Tue Mar 10
After trying Qobuz, I've decided to ditch that and I am testing Deezer.
Justo cuando en el sueño está por pasar algo interesante, se percibe un movimiento de aire en el ambiente, como si se abriera la puerta. Escucho una voz que dice “Pa… PAA! Ya va a ser la hora”, e irremediablemente me levanto para cumplir con mi rol de padre. Estuve a 30 minutos, de cumplir con mi ciclo de sueño pero...
My folks live in an apartment complex. We have a security guard, and here in India, they’re called the “watchman”. Their days are uneventful. They ensure shady characters don’t wander into the apartment compound, they ensure the lights are turned on, the cars are cleaned, the water is pumped to the overhead tank,...
“There is no description of a life without an account of the changes that are possible within it,” Adam Philips writes in his superb meditation on our ambivalent desire for change — ambivalence brilliantly rendered in the Vampire Problem thought experiment, illustrating the paradoxical psychology of why have such a...
I’ve been toying for a few months now with the idea of a pithy aphorism, something along the lines of “the curse of sentience is its desire to be self-indulgent”. It’s not a commentary on craving chocolate, but this idea that somehow, in all our self-aware brilliance, there is a compulsive need to know about...
I’ve spent more time over the last 20 years working on front-end asset pipelines than I’d care to admit. One thing that kept coming up when inheriting older codebases was CSS full of vendor prefixes that hadn’t been necessary for years - -webkit-border-radius sitting above border-radius, -moz-box-shadow doubling up...
March 2026. Balham. London. A second London pub tick in quick succession, the Southeastern service presumably making a request stop just for me at Balham, where I had a restorative double espresso in a cute station obssessed with the local football team. Matcha seems the drink of choice. What even is matcha ? What...
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. Jay Graber Steps Down as Bluesky CEO, WeDistribute. She remains in the company, now as director of innovation (CIO). Replacing her on an interim basis is Toni Schneider, former...
"These desires for distance and distinction underwrite man's ancient investment in sight, and the evidence of his eyes."
What did I dream? I dreamt of travel, of seeing the faraway places, located not within the confines of my tiny concrete house, neither within the confines of the boundary wall that surrounds it, and neither within the metal grille barrier that separates these so called 'countries'. I dreamt I would be free again, I...
(image courtesy of Henrik Uldalen) dear universe, i have a question for you. likely one that, in all of your infinite wisdom, has a stunningly simple answer. but such an answer has eluded me for more than 9 weary, long years. the question is this: how does one excavate a long-seated rot from one's soul, without...
让博客的代码高亮适配主题 我的博客是用 org-publish 生成的，后面我给博客添加了主题切换（见 给博客添加 dark mode）， 当时留下了一个问题 ⸺ org-publish 生成的代码高亮是内联在 HTML 标签里的，我没法通过 light-dark 去设置亮色/暗色主题下不同的颜色，只能选择一种代码高亮主题，要么是亮色，要么是暗色。 关于博客的构建见： 使用 org-publish 发布博客 结合 denote 和 org-publish 写博客...
The vibe Motivated by the return of racing while navigating a few rough nights and a busy week of security work. Highlights This week kicked off the new season of F1! I have been waiting for this for a few month now. This season beings all new era for F1; new rules, regulations, and new car designs. The first race...
He tenido problemas con mi Nintendo Switch 2. Compré una tarjeta microSD Express hace un mes, la instalé, y ya me costó algunos intentos mover algunos “programas” de la memoria interna a la externa; esto debería haber sido aviso suficiente, pero terminé por conseguir transferir algo de información. Pero no llegó a...
In its 2023 and 2025 surveys, Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (APDA) asked current PhD students to rate their satisfaction with their financial situation. [collage by Mark Wagner]In a post at the APDA site, co-director Kino Zhao (Simon Fraser University) reports on some of the findings. Students in 2025 report...
Release presentation Numbers the 273rd release8 changes63 days (total: 10,712)264 bugfixes (total: 13,640)538 commits (total: 38,024)0 new public libcurl function (total: 100)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 308)0 new curl command line option (total: 273)77 contributors, 48 new (total: 3,619)37 authors, 21...
I’m going to be exhibiting two pieces of my artwork as part of Hastings Arts Forum’s “New Members 2026” group exhibition. The exhibition runs from 18th to 29th March 2026 at the Hastings Arts Forum gallery at 20 Marine Court, St Leonards on Sea, TN38 0DX. The Open Evening will be held 6–8pm on Friday 20th March. We...
I tried to keep this short. I failed. I had intentions of coming on here to talk about work-related topics and how my entire life is probably about to change. It just goes to show that I never really have any idea what's going to happen when I got a couple of minutes to write and sit down to actually do so. I feel...
My 2.3 regular readers might remember when I disavowed solarpunk a couple weeks ago: cyberpunk gardening? isn't that just solarpunk? (no) ...well, ya girl has been doing some reading since. Especially because there are a LOT of literary magazines out there taking solarpunk fiction right now. And ya girl likes to get...
I enjoy having long talks with loved ones. It's a wonderful way for us to connect, share experiences and perspectives, and to “think out loud” – to talk through and crystallize thoughts that have been bouncing around in our brains but haven't quite fully formed yet. Lately I've been having long talks with my son....
I unexpectedly got a new phone yesterday, a Google Pixel 10. No, I didn't install Graphene OS on it, or any OS. I can't -- it's contracted. I'm de-Googling the best I can by turning off all the slop and bloatware and using FOSS apps. The dogmatic discussions around de-Googling are intriguing. In the community, there...
Rina wakes before the bell. Always does. Anna’s face is fifteen centimeters away on the shared pillow, mouth slightly open, one hand curled near her chin. Rina counts the breaths. Seventeen per minute. Yesterday was fifteen. The day before was fourteen. The wake bell sounds at 0400. Anna’s eyes open, find Rina’s...
In my head, some bugs belong to categories that feel important, and yet remain hard to define and quantify: embarrassing bugs, dumb bugs, flow killers. Somewhere in the hard-to-explain space is another tricky category: UI decisions that feel cheap. The examples of cheapness that come to my mind readily will, I bet,...
The other day my Google Pixel 8 Pro just decided that neither Bluetooth nor WiFi were things it needed anymore. Apparently it’s a common issue with Pixel handsets. In any case, it put a real damper on the phone’s usefulness to me. I was loathed to drop money on a brand new handset, so instead used my insurance to...
Previously. Ingredients In order, add to a glass: coconut milk (1/2 cup) chia seeds (2 tbsps) maple syrup / honey (sweetener) vanilla extract cinnamon a pinch of salt Preparation Whisk everything. Let it soak overnight in the fridge. Top with blueberries, raspberries or cherries. Or with nuts. Inspiration: feel good...
When I first got into skincare a few years ago, I read a lot about sunscreen. And despite any potential conspiracy by Big Skin™, sunscreen is pretty magical stuff.1 As part of that research, I also learned how much sunscreen people “should” be wearing. And reader, let me tell you: I do not think anyone is using the...
Whenever I have Claude do something for me, I feel nothing about the results. It feels like something happens around me, not through me. That's the new level of abstraction: you stop writing code and start describing intent. You stop crafting and start delegating. I've been doing this professionally long enough to...
Deploy a Matrix server using Conduit and Cinny on FreeBSD in the homelab Here is a small post about deploying a Matrix server in the homelab. The goal is a Matrix server running on a FreeBSD jail that can be used from the web browser on your desktop. It is a quick-and-dirty configuration, to get you started. This...
In case you haven’t heard, Eleventy, the excellent static site generator that I use for this very website has been acquired by Font Awesome. As a result, it has been renamed, sigh, Build Awesome. After seeing what happened to Shoelace, I’m apprehensive and very much not looking forward to seeing what features get...
I read Jason Snell’s review of the MacBook Neo this morning and was struck by this section on its two USB-C ports: So Apple has done the work to put two USB-C ports on the Neo—and those ports reveal a bit more of the struggles Apple had in building this computer. Both of the USB-C ports will let you charge (which is...
Finding Your Dharma or Living the Dharma? mtift Tue, 03/10/2026 - 07:52 The No Kings protest is coming up again. You may have heard about it, and perhaps you feel some pressure to attend. In the past, I organized groups to go, so people in my yoga classes and other parts of my life have asked whether I plan to go...
Something interesting – and perhaps concerning – when comparing my current ISP to my previous provider is how many websites Virgin Media blocks by default. The blocks appear to be over and above court-mandated blocks in the UK. I understand Parental Controls are used to block things like adult websites, gambling,...
Mood: System Overload (Cute Variation). > WELCOME TO ZORK: DISABILITY EDITION (v 2.4) > Copyright (c) The Universe Is A Glitch. > All rights reserved. No visual drivers installed. Audio/Haptic Engine set to MAXIMUM. > BRIEFING You are ROBERT. You are a white Level 30 Mage of the Written Word with a constitution...
Dear 100-Year-Old Me, Quick question. Was it worth it? You know the things I’m talking about. The decisions that had the same energy as watching a kid climb higher on the playground equipment while the adult – never moving from their bench on the sidelines – says, “You’re gonna regret that.” That’s basically how I...
Added an additional glossary for traditional clothing (link in the glossary page). Added a page for the world pillar, Sammas, as well as tietäjä in cosmology. In deities, I added an additional essay of mine on the supposed "wife of Ukko". Oh, and also! The little info we have on Köndös is also in deities.
As a teacher in the world of Software Development, AI is a given. It's something that cannot be ignored. And it's something that provides opportunities as well, both for my students and for myself. Therefore I'm continuously looking for ways to use AI in education. Not as a tool that does things for you without any...
Replied to Why This Blog Uses RSS (Not a Newsletter) by Sebastian Sastre (Selective Creativity) I’m not against newsletters. They work for many goals. But for this blog — a conceptual stream, not a growth funnel — the goal is different. I want you to read the ideas in full, in a place you choose, without a middleman...
Kleberg Avenue, Kingsville, Texas A hectic week of travel. On Monday I came back from Austria where I’d spent a long weekend in the skiing town of Kitzbühel with colleagues. On Tuesday I worked from home, with my day packed full of meetings and messages to catch up with. That evening my wife and I checked in on her...
The Heat center, who is known as one of the league’s best defenders, entered Tuesday with a career scoring average of just 16 points per game and has only averaged more than 20 points per game once in his career (20.4, in the 2022–23 season).This is bonkers. Not in a million years would anyone have guessed Bam would...
Fortsetzung der TENDLER Programmbeschreibung. TENDLER: 1. Grobaufbau und prinzipielle Überlegungen TENDLER: 2. Benutzung des Programmes TENDLER: 3. Der Prädiktor TENDLER: 4. Die Korrektoriteration TENDLER: 5. Die Fehlerkontrolle TENDLER: 6. Die Schrittweiten- und Ordnungssteuerung TENDLER: 7. Start, Statistiken und...
Wednesday morning, listening to jazz and eating breakfast. It's been a long time since I last listened to jazz, actually. I brought it out in a last-ditch effort to get myself to wash the dishes when I woke up before dawn this morning. I spent an hour in bed just doing whatever on my phone, but in the end, I did get...
This is Clementine. I don’t have the slightest fucking idea how any of the rest of me is okay. How anyone can be focusing on cleaning out the closet, or planning out charm bracelets, or the parent we live with acting like shit is normal. People are dying. The internet might be dying in pursuit of making people’s...
Went home early from work yesterday because I felt kinda icky. Stayed home today because I was up all night with stomach issues. :(
This might be my favorite picture from the bird festival. It was from the pelagic bird watching trip. When we were back in the marina, this guy jumped onboard hoping we’d brought back some fish. I love the contrast of the Snowy Egrets feathers and yellow against the blue sky. Adding the moon and hook made the scene...
Me gusta explorar la biblioteca. Se que hay una computadora donde se pueden buscar los títulos, pero me parece divertido husmear por mi cuenta, claro que cuando busco un libro en específico sí lo busco primero en la computadora para ver si siquiera lo tienen. Ayer fui a la biblioteca y como se puede esperar de un...
(mlisp (chapter (p-intro America loves their millionaires. But what if they were a bunch of twats? ) ) (chapter (p-accent (cite Tender is the Night) is a classic American novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. We've all read (cite The Great Gatsby) , but that's where my knowledge of his works ended. So, when I found...
It seems like everybody else is either saying that LLM technology is either true artificial intelligence and we should all bow down to it (it is not, and fuck that noise) and we'd best get used to it, or that it's going to destroy everything and we'd best get used to it (it's not but some mornings it feels that...
I find it interesting how people have made such a big deal out of this book online. It looks like it is so deep in philosophy. But in reality, while well done, anyone who has read enough fiction or movies on such themes should be able to read it. The phasing and language reminds me of Harry Potter and their...
You can read the previous post in this series here. Backing Up All The Things In One PlaceI've finally gotten it right and now I can at last transfer my 500gb of data from OneDrive to my external HDD... and then I'll have all. My. Stuff. In one place, where I can go over them and mass delete duplicate files (I'm...