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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...
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...
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. ⬣
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
I've been on Mounjaro for three weeks now, and just had my week four dose today. People keep calling it a miracle drug, and they're not far off. Many of my current health issues—type II diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea—are caused...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
Desde os meus 16 anos que eu convivo com esse diagnóstico e, 16 anos depois, ainda não entendo o que eu tenho, porque e como lidar com as situações que afloram os sintomas de transtorno do pânico e agorafobia. Estou durante uma crise. Na...
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...
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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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(Well, all about penises and what men think about their own and other guys’, so edgy for many people — but mostly clinical in content and tone, not at all raunchy) Stephan Pastis’s Pearls Before Swine strip of 2/24, about what we might...
This website is built using Hugo and hosted on GitHub Pages. The whole source code and configuration can be found in the GitHub repository. The theme is hand-written and also available in the same repository. If you wonder what the...
"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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...