Wed Feb 04
There’s a lot that’s not going well; politics, tech bubbles, the economy, and so on. I spend most of my day reading angry tweets and blog posts. There’s a lot to be upset about, so that’s understandable. But in the interest of fostering better discourse, I’d like to offer a challenge that I think the world...
As with my work, when I write articles on my blog, I have a focus on quality. Here I describe my current writing process, primarily to document things for my future self. From idea to article.Image credits: Konstantin Mironov via Vecteezy and Sumit Kumar via Vecteezy I have ideas. Lots of ideas. Unfortunately, too...
This is the accompanying website for the eponymous zine that I created for Zinetausch #10 by zines.cool. Here I collect further information and helpful links, and I hope—although conceived as auxiliary information for the physical zine—that this also works stand-alone.However, this is not a tutorial. The idea is to...
En Firefox Nightly podemos experimentar con nuevas funciones como añadir notas a las pestañas, o añadir widgets de crear listas o un temporizador enla página de nueva pestaña Firefox Nightly es la versión en desarrollo del navegador Firefox. En esta versión en desarrollo podremos disfrutar antes que en la versión...
Chrome’s split view tabs is one of those features that silently arrived and slipped into my workflow. I’ve found myself using it more and more over the past couple of weeks since it rolled out at the end of 2025. It’s as intuitive as tab grouping (hold shift when selecting multiple tabs), and genuinely useful. The...
Kagi and DuckDuckGo both provide reasonable alternatives to Google's and Microsoft's search services, without compromising your privacy. How different are they?
I have a Posteo email account. I was paying 1 Euro per month (or whatever that converts to in USD at the moment) for 2 GB of storage. Today, Posteo doubled the amount of storage on the 1 Euro plan from 2 GB to 4 GB. I do not think I was anywhere close to using 2 GB, but you will not catch me complaining about free...
Eu jogo uma quantidade considerável de RPGs por ano, é um dos meus gêneros preferidos desde que eu aprendi a jogar. Mesmo quando não sabia nada, eu ficava fascinado vendo os personagens a história se desenvolver na minha frente. Quando eu joguei Phantasy Star, foi o jogo que redefiniu minha vida. Eu jogava todo fim...
Managed to get a little bit of art time in the past few days. I'm rather pleased with this one. (As always, click on it for the bigger version.) Send me an email Latest 3 posts 05 Feb, 2026 Alicia on the Floor (Image) 03 Feb, 2026 The Fuck List 24 Jan, 2026 It's Okay Not to Watch the Video Older Posts I'd Like You...
0:00 /6:45 1× It’s absolutely devastating to watch this. I’d love to echo the sentiment I’ve seen on social media and say, “how could anyone watch this and not be devastated?” But I’ve become too jaded. The people doing and celebrating this terrible shit are the people who tortured their pets like Sid from Toy Story...
A few days ago my family went to the supermarket, and I saw someone that had been an intern with me, in that same big company in my small town that I now work on. He was working as a cashier now. As an introvert in real life—hard to believe I know—I tend to avoid interacting with people, even those that I should be...
A few thoughts after reading Gruber’s take on Finder and its new auto-sizing columns: 1. Column view as a concept and when done well deserves to be in the UI hall of fame. It flew and still can fly high in the Finder, and it was the unsung hero of both the iPod and the iPhone. It’s really fun to fire up NeXTSTEP 0.8...
With all the packing and other back-to-Denmark-related tasks, spare time has become a precious commodity. So I try to spend it on soothing activities like tweaking TERMINAL-1090. But instead of piling up new features, I'm simplifying the existing codebase.
Three Constraints Creating Permanent Elite Control Despite Democratic Elections Classification: Judicial Gatekeeping SnareDate: January 27, 2026Status: Critical transition moment (Feb 8, 2026 election + constitutional referendum)Confidence: Very High (extensive historical validation, Prolog models, current crisis...
One of the most important things I have learned about living is that, in any life of purpose and creative vitality, you must be as religious and disciplined about your sleep as about your work. And yet one of the great self-betrayals of our culture is the way it wears the lack of sleep as a badge of honor on the...
Since I am moving more and more away from BigTech (see here…), I was wondering if we need a Fediverse alternative for LinkedIn. I don’t even want to go into the details but LinkedIn shows the same bad symptoms as all other big “social” media plattforms. Xing, Fediverse, …? Yes, in Germany we have Xing, […]
It took quite a while, but I finally got a new phone. The Wife's iPhone is at its last days (I have no idea how she does it), so she will inherit my iPhone 13 Mini. That is the law. But it required me to buy myself a new one, as having a phone is now a civic duty. I wanted it all: a FOSS operating system, a...
Candide, yet more moved with compassion than with horror, gave to this shocking beggar the two florins which he had received from the honest Anabaptist James. The spectre looked at him very earnestly, dropped a few tears, and fell upon his neck. Candide recoiled in disgust. “Alas!” said one wretch to the other, “do...
This is for this month bearblog carnival. At first I didn't know what to write, lately I feel like my English is broken somehow. I started writing something but I couldn't get my point across. Then I remembered I like to write letters so I decided to write one to boredom (I did this before for silence but in...
February 4, 2026 I'm not trying to escape Apple I'm staging a protest. A small one, sure, but deliberate. The reasons pile up daily: Apple has quietly transformed from a company that built great tools into one that tightens its grip, nudging users toward subscriptions, lock-in, and manufactured dependency. I still...
Today’s topic is Trig Functions. I feel like Trig Functions don’t get a lot of love because nobody seems to know what you would actually use them for. I don’t get to go over it in the talk very much. Let’s actually show a demo of where you might want to use something like this. Trig Functions The Trig functions that...
No matter whether we’re early or late, It's how we run, not bolt from the gate. Our life is not a horse’s race; Each has his moment, gift, and pace. Once on the Way, let’s walk it straight; And offer to each a measure of grace. I scatter my poetry around the social media; but should bring it all together. Another...
Me causa bastante curiosidad el rechazo a las cosas. Nota: Vivo en América, en el pacifico Mexicano. Muy cerca de USA. Seguramente esto me sesga bastante a sus modelos industriales y consumistas. Trabajo Tengo un empleo en desarrollo de software para industria de robótica y anteriormente para famosa empresa de...
After Trump I and now Trump II, I have decided to exit the USA from a business perspective. I don’t actually live there. It was with a heavy heart because I’ve had many a good time in the US. And, who knows, those good times may return in future. Under Trump’s orders a bunch of thugs, in the guise of ICE, entered...
Retro Showa Era elegance of this sweets shop in the Teramachi shopping arcade. 寺町商店街に佇む老舗甘味処・梅園の風情ある佇まい
January 2026. Waterbeach. One more night in Waterbeach before exciting forrin’ travel, and as always it’s Mrs RM who insists we nip in the Sun while waiting for the Chung Hwa to work its magic on squid. I wish Mrs RM would work her magic on my phone camera, but for now I’m claiming this is an art shot; Oooh ! That’s...
Hi friends, In January, Scour scoured 805,241 posts from 16,555 feeds (939 were newly added). I also rolled out a lot of new features that I'm excited to tell you about. Maybe because of some of these, I found more posts than usual that I thought were especially worth sharing. You can find them at the bottom of this...
This quote on wood — a gift Wendy created for her husband at the library's makerspace. ⊕Currently Listening: Petey “Lean Into Life”Reply via email
In January, I wrote about doing a month without caffeine and gave an update one week in. In the original post, I wrote about realizing I was using it to override exhaustion rather than addressing it. I had been relying on matcha, black tea, come coffee and caffeinated water flavours to get through poor sleep,...
[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.] The inability of Claude and (especially) ChatGPT to extract data from the chart discussed in the last post gnawed at me. It seemed like the sort of thing an LLM should be able...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 200 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
I found this questionnaire on the website of my Geekring neighbor Corvidae. Original questions sheet on mousling.net. Please introduce yourself. # I’m Nathan. I live in Chicago, U.S.A., and have far too many interests. I play classical trombone for fun, make incense sticks, write things, cook vegan food, and more....
El maestro que prometió el mar es una película sobre la enseñanza durante la II República. Contando la historia de uno de esos maestros de pueblo que introdujo métodos revolucionarios para la época. Y el caro precio que tuvo que pagar por sus ideas revolucionarias. Uno de los avances más destacados es que se...
After reading the book Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters by Chesley “Sully” B. Sullenberger III, to which I gave 5 stars: Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks—the inspirational autobiography by one of the most captivating American heroes of our time, Capt. ‘Sully’...
Micah Mattix’s Prufrock on Monday linked to two essay-reviews that I think should be considered in tandem. In Aeon, Richard Beard writes: Turing’s Imitation Game paper was published 14 years after the first Writers’ Workshop convened at the University of Iowa, in 1936. Turing may not have known, with his grounding...
Writing this in 2026 AD (234 AdR), crypto is solidly in a “winter”. As valuations have fallen, so has the intensity of the debate surrounding the topic. I therefore feel it apt to use this opportunity to briefly write down my thoughts and opinions regarding this otherwise contentious topic. First of all I should...
For some reason, Renu Khator, the longtime president of the University of Houston and chancellor of the University of Houston System, has felt the need to remind her faculty that “our responsibility is to give [students] the ability to form their own opinions, not force a particular one on them. Our guiding...
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. How Rodrigo (it’s me!) brings a humanistic view to consumer technology. Buttondown, the service I use to manage Manual‘s newsletter and which sponsors Lerama, has a series of...
So 6 months ago, I agreed to work for my dad's company again after a 3 month hiatus of physics studies. At this point I was adamant I wanted to start my own business and move out.
One thing I wanted to say, regarding my last post. I am not a pessimist, and I do not want to imagine any kind of block on artificial intelligence tools for supporting creative work or development. On the contrary, aware of my past mistakes, having experienced defeat, mortificazione and frustration in my youth, I...
Bluetooth headphones are great, but they have one main weakness: they can only get audio streams from a single device at a time. Facts and Circumstances™️ mean that I have to have hard separation of personal and professional workloads, and I frequently find myself doing both at places like coworking spaces. Often I...