Thu Jan 15
In December I was fortunate enough to have a LOT of PTO banked up, and I spent almost all of it on 3 weeks in mainland China and Taiwan. I hit 3 cities in the mainland - Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhangjiajie - as well as Taipei in Taiwan. This wasn't my first time in China. I actually went as a middle schooler for one...
Llevamos un buen tiempo con noticias horrorosas e interconectadas, en unos tiempos que distan mucho del tipo de futuro que yo imaginaba cuando era adolescente. No estaba en mi cartón del bingo tener que preocuparme por cosas que pensaba que habíamos dejado atrás. Es muy fácil perderse en la vorágine de noticias,...
This is a practical how-to on moving email from Gmail to another provider. The main challenge is Gmail’s label system: one email can have multiple labels and all mails also appear in “All Mail”. Most other providers use folders instead, where an email can only exist in one place. If you migrate without taking this […]
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has been experimenting with holding one of its three major conferences entirely online. The organization has now announced that, after the second of these online-only events—the Pacific Division meeting taking place this April—it will go back to holding all three meetings...
Slop is Everywhere For Those With Eyes to See The size of your plate can influence how much food you eat. The absence of a clock on a casino wall can keep you gambling through the early morning. On social media, our For You Pages give us the illusion of infinite content. How our environments are designed influences...
January 2026. Tulse Hill. London. Leaving Streatham Spoons I became aware of something big happening in the FA Cup. Macclesfield (no longer Robbie Savage’s Macc) of the 6th division had just taken a 2-nil lead against the Cup holders, cheating Crystal Palace. And I was definitely heading into Palace territory as I...
[ABC, 13.01.2025] V-M y Elena Ramírez, en ceremonia premio Zenda. —La fuga y la desaparición han marcado su literatura. Sin embargo, ¿existe algo más duradero y firme que su estilo? —Pero es que el estilo no es un simple adorno, sino la sustancia misma de mi obra. Por eso he hablado de que me dedico a escribir “la...
Welcome to the ninth edition of the NMG grant. I am grateful to friends (Nemo, Gangadhar, Shweta, Divya, Miss.Y, Mr.S) and other anonymous folks who have joined me on this journey with additional grant support. We do have some of them supporting us this year, too. Since last year, we have separated the NMG-Edu as a...
A banned Switch sitting on a shelf is prime hardware for Android. Turns out the Tegra X1 that powered Breath of the Wild runs a full Android OS surprisingly well. My Switch got banned after I ran homebrew on it to backup game saves, so I could use them in a Switch emulator on my Steam Deck. I’d put hundreds of hours...
Another solid year for Silvestar. Long-term clients, challenging projects, and a few wins along the way.
Although I don't miss NYC, the one thing I do miss is not having a car. I prefer walking. I like trains and buses. I like reading and napping during my commutes. What I don't like is being stuck in a car, sitting in traffic. Or wondering why people don't use their turn signals. Or wondering why they step on their...
The first version of digg, something many people called the front page of the internet, arrived in 2004, and was a little like what Hacker News is today. A social bookmarking news aggregator, if you want to be technical. People could submit items of interest, and those favoured by the community would win a place on...
I came across "pip o" one way or another out of an interest in children's art.
As far as I can tell*, Justin Faircloth (just.not.fair) was the first person to refer to vomitous slime mold Donald Trump as Il Duce Arancione. #america #authoritarianism #fascism #il-duce-arancione #politics #trump ∎
Good morning brothers and sisters, My name is amy redmond, I'm 16, and I've recently moved into this ward a month ago from New Zealand, and i used to attend as a kid back in 2018 for those who may recognize the shorter version of me.
What a fucking miserable day today’s been. Came home this evening to the Main breaker panel being down again. Called FAC. While we were figuring out the issue with the power, we heard OP was electrocuted while playing in his yard and didn’t make it. Such a freaking tragic loss. How do you even come to terms with...
Previously. Problem statement Given Alpine Linux 3.23 running PostgreSQL 17, upgrade to PostgreSQL 18. For this specific example, consider a miniflux database. The previous post still applies, with only one exception: PostgreSQL 18 enables data‑checksums by default: Version 18 enables data‑checksums by default. In...
January 15, 2026 Andre Franca, Why do you run a blog? Is it to make a living, or is it a hobby? If you write from your small corner of the internet for pleasure, to meet new people, or simply for engagement, then you probably shouldn’t ask for money for it. Here's why: […] First, asking for donations creates an...
I've always thought about that to myself, but lately, after so many decisions (some good and others not) and changes in my daily life, this has been floating in my head with a bit more weight. Well, to make things clearer here, when I was younger I started playing bass and other instruments. I was definitely...
NY TimesIt’s laughable it took this long.The FBI and and anyone who has had their image created or depicted in an explicit manner should be going after Elon Musk, X, and use everything within their legal power to identify the people prompting Grok for these images and go after them using revenge porn and deepfake...
This week I was a guest over on Hyde's blog. He has a series called "Over/Under" where he gives his guests a handful of topics and lets them riff on whether they think the topic is over- or underrated. The topics he picked for me were Italy, Asahi Linux, Dark Mode, Printers and Turkish Coffee. It was quite an...
Esperé en el lago a que pasara algo que me llevara con él, tal vez un objeto perdido, tal vez una persona aventurera o tal vez un pez que me invite a nadar. Esperé ahí parado hasta que ya no pude ver mi reflejo y las ondas resplandecían en la oscuridad, me quedé un poco más solo porque mis piernas aguantaron. Me...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thurs 01/15/0226 - Slakoth One of our cats' names is Sloth; he's a good cat. While petting him, had the thought "I wonder if there is a Sloth pokemon" - Slakoth is what first came up which like tracks in terms of both name and design...but it's...
IN MY DEFENSE, how else was I going to get his number?Picture this: Thursday evening, 5:00 PM, LA traffic, the intersection of Pico and La Cienega. You see the most beautiful man you have ever seen in your life driving in front of you. Not even his whole face, just a sliver—brown eye, freckled skin, angular...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 179 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/5.6 – ISO 125 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
Hey everyone. I've been seeing a chunk of posts about folks going back to physical and offline media these days so I thought I'd write up a few helpful posts on the matter. When I was in kindergarten I had one of those Fisher Price record players for kids. It was brown and tan and actually played records. They sold...
The Pixel Art and Anime and Manga galleries have had their descriptive text hidden behind toggle buttons to save space.
After the list of books and movies of 2025, here’s the playlist of the songs I’ve enjoyed the most in 2025, aka the playlist of my life last year, including what Spotify had to say about it. Enjoy! (By the way, here are the playlists of 2022, 2023, and 2024.) Barro Tal Vez by Luis Alberto Spinetta Before We Drown by...
A mission post by Captain Amelia Waterhouse, Lieutenant Commander Cecilia Abbott, Lieutenant Zola, Lieutenant JG Sean Morgan, Chief Petty Officer Ludwig Ryan, Petty Officer 2nd Class Kennet Ek, Lieutenant Weho Lape Sabril, Lieutenant JG Lia t'Rehu, Ensign Miles Archer Mission - Let's Do The Timeloop Again The door...
I wrote ILsee, an Interlisp source file viewer. It is the first of the ILtools collection of tools for viewing and accessing Interlisp data. I developed ILsee in Common Lisp on Linux with SBCL and the McCLIM implementation of the CLIM GUI toolkit. SLY for Emacs completed my Lisp tooling and, as for infrastructure,...
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. 25 years of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the most inspiring projects of our generation. Imagine if we could take the dynamics from there to other areas of life? The world would...
One of my favorite scenes from Firefly, where River hallucinates a branch on the ground, and picks it up, only to find that it’s a loaded gun.
年初写运动计划的时候，我回看去年的稽古记录发现自己全年只有六周没有打剑。而今年一开年就状况频出，一月已经过半了，我却只去了一次剑道场，这让我除了有一些因为疏于练习而导致的不安之外，还产生了记录一下这一周的念头。 上周四 这一星期我也并没有完全离开剑道，至少这一天我在阳台挥剑 100 支，完成了当日素振日课。 上周五 晚上本来是有一次稽古的，但是我选择不去（第一鸽），因为想要多花些时间用于陪女朋友准备奖学金面试，晚上回家之前陪她去了潜水用品店逛了逛。这一天我也素振了，但是太冷就没有计数，稍微活动一下就进屋了。 上周六...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Play Pen to Fence - Block Model.webm|right]] My wife, [[Julie Yu Kang|Julie]], and I both use our Bambu P1S for stuff around the house. Today she was telling me about a particular project she was working on: a set of wall-mounted blocks to attach...
This is an entry from my journal. I comment on how I interact with dogs and what I have learnt from them for life in general. I laugh at the thought that my dogs are polyglots. They communicate in the dog language, which consists of a wide range of vocalisations and body motions. Though they also understand Greek...
In case you missed it, I have a little AI Manifesto here on this blog. I do use AI for work, and often shill AI for work, and use it often on side projects. That being said, I really care about using AI as a tool, rather than a replacement for my own thoughts and ideas. I think it’s very important to not default to...
A lot of people seem not to know this, specially those in charge of these decisions, but those "dyslexia" special fonts, DO NOT WORK. Dyslexia is NOT a vision problem, but a language processing one. We need line spacing, and styling (clear, crisp, with high contrast letters). The OpenDyslexic font makes it worse if...
The second week of the year was filled with many disasters and fun moments, nothing to worry about. 🩺 My dog needed to get his wound cleaned up daily and at first I couldn’t do it, so I had to take him to the vet, except that I was home alone the whole week so I asked family friends to help me out and bring him to...
I wanted to start this blog post with a quote. I started flicking through Walden, which I have just finished reading, for one that would be appropriate. But then I realised any choice would be arbitrary, for the wisdom is so deep within the book that any choice would leave me feeling wanting. With every page I...
My apologies to those of you hoping for another pulse-pounding post on the mechanics of belaying, but I’m going to talk about Apple again. The belaying follow-up should come out this weekend. What prompted this post was being chastised by my phone this morning for getting only about an hour of sleep last night. This...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: Is it too soon to pull out the “It’s been a long year…” meme? O_o _ONE 40% Of Americans Did Not Read a Single Book in 2025: The Latest Survey of American Reading Habits | Kelly Jensen What the data shows is pretty eye-opening: 40% of Americans did not pick up a single...
I. Foundation: Why Constraint-Logic? Traditional logic asks: Is proposition P true? Deferential Realism asks: What constraint-type is C, and what does that imply? This requires different logical machinery: Not truth-preservation → Constraint-type preservation under transformation Not validity → Classification...
Added the page for Väinämöinen which was a lot of workkkkkk so I'm sure I'm missing something and will need to add later! Also added new images for Päivätär, Kuutar, and Vellamo and Ahti.
This post is part of a series on Active Storage internals. See also: Understanding the Active Storage Domain Model and Understanding has_one_attached.Disclaimer: I used Claude Code to trace through the Rails codebase and explain how various parts of it are related to each other. Lately, I've found it an excellent...
Boats moored in a small lake adjacent to the much larger Lake Biwa. In the background are the snow-capped peaks of the Hira Mountains between Shiga and Kyoto Prefectures. This is a multi-shot panorama image. 琵琶湖に隣接する内湖に係留されたボート。背景には比良山地の雪を頂いた山々。これはマルチショットのパノラマ画像だ。
I made a Tzatziki Chickpea Salad recipe that Casey's mom sent over and I'm not gonna lie, it made me feel better about my life choices. ⊕Currently Listening: Bonnie Raitt “Thank You”Reply via email
Short aphorisms on AI-assisted (and sometimes AI-driven) software engineering. 1. AI-ludditism is futile AI-skepticism is fair, AI-ludditism is futile. AI-assisted programming is here to stay (unless the bubble bursts and leads to prohibitively-expensive tokens). "AI has sucked the fun out of programming" is a proxy...
Now: January 2026 Personal life After nearly two months of intermittent illness in November and December, I’m finally starting to feel a bit better again.1 We had a lot of snow a few weeks ago—which is not that common anymore here, due to global warming, as I’m sure you can imagine. Luckily, I had recovered enough...
You know how some of your most vivid memories go back to moments when you were scared or you tackled a difficult thing for the first time? Well, I still remember the fear and trepidation I felt when I was about to install and set up my first self-hosted app: the microblogging app GoToSocial. This was back in...
It's been a while since the pandemic has brought masks to the awareness of anyone that wasn't required to wear them before. It's also been a while since the general public was mandated to wear them. I still wear masks, though. I wear them in the supermarket, in public transport, in bigger meetings, conferences and...
Today I learnt about the NS_ERROR_INVALID_CONTENT_ENCODING error (or “Content Encoding Error”) in Firefox, which started popping up in my Network tab while trying to access ChatGPT. Indeed, while having access to ChatGPT has allowed me to keep up the charade that I actually know what I’m doing in...