Sat Feb 07
I. The shuttle pulled out at 5:15 AM, same as every morning. Elara pressed her forehead against the window, felt the glass vibrate with the engine’s rumble, cold even through the humidity. The strip mall slid past—the grocery with its flickering sign casting blue-white pulses across the empty parking lot, the clinic...
Yesterday I was in London, having lunch with an old friend, who, it turned out, had not seen the rehung National Gallery (despite living in London – ain't it always the way?). As we were close by, we stepped in, and I had the pleasure of seeing her enjoy the impact of the magnificent rehang for the first time. One...
ArticlesJe collectionne des flux RSS et toi ?InterestsPOSSEAI TransparencyAboutUsesHelloNotesThis weekend I worked on my custom /blogroll page it has 3 input types : you construct the collection by adding blogs mGot my indiekit syndicator for #Linkedin to work 🤓 with a nice backend to refresh the token (using OAuth)...
I’ve been playing with security configurations this month, trying to optimize what I already had. While working with Linked Data and Wikidata, I had the idea to block all unidentified bots. I made exceptions for RSS files and any public files meant to be scanned by bots, like opml and robots.txt. The initial post...
To celebrate Brayden's birthday we laser tagged, raced motorcycles, gobbled up ghosts, killed aliens, ate pizza in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game and pizza in real life. ⊕Currently Listening: Tyler Ballgame “Matter of Taste”Reply via email
Problem statement: make a slides presentation for a certain business or academic use case. Part I: What? Classic approach: pick one of: LibreOffice, Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides. Hipster approach: pick one of: Notion, Reveal.JS (or similar), Golang present, Prezi. Academic approach: LaTeX beamer, LyX....
Hallo allemaal, Er is weer genoeg te vertellen! Zoveel dat ik vermoedelijk nog dingen vergeet in deze update. Dit is een kopie van een bericht op mijn nieuwsbrief. Schrijf u vooral ook in als u geen updates wil missen! Om te beginnen het meest actuele: Zondag 21:30 op TV NPO2, Bureau Buitenland (VPRO) met Barbara...
I am unfortunately spending more and more of my time interacting with LLMs through terminal interfaces. While the sentient silicon churns through thousands of tokens I find myself scrolling short-form videos contemplating next steps, freeing my time up for deeper mental pursuits, and much more importantly (and...
Candide did not take courage, but followed the old woman to a decayed house, where she gave him a pot of pomatum to anoint his sores, showed him a very neat little bed, with a suit of clothes hanging up, and left him something to eat and drink. “Eat, drink, sleep,” said she, “and may our lady of Atocha, the great...
I didn’t ask for this and neither did you. I didn’t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off of it. I didn’t ask for the role of a programmer to be reduced to that of a glorified TSA agent, reviewing code to make sure the AI...
One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of uncommon helplessness and uncertainty, touching every aspect of our lives, and in such times another reflex is the longing...
February 8th of 2026 marks the tenth anniversary of me moving to the Bay Area to work for tech startups. I didn’t quite have much to say about the tenth year so I held off. I’ve been here long enough that it’s no longer a temporary sojourn. It’s not a step. It’s a quarter of my life and even as I’ve stepped forward...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Panamint Valley - Death Valley National Park.jpg|frame|center|upright=999|Yosemite valley would never be called Death Valley, but the latter could have been called Valley of Eternal Rainfall]] Have you noticed that famous places with names that...
[Everything from January 1 to the day of publishing this] Bangkok, Thailand DataJournals bought for the new year: 3 New pens purchased: 5 Books read: 2 Movies watched: 11 Cups of coffee: 35 Matcha drinks: 6 Days I have eaten eggs: 5 Osmosis in BangkokActive, animated, energetic, I found these words on a website...
Instead of a collection of links I found interesting, I decide to pay it forward and send them an email. Sometimes, I hear back! The majority of these links are gems I found on the Discovery page. Trending is a bit to fussy for me at times. Last week, people were ribbing each other over the use of capitals! Yes,...
Another rather unremarkable week. For a quick moment I really got into collecting and posting links, enough so, that I documented my workflow.All of this is good fun but also feels like something is missing. And weirdly enough it seems to be a feedback loop. I know it’s a bit of a slippery slope towards social media...
I'm not sure why I have to say this sometimes, but fandom spaces are adult spaces. What we consider organized fandom was built by adults, for adults. But there are people who forget this. Like I've seen people admonish adults for being involved with fandom, saying "adults should be doing adult things" (whatever the...
One of the areas of the Artemis codebase that I update the most is the logic that relates to the list of posts published by authors to which a user is subscribed. Because Artemis works with so many different formats of information – web feeds like RSS or h-feed, Mastodon posts, Bluesky posts – there can often be...
A Ferrari designer's train delivered us to a city where Pritzker Prize architecture coexists with centuries-old samurai districts. We had no idea what we were in for.
1. Order 3 2. Order 4 3. Order 5 4. Order 6 5. Order 7 6. Order 8 7. Order 9 In continuation of Searching for Tendler-like formulas here we search for further Tendler-like formulas. This time we particularly watch for low error constants. For reference, below are Widlund-wedge angle α and Widlund-distance δ for the...
Time and Space Television Network Ancient wisdom of Kemet, lapis lazuli and Egyptian blue twined, embodying spirit of creation, a tapestry woven with threads of beauty and cosmic connection, unveiling mysteries of existence eternal. Misremembered Vito Acconci TSTN intrvw 1-take : I want to keep on, I’ve got to keep...
NY TimesGovernment doesn’t want undocumented immigrants in the country, but they are more than happy to sell non-citizen cartel members high caliber ammunition.
Over Christmas holidays I spend some time playing with the firefly-zero SDK. Over the weekend I took some free time to implement a Tetris clone. Parts of the game loop are already functional. My goal is to create a highly customisable version (configure block colors, enable games with/without save blocks, toggle...
On a recent podcast, I heard Jason Snell mention that he had created a simple Python app to automate a task on his Mac. Inspired by that, and since the weather is to fucking cold to be outside, I decided to explore Python and how I could use it to automate some of my own tasks. I've put together three Python scripts...
I thought about it on Masto in January (the responses are interesting if you want to read), but recently Robin Sloan eludicated it a lot better: What makes the AI chatbots and agents feel light and clean, here and now in 2026? Is it an innate architectural resistance to advertising, to attention hacks, to...
Snow turns Arashiyama into a canvas of black and white, like a Sumi-e ink painting. 雪が降ると、嵐山は墨絵のような白黒の世界に変わる。
In reply to a post, I said:“Valencia & 20th” (e.g.) instead of “20th & Valencia.” The numbered street comes first.
As I gaze at documents that I sent to Readwise back in 2023, one has to wonder: Does Anybody Actually Read Later? I feel like this idea of “reading later” was a bullshit habit created by business-savvy nerds who wanted to sell something but needed to first create a problem. How do we not know that doing shit like...
“Do you need a break?” It’s such a strange question when you think about it. And people always ask it like it’s a gotcha, don’t they? Like they’ve caught you mid-collapse, clinging to the side of a cliff in business casual, whispering, “Tell my inbox I loved her.” “Do you need a break?” Well, yes, thank you very...
A while ago I listed some of my works in progress. Last week I unpaused one of them (again). Namely, making a database and interface for interacting with all of my running, cycling and hiking .gpx and .fit files. It feels like quite a big job. So I am going to endeavour to break it into small(ish), manageable(ish)...
Why not? Writing a weekly post looks like so much fun…let’s see how long I can last! I thoroughly enjoy reading what others have been busy doing over their past seven days that I want in. Maybe I need this -- like a relaxing exhale after a long, beep breath -- now that it’s the weekend. VS Code It has been a fun,...
I am deeply passionate about the art I consume. I like to drill down and figure out what makes a piece of art resonate with me. I like reading about the stories behind art and the process behind the things I admire. Here's a post talking about what that means. Reviews serve as an easy gateway into doing something...
(image credit of @john___M__) From Bearblog Carnival February 2026: Q: 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? whoaaaah, boy. this one's a tricky one. let's start with a definition: boredom: the state of...
In this near-3-hour video I talk to Eric Frederickson about a broad range of issues that can be summed up under the theme of “cosmic consistency”. We start with a discussion about Eric’s endeavours with software development. I ask about Eric’s experience with free software and open source contributions, which makes...
I mentioned a few times in the last few months that I'm dealing with some health issues, and I thought long about whether or not I should write about them... but I always feel inspired when people talk about the challenges they're facing, because it shows that everybody has something they have to deal with. So I...
February 2026. Genoa. Well, this is the post you were waiting for, I guess. Hand pumps in Genoa, according to Untappd. You just need to find the Public House*, tucked behind Piazza Banchi, only 5 minutes, but hard to follow the map in the drizzle. If you see this you’ve gone too far. Ah, here it is; Europeans don’t...
I'm sat in a presentation about "agentic AI" — we're going to construct agents (chains of computer systems) to handle to mindless repetitive grunt work that we all hate doing. In many ways, this sounds amazing. I can tell you the pain points of my job and you can get a computer to do it for me so I don't have to?!...
In a change of plan this morning, my day dramatically pivoted. I was quite happily lazing in bed at 8:30am, reading the internet. My mobile phone rang -- it was the elderly neighbour next door. I knew something was wrong! In as few words as possible she said "I need the defibrillator". I needed no other detail....