Sat Jan 31
January's IndieWeb movie club is Alien (1979), and it's hosted by Al Abut — here is his introduction post for the month. I've been in the mood to see some space horror lately. I saw a promotion for Ash (2025), which looks like a solid B-movie, and that reminded me to add Sunshine (2007) and Event Horizon to my watch...
TL;DR: With one prompt, I built an implementation of IndexedDB using Claude Code and a Ralph loop, passing 95% of a targeted subset of the Web Platform Tests, and 77.4% of a more rigorous subset of tests. When I learned that two simple browser engines had been vibe-coded, I was not particularly surprised. A browser...
When it comes to certain projects, I like “doing things that don’t scale.”, particularly with my newsletter. I noticed that my newsletter open rate was down over the past few months to about 40-45%. Not bad, but not as good as it once was. A friend of mine suggested I ask people to respond to the email on occasion...
Ok, hear me out here. Two days ago, I posted this note: With the exams finished and my new personal website out in the world, it's time to dive into the world of iOS development again 🥳 I will talk more about the app in the next couple of days, but as a little teaser, here's the icon :) Well… maybe not anymore....
I am a fan of software that does one thing well. I also have a tendency to use Todoist for pretty much anything because two opposing things can be true at once. Todoist is brilliant and amazing and so easy to use that I find myself using it for bookmarks, project tracking, file transfer, and quick notes. I also...
Yesterday, I caught myself mulling over an article on not taking my code too personally. In short, the author argues that to become a better engineer, you must master detaching your ego from your work and focus your full attention on the task itself rather than on self-evaluation or the fear of failure. I was struck...
Stories of the True, Jeyamohan (Transl. Priyamvada) Jeyamohan's stories are hard-hitting without a trace of fetishization of the downtrodden (like poverty porn). My first brush with his stories was a narration by Bava Chelladurai of his Elephant Doctor which moved me to tears. I took printouts of this and another...
Plan na dzisiaj: zhakować odkurzacz. Zacznę od tego, że w momencie pisania tej notatki, nie jest ona nawet częścią bloga - w sensie nie jest w folderze "Blog", gdzie powstała większość wpisów. Na razie piszę to w moim prywatnym skarbcu Obsidianowym, bo już mam notatkę dotyczącą odkurzacza, a w sumie mogę ją...
As a boy I was a freelancer for many years. I built and sold websites. I did it like a craftsman: I designed the layout with Macromedia Fireworks, refined it with lines, shadows, and reflections, and then manually converted it to HTML1. Then I used my own CMS, built from scratch with my own PHP framework, to make it...
Career After close to two decades in various disclipines of design (most recently prior to this change, in UX design leadership) I’ve pivoted my career into cybersecurity in early 2025. More specifically I’m now a full-time ethical hacker. I’m trying to recenter and find a new balance in this role. Alongside, I’m...
Editor's note: Every week, I publish the phone's home screen from a blog reader. Want to participate? Fill out this form. Want more? Check out the archive. All app links go to the App Store, Play Store, or F-Droid. What is your name and what do you do? My name is Caiubi Nogueira, and I have a bachelor's degree and...
也许你想试试 Kagi？ 图1 Kagi 搜索栏 Kagi 是一个付费的搜索服务，提供网络搜索和 LLM 相关的服务。 和 Google 不同的是，它需要 付费订阅，它的收入不依赖广告，因此它也不需要追踪你，所以 Kagi 的搜索结果中是没有广告的，也更尊重隐私。 Kagi 我用了很长一段时间了，最近切换到了 Professional Plan ($10/mo)，彻底拥抱 Kagi 作为我的搜索引擎。价格不算便宜，但我觉得还算物有所值。 可以对比一下 Google 和 Kagi 搜索结果： 图2 搜索结果对比，搜索「ingredients chilldspot」，左侧是 Google 的结果，右侧是 Kagi 的结果。 图3...
People often assume fear involves roller coasters or cliff diving or being catapulted off a bridge by a guy named Kyle who insists, “Trust me.” And yes, that is terrifying and very much on my reverse bucket list. But today, we’re talking about a different kind of fear factor. The kind that makes an introvert’s blood...
For this interpretation I have picked a well-known song performed by Christos Thivaios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WupPl4kX1_s. I am not another consists of the lyrics of Manos Eleftheriou, a major figure in the scene, and the composition of Thanos Mikroutsikos, another highly influential person in contemporary...
Quem é beneficiado pela abolição do pensamento crítico? Qual a relação entre a cultura popular, hábitos de consumo e o anti-intelectualismo? Esse texto é minha tentativa de responder essas perguntas, e pelo caminho relacioná-las com fãs da cultura pop e o seu papel nessa história. Mas primeiro vamos começar do...
Brian’s bowl rocked gently as Mark carried him along the gravel path, the morning sun painting ripples of light across his orange scales. He pressed against the glass, gills fluttering with excitement; he had never smelled damp grass or heard such loud birdsong. Ahead, the pond glinted like an enormous bowl of its...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot About ten years, Y Combinator attempted to have the Hacker News community pick a startup for them to fund for one of that summer's Fellowship Three. Some users warned that the thing would be gamed, moderators decided to proceed knowing that because it...
I worry about where things are and how I’ll be affected by it. I feel like the dominoes are starting to fall. The entire world of “tech” has been broken for ages, and now it’s falling apart. The narrative about Amazon laying off so many people because their jobs can be replaced by AI is just a smokescreen; in...
This is a really funny story happening in the online universe of Final Fantasy 11: Once killed, a notorious monster shouldn’t respawn until after the next monthly tally, but lately defeated notorious monsters in Limbus have been reappearing early. That’s because, Square Enix said, “the server-side data recording the...
Comment donner envie, après une Seconde Guerre Mondiale dévastatrice, aux touristes étrangers de (re)venir découvrir la France ? En 1946, un Commissariat Général au Tourisme est reconstitué qui deviendra deux ans plus tard la Direction Générale du Tourisme. L’administration centrale du tourisme est notamment chargée...
I recently argued in a NLJ article that the most important part of being a hero is telling everyone about your heroism. However, that rule does not apply to visual novel development. From January 18 through the early morning hours of February 1, I worked with Victor V. Gurbo to make a visual novel. I was responsible...
Nowadays when you turn on the radio in Germany, you'll hear mostly songs which are currently in the charts or hits from past decades, which are almost all in English. Occasionally you'll get a song in German like "99 Luftballons", but most pop music these days is sung in English and that's what's on the radio (there...
Count Releases 1 Commits 7 Contributors 2 Pull requests merged 6 Issues closed 0 Stars 123 At a Glance Taylor v0.4.1 Released Website Updates Switched to LocalCI clang-format Update Jumpy Alien Example Began Redesigning taylor squash Taylor v0.4.1 Released It took me around 3~ months to get to the point where I felt...
The Pearl Hunters setting : 70s apartment, tall curved walls, peach pink hues, wall paper with one large corner curling down dramatically, pale yellow mound which is a bed and layers of quilts, deep red plastic 70s dial phone [perhaps oversized], 2 windows with a view of video background of moving sky and cloud,...
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” “If you can fall in love again and again,” Henry Miller wrote as he contemplated the measure of a life well lived on the precipice of turning...
this manga(?) is about a weird post-apocalyptic horror story. it has only 3 chapters as of writing this and it is too early to tell where things are heading but it feels promising. and i really like the art style. it is done by one dude as a passion project and it is really ambitious. you can tell because there is a...
At the Design Museum in London. The Fantastic Mr Fox puppets/armatures were my second favourite part. ... Seeing this backdrop from The Grand Budapest Hotel in person was my favourite. An unrelated sidenote: afterwards we went to Waitrose to get a bottle of water and Abbie said Everyone in there was so posh, that...
Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you. Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO Poem: Record Rack to the rescue Inventory tracking by the books is such a pain; For every sale I make, I have to calculate the gain. But apps like Record Rack have saved the day, it's such a hack; It solved my tracking...
I'm trying to get into soup. It's winter, and it's a warming, simple, food. I was brought up on soup every day so when I left home I rebelled against the molten liquid and never really went back. However, I feel it's time to embrace it. I decided to make some celery soup. It is not a challenging make! After the...
A couple enjoys the view from Arashiyama's Togetsukyo bridge. The pagoda of Horin-ji temple is in the background. 嵐山の渡月橋からの眺めを楽しむカップル。法輪寺の塔が背景に見える。
I. The Ship of Theseus and the Limits of Clarity A ship departs from Athens. Over decades of voyaging, every plank is gradually replaced—the hull, the mast, the rudder, every timber and rope. When the vessel finally returns to port, it bears none of its original matter. The question: Is it the same ship? This is the...
What happened[1] over the last four and a bit weeks? I started doing a bit more exercise after a too long hiatus. A friend came to stay and made some ramen and it is my new favourite thing to eat. I had it for lunch, and will be having some leftovers shortly. Actually, that's not true, my new favourite thing to eat...
Some nights I open my blog folder the way you open the fridge. Not because I’m starving, but because I need to see what’s in there. A half-finished draft. A headline that felt clever yesterday. A note to myself that just says “add screenshot here” like that’s a complete thought. The usual. I’ve always liked reading...
Here’s some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases)...
I’ve gone through a few sets of Joy-Cons since buying my Switch back in 2018. Every pair has ended up with stick drift, and at this point my Switch is running Android full time, so spending £60 on first-party replacements felt like a waste. I picked up the LinYuvo KS42 from AliExpress for around £18 instead. Specs...
parenting a heartache It's the end of January 2026. I want to write a short note about an interesting revelation I experienced in the midst of some hard time - mentally, emotionally, and perhaps it can be beneficial to some of the readers here. This month was harder than December of 2025 - which was already too much...
(or the physics of Non-locality & Non-duality) Let’s start with something we think we understand: light. That’s where we left off in our last article about Light, Space and Time. You know from high school that light behaves like a wave. When you shine light through two narrow slits, you don’t get two bright lines on...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop I guess the ice type pokemon will continue until the snow melts or I run out of ice types. Not that I want the snow to melt, it's pretty as hell. Also we got out first official "temperature for the day is negative officially and not just in the...
As I promised in my article about sleep, today I will be talking more about my ADHD. Prologue I'll start with a little bit of backstory. The first time I started really thinking there might be something genuinely wrong with me was the day I graduated high school. I have no fucking idea how I pulled that one off, but...
ArticlesSelf-HostingNowWhen the Law Becomes a WeaponMy App DefaultsNotesI think I never subscribed to as many RSS feeds from small blogs as I did recently since I got myself my own #microsub r🎶🎵 Dire Straits à l’honneur ce soir … je me suis pris de nostalgie tout d’un coup et j’aime bien ma page qui s’actualiSomeone...
If implementing a redesign of this blog wasn't enough, and if redoing its static generation code wasn't enough, in the past few days I've migrated from my original Nextcloud server to a brand new one.
I came across plaintextproject.online and, after reading a few posts, I was reminded why I keep all my writing, journals, notes, and quotes in a repository of markdown files instead of trapping them in a proprietary database app. Source
I have almost 200 hours in Hello Kitty: Island Adventure now, and my wife gifted me the first DLC for it: Wheatflour Wonderland in December. I’ve already written some tips about HKIA in general, but also wanted to put down my thoughts about the DLC. My verdict is: Save your money. Don’t buy it, buy it on a steep...
These are being backdated, but added for posterity sake so if you're seeing this in your RSS feed 3 months later... no you're not 🤫 Since I wasn't on socials all that much around this time, this was basically just screamed at the void via omg.lol's statuslog. ⚠️ Want to learn what these Micro Thoughts are? Read the...
