Sun Mar 08
About a year ago I made some predictions about the effect of AI on programming jobs. Block laid off 40% of its staff claiming AI made them more efficient. Is that really true or did they just over-hire? Let's look at some data and see what's really happening. In February 2026, global venture capital hit a...
March 2026. Beverley. Well, this may prove to be a completely pointless post, attempting to describe the magic of a Sam Smiths pub without pictures. But the route to the White Horse (aka Nellies) takes you past St Mary’s, which is almost as magical as the Minster. But not as magical as Nellies, which on my first...
Days without turning off site blockers: 18 Only a few more days left until my detox is over! I've learned a lot about myself, so I'll be doing a mini 'report' at the end. I also spent some time drawing last night, which is helping me feel more 'in' my body. Lately, my hands have been feeling out of it, as though...
Nadie duda de los beneficios cognitivos y neuronales que traen consigo los seres de otras especies que viven con nosotros, entre nosotros, domesticados, de casa, a los que también llamamos mascotas. Hay una controversia bastante clara en mi cabeza respecto al tema. Está bueno que los tiempos modernos hayan resaltado...
International Women's Day and Women's March Malaysia 2026 Permalink to section 'International Women's Day and Women's March Malaysia 2026' # Happy International Women's Day! International Women's Day also means the day the annual Women's March Malaysia will take place. You can read the march's 2026 demands on its...
We’ve decided to briefly explain why we’re not currently in therapy, which intersects with why we are not “formally” diagnosed and why we are not using our legal name on this blog. This is Cordelia, but I’ll be allowing my others to have input. (Actually, we’re switchy and we’re losing track-- Cordelia did most of...
This Thursday, the 12th of March, at 20:00 Europe/Athens time I will do a live presentation of Emacs for OxFLOSS (FLOSS @ Oxford). This is an event organised by people at the University of Oxford. My goal is to introduce Emacs to a new audience by showing them a little of what it can do while describing how exactly...
No começo dessa semana eu consegui machucar 45% sério o meu dedo anelar esquerdo (eu tive que procurar o nome do dedo já que não lembrava por nada nesse mundo). Sangrou o suficiente pra ser o próximo filme do Quentin Tarantino. Mas reparos feitos no dedo, eu não sabia como eu usava esse dedo maldito digitando. Eu...
An online group exhibition with works that explore very immediate, poetic, and humorous forms of resistance, refusal, and subversion that push back against tech fascism.
#podcast #ElSueñodelArtistaBlog #Impresionismo #Arte #MujeresArtistas #DiadelaMujer #HistoriadelArte #BertheMorisot La cuna (1892 ) por Berthe Morisot Estamos de vuelta esta vez con la primera entrega de la serie del podcast «Madre, Mujer, Artista» Cada 8 de marzo se celebra el día internacional de la mujer para...
It’s official. About 20 minutes ago, I deleted my Hetzner VPS that I’ve had since October 2020 (and that my wife rightly pointed out I bought in the depths of Covid … whatever happened during Covid, right? crazy times) and moved this website over to static Fastmail hosting. While I used to use the VPS for actually...
Spartan is a simple document retrieval protocol for small web/net applications, that deserves to be better known.
Discord has ruined itself for me. I actually liked Discord a lot, which feels like a minority opinion most days. I liked it because I have cultivated an awesome community on there with almost 2500 wonderful souls. The TLC Discord server is one of the highlights of my day. Even if I’m only lurking, I still interact...
There was no daily Pook-Emu Bee link post yesterday because it was Newsletter Leaf Journal day (see the links in Newsletter 270). But the next Newsletter is next Saturday. Below, I present the March 8 edition of Pook-Emu Bee. Links from around the web 1. Revisiting Wilt’s Knee Injury Comeback (Harlan Schreiber....
Morning loosens from the treeline pale… and trembling… threadlike… thin. I step forward where it wanders; something stirs and draws me in.By the roots a shape is waiting, still as frost on shadowed stone. Not a whisper marks its presence; only I can sense its own.Soft its flank begins to quiver; soft its heartbeat...
Previous part For this devlog, I simply want to share how I build my UI, since Lemur, the UI library I use, can be a bit tricky. First of all, I recommend creating a sketch. I like to use excalidraw, but you can use whatever you want. When you have that setup, you can start to build your UI. Of course start with the...
I have been teaching a course at APU that includes Bash scripting. I have a love-hate relationship with Bash. It’s a weird combination of a programming language and an iterative CLI. It’s confusing, easy to make mistakes, and hard to debug, but on the other hand, it’s available on almost all systems. It builds on...
"Cortegiana vestita a la foresta" (Courtesan dressed as a foreigner) from the "Habiti delle Donne Venetiane", published by Giacomo Franco, c. 1610.
Se tem uma coisa eu IA me faz apreciar cada vez mais é o erro. Antes, quando algo não funcionava direito, dava para uma boa noção de que aquele problema foi causado por alguém. Um programador que não testou seu código, alguém que não apertou bem um parafuso, um artista que deixou escapar uma parte sem colorir na...
Eighth season of Drive To Survive covering the 2025 Formula One Championship season. It’s got drama, fake drama, more drama, Claire Williams back again for some reason. As always, the show is not something extremely nice, but I like some Formula 1 “B-rolls”, especially with the drivers and teams outside of the...
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The dogs are snorting and snoring on the floor behind me. I wish I could be as relaxed as them all the time. So unbothered.
(image courtesy of avogado6) i harbour a rather twisted relationship with the notion of "healing". there's a particular kind of rush that i get when a blood pressure cuff curls delicately around my arm. when a pulse oximeter clamps hungrily onto my finger. when i'm lying there, eyes wandering slowly across the...
This illustration features my gay male OC handing a harajuku crepe to the male POV character.
TitleThe Light Fantastic CreatorTerry Pratchett Year1986 Kindbook Read2026-03-09
MacBook Neo viene a llenar un hueco que la propia Apple había ido creando con el paso de los años y las nuevas versiones de los MacBook. Los que llevábamos varias generaciones de ordenadores Apple hemos visto como se ha ido diversificando el número de opciones. Lo que empezó con el MacBook y el MacBook Pro (una vez...
RuneScape is a popular MMORPG that reached its peak popularity in the late 2000s. In the game, combat – colloquially known as PvP, or player vs. player – is limited to a specific map area (called the Wilderness) and otherwise people’s houses. On 6/6/6 (sic!) a bug in RuneScape made it possible for a few players to...
After a short pause while things were busy, I’ll finally have time to put into developing Turbo Admin again. Hooray! (For those that don’t know, Turbo Admin is my magical WordPress browser extension that adds a command palette and other admin features to the WordPress Dashboard on any site that you log in to.) A...
If you want to befriend time — which is how you come to befriend life — turn to stone. Climb a mountain and listen to the conversation between eons encoded in each stripe of rock. Walk a beach and comb your fingers through the golden dust that was once a mountain. Pick up a perfect oval pebble and feel its mute...
my dad in yugoslavia was gifting flowers to the women in his life on the eighth of march.
For roughly seven hundred years, the big theological brains of Western Christendom bent themselves into magnificent logical pretzels over whether beings of pure incorporeal intelligence, massless and shadowless and wholly unbothered by the need for a decent sandwich, could occupy the same point in space. At the same...
Terzo appuntamento della Sagra, con il tema videogiochi scelto da Alessio!
March 8, 2026 Most of the snow has finally melted. From January until just a couple of days ago we had several inches on the ground. Now it's mud season, but I can finally get outside and start dealing with the storm and snowplow damage. Most of it is broken limbs around the property and the driveway getting chewed...
A late January hike on a south-facing trail promised sun but delivered a mix of slush, snow, and surreal blue skies. Microspikes proved essential on steep, icy steps, while unexpected deep snow made me wish for snowshoes.
Especially for those not familiar with the process of design, it can be tempting to see things like discovery and wireframing as obstacles to be cleared before you get to the fun part, designing the visual identity. Unfortunately, many designers are also guilty of this! Nic Chan Nic's article makes an important...
How to keep your work accessible no matter what happens to the software you used to create it Could you complete your work today if your usual apps were inaccessible? Consider this your wake up call is to store your work in open formats, even if (actually, especially if) you are required to use closed format apps to...
I'm on medical leave recovering from surgery. Before I went under, I wanted to ship one thing I'd been failing to build for months: a sponsor panel at sponsors.xeiaso.net. Previous attempts kept dying in the GraphQL swamp. This time I vibe coded it — pointed agent teams at the problem with prepared skills and let...
My new employer provided me with a beast of a laptop… that runs on Windows 11. I’ve been using computers for 32 years, i’ve been writing about computers for half my life, and yet, i feel like a complete beginner. I’ve had to use Windows here and there over the years, but it clearly wasn’t enough to build any kind of...
Some people can decide to do a thing and then simply do the thing. I assume these people are highly organized or possibly magical. I am not these people. I’m not even talking about a big thing. I mean a very small thing. A thing that should take two minutes. Like having a cup of coffee. I walk into the kitchen fully...
See the series post for an overview of all the episodes. Notes 00:00 A rather lengthy introduction and recap (sorry Patrice!). 09:30 Patrice reviews and re-explains the case ... when ... then ... else statement in the @assert annotation, noting that if neither of the conditions match then the expression evaluates to...
I believe this how the web “just” works when handling input fields: So, here’s the deal when I clicked a form input field my iPhone (in Safari) would zoom in on the page. It was driving me insane. Not sure where I stumbled on the “fix” or if I can even call it that, but any font size smaller than 16px on form inputs...
As I hear more and more people in my life share that they want to fully ditch social media, I'm obviously delighted. That said, I (shockingly) have some thoughts...