Fri Mar 06
The other day, I was watching Youtube on my Playstation. I don't really do so, because of the sheer number of ads I get. As I sat down to watch the 3 hour video made by Tantacrul about the shortcomings of Meta/Facebook, I was served a 50 second unskippable ad. Annoying, but whatever, I said. I muted it and let the...
I commemorated Columbus Day in 2023 with a photo post of a pigeon perched atop a Christopher Columbus statute at Brooklyn’s Borough Hall. On February 24, 2026, I took a walk in Brooklyn just a day after New York City finished receiving historic snowfall from a blizzard. Before I would happen upon some creative snow...
I've been enjoying writing music using code in Neovim — I recently talked about using Lilypond to write sheet music this way, for example. Another way of writing music with code is Tidal Cycles. This is a set of pattern-sequencing tools that talk to the SuperCollider synthesizer. Tidal Cycles allows a highly compact...
February 2026. Edenham. Lincolnshire. Not quite Greater Grantham, more Bigger Bourne. Have any of you ever been to Bourne ? I knew nothing about little Edenham, 15 minutes off the A1 and Newton’s house, just past that Corby Glen I wrote so pointlessly about on New Years Day. But I know everything about Edenham now....
On March 5th, 404Media published Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester, which generated a lot of discussion both online and in the comments of the article itself. This is a complex case, but I want to state some things before diving in. First, the headline appears to be quite misleading....
rdigest is a small CLI-based tool I made in late 2024. It began as a way to manage my daily reading (online digital consumption) because YouTube's UI was distracting, RSS feed readers and their infinitely-scrolling pages were overwhelming and I had cut out social media from life eons ago. TL;DR, digital content...
“Are you okay?” I know it’s usually meant to be kind. I know it’s a perfectly normal question. But “Are you okay?” is never asked when you are, in fact, okay. No one walks up to a woman eating a sleeve of Oreos in her car and says, “You look like you’re having a good day.” It’s always asked after you sigh. Or stare...
Among many other things, this week I was grateful for: The invention of general anesthesia.1 FaceTiming old friends Dreams Strangers writing in my blog’s guestbook and emailing me.2 The Pitt The thought that almost every problem can be solved I started reading Ether Day by Julie Fenster last night, and wow I’m glad...
(image courtesy of avogado6) today I plant my feet on unsteady ground. yet i will not cede to the rumblings beneath. and, I will not surrender this beat of my heart. __/\__/\__ ____/\____/\____ __/\__/\__ ____/\____/\____ today I wish to return to a time I can no longer name. and i will be parted, split body from...
⌘T is a very important shortcut in Slack. It allows you to quickly talk to someone just by typing in their name. I use it probably dozens, if not hundreds of times a day. ⌘T is right next to ⌘R, which reloads Slack. Occasionally, on the way to ⌘T, my fingers graze ⌘R. Fingers being fingers, I immediately realize...
What do you expect of an email service? It’s probably not at the top of most people’s lists, but it should be: privacy and security. You don’t expect anyone to be spying on your messages, whether it is about a crucial business contract or a quick message to a loved one. No one but you and the addressee should be...
Recovery from major surgery is not a single event. It's a long, strange hallway of days that blur together, punctuated by vital checks and medication schedules and the weird glow of hospital curtains at 4 AM. I've written about the surgery itself, about the medication dreams, and about how to survive a hospital...
Where Home is Not Safe. writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional and Physical Abuse Edited by Judith Skillman and Linera Lucas ISBN: 9781476683928 Description Even if you haven’t been hurt by domestic violence, someone you know has and wishes they could tell you about it. Perhaps you are a therapist, teacher,...
I just wanted to tick off another article that I had marked for “read later”. In Claude Code is blowing me away, Nick Hodges writes about his surprise how well Claude Code wrote a website plus payment connection for him. The story itself is impressive, no doubt. But a key sentence (to me) comes later […]
Esto solo es un script bash para tener una idea de cuantos lectores RSS se tienen. Introducción Esto es solo un proyecto rápido originado por la curiosidad que me dio el post de Manuel Moreale sobre cuantos le leen por lectores RSS, el cual también es una reacción a un post de Kev sobre como los lectores leen sus...
I am developing four new themes for my doric-themes package: doric-almond (light) doric-coral (light) doric-magma (dark) doric-walnut (dark) Each of them has its own character, while they all retain the minimalist Doric style. Below are some screenshots. Remember that these themes use few colours, relying on...
Es Marzo 7 y hoy hace 2 meses que vengo blogueando como un campeón en mi flamante blog que nació por la necesidad de tener un blog. Quería un espacio personal propio, no Blogger, no Medium, no Substack. Algo que me permitiera tener el control total sobre el contenido e imágenes, aunque haya una sola imagen posteada...
PART ONE: THE DRIVE The lab at 0300 smelled like copper and ozone. Dr. Amara Okonkwo’s hands were steady on the micropipette, had been steady for forty-seven minutes, would remain steady for another thirteen. The neural architecture template rotated on her screen, each pathway color-coded: motor control in blue,...
BandcampLetters Charity is a nonprofit organization on a mission to use Art as a conduit to transform passive compassion into immediate assistance through the distribution of money given, without expectation or judgment, directly to families experiencing poverty.Holy moly! A second charity album and this one from...
Today I made some purchases that have been patiently rotting in my wishlist for way too long. Zelda & Chill by beat maker Mikel. It is Zelda. It is lo-fi hip hop. No idea what took me so long. A Constant Buzz (digital + x-ray vinyl 🤩) by Hell & Back with friend Vuki and a Jenny “Colletti” feature on Die Inside....
There is a growing trend for new protocols to express themselves in the form of a well-known URI. It’s seen as an easy place to stash something where other interoperable software might want to probe for protocol support, as an improvement to the old ad-hoc behavior of things like robots.txt and favicon.ico and the...
I am workng on a few “work” projects today. But I have enough time for a new set of daily Pook-Emu Bee links. If you enjoy the links, you can follow via feed (although I personally recommend following the main site feed for all of my postings). Links from around the web 1. Iconic 121-year-old NYC Italian restaurant...
“In light of the awful brutality by the Iranian government against the uprising in late December 2025, the case for humanitarian intervention in Iran is not obviously implausible…” But what about the actual intervention going on now? It “fails to meet all the traditional criteria of Just War Theory [and has] even...
I've been progressively getting into dream symbolism lately, but it's been a long, slow road because dreams are so abstract. Most of the time I wake up and, even if I remember the dream, I have no idea how to even put them into words. What's even worse are the dreams that are so weird, they make me question if...
A few things I’ve learned in the last few weeks: Good stress is still stress. The way car insurance operates makes very little sense to the average person (me). Almost everything you’d think works one way, works another. (Also: if your insurance company offers towing coverage, it’s not a “nice add-on feature.” Each...
Born in Iran and raised in Zimbabwe, Doris Lessing (October 22, 1919–November 17, 2013) was fourteen when she dropped out of school and eighty-eight when she won the Nobel Prize for smelting language into keys to “the prisons we choose to live inside.” Having lived in writing for nearly a century, through the rise...
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I have remade my website (yet again) and now generate it with (yet another) SSG of my own design. For some while, my I-don’t-have-anything-to-do-but-I-want-to-program project was SSGs, so I’ve written quite a few. They’re fairly simple to design and implement, and it allows me to do what’s always been my favorite...
The new internet provider has connected me up, and boy is it fast. I ordered 1GB and am currently getting ~800 Mbps down. I cannot complain too much about that, especially when our ISPs in the UK have a disclaimer in their small print which says something along the lines of: You are paying for 1GB but in reality, we...
One of the most common questions I get on my walking tours, is about sewage. Where does it go? Are the canals open sewers? What about Katharine Hepburn?
Southerly winds are bringing dust from the Sahara over the next few days and a good chance for some nice sunsets/sunrises; with both still at reasonable times of the day (no stupidly early sunrise) it's so much easier to try and photograph both. Not that sunrise or sunset photography is particularly appealing but I...
Years ago, an AA sponsor said something to me that bypassed every defense I had against the idea of God. I was in early sobriety, a committed atheist, unable to square the program's spiritual language with anything I recognized as true. To me, the material world was the whole show. Stars were gas, death was a light...
Bill Premo: I don’t know where to start with this but yeah I’m making flash if flash was built in 2026. I’m making it compatible with Linux,Mac, and PC. If you remember Flash, the animation/multimedia creation application, originally launched by a company called Macromedia, you were on, or near, the web in the late...
Today I finished reading a book I have been meaning to read for a long time called “The Crucible of Doubt” by Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens. This is a book I have heard recommended by several faithful LDS who have struggled doubts and questions. The book was written in 2014 and is out of print, so it's hard to...
Exploring the tradeoffs between wrapping errors at every return site versus wrapping only at boundaries, with no definitive answer - just honest tradeoffs for the kind of software I write.
last edited 4 months, 1 week ago 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 first place. Notifications on a scheduleWhat if...
Read Ashlee’s story, Moon Drama, on Foofaraw now!Do you “bring your whole self to work”? Should people?Well, now that I’m writing full-time, definitely yes–I think writing is easiest when you’ve got some real-life experience to base it on. Back when I worked in an office? God no. Honestly, it seems like a weird idea...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
It all started with an announcement of a tribute to David Lynch with screenings of all his films in one of London's cinemas during the whole month of January. For all my love towards Lynch's works, my partner and I, sadly, couldn't make it there in January. However, we ended up watching a few of his films during our...
Harto de los anuncios he decidido instalar el navegador Brave para disfrutar de Youtube sin ellos. Últimamente estaba viendo bastantes vídeos, sobre todo de cursos o para poner música y estudiar, las interrupciones constantes con anuncios eran demasiado molestas. Por ello, viendo opciones, he visto que hay páginas...
Hallo allemaal, Er is weer een boel te melden! Ik ga een beetje de politiek in, ik heb een prijs gekregen, twee zinvolle podcasts/radio-uitzendingen. En dat onze btw op het punt staat naar Amerika te gaan. Afsluitend links naar diverse interessante artikelen. Dit is de blogversie van mijn recentste nieuwsbrief. In...
March 6, 2026 Font Awesome Kickstarter campaigns live and die by momentum in the first 48 hours, and ours ran out of steam before most of our audience even knew it existed. Yes. We hit our initial goal, but if we can't email folks for the rest of the month, we're dead in the water. So we've made the tough decision...
I’m at the waiting room at the doctor’s office. It’s a big space, the entryway to a health center, maybe 50 feet long with lots of couches. I’m sitting at the far end, one of around ten people waiting for their appointments. A nurse comes out from a door on the other end of the waiting room and calls the next...
En un paisaje inestable, donde la voluntad humana se cruza cada vez más con la automatización y el azar, CANON DE CÁMARA OSCURA (Camera oscura. A Novel) construye una tensión sutil pero persistente: ¿Está Escabia construyendo realmente el canon, o hay otra inteligencia trabajando junto a él, en la oscuridad?
更新一些近况，最近身体不是很好，一直卧床摸鱼。 这两天终于缓过来了，精神不少。 一部半自传式的漫画回忆录，讲述了一个孩子突然被从熟悉的环境中「拔出来」，被放到一个本应属于自己、却又非常陌生的文化环境里。故事简单又细腻，几代人经历的并置很有趣。 最近买了两套大富翁。一套是牛津版的，是经典规则；另一套是宝可梦的，有对战和抓宝可梦的环节，节奏更快一些，基本算是一个新游戏了。 喜欢Gin里的草本味。 煎饺真香！ 很舒服的热敷眼罩，里面是某种谷物，微波炉加热，能反复使用。 这两款果酱和花生酱可太好吃了。 去大阳山旅游吃饭时拿的杯垫，喜欢用它做书签。记得这家店的醉虾挺好吃的。 多年前的老照片，最近被父母翻出，那时真是中二爆表了。...
So it’s been mumble weeks since I’ve posted; partly because it’s been as long since I’ve read anything, and partly because I have been in a depression spiral that rivals some of my darkest times. Unlike our lovely friend in the comic above, mine is not so much seasonal depression as my regular issues compounded by...
I feel like I was taught to rush, while growing up at school there was always to be done: homework, tests, projects, presentations, life was busy. Learning how to move around the world of people was busy for me. It was like I have to always catch up, I wasn't particularly good at school, I wasn't more smart than the...
A lot of people have been deleting their ChatGPT accounts in favour Claude. It’s their way of choosing sides in the controversy surrounding contracts with the U.S. government. I was initially tempted to do the same thing until I concluded that Anthropic, the company that runs Claude, is motivated by greed every bit...
Cleaning up right-click with userChrome.css In my previous post, I wrote about using Firefox’s about:config to cut the right-click menu from a massive 26 buttons down to just 15, decluttering the commonly used right-click menu. Freshly installed Firefox, right-clicking *Firefox right-clicking, after disabling...
You can say what you like about Facebook – and many of my acquaintance won't go near it, indeed flinch at the very name – but I find that it does throw up some unexpected gems from time to time. Here's one that popped up today – 'Enough already of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault poured like ketchup over everything....
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Philosophy should be among the most diverse of the academic disciplines. Instead, it is among the least diverse. Philosophical reflection is an essential part of the human condition, of interest to people of all cultures, races, classes, social groups, and body types. Who doesn’t care whether we have immaterial...
Days without turning off site blockers: 16 I'm starting to get my appetite for art back, finally!
Sometimes people as me questions. Not frequently, but they do. Who are you? A human. It's sad that it's no longer given. I can't solve CAPTCHAs, so maybe it's wrong? Still, my name is Michał, and I am a nerd from Kraków, Poland. I am into niche and old things, like anime, BSD, or Emacs. I earn my bread as a senior...
Work has been hectic. But I can see the end, which is good, I think. Also, my orthodontic work is coming to an end. I should be free of steel cables in my mouth in three months. Magna Tiles are a hit Manju and I did a Big Loop Ride in a Day on Saturday. It was long and tiring, but we could do it. I am very happy...
It’s snowing and I’m doing taxes. I’ve mentioned the photographs of Ragnar Axelsson (Rax) a couple of times here in the past. I recently discovered the availability of the short BBC documentary featuring him: Last Days of the Arctic. Having studied hundreds of his pictures by this point, it was fascinating to see...
Music is quite nice I think, and I enjoy listening to it very much. However I must admit I didn’t actually start to support artists directly until I discovered Bandcamp. Everything started when I got a great little videogame known as Hades for the Nintendo Switch. It came with a neat surprise, a code to redeem the...
I have been working on a few new features for Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain. You can read a summary of what’s new below.Organise subscriptions with foldersYou can now create folders in Artemis. This feature is designed to help you organise websites you follow into separate pages in your reader.To add an...