Fri Mar 13
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thurs 03/12/2026 - Cubchoo Hit RNG for Thursday and got Cubchoo; (take a drink) I'd never seen this one before and it's both adorable and gross at the same time, and as I'm fighting off a pretty gnarly sickness right now (that contains lots of nose...
Scientific American has a fun little article today about the frequency of Friday the 13ths. It ends with this table, and this true but overstated conclusion: In other words, the 13th of a month will be a Friday more times than any other day of the week. Well, yes, if you live to be 400 years old, you’ll see one more...
Why the etcd codebase is my go-to reference for building gRPC services in Go.
"La cazza del toro" (Running with bulls) from the "Habiti delle Donne Venetiane", published by Giacomo Franco, c. 1610.
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. This morning it was Entre Dos Tierras by Héroes del Silencio Reply by email
Amo el cine. No soy cineasta, ni crítico, me encanta consumir películas de autores que aportarán algún mensaje a mi vida, pero también me encanta comerme una película bien pochoclera nivel “son como niños”, como mínimo. Nada de medias tintas y nada más lindo que sentarse en el sillón y dejarse sorprender por la...
Now that my TERMINAL-1090 station and 5G router sit in the attic, I don't have them in line of sight. Not a problem per se, but I wouldn't mind checking up on them every now and then, without taking an arduous trip from the living room to the attic. I know, the struggle is real. Since I don't need my Logitech S920...
Old network edge devices often stay in place far longer than they should, creating technical debt and unnecessary security risk I keep coming back to the same thought lately: a lot of cybersecurity risk is not hiding in some mysterious zero-day fog machine. A lot of it is sitting right at the edge of the network,...
Nick Heer on Instagram Direct Messages losing its privacy opt-in: Of course not many people opted into end-to-end encryption – that is the whole point of the power of defaults, and something users should not have to think about. He adds: [Meta] is now an artificial intelligence company. Do not ask what “Meta” means....
I feel like a spent fuel rod from a nuclear reactor. Still technically full of energy, but unstable, overheating, and slowly running out of stamina and sanity. Ever since Atomoxetine stabilised my brain chemistry, I can just do shit now. It’s still such a surreal feeling, and I’m feeling a bit jet-lagged from it....
Music, lyrically isn’t the same as it was [late 90s to early 2000s]. Now, between mumble rap-pop-rock and new-sub-cores every year, It’s hard to keep up with what artists are trying to pass along. Everything is muddled like a terrible, dirty mojito. It was different, a time where it wasn’t “easy” to make music. It...
Hi everyone! Firstly I'm so glad the first post of the Pagan Experiences series reached so many people, I hope I got you invested for the future installments hahaha. I am actively working on the next Terminology part, but it turned out to be much bigger than I anticipated. So far I have 20 words drafted, 8 of which...
I have an Obsidian note titled "Copypasta" where I copy/paste random shit I stumble across that I think is weird/funny/interesting and don't want to forget. The other day I was looking at it and found a weird Amazon review I had saved from last year. It was so unhinged, I had to keep it: "worst pillows ever and way...
Twelve titles have been included on the longlist for this year’s Stella Prize, the Australian literary award recognising the work of women and non-binary writers. 58 Facets: On violence and the law, by Marika Sosnowski Ankami, by Debra Dank Apron-Sorrow / Sovereign-Tea, by Natalie Harkin Cannon, by Lee Lai Find Me...
I’ve been sick for half of this past week, so not much drivel to share this Friday. The core of my love for reading grew through affordable mass market paperbacks. While it’s not new news, it’s a little sad to see them leaving. Still, I really would prefer not to read that tiny, cramped print these days. I saw this...
Hardly ever do I get truly embarrassed to the point that thinking about it makes me want to die. I put myself out there a lot, so I'm confident in my social ability, and I'm a thinker so I don't generally say the wrong thing or mess up in my words.
A philosophical discussion arc is a curve displaying how frequently a term appears in philosophical journal abstracts, titles, and keywords (compared to a representative universe of common philosophy words). A couple of weeks ago, I posted discussion arcs from the 1940s-2020s for several topics and historical...
I’ve got a problem. It a modern problem. I have too much time on my hands, and I’m wasting it using my hands to scroll. My eyes are in a perpetual state of strain and fatigue. My wrist aches and I have a sore neck and shoulder. I’m addicted to my phone and it isn’t the first time. Years ago the solution that I found...
I’ve vibe coded.Challenging one’s own convictions can sometimes be difficult, but necessary. I’ve used generative AI sporadically for some tasks for a while, and I haven’t been all that impressed. However, people I’ve known for many years and whose competence is not in question kept telling me how extremely...
strugglesInitially, I did the detox because I felt some old tech habits creeping back in (phone in bed and turning off site blockers in particular). I ended up making good on my promises. Counting the days without siteblockers (20 day streak!), especially further on into the detox process, motivated me to keep...
The best thing that happened this week I haven't shared this yet, but I'm creating an iPhone app as a side project, and this week I've been making some pretty good progress. I'm not yet ready to share what the app is about since I'm very much still figuring things out. More on that in the coming weeks I hope!...
(image courtesy of pabloxan) we meet under the cover of darkness at the brink of a dawn-before-dawn, where bodies are helpless, fragile puppets within the relentless eye of her mind. two breathing corpses, lying in wake, awaiting this early morning's recital. respite. repentance. ~ this day's iteration passed by in...
About as good a summation on the state of social media as I’ve read anywhere, there’s a lot that stuck with me from Technically Good’s post. But the bit that I’ve been turning over in my head was the explanation of network effects and switching costs. Speaking of the inherent “cost” of leaving one social media...
It’s about time I finally write a timeline of how frustrating HRT has been over the years, because I’m tired of re-explaining it and just want something to point folks to whenever it comes up.Short version: I have historically been done extremely dirty by the healthcare system when it comes to HRT access. 2004:...
JNDThis already did the rounds, but it was fun to give it a go myself. I got a 0.0040 on it.
March 2026. Sheffield and the Peak. Last weekend we “hosted” (ugh) Meighan and Dave from Chicago during their whirlwind tour of Europe. I have never seen Mrs RM go into such a cleaning frenzy, which sadly extended to getting me to mow the lawn. What happened to the wild garden craze ? I knew nothing about Meighan...
In a blog post published last December, we demonstrated how we managed to extract the firmware from a smartwatch by exploiting an out-of-bounds read vulnerability and spying on its screen interface. Follow us on our long and unexpected journey to figure out how this smartwatch can measure heart rate or blood...
De belastingdienst is van plan om de BTW uit te besteden aan een Amerikaans bedrijf, wat echt waanzinnig is. Op 19 maart is er een commissievergadering in de Tweede Kamer hierover, en ik hoop van harte dat men bij zinnen komt. In de discussie over de btw-situatie de afgelopen jaren ging het eigenlijk alleen over dat...
I know some of you are all whispering “he’s posting all of these hour-long YouTube videos, when am I supposed to find time to watch them”? I hear you loud and clear and I’m going to make it better… …by sharing this four-plus-hour long YouTube video by Jenny Nicholson from May 2024 – just so those other videos will...
The most common picture of God goes something like this: before the universe existed, there was nothing. Then God, existing somehow outside of nothing, decided to make something. The universe is his handiwork. He is the potter. We are the pots. This picture has problems. The first is logical. If the universe...
When I was a kid I always wanted to be a creative type. I loved writing, I loved drawing, I loved music. I decided I was going to be a musician (and I was pretty good, a very long time ago). But if I was to have to get a "proper" job, then designer was what I wanted. Neither of those happened[1][2] and instead, when...
“This is a place for prayers to be heard” is an absolutely insane sentence considering that Neytiri was taught the English word ‘prayer’ by people who have only a theoretical, internal relationship with deity at best, while the Na’vi are very much in real, regular, directly-observable contact with theirs. ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁...
As you’ve probably guessed, this is not a “Here’s my system, you should use it for yourself too” blog post. It's more of a “Here’s my organized mess and pretty pictures with helpful links” post.
Llevo rato viendo esto de los Blog Roll y no me parece una mala idea. Inauguremos este articulo con mi pagina propia de /blogroll y una herramienta que hice para facilitar la tarea: OPML to Blog Roll Esta es una herramienta sencilla, diseñado en un modelo híbrido porque si algo me desespera, es que un programa no...
The first part of a new calendar year marks the moment my software development students go on their internships. It's the last semester of their education and the first time they're fully exposed to the real, professional world, outside the safe walls of the school. Exciting and scary at the same time. For me, this...
Blessed rising of the sun Blessed day to greet and live Blessed prayer of thanks to God Blessed power to serve and love tzag goodmorning greeting
It’s been a hectic week. Most of the things I had planned have been done, but there are always things left to do! Visas are here. All of us got 3-year multiple-entry travel visas. Maybe we can make another visit to Australia and spend more time there. I would love to ride around Australia if possible. But before...
I've released a speed paint video and transcript. It shows the process of doing the colours for the pc98 style room pixel art I made in 2024.
“Human being, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to an invisible tune, intoned in the distance by a mysterious player.” We are accidents of biochemistry and chance, moving through the world waging wars and writing poems, spellbound by the seductive illusion of the self, every single one of our atoms traceable...
I. The archive office smells of lamp oil and wet ink and the particular sourness of paper that has absorbed ten thousand nervous hands. Nara presses her palm flat against the edge of the stone counter and waits. She is good at waiting. She learned it young, the way you learn to breathe through your mouth when the...
Allora: 'sta cosa dei videogiochi come argomento della sagra indieweb mi ha colto per qualche motivo in contropiede. Non perché non sia un argomento valido, anzi, proprio perché mi ha fatto pensare e ragionare ben più di quanto volessi su un qualcosa che... boh, inizialmente avevo derubricato a "mo scrivo cosa mi...
Snail Mail Sign-Ups 2026-03-13 I recently came across Adrian’s post on HackerNews titled The dead Internet is not a theory anymore. It was a good read with similarly good discussions in the associated HN comments (rare, I know!). An interesting comment that stuck out to me was: I think next step will be an isolated...
It’s been almost two years since launching this blog. Back then, I used to write very frequently on here1. But since then, that habit of writing daily has faded quite a bit. And especially lately, my brain felt very scattered across different things that are very important to me when it comes to creating and...
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Should academics be more conservative? [Allan D’Arcangelo, “Side View Mirror” (detail)]One way to characterize conservatism is as an appreciation of enduring institutions and widespread social practices, flawed as they may be—and which are constituted and maintained by human beings, flawed as they may be—that have...
Born on this day in 1593, in the Duchy of Lorraine, was the painter Georges De La Tour, a somewhat mysterious figure of whom little is known, and who was quite forgotten until his work was rediscovered in the early 20th century. He's generally classified as a follower of Caravaggio, but that influence came...
Sign-ups for Issue Two of the Internet Phone Book are now open. I received Issue One last year and a lot of ya’ll emailed me about not seeing the sign-up form go out, so here ya go. Let’s be neighbors!Reply via email
displayplacer: macOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements. Essentially XRandR for macOS. Install it via homebrew: shell % brew install displayplacer The typical workflow is: configure displays manually first (System Settings > Displays), then run displayplacer list to capture...
I've been thinking about how we find meaning in life after reading "The Happiness Of Dogs" by Mark Rowlands. I also finally played Disco Elysium, and I think I have thoughts on applying Rowlands' thoughts to the game. A note on spoilers: I will be discussing the game without any care for spoilers. This is your only...
I was about ready to leave. I'd spent a frustrating couple of hours without being able to capture anything, not even so much as a Robin. I was having one final attempt at a couple of Great Tits when I caught a glimpse of some hind legs disappearing on the track ahead of me. I'd spotted a deer yesterday and wasn't...
Welp, it finally happened. I was called for Jury Duty. I think I must be a weirdo because I was curious and, honestly, looking forward to the opportunity to experience it. TL;DR # If I could send past me an email, this is what I'd want to know. When you first call in, you get an older recording and it's slightly out...
If you’ve been building web for a while, you probably remember the mess of six million files in your head element just to have a well-supported favicon. This is all over now, and a handful of files should be more than enough. Alleluia! “How to Favicon in 2026” on Evil Martians blog goes in depth into it. SVG...
While walking down Mission in La Lengua yesterday I encountered a man who… certainly had a lot to say to me. I got the gist, despite not speaking Spanish. I’m pretty sure he hoped for quite a bit more from the encounter, but he had to settle for disappointment. I’m safe and unharmed, but I find I’m also...
Before I begin, let me first state this is NOT about the movie. I haven't seen it. Based on some chatter I'm hearing regarding the movie, I'm not sure I want to - and if that wasn't enough, re-reading this book REALLY makes me not want to see it. I was that kid who always had their nose stuck in a book, no matter...
Thanks to everyone who came. This group is so much fun to chat with. I get smarter every time.Here are the links. AI stuffPrompt Foo"MCP is dead. Long live the CLI.""Don't build agents. Build skills instead."Context ArenaCLI tools that pair well with LLMsLangChainAlso, Collxn was featured on the OpenAI Developers...
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...