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Nosso amor que eu não esqueço E que teve o seu começo Numa festa de São João Morre hoje sem foguete Sem retrato e sem bilhete Sem luar, sem violão Perto de você me calo Tudo penso e nada falo Tenho medo de chorar Nunca mais quero o seu...
Here is my workflow for self-hosting Git repositories on a shared hosting service with GitGen. The assumption is that I already have a Git repository on my local machine. My repositories are created with SHA256 by default because that...
“The key is building fires where you can warm yourself as you wait for the tempest to pass.” UPDATE: Tim has courageously shared the precipitate of his lifelong depression. Most people know Tim Ferriss as the amicable, quick-witted,...
Yo siempre admiro a cualquier persona que se atreve a hacer arte porque siento que requiere de mucha valentía. Se requiere mucha para enfrentar a un público, a personas que verán algo que te costó mucho hacer, te tomo tiempo, te tomo...
(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...
“Ah, Pangloss! Pangloss! Ah, Martin! Martin! Ah, my dear Cunégonde, what sort of a world is this?” said Candide on board the Dutch ship. “Something very foolish and abominable,” said Martin. “You know England? Are they as foolish there...
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I spent the weekend over the border in Derbyshire, visiting my cousin, and on Saturday we found ourselves dodging the rain in Belper. Where better to shelter awhile than in a large charity bookshop? There I spotted an anthology edited by...
Dear reader,I recently read Terry Godier's thought-provoking essay about RSS readers. It challenges the concept of an unread count that for most of us appears natural and necessary. Email's unread count means something specific: these...
A simple thing I’ve overlooked with NixOS is that I can create very different environments with a simple nixos-rebuild switch - effectively making my machine distraction free when I want it to be, or permitting some play in the off...
If it seems like the mail is extra wonky and slow these days, that's because it is.Currently Listening: Flea “Thinkin Bout You”Reply via email
I’ve been outgrowing my apartment and its location, but also its furniture and size in general. For some reason, it’s becoming really hard for me to have the same space for everything. I have an L-shaped desk in a corner that has another...
When my daughter gets a haircut, she comes home sad and angry because she doesn’t like it, that haircut, and then her mom washes it again and fixes it, and she looks at herself in the mirror and smiles, and then, in bed, under the warm...
There's a conspiracy theory that suggests that since around 2016 most web activity is automated. This is called Dead Internet Theory, and while I think they may have jumped the gun by a few years, it's heading that way now that LLMs can...
All the way in end of November/start of December last year a very special spirit has came back to my practice and life. I've a familiar Wolf spirit that went away for at least a half a year for their personal reasons and I am very exited...
Processing Community Lead Raphaël de Courville just posted Building Bridges. Wrapping-Up the 2025 pr05 Developer Grant Program, which is a great write-up of one of my professional and personal highlights of last year. Triggers some...
How Go 1.20's WithCancelCause and Go 1.21's WithTimeoutCause let you attach a reason to context cancellation, plus a gotcha with manual cancel and the stdlib pattern that covers every path.
Kaimon Chengchao was a powerful figure in Kyoto's Zen establishment during the early 15th century. The son of Emperor Chōkei of the historically disputed Southern Court, he is memorialized here beside his father within the imperial...
Veo en Microsiervos1 que Alvy estuvo en un programa de RNE defendiendo que los aparatos antiguos, al menos, siempre funcionaban… o siempre fallaban de maneras predecibles y, por tanto, fáciles de reparar, mientras que los aparatos de hoy...
Loops is a fediverse version of TikTok. Here’s the exact review I posted to the Apple AppStore when it came out of Testflight beta testing:Enshittification resistant short-form videoI’ve been using Loops during its beta phase and I’m...
Michelle Beer, professor of philosophy at Florida International University, has died. Professor Beer taught at FIU from 1982 until her retirement in December 2025. A specialist in metaphysics and the philosophy of science, she was...
February 2026. Letchworth Garden City. Not a great day to explore Letchworth on foot, and apart from pubs and “Marty Supreme” at the cinema there’s not a lot to do apart from loiter in pubs, but you can’t visit and not see the old...
We did it, the Paper Jam Comics Collective made another comic! In celebration of the collective turning 18 in 2025 we decided to do an anthology all about growing up. Imagine the many ways that title was interpreted… well you don’t have...
I redid my website recently. I wanted quick and simple, so I used Bootstrap as the framework to throw it together. Bootstrap is great, I love it. I’ve used it on countless projects and I know what I’m getting and how to make it work. But...
I have been spending much of my free time trying to learn more about my Latter-day Saint faith and about Catholicism – reading, listening to podcasts, watching videos, seeking to understand. It's been like drinking from a firehose and I...
CNYHappy Chinese New Year to you, my dear reader! It’s the Year of the Horse this year—may all of you be galloping to success (馬到功成), be full of vitality like a horse and dragon (龍馬精神), and to be in the forefront of what you do (一馬當先). 1...
Search is one of my favourite disciplines in computing. In 2024 I spent a lot of time working on a NoSQL engine that I called JameSQL. This tool now powers the search engine on my website.Designing search engine ranking systems is tricky...
I have a “now playing” widget on my /now page that shows the last track scrobbled to Last.fm. It’s powered by a GitHub Actions workflow that polls the Last.fm API every hour and commits the result to the repo. It worked fine, but quietly...
Rad Tech Things I'm often down on the modern state of technology (mostly because it's almost all capital-driven and pivoting to "AI" nonsense) but I want to start highlighting rad things people make that show what joy tech can bring Lyra...
My job has me travel a lot. When I'm in my office I normally have a seven monitor battlestation like this: [image or embed]— Xe (@xeiaso.net) January 26, 2026 at 11:34 PM So as you can imagine, travel sucks for me because I just...
Problem statement: I present this to you the same way I presented it to Amp Code in the context of my ~/.dotfiles: new shell alias: ee quit all shells example: $ bash $ bash $ zsh Now we're 3 levels deep. "ee" should quit them all...
"Nobile in Maschera" (Nobleman in Mask) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
It's times like these that make me glad I have this blog. Published by AHE. on 24th February 2026 Life took a sharp left turn, and I'm just about hanging on. The idea that it's only been 20 days since I last updated this site is crazy to...
For Jol, the underworld had always been a vague threat. A leftover from childhood, the hand of discipline raised by his father when obedience failed. He saw now, in the split prairie and chasm of molten liquid that spurted from it, that...
Hoy es día 24 del mes y las necesidades me sorprendieron con algunos faltantes que en mi casa, o en cualquier casa del mundo civilizado, no pueden faltar. Sabemos cuales son, son precisamente las que respondemos “Si, alcanza” a la...
I still feel gross from my flu, but I'm about 90% recovered. It's been tough getting up in the mornings, but that's nothing new. The best strategy I've found that consistently gets me up in the morning is keeping my phone by my desk so...
You’ve probably asked an AI to help you with a college essay. Maybe you said something like, “Write about gun control from the perspective of an average American family.” Or maybe you were prepping for Model UN and asked it to argue like...
Ironically, after almost ten years in Germany and countless Brezen, I had the best one on my very last day in the country.
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Somehow, two sequels and seventeen years later, the consensus is apparently that these movies are good? I saw the first one at the pictures with my now-wife when it came out, and we agreed that it was extraordinarily beautiful but not so...
Reprinted on Facebook recently by Jeff Bowles, Charles Schulz’s Peanuts cartoon from 11/3/1988, in which Snoopy the writer upbraids an editor — someone I think of as the powerful but irrationally unappreciative son-of-a-bitch Ed — for...
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links, Ars Technica. The...
Dear reader Martin emailed me to chat about my hasty blog-drafts post and ask for some more details. So, everybody, if you don’t care for this post, blame Martin. 😁 My prior blogging workflow looked something like this: work.computer >...
This book captivates from the very first minute. At its core are the moral beliefs of a hunter and where they can lead. There is no judgment—just the story told from his perspective. At times, his thought processes are almost unbearable...
These weeknotes are being written earlier than usual, started on Thursday and will continue to be filled up throughout the weekend. I often forget some things going on in one day or another, so maybe doing it like this will be helpful,...
This is the 1959 Pan paperback edition of Powder and Patch. The novel was originally published by Mills & Boon in 1923 and then re-released by Heinemann in 1930.I've gone back in time: both fictionally, because this novel is once more...
This is the second post in a series that explores a truly privacy-preserving, end-to-end encrypted backend and client. The goal of this part: a demo that can look up data in an encrypted database without telling the server what you...
The last two word-vomits were hard to finish because I wrote them before going to bed, when I was exhausted. But today I decided to do it among the first few things in the morning. I feel refreshed and energetic to write this word-vomit,...
In my last post at the end of January about the life-drawing aspect of my artistic practice I wrote about using the second of the two drawings as a starting point for February’s work, with a broad idea to: get the figure drawn out first,...
Okay, so here’s the thing: we evil geniuses should be sticking together in times like these. Not that there isn’t a lot of evil in the world. It’s just that there aren’t a lot of geniuses behind it. Evil buffoon doesn’t have the same...
I spent last night until daybreak whimpering about everything from the state of the world to the bruised part of my back from coughing (I'm sick) to how ugly I am. I told my family for the hundreth time that I'm not doing well. This...