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A big chunk of my final year at university, studying for my Computer Science degree, was spent working on a project. That last year counted for 60% of my overall grade, and the project contributed half of that. So the mark that I obtained could make a significant difference to my overall result for my degree. Every...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sun 02/22/2026 - Kirlia Today's request was "What's a pokemon that has 'Farsia' vibes" - the Farsia being a deeply stupid1, incredibly gendered femme-presenting mobile suit from Gundam AGE. Kirlia was the first one that came to mind. Now, this is...
If I can make it smaller, I should. If I can make it dumber, I should. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less maintenance.
Divided runosongs into myths and ballads for now, and added translation for the ballad of Iivari Kojonen. Added a page for Joukahainen in deities and heroes, and for Rahkonen in creatures. Encountered some frustrating assumptions elsewhere so I made a FAQ section. Also added a photo of a Kallohonka to the holy sites...
The days go past, but I'm still stuck here. To set the scene, I'm in my mid twenties, moved into a old house a couple of months ago, and while life until now has been a breeze, it's been a bit of a struggle the last couple of years. There are a lot of things I want to do, and things I want to get done, but I just...
It's the fifth word-vomit post, and I still feel lost whenever I open the text editor to write the first few words. Thanks to Atomic Habits by James Clear, I know that habit building takes time, around two to three weeks. So I am patient. But the pressure of producing five hundred words after finishing the work day...
In Batesville Indiana there is a place that sells these cherry fritters once a year. Today I was lucky to try one. ⊕Currently Listening: sezno “manifesto”Reply via email
Recently I mentioned that all my to-dos get thrown into one text file, in the todo.txt format. It’s incredibly quick to add new tasks. And once you know some simple formatting rules, it’s also easy to see just the tasks you want to see, when you want to see them. By the end of this article you will understand how to...
As you progress in your UI design career, you learn that there are quite a few unsolvable challenges: do you write My Items or Your Items in UI? do you put hand cursors over buttons? for a boolean item (especially in the menu), do you talk about the present state or the future state? do you try to solve for change...
Louise Brooks, alias Ryo en ‘Canon de cámara oscura’ ¿El sentido último de la escritura? Ésta nunca consistió en la inscripción de una obra personal, sujeta a la reinscripción de la originalidad, sino a “reactivar” una y otra vez la historia de la literatura, a repetir, con otras formas, lo ya escrito. Porque la...
That was in many way a very surprising week. A spontaneous decision meant that on Monday afternoon I drove into Köln. On Rosenmontag no less. I reached the town late enough that there weren’t any road closures, but being not very Karneval-minded, slowly rolling through the streets towards the hotel parking lot felt...
I’m making this post today to discuss a musical artist that you’ve most certainly never heard of, and I think that’s a shame. While artists giving their music away under alternative licenses is a lot more common today, this one was doing it back when we were still testing the waters of the Creative Commonsa blog...
Thoughts From The Impending Android Lock In abmurrow Mon, 23 Feb 2026 - 08:16
This spring I am on vacation in a city I have never visited before. A chance to immerse myself in a different culture, a different pace, during a few days in which nothing is required. And that last part is quite important to me. No alarm clock, no getting up early, no obligations, no chattering colleagues at the...
Days without turning off site blockers: 5 Man (still) down! Nothing of note has happened, I've been letting my mind wander all day so here's a list of my favourite professors: PhD student who is either constantly sleep deprived or high Hard-ass, extremely cultured Ukrainian lady Mischievous guy who can read minds
This is a portrait of me by Ro, which was done live during our “Prot Asks” meeting: Prot Asks: Ro about programmatic thinking, political discourse, and self-discovery through art. It is available under the Creative Commons Attribution license. Thanks to Ro for sharing this with me and for granting me the permission...
16th February - 22nd February 04:00 — woke with a terrible thirst, mind racing with fever dreams. "unplug your phone, cable may be warm" warns my phone. the cable is cold, the water is tepid, the night is long I may be at my most poetic and most dramatic at 4am! One of my favourite things about living somewhere flat...
How many millions of times have you seen this pattern in Go where a variable is pre-created just to make a pointer to it down the line? There is a high chance your codebase includes a utility to do that. // Something like this a := 123 aPtr := &a // Or like this func Pointer[T any](v T) *T { return &v } bPtr :=...
Candide stayed in Bordeaux no longer than was necessary for the selling of a few of the pebbles of El Dorado, and for hiring a good chaise to hold two passengers; for he could not travel without his Philosopher Martin. He was only vexed at parting with his sheep, which he left to the Bordeaux Academy of Sciences,...
Lots of exciting things are happening in the background here, hence the lack of (and tardiness of) rounds-ups—so we are going straight into the goodness.The first thing I wanted to call out is two new features on Foofaraw...First, we started publishing New Yorker-style cartoons, kicking things off with this one from...
I have a long-standing argument that passes the test of time. A product should do one main job and do it well. When it tries to do more, it often does none well. It's tough to do one thing exceptionally well, let alone two. If we consider the difficulty of doing one thing masterfully as 10 times more difficult than...
if the layout is messed up in your rss reader, apologies, I did some gruesome CSS stuff—I recommend reading it in your browser. What is this? you ask. Well, it’s a tale as old as time. I had a vision, and then it was Sunday night and I hadn’t achieved it. As I result, I present you this: something that might be...
I’m beginning to think that you should ignore travel guides entirely. Take Marseille, France’s second city after Paris and before Lyon. Everybody tells you to visit Notre-Dame de la Garde, a basilica built in the 19th century at the top of a hill… just like the Sacré-Cœur in Paris and Notre-Dame de Fourvière in...
The world always has a unique way of slapping me when I least expect it. Things go really well, and then, SMACK. The universe has plans for me. I can't decide if spirits read Sightless Scribbles and my life is a tragic vat of content they love to consume, or if they have joyous fun making sure things happen to me...
Faites tout ce que vous pouvez pour prendre soin les un·es des autres. Il reste tant à faire, mais âhkamêyimo, n’abandonnez pas. Chacun·e à le pouvoir d’agir. — Kent Monkman, L’Histoire est dépeinte par les vainqueurs L’âhkamêyimo est un mot cri signifiant la résilience ou la persévérance face à l’adversité.
February 2026. Letchworth Garden City. The weekly visit to see Dad in his Cambridge care home found him in rude health, no doubt in part due to the food at Hatley Court, which is (genuinely) better than anything I eat these days. I’d hoped to use the weekends in Waterbeach to get a few ticking and gig trips into...
sylvia made this pixel bear icon for me. look at it, it's so cute!!! you can check out her and others renditions of bearbloggers on her page. it is an awesome place to find new blogs to read. also check out the bearblog creation festival on grizgaz. sylvia's pixel bears are a part of that.
Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share the good stuff I encounter on the web. ¶ World’s largest spider web – Be warned — especially if spiders make you uncomfortable — because you won’t be able to forget this video if you decide to watch it. You’ll learn something, sure, but...
You know when you learn a new word, and suddenly it starts showing up everywhere? Ever since I started learning about old cars and restoration, I notice old cars and trucks everywhere. I spotted this chartreuse F-100 in Mexico.
I’ve had a SNUNMU GK3 mini-PC kicking about since early-2023, barely used. An impulse buy that ended up on a shelf, alongside a drawer full of old drives from various machines and NAS attempts that never quite came together. Picking up a 5-bay USB enclosure finally gave me a reason to use all of it. It’s not...
Maybe this is just my algorithm, but I just can’t escape Nathan and Sons Underbrush Remineralizing Gum on Instagram. In case your feed isn’t absolutely inundated with Underbrush content like mine, Underbrush is a chewing gum brand that uses natural botanicals rather than the, well, plastic that is commonly used as a...
La estación de trenes se tomaba un momento para descansar. Había gente, pero no mucha. El sol ya no era el de enero, no alumbraba tan en exceso pero su intensidad alcanzaba para vaporizar la humedad del ambiente y dejarnos a todos los mortales sufriendo un calor húmedo digno de cualquier Febrero existente. La...
The following is an excerpt from Guru Granth Sahib Ang. 152-153 (Raag Dakhni Gauri): पउणै पाणी अगनी का मेलु The body is a meeting of air, water, and fire. A compound. Borrowed from elements, held briefly, returned. It is not what you are. चंचल चपल बुधि का खेलु A play of restless intellect. In Advaita, buddhi belongs...
The Bear dashboard hurts my eyes. But that's okay because it's customizable! I've revamped it to use Rosé Pine Dawn and Catpuccin Frappe colors (these are also colors used on my site). Here's what it looks like: You'll notice I've also added some other nifty features that Bear dashboard does not have by default....
It's been a long day. I'm still actively attending and serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints even while I wrestle with doubts and questions. I need to stay anchored to something while I figure things out. But as a member of my ward's bishopric, that means my Sundays are usually quite busy. A...
“A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.” Legendary Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky (November 11,...
This evening I added an idea I have had for a while to Artemis: a "dense" layout.By default, the Artemis interface appears in a single-column layout. The dense layout creates several columns. Each column from left-to-right shows posts for a given day. You can scroll down to the next row of columns to see posts from...
Closcope, Pandrosion the Mathematician. CC BY-SA 4.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. There’s to be no real discussion of weighty matters in this post. Rather, what follows is a simple, and probably too-personal-for-mass-interest, celebration of a small accomplishment. Thanks among other things to having hit the limit...
February 22, 2026 I came across this piece by Greg Morris today and it's been rattling around in my head ever since. It's about something most of us don't think about until it's too late the fact that almost nothing in our digital lives is truly ours anymore. Music, photos, software, writing it's all rented. Give it...
It’s been nearly a week since I removed Cloudflare from my sites. As a quick followup, I did get a slight surge in traffic that lasted for a day or so after a bunch of bots' DNS caches expired, but they seem to have all given up after the Cloudflare “managed challenge” interstitial turned into an HTTP 401 error for...
Problem statement: execute a .js script in a GitHub workflow. The script must be stored in a separate file (than the workflow) in the same git repository. Why store the file separately? Inlining a big script is ugly and very non-elegant No syntax highlighting when updating the script → error-prone Risk of messing up...
If you wont use this new VC funded hypetech, such as generative "AI" you will be left behind! Is that a promise? Please! Please leave me behind. I am boycotting your tech, refusing to use it. I will be here, working on things until your slophype settles down. I am going to keep working slowly and fixing things. So...