Thu Feb 12
It's difficult to take care of myself when things are not so bad. I mean, when there isn't anything inherently wrong with my situation—it’s just a dull period. I follow the routine: eat, sleep, go to work, see my friends occasionally. I live unbothered. Throughout these periods, I set myself to autopilot mode and...
I referenced Valve’s announcement that it would delay the launch of the cube-shaped Steam Machine in my recent article, which touched on AI-driven computer memory price increases. Before going off my my tangent on memory price increase (something I note as a sometimes computer-builder), I saved an article to use for...
This weekend and until Tuesday it's carnival over here in Germany and maybe where you live, too. I was never a big fan of carnival, but we had one tradition back home which was a lot of fun: Rußiger Freitag (sooty Friday), which is today. On this day the carnival people try to smear soot in other people's faces. No...
The Marginalia Search index has recently seen some design tweaks to make it perform better, primarily the introduction of postings list compression. Last year, the index was partially re-implemented with SSDs in mind. This was largely a success, but left some lingering issues with tail latencies that sometimes...
While many would complain about the internet “dying” - the information is still out there for anyone to find - you just need to know how to look for it. Search engines still offer the ability to find that which you are seeking, but you cannot use them as 95% of people use them (ie. enter search term and pray). Using...
Why are we complaining about the smallness of the proportion of desktop computers that run Linux -- perhaps we should be celebrating instead?
With circles we enter the world of pi, astronomy, and trigonometry. Naturally, creative coders and generative artists are drawn to this shape as well. This is the accompanying note for the eponymous zine that I created for Zinetausch #10 by zines.cool. Here I collect further information and helpful links, and I...
In World War Z, Israel survives the zombie apocalypse because of a simple rule: if nine intelligence officials agree on something, the tenth must assume they're all wrong and explore alternatives. Not to be difficult. Not to play devil's advocate. But because consensus is dangerous and groupthink kills. I've spent...
A year later, another piece of text I had to get off my chest. I trust I won't have to do this again in another year? I did not enjoy writing it, but I had to write it...
Dear reader,Turns out that maintaining an up-to-date privacy tools list is more work than I was expecting, so instead of continuing with that, my plan is to begin a yearly tradition of sharing my current privacy setup with you. I got inspiration from other blogs that had shared the apps they were using, but I wanted...
The thermal camera cost Maya three months of freelance work, but it showed what the naked eye couldn’t: heat signatures through windowless walls. She adjusted the lens on the roof across from Building 7, watching orange and red blooms pulse behind the concrete. “Getting anything?” Her editor’s voice crackled through...
I was embarrassed for Apple when I saw the recent bug fix for columns introduce a new bug, explained in this post by Jeff Johnson: Without the path bar, the columns are now taller, but the vertical scrollers remain the same height as before, leaving vertical gaps, a ridiculous amount of space between the bottom of...
“You’ll long for me when I’m gone… You’ll kiss the headstone of my grave… Kiss my face instead!” “What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious,” Lisel Mueller wrote in her short, stunning poem about what gives meaning to our mortal lives. To become precious — that is the work of love, the task of...
Why did a mid-sized city on the Sea of Japan become a place where contemporary culture flourishes alongside five centuries of tradition?
You're familiar with atoms, and likely envision them as little balls. All of the stuffs of the world is made up of these atoms, bonded together. You probably know atoms are composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons - even smaller little balls. Well even these sub-atomic particles are not actually little balls....
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. Sony WF-1000XM6 review: Facing tougher competition (in English), Engadget. Billy Steele, from Engadget, was not impressed with the new version compared to its competitors. And it...
Brian had an unexpected adventure today when Mark decided to take him out in his travel bowl. The small orange traveller was carefully secured in his portable aquatic home as Mark carried him to the car. They embarked on a short drive down to the village square, the sunlight erupting all around them, as Brian took...
#ComunicacionSocial #propaganda #arte #ElSueñodelArtistablog #RedeSociales Desde los inicios la propaganda surgió como medio de persuasión de grandes agentes hacia las masas con su evolución ha encontrado en el arte una forma de embellecer y tocar las fibras de millones de personas logrando que compren un...
February 2026. Genoa to Monaco. Four nights in Genoa, never enough, with a final Capricossa from Bacia la Mano. 45 seconds from oven to our room on the second floor of the B & B Hotel at Principe Station. That pizza oven is a design classic, similar to the Pavoni espresso machine we brought back from Lucca 30 years...
Nowadays, exercising really always saves me without fail. I realized that today, after again feeling absolutely terrible but then dragging myself out of bed to at least walk on my foldable treadmill. I started wondering when this change exactly happened and what led to it, because I used to hate exercise. I didn't...
Days without turning off site blockers: 0 Yes, unfortunately I did turn off my site blocker (for the DUMBEST THING)! Been doing some creative free writing + finished Pluribus! The freewriting has mostly been word vomit on my notes app. Will try shop around for a physical notebook tomorrow.
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In this short video I demonstate a new package for GNU Emacs that synchronises the Emacs theme with the GNOME settings for accent color and light/dark mode. Git repository here: https://github.com/protesilaos/gnome-accent-theme-switcher.
In this short article I’m going to link to some Instagram posts that show how some celebrities become obsessed with Argentina, in particular rock stars who cannot believe the level of energy they see in stadiums there. I’ve already linked to this short segment with Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman raving about the...
You know what we all hate these days? Algorithms. Algorithms that decide what we should see, what we should feel, what we should interact with. The concept of using a algoritm to recommend content isn't bad per se, however it's what these algoritms promote that is the problem. It's more often than not something that...
I've been down in Worthing these past few days (yes, again – and again on family business). A seaside resort in winter is not a terribly attractive prospect, especially if the winter has been as relentlessly rainy and bleak as this one. The sea off Worthing was behaving much as described in this Betjeman poem,...
Despite my good intentions, I still spend more time on my phone than I would like to. Actually, that's no surprise considering that it's such a powerful tool. niqwithq I have written on this topic before (quoting ava and discussing how smartphones are not the enemy) and my opinions haven't changed. Niq is completely...
I haven't planned to read two novels from the Space Rogues series in succession, but here we are. Read a few pages, got hooked in and yada yada. I've finished it. Big Ship, Lots Of Guns starts direcly after The Adventures of Will Calder. After saving the Harrith from a civil was, the crew is now privatering for...
—La fuga y la desaparición han marcado su literatura. Sin embargo, ¿existe algo más duradero y firme que su estilo? —Pero es que el estilo no es un simple adorno, sino la sustancia misma de mi obra. Por eso he hablado de que me dedico a escribir “la biografía de mi estilo”, y no la biografía de mis aventuras. —Fue...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weds 02/11/2026 - Bulbasaur RNG gave me 0001 yesterday. The OG. The first lad. Which I'd memory holed into being just a grass type for so long; blew my mind that it's always been grass / poison. Thurs 02/12/2026 - Nidoran ♂ Speaking of poison...
It’s time to look at more stuff that I’ve been building in Voxelibre! Voxelibre is a Minecraft-like game played in the Luanti engine that I spend a lot of my free time in, and I’ve done a lot of different builds in it. If you’d like to see the previous post I made about my Voxelibre world, it’s here: Luanti build:...
Zachary’s website introduced me to “Proust’s questionnaire”, a series of questions by Marcel Proust. I thought it would be fun to try and respond to them!I am writing this blog post as the snow falls outside. I wasn’t expecting snow today, but here it is. Some of the most wonderful things happen seemingly at...
A pair of philosophers have developed a new research tool that uses AI to provide comprehensive and reliable philosophical literature reviews, and they’d like you to give it a try. Just last week I checked out a new AI tool discussed in Nature that is supposed to be able to “synthesize scientific literature”. As...
This semester marks four years since I stopped teaching high school classes. That means that, in just a few months, nearly all of the students that I would have taught have now graduated. I never got to say goodbye to my students. I had to leave rather suddenly and only had the opportunity to talk to one or two...
El método Williams es una película protagonizada por Will Smith, que todo sea dicho, hace una interpretación genial. Aunque la película trata sobre las hermanas Williams, la interpretación de Smith eclipsa y domina toda la trama. Nos encontramos ante un drama biográfico sobre la historia de las hermanas Williams,...
Not long ago, they implemented a Slack channel at my job dedicated to writing messages of appreciation for other people’s work. Some leave thank-you notes when someone covers for them on their days off, others highlight the team’s performance in client meetings, celebrate sales, or simply praise the creative work of...
从 macOS 15 开始，系统支持在 Chrome 等浏览器中自动填充验证码，但该功能仅限于从系统自带的「信息」和「邮件」App 中提取。如果你使用 Spark、Outlook 等第三方邮件客户端，则无法享受此便利。 因此，我用做了一个小插件，快速读取新通知中的验证码。这样就能兼容几乎所有第三方邮件客户端和社交软件。其流程为： 自动识别验证码弹窗区域，静默截图； 将截图上传至 OpenAI gpt-4o-mini，通过多模态识别精准提取数字。 自动剔除格式杂质并存入剪切板； 触发 macOS 原生系统通知。 以下是完整代码，可以通过 Keyboard Maestro 或 Alfred...
White and pink Ume plum blossoms are starting to appear at Seiryo-ji temple and elsewhere around town. 清涼寺や街のあちこちで、白やピンクの梅の花が咲き始めている。
I'm always a sucker for fun blog posts. Inevitably offering you a little more of my personality. I spotted this one the other day here, which started here maybe. This kind of follows on from the idea from my own mini-series of posts I wrote last year: on Things people commonly have that I do not, also Things I don't...
When I work on a site migration I like to redirect everything I possibly can find, very much in a 'no one gets left behind' sort of way. Most migration projects don't do this, for a multitude of reasons, but years ago I was told to only redirect the top 200 pages of a site, which was about 10% of the live pages,...
After going through the topic of SRS I have to admit: it feels like a totally different game. It is incredible how much this rule set pays into the tetris experience! It definitely took a while to find a good way to implement it; but pretty happy with the outcome. Your browser doesn't support embedded videos, but...
I’m altogether thinking about Taskmaster too often. I don’t think there has been a timespan longer than two days in a row for quite some time when I didn’t rewatch single tasks or read/listen to/watch some secondary media. Reply by email
I was talking to someone about foobar2000 and how prolific I’d been in the customisation scene back in the day. I knew I’d written up a detailed config somewhere, with screenshots and everything, but the domain was long gone and I hadn’t thought about it in years. On a whim I punched moglenstar.net into the Wayback...
The Ivory Bluffs Police Station thrusts into the clear blue sky, white and ramrod straight, gleaming under the Arizona sun. I always stand a little taller walking up these steps. At home, I’m just another schlub—mowing the lawn, folding the laundry, sweating over the grill. But here, I don’t carry groceries. I carry...
Okay, so I’ve been thinking lately that I’m kind of glad I no longer live in a rural area. I miss the quiet. I miss the stars. But city living does have its perks. Like restaurants that aren’t an hour away. DoorDash. Teachers who know what an okapi is. You know. Civilization. And also, no gunfire followed by the...
“Astonished and delighted to hear my native language, and no less surprised at what this man said, I made answer that there were much greater misfortunes than that of which he complained. I told him in a few words of the horrors which I had endured, and fainted a second time. He carried me to a neighbouring house,...
Looking back over my digital tracks for this day and I could spend hours trying to hone it into something and it wouldn't add up to anything cohesive. ⊕Currently Listening: Max Cooper “A Sense Of Getting Closer”Reply via email
Problem statement: Claude Code responses have been getting shorter lately. There’s been discussion on HN and a blog post about Claude Code being “dumbed down” with increasingly terse outputs. Before: After: Simply add "outputStyle": "verbose" to your .claude/settings.json to restore the original behavior: diff diff...