Mon Feb 23
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 pregunta “esto hay?” pero no va a alcanzar y aunque lo sepamos, ese desfase nos...
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 need to pace myself. In reality, this is exactly what I had hoped would happen –...
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 “an ordinary citizen of Brazil.” You got output. It sounded convincing. You...
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 (effectively closing the underlying terminal emulator tab) Why do I even have this...
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
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 very hand, reaching, questing with molten fingers for purchase on the solid...
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 sweet, sweet memories! Along with my fellow grantees Claire Peng and Vaivaswat Dubey,...
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 muchas veces no sabemos por qué fallan. Aporta algunos ejemplos: un coche que...
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 well-known for her article “Temporal Indexicals and the Passage of Time,” first...
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 hours. I wrote a piece a couple years back about blocking internet distractions - and...
“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, high-energy writer, adventurer, and interviewer, who has devoted his life to...
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 underwear factory. It’s now offices where people sit at desks and encourage you to sue...
You know what I’d tell my teenage self? Just… say fuck off more. Everything. Say fuck off to the boyfriend and take the AP classes he didn’t get into. Say fuck off to the girl who thought it was cute to put your backpack in the toilet. Maybe add in a right hook for good measure. Say fuck off to the friend who always...
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 future is coming. Therefore, the further assumption is that SHA256 is what will...
This from a blog post by my friend Glenn Fleishman about audio/video settings in macOS just made me laugh: It’s doubly funny if you are aware of Fleishman’s extensive experience in printing. Also, this: I guess this is how I keep humble. Despite decades of using a Mac, I can still miss a Video menu in an audio...
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 very happy to see it now in the general appstore. Loops is decentralized which...
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 are messages from real people who wrote to you and are, in some cases, actively...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Human Networks - Sane and Insane.png}}|thumb|We each think the other insane, so the alternative way to handle Shiri's Scissor is to just not talk to the other side]] On the Internet, we all interact with each other as roughly equals...
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, as more things are fresh on my memory as of the time of writing them. Now that...
“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 as in France?” “It is another kind of folly,” said Martin. “You know that these...
(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 Authoritarianism in Everyday Life #1: know your rights #2: secure your communications #3:...
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 for a site like this, it is overkill. Think less sledgehammer to crack a...
Ironically, after almost ten years in Germany and countless Brezen, I had the best one on my very last day in the country.
"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 me. I honestly don't know where to start with everything that's happened so I'm...
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 to. You can come and buy the comic from us. Comic Launch Party! Saturday 14th...
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 to read when they fundamentally clash with your own beliefs. Roughly halfway...
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 esfuerzo. Vulnerablemente te abres y compartes el resultado. Pero a pesar de eso,...
TitleClair Obscur: Expedition 33 CreatorSandfall Interactive Year2025 Kindgame Played2026-02-24
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 covers, shortly after, happy, she tells me, Dad, I love my hair. What are the...
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, then build up the shading gradually to a more precise level without losing the...
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 constantly run out of screen space. This can be worked around, I minimize things more, I...
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 Rebane built a fully running x86 CPU that runs in CSS In our first installment...
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.
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 to share the news of their presence! We have not interacted much before their...
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 much to write home about as a movie, and I was under the impression that The...
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 people behind archive.today did some nasty things to a blogger who tried to identify...
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 polluted my commit history. The setup A scheduled action runs every hour,...
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 set during the reign of George II in the 1750s, and biographically, because this...
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 ring to it, right? Exactly my point. So, a few of my fellow EGs and I have put...
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 Wendy Cope – The Funny Side: 101 Humorous Poems. Having found much to enjoy in...
Today is a tragic day, the unit I play with is shutting down. Luckily it isn't anything dramatic or hard feelings, it's just the classic that the leaders don't have the time required. We will have our last operation this Sunday. I have only been a part of the unit for about eight months, so it isn't a life changing...
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 time, I pointedly expressed that I was unhappy. "Unhappy" isn't enough of a word to...
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 table on the other side, making the whole constellation U-shaped. That is...
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 to say the least. When I use my blog search engine, I sometimes notice that the...
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 __ __ ___ 2 \ \/ /__ ___ _____ ___ / _/ 3 \ / -_) _ `/ __/ / _ \/ _/ 4...
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, despite having a pressure to start working soon. This morning's energy is not...
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 mausoleum grounds in the former precincts of Tenryu-ji temple....
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 simulate online interactions near-flawlessly. Without a doubt there are tens...