Fri Jan 16
So there's a thing that happens when you make stuff and post it to the internet -- people who've never directly interacted with you before feel like they know you. I don't mean like your beloved social media mutual who you've had online conversations with, but instead people who really have never said word one to...
11ty templates set up In my 11ty templates I generally use the same content for the title and the h1 tags. In the frontmatter I always have a title field as the title tag is actually the only required html tag in a html document, did you know that? So it makes sense to have the title tag as a requirement in my...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Amazon Otoscope.webp|thumb|Pretty simple device]] Recently, someone on the Internet mentioned a cheap otoscope. It's billed on [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KZ8TS7L?th=1 Amazon as a ear wax removal tool with a camera attached] but what it really...
Every morning these days, when I stare blearily out of my bedroom window – which commands a wide view of the trees all around – I see dozens of crows, lined up ominously on every branch, as if auditioning for Hitchcock's The Birds. There is no mistaking the fact that, at least around here, crows are very much in the...
Grateful to the Lord God, the Omnipotent One, for: the beauty of creation which proclaims the glory of the Lord; divine wisdom, discernment, knowledge of what is essential; more prosaic: the use of email for simple communication. ¶ Be safe. Above all, protect your mind and heart and soul. “Above everything else...
La Ruta: modernidad, cultura y descontrol es una exposición inmersiva que puede visitarse en Valencia sobre la ruta del bakalao. Localizada en el edificio de Bombas Gens – Centre d’Arts Digitals, cerca de la estación de autobuses y Nuevo Centro, dispone de más de 2000 metros cuadrados en un recorrido por 10 salas....
I read a January 16, 2026 article in Sixth Tone titled Chilean Cherries: Why Prices in China Plunge Every Winter. I am admittedly not an expert on fruit prices in China, but I have observed similar phenomena in my home and native Brooklyn, New York City. I have sometimes had the good fortune of picking up “cheap”...
Read Lyss' story, Joan’s Stone on Loan, on Foofaraw now!Let’s start with one of life’s big questions… Do you believe in love at first sight?I think that love is something you build rather than find, so I’m not quite sure it’s “love” at first sight, but I do believe in that lil je nais sais quois of “oh yeah this is...
A general‑audience translation of the Scaffold‑Downgrade protocol, enabled by Deferential Realism’s Logic The Bhagavad Gita rests on one enormous claim:the soul is eternal and cannot be destroyed. Everything Krishna tells Arjuna depends on this.So the calibration protocol asks a simple but devastating question: What...
Der Abend war nicht zu vergleichen mit der Machwerkschau vor einigen Wochen, denn nur einige wenige Räume waren offen. Auf J, A und mich wirkte es eher als ob wir ein recht intimes Treffen der Kölner Design-Bubble entern würden, aber nichtsdestotrotz wurden wir sehr herzlich empfangen und hatten unseren Spaß. Zum...
Herons and Ducks among the brush on the shallow river at sunrise. 日の出時、浅瀬の茂みにいるサギとカモ。
Observability of a system can be achieved by setting up metrics, logs, events, and other monitoring tools. Metrics are limited by definition as they represent a scalar value. Metrics are the pre-aggregation of scalar values. They measure the system performance over a period of time and can't give information about a...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Fri 01/16/2026 - Shuppet I think I've found the one ghost type pokemon that isn't abjectly horrifying. I don't mean in like a visual appearance way, I mean in lore terms where most of them are like the lost souls of dead children, survive by...
Liberating the ASUS CX1100CN Chromebook with OpenBSD 2026-01-16 I’ve always enjoyed the idea of having a portable, lightweight, 11 inch laptop for my personal use for around the house and small trips. A device that I wouldn’t have to be concerned about just throwing in a backpack and forgetting about. Something...
Spending my work-adjacent time reading the Rochester Provocations, a series of eight statements about AI intended to provoke conversation about how schools respond to generative AI: the Rochester Provocations I feel provoked to converse. In conversations on the AASL listserv, I've come to understand that the...
Dear Seb, I am here in my living room, and I’m trying to not read any more news today. I am worn to a nub from all that is going on out there in the world, abroad and at home. Certainly there’s always been a sense of the horrors that are going on globally, because that has never stopped being a thing, but at least...
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood. This is... wow.
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR 🎞️ 16 mm focal length – 1/25″ at f/11 – 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
Venice treacle, or theriac, was an ancient wonder medicine, an antidote for most poisons and a cure for most ailments, including the plague.
These are my minimalist themes. They use few colours and will appear mostly monochromatic in many contexts. Styles involve the careful use of typography, such as italics and bold italics. If you want maximalist themes in terms of colour, check my ef-themes package. For something in-between, which I would consider...
A lunch with no agenda and Zan is always chock full of good. ⊕Currently Listening: Todd Rundgren & Utopia “Time Warp”Reply via email
Una de las características de los blogs mas conocidas son los sistemas de comentarios, que le da el aspecto social para poder distinguirse de las paginas web comunes. Aunque en la actualidad es muy común que los blogs ya no tengan ni caja de comentarios ni forma de contacto, aun veo gente probando alternativas....
I love to add little random features to this blog. → https://perrotta.dev/random I am trying to keep the navigation bar lean…therefore, a link to /random was added under the “Explore” item. The initial implementation was very simple: js <script> const posts = [ {{- range $index, $page := where .Site.RegularPages...
In a way I've always been drawn to libraries and books, I feel secure every time I step in one, I don't know if is the quietness, the big open space that feels like it never ends or the fact that I can find an immense quantity of thoughts from people all around the world. I love that I can sit and let those words...
Baseball headline of the week: Kyle Tucker, Dodgers agree to 4-year, $240M deal. The Los Angeles Dodgers’ 2026 payroll is larger than the bottom five Major League Baseball teams’ payrolls combined. The Dodgers’ payroll is so big that the gap between them and the New York Mets’ #2 payroll is larger than six teams’...
When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is get out of bed and turn on my fairy lights. I read for a little while under the warm glow of the lights while the sun is not yet visible in the winter morning. I am reading a book about Nature right now – stories of walking. When I read, I can be in what I...
I'm heavily relying on Breezy Weather for all my weather and forecasts needs. It's hands down the best weather app I've ever used. And I'd like to keep using, but Google's dumbfuckery makes it uncertain. You see, in its relentless pursuit of Verscheißung[1] Google has decided to make life harder for indie developers...
This week's update, with musings on the GOV AI Studio notes, a nice green photo, and more
YouTubeI don’t know about you, but I could definitely use a break from all of the news and this feels like the perfect antidote to give my mental sanity a little rest.
School of Rock is my favorite movie so I knew eventually I would do some sketchbook paintings from my favorite scenes.
Lets work less. In the words of The Happy Place's resident computer (Mr Jon Mac), "I could go for that". The work-life balance of a 3 day week and a 4 day weekendthat Jeremy Kieth has managed to chisel out for himself sounds absolutely wonderful. I know that’s a privileged position to be in. Many people have to...
The past few days have been a bit of a blur. When I wasn't working I was gaming or watching Twitch, TV, or movies. Oh, and I streamed for a few hours on my Twitch DJ channel for the first time this year. I'm avoiding. Coping. Some things I am avoiding: exercising regularly eating healthy fixing some things around...
Texas A&M University (TAMU) administrators cancelled “Ethics in Public Policy,” a graduate course in the university’s Bush School of Government and Public Service, because they rejected as too vague its professor’s explanation of when and how race and gender issues may come up in the course. First Plato, now ethics....
💡This post is part of a series on Active Storage internals. See also: Understanding the Active Storage Domain Model and How has_one_attached Works in Rails.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...
I started “playing” (more accurately, reading) a visual novel called Christmas Tina on Christmas. As I explained in an earlier post, I am working on a NLJ review of Christmas Tina. Had you asked me when I started, I would have thought that I would have published the review well before mid-January. Alas,...
Oh, the first 24h race of the year is this weekend. The Dubai one is a bit more obscure but I still quite enjoy watching the 24H Series races. Reply by email
A primeira postagem de 2026 demorou um pouco mais do que eu esperava para sentir que tinha algo de que queria falar por aqui, já que nunca tento criar algo unicamente por criar para este blog. As postagens aparecem quando devem aparecer, sem prazo definido. Enfim. Tenho o mau hábito de tentar esperar pelo melhor...
The astonishing thing is that even though we will never truly know what it is like to be another creature or another person or any configuration of chemistry and chance other than ourselves, we are made of the same matter as the granite that will mark our graves and share 98% of our DNA with the moss that will cover...
I remember the precise moment I fell in love with Coventry Cathedral. It was on my first visit. As I entered I saw what you see above, which is quite wonderful in many ways. But after I had walked up towards the altar to inspect the great tapestry, I pivoted — and that’s when it hit me. It’s important to understand...
Halfway during my Indiekit setup, I decided to use this opportunity to start using Codeberg with Gitea plugin as my content store instead of staying on GitHub. Although I had already moved all my personal repos (like my blogs’ source code and CI to SourceHut already in 2025), I want to start using Codeberg as my...
This place does not have any old prose anymore. While those written pieces are not discarded from my archive, they are now transferred to my Digital Notebook instead. So, why did I move my creative writing stuff there? Because I want more control with my page layout and discoverability. Page layoutI used to...
It’s been a month since I posted my review of the first book, so let us get on with the Game Changers book series reviews; please note: if you have already watched the Crave adaptation of the same title (trailer at the end of this post), but have not read the book, that there are a few differences between the text...
It seems like yesterday, but we are in the 9th edition of NMG. NMG/2026 applications are open now. The last date to apply is March 15th. Please share it with your friends. Please do apply if you think it suits you. Installation at APU. Says ನಾವೆಲ್ಲರು (All of us). It’s a display of profile pictures from PARI. Happy...
My mom taught art appreciation when I was growing up, and I love looking at different artists’ works over time and remembering what I was taught as a kid, and seeing things through a different lens as an adult. My latest rabbit hole has been re-looking through the art of Mary Cassatt! I’ve always loved her painting...
January 2026. East Hoathly. East Sussex. We’ve finally shut down our caravan in Rye Harbour (Home 3) afer an extended winter stay. The water pipes had frozen over Christmas, but thankfully hadn’t burst. Sheffield gets the snow; Rye gets the bitter chill. Mrs RM was anxious that I completed those tricky South-Eastern...
I heard about Valeda (LumiThera, recently purchased by Alcon) recently from a patient. She had mild to moderate macular degeneration with good vision between 20/20 and 20/25. She told me she was going to switch retina specialists because one offered Valeda treatment. It uses controlled exposure to yellow, red, and...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
I don’t often participate in the IndieWeb Carnival. The last thing I contributed was in November 2024 with my post You will never know whose butterfly you were on the topic of “Impact.” Maybe I should do it more often, because it’s really exciting to read other people’s posts on the same topic. Different opinions...