Sat Mar 14
A mission post by Captain Amelia Waterhouse, Ensign Miles Archer Mission - Let's Do The Timeloop Again The trip to Erebus was progressing pretty much as expected. They weren't in a hurry, Hades had not told them to get there as soon as possible, and the handful of crew that were meeting them there were a couple days...
I just came across the article BuzzKill – BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI and thought it might be worth sharing. Not because of schadenfreude but as a reminder that going all-in on a technology that you haven’t fully mastered is a gamble that risks the company’s existence. The article...
This website has moved to a new OS and web server and host! You shouldn't really notice anything different, but there are probably more broken links than usual...
After saying their goodbyes to Dr. Chorus1, the gang sets about chasing the gnolls off in exchange for the Nail-Eater goblins guiding them through the sewers. A brief debate ensures re: whether the gnolls would appreciate gin or wine more as a bribe; given the junkyard environs, they decide that bathtubs and the gin...
ArticlesCult Dynamics at the Scale of Rogue DemocraciesOptimizing Eleventy Build Performance: From 38s to Under 10sDev Log: Hunting OOM kills, fixing CLS, and making Eleventy builds 10x fasterNotesAfter a few fix the feature is a success I can now show provenance from ActivityPub aka the fediverse, Indieweb sites...
I know a few self-published authors who are quitting the business. It's not the writing that's the hard part, it's selling the books, it's marketing, it's managing their own online shop, it's struggling to find readers and fans for your books in an age of instant social media gratification and AI slop. It’s dealing...
John Gruber linked to a piece by Sam Henri Gold entitled “This Is Not the Computer for You”, which both is and isn’t an article about the MacBook Neo. It’s a reflection on how kids get started with computers, and how when he was a kid, “every limitation was just the edge of something I hadn’t figured out yet.” It’s...
Some of you may have noticed that I change blog platforms regularly, I love all the new ideas and how different blog providers have slightly different approaches. It allows us bloggers to find the tool that suits. Or that should be the idea, some of us move platforms regularly, often returning to one we have used...
This morning I went down to Collector's Con here in Eau Claire. It's a fun little con, and I stopped by last year too. I thought about selling there (since I'm at, like, literally every other con in town) but a week after Evercon was just too much to plan for. I've done two cons in a row before, and it almost burnt...
This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. “My business is circumference,” Emily Dickinson wrote in one of her most cryptic letters. Since ancient times, human beings have been enchanted by the immutable relationship between the circumference of a circle and its diameter, no matter the circle’s...
Found this one inside a drawer in one of auntie’s home. She said I could have it, so here we are now. I put on new batteries, found a manual in Spanish on the internet and got it working as both a calculator and a numpad. Pretty dope! Sadly the cursor gets kind of laggy with it. Regardless I'm taking it home with me.
This short Article is in addition to my Pockethernet V2 Review I posted last year December. At the time of writing the original Article there was a announced BER Loop Adapter and ID Plugs but not available at that time. Now some time later this changed and I clicked them in the official Pockethernet store. Brief...
It is an oft lamented fact of modern life, at least in 'Broken Britain', that nothing seems to work any more. Lord knows, I've lamented it myself often enough – so it is good to be able to report that I've found at least one thing that still works, and actually works far better than it used to... Some time last week...
I have been at times frustrated by cute placeholder text in places, most notably Dropbox Paper, which still puts them in a just-created doc… …and in new to-do items: This bothered me for two reasons. First was a potential tone mismatch. What if you are writing a layoffs announcement, a project cancellation doc, or...
When my youngest niece was a toddler, she was obsessed with this "tablet for toddlers": Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Tablet It's basically a set of alphabet buttons, with a switch to set one of three "learning levels." Each level plays the name of the letter, a word that starts with that letter, a sound...
Negative feelings are interesting because they show up uninvited and immediately start rearranging the furniture in your brain. You’ll be having a perfectly normal day. Drinking coffee. Minding your business. Maybe even feeling… good. And suddenly your brain is like, “Remember that thing in 1998? Bet you’d like to...
I have been using Obsidian now for almost six years. It seems to have gained a lot of attention recently, as people plug Claude Code directly into one of the most sacred directories on their computer. Linting and Prettifying your vault is one thing, but I’m still on the fence about how I feel about an AI having that...
You may have noticed a lack of content from me lately. My Internet has been super unreliable for ages, and these last two weeks it has been even worse. And it’s not like it has been down. Instead we’ve been having these periods (almost every day) where our upload speed goes down to nothing. The way the internet...
March 2026. Sheffield. Our friends from Chicago roused themselves at an uncivilised hour on the Monday and we ferried them back to Luton, a journey which might have shattered their illusions about pastoral England. By Tuesday I needed to get out the house, anywhere, and jumped on the first bus from Langsett Road,...
There are a number of ‘office suites’, so called after the ubiquity of MS Office. The ones listed below are all independent or open-source packages. There are a number of alternatives to using MS Word, such as markdown. It’s a keyboard-driven plain text language that will wean you off reaching for your mouse every...
Divya, Eryn, and I went to Bay FC’s home opener against the Denver Summit at PayPal Park this afternoon. Our girls won 2–1. I’m so glad the NWSL is back!
On YouTube, there's a channel I really like that centers around what I can only call "mundane gaming content." Instead of focusing on things like expert gameplay or humorous commentary, the guy running the channel posts videos where he goes around the world of Skyrim doing "unemployment censuses" or tries to map out...
Jürgen Habermas, well-known for his influential work in political philosophy and social theory, has died. Professor Habermas wrote extensively on critical social theory, and is often seen as a figure through which the critical theory of the Frankfurt School is connected to today’s political philosophy. He is best...
I wrote this a while ago after reading Sonechka's post for the indieweb carneval on "Intersecting Interests". That interests would intersect seemed obvious to me, a bigger problem for me was formulating what exactly I'm interested in at all. Not because I'm not interested in anything, but because I don't know what...
I’m not crying, you are crying–and also, I just inhaled a book. After literal months of not being able to read. Beware: third person, present tense, single point of view (this may not be your cuppa, but I swear it works here!); anxiety (the representation may hit you a bit–or a lot–too hard if you have it, so please...
Dear Ciara, The first few weeks in the new house are over. It has been a wet few weeks, and a surprisingly emotional few weeks for me too. This transition into home ownership—and this change in scenery— has been challenging. I admit, I haven’t adjusted to the change as easily as I thought, but each day I find myself...
I've been interviewing a lot of DevRels recently (I'm still hiring!) and part of the interview process is, naturally, telling them what the job actually entails. In DevRel that's a bit more important than other positions, because DevRel is such a flexible and multi-faceted role that it means very different things...
My cute outfit today! Taken by Husbando when we stopped to get coffee this afternoon.
Today I read a blog post entitled ”'Blessed are the Warriors' Isn’t a Thing” and I can't stop thinking about it. The title states the premise of that short blog post clearly. Jesus said “blessed are the peacemakers,” so why are so many who claim to be Christians enthusiastically supporting war and glorifying those...
Today was the yearly club cross race: a 4K-ish parcours on and around our club's running track to figure out who becomes the club champion in their category. And would you believe it... I won! Or well, at least I won against the other contestants in my category who actually chose to compete today. There certainly...
The Saga Otaimatsu Torch Festival is held every March 15 at Seiryo-ji Temple, celebrating Buddha's passing. Three 7 meter tall torches are set on fire, with giant flames and embers flying everywhere. In fact, it's said to be good luck if embers land on your clothes....
Instance 713 I. The lattice woke her before she would have woken herself. It always did. The crystal filaments threading her left flank had grown overnight — they always grew at rest, finding the paths of least resistance through flesh that had stopped fighting them — and when the body warmed back toward...
How to wrap a generated gRPC client behind a clean Go API so users never have to touch protobuf types or connection management directly.
These are the phones I remember owning since 2000. Nokia 3210 Sony Ericsson K300i Nokia E63 Dopod D600 Motorola Milestone Samsung Galaxy Nexus Nexus 5 Apple iPhone SE OnePlus 5 OnePlus 7 Pro Motorola Edge 40 Neo I’m about to buy a new phone. It’s about two years old, and it’s not bad for what I need - listening to...
This is my blog post about how I'm merging the MN Coffee Map, NYC Coffee Map and Chicago Coffee Map into a single Expo codebase.
Today is π day, which is a silly day to celebrate based on a completely arbitrary calendar system that happens to share some concordance with the inferior circle constant in our standard number system1. But π day is a bit special to me. Or rather, this π day is special to me, because it’s the 10th anniversary of an...
It’s time for a new installment of fun Fedi links! **Drumroll** Today we have a bit of everything as your doom-scrolling antidote. Let’s start with blogging. I heard it’s back, so if you feel like getting into it (again?) here’s a post with links to a ton of ways to host your own site, and some things to blog about....
The only time I've ever "believed" was when I was a child. I would have nightmares about burning in hell, my body becoming part of a molten pit of fire. Luckily, I grew up in a really diverse area and went to a public school, so I made 'friends' with all kinds of kids. I didn't really consider them friends because...
Around 20 years ago I went to University, studying electrical engineering with a specialisation in telecommunications engineering. I was particularly interested in everything that had to do with audio. Signal processing, sound generation, audio compression etc. were endlessly fascinating to me, so I spent a lot of...
I haven’t used Indiekit to post anything recently! Quick update on the blog: I’ve been busy working on my new Hugo theme redesign—learnt to use Git branches, forked the Anubis2 theme code so I could squash unused/overriding CSS rules, trying to redesign the theme to make it more a11y-friendly, etc. I think I’ll miss...
Back when I first started designing and coding things for the web, one of my favorite channels was the one from a designer named Mackenzie Child. In hindsight, one of his videos had a huge impact on me. Despite it being a simple video with a simple message: But the great thing about our world today, with the...
I strain to use my eye as an investigatory tool—as a pencil, with my mind the sketch pad. I am not very skilled at it, which means that I can get better. That’s Patrick Bringley in All the Beauty in the World, a great little book about his experience as a guard at the Met but it’s also a book about loss, art, and...
I listen to a lot of genres. My whole life I’ve gravitated towards indie and counter cultural folk (is there a type of folk that isn’t counter cultural? I don’t know). At times I’ve been afraid to share that I also love pop. This weirdly seems to be the case for many people. Pop is too trite. It’s too mainstream....
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[Everything between February 09 to the date of publishing this] From single cardigan weather to sports bra and shorts.DataMovies watched: 3 (2 in cinema halls) Average steps last 30 days: 8000 Average sleep last 30 days: 7 hours 8 minutes Choriso poee eaten: 3 A small list of things in the last 30ish...
He estado pensando mucho en esto, en como hay momentos que se me vienen a la mente de repente. Puede que ni sean algo realmente importante, algo diminuto que pasó, pero aún después de años me acuerdo. Recuerdo por ejemplo una tarde cualquiera en la iba caminando con el grupo que me juntaba en la preparatoria, fuimos...
Eu na maioria do tempo tento ser uma pessoa mais positiva hoje em dia. Já tive a minha fase de trevas e que achava que tudo deveria acabar, mas como todo jovem a gente cresce e vê que não dá pra ser assim quando se é adulto... ou pelo menos não dá pra ser assim 100% do tempo pelo menos. Porém frustração é algo que...
(image courtesy of an unknown artist) i have been having an immensely difficult time focusing on anything as of late. again. the fact that this is so, so, so far from an irregular occurrence is starting to truly, deeply scare me. days where i actually manage to do or work on something of value to me—a personal or...
I was officially diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) on 30 November 2024 when seeing an eye doctor, then I wrote a post about living with RP in December. On 12 March 2026, 15 months after my initial RP diagnosis, I went to see another eye doctor for more thorough eye examinations, after a relative who also has...