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Swan butt! 📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/2400″ at f/8 – ISO 800 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
Album#29 物件，所在 图1 《物件，所在》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称：物件，所在 歌手：FunkyMo 年份：2024-09-03 风格：R&B、Soul、Funk 时长：26:38 今天每日推荐的第一首是 FunkyMo 的 「Maybe Next Time」，旋律和歌声出来的时候，我就喜欢上了，听着很舒服，像是在透着午后阳光的窗边，悠哉地喝着咖啡时的心情。 整张专辑给人带来的是一种松弛感，歌词经常出现没关系的、等到下一次也可以、别紧张，编曲也不错，让人想要舞动起来。 专辑介绍...
I've recently started reading the Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces by Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau. The book is, to my surprise, free. This is probably one of the biggest contributions to the computer science community. I first saw the book when I came across Phil Eaton's book club. I'm...
Someone needs to remind me that releasing a new novelette, two magazines, two single-page zines, a newsletter, and a new story all on the same day is a terrible idea... First up, our second novelette has officially been published, available in print and ebook everywhere books are sold online:Faceless by Ellie...
According to a Reddit thread, that was re-posted at Marginal Revolution, the online publishing platform is requesting users in Australia submit to an age verification process. Substack, as of the time I type, is not on the list of websites, or services, that Australians under the age of sixteen cannot access, so I’m...
"Coniatore di Moneta" (Minter of Coins) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
January 2026. Waverley. Rotherham. I knew it would take something new and exciting to persuade Mrs RM to stop refining her Sarajevo blog and come out for a walk on the remains of Orgreave pits, and that something new and exciting was a visit to the new (but dull) village of Waverley, betwixt Rotherham and Sheffield....
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...
I’ve just finished reading Indie Microblogging by Manton Reece. This book covers a lot of ground, including plenty of detail on the philosophy behind the Micro.blog platform, as well as broader IndieWeb thinking more generally. Reading about these ideas a few years ago, and setting up an account on Micro.blog,...
Hozuki, la librería de Mitsuko es la segunda historia de la pentalogía La sombra del cardo de la escritora Aki Shimazaki. De nuevo, es otro de esos libros que encuentro en la biblioteca y despiertan mi curiosidad, así que no puedo evitar cogerlos prestados. Cuando cogí esta obra de Aki Shimazaki desconocía la...
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on two sets of updates to the Wait Wait Stats Project, one that's visible and one that isn't so visible.
Pre-premessa: quest'anno ho proprio rosicato il non riuscire ad andare al FOSDEM, l'anno prossimo vedrò di recuperare perché ho un sacco di voglia di vedere gente conosciuta qui sopra.Piccola premessa: sono estremamente contento che si continui questo piccolo esperimento della "Sagra IndieWeb" in italiano. Non solo...
You sure you don't want a computer at your house? - No. - Seems awful strange to me. A man who made all of his money off of computers doesn't want to have one in his house. Well, this is maybe the most relatable movie ever made. Don Johnston (played by Bill Murray) is a guy who learns he impregnated one of his...
Look around you, and you will see so much noise. So many attempts at your attention, so many attempts on the life that you are supposed to be living. If you give in to the noise, you will lose the way, you will find yourself 5,000 miles from your intended destination. Distraction drives the world in which we live....
O Neovim é um editor de texto que se diferencia da maioria por ser modal, ou seja, ele possui diferente modos de interagir com o conteúdo a ser editado. Modos para selecionar e mover texto, realizar comandos de edição elaborados ou simplesmente escrever. Uma curiosidade legal é que a língua de programação usada em...
For all the enchantment the color blue has cast upon humanity, no animal has fallen under its spell more hopelessly than the bowerbird, whose very survival hinges on blue. In a small clearing on the forest floor, the male weaves twigs and branches into an elaborate bower, which he decorates exclusively with blue...
Happy February! Here are a few photos from my phone from the last month with neither rhyme nor reason to the theme. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.
Uketsu’s Strange Pictures is real good. It’s one of those rare books that make you realize that a novel is a game, not just a bunch of text printed on a page. And the way that Uketsu reimagines their novel is with drawings and diagrams, making what might be a simple murder mystery thriller feel like you’re a...
Final de una semana, inicio de mes. Sigue haciendo frío y eso sigue haciendo mella en los coraazones. Lo bueno es que de momento está lloviendo bien y, aunque la tierra a mi alrededor está ya saturada, los pozos están a punto de rebosar y estoy viendo correr arroyos que de normal van secos, no parece que esté...
Seconda puntata del bell'esperimento bloggoso lanciato da Ed sul Fediverso! Fediverso che, dietro mia proposta, è pure il tema di questo mese
I am hosting the IndieWeb Book Club for this month, in which everyone interested is invited to read and write a blog post about The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence [Goodreads link]. The book was authored by Ros Atkins, a BBC journalist whose career has spanned radio on the BBC...
OData is a topic close to my heart. History I was around when RSS was growing up, and even contributed to the wider RSS community activities at the time. I was also around during the creation of Atom and the Atom Publishing Protocol (APP). I was around when Microsoft took Atom and APP and turned it into OData. I saw...
Minha primeira visual novel do ano. Mas honestamente eu não sei se chamaria ela de visual novel, acho que ela se encaixa mais na descrição de história interativa, já que você faz outros tipos de interação com a história do que só escolher opções de texto. Eu inicialmente fiquei interessado pelo jogo por causa do...
For this interpretation I have picked one of the many brilliant hits from the collection of the Pyx Lax band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhVp03i1fjI. The rhythm is upbeat, the words are thought-provoking, and the vibes are strong. Below are the lyrics, my translation of them, and further comments on what all...
Attended a local annual tea fair last weekend called Tea Round 2026, held at PMQ HK. I got to try a really amazing black tea—it was stunningly sweet. The black tea I bought is called Jin Jun Mei (金俊眉, literal translation: Golden Beautiful Eyebrows) from Fujian Province, China. I got it from Enoch, the founder of The...
I went to a photowalk in Basel this weekend – the folks there and me did some calculations, it had been two years since the last one, which feels long. It has been fun and we’ll do it more often in the near future, I guess.(Related: meetup.com is a bad website and app, right? Is there anything halfway similar that...
My first blog post was published just under 15 years ago in March of 2011. Since then, I’ve published 151 posts, including this one. (If I was a numerologist, I’d think it had something to do with Pokémon.) This blog has covered a wide variety of topics, including Pokémon in fact (I wrote the first Pokédex app for...
“There’s a particular kind of guilt that visits me when I open my feed reader after a few days away”, Terry writes in their recent post, and then goes on wondering why most RSS readers look like email clients. NetNewsWire might have been “the first RSS reader to resemble an email app”, but years before, the My...
It was trivial to lookup the areas that Gurdjieff's wrote about in, "Travels With Remarkable Men". I used an ai to convert the locations to gpx files and plot out a series of arbitrary journeys to those areas that used to fascinate me as a young bloke. document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() { var...
Table of Contents Introduction Human Development The (Fourth?) Industrial Revolution Conclusion Introduction The subject of artificial intelligence (AI)1 is one that has become hotly debated in recent years. That the growth of AI’s capabilities has been partly driven by what is becoming increasingly clear financial...
I discovered a coffee questionnaire on Online Goddess (originally from Syl’s blog), and I knew I had to participate! How can I not talk about coffee on my personal blog? I love coffee and I’m what some consider a “coffee snob”—I only brew light roast beans from high-end roasters, I make my own special coffee water...
Welcome to the 89th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about Ruby. We are thrilled to welcome Graham back to the newsroom! We are also introducing “Arts”, a new category exploring the connection between programming and the arts. In this edition: Graham describes the patterns that explain the rise and popularity of...
I’ve been working on my blog software (a static site generator) and I managed to screw things up enough that random old posts got published on the site and in the RSS feed. As soon as I saw the issue I fixed it, but I’ve been getting email from folks about some of the posts, so I know they got picked up by some RSS...
KLITCH is my minimal electronic/glitch music project that came together during a road trip through South Korea. Now, it doesn’t sound Asian or Korean per se, but I bet the country had some influence on it. Right? It had to, with all the nice BBQ and kimchi. Yummy. The music is up on Bandcamp, so you can check it out...
Today I got around to updating a few links and chapters/notes around this living, ever-changing digital book. All cat pics are now properly tagged as /cats, and I've updated the Bear Blog tweaks master list with the link to its updated version on Start.me. And I've finally, finally listed all the tags on the Index...
A few days ago, The new York Times (owner of Wordle) announced that from 2 February it would start reusing some words from previous years. Their announcement started: Hey, Wordlers! We have some exciting news to share and continued Starting on Monday, we will begin adding previously run words back into play. There...
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I finished off the last day of January with a second session of life-drawing, following on from the session earlier this month. The first drawing (detail at the top of this post) took two forty-minute sessions. As per my notes-to-self after the life-drawing session on the 11th January I used a sharp 4B graphite...
While this post is hidden from Bear Blog's discovery feed, it may still appear on your RSS feed and elsewhere. Apparently, my toast button guide has reached Top 20 on Bear Blog's trending feed (at the time of this post). Thanks to everyone who discovered me from that place and upvoted that post here! Although the...
Much to my sadistic little delight, I read this morning that vibe-coding (and other similar variations of LLM-driven software building) does not help you acquire skills or learn much. LLMs, on the other hand, are trying to give you the sharpest, closest solution possible. When learning through an LLM (especially...
2026-02-01 No mentiré, en los últimos meses la "vida digital" se ha sentido extraña, hasta incomoda. Ya me cansé de esos hábitos culposos, como revisar los pensamientos y presunciones de alguien random (en su mayoría en español, y alguno otro en inglés) de alguien que esta a kilómetros y a quien no le importo en...
Saat saya menginjak usia 11 tahun, tepatnya kelas 6 SD, Ibu saya memberikan hadiah sebuah radio kaset. Sampai sekarang saya masih ingat bentuknya. Boombox merek Aiwa berwarna abu-abu (saat itu keren) yang bisa menjadi radio, pemutar kaset, dan juga CD. Perangkat audio itu menjadi salah satu penanda kedewasaan bagi...
Ernst Halberstadt, Obsolescence in the Junkyard, 1973. Public domain image via National Archives and Records Administration and Wikimedia Commons. My meditation this week will be brief, since class has begun and I’ve found myself thrown into the maelstrom involved in setting up schedules, orienting myself to...
Three days worth of moon photos including Jupiter, camera focus AND lens adventures Finally was able to catch up with some moon photo editing; the last few days have been great for that and like, to be a downer, not a lot else!! It's v hard to not just fall into the endless despair any times [news] happens!! Anyway,...
Quite a bit of time has passed since my last digital detox; and I've accumulated some bad habits. I don't have another pocket notebook to write in, and I like to keep my journal for more personal thoughts. Instead of clogging my blog and the discovery feed with one or two sentence posts, I'll log my progress on my...
While chatting with Hannah at the Mastodon booth at FOSDEM, I got an idea that brought together epiphanies and reflections I had in the past months, as I have started developing the feeling of wanting to go beyond Knitting Our Internet. Inspired by George Perec’s The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise, my idea is...
Today was one of those delightfully ordinary days that somehow feels dramatic when observed from behind watery-glass. Brian, goldfish extraordinaire, amateur philosopher, and professional bubble-spewer, remained at home while his human, Mark, performed his regular rituals of domestic heroism. The morning began with...
Sleep is one of the most important things a person can do for their well-being. It is the easiest to do because it requires nothing of you at all other than to put your mind at ease and fall into dreamland. Matthew Walker’s book “Why We Sleep” goes into some massive detail about this, and I read that book years ago....
Over the past month of January, I’ve collected 7 links for my link journal. 2026-01-09 Building an IndieAuth Comment System for Your Static Site brennan.day IndieWeb Authentication A journey through authentication, CORS issues, and the joy of owning your comments! Learn how to build a comment system for your static...
Je n’ai pas vu le mois de janvier passer. Quelques jours pour (re)découvrir Québec et ses environs, cette fois sous la neige : c’est très beau. On parle de service à la clientèle — et non de service client(s), ce qui, si on y réfléchit bien, est une traduction plus fidèle de customer service. Laure revient dans La...
My Student Showcase Presentation Permalink to section 'My Student Showcase Presentation' # My school, 42 Malaysia, just held a roadshow event on Tuesday and Wednesday. Two weeks ago, I and two other classmates were invited by my school's campus staff to take part in a student showcase during the roadshow event, then...
This is in continuation of: Stability Regions for BDF and Tendler's Formulas Stability Regions for Tischer's Formulas We analyze below method from Rubin, see his Fig. 4.2. Also see Weitere zyklische und blockimplizite lineare Mehrschritt-Verfahren. $$ \begin{array}{r|rr} p=4 && 1 & 2\cr%R4A \hline -1 && 0 & 56\cr 0...
This photo was taken at 4pm and I'd just shoveled the walks and driveway. By the end of the day another few inches accumulated. ⊕Currently Listening: Erik Koskinen “First Time In Years”Reply via email
In a castle of Westphalia, belonging to the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, lived a youth, whom nature had endowed with the most gentle manners. His countenance was a true picture of his soul. He combined a true judgment with simplicity of spirit, which was the reason, I apprehend, of his being called Candide. The old...
An entertaining 9-minute video by Shloop that starts with a common mistake of typing in an English mode on a Korean keyboard, but then goes through a bunch of other fun and light input internationalization stories: This is the page for non-English programming languages that is shown at some point. Quite a bit of...
Here is the Little Letter of Nonsense for February! Available to paid subscribers as a PDF and/or in print, delivered straight to your mailbox.
So one of the most annoying phenomena you'll find on social media is the way that ideas will get passed around like a game of telephone until they're virtually unrecognizable. The "anti-intellectualism in booktok" conversation is probably one of the more frustrating examples. It all began in earnest, really. Often...
In the Bearblog Carnival February 2026, Winther asks: Are you ever bored, what do you do when you are feeling bored or are we even capable of feeling bored in this age of limitless digital entertainment? What comes to mind about the topic is that we are quick to demonize boredom, but we should cherish it instead....