Thu Feb 26
Days without turning off site blockers: 9 Finally well enough to get back to logging. Illness + no phone to self medicate + isolation = disaster. I realised that I am depressed & burnt out, so I went and got some (free) help.
We're exactly one month away from linkdump no. 100. If this were a social media channel I would now have to start drumming up hype for that... "Hey everyone, welcome back! Today's linkdump is a special one as we gear up for Number 100! Can you believe it? A huge milestone is just a few short weeks away! I don't want...
In this installment of the occasional academic equipment series, the topic is audio. . Some of you listen to music while you work. Some of you prefer to block out the noise around you. Some of you record yourselves, for lectures, notes, or podcasts. What do you use to do these things? Are there especially good...
(image courtesy of avogado6) i don't particularly have much of... well, anything, tonight. to contribute, reflect on, build upon to coalesce in some therapeutically satisfying and well-rounded conclusion. a "lesson learnt", or some "grand takeaway", "quiet sense of determination", "resolute pledge". all that lies,...
One evening that Candide and Martin were going to sit down to supper with some foreigners who lodged in the same inn, a man whose complexion was as black as soot, came behind Candide, and taking him by the arm, said: “Get yourself ready to go along with us; do not fail.” Upon this he turned round and saw—Cacambo!...
Yesterday I was walking in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds. It was a well planned five-miler, taking in three good churches (Turkdean, Hampnett and the magnificent wool church of Northleach – all open), a decent lunch, and glorious rolling countryside with wide views – pastureland and paddocks, drystone walls,...
Desde hace unos años me di cuenta que veía aviones más seguido. Antes cuando era niñ@ me sorprendía cada que me tocaba ver uno, lo seguía todo el tiempo con la mirada hasta que ya nos se veía mas. No era muy muy raro, pero tampoco era algo que se veía todos los días, ya nadie sale de su día para asomar la cabeza al...
A close up of the Yokohama Chinatown East Gate. Zoom in and look at all the detail! 横浜中華街の東門のクローズアップ。ズームインして細部まで見てみよう！
This video shows my current process for enhancing an existing feature using Claude Code. The key things to note: I spend a fair amount of time on the original prompt (when Claude is in plan mode) - telling it which files I think will be important Often during the planning stage, Claude will stop and ask me questions...
I work in academia as a researcher. So, I need to read research articles regularly. It is a demanding task that requires my full attention, as well as critical thinking skills. Once I finish reading a paper, I feel very happy and satisfied that I learnt something. However, it also exhausts all of my energy, making...
Problem statement: claude --dangerously-skip-permissions (“YOLO mode”) is fast but risky. Introduce a lightweight filesystem-level sandbox. Networking is explicitly out of scope at this time. Recently I aliased it to claudey and have been using it daily. It’s an effective way to run Claude Code without being...
Este post es simplemente una referencia rápida de acordes que uso regularmente, pero que a veces me confunden. No soy un guitarrista que domine realmente la teoría. Sé los acordes más comunes, pero de repente salen cantos que usan acordes con los que no estoy tan familiarizado. Por eso me sirve tener una referencia...
When I read about this month’s Indieweb Carnival topic (Intersecting Interests by Zachary Kai), I initially misunderstood ‘intersecting’ as interests that cross paths and thus get in the way, but what is meant is rather overlapping interests. As a non-native English speaker, I lack a feel for the nuances of the...
I like having my Zotero library tidy and ordered, which means having proper tags for each item that I import, but I was missing an option to quickly list those items without tags. If you have plenty of items in your Zotero library, and you need to find those that don’t have at least one tag associated with them,...
I woke up early, turned on my laptop and opened the presentation for today’s sermon, the preacher sent it overnight and I was revising it. It took longer than expected, but it was bound to happen—AI generated graphics were used. Helping with the media and worship presentations during service at my local church is a...
Stopped to photograph this phone box on my walk to work, as the construction work means that you can’t open the door. Then I noticed that it’s due to be removed. Last week was tough for no reason. This week was hard, but in a different way. There are so many balls in the air and I’m struggling to juggle them all....
February 26, 2026 I ask myself more questions. What can this new update do for me? Is there anything that the previous iteration can’t keep doing? No? Then what’s the point of upgrading? Does this app have some groundbreaking feature I was really looking for or missing from my tools that makes it worthwhile to start...
I checked the top NLJ backlinks on Ahrefs (the limited free selection). I saw Grokipedia: I understand that Grokipedia is the X AI answer to Wikipedia. While I have some documented issues with Wikipedia, I am inclined to doubt that Grokipedia is the answer. But I was curious how it referenced my review of the anime...
(https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/why-does-america-feel-worse-than)[Why does America feel worse than other countries? Crime.] In other words, while car-centric suburbanization is partially about people wanting lots of cheap land and big houses and peace and quiet, part of it is a defense-in-depth against America’s...
- Spanish – Elanor"> As you might remember, back in October 2024 I posted an article named “Lost in Translation” which got translated in quite a few languages. In the follow up post, Lost and Found in Translation I said how I’m going to ask some friends more things about their country and their language. I am...
It’s well past time for an IndieWeb Carnival post. This month, the theme is Intersecting Interests, chosen by Zachary Kai. I have trouble picking apart my interests to know if they are intersecting, or just the same thing in a different hat. A lot of what I like, do and get enjoyment out of comes from a core of...
This document serves as a page I can send friends when I think they should start a blog (hi, friend). But It also applies generally to anyone who is capable of writing. I enjoy our conversations and think you have many good thoughts. I would like to read what you think. A blog will give you a place to publish...
After a week in Kanazawa, we returned to Tokyo, the city in Japan I know best.
Yesterday, for Lent Day 8, I posted about an important letter. I didn't title it as the Day 8 entry in the series because I wanted it to be more of a standalone post. But today I'm continuing with Day 9, sharing some thoughts on the Holy Spirit. I've been reading from a journal I kept while serving as a full-time...
Beagle Bros was a 1980s software company making apps for Apple II that is still remembered fondly for their personality. The company had a hobbyist slant, selling various small tools and collections with fun names like Beagle Bag (in the “Indoor Sports” collection) and DOS Boss and Utility City – similar perhaps to...
Soms denk je, kan het nog gekker? We gaan het beheer van het platform waarop DigiD draait overlaten aan een Amerikaans bedrijf. Dit was niet de bedoeling, maar het gebeurt nu toch. Maar het blijkt dat het nog erger kan. DigiD is nog wel van ons, maar het beheer van de computers wordt Amerikaans. Maar wat nou als je...
Go to Settings > scroll way down to Apps > Safari, then scroll all the way down to the Tabs section and switch from Compact to Bottom. ⊕Currently Listening: Magi Merlin “see!igetit”Reply via email
Build a B2B SaaS, make no mistakes Great meme, but in reality that’s how most of our time “programming” has gone. We tinker with multiple agents, git worktrees, markdown files in a dozen different folders, all to maximize our effectiveness with AI assisted coding. Sometimes it can be exciting, watching a computer...
Over the past couple of weeks, I took my first steps into owning more of the media I consume. Like my music, for which I've gone back to buy it in physical form. The grander goal of this is to become less dependent on the "big tech bros", especially those from outside of Europe. While streaming media might be...
It’s been five years since I first got into specialty coffee, and I had just learned that you can have two different coffee grinders of equal calibre but produce drastically different flavour profiles in the cup (while all the other variables stay the same). It’s not a simple matter of grind size consistency as I...
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. Meta: Parents will be alerted if their children search for suicide and self-harm. The alert will be triggered if the minor searches "repeatedly in a short period" for terms...
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February 2026. Sheffield. One of the best things about retirement, and goodness knows it’s been epic, has been getting to meet nice people over a pint in comfy pubs. And so it was that I finally met one of the many nice guys from Yorkshire, Rockin Rich(ard) Clark from Harrogate. He’d been trying to arrange a...
Those people who feared MODE was going to be some sort of AI implementation should breath a sigh of relief to know it's actually a three-day festival in a city that epitomizes everything that is wrong with our country right now. No wonder why the people outside the US were so confused about this. This does seem like...
Prek is a Rust-based pre-commit alternative that maintains full config compatibility while delivering significantly faster hook execution.
Nine years ago I launched this blog to share some thoughts about software development. Most of the time I have been very strict about content that I posted. If it wasn’t tech, I didn’t post it. Over the years my priorities shifted. I even started a new blog to open up a new niche. But in the end I decided to not...
A Thought Experiment That Moved Markets On February 22, 2026, Citrini Research’s “Intelligence Displacement Spiral”—explicitly labeled “a scenario, not a prediction”—triggered real market volatility with its 2028 crisis thought experiment describing interconnected feedback loops where AI-driven labor substitution...
ok my take is I choose to be sheltered, there's always that curious part that sneaks out and wants to see parts of the real world BUT OH MY GOODNESS WAHAT IN THE WORLD. I'm 16, and now I realise that age is not a limitation for so many things.
Suppose we agree that we are here to love anyway — to love even though the work is almost unbearably difficult, even though we know that everything alive is dying, that everything beautiful is perishable, that everything we love will eventually be taken from us by one form of entropy or another, culminating with...
The annual curl users and developers meeting, curl up, takes place May 23-24 2026 in Prague, Czechia. We are in fact returning to the same city and the exact same venue as in 2025. We liked it so much! curl up This is a cozy and friendly event that normally attracts around 20-30 attendees. We gather in a room...
collaborative markdown editorI’ve talked before about my desire for a Google Docs alternative—one where I could share docs with writers, suggest changes, etc.—and I even wrote up some requirements for it in the hopes that someone might magically decide to build it for me.mist is 95% there. I couldn’t find a note...
I’ve been using my Mastodon account as a way to share various links around the web that I found. However, social media can be ephmeral, so I thought I will consolidate what I share here in Linkblog issues. I like curating articles and blog posts about social media, Indieweb, geopolitics, Chinese and Malaysian...
OK, I admit it, the main reason I’m writing this is so that my buddy dozens’s blog post is wrong. His is not the last blog post about markdown—mine is!! Bwahahaha! I do actually have something to say about Markdown though. I actually completely agree with dozens’s thesis that Markdown is fine, in fact it’s maybe the...
I never sleep well the night before a trip. Ever since I was a child, the nights before family vacations were always sleepless. I didn’t even have to plan anything back then!Now I do, now I need to plan everything. Naturally, I thought that was the primary reason for my anxiety and insomnia. So over time, I learned...
Over the past two years, I’ve started this my virtual subscription to projects for which I express deep gratitude. Projects related to applications I use, or blogs I follow, or podcasts I listen to, and so on. I wrote about them for 2024 and 2025. This year too I decided to continue with this habit, but unlike other...
I was today years old when I learnt that the rest of the world don't have roof sockets for lamps and such. Behold! A way of connecting lamps in a safe way!. Demand more from your building codes!
Two weeks ago I finally decided to design my blog’s theme once and for all, and what you’re looking at right now is the (almost) final version. I postponed this for over a year for different reasons, but mostly because I felt very rusty when it came to CSS. It’s something I learned in a crash course a few years ago...