...
Do you remember the days of watching cool and weird music videos on MTV, with the quirky commercials in-between? Would you like to have some of that again? Or maybe you don’t have any idea what that was all about, and you want to check it out? Well, here’s your chance. Tune into the Indie Beat Television broadcast...
I just read Influence Without Authority: How to Get People to Listen Without Being the Boss from Bri Chapman. Most people think influence comes from a title. From being the person who approves budgets, signs off on decisions, or sits at the top of an org chart. But that’s not how it actually works. Bri […]
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite frankly, most code bases are probably better off completely...
When I first got started with Magic I only had one deck, a huge pile of I dunno 120 cards or something (Revised and Fallen Empires), I’m not sure. There were enough lands in there to cover everything too. So my neighbor and I played the then–well-known “both players draw from the same deck” format for a while and it...
So, a normal person in my situation at this very moment may express their annoyance even when it's uncalled for and doesn't make sense. It's my last night here in KL, I knew the store would be closed by the time I got there but oh well.
I made a commander deck this week. About 20 of the cards are on order because I didn't have them, 18 of which are specialty lands. My husband and son both upgraded their precons to the point that my Tidus deck won't last long so I figured I could make something fun. Yes, most of the land would have come from the...
go to chat surgery for crimes against web design. a more detailed explanation on it is on the grizzly gazette written by kami.
disclaimer: part of this post contains an off the cuff conversation about gen AI, and its effects on bear's discovery page. It's been slightly less than a year since I started reading blogs including the ones on bear as part of my reduced internet consumption habits. I wanted a more casual reading diet away from my...
🗓️//2025 Year in Review A breakdown of all the auditions and jobs from 2025 Published by AHE. on 30th December 2025 As 2025 comes to a close, I'm left with a lot of mixed emotions. It was a year of wonderful surprises and painful setbacks, of personal successes and un-achieved goals. I promised a peek behind the...
I read this book in 2 days. I could have easily have read it in one if it wasn't for holiday planning and needing to focus on the book club. It was gripping from page one. I was considering I might hate it due to it being YA, with a sort of blurb insinuating a romance with another girl. So, teenage romance with a...
Christina found us another addition to our family. Introducing Pixel! 🎧 Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Faded In The Morning (Acoustic Version) via Folk Fordward on SomaFM ✉️ Reply by Email
I went back and forth on posting this list, mostly because not much has changed from last year. I removed a few apps and added a couple, but overall, my go-to setup stayed pretty consistent. I also added a few more categories of apps that I used enough this year to warrant their own spot in this list. Consider this...
For Christmas, my boyfriend got me the "Bjork archives," a collection of writings on Bjork published for the MoMA Bjork exhibition.
A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment but a privilege — that of having survived the loneliness of childhood, the brash insecurity of youth, the turmoil of middle age, in order to begin...
As previously announced, this coming month I’m hosting the IndieWeb Hackathon. The project for this month is Omnibear, a browser extension for posting to your site via Micropub. As a Micropub client, the extension works with the same APIs as other clients like Quill and Sparkles to create posts on your website. One...
We have a popular end-of-year music list in the Netherlands, called the Top 2000. It's a user-driven list of the best two thousands songs ever made, at least if it was up to the average of the users who listen to the radio station that hosts this list. I was listening to it yesterday and was very to pleased to hear...
This is in continuation of: Stability Regions for BDF and Tendler's Formulas Stability Regions for Tischer's Formulas Stability Regions for eTendler Formulas Below is the output of: stabregion3 -f eTendler9 -o3 -r180 eTendler9: You can rotate the graphic around any axis.
Response to: Yang, Y. Tony. “China’s Beautiful Biotech Chaos vs West’s Elegant Paralysis.” Asia Times, December 28, 2025. https://asiatimes.com/2025/12/chinas-beautiful-biotech-chaos-vs-wests-elegant-paralysis/. Here’s a statistic that should end the “race” metaphor: one-third of all Western Big Pharma acquisitions...
The last week was a blur. We drove some 1500 miles round-trip, saw some beautiful scenery, visited with family and friends, ate way too much food that's bad for us, and spent some quality time together as a family. The occasion was Christmas, of course. While it was a hectic week, I was thankful for the break from...
Some say it is dull. Drab. Dreary. Sterile. I see a palette of muted colors. Gold. Bronze. Ruddy. Amber. Shades of blue mottled by white and ivory. Glowingly beautiful. Accentuated by silence. Winter warmth.
I feel very peaceful whenever I write on paper, especially using a fountain pen. The smooth flow of ink from the pen nib to the paper, while it moves against the roughness of the paper, is so stress-relieving that I can hardly express it in a few words. What I can tell you is how I feel. And I love it. From the very...
This is one of the most shocking surprises I've had in recent memories. I picked The Metaphor Detox Centre from our local little library because the blurb sounded interesting, and I have very little contact with Asian literature. Now that I finished it, I know two things: I have no idea what I've just finished, and...
Me again, taking photos of gum packs. I seem to do this every few decades. I blame nostalgia that ramps up with the holidays.Currently Listening: Amor Fati “Washed Out”Reply via email
剑道 今年年初我在 Notion 上列了很多年度目标，其中最显眼的一条就是达成全年 100 次稽古。 次数统计 地点 次数 备注 MK 剑 36 所属剑友会 KS 剑 26 连携剑友会 KT 剑 23 同好会 试合 4 市级比赛、地区比赛、社会人大赛、友谊赛各一次 稽古会 3 地区讲习会、女子稽古会、八段老师稽古会各一次 体大 3 寒稽古 观战 2 京都大会、地区比赛 出稽古 1 祝日特别合练 合计 98 加上两次第二道场就算我达成年间 100 次稽古吧（不 主要进步，继续保持 振足不够的问题基本解决，一周三四练也不会脚跟痛。 左腿不伸直的问题基本解决，秋冬季左脚脚底没再磨破过。...
A thoughtful look at macOS 26’s application of Liquid Glass by Howard Oakley: I’m sure that, in the right place and time, transparency effects of Liquid Glass can be visually pleasing. Not only is this the wrong time and place, but those with visual impairment can no longer remove or even reduce these effects, as...
Diarmaid MacCulloch: The particular appeal of Orthodoxy for a certain sort of young man comes from the fragility of so much of young American masculinity: disoriented by assertions of female equality and the new self-confidence of many people in their variations on gender and sexual identity. I have two questions....
TThis week’s note is shorter than usual since it was a holiday week and everything ran on “short week” mode. The vibe Last week was steady in the best way. I only worked through Wednesday, and work stayed mostly quiet outside of the usual alerts and the occasional support call. Personally, I did what I’ve needed for...
You know the drill!! One subject, three lenses I think all told I photographed the moon less than 12 times this year; that's bonkers compared to 2024 which was more than double that easily. I know life's been weird but there's something to be said about end of year looking back and realizing how much or little I did...
In the spirit of avoidance, I came across the trailer for this movie on YouTube, and look, PERIOD COSTUMES. No one really expected me not to watch it, right? So, this movie started with a young adult book (When You Were Mine, by Rebecca Serle) that is based on the idea that Rosaline, Romeo’s ‘first love’, isn’t...
Here’s some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases)...
There is an ache in my fingertips that does not go away. It’s a light sting, right at the pads, and I know it’s from the cold air outside. I go out in the mornings to care for the chickens, and I find my insulated winter gloves get in the way of some of the things I do, so I take them off when I’m at the coop....
I saw the following New York Post headline in my Miniflux feed reader this morning: NYC snow pile carved into ‘crazy’ Snow King sculpture — now it’s a tourist attraction. I was almost certain I knew what the Snow King sculpture, documented by the Post, was before I opened the article. I happened to see it yesterday...