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Mon Feb 16
My sleeping habits are all over the place. This getting up early thing is going to take awhile to set in. Some days I do well, and I’m up and at ’em early. Other days, I still sleep until late morning and it feels like the day is over...
Days without turning off site blockers: 0 Slept better last night. First half of the day was riddled with anxiety and brain fog. Wanted to go out on the down, but it was a holiday ergo, no transit. Journaling helped lift the fog. I...
As a Developer Advocate, I have the privilege of working with some amazing colleagues in that team, but also in the wider Developer and Community Relations organisation. For the size of the community, it's a small group, and the folks...
If Not Now, Then When? mtift Mon, 02/16/2026 - 05:50 If we can’t be happy now, then when?Waiting for life to calm down sounds tempting. After the conflict ends. After the health scare passes. After the news improves. That day isn’t...
While I’m making recommendations and shilling other people’s products and generally turning into some weird kind of lifestyle blogger, allow me to talk about my tiny keyboard. You see, there was an iOS-only app called Zeitgeist, which I...
I got out for the first time today with my camera! 📸 Christina came with me and we trekked a bit thru the Old Falls. It was easily the best weather day of the year so far and we made the most of it. We stopped at Menomonee Park on the...
I've been asking myself that very question, every morning, for the last couple of weeks. The job hunt continues as well as before, which is to say not well at all. The only really noteworthy things that have happened were a couple of...
I had the pleasure of sharing with you all the steps it takes to set up and run your own essential internet services with the help of YunoHost. Fun fact - and sorry I'm addressing this point only now but the right way to pronounce...
With the LLM hysteria seemingly without an end in sight, what is sorrowfully missing from the modern world is a push toward mastery. This is not a new phenomenon. The vast majority of people have been trying to “hack” life away by any...
On this week’s Merri Monday Run I was chatting with a fellow nerd about software development, and the topic of GitHub pull requests (PRs) came up; particularly the importance of including a meaningful description in a PR. As someone who...
I’m a fan of colours and this is a fun little game/challenge! [For up-to-date content, visit BurgeonLab directly (XML feeds don't fetch updates in real-time). For topic-specific feeds, visit /subscribe. Thanks for reading my blog using a...
This is the 1961 Pan paperback edition of An Infamous Army. The novel was originally published by Heinemann in 1937.I've had a marvellous time over the past couple of months reading the Alastair-Audley tetralogy: These Old Shades,...
I have been busy lately. For that reason I did not have time to do anything special for President’s Day. I present a quote from an article I wrote about an interesting passage from the Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge: As I looked on him...
The Pearls Before Swine strip by Stephan Pastis, for 1/9/26: A difference between British English and American English over constructions with the definite article (arthrous) or without it (anarthrous) — putting aside British Bob’s...
XVI: Adventures of the Two Travellers, with Two Girls, Two Monkeys, and the Savages Called Oreillons
Candide and his valet had got beyond the barrier, before it was known in the camp that the German Jesuit was dead. The wary Cacambo had taken care to fill his wallet with bread, chocolate, bacon, fruit, and a few bottles of wine. With...
What kind of political movement promises liberation from fiscal dependency by doubling down on the very structure that created the dependency? The Alberta Prosperity Project’s push for a sovereignty referendum—signature collection opened...
Here at Bear, we do a lot of responding to other people's posts, so here's one from me: the point of my low traffic blog is just because I enjoy writing it. That's really it. Honestly. I enjoy doing it. If people come around and read it,...
Was looking for an image of dice and it turned out to be easier to make than hunt down on a free stock photo site or generate with a prompt.Currently Listening: Your The Best “1 hour of silence occasionally broken by Aughhhh”Reply via email
Just to take a breath between Assembly and graphics, I installed Mojave on an old Mac Mini and spun Microsoft Messenger, which is the equivalent of Windows Live Messenger for macOS, as removing Windows from the equation makes things way...
sudo useradd -m username sudo passwd username sudo usermod -aG sudo username sudo apt install ufw sudo ufw allow PORTNUMBER/tcp sudo chown -R :www-data /var/www
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot Apparently 38 percent of students at Stanford have at least one disability<ref name=atlantic/>. Now, the Atlantic alleges, discreetly and in a sideways manner, that a large...
I'm a millennial, almost 40 years old, and I am savoring an amazing conversation of 2 women with autism, and a super social guy, about generational characteristics and growing up as Gez Z. I'm on the other side of the desk so they do not...
A forthcoming study shows that a critical thinking course focused on a few good, relatively easy to learn, and useful reasoning strategies can impart lessons that remain effective long after the course has ended. The study, authored by...
Het is 2026 en twee journalisten benaderen me met simpele vragen. Waarom kan je niet klikken op verwijzingen in Tweede Kamerstukken? En waarom kan ik de motienummers gebruikt tijdens Kamerdebatten nergens vinden? Innovatie is zo...
I'm coming across the problem of not knowing which blog to post to after I write something. I now have three separate blogs.1 I have a more "polished" blog that I sometimes post longer and more refined pieces to. And I've been...
There were several marathons and races going on this weekend, but the coolest one was the Barkley Marathons. You can google what they are, it's pretty interesting but I have no interest or time to get involved with distance running. The...
I share a vector and pixel art lucky cat for the Inkscape Challenge for February 2026.
Many years ago, I was invited to an adventure. My colleague from Facebook was assembling a little skunk works crew for a mission at Apple’s headquarters. We were to build the first prototype of the Facebook app for Apple TV. It was 2014....
El tiempo parece haber dado un pequeño respiro. Hemos vuelto a ver el sol por aquí y eso se nota en mi estado de ánimo (y en general en el estado de ánimo de la gente que me rodea), si bien hace un viento bastante desagradable que no...
How to keep your soul from leaving you. “The main thing is this — when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands,” the poet and storyteller turned activist Grace Paley’s father told her in what remains the...
A day late and a dollar short I suppose, but just now I remembered I got back to writing week notes. The best thing that happened this week Wednesday and Thursday I was in Amsterdam for our quartely off-site with the entire tech team. We...
The present does not exist. It hasn't for weeks. I have been captured by the video and pictures of Jannshek before his accident. And it's not even the accident that bothers me. It's his recovery and the role I played in it. Ever since...
For this entry in the “interpretations” series, I have picked the remix of a traditional song by Kadinelia. Kadinelia is a musical duo that draws inspiration from many genres, blending them with ancient motifs to deliver art that is...
When was the last time you walked quietly while kicking a pebble on the ground over and over again? Just letting the time pass by for a little while, without picking up the phone from a pocket, without checking the time on my wrist...
Every now and then, I'll be exposed to a world I have otherwise nothing to do with: Child surveillance. What I see is infuriating. Not only are children nowadays pressured by their parents to turn location services on their devices on,...
Nolto.social started as a small experiment as a free alternative to LinkedIn. The author wanted to explore ActivityPub and see what could be built. There was no funding, no team, no roadmap. Just an idea and some time. Within a few...
Boatman wraps up for the day, along Nakanoshima Island. 中之島で一日の終わりに船を片付ける船頭。
The summer I turned 12, my older cousin (14) and her mom - who lived on the farm with us at the time - took on the job of babysitting one of the neighbor's kids (7). This kid, who I'll call "Joey," was a sweet guy, pretty laid back, and...
A slow start to the day left me hesitant about hiking, but I remembered that I wanted to scout a route. A day started with low expectations and quite some doubt turned into unexpected joy and even the first signs of spring!
Translate Texinfo files using po4a Texinfo Texinfo is a brilliant hypertext system that predates HTML. You access it with info, which is a text mode application. The content consists of a number of nodes. Each node is an information...
I watched this movie yesterday. The storyline is very simple: An accountant goes to a industrial town to join a new job. But soon he finds himself involved in a double murder incident. Running for his life, chased by assassins and...
Previously. Disclaimer: Some LLM magic was used in this blog post1. From mid-2022 to late 2023, I was one of the core contributors to chromium-bidi, an implementation of the WebDriver BiDi protocol for Chromium. This was before the...
Peter Porter was born on this day in 1929, in Brisbane. His career, and his life, got off to a faltering start, but by 1955 he was living in London and associating with the informal group of poets known as, er, 'The Group'. It was this...
I recently had to switch author boxes on The New Leaf Journal because the one I had been using (a widget from the IndieWeb plugin) was causing me some concern behind the scenes.1 While I was in the area, I decided to re-write my short...
Learn how I built UltiGameMate using Eleventy and Supabase, combining JAMstack with dynamic features.
Después de escribir una lista larga de blog posts me llego la duda de ¿qué exactamente es un post?, dentro de lo literario ¿dónde cabría?, no es un cuento, no es poesía (aunque podría ser ambos). Hablo sobre todo de los post que son...
About a year ago I set up Cloudflare as a fronting CDN for this site and my music site because it was the most expedient way of dealing with an AI bot onslaught. It helped a bit but the bots very quickly figured out how to get around all...
There is a horrible disease in web design I see everywhere. On one end, it has infected Apple, Microsoft, Google and more, and on the other end of the spectrum, small, niche, hand-coded passionate bloggers and coders. It is the hijacking...
February 2026. Turin. Two hours and two pints into Turin, with the sudden realisation we hadn’t eaten since sharing a croissant in Monaco that morning. The disappointment in finding the city’s highest rating brewery/skatepark/burger bar...
The Cloudflare team clearly stated that we should prefer Workers over Pages, and this is the one that’s going to get future improvements and optimisations. Now that Workers supports both serving static assets and server-side rendering,...
Over the past couple of months, my development desktop has gradually changed into its new form. This is the interweaving of AI into almost all of my workflows. I have a widescreen main monitor that I do most of my “concentration” work...