Mon Feb 09
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among men, a greater sincerity.” What an astrophysicist might have the perspective to eulogize as “the incredibly improbable trip that we’re on” the rest of us might, and often do, experience as simply...
Oh yeah! This is the real deal. An open-world, western RPG in a Cyberpunk setting. So, I role-played as a street kid hacker with an average size penis (not that penis is visible anywhere outside the character creator, but I think it's worth pointing out). For the first few hours, I loved everything. Hacking was cool...
Over time my git branches on my local machine get out of control. Here's the command to delete all your local git branches except main and develop.
Skills are the newest hype commodity in the world of agentic AI. Skills are text files that optionally get stapled onto the context window by the agent. You can have skills like “frontend design” or “design tokens” and if the LLM “thinks” it needs more context about that topic, it can import the contents of those...
February 2026. Pavia. A day trip from Genoa to Pavia, an unsung but beautiful University town of 70,000, nearly 40% of them students. Not that you’d know it’s student-dominated; a bit like Cambridge they must all stay within the ancient cloisters, and all drink at the distinctly untrendy student bar. Mrs RM and I...
Neck pain and shoulder pain have been part of my occupational side effects. I have made some changes in my posture and working styleto reduce it. But sometime early last year, in 2025, it suddenly shot up to a point where I couldn’t perform day-to-day activities. I couldn’t sleep well, taking care of the baby or the...
Mil cosas de Juan Tallón es el último libro que he leído. Al final entre estudio, entrevistas y pruebas técnicas, sólo puedo aproximarme a este tipo de libros, tiny literature. En todo caso, este libro se lee rápido, apenas una mañana. Y es que la falta de tiempo, el estrés de las vidas actuales, al menos en las...
37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him.” (John 10:37-38 NKJV) 37 Коли Я не чиню діл Свого Отця, то не вірте Мені. 38 А коли Я чиню, то хоч ви Мені віри й не...
Goodness. Who asked for a feature to burn tokens? Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions: Coordinate multiple Claude Code instances working together as a team, with shared tasks, inter-agent messaging, and centralized management. Demo running in the git repository of this blog: ▐▛███▜▌ Claude Code v2.1.37...
On Sunday, I went to NUE to capture a Lockheed Martin KC-130J Hercules, and all I got was this below-average photo.
Album#31 I Am Here 图1 《I Am Here》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称：I Am Here 歌手：陶玙 TAOTAO 年份：2025-11-21 风格：器乐、爵士 时长：约 46 分钟 在 Hopico HMA2025 提名专辑 中找到的一张爵士/器乐律动专辑，最近听的还蛮多。 这是一张诉说自我探索的爵士专辑，诞生于陶玙在比利时五年求学的内心回响。 每首曲目皆是她对身份、归属与未来的轻轻追问 ⸺ 从瑞士雪山下《I Am Here》的顿悟，到《Béret Bleu (蓝色贝雷帽)》中对错过的释然，再到《Can You Here Me?》的思乡低语。还有那些未述的旋律，诉说青春与自由的碎片。...
The iPad is a deeply misunderstood device, and indeed tablets are a misunderstood device category in general. The original vision for the iPad was as an in-between device. Larger than a phone, but more portable than a laptop, positioning it as an excellent entertainment device. Designed for consumption. But over the...
Near the beginning of this long, fascinating, and deeply depressing video Adam Neely says that he doesn’t think Mikey Shulman, the CEO and prime hypeman of Suno, is evil. I dunno, I think he might be evil. A person who makes and advocates for anything this destructive will likely be one of the following: Evil —...
Applications are open until 17 March 2026, for the role of Australian National Poet Laureate: The National Poet Laureate is a three‑year appointment that recognises an outstanding Australian poet whose work and cultural contribution have shaped contemporary poetry and its readership. The Laureate serves as a...
I use Fathom Analytics for measuring my sites as it is privacy based and has a great dashboard. One of the features of the dashboards is that it has keyboard shortcuts to switch between the sites being tracked. They are 1-9 and 0. 0 actually takes you back to the overall display showing all sites - except that it...
This has been a very odd week. I’ve long been a night owl. I go to sleep sometime in the 3-4AM range, and then sleep until around 11AM. I’ve been working this last week to be a little more normal. To sleep before 2AM and then up around 9AM. It has been easier than I thought it would be. Anyway, here’s this week’s...
I am an expert at making things more complicated than they need to be. Nowhere is this more evident than my efforts to be organized and maintain a to-do list. I can make the creation of a task management system into a week-long project. All to organize a handful of tasks that would have taken me a couple of hours to...
Apple’s *OS 26 icons have been getting some well-deserved criticism over the past couple of months. There was Jim Nielsen’s complaint about menu icons in macOS. Then came Nikita Prokopov’s more detailed criticism of those same icons.1 And a lot of fun has been poked at Tahoe’s app icons, reaching a peak in...
Small update… already way more playable. Scores, line count, levels work. hard drop and drop shadow caused some headache today, but running fine now. Next I’ll probably dig into UI. A lot of things can be configured already, would be cool to do this from UI instead of code !😎 Your browser doesn't support embedded...
This is incredible – a story of a museum exhibit that replicated an experience of being a tech support person for a videogame company some time in the early 1990s: You knew hint lines existed, right? 1-900 numbers, long-distance charges, hoping whoever answers actually knows what they’re talking about. They had...
This is an entry from my journal. I comment on how I do not try to control people’s impression of me. Yesterday morning two labourers came to work at the neighbouring vineyard. Their task was to prune the grapevines. I had to bring the puppies indoors because they are still too eager to defend their territory. The...
Let me name some of my favorite games: Only slightly adjusted to fit my point Rule The Waves 3 IL2 - Battle of Stalingrad Dirt - Rally 2 ArmA My Summer/Winter Car What do these games have — yes of course it's that they have career modes, either natively, implied or community made. In Rule The Waves 3, you play as...
This Issachar was the most choleric Hebrew that had ever been seen in Israel since the Captivity in Babylon. “What!” said he, “thou bitch of a Galilean, was not the Inquisitor enough for thee? Must this rascal also share with me?” In saying this he drew a long poniard which he always carried about him; and not...
In Mina Le's latest video, she quotes Adam Aleksic about quitting or severely reducing social media and phone use: "For one, it's the equivalent of sticking your head in the sand and pretending like the algorithm doesn't exist. Whether you like it or not, our culture is still being shaped by these platforms, and...
For someone who’s neither all-in on AI nor a passionate anti-AI crusader, I think about it a lot. From 2018 through 2023, I worked for Viv Labs, a startup from the folks who built Apple’s Siri; they had been bought by Samsung in order to fix Bixby, their much-maligned assistant. (The punchline here is that, to a...
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. Busy months in KDE Linux. The KDE project is about to release the beta version of KDE Linux, their own distribution. The post reports on several developments, highlighting delta...
In Blade Runner, Deckard hunts down replicants, biochemical labourers that are basically indistinguishable from humans. They were woven into the core of Blade Runner's society with a temporal Sword of Damocles hung over their head: four years of life, not a day more. This made replicants desperate to cling to life;...
Esta semana ha seguido haciendo un tiempo bastante desagradable, aunque parece que este tren de borrascas va a darnos un respiro pronto. La semana que terminó ayer (sí, ya sé que es lunes y no domingo) recogí la friolera de 105,9 litros por metro cuadrado con el pluviómetro que tengo en mi terraza. Para que os...
February 9, 2026 This morning, I was looking for something to read and browsed the Bearblog discovery feed. While there's a lot of content there, I realized the platform wasn't quite the right fit for my site. So, I've moved back to 11ty and Render. As I considered the move, I also took stock of my original site's...
A Free Software emulation of Cappuccino.fm, but encrypted and local-first! Inspired by what Barbs shared during the gossip round about our old phones and favourite apps at XPUB, on Monday 9th Feb 2026.
It appears that over the past few days, my muse has returned from wherever she was vacationing, and inspiration has struck me for the first time in a long time. It’s nice to see her again, and good to find that she can still wield a heavy stick with which to beat me into being productive. Beginnings are my favorite...
Lately, while browsing Twitter, I’ve been seeing a lot of irresponsible piracy on the site. I’m going to tell you how to pirate each type of whatever piratable content you can. SoftwareMusicVideo GamesVST/AU/CLAP Audio Plug-insMovies – TV Software Software is the most common pirated type. Let’s go over the...
Was the among the best German food I've had... maybe ever? I dunno man, every day is new! ⊕Reply via email
UCSDOf course they’re using bots to play D&D. Who wants to have fun with their own imagination? We’re only on this rock to track metrics, increase productivity, and shape our blobby flesh into copyrighted bionic cogs.Key phrase in the article: “The simulations focused on combat: players battling monsters as part of...
I know, I know, two blog posts in one day what's become of me - but I had some disjointed thoughts about the discord announcement today that I needed to put somewhere. Enjoy. The things often left out of the age verification conversations Today Discord announced they're going to be moving towards mandatory photo ID...
At the end of this post is a poll about how much reading you assign. Please take part in it if you teach philosophy courses. Thanks. “Stop Meeting Students Where They Are” is the title of a recent piece at The Atlantic by Walt Hunter, professor of English at Case Western Reserve University. In it, he shares what are...
I saw this meme floating around and it hit a nerve. So much AI hate is down to the disproportionate claims about the ability of large language models or "Generative AI". AI as it stands right now it's neither artificial nor intelligent. It is, however, a buzzword for a suite of in-machine data processing tools. This...
The Timing Reveals the Strategy Muhammad Yunus pushed the Election Commission to hold elections on February 12, 2026—before Ramadan, he insisted. The public rationale was logistical: avoid the disruption of the holy month. But the structure reveals a different logic: the interim government has a rapidly closing...
Let me preface this by saying… Let’s GO SUPER BOWL CHAMPS! 🏆🏈 My Seahawks did it! We got the revenge we’ve been waiting for. Okay now for the weekly notes. LOL The vibe A mostly steady, practical week with a lot going right, right up until one “helpful” automation reminded me that logs are sacred and the SOC has...
El Tribunal Supremo de España ha sentado un precedente legal. La libertad de estudiar el software es constitucionalmente necesaria en el contexto de programas informáticos y algorítmicos de administración pública Después de una larga batalla legal llevada a cabo por Civio, el Tribunal Supremo ha dictado una...