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"Cortegiana famosa" (Famous courtesan) from the "Habiti delle Donne Venetiane", published by Giacomo Franco, c. 1610.
It's been forever since I changed something on this site, but I finally sat down and implemented something I already had in the past and wanted to bring back for a long time: A links page. It's still very much a work in progress. For now...
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⚠️ Potentially triggering content. Current politics discussion. I am afraid. I want to live and I want to live long life. I've already escaped one war, I don't want to be in the middle of a second conflict. Why do we, as a collective...
Today, Apple announced “the new iPhone 17e”. I personally have an iPhone 16e, so naturally, I have no reason to upgrade. This was expected, as I am not the audience. Apple tells you as much themselves, as the product page offers...
Streaming sucks for artists because the major players pay squat per stream. And in Spotify’s case, artists who don’t get many streams may get literally nothing. One alternative to traditional streaming services is to bring focus back to...
Social media has an attention problem, everyone knows it, and yet the design stays the same. I've been thinking about two small structural changes that might actually help, without dismantling what makes these platforms useful in the...
A week that felt rather short. Like, I don’t even know what to write as an introduction for this one. Oh! The weather! Things are starting to warm up again at last, all I need to wear in the mornings is a hoodie, no extra sweatshirt or...
(Firmly located in men’s crotches and inclined to silliness, though without the bodyparts illustrated and without the street talk — so clearly not to everyone’s taste) From WOIO tv channel 19 in Shaker Heights OH (serving the Cleveland...
The NVMe in my big HP Workstation died yesterday. I’m not sure why other than it was cheap and used from eBay. I, however, decided to treat this as an opportunity instead of crying in my beard. Something I’ve planned for a while now, but...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop I've had a rough couple of days, man! Even though I was committed to drawing these every day, I didn't get around to taking photos or editing them until now so please...
One of my goals this year is to learn more about the AWK programming language. I'm interested in not only the beauty of the language itself and the Unix history that surrounded it, but in how AWK shaped one of my favourite languages of...
Posts The following posts were written last month. Books Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté You're Not Enough (and That's Ok) by Allie Beth Stuckey Serious Cryptography by Jean-Philippe Aumasson Development E2EE Backend part 1: Homomorphic...
I'm glad I read so much philosophy 2 years ago before reading this, I see what people mean online with the whole degree thing. You don't need a degree, just basic knowledge of the world.
It is a bit baffling. I’m working with a whole bunch of WordPress installations, every single one of them with the server time zone set to UTC and the WordPress time set to Europe/Berlin. It works fine in all of them – except with one...
Days without turning off site blockers: 13 I can't belive I'm two-thirds of the way through my digital detox. Also, I can't stop thinking about Jacob Geller's most recent video, The Future is a Blank Room; specifically when he talks...
The title is a little over the top, but barely — we have two fantastic talks this Thursday (March 5) that you should go to. (I’ll be there!) Laura Savino will present “Learn Out Loud”: As devs today, we’re supposed to demonstrate...
Si suelen leerme tendrán muy presente a Fernando Spiner. Lo conocí a partir de su bellisimo film ABALLAY. El hombre sin miedo. Film que no me canso de seguir recomendando. Supe que el el Malba se estaba exhibiendo su film WESER y quise...
» En Italia hemos tenido 25 años de Berlusconi y en cuanto a hegemonía cultural fue el verdadero ganador. En cuanto a la derecha, me parece que expresa muy poco, sobre todo con un estilo y un lenguaje de épocas que desearíamos haber...
So Much to Write, So Little TimeI started this blog in October 2025. Prior to that, there were some timid attempts at writing online again after the great depression of the 2010s (started a few tumblrs, tried write.as, attempted to log...
Occasionally I listen to a podcast called “The God Minute”. These are daily prayer and meditation programs that last 10-15 minutes. They are a wonderful way to help me focus on God and on sacred things. And they often feature wonderfully...
These days I have quite a lot of ambition but not enough energy to execute on it. I’m trying, though. Several months ago I realized I was feeling like I did back when I was off estrogen entirely because of the embolism and got my levels...
This is an entry from my journal. I describe how boredom works and why it helps to be honest with our feelings. My dogs understand all the verbal and non-verbal cues that signify “I am done with the computer for now”. I had a meeting...
El misterio de la lavandería de Yeonnam-dong de Kim Jiyun es otro ejemplo de healing fiction asiática. Esta obra es surcoreana pero sigue las mismas premisas de los libros japoneses del mismo estilo. En esta ocasión nos trasladamos al...
(image courtesy of kuropin) Soundtrack: Life with Masks (Mystic Messenger OST) today, i have very little to "give back", per se. to an entry, a reflection. i just have... plain words. so i'll start to unpack my closet. beginning with the...
Kyoto Tech Meetup held its Community Hack Day for February this past Sunday at FabCafe Kyoto. All attendees had code live on the site by the end of the day.What we shippedWe're now up to 8 contributors on the repo.Our changes...
When over the past 85 years have certain terms and persons been more or less frequently discussed in the philosophical literature? Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) has begun looking into this. In the following guest post, he shares some...
I've noticed nearly all new cars these days incorporate safety features which seem to benefit only their own drivers in isolation. Are we not looking at the net safety of everyone on the road? HeadlightsWhy are headlights so bright these...
At the risk of turning this blog into a calendar of saints' days, I must, as a Mercian and now a Lichfieldian, note that today is St Chad's Day, marking the death in 672 of Chad, Bishop of the Mercians and Lindsey People, and founder of...
we write to taste life twice. When I read a post from tiramisu I always feel so calm, I don't know what it is, it feels like I'm getting a cup of tea while I'll listen (read) to them speak. The sentence "tasting life twice" makes all the...
Welcome back! There was no Weekend Edition because my little pup ate a sewing needle, which left me in a state of nervous panic for about 48 hours... This also meant I had to speed-run to listen to some new music to get this together......
I share the process of designing the PlugBrain logo including some tips on making a logo and style guide accessible.
In 2007 I was deep in the DS flashcart scene, cycling through a string of carts. GBATemp threads, firmware drama, custom skins, compatibility lists. By 2009 I’d moved on. Nearly twenty years later, the DS Pico has pulled me right back...
The Foundation Proclamation Oyez, oyez, oyez! The Foundation made a proclamation! Yesterday, after months of speculation, The Foundation made their proclamation. Fanboys and nerds waited with anticipation for the proclamation of...
What the days look like now. I buzzed my hair down today. I needed to baseline it. I still have a healthy amount of hair, but it’s going. I have a semblance of vanity, but I knew from my father’s own hair loss where mine would eventually...
When I went to the gym yesterday, I finally decided to do some strength training. I was a bit nervous to start since I didn't know how I'd fare. Things ended up going well enough. I used a few machines: leg press, chest press, lat...
These past few weeks have been pretty rough for me, as you might have seen. I recently just haven’t felt like myself. Haven’t felt like getting on the internet much at all. As a result of that, I haven’t been writing much articles/posts...
Plumbing AchievementLast week, I tacked a leaking pull-out/sprayer-style kitchen tap at home. The cartridge/handle area had been leaking slightly for some time; but it got significantly worse last week when the handle stopped working...
Convention season is upon us, and it's time to kick off the year for me with Evercon 2026 in Wausau, WI! Well Rothschild, really -- but if Syfy can conflate the two, so can I. I mean, it pretty much is in Wausau. Just, like, next to it....
Sometimes when writing a blog post, you need many words and examples to drive your point home. Because without them, nobody would understand. But sometimes, you don't, and you can let the music and its message speak for itself. Like today.
We mourn our craft: The worst fact about these tools is that they work. They can write code better than you or I can, and if you don’t believe me, wait six months. This point stuck out to me. I’m going to take it completely out of...
The start of this article made me laugh: The first time my team shipped an agent into a real SaaS workflow, the product demo looked perfect. The production bill did not. FinOps for agents: Loop limits, tool-call caps and the new unit...
Nothing is more gut-wrenching than realizing that there is an error in a dataset that was used to make a critical decision. Team members may start scrambling and ask questions like: Does this change the conclusion of the analysis? Will...
Ayer hizo un día estupendo, con viento pero con sol. Y decidimos hacer planes. Con unos amigos fui a montar en kart a un pueblo cercano, y la verdad es que me encantó la experiencia. Incluso se me hizo corta (hubiera dado otras diez...
Desired outcome: ❯ claude ▐▛███▜▌ Claude Code v2.1.63 ▝▜█████▛▘ Opus 4.6 · Claude Team ▘▘ ▝▝ ~/.dotfiles ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ❯ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── .dotfiles...
Hanging branches of ume plum blossoms in the garden of Umemiya Taisha shrine. 梅宮大社の庭に枝垂れ梅。
At the end of February, I was privileged to spend a week in the Los Glaciares National Park down in Santa Cruz in Argentine Patagonia. Beyond a nice amount of regular hiking, we also got to do a guided tour on the Perito Moreno glacier,...
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. Apple announces iPhone 17e. With the 17 series chip (A19), double the storage (256 GB), and...
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.” “If our heart were large enough to...
An outline of some grass-roots reform movements that are trying to humanize the Internet
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At the bottom of his heart Candide had no wish to marry Cunégonde. But the extreme impertinence of the Baron determined him to conclude the match, and Cunégonde pressed him so strongly that he could not go from his word. He consulted...
Estimate: ~15% (range 10–20%) Base rate. Forced irregular removal of authoritarian leaders runs roughly 2–4% per leader-year (general literature estimate, not verified against Archigos this session). The question’s disjunction — flee or...
I read a lot on the web. I almost never look at websites, though. I consume almost everything through an RSS reader. As AI reshapes the way online information is organised and consumed, it increasingly feels like I'm behind the scenes,...
February 2026. Hull. Just back from a lovely evening with James at the “new” Harlequin, burgers and 12% Dutch banana bread pastry stouts, and finding it hard to find the enthusiasm to complete my blogs on Hull. Which probably sums up the...
A few days ago, news spread through the web about a Meta project for letting an AI run the social media account of a deceased person, as it could emulate the person's activity like posting content and responding to messages. The goal was...
In my ongoing efforts to reduce the reliance on US companies and services, I decided from Let’s Encrypt to the Italian Actalis. Sure, Let’s Encrypt works fine, is non-profit and had a huge impact on today’s internet security, but...
I’ve never been much of a foodie. Between being a picky eater as a kid and some gastrointestinal issues as an adult, I’d describe my relationship to food as mildly adversarial. Consequently, I was never interested in cooking. That...
AthleticI just love that even D-Wade doesn’t have LeBron as one of the best leaders he played with—cause he wasn’t. LeBron as a leader is so overrated. It’s why he needed Wade and Bosh and Irving and Love.
State of the Browser was electric. This is how I summarised my experience at the annual State of the Browser event in London in my notes. I like to capture moments as they happen, then write about them later. The note is the essence of a...
Hoy escuché que el tiempo vuela cuando estamos nerviosos y que se desdobla cuando estamos en un estado de paz interior. Recuerdo de chico cuando me decían “El miércoles vamos a pasear”, faltaba una semana y era la semana mas larga de mi...
引新年新气象，今天将 305 篇博客从 WordPress 迁到了 Bear Blog。 是搬家，也是对自己过去几年的整理和归档。 回忆与 WordPress 相处了四年，有许多美好的回忆，改了很多版主题，也做了很多插件。 目前使用的 WordPress 插件 WordPress 插件-NeoDB Integration 书影音展示页面 | Another Dayu 如果你想使用这套 WordPress 主题 减肥前的准备工作 – Strava Running Sync...