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Seven nights and as many mice, and they hadn’t made any progress. Utsab hadn’t picked up the mechanism in over a day, instead working on a paper for a grad student. The bags under his eyes testified he had pulled an all-nighter to make whatever deadline loomed. It could only be for Ada. His dalliances had never...
Toronto, like a major part of Turtle Island, got a fresh coat of snow. In between shoveling our sidewalk and admiring it all, I've been doing some behind-the-scenes modification to my Python-based static blog generator. Hopefully it's obvious why -- the site now has a new look! Like a fresh coat of winter snow, the...
2015, it was a warm night in August. I had just arrived at the 13th Street dorms in one of those overpriced cabs that wave you down right when you exit JFK. On my way over the Williamsburg Bridge, I saw the city skyline and I felt grown up and excited. The air was sticky when I pulled my duffel out of the trunk and...
19th January - 25th January We handed over a project to a client this week. The IT department confirmed receipt of the dashboard files and said the installation had gone live without a hitch. Amazing work! Congratulatory emails and back pats all round… until the client emailed saying everything was broken! Cue mad...
I recently watched Cow by Andrea Arnold - a documentary film about life on a dairy farm for a cow named Luma. The first and most depressing part is just watching what it's like for the cows. They seem like really sweet creatures. The most horrific parts are hard to watch, but the saddest thing is really just the...
Tomita, R., Inooka, T., Kajita, T. et al. Petrolatum-based ointment application induces swelling of the PRESERFLO Microshunt. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-025-07075-2 The PRESERFLO Microshunt is made of SIBS (styrene-isobutylene-styrene), which was originally developed for...
Back in August, I took part in Blaugust along with a large community of bloggers. The idea is to write every day during the month of August. It was wonderful. Perhaps the best part of that experience wasn’t the writing, but the discovery of so many new blogs to read. I wrote about the upsides and downsides of that...
I wrote time and again about the perils of excessive screen time – and yet. My screen time has more than doubled, even though i don’t have to spend eight hours a day in front of a computer anymore, and have very limited use of my laptop otherwise. But that’s the thing: instead of using my laptop, a device that...
This post contains custom CSS that your feed reader may ignore. If you’re reading this in such a program, maybe click through to the post itself? When I webbed my Goodreads library last month, I used URLs like /books/${ISBN} for each book’s page. I didn’t do anything special for the index page in that directory,...
Preparing for Student Showcase Presentation Permalink to section 'Preparing for Student Showcase Presentation' # I mentioned in my previous weekly recap post that I and two other classmates were invited by the campus staff of my school, a Malaysian campus of 42 the computer science school to take part in a student...
January 25, 2026 It's snowing and blowing, with a temperature of 24 degrees but a windchill making it feel like 10. We've already accumulated a solid 8 to 10 inches of snow. I've cleared the back porch, the roofs of the shed and chicken coop, and the cars twice already, and I need to do it again. I also used the...
I got a lot of ideas for side projects rattling around in the old tin can. As part of my “No new projects” initiative, I’m trying to jump on building prototypes so I can decide if I want to explore ideas more or call it quits. A handful of my ideas are riffs or twists on existing app categories: A tennis ranking...
tldr: an attempt to reduce the terror reporting. There is no longer a curl bug-bounty program. It officially stops on January 31, 2026. After having had a few half-baked previous takes, in April 2019 we kicked off the first real curl bug-bounty with the help of Hackerone, and while it stumbled a bit at first it has...
Same week as the week before. Still in this weird float state. At least today I managed to drag myself out of the house with a camera in my hand, which was helpful. Drowning out the voices in my head with a rewatch of The Wire, which is still so very, very good. Reply by email
Zachary kindly invited me to answer a few questions about hosting the IndieWeb Carnival. Running for three years now, the IndieWeb Carnival has been the source of endless inspiration for me, sparking both long periods of thinking as well as writing blog posts. Even when I have not written an entry for a given month,...
Y tal y como llegamos hace unos meses, nos vamos. Ya lo sabíamos, vaya, era la idea desde un principio. Pero igualmente eso no quita la sensación de extrañeza. Las navidades fueron estupendas, pero el batacazo de que acabasen fue grande. No ayuda que estuvimos acatarrados y yo con un achaque de rodilla. Con todo, en...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop But first, a word from our sponsors: the horrors I'd started working on this post shortly after finishing yesterday's (1/24)'s drawing - right before I saw the news about yet again, ICE agents executing someone on the street. There is video of...
For the crime of helping someone to their feet and legally filming, an American citizen, Alex Pretti, was beaten to the ground by at least six ICE agents. While being beaten, Pretti never once removed the firearm he had legally holstered as someone with a permit to carry. Instead, while being beaten, one of the ICE...
I’ve owned plenty of Kindles and Android tablets over the years, but I’ve been curious about colour e-ink for a while - whether it’s actually useful or just a gimmick. The Bigme B6 Color is a 6-inch Android tablet with Kaleido 3 colour e-ink. I picked one up wanting something easier on the eyes for bedtime reading -...
The London based neo-soul singer and songwriter was voted into the number one slot with her song Man I Need. Dean also scored a second spot in the Hottest 100 top ten, with Nice to Each Other. Such amazing music to listen to, especially while working. The Hottest 100 countdown is an annual poll conducted by...
While I love love love the writing, the story itself is starting to annoy me. It's repetitive and whiny. But half way... hoping it gets better.
As someone who values privacy and the open web, I’ve been fascinated by the growing movement away from centralised platforms toward more personal, user-controlled online experiences. What surprised me recently was discovering just how many people are embracing these concepts without even knowing their names....
Taylor version v0.4.0 has been out for a while and I didn’t want to bring too much attention to it since it was the massive redesign that took over two years. Instead, I released it quietly and used it myself to see if there were any major issues and since there weren’t I’ve decided to release v0.4.1! Download...
signal on Linux offer the way to store your encryption key in your system walled (encrypted) or local as plain-text unencrypted. Actually if you use a full disk encryption a clean text key isn’t a huge issue. But nevertheless to give it a bit more secure feeling I wanted to use KWalletD to store the signal key...
Today I installed Windows 10 on the household's newest laptop. Said laptop has to run Windows so we can run Pyware, but I refuse to live with the billionaire-spyware that Windows 11 has become. I wanted to install Windows 7, but too many things are no longer compatible with it, so 10 it is. Rolling back to Windows...
He añadido un sistema de comentarios a mi sitio generado estáticamente con Hugo. El sistema de comentarios está basado en Mastodon. Simplemente, al final del post aparece un botón para cargar los comentarios que salgan a este post en Mastodon. La implementación original hay que agradecérsela a Carl Schwan, aunque la...
I write regularly. This helps me clear my thoughts. I understand myself better. Each time I expound on a given theme, I deepen all the mental paths that lead to it. This is exactly how it works in the physical world around us: the more we tread a path, the denser the soil gets and thus no vegetation grows there. The...
Lately I've been thinking that I should work on gratitude. I often think about all the ways I could improve myself, all the mistakes I make or all the times when I wasn't enough. You get the game. Surely, you understand that it's very risky. Because even if it's right to identify your own mistakes and separate them...
Related/Continued from Meaningfulness To pray what I preach In the above linked post, I described how boredom is a powerful tool to find motivation. Now I'm no saint, whenever I find myself bored, I do just like everyone and bring up my rectangle of doom phone. However, the other day I decided to actually pray what...
Album#26 水码头（小歌行） 图1 《水码头（小歌行）》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称：水码头（小歌行） 歌手：景德镇文艺复兴（赣东北乡土文化艺术团） 年份：2020-07-10 风格：独立、实验、摇滚、国风、民谣、神话 时长：约 50 分钟 有一次去听 Live，结束后场地里播放着一些音乐，其中有一首很有特色，我也很喜欢，就用听歌识曲识别了一下，是景德镇文艺复兴的「回衫」，于是知道了景德镇文艺复兴这支乐队，后面也去听了几场他们 Live。 景德镇文艺复兴的 Live 很有特色，他们的音乐往往融合了一些自创的神话，在 Live 里他们会演绎这些故事， Live...
★★★★☆ 2008 / 58 minutes The house is a masterpiece. It is perched on a hill overlooking Bordeaux. It’s made of glass and concrete and seemingly nothing else. It has pipes cleverly hidden to the side, a cantilevered roof that seems to defy the laws of physics, and a beautiful center elevator platform for a...
ICE executed another person in Minnesota, this time a VA Doctor, Alex Pretti. They maced him, held him down, and shot him. He was not violent. He was helping others just before they killed him. There's video of the incident, but of course, they're still lying about why they shot at him 10 times in 5 seconds. They...
Jean Veber, Ulysses and Nausicaa, 1888. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. A friend and I were talking the other day about just how ugly so many US American cities are, their unwalkable sprawl out from an often cohesive core into strip mall after parking lot after auto parts store, chain after chain after...
La banda de rock Morphine fue una rara avis en el panorama musical, en el que frente al frenesí guitarrero del Grunge epataban con una intensidad musical en la que la gran ausente era la guitarra, icono clásico de la música Si pensamos en música Rock y en tríos musicales, muchas pueden ser las opciones. Así que me...
“Nothing beats kindness… It sits quietly beyond all things.” “What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?” the Proust Questionnaire asked David Bowie. “Living in fear.” Partway in time between Proust and Bowie, the young Hannah Arendt examined the eternal paradox of how to love and live with fear in her...
Some time during my on-going law degree, we had an assignment on a slightly altered case based on a real one, had to develop an opinion, and defend it convincingly. After the main part of the assignment was done, we we were divided into break-out sessions to discuss that process and how we came to our conclusions -...
From Windows Vista effectively dead as Windows Server 2008 support finally ends (Usama Jawad for Neowin. January 15, 2026): Windows Server 2008 was supported via the Premium Assurance program until January 13, 2026. Although this support program no longer exists, volume licensing enterprise customers were...
I was a bit melancholic about the internet yesterday, but I realize now that the feeling mostly came from the fact that search is very broken almost everywhere Outside of fedi nobody uses hashtags anymore. So if you want to discover new opinion and current discussion on let’s say gardening you need to search...
I pass this Honda dealership on the way to the studio and find it fascinating — the bright blue cylinder... That wavy line... So good! I decided to find out more about the architecture. ⊕Currently Listening: Bob Dylan “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again”Reply via email
Over the past several years I've actively worked to decentralize my online presence and reduce (as much as is realistic) my use of giant social media platforms. The downside to this approach is that I post a lot across lots of places. If, against all odds, you want to keep an eye on all of this action, I've now...
Right now I'm sitting up in the middle of the night. I should be getting ready for bed, maybe reading a book and trying to clear my head. I definitely shouldn't be still looking at social media on my laptop in my living room with the only sounds the ticking of a clock, the typing of these keys, and the tinnitus in...
Sometimes, I need a silly story to help me remember the obscure; things I do not use or do very often. Like git patching via e-mail. Here’s a little love story. --- Bob loves Alice. And Bob loves Alice’s git repository. Bob clones it. Bob makes his changes and commits them normally. git add . git commit Bob...
i. the forging (2020) In the early days of January 2020, I was helping my daughter pack for her semester abroad. It's what we do. She goes, I help get her ready to go. It's my way of staying close while saying goodbye. The winter break had already reached beyond that particular point of restlessness, when the...
As disappointingly forecast in my previous post, the missing AirPod has reappeared. It reappeared from the back of my bedside table on the 15th Jan, nine days after my £76 replacement had arrived, very efficiently, from Apple. I now have a spare left hand AirPod, I am not sure what to do with it – creative ideas...
I'm having a hard time right now. Since I wrote last, there have been multiple additional reasons for me to be frustrated both with my field and my country, but I am choosing to follow the words of the serenity prayer. Instead of throwing myself into frustration forever, I have chosen two alternate routes for...
January 2026. St Annes. Mrs RM decided to leave the Fifteen at Seventeen Twenty-Three. I have no idea why. “A walk along the bracing sea front, Mrs RM ?“ “No, Mr RM. Tea and back to that nice warm room at the Travelodge“. St Annes was looking pleasant by night, with lots of dining options, including Australian tapas...
#JazzPlaza2026 #JazzenCuba #ElSueñodelArtistaBlog #ElSueñodelArtista #Musica #Jazz El festival de Jazz más importante de cuba el Jazz Plaza abre nuevamente sus puertas mostrando a su público la edición 41 donde según sus propios organizadores promete estar a la altura de otras ediciones que le antecedieron a esta ....
