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Mood: Firery, cozy, and currently plotting the overthrow of capitalism via Romance tropes and cookies. I have a confession to make. A secret that sits in the center of my chest like a warm, purring cat. I write Fanfiction. I also read...
I have reviewed two original English-language visual novels by PixelFade Studio, a Canadian-based visual novel circle. The first of these was PixelFade’s first complete commercial visual novel, ACE Academy (see my ACE Academy review),...
Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, offers three methods of authentication: IndieAuth, email and password, and passkeys. IndieAuth is offered as a sign-in method because I want Artemis to allow people to use their domain names as...
Treating your personal website like a garden you tend continuously, not as a finished construction, but rather cultivated, authentic fragmented of web.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. While I don't fully subscribe to the above quote, since I think it's important to continually improve things that aren't explicitly broken, every now and then something I use works so well that I consider...
Walk for Peace Photo courtesy of Walk for Peace mtift Tue, 01/20/2026 - 05:43 As the Theravada Buddhist monk Thānissaro Bhikkhu observed recently, “ill will seems to be in fashion.” The world is watching in horror as people here in...
I dog-eared more pages of my copy than any book in memory. (In hindsight, folding a corner of paper is the worst way to highlight notions.) ⊕Currently Listening: Nala Sinephro “Endlessness”Reply via email
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If you’ve deployed a Cloudflare Page in the past few years, like I have, and hooked it up with for example a GitHub repository, you may not have noticed, that Cloudflare has been making changes to your configuration, and it may not be...
These aren’t polished essays or tidy aphorisms. They’re scraps I’ve carried around this month—half-heard thoughts, borrowed lines, sudden recognitions—that refused to be forgotten. Zuihitsu literally means “following the brush,” and...
Masih di edisi navigasi tanpa mouse/touchpad. Setelah di tulisan sebelumnya saya bahas soal navigasi browser tanpa mouse/touchpad, kali ini saya mau bahas navigasi file manager tanpa mouse/touchpad.Beberapa waktu yang lalu, seseorang di...
I recently read this thought-provoking piece by Sean Goedecke about how there are two types of software engineering: pure and impure. In short, Goedecke argues, the pure kind is driven by a sense of aesthetics, like art or research,...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Mon 01/19/2026 - Mareanie Monday's entry was suggest by one of my kids purely based on the ridiculousness of this thing in the Sun and Moon anime show. Bulbapedia...
In the dopamine economy fed by infinite content, our relationship with content turned to mindless consumption. The profits from getting attention bred the arms race of dopamine-inducing weapons disguised as comfort delivered through...
The Amida-do-Hall at golden hour, with Kyoto Tower in the distance. マジックアワーの阿弥陀堂。遠くに京都タワーが見える。
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. Sony and TCL form a TV joint-venture. TCL, which owns 51% of the new business, will now...
A mission post by Lieutenant JG Veda Dragomirov, Lieutenant JG Cillian Jarkil Mission - Let's Do The Timeloop Again Veda was still a little out of sorts as she arrived at Cillian's quarters. She'd just stowed the Voronin vodka Petya had...
Earth-Moon Connexions by El Anatsui, on display at the Tate Modern in London. I really enjoyed this week. A couple of projects came to a conclusion, something that is usually anticipated long in advance but never fails to feel like a...
Manuel Moreale writing about People and Blogs, where he features regular interviews with bloggers: It sucks because, since day one, I tried to find a good balance between keeping the series running smoothly and not letting guests wait...
An Interview with the author’s 2007 Ford Focus.Read Nicholas’s column, “The Driving Essay,” on Foofaraw now!First off, how many of these stories are true?Most, probably. I’ve got corresponding dents, stains, and scorch marks. On the...
(Get to all the parts in this series via the series post.) In the previous part we published @qmacro/common. Let's start out here by creating a new simple CAP Node.js project and bringing in that @qmacro/common package; not only will...
Here is the mathematical logic of the spirit: If love is the quality of attention we pay something other than ourselves and hate is the veil of not understanding ourselves, then loving the world more — the other word for which is...
My buddy Christopher Kirk-Nielsen wanted to mimic the look of a <legend> inside a <fieldset> for a section of a blog post: Specifically, the way the <legend> element magically overlays and partially clips the border of the containing...
Last year I reflected on if I should grow up, as I notched another year around the sun. And here we are a year later. Last week I continued my annual rotation. I can say with some conviction that I am happy that I have not morphed into a...
Cloud is funny like that. It will happily remove a ton of operational pain, then quietly replace it with a new flavor of risk you did not budget for. In NTC300 - Cloud Technologies (the class I’m in right now), we spend a lot of time on...
Hey there, I have been reading about IndieWeb and found out about something called Webmentions. I am using Webmention.io for mine for now, I may in future host my own Webmention system, though I am rather lazy so IDK. I am still quite...
“You want to know why philosophy matters? This is the true answer, and the one upon which we must plant our flag: philosophy is the most productive force ever discovered by human beings and we are responsible for modernity. Philosophy is...
We've been chasing the wrong thing for a long time. For centuries we've built our entire civilization around love — the songs, the movies, the holidays, the grand gestures, the heartbreak, the drama. Love gets worshipped. Love gets...
Logseq has been my tool of choice for dumping, connecting, and re-reading notes since 2023-01-07. People call their personal knowledge base Second Brain, Digital Garden, Zettelkasten, or Brain Dump. I call mine Logbook and it plays a...
夢の模様、それは大地に広がるキルトのようだった。 誰もが自分たちが死に向かっていることを知っていたが、成人も子供も男も女も、同じ夢を見ていることを知る者はいなかった。 大きな町や小さな村、そこではすべてが同じだった。天皇の広大な土地でさえも。誰もがその一体感から逃れられなかった。夢は執拗で、誰にでも触れ、細部にまで及んでいた。
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] At the end of last week’s belaying post, I said we’d look into the condition in which the...
My 2.3 devoted readers may remember how a deer totaled my 2009 Corolla, forcing me to purchase a replacement vehicle: welcome home, Car Car Car The replacement, a 2015 Prius, is working great, mostly. I'm never going back to a full gas...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Roshan George - ca. 2013.webp|thumb|I don't actually look less nerdy than this in real life]] I went by Julie's place of work today to see if a friend of hers, Ben M.,...
Mozilla ha creado unos repositorios en los que ofrece la versión Nightly del navegador Firefox para poder instalar directamente el paquete .rpm Mozilla ha creado un repositorio donde ofrece en paquete .rpm la versión Nightly de su...
Many airlines offer free Wi-Fi connectivity to their fellow passengers, up to a certain amount of time — for example, 30 minutes. The connectivity is severely limited though, being typically restricted to messaging services only (think...
Lately I’ve been on a bit of a writing slump, pretty much just filling up the things that I am kind of committed to writing, however, this is not because I dislike it now, I’ve been simply too busy with other things, one of which is...
Cada vez que subo a mi terraza pienso que los LED son uno de los (muchos) avances tecnológicos que de verdad aportan algo importante e interesante a la humanidad. Podría ponerme a divagar sobre la tecnología, su historia y todo eso, pero...
January 20, 2026 This morning, after my walk with Trix, I sat down at my MacBook, scanned my RSS feeds, and checked my email. Then I thought, "Now what?" I didn't have any special projects planned, so I decided to fool around with this...
If you’ve been on the internet for the last 10-20 years then you probably have a good sense of how bad the internet has become. We experience it every day when we pick up our phones and scroll through apps that used to mean something to...
Musings and ramblings on programming and things
January 2026. Liverpool. I hope AI does take over the world. It’s much more polite than the humans. Chat GPT may not know how to count, but it can do useful things like advise on Chinese takeaways. And so it was that in the Roscoe Head I...
One Word at a TimeIf you know anything about me, you know I love a good story—so much so I started my own short fiction litmag, but that’s neither here nor there. Michael Staniforth is doing a review of a different short story every day...
What became of the family links?
Hugo ThemesI’ve been trying to use less overrides in my Hugo blog because the source code is getting messy. I’m currently using the Anubis2 theme as a Git Submodule, but since I heavily customized the base styles, I ended up using many...
I'm looking for some new books to read or listen to. If you have a suggestion, send me an email and I'll be happy to consider it. CW: SEXUAL CONTENT I talked about it in my New Year's entry and feel that it's necessary for me to bring it...
I drew an elf in 1990's anime style, skating on some clouds. It uses the VGA colour palette.
Some of my favourite sailboats get on just fine without a rudder.