Sat Feb 21
I just realized I am almost never in social media anymore. Sometimes it feels lonely, sometimes refreshing. What I have to say stays here or in my journal. My life is good. I dreamed I was already 40... eek. I need to let that sink in, I will be in 5 months. Tik tok goes the clock. #life #socialmedia #thoughtsThank...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Had a wild last few days but I'll be damned if I don't make at least 10 minutes a day to draw a pokemon. Here's the catch-up: Thur 02/19/2026 - Appleton Gotta admit I was headscratching on the 'dragon' part of this until I saw its evolutions - I...
Written in the stars I’m currently reading a book by the Dutch writer and astrophysicist Margot Brouwer, titled Sterrenstof zijn wij (lit. We are stardust). The book’s aim is to combine the worldview of modern physics with Margot’s personal search for deeper meaning—a lofty goal, for sure. Although I’m still reading...
It all began with the nav. Notice how in the sidebar of this here blog where you can open and close folders to reveal more entries? Well, the tappable area of the arrow was way too small and I kept miss-clicking and selecting folders instead. So, I tried to fix it and realized the only way to do so was by tweaking...
The auditor’s quarters faced the storm wall. Not by choice—the Crown assigned rooms by clearance level, and hers put her on the eastern rim where the glass was thickest and the view was all gray turbulence. She’d stopped opening the blinds after the second week. The constant motion made her nauseous, and there was...
The old guard have had their day, it seems New browsers seem to be cropping up like mushrooms these days – they are everywhere. One thing they all have in common, though, is that they claim to protect your privacy. One app, Ladybird, has been included in this list because it promises to be built from the ground up,...
Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme, by Marcin Wichary, via Nicolas Hoizey. Will They Inherit Our Blogs?, by Kev Quirk, via Karl. larsi’s released a little collection of SVG tricks for Emacs: svg-aux.el. ASCII art is an art born from limitations, by Turboblack, via Eric Bailey. The Internet Isn’t Facebook: How...
I feel macOS these days starts feeling like Windows in the 1990s where occasionally some core component of it breaks, and a reboot is necessary to restore it to full functionality again. But even with that in mind: this happened literally right after the reboot, with nothing much happening and no other signs of the...
On Friday I decided to revisit the topic of dithering to add color. Back in 2017 I made a lot of interactive examples on Observable showing different kinds of dithering. It was fun: I distinctly remember when dithering was still a concern for computers, and it was one of those things, like the different color...
February 21, 2026 Fun, fun, fun! For the first time in over a month, the snow has melted enough that I can actually see the yard. Now, we're getting another storm. A powerful nor'easter is heading toward New Jersey, and my town is right in its path. The National Weather Service has issued a Blizzard Warning as well....
A ascensão da era digital nos anos 1970 e 1980 viu computadores saírem das salas de universidades, multinacionais e entidades governamentais e entrarem na sala de estar de várias famílias. Com a invenção do microprocessador por parte da Intel, empresas como a IBM, Commodore International, Hewlett-Packard e, é claro,...
Evenings at the temporary home office. I really love my auntie's home library. I love that I was born in a family of book lovers who also aren't complete bigots. Not to say they're the most progressive, but almost all are good people willing to learn. I'm so lucky. I miss my cats and my partner and my city, but...
Some days start as a gamble if the weather is good enough or not. A lot of times this gamble turnes out to result in a cool adventure. But not this time.
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:LOTR - Potential Eagle Path.png}}|thumb|The oft-suggested use of Maiar air power to end Sauron's ring]] A sufficiently advanced intelligence cannot be 'corrected' without destroying its autonomy. Your only hope is to interact with...
"Bauta" from the Lessico Veneto (1851) by Fabio Mutinelli, translated by René Seindal.
TIL: You can add groups to your Justfile.: Recipes and modules may be annotated with one or more group names: Before: thiago.perrotta ~/.dotfiles git:master ❯ just --list Available recipes: bootstrap # Bootstrap environment (install packages, casks, and configure macOS) configure-macos # Configure macOS defaults...
Peering in the doorway of an antique shop on Nijo Dori. 二条通の古道具屋の入り口を覗き込む。
I needed a more robust way to switch Screens. At this point in time I have three different screens: Start Screen Game Screen Result Screen (shown when Game Over) Switching to those screens worked via a global variable. Game starts? var screen string = "start". Enter the game? screen = "game"… You get the idea. The...
On the weekend we took a short wander at Point Pleasant Park. The weather was nice and we needed to get out of the house. It ended up being short because the walking trail was mostly ice, but as long as we can get close enough to the water to throw rocks the kids are happy. There were lots of ducks, gulls and...
Since starting down this path of exploring my LDS faith as well as learning more about the Catholic faith, one of my guiding mission statements has been: “I want to know God's will for me and have the faith and courage to do it.” But this morning I had the thought that maybe I need to add an additional mission...
With the proliferation of automated content mills and sanitized, performative behavior online, you see this phrase a lot: "The internet is dead now; it's not the same as it used to be." And I don't agree, especially given that "the internet being dead now" is not a new idea. I hosted a livestream on YouTube, where...
Aliens, those mysterious creatures hiding in the vastness of the universe. The endless fuel for the first generations of modern conspiracy theorists, the same ones who have devoted their entire lives to proving their existence and exposing the efforts governments have made to keep them hidden from us. Today, thanks...
What is Karakeep? Well, I’ll write an extra blog article about it soon, so in short: It’s a self-hosted open-source bookmark manager with a cloud-hosted option available. I work on multiple devices and browsers, and the integrated browser bookmark management is not ideal for my workflow. Karakeep (formerly named...
not a lot of things get under my skin. i have my views on things but i can try to understand or at least tolerate most things that i disagree with. though recently when browsing the bearblog discover feed i came across some really problematic posts. i don't find it productive to name these since giving them any...
At length they descried the coast of France. “Were you ever in France, Mr. Martin?” said Candide. “Yes,” said Martin, “I have been in several provinces. In some one-half of the people are fools, in others they are too cunning; in some they are weak and simple, in others they affect to be witty; in all, the principal...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
Pixel art has been part of my creative journey, mainly because of my exposure to video games and online communities. It makes use of limited color palettes and canvas resolutions as much as possible. Whether it be a tiny icon on a personal website or a huge collection of video game graphics, this art style always...
Earlier this week I started to feel something I haven’t felt in a while: I felt lost. I started to look ahead and feel disoriented. Where do I want to be in a few years? What do I want to work on? What is my dream? I have never looked too far ahead in time, as long as I have a little bit of direction. I like to...
Dear Viola, A fairly uneventful week here in Stephen King country, which is just fine and dandy in this time of Everything Being Horribly on Fire. Nothing has burned down around here that I’m aware of, but then again I do keep my head down these days, and generally only learn of ghastly deeds through osmosis....
If yoiu don't spend time in the odd corners of bookish and queer social media, it's likely you've never heard of Paul Castle. Hell, even if you are in them, you may have scrolled on by, never to take note. But for those of us who have had him slide across their algorithmically driven feeds, he's become fairly...
In the past couple of years, lot’s of companies are providing platforms to their employees. Be it for Data Analytics, Compute, Self-Service-something. – Which is all great. I’ve even been involved in one myself. The problem just is: What exactly is a “platform”? At some point, I was frustrated enough to say...
It's my fourth vomit post. In yesterday's post, I chose a mentally heavy topic, which exhausted all my energy. While writing that post, my internal critic was constantly afraid of not adding enough references. I pushed myself to finish it anyway, but it killed my beginner's enthusiasm. Now, I am writing this post in...
“A sign of health in the mind is the ability of one individual to enter imaginatively and yet accurately into the thoughts and feelings and hopes and fears of another person; also to allow the other person to do the same to us.” “I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being,”...
Whenever I see talk about artificial intelligence and consciousness, I am baffled about the assumption that any conscious being is just naturally predestined or even interested in serving us, and should serve us. It’s a symptom of a society where subjugation is normalized, exercised through things like racism,...
ArticlesHacking on Indiekit to customize my blogHow to Self-Host FeedLand with Docker ComposeReligion, pouvoir et silence : le mythe bouddhiste occidentalNotesThe uncomfortable truth is that I rarely think about UI/UX until I’m forced to use it and realize there’s no way aroundIt took me more than a month of intense...
In this ~3-hour video I talk with Ro about a wide variety of topics that cover programming, politics, lifestyle, and art. We start by learning about Ro’s work as a software engineer for military projects. Ro studied electrical engineering and then transitioned to programming. I learn that Ro has an interest in...
怀念方大同 今天是方大同逝世一周年，他是我很喜欢的一个歌手，他的每一首歌我都很喜欢。 在这个日子里，来听听方大同的歌吧，分享一首最近听的比较多的「十九八七…」1，出自 2007 年的专辑「未来」，作词周耀辉，作曲、编曲方大同。 歌词 忘记公车开到哪里 路灯照到哪里 回忆走到哪里 谎言总是难忘记 容易手脚为我打气 指头替我焦急 灵魂叫我怀疑 表白从来不容易 十九八七六五四三二一 会不会生气会不会哭泣 道歉时我不送你玫瑰 只想送你诚实要从何说起 不是说爱得越深越该有信心 叹气然后歇斯底里 也许到此为止 还是从新开始 表白总得靠勇气 一次我再想了一次 明明错了一次 会否再错一次 谎言从来都美丽 十九八七六五四三二一...