Sun Mar 15
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sat 03/14/2026 - Sandygast Random number for this one! In retrospect I should have tried to pick a pie or math themed pokemon for 3/14 but in my defense, the world is on fucking fire with the FBI warning that that a middle eastern superpower we...
Woensdag 18 maart gaan de meeste gemeenten stemmen (behalve Hilversum en Wijdemeren). Ooit was er de NerdVote campagne, waar we met een klankbordgroep heel zorgvuldig kandidaten kozen. Voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen kon ik niet geloofwaardig weer NerdVote doen omdat ik zelf als lijstduwer op de lijst sta voor...
I’ve been quite good at maintaining the life-drawing aspect of my artistic practice so far this year - yesterday was the fourth session of 2026 so far. I continued using a combination of 4B and 6B graphite pencils on smooth A2 Hahnemühle Nostalgie paper as this combination seems to be working for me. I messed up the...
I don’t often share videos by themselves, much less actually quote them verbatim, but I really enjoyed it this time. The e-ink display—the technology itself—actually represents something different: Focus, simplicity, and going back to our roots. There’s just something about the slow nature of the display that just...
Not much to report on this week. It was mostly cold and rainy, I got lost in Captain of Industry (yes, again. No, I don’t learn from past mistakes) and rewatched the first season of True Detective. I almost bought something online and about half an hour after I asked the seller to use the marketplace’s secure...
Decoupling business logic from storage with a small interface in Go.
weeknote #26.01 Sunday, 15. March, 2026 After a long hiatus managed to write an update to the membership project 'The Backstairs Tone'. I'm trying to be as undramatic about this pause as possible (last letter was in October). (As those who are members know) I wrote about something I'm proud of - electronic music...
9th March - 15th March I started reading Tomi Adeyemi's "Children of Blood and Bone" this week and I'm really enjoying it. I'll save a more detailed analysis for a proper review when I'm finished but, amongst other things, I'm really appreciating the world building. Another busy week at work. Organising epics into...
Reconozco ciertos vientos. No creo que el viento muera, creo que el viento sigue, va y a veces vuelve. Que el suspiro después del “Buen día” sigue viajando por el globo, que el resoplido agotado del tío que llega a casa después de 12 horas de esfuerzo se mezcle con la hiperventilación de alguien. Reconozco varios...
In the hectic world that software development seemingly has become, reading “The Joy of Building Slow” by Andy from !Boring1 felt like a breath of fresh air. And it deeply resonated with me. The current zeitgeist (at least according to my YouTube feed) seems to be to create apps in the shortest amount of time...
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I’ve had my iMac for almost a decade now, and aside from slowing down a bit over the years, it’s worked just fine. Until now. It started with Spotlight no longer being able to find any apps or files. After a lot of back and for with Claude that resulted in more time in Terminal than I normally like, along with a...
I SLEPT THROUGH THE WHOLE NIGHT LAST NIGHT. From 10:00 PM to 7:00 AM. Briefly woke up a time or two, but went right back to sleep. I feel so much better.
¶ Quiet day, hard work, lots of corrections, finally getting there. A few friends are helping with revisions and suggestions on the book text. ¶ This book is directed specifically to our own people, as a wake-up call and last-ditch effort to pull some back from the brink. ¶ I filled in for our song leader tonight,...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve been working my way through the fourth edition of Reingold and Dershowitz’s Calendrical Calculations, and I want to talk about something I learned. It’s a simple...
This is an excerpt from my journal. I describe what I am doing these days and how I feel about the living environment I am a part of. These days I am making raised garden beds for the coming spring. In them I will plant tomatoes, zucchinis, and onions. It is still too early to start with the vegetables, but I want...
One of my more popular blog posts was how and why I switched to Zed from Neovim. That was almost two years ago, and in that period Zed was my daily driver for programming. Every now and then I would still use Neovim to edit a config or make a quick edit, but outside of that, Zed was where I lived. It performed...
Notes for book club: Second story which I also had to re-listen. I am listening to the audiobook because: The chapters are less than an hour each. The narrator has a lovely sorrowful voice which matches the story. March is so busy that I only have time to listen to it in the commute and by night-time I am too tired...
I am currently reading The Joy of x. A Guided Tour of Math, From One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz, which seems to be a best-of his New York Times series The Elements of Math plus bonus content. He describes his book as sitting down with a friend and trying to teach them everything, starting with 1 + 1 = 2 and...
Some people spend their holidays at the beach. Some people spend their holidays in the mountains. Some people spend their holidays in the countryside. I spend my holidays in museums. People think of the museum as a rainy-day fallback, but for me, the museum is the plan all along. When i survey the map of a city i’ve...
Waste neither Time nor Money, but make the best Use of both.” —that guy on the bills you roll up for coke, you know, Jack Black from the OG Drunk History videos on Funny or DieI’m in. Yes, seriously! You’ve been banging on about the One True Faith for twenty-eight minutes and I’m tapping out. Maybe you’ve never...
Since winter began last year, I've had my "toast" button on BearBlog as a Snowflake emoji. ❄️ That is what you saw when you came here and saw a new post. When you liked or toasted a post it would turn into a Snowman. ☃️ With the Spring Equinox just around the corner, I've gotta make a decision on what two new emojis...
And we're back! It's certainly been a while, but after quite the long break, E-Ranked has finally decided to take it upon herself to visit Harrisville. There's only one problem with this endeavour. We're all out of donuts! We were going to bring grandma some, being the incredibly nice person we are, but... Thanks...
On confidence and slop, and the words that still fit There’s no getting around it; Artificial Intelligence (AI) has ruined some phrases that used to work just fine. I can’t help caring about that, though I wish I didn’t! And so I am working on gaining the confidence to write whatever I want, when I want — the same...
One Mother available for short term use; may considering selling her. Comes with interchangeable models: demure or cantankerous.
In the spring of 2020 I decided to finally do something about the lack of visualizations for how the curl project is performing, development wise. How does the line of code growth look like? How many command line options have we had over time and how many people have done more than 10 commits per year over time? I...
Things are still in suspension mode. World and private events clash and overlap, creating this sense of disbelief, mixed with slivers of hope. Lately, I’ve been exchanging long (and sometimes short) emails with several people, which is good. I still don’t get how common the idea is that if you’re not participating...
I haven't made anything with AT Proto.Okay, technically, I did made the Bluesky ThinkUp Tribute, which syncs with your Bluesky account and sends a nightly email about who changed their bio or handle on the website. It's a great little utility and I rely on it constantly. But that doesn't integrate very deeply with...
A spontaneous riverside walk along the Isar proved that even modest outings can surprise. With frosty peaks in the distance and spring’s first whispers - green grass, some flowers — we traded grand hikes for quiet moments. Sometimes, the best adventures are unplanned, and the simplest scenes become the most memorable
After winning the yearly club cross country run, life goes on. And so do my runs, albeit a little slower than usual today. This Sunday's session was in the dunes. Part of the training was running up a sandy hill that's actually a horse track. The sand lies so loose on the ground that you slip with every step you...
Just a quick note that I have now updated https://scalie.computer to a newer linkhut version. Now users can see the original linker in the link info (click the amount of saves button). Seems theres some other goodies too, I don't even know everything, but hopefully things will work well for the users. If you are...
Ángel Zárraga, The Poet, 1917. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. I’ve begun to suspect that I enjoy reading talk about poetry more than I enjoy reading poetry itself. For one thing, the latter takes the pressure off my having to figure out what’s going on, or why a particular poem or poet is supposedly so...
I share a spring themed vector artwork for the March Inkscape challenge 2026.
何为断舍离 断舍离每个字都有相应的含义。 断：拒绝让新的、不需要的东西进入自己的生活。 舍：把家中长期存在但已经不需要的东西丢弃。 离：从对物品的执着中解脱出来。 我的断舍离实践 于我而言，断舍离重在坚持，因为人（我自己）看待事物的方式是会变的。 最近在试图断舍离的时候，我发现自己有很多除了用于「收藏」没有什么别的价值的东西，其中很多东西也随着我个人观念的变化，已经不再具有当初入手或留下时的意义。...
Como nasceu o plugin Selection to Variables O post From raw Figma values to reusable design assets apareceu primeiro em Wagner Beethoven.
读《学期作业报告》 🎵 Give Up - Low Roar 前阵子在 Zine#47 分享过一篇文章： On 10 Years of Writing a Blog Nobody Reads by Joe Boudreau，里面作者讲到要避免使用「我觉得」、「我认为」之类的短语，他认为这是多余的，只会让自己的观点变得软弱无力。 在观点文章中任何地方加上「我认为」都是多余的。 使用这种「谨慎」的语言只会让你的观点变得软弱无力，以至于无法引起争论。如果你用「我觉得……」开头，那么后面说的任何话都没人能反驳，因为这只是你的感受。读起来实在乏味。 Source...
A while back I saw the trailer for this movie, and was intrigued (Andrew Garfield, Florence Pugh, of course I was intrigued!); I finally got to watch it via streaming sometime in January. Alas, my brain stopped cooperating with me sometime around then, and so I didn’t get around to writing this review until now....
I’m still trying to work out how I feel about this, so come on the journey with me… I work in the UK charity sector, and something I’ve been playing over in my mind the last couple of weeks is the OpenAI / Anthropic (ChatGPT/Claude) debate. Within a lot of organisations in the sector, the idea that OpenAI would...
I have an odd situationship when it comes to audiobooks. I used to swear by them. I still enjoyed actually reading the words, but when I worked out in the public, I would almost always have an audiobook playing in the background. But now I work from home, and I don’t use my audiobooks as much as I used to. (On a...
It was a snowy February 2026 here in my birthplace and home, Brooklyn, New York City. But while it was snowing outside, I was typing inside, publishing a good collection of new articles and short posts here on The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and over on The Emu Café Social (“ECS”) and The Newsletter Leaf Journal. Let...
Una hebra de lino encerada, fina pero a la vez muy resistente, un hilo correoso, semejante al que usan los encuadernadores para coser los pliegos, enlaza los tres actos seleccionados de la semana cultural. Mejor dicho, los tres se confabularon para arder en una única hoguera: el destello de la memoria en el espejo...
If I thought there was some god who really did care two hoots about people, who watched ’em like a father and cared for ’em like a mother…well, you wouldn’t catch me sayin’ things like ‘there are two sides to every question’ and ‘we must respect other people’s beliefs.’ You wouldn’t find me just being gen’rally nice...
Read about the concept of "Weeknotes" and thought it seemed like a nice idea. I'm currently writing my bachelors thesis and need to hold myself accountable, I thought this could be a nice way to record my progress. I'm writing about Bruno Latours concept of the Oligopticon through the lense of the need for reduction...
I've been researching how to do that whole V-tuber animated character modeling thing. Given most of my work is done in vector format in Illustrator I think I can get a decent animation from the process. But first I needed something to animate so I took Yuki, the mascot I made for my Noodlist website and went back...
Thank you. I am very brave. ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Oh nooo, are the poor corporate military goons sad that they did a mass murder ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ I am very sorry your dad died but Neytiri you must admit that’s a pretty sick-ass bow you just inherited, that’s better than anything they’re selling in the item-shop at this point in the...
I’m writing this a few years before Bitcoin’s twentieth anniversary as one of humanity’s biggest mistakes. Bitcoin is three things: The ledger (perhaps useful) The tokens (artificial scarcity) The mining (an unprecedented environmental disaster making Chernobyl, Deepwater Horizon, or Exxon Valdez look like jokes by...
In the video linked in the previous post, one of the hosts mentions at one point: The biggest rebuttal is that the greatest audio engine of all time, the one baked into all Apple products, has 16 volume steps. And no one has ever been like, “My iPhone doesn’t have enough granularity to the volume.” But of course...
They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark hummus to which the body will one day return, they become a spell against despair and a consecration of all that is alive. Beneath our feet,...
March 2026. East Grinstead. West Sussex. Our weekly trip from Sheffield to Waterbeach was followed by the monthly mercy mission to Kent, where we took father-in-law over Sussex border to the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead for essential maintenance. The Vic is a world-renowned centre for facial surgery,...
I was reveling in the "get mad, get even" approach of Ageless Linux this morning Ageless Linux when a bit of AB 1043 caught my eye: "User" means a child that is a primary user of a device. And my long-dormant training in statutory interpretation said "that is a bad definition." Then it said "If this definition is...
"Nobile in abito di state" (Nobleman in summer robe) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
Quoted crane house sandwich shop by Kat (Our Adventures in Japan) My sandwich was a BLT plus hummus...love that they toast the bread! And since crispy bacon is hard to come by in Japan, their "bacon" was more like the outer part of a baked ham! loved it! I came across Kat & Satoshi’s long-running Our Adventures in...