Tue Dec 30
This is going to be a fairly niche post, so I will make it clear right away: If you are not using Hyprland on Fedora 43, you can close this post and move on with your day. Now, those of you who are using Hyprland on Fedora 43 are likely doing so via the widely linked and recommended solopasha/hyprland COPR. However,...
Many of the newsletters I read are publishing “best of 2025” wrap-ups where they rattle off the posts that either got the most attention or made their authors most proud. Which is nice and all, but I saw that content already. I guess the digital cadence means it’s better to do the newsletter version of a clip show...
My reading appetite has been weak again this year, which I blame on two things: 1) Slay the Spire being way too good of a video game, and 2) starting a new job, and thus having more of my mental energy focused on that. But I did manage to read some stuff! So without further ado, here are the book reviews: Quick...
It's time to put on every winter coat you've owned since '98 and tot up The Quantified Self™ — Buckle in! This year's top ten artists The Cure (92 plays) Orla Gartland (71 plays) Chloe Slater (67 plays) Placebo (52 plays) Arch Enemy (51 plays) Baby Queen (49 plays) Chappell Roan (48 plays) Ulver (48 plays) Frozen...
Monks at Chion-in temple ring the Grand Bell 108 times for the new year. Happy New Year everyone! 知恩院の僧侶が新年を迎えるため除夜の鐘を108回つく。皆さん、良いお年を！
As usual, I haven’t been able to watch everything I’d like, but here are my top movie, TV and podcast picks this year...
I just published the latest stable release of the Modus themes. The change log entry is reproduced further below. For any questions, you are welcome to contact me. I will now work to apply these same changes to emacs.git, so please wait a little longer for the updates to trickle down to you. Package name (GNU ELPA):...
As it always does, Christmas week came and went so quickly. We started it with everyone in the house under the weather in one form or another, recovering from either illness or injury. I was feeling a profound tiredness in my bones. I definitely need the next two weeks off work, living life in the slow lane in order...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...
The 39C3: Power Cycles, the 39th Congress of the Chaos Computer Club has finished. I followed the congress via the #39C3 Hashtag on Mastodon which was quite interesting. I’ve never been there myself but at least I got some impressions via the posts. All (or a lot of?) the talks are available online as well. […]
Wired to Create, by Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire, is a book that identifies some characteristics and habits of highly creative people. Notes Introduction studies of creative people have found some apparently contradictory personality traits – for example, some creative people score highly on measures of...
December 22nd 2025. Hastings. Well, I think it’s Hastings, where the eponymous pier stands, though the video is less conclusive, and you folks will know how much invisible and pointless boundaries matter to some people. Mrs RM decided that at 10:52 am it was time for the Official RM birthday pub, and looked bemused...
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.Add `ActionDispatch::Request#bearer_token` to extract the bearer token...
The text in the excerpt has been slightly modified for style. Back when I published on WriteFreely, I shared five creative goals on 2025. These were focused on my creative project backlog and my plans as a carefree adventurer on the Internet world. However, I joined less art challenges1 than last year. Here is the...
Read on the website: This was a hard year, filled with Lisp hacking, ed(1) editing and meta-programming, escapist writing, and heavy feeling. A good K-pop soundtrack tho.
Whenever I design things, I try to be mindful of accessibility. For web, I include anchor descriptions, use semantic HTML, ensure headings follow a logical order, and use ARIA tags when needed. I am not perfect, I’m sure that you will find issues with things I make. But I care11.I am a physicist not a designer or...
Since the previous Wait Wait Stats Update in November, there have been several key updates to the Wait Wait Stats Project.
The year 2025 has been a decent year personally. I got to focus on and spend time with family, friends, and on personal growth. The work has been decent. I am still able to explore, learn, and apply new things. It helped that I am mostly off popular social media, spend very little time on WhatsApp, and choose to...
Year's end, and I'm still coughing and still prostrated by this wretched 'cold' or whatever it is.I thought I might post a poem – last year it was Richard Wilbur's wonderful Year's End – but this year it's going to be, of all the unlikely candidates, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, whose poem 'The Year' seems to me blessedly...
Around the time of the death of David Lynch last year, my rewatching of all his films was interrupted by my stepdad, who made me watch Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) when I came to visit on a Tuesday evening of the last January. Starting from that Tuesday, Ingmar Bergman is my second most favourite director – at...
My brother stopped by with a tin full of cookies and a bag of hard candies. My nostalgia alarm went off again, and we were back in the grocery trying to fill up a bag at the Brach's Pick-A-Mix stand.Currently Listening: Dolly Parton “Hard Candy Christmas”Reply via email
Warning — Spoilers ahead! 31/12/2025 Initial thoughts on My Winter Car My Summer Car is one of my most favorite games of all time, with a great mix of both depth and width, along with great soul. I decided to go into My Winter Car as blind as I can, since the best part of MSC was when you where still trying to just...
This year I read 27 books covering a total of 9.237 pages.. Well, as far as the administration goes anyway. I'm missing a few months where my book application didn't exist yet. The best books were the ones by Wolfgang Faust. They are incredibly immersive. The worst books were the Willful Child series. The writing is...
If I had to choose one direction, that I could push the IndieWeb towards for the next couple of years, it would be the social route. Just having a personal website, which already makes you part of the movement, can be incredibly lonely without any additional tools. This is definitely something we need to improve....
As is increasingly our tradition around here, I wanted to take one final opportunity this year to round up the fun and interesting things I found this month and share them with you! But first, a more important message: If you’re on the Gregorian Calendar, let me extend to you my warmest wishes for the upcoming year....
I browse the discovery feed on Bear daily, both as part of my role as a moderator, and because it's a space I love, populated by a diverse group of interesting people. I've read the posts regarding AI-related content on the discovery feed, and I get it. It's such a prevalent topic right now that it feels...
December 31, 2025 | 🧑💻 The birthday prank that resulted from sniping my friend's personal website domain and porting his game from 🐍 Python to 🦀 Rust [!topics] Topics: Coding The Mega Man 2 Puzzle Attack - 🦀 Carcinized Title Screen To close out 2025, I want to share a big focus of my year, the effort and...
Previously. I’ve been in love with watchexec: Recursively monitors the current directory for changes, executing the command when a filesystem change is detected (among other event sources). By default, watchexec uses efficient kernel-level mechanisms to watch for changes. It’s a modern version of entr. Its usage is...
I enjoy media without actively participating in fandom. I prefer that over witnessing fandom drama or being influenced by the current consensus these spaces hold. Fandom is not without its use or effect on me, but I enjoy the more passive, indirect parts of it more. I like being able to research in a wiki someone...
As the year comes to an end yet again, I've ended up reflecting a lot not just on the last twelve months, but my past in general. Who I am, where I've been, and who I've brought with me. When we were down in Milwaukee for Christmas, Crysta and I got dinner with Chris and his partner Sarah. I haven't seen Chris in...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sun 12/28/2025 - Fennekin Inspired by my trip to Lumiose for Z-A, I started a fresh save of Pokemon X to play through casually as time allows and started with a Fennekin. I named them TALLFOX, which is the nickname we gave to the (you'll never...
For a short time this blog was part of the IndieWeb that vast sprawling network of websites that considers itself as separate from the corporate web. They publish on their own site first then, optionally, elsewhere. In that way they ‘own’ their content. And no one can take that away. Which is all good. But then I...
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet...
Wow. 2025 is done. It’s been… a lot? A lot. It’s been a lot. Similar to my 2024 recap, I’ve got a lot to write before midnight strikes, so let’s get into it. Work things! I’m still working at GitHub! This year my team was a content machine. We revived the biweekly YouTube show, The Download, and hit millions of...
To było tak: jest sobie jakaś losowa strona drogerii: https://www.dm.pl/wlosy/pielegnacja-wlosow/szampon. Ta strona - jak dosłownie każda jedna strona każdego jednego serwisu sprzedażowego w całym internecie - ma, (delikatnie mówiąc) PRZEKLEŃSTWO sortowanie. Co mam konkretnie na myśli? Że to nigdy nie działa...
This is my annual pulse post, which is data heavy and contains visualisations and interactive elements. The experience of viewing it in a feed reader might be compromised, so I advise viewing it directly on the web at Vale.Rocks. As is recent tradition at the year’s end, this is my ‘wrapped’ or ‘recap’ or whatever...
Just added a handful of blogs to that little list. There are one or two blogs that only talk about "how to blog" and junk, this isn't Substack lol. I'm working on Noodlist stuff. I've got a huge update coming out for it and I need to get it wrapped up before tomorrow because I have to put out the sub call for Y2K...
last semester, I took a class on baroque art, though it was never an art movement I liked.
Pain- is seeking clarity. in a hangnail begging attention. the cold air drifting about. a lesson learned. of the past. again.
Bless hindsight for how it clarifies the confusions of time, for how precisely it plots the true highs and lows on the terrain map of life once the quakes of the moment have died down, for how dispassionately it reveals what was a fleeting enthusiasm and what a lifelong gift. It is good to have an annual hindsight...
It's a Netflix series based on the books of the same name by Andrzej Sapkowski, which was going very well till season three, when the lead actor was Henry Cavill. However, he quit after season three without making any fuss, and sadly, the following season came out crappy. I am complaining because I watched all four...
Added a blogroll like in the old days In the heyday of blogs, many blogs published a blogroll, often is a side bar. This was a list with which showed a selection of links other blogs. It showed the blogs that had recently been updated. I created a blogroll that does the same. Selection of links A script looks every...
People are quick to offer gen AI and religion as a solution to anything, and it pisses me off. Attempts to do so reject the tentative vulnerability and curiosity that comes with being human. I understand that you believe your higher power is all-powerful, but you're human! I value your experiences and opinions!...
En 2025, j'ai shooté 697 photos argentiques dont : 445 en couleur 252 en noir et blanc 653 en film 135 44 en film 110 464 avec des films expirés Le tout avec 10 appareils : Retrouvez mon travail sur root.photo
Fixing Git Clone SSH Agent on Windows Last days I run Git on Windows for a quick upload of something, tried cloning the private repo over SSH, and it bombed out with a permission denied error. Even though a plain SSH test to GitHub worked fine. As said, normally I work on my Linux Laptop but during Holidays I –had–...
I almost missed the deadline with this one, didn’t I? At least it gives me a chance to wish every one of you a happy New Year’s Eve, and new year. In 2026, I’ll write less about CSS, fonts, HTML, and text editors, and more about… well, at least I’ll try. Thank you for reading. 〜 The Future of Veritasium・Precious...
Snowhawk (n): The ridge of snow in the middle of the roof of the vehicle that the driver couldn't reach and is driving around with. Source: Nauga Clown
The One-Inch Frame Two friends argue heatedly about whether a hot dog is a sandwich. One insists it is—bread on both sides, filling in the middle. The other insists it isn’t—ask any deli. After twenty minutes, neither has moved an inch. How to Disagree About Categories In March 2008, Paul Graham published “How to...
Howdy folks, can you believe that the year is over? Shocking! I spent December travelling around Sri Lanka with my family, and it was incredible! I published a few pics from our trip. I managed to catch up on a long reading list and, as I do every year, I published my annual summary of the past year. It’s been a...
I've been having a bunch of fun learning n8n during the holiday vacation. I've hooked it up so that when I write a blog post in my site, it's published to RSS and... Checks if the URL is already processed, abort if it is Content is summarized by an LLM (I'm lazy, sorry) Stored in a data-table Then occasionally, it...
The Hubert L. Dreyfus Foundation, a nonprofit, public benefit corporation founded by Hubert Dreyfus’s family following the philosopher’s death in 2017, is raising funds to establish an audio archive. Hubert Dreyfus B. Scot Rouse, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley who is assisting the Foundation with the project,...
Book review: Indian Philosophy by Sue Hamilton I’ve read the book Indian Philosophy, A Very Short Introduction by Sue Hamilton. I was looking for a good reference book on the various traditions of Indian Philosophy. Unfortunately, I’ll have to keep searching. I appreciate it’s a very tall ask to summarize Indian...