Sat Jan 10
I often suffer from world-weariness. That aching, inescapable feeling that the world is somehow going wrong and there's nothing that I can personally do about it, and the general sense of emotional and cognitive fatigue that comes with those thoughts. I worry a lot about the world -- watching systems that I once...
I’m currently reading Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now and Shoshanna Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism at the same time (the former for enjoyment and the latter for research). The juxtaposition is convincing me of one thing: We live in a society whose sole imperative is mass resource extraction from the populace to...
My bad guys, 2026 is great, but I can tell that to my friends. Y'know what I can't tell my friends?
YES HELLO I CANNOT STOP FUCKING SNEEZING LONG ENOUGH TO DO A PROPER BLOG TODAY. Okay uh, here’s a thing: I was invited to hang out with some pals of one of my pals! They have a loose, drop-in-drop-out board game night most Saturdays, and the first time I dropped in I immediately realized three things: My policy of...
“Whatcha doing?” Rivi asks, looking over my shoulder at my phone. “Well, I was enjoying my personal space,” I say. “That ship has sailed, hit an iceberg, and sunk,” she says. She reaches over and taps my phone with her finger. “Playlisting, huh?” I bat her hand away. “Don’t get your DNA all over everything.” “You...
Album#25 Live At The Jazz Cafe 图1 《Live At The Jazz Cafe》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称：Live At The Jazz Cafe 歌手：Olivia Dean 年份：2021-10-22 风格：R&B、Neo-Soul、live、流行 时长：约 35 分钟 本来打算听 Olivia Dean 2025 年的专辑 《The Art of Loving》，在第一首的「The Art of Loving (Intro)」 里有人推荐看看她的「Live At The Jazz Cafe」，我就先去找来看了看，当「Echo」的管乐旋律响起，当 Olivia Dean...
I just finished my first week going into office for three days due to my employer’s RTO (return-to-office) mandate, and it was as pointless and absurd as I had expected. You can read my opinion piece on why RTO is terrible for diversity and inclusion. For context, my employer (a university) cited “in-person...
La descripción de este post es un poco engañosa … en realidad aún no llevo un año en Linux, pero falta muy poco, 2025 fue mi primer año usando Linux y ya ha terminado. Es gracioso que al segundo o tercer mes haya escrito algo llamado: “Linux NO es difícil”, lo siento un poco pretencioso considerando que aún no había...
È ufficialmente iniziata, almeno per me, la grande invasione dei guru del benessere personale. I miei feed social ne sono ormai colonizzati: orde di santoni digitali pronti a spiegarmi come dimagrire senza fatica, dare un’aggiustatina al cerebro, far rendere i miei risparmi, dormire come un ghiro, lavorare meno,...
I still sometimes think of the miracle that is Undo Send in Gmail. Michael Leggett announcing it in 2009: This feature can’t pull back an email that’s already gone; it just holds your message for five seconds so you have a chance to hit the panic button. And don’t worry – if you close Gmail or your browser crashes...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop GDQ Week is coming to a close! Make sure to watch tonight at roughly 9:20pm Eastern for adef's run of Pokemon Emerald for the Gameboy Advance; he's going to beat the game in 2 and a half hours with the event dictating which pokemon will be his...
An incomplete list of pharmacies, or speziali, which have at some time existed in Venice. Some are still around.
As a January birthday boy, the calendar year is almost congruent with year of age, so I allow myself a couple more weeks for retrospection and good resolutions. But the world doesn’t wait! 2026 got off to a tumultuous start, and now that I’ve officially turned 38, I am ready to formulate the following goals for the...
At the beginning of 2025, I needed to buy new headphones since the pair I had for almost seven years stopped working on one side. I was a bit strapped for cash, so I found a pair on clearance. After about eight months of use, they stopped working on one side, kinda proving why they were on clearance to begin with. I...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:3d print of a Power Grid Power Plant Card Display.png|thumb|The little magnets allow you to connect the different sections temporarily]] We've been playing quite a bit of [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651/power-grid Power Grid] and one of...
After writing this morning’s post, I went down to Channahon for a walk along the I&M Canal towpath. On the drive there and back, I thought about redoing the project in Python instead of Mathematica. It seemed like a fairly easy problem, and it was. Recall that the goal was to reproduce this table from a recent...
I just read Walking Skeletons, Delivery Pipelines & DevOps Drills and came to the paragraph about “throwing s.th over the wall: DevOps – the marriage of software development and operations – means that the team writing the solution code also handles these matters. We don’t throw it over the wall to a separate...
This blog entry contains swearing. I was thinking I’d start my blog off on a more personal note than this, but… I can’t. I have to talk about the bullshit. We’re just over a week into 2026 and already, Trump’s people have abducted Venezuela’s President and his wife in order to get to Venezuela’s oil and an ICE...
Problem statement: watch -- git diff / watch -- git status should emit colors. Yet it doesn’t. watch(1): NAME watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen SYNOPSIS watch [option ...] command DESCRIPTION watch runs command repeatedly, displaying its output and errors (the first screenful). This...
I've been trying to put my feelings into words about the events of the last week. In theory, I'm a writer. That's a thing I should be able to do easily. I've sat here with a blank document for the last hour though, and mostly just given up on trying to be remotely eloquent or thoughtful at all. I'm just mostly angry...
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In my last post I discussed how I was moving my micro blogging practice to my personal website. I was previously using Bear Blog (highly recommend btw) for small life updates that didn’t fit into full blog posts. I decided to use ATProto as the means to make this happen, and ended up with a pretty good workflow that...
I'm currently employed full-time working with pharmaceutical databases, but I'm looking to shift into job roles centered around Data Protection Law, like Compliance and Privacy, or Data Governance, preferably in the 📍Nuremberg/Erlangen/Fürth area 🇩🇪, where I am relocating to from NRW. My current role in drug...
January 2026. Hastings. The end of Dryanuary for me as we hit Day 3 of 2026, but Mrs RM has ambitions to “go low” and seek out all these exciting non-alcoholic alternatives we keep reading about. Let’s focus on one street, All Saints in Hastings, historic and affluent and a good bet for folk abstaining you might...
I. The Fundamental Inversion Traditional metaphysics asks: “What exists?” Then derives constraints from the nature of existing things. Deferential Realism inverts this: “What constrains?” Then understands entities as positions within constraint-space. This isn’t mere methodological preference—it’s a claim about...
L'Arpeggiata's CD of improvisations on Purcell, Music for a While, ends with a bonus track – not another Purcell, but, rather surprisingly, Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah', given a very distinctive treatment by alto Vincenzo Capezzuto and members of the company. I can't say that I like Capezzuto's voice very much (he...
My coworkers really like AI-powered code review tools and it seems that every time I make a pull request in one of their repos I learn about yet another AI code review SaaS product. Given that there are so many of them, I decided to see how easy it would be to develop my own AI-powered code review bot that targets...
Hay varios aspectos del invierno que no conozco: los árboles secos, la nieve, el vestirse con muchas capas y lo más destacado, el frío. Conozco un tipo de frio tímido, no sale mucho ni todos los días, es casi una sorpresa para mi cuando lo encuentro por la mañana. Así que no conozco al verdadero frio, al audaz que...
A few days ago I submitted my biography of Dorothy L. Sayers to my editors at Oxford University Press. I always find this stage of the book-writing process emotionally complicated. At the moment, while I feel gratified that I have told my story, that I have taken this person in words from the cradle to the grave, I...
Elena Rossini habla en este post de su blog de por qué evita tecnología de big tech, de cuáles son sus opciones y de su motivación para hacerlo.
Europe is experiencing a crisis of digital autonomy. Our dependence on US big tech has been growing for decades and is now nearly total, at a time when worries about our former ally are no longer theoretical. Might we, like the International Criminal Court in The Hague, find ourselves locked out of our own mailboxes...
Let God be thanked today for the first day set aside for Christians to remember that Jesus died for our sins and arose from the dead on the first day of the week; his providence which takes our smallest and often unconsidered actions to produce a blessing to many people; a fine initial response to yesterday's news...
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