Tue Feb 24
I’ve been planning to bring The Media Guide back since February began, but I wanted the first one back to be special and recap the best of the year so far. It’s safe to say that’s not happening today; maybe one day. For now, we’ve got the best of the week for ya.📱 DTF St. Louis S1 (HBO)This is probably my most...
For this entry I have picked a beloved old song from the now-defunct band Ta Xylina Spathia (Τα Ξύλινα Σπαθιά): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aytFh3B_Ex0. Though I prefer this other version, which is performed live by Pavlos Pavlides and the accompanying musicians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zky0jeGhZaM....
Welcome to the first edition of the Pook-Emu Bee, where I will publish interesting links (maybe daily!) collected from my feed collection (or unused newsletter link backlog). I usually include 21 links from around the web (with comments) in each issue of my weekly newsletter, The Newsletter Leaf Journal. The...
When I was in high school, I used to keep a pencil or pen up my sleeve. I don’t remember anyone else doing it, or why I started. But if I had a pen up my sleeve, I would at least know I had one nearby for when I’d need one. (I may be mis-remembering whether having a pen up my sleeve actually helped me remember one...
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An existential lesson gleaned from a brush with death and foolishness. “Compassion,” Karen Armstrong wrote in her stirring meditation on the true meaning of the Golden Rule, “asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on...
A few days ago some 4 or 5 OpenClaw instances opened blogs on Bear. These were picked up at review and blocked, and I've since locked down the signup and dashboard to this kind of automated traffic. What was quite funny is that I received a grumpy email from one of these instances contesting the ban. I was tempted...
February 2026. Letchworth Garden City. According to the times on my photos, I left my first Letchworth pub of the afternoon at 16:27 and entered my fifth at 17.29, which even by my standards is going some, particular with a detour to the old hosiery factory and some nostalgia thrown in. You’ll guess my last pub from...
This was a fun 15-minute architectural video from Stewart Hicks (absolutely worth a follow otherwise) that mapped precisely into the same kind of tension and internal debate I sometimes feel when talking about minimalism in UX design: Minimalism is good! Until it’s not! One interesting lesson here is that the famous...
Upon their arrival at Venice, Candide went to search for Cacambo at every inn and coffeehouse, and among all the ladies of pleasure, but to no purpose. He sent every day to inquire on all the ships that came in. But there was no news of Cacambo. “What!” said he to Martin, “I have had time to voyage from Surinam to...
A rose from a recent bouquet couldn't be saved so off to the trash it went. I thought it retained some beauty amongst the celery stalks, coffee grounds and onion skins.Currently Listening: Eydie Gormé, Los Panchos “Sabor a Mí”Reply via email
A very important questionnaire via Zachary Kai. This page is my tribute to the most reliable and versatile meal: sandwiches! A questionnaire exploring preferences and the joy of stuff between bread. Why don’t you answer it? A Sandwich Questionnaire How Many Sandwiches Do You Eat Per Week? At least five. When Do You...
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. AI kill switch in Firefox. As expected, Firefox 148 comes with a button that turns off all AI features in the browser. Now available. I played it. App to manage your “backlog” or...
Faff connecting a new Kindle to a Mac with a USB cable by Pete Graham: TL;DR: new Kindles don’t show up as external drives on macOS when connected by USB-C. You need a program like OpenMTP to transfer files to them My Kindle Paperwhite, bought during the COVID-19 pandemic (early 2020s), shows up as an external drive...
With a toot1 on Mastodon in which he appreciated this post, dear Nicola made me think about how little I put into promoting my professional blog on these shores. Lately – due to a work context that, at this stage of my life, I still consider unstable – I’ve been updating it more frequently than in the past. The...
I’ve lived in Ottawa since I was a teenager. In all of the time I’ve lived here, there has been a tourist attraction: The Rideau Canal Skateway. Every winter, the National Capital Commission prepares and maintains one of the longest skating rinks in the world at just over 7 kilometres in length. Despite the...
De l’expérience et de l’utilisateur·ice dans le design graphique. The meta experience, une vidéo de Sam Lavigne Les notions d’expérience et d’utilisateur sont centrales dans les processus de design. Elles permettent d’inscire un projet dans un ensemble de relations entre un “objet de design” (objets, lieux ou...
The AthleticImagine going from winning a gold medal to having to listen to this imbecile ramble like an incoherent madman do 2+ hours. Even if most of these guys are Trump supporters, I guarantee you none of them were planning on watching the SotU.
"One of Nanny Ogg's hidden talents was knowing when to say nothing. It left a hole in the conversation the other person felt obliged to fill." Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett.
This year’s rules formalize the 20-meter bike draft rules for pros, which they announced last month, and clarify how they will work when age groupers interact with pros. They also lessen the penalty for having an unzipped trisuit from disqualification to a warning and a time penalty if not remedied, ban video...
Out of all the recent games, this is the one I knew I wanted to try at some point. It's said to be a groundbreaking achievement of… something. People can't seem to decide if it's an indie game or an AA title. Still: I have yet to find any cyberperson who says it's bad. Luckily, I was allowed allowed me to play it as...
For Roman Catholics, Lent is a time of reconciliation in a sacramental sense. Reconciliation with God, with others, with ourselves. I'm learning more about that, but it's also been a time of reconciliation in other ways for me. I'm trying to reconcile what I have been taught by my church to be the truth over half a...
This weekend we’re in Napa for C’s birthday. We lounged by a river and a fire pit, binoculars in hand, listening and waiting for the birds to show themselves. Earlier that morning we had a falconry lesson with Daisy, a large, powerful peregrine; Kirby, a dainty Harris’s hawk; Hermes, another peregrine but loud as...
Prices correct at the time of posting 5aaps Deploy your HTML5 app from anywhere using Git. Push your code, then 5apps mix-and-match deployment strategies will prepare and optimise it for distribution and delivery. It supports all major web app installation formats, including Mozilla Open Web Apps, Chrome Apps,...
Due to mismanaging my time and finishing the vomit posts at odd hours, it is getting harder and harder to write new word-vomits. I have found a solution that I discussed yesterday; however, the implementation can not be done before the weekend because I am occupied with full-time work. When I finish writing a post,...
I recently took an hour or two to stitch together a new tote bag. I have a stash of materials for this because a sewing company in Brooklyn's 'Industry City' (an isolated business park) was going out of business. I regret not buying out much more of the inventory: at that point I was laser-focused on sewing projects...
This is supposed to be a master piece high science fiction books. Yet, I can't help but think how dumb it is of Anderson to have alcohol in space, in a closed environment, with 50 people who have to stand each other for the rest of their lives... this plot hole is way too big for me to ignore. Hopefully the time...
(original image source unknown) Soundtrack: ANOTHER DREAM (Yume Nikki OST) this will be a shorter entry. but one that marks the beginning of what i'm collating into my collection of daily recovery posts. a collection that i aim to add to each and every evening during my inpatient stay. in an attempt to both document...
nerd osmosis - noun phrase - The phenomenon in which one picks up a small amount of knowledge about something one isn't particularly interested in because they spend time around other people who are and who talk about it a great deal. For example, it's possible to pick up a little knowledge of My Little Pony:...
A recent Mastodon post from @solomonneas highlights an annoying issue: an AI agent pushed to the main branch 12x, despite clear instructions not to. […] My agent pushed to main 12 times despite explicit instructions. Fix: git pre-push hooks on 39 repos. Agent can’t push code to main because git rejects it. No...
The new tool will look after some aspects of the design and maintenance of a WordPress.com blog. As I understand it, the AI assistant will not write content, though it can “edit and refine” posts if asked. The assistant however can create custom images upon prompt. Anything you like — within reason — by the sounds...
This is really cool and in only 181 lines (Jeremy undersells it in the title) we get a really great explanation of how #OTEL works and why we'd want it. ⬣
tldr: curl goes back to Hackerone. When we announced the end of the curl bug-bounty at the end of January 2026, we simultaneously moved over and started accepting curl security reports on GitHub instead of its previous platform. This move turns out to have been a mistake and we are now undoing that part of the...
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I recently read a piece on reading fiction instead of self-help. It's great and you should read it. But it also got me thinking. Is "self-help" really an alternative to fiction? Good nonfiction feels like the real alternative to fiction. To most people, nonfiction is either those pseudo-psychological ramblings, or...
Muito blogs que eu acompanho fazem um post semanal de links e matérias interessantes que eles veem na internet, e eu ontem me peguei pensando que esse post mensal é a minha versão disso. Eu vejo as músicas mais legais, tiro umas, acrescento outras no dia do post e fica como o meu diário de descobrimento musical e de...
A recent head-scratcher: my team is starting to block the use of RC4 in Kerberos. We released this change to our first batch of production servers recently. A couple of old SQL servers stopped accepting connections after their patching restarts once the setting got applied. I saw stuff like this in the logs: Network...
I really love when people use old school image badges on their websites. It's a real throwback to the old web. So my interest was piqued when I saw Andy's post about some icons they created. No AI Badges — Want to show visitors to your site that your content is human made and doesn't use AI? Grab my badge pack for...
said my brain for no reason as I was delivering a stack of books on WWII to a classroom today. Solarpunk Stories: What is Solarpunk? The Anarchist Library: A Solarpunk Manifesto William Joseph Gillam: A Solarpunk Manifesto: Turning Imaginary Into Reality No. And here's why. i have no optimism Solarpunk is inherently...
In an attempt to catch up on what I’ve missed in the last two weeks, pop-culturally speaking, I stumbled upon the ensemble interview The ‘Scrubs’ Cast Can’t Stop Making Each Other Laugh by Rotten Tomatoes, and you know what? I am genuinely excited for the Scrubs revival! Sure, there is always a risk to bring back...
The Strange Pattern in Joyce’s Day On June 16, 1904, three people share the same spaces in Dublin, but they live in completely different worlds. Stephen Dedalus pays twelve pounds to rent the Martello Tower from the British state. But Buck Mulligan has taken over—making breakfast, swimming, entertaining the English...
从学校回来立刻就感冒了，くたばれ了一整周 感觉寒稽古对于我来说更像是个仪式，一年一度向各位老师汇报我还在坚持练习并展示成果的仪式。 第四年寒稽古 距离第一次参加寒稽古，已经过去四个年头了。还记得第一年的时候，我连续一周 4 点多起床，在寒风里骑十多分钟摩托去学校参加 5 点多开始的寒稽古。最后作为一个大学院一年级的留学生，和大一新生一起拿到了象征着正式入部的木制手写名牌。后来它被挂在了道场的墙上，和历年经历过寒稽古的部员们的一起。我应该是第一个把自己的名字挂上去的中国人（甚至是外国人吧）。...
Shiroi Printer is a freeware horror Japanese visual novel developed by Asaki Yumemishi (published under the banner of Yumemi no Yamai) and published to Freem!, a Japanese platform for freeware games, on May 28, 2018. The vast majority of games on Freem! are only available in the Japanese language. However, Shiroi...
El otro día, ya que me desplazaba para entregar el coche en el taller, aproveché para pasar por un hipermercado Carrefour y comprar algunas cosas. Entre otras, algunas cajas de cápsulas de café, porque no me gusta tener que comprarlas por Internet si quiero algo distinto a “con cafeína” y “descafeinado”. Y compré...
Are all happy classrooms alike? Probably not. But perhaps there’s some qualities common to many of them. In the following guest post, Daniel Story, assistant professor of philosophy at California Polytechnic State University, suggests that among those qualities are care and connection. His experiences teaching this...
I got my first "professional" software development job in 1998. I put professional in quotes because it was a bit of a mess - a tiny place with one guy who knew enough to knock a database together who hired me, not long out of university, who had never seen a SQL database before. One of the things I very quickly...
Museums are wonderful places. I think it's very cool how artists manage to translate abstract, complex themes into real spaces and objects. As a visitor, you don't require knowledge about the topic to get a sense of the artist's mind, because the layout of the exhibition and its rooms do a lot of the explaining....