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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
I come to celebrate two television performances by Jesse Jackson (who died a few days ago) that have made my day: one that totally broke me up in laughter and one that made me weep with his regard for and buoying up of the least among...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
I've been feeling better from my flu, but not fully. It makes writing here an even tougher task, but I know that once I get the ball rolling, I'll finish out just fine. Even with the embedded routines, workflows, and whatever else, the...
Following Andrea, Manu, Kev, Carl, Steve, and probably many more.... I try to keep it mostly positive here, but I’ll bite. 😁 When people DM me at work, “Hi Sal,” and then start typing the rest of their thought while I sit there,...
Thoughts From The Impending Android Lock In abmurrow Mon, 23 Feb 2026 - 08:16
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...