Fri Jan 02
I recently went on vacation to Costa Rica. It was an experience that was not without technical difficulties. The very first time I attempted to take a picture with my iPhone, I received a message that my storage was completely used up and that I needed to delete something in order to save photographs. It happened at...
Setting up Obsidian for the first time. One of my buddies in my writing group said he uses it for taking notes all year and managing his poetry and writing projects so I figured I'd give it a try. It reminds me of Evernote and a few other task programs. I used to use Evernote back in 2009 for a while until they made...
A 100 year old post card of Arashiyama, including the Togetsukyo bridge. Notice all the logs. Logging was big business for years, until the 1960s. æžĄææ©ăć«ăć”ć±±ăź100ćčŽćăźç””èæžăć·ă«æ”źăă¶ăăăăăźäžžć€Șă«æłšçźă1960ćčŽä»ŁăŸă§ăææ„ăŻéèŠăȘçŁæ„ă ăŁăă
As an alternative to the Writing Tools proofreading macro I showed in yesterdayâs post, I built another one, called Proofread With Claude, which gets the edited text through a call to Anthropicâs Claude API. I make the call in Python using Simon Willisonâs llm module and the llm-anthropic extension. Although I knew...
For the new year, a resolution How small that is, with which we wrestle,what wrestles with us, how immense;were we to let ourselves, the way things do,be conquered thus by the great storm,âwe would become far-reaching and nameless. What we triumph over is the Small,and the success itself makes us petty.The Eternal...
Understandably different from both Arch Enemy and The Agonist, the new single from Alicia White-Gluz, "The Room Where She Died" is more hard rock than heavy metal. Nice to hear her clean vocals though â a talent squandered by Arch Enemy! Opening with a moving string piece, I thought for a second she was going to go...
Well, here's a little Christmas mystery. Looking out of the window this frosty morning, I saw a scatter of white feathers on the lawn, and an avian corpse of some kind â a pigeon, I assumed, fallen victim to one of Lichfield's ubiquitous sparrowhawks. But no â when I went out to investigate, I found that what I had...
The following is an excerpt from a private exchange. The quoted/indented parts belong to my correspondent. I comment on how we can frame our thinking so as not to feel lost in the modern era. Keeping a sense of perspective is important at all times. Iâve always been someone very defined by hobbies and interests in...
When it comes to gaming, this year was pretty wild. I went through lots of different phases which can be seen throughout the year, a look at the cadence of videogame reviews on this blog will give you an idea. Earlier in the year I remember being out and about on vacation, which means that I carried some of my...
Traversal (FSG) broadens and deepens the questions raised in Figuring, the questions we live with: the relationship between chance and choice in becoming who we are, between chemistry and consciousness in being what we are, the tension between our love of truth and our lust for power, the restlessness of our...
A picture of my desk with a new desk mat from amesoba. I look at reviews before buying things, and I prefer personal websites and youtube channels over large publications because I can get a feel for the person behind the opinions, and their preferences. Iâve noticed though that reviews gravitate towards a certain...
When you accidentally rename a file to a name that already exists, Finder tells you about it, and then just dumps you out of rename, so you have to enter rename mode again and type the desired name. This feels like such a 1990s way of doing things: throwing a dialog box and washing your hands away from the...
Oh primo post del 2026, buon anno! In realtĂ questa Ăš una bloggata di risposta a quanto scriveva il buon Ed...
Hemos llegado a enero del 2026 con un total de 45 entradas publicadas en el año 2025, marcando un nuevo record para el blog, contra las 23 del año 2024. ÂĄUn montĂłn! A decir verdad, este blog deberĂa ser solo el reflejo de lo que voy aprendiendo con el tiempo. Como dice la descripciĂłn, un lugar donde publico mis...
Dia 2 do ano. Segunda corrida do ano. O tĂtulo do post poderia ser muito triste dependendo de como eu iria escrever sobre. Mas ele Ă© no sentido positivo. No Ășltimo dia do ano a minha Ășnica promessa foi de voltar a me sentir bem comigo mesmo fisicamente. Apesar de ter feito aquela lista no fim de Dezembro, esse Ă© o...
Listeninâ (Musics) Black Dog (Not the Zeppelin one) Book of Saturday Boom! Shake The Room Dawn of Revelation I Donât Feel Like Dancinâ Laredo Listening Wind Still The Same Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Original Broadway Cast Recording (1979) Uncle Remus ⊠⊠⊠⊠⊠Playinâ Absolum (NS2): From the...
Today I had a fight with my partner. We don't fight constantly, but when we do, it's always about the same things. Today we had one of these never-ending disagreements we always get into and... he said something that I'm not sure how I should respond to. I don't wanna air his business to the internet, so I'll just...
A couple of months after I started the Kyoto Tech Meetup in September last year, we already had some disparate homes and content on the web. We moved quickly from just having a Meetup.com page to also having a Discord server, a GitHub org, and content published by members of the community.I found it hard to answer...
Book reviews in 2025 Happy New Year to you! What better way is there to remember what youâve read, than by writing book reviews? This was my thinking when I wrote Iâd like to be better at book reviews (23-08-2025). As a follow-up and also, as a way to look back at 2025, I figured itâd be nice to list all the books...
Promising not to do something ever again is a tall order, but at least I'm going to give it a try. So here's what I'll avoid buying in the future:
đ· Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR đïž 435 mm focal length â 1/500âł at f/9 â ISO 200 đ National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States â Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and TsĂ©sthoâe (Cheyenne) land
Like many (most?) Mac users, I keep my frequently-used applications arranged in my Dock in a logical and easily-remembered order; but a few months ago, my Mac stopped remembering that order and began to display those apps randomly. At first I thought they were displayed with the most recently opened on top â I keep...
Welcome to the new year. I didnât do much on New Yearâs Eve or Day, other than maybe sleeping a bit. However, I took some time to write and publish the year-end post. This is the 18th year of publishing year-end posts. At Kochi-Muziris Biennale / 2025 My first and last blood donation in 2025 was this week. This is...
âI am not made for this,â Rivi says to me. âItâs winter,â I say. âComplaining about it wonât do any good.â âThis isnât winter,â she says. âItâs the return of the Ice Age.â I canât argue with her about the cold. The thermometer in my car this morning on the way in to work was reading -2 Fahrenheit, so yes: itâs...
I am still watching the recordings of talks given on the #39C3 Chaos Communications Congress (see the talks here). Katharina Nocun gave a talk titled Doomsday-Porn, SchĂ€ferhunde und die âniedliche Abschiebungâ von nebenan where she shows a really disturbing trend: AI-generated content is becoming a cornerstone of...
Read Benâs story, Alette in lane six is a self-righteous bitch, on Foofaraw now!How often do you go bowling?My forty-something wrists, unfortunately, donât enjoy hurling heavy stuff down the lane as much as they used to, so only once a year or so.How often does it end in disappointment?Every. Single. Time.Whatâs the...
So I don't make a lot of code nerd posts on this blog, but it's mostly because I am, frankly, not that great a programmer. I like to describe myself as "experienced enough to only break things in weird ways no one expected." But a lot of my website is run on stupid code that's just me mucking about until I stumble...
Thereâs been a sharp uptick in the number of children diagnosed with autism and/or ADHD since a few decades back. Some try to find a cause in various conspiracy theories, but the general consensus is that this is an artifact from us simply being better at picking up the signs earlier and getting the kids into the...
We humans place a lot of importance on the time it takes for Earth to revolve around the sun. It takes one year, and we wind up in more or less the same place â relative to the sun â each time. A time for celebration! But since the sun itself is orbiting around the centre of the galaxy, Earth moves along with it....
Photo by BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash I canât believe itâs already 2026. Looking back, 2025 was a real mix of highs and lows, wins and frustrations, and the usual chaos that comes with juggling work, school, and trying to build things on the internet that donât disappear the moment a platform decides to change the...
Happy New Year to you all! I hope the year is off to a good start for you. While I wonât be asking you about your new yearâs resolutions, I thought it would be a good idea to hear from you about what youâd like to see covered and discussed at Daily Nous this coming year. Are there categories of news you think should...
Learn how to set up GitHub Actions with a self-hosted runner to automatically deploy your .NET website to a Windows IIS server when code is pushed to main.
A Bridge Essay I. The Pattern in Ten Stories If youâve just read The Axiom Engine, youâve experienced something unusual: mathematical theorems as lived constraints. The Oracle tried to predict and failed. The Arbiter tried to satisfy all axioms and collapsed. The Wanderer walked freely and discovered necessity. Each...
I discuss some artwork from 2025 and about some art studies I've been doing.
Read on the website: Boredom and idleness are a necessary part of life and censoring and ennervating over them is not fine. Embrace boredom!
âUnproductiveâ in this context refers to my many creative projects I wanted to tackle over the holidays. Instead of working on them, I spent a lot of time hanging out with people. As someone who is unpleasantly introverted, I usually do not like hanging out with people that often. I would rather be at home! But it...
It's the end of they year and I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at my Indieweb journey for the year. I had some steady posting spurts on the site this year and while I would have liked more, I'm happy with what I did post âŠ
Most all of my photos today are of this pup.Currently Listening: Los Coast âSimplifyâReply via email
This year I listened to a lot more music than normal. This is a good thing for me, because it means Iâm doing pretty good emotionally. In short, I use my music listening habits to track my depression, and more means itâs not been a big issue, so this year has been pretty good. It seems a bit selfish given the way...
Running is way easier after the first five minutes. Writing only really gets started after the first few sentences have found their way onto the paper. Cooking a meal becomes a meditative pastime when you allow it. Youâll only wake up fully after you get out of bed. Vacuuming the house gets you started with cleaning...
I know not many people will care, but I thought it was prudent to write a blog post about it anyway. In short, I'm taking away most of the files from https://files.winnerwind.in. Why? In December 2025, I saw that my file server was being hit by a lot of requests. I mean, I had a lot of files and really did not mind...
Three simple questions to collect feedback when you don't know what to ask: What should X (I, he/she/they) start doing? Why? What should X (I, he/she/they) stop doing? Why? What should X (I, he/she/they) continue doing? Why? Be aware that you're pushing the responsibility for thinking to the person receiving the...
December 26th 2025. Tonbridge. Our boys were keen to get the grandparent visits done early on Boxing Day and head back North, and with no Christmas night entertainment in Waterbeach (they play charades and whist in Histon) we found ourselves on the M11 by 8 sharp. Mrs RM was suddenly alarmed at being at her parents...
My mental, emotional, and spiritual health have been pretty terrible since about mid-2025. But earlier in the year, when I decided to observe Lent for the first time leading up to Easter, it was the best I had felt in a long time. One of the things I gave up for Lent? Twitch. So I'm taking a break from it again to...
I haven't read anything by Stephen King in ages, and, when I found Dolores Clairborn at our office library, I thought to myself: after all this time? Why not? Then The Wife tried it before me and dropped oud a few dozen pages in, so why again: why not? Dolores is accused of killing Vera Donovan, for whom she was an...