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I previously reviewed a well-known freeware Japanese visual novel titled Narcissu as part of my al|together visual novel localization review project. Narcissu was written and published by Tomo Kataoka in 2005. Unlike many of the other...
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by Grigory Lukin
Hiked 11.3 kilometres from Maarssen to Utrecht. This was the last part of the Utrecht Path. You leave Maarssen along the old Vecht, pass old industrial zones and enter medieval Utrecht via the old canal. Experience the busy trade in your...
Writing code with LLMs (February 2026 edition) At the start of the year, I said to Mahhek, a fellow developer "you need to learn how to use these coding agents - because what you and I do will not exist, as a job, by the end of the...
I skipped Divine Liturgy—again—because I slept in until noon. This whole week, I've been waking up late, going to bed late, and it's really been throwing me off. I know it's because my sleep apnea is forcing sleep debt. It makes my heart...
The nurse takes my typewriter at the front desk. She slides it into a cubby with my name on a card, the letters pressed so hard the paper dimples. My notebooks go in after it. Then my pens. She does this with a smile that doesn’t reach...
Some formats lie. But this one… This one lied to me in the first three bytes. 52 4C 45 → "RLE" It was not RLE. Not byte-aligned runs, not (count, value), not even something you could generously call RLE-like. What sits behind that header...
BABELIA SEGUIMOS AQUÍ: ANTES Y DESPUÉS DE BAD BUNNY [El País, Febrero 14, 2026]Cada fin de semana había carnes asadas. Casi todas ocurrían en la parte posterior de las casas, las famosas backyards que obligaron a gran parte de los...
Am I doing a poor imiation of what garmin and strava already do? Yes. Am I learning. Yes. Am I having fun. Mostly yes. I think. I should hope so. garth In my previous post on the matter, I mentioned that my silly little CLI would not...
Life-affirming inspiration from a man who knew intimately “that intensity of thought, which will some times wear the sweetest idea thread-bare and turn it to the bitterness of death.” “I am now the most miserable man living,” Abraham...
The AI hype claims that LLMs will make everyone a coder. I say: that’s pretty much BS. Most people don’t want to build software. They want their problems solved, preferably without lifting a finger. Joan Westenberg nails this so well in...
Solo Female Travel to Portland, Oregon – My Personal Adventure It goes without saying that, when you are exploring the world on your own, you make safe decisions. Be mindful of your surroundings and look both ways before crossing the...
We did a museum day today and visited the Iziko South African Museum and the Iziko South African National Gallery. Iziko is isiXhosa for “hearth” and an organization that operates 11 national museums in Cape Town under the label Iziko...
I downloaded obsidian only to see my blogs in its graph view.
Besides Wordle by the NYT and Jumblie by Cassidy Williams, now we have Pears by Slate. It’s a word game in the same spirit of its predecessors. A different game every day. I find it a bit harder (challenging!) than it seems at first...
Days without turning off site blockers: 2 Trying to get used to being bored. It is harder than it sounds! Someone gifted me some navy yarn (my favourite color), so I'm using to make mitts.
Recently I was watching a BBC4 programme about Persian history, and naturally the poetry of Ferdowsi – still a national hero – came up. When the presenter started talking about the tragic story of Rostam and Sohrab, part of Ferdowsi's...
Title: Aleksei Ivanov Website: aleksei.dev RSS Feed: aleksei.dev/feed Personal blog of a software engineer who is on his path to build transparent and sustainable business out of what he loves doing the most. RSS users are my people 🫶 If...
a. Storm cloud hittin the hookah b. Storm cloud remembering when it was a baby c. Dapper storm cloud avoiding cloud poop on a sunny day
This one was a challenge to get through. Firstly, the firm had many, many technical issues which kept quite a few of us up until the wee hours. We do need to simplify; complexity brings with it a multitude of break points. Secondly,...
While browsing news websites, you may have seen a pop-up like this: That's one form of how "Pay or Okay" can look like. The model was first introduced by newspapers in Austria and Germany in 2018, but in 2023, Meta adopted it for...
More plum blossoms, this time in the (small) precincts of Nishiki Tenmangu, the shrine of Kyoto's famous Nishiki Market. 京都の有名な錦市場を守る錦天満宮の（小さな）境内の梅の花。
Quoted Viral Deepfake Demo Prompts ByteDance to Limit New AI Video Tool by He Qitong (Sixth Tone) Within just three days of release, Chinese tech giant and TikTok owner ByteDance has temporarily restricted features in its new generative...
Ten to fifteen years ago, I was pretty militant about my atheism. I'm from the south, you see, and so much is related to or about religion, so as an atheist, I thought I had to match the amount of religious expression I saw, with my own...
Will be attempting to keep my daughter in her bed all night. May the heavens have mercy on me. #parenting #lifeThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
I'm busy with stuff. Will update more later.
In this ~50-minute video, I reference some of the sayings of Confucius to comment on the overarching theme of a person’s behaviour and outlook. The comments I make are ultimately what I think about certain issues: I am not an expert on...
I've been having so much fun on the open web... Tinkering with my blog and my listography, reading blog posts by fellow netizens, just discovering things by going down resource lists and neighborhood rabbit holes and webrings... It's...
We all know (or, at least, should know) Shirow from Ghost in the Shell. But he insists that his magnum opus is not that one, but rather Appleseed So, I've read it and I disagree. Compared to the OAV (which I've only seen recently) it is,...
February 14, 2026 A few months back, Nicolas Magand wrote about giving his site the "club racer treatment" — stripping it back to focus on what actually matters. For a blog like his, the driving experience is readability above all else,...
(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily life to me.) ICYDAK: 30 Proven Tactics to Resist...
It's 6:50 AM in the morning, and I woke up almost an hour ago after my five-week-old son woke up. My wife was trying to calm him down by feeding him—yes, that is among the few things, including changing diapers, which can calm him down....
I started working on Safari & WebKit at Apple 15 years ago today.
The below is transcribed from a 1991 talk by John Cleese titled Creativity in Management. I encourage you to watch the 30-minute recording on YouTube. The delivery is hilarious with great comedic timing that my transcript can’t begin to...
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This week, multiple people sent me a link to Matt Shumer’s post that Something Big Is Happening. In the post, he sounds the alarm that AI is coming for most white-collar jobs. It’s definitely worth reading: If you extend the trend (and...
Stevie Nicks with a Stella Harmony guitar, 1960s via Reddit Reply by email
Simplemente quería republicar la entrada de Annie. Feeling something is okay I guess Una pequeña selección de lo que más me ha tocado Most of us think of ourselves as thinking creatures that feel, but we are actually feeling creatures...
John von Neumann shot lightning from his arse, and rebuttal #1 and rebuttal #2. Inside Cursor. Pace and work ethic are among the most contagious norms (in both directions): If your colleagues move fast, you do. If your colleagues are...
A new homepage and site improvements. Looking at the Colophon from it’s last update, I mentioned that a refresh had happened in February 2025. A year later, another refresh has landed. I wouldn’t normally write about a site update like...
Britt and I are trading blog post titles. The topic Britt chose for me is “A piece of art you would like to see in person”.One of the many joys of art galleries is that you never know what you might see. A few weeks ago, I was surprised...
February 2026. Monaco to Turin. If you’re missing the English pub reports here’s a spoiler. The first half dozen pints back in Old Blighty are….Beartown, Holt, Tiny Rebel, Harrogate, Thornbridge Jaipur and Abbeydale. And not a duffer in...
Eu queria um título sensacionalista, mas achei que seria muito sem graça. E essa época de utilizar títulos assim morreu em 201X ou se ainda usam a maioria das pessoas já sabem que é só pra gerar polêmica e raiva, afinal, ninguém mais cai...
New favorite restaurant, this one a newish Italian joint in Northern Kentucky. This is where I experience garlic soup. ⊕Currently Listening: Tutto Vanoni “La Voglia la Pazzia (Se Ela Quisesse)”Reply via email
Candide had brought such a valet with him from Cadiz, as one often meets with on the coasts of Spain and in the American colonies. He was a quarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel in Tucuman; he had been singing-boy, sacristan, sailor, monk,...
Amanecer con el Montjuic de fondo. Pues ya está. En una especie de espejo a lo que contaba la otra vez, ya “estamos de vuelta” en la ciudad que me acogió hace diez años. Ha sido una grata sorpresa la velocidad con la que parecen haberse...