Mon Mar 16
I feel like a bear coming up out of a hibernation and I am glad to be back out in the open. I had to check out and log off for the first of the year. For the job, we have offices in Minnesota just outside the cities and in all honesty – I just … Continue reading Things to Read – Edition 0005 →
I went to the Brooklyn, New York City neighborhood of Williamsburg with a friend on September 28, 2025. It was my first walk to Williamsburg since May 4 of the same year. On my previous Williamsburg excursion, which was to be fitted for a tuxedo I needed for a different friend’s wedding at the end of August, I...
It seems like fate that James chose Museum Memories of this month’s Indieweb Carnival, because just recently, by chance, I visited one of the most impressive places from my childhood after more than 40 years: the Deutsches Museum in Munich. My wife and I had traveled to the Bavarian capital for a rock concert by the...
I am trading blog post titles with Frances. Frances wrote Where art exists in my life. I will be writing “Sparking joy”.On the top right corner of my bedroom whiteboard, written in orange pen – one of my favourite colours! – reads:Have a great day xxxWhenever I read this message, added a few days ago, I smile a...
All of my websites and projects run off a single 18G EC2 instance. This is cheap, but does mean I occasionally run into "No space left on device" errors when rendering the blog if I've done something stupid without realizing. This happens enough that I wanted to document what commands I run to recover space.
Last week my washing machine broke down. I've had it for almost 10 years now, and I actually have no idea if that's a normal age for a device like this to stop working. It presented me with an error code related to water damage somewhere in the machine, although I couldn't find anything upon inspecting it. Cleaning...
Why does everyone in Hawaiʻi speak Japanese? For the same reason everyone only ever talks about the latest AAA video games, which is to say: to experience reality, you need to leave your bubble and talk to other people.
Agamben schreibt in "Die Zeit die Bleibt" (12) über die "Zwei Glaubensweisen" Bubers. hebr. emuna – das objektive und unmittelbare Vertrauen in die Gemeinschaft, der man angehört (Glaube von Jesus) gr. pistis – Glaube an etwas, braucht eine Entscheidung zum Glauben Im Lesekreis gab es eine kleine Diskussion über die...
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. Microsoft quietly scraps plans to bring Copilot to notifications and Settings on Windows 11, Windows Central. “Boss, people are saying they don’t like spoiled food. What do we...
When I was a kid, my dad did an A-level in photography for funsies. He used this beautiful Praktica LTL. At the time I had no idea what that even was. Fast forward 30 years and I'm the photographer and that Praktica has sat in my dad's attic… until now. He popped round one weekend in mid-January and dropped off his...
Surely this is some GNU sed wizardry for the sake of replacing a hallucinated link in a GitHub pull request: shell ⏺ Bash(BRANCH="thiagowfx/garden-aitools-azure-module" REPO="corp/terraform" OLD_LINK="docs/adrs/0018-azure-aitools-module-extraction.md" NEW_LINK="https://github.com/${REPO}/blob/${BRANCH}/${OLD_LINK}"...
For the longest time, I was an article hoarder and jumped from one read-later app to another. But most of the time, it stopped at the hoarding part and never got to the reading part. Until I found out from Marcel that there is a superior way to manage articles you want to read. I’m even a bit ashamed to admit that...
As a person who has been using Arch Linux for almost 700 days as of me writing this, I have completely lost my touch when it comes to the Windows way of installing something: go to the developers website, click "Download", get an executable, run it, press next a bunch of times, and you have a new program! But of...
As far as I can see, the majority of MacBook Neo reviews are overwhelmingly positive. Other reviews are simply acknowledging that this new laptop will be a huge success, while also recommending other laptops, including the refurbished MacBook Air. These reviews share the same overall message: the Neo, especially...
Philosophers of the past 100 years or so have tended to reach “peak influence” between their early 50s and late 60s, according to a new analysis from Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside). To determine this, Professor Schwitzgebel looked at how frequently the authors are mentioned in philosophy journal abstracts, titles,...
Rocks above - and below- the surface of the shallow Oigawa river in Arashiyama. 嵐山の浅い大堰川の水面上と水面下の岩。
Listen to the audio version of Grieving Alongside Water You think you know what crying is. You think it's water from your eyes, a tremor in your voice, a hitch in your breath. That's not crying. That’s a leak. That’s a controlled demolition. I'm talking about the flood. I'm talking about the architectural failure of...
Proposals were afoot to rename Eleventy — often styled 11ty — a blog publishing platform favoured by some Indie/Small Web bloggers, as Build Awesome. The awesome part of 11ty’s would-be new name derives from Font Awesome, producers of a wide range of icons website publishers can make use of. I’ve used their icons in...
My Emacs misconceptions Emacs Carnival Mistakes and Misconceptions Philip Kaludercic has started the Emacs carnival on the subject Mistakes and Misconceptions. Here's my contribution. Vim to Emacs In 2021 I switched to Emacs after using Vim for more than 20 years. I was thinking about learning Lisp and Forth, and...
March 2026. Burton-on-Trent. Never blog after six twelve glasses of Kolsch. Never mind, it’s nearly all pictures from the home of Bass, I’ll leave the prosaic descriptions and history to others. I guess Bass in the Coopers is as iconic as Paffgen in Lommies, but I hadn’t been for nearly a decade till Friday. Less...
I’m doing this because my friend Z did it (and she did it because Conan O’Brien did it, so come jump off a bridge with us all): What’s the best sandwich? Large turkey with everything, on Dutch crunch, with oil and vinegar, from the deli I used to get a sandwich from on my way home nearly every school day of my high...
Two years ago, I was pondering ways to enhance borrowck with proof-based analysis. At the time, I was only aware of formal verification tools for functional languages, while Rust is impure. For the purposes of borrow checking, though, we can almost pretend that impurity doesn’t exist, with the notable exception of...
La subida a Puerto Rico Alto es una ruta de senderismo que sale de la misma ciudad de Marbella. A través de un sendero se llega hasta un punto intermedio frente a las cimas de El Juanar o La Concha. Aprovechando que ha dejado de llover he hecho esta ruta que es perfecta para iniciarse en el senderismo. Partiendo de...
In February 2026, Tesla announced the first Cybercab production vehicle had rolled off the line at Gigafactory Texas — a two-passenger autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel, no pedals, and software not yet validated for unsupervised operation. By early March, approximately 25 units were observed on the factory...
Having watched this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix, I have to say that I am loving this version of Formula 1. There is a narrative that the racing is ‘fake’ due to the 50/50 internal combustion engine/battery split and the existence of an electricity boost button. But I will take watching all of the close following,...
Maybe, for the first time in my life, after trying dozens of them and reselling them or sending them back because they hurt or bothered me behind the ears due to the temples of my glasses, maybe I’ve found the over-ear headphones that, in addition to having an exceptional sound for my expectations, don’t hurt behind...
You can tell the story of Mac OS via the story of its settings, and the same is likely true of Photoshop. Recently, spelunking in the preferences of Photoshop 2025, I found this extremely curious thing: To transcribe: Focus mode limits the appearance of certain optional user interface messages so that you can use...
Call this one more innumerable reason why something like poetry matters in a real, tangible way: it reminds me that language is both one of the places where our most fulfilling relationships with the world begin, and also one of the places where our most vicious and cruel breakdowns within the world take root....
I don’t code much in my day job anymore, but I still love building things. So last weekend, I finaly took the time to test GitHub Copilot’s Agents feature — specifically, a Commit Agent. I’ve seen agents.md and knew the theory, but I wanted the live experience: Could this actually improve my workflow, or was […]
Dear reader,In 2021, I found myself in the middle of a privacy dilemma. Apple had announced it would start scanning users’ photos for CSAM, and all the talk and marketing they had done for privacy lost all its meaning in my eyes. After receiving strong pushback from users and security and privacy experts, Apple...
Marknote 1.5 hace ahora más sencillo el tomar notas y añade nuevas funcionalidades a esta aplicación de KDE que ahora la hacen más potente y versátil Allá por 2024 escribí un artículo sobre una nueva aplicación de KDE para escribir notas en formato Markdown llamada Marknote. Me decidí a probarla para escribir el...
Parece que ya sí que sí llega la primavera. Mis fosas nasales lo están acusando. Hace sol, apetece estar en el exterior, todo eso. Aunque el sábado pasé el día fuera de casa y reconozco que pasé bastante frío. Nadie esperaba que fuera a estar tan nublado y que fuera a hacer tanto viento. Yo debería haber cogido un...
Lista džamija za koje sam na neki način emotivno vezan i šta mi je posebno kod njih.
Hallo allemaal, Vorige maand mailde ik over wat verbeteringen, waaronder dat als kamerstukken verwijzen naar andere kamerstukken, OpenTK daar nu klikbare links van maakt. Hier is een boel fanmail over binnengekomen. Het goede nieuws is dat deze feature nu nog wat uitgebreid is, waardoor ook document- en zaaknummers...
Anime News Network reported that The Dangers in My Heart will receive a third anime season in 2027. I reviewed the first two seasons on NLJ (see first season and second season reviews). While my first season review was mixed, erring on positive for a solid finishing stretch, I gave the second season two thumbs up...
In my last two posts, I outlined how to clean up the right-click menu in Firefox to remove useless buttons, using either about:config or userChrome.css, respectively. One of my major complaints was that when right-clicking a link, I was presented with two buttons: one for ‘Copy Link’, and one for ‘Copy Clean Link’ –...
Book review: The Greenhollow Duology I’ve read Silver in the Wood and its sequel Drowned Country, written by Emily Tesh. It’s a fantasy romance “duology” set in an old forest: When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry Silver, everything changes. Old secrets better left buried...
The largest collection of card game rules on the Internet, with information about hundreds of card and tile games from all parts of the world.
Estamos en una fase extraña de adopción y adaptación de la IA. Para algunas cosas funciona bien y para otras has de hacer como que funciona bien porque tu jefe te la mete por el gaznate como si quisiese hacer foie gras. Entiendo que los bros anden emocionados, ya que la IA les permite aparentar que saben hacer cosas...
Most security news dies the death of a boring patch notice. This one should not. Why this story matters The recent wave of exploitation targeting Cisco SD-WAN systems matters because it is not just about one vendor having a bad month. It is a sharp reminder that when attackers get into the management plane of a...
“We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.” “You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love,” the artist Louise Bourgeois wrote in her diary. How much trust and love we wrest from life and lavish upon life is largely a matter of how well we...
(image courtesy of an unknown artist) if there's one thing that i've had an abundance of in here aside from food, it's time. or rather, the illusion of it. it would seem so simple, wouldn't it? each day toiled away here, we spend: activity time (hrs/day) dining room 2.4 post-meal purgatory 4.5 groups (avg. over...
It’s mid-March and the weather has been vacillating between balmy sweater weather and the frozen tundra that need hollowed out tauntauns to stay warm. I’ve chosen to sequester myself indoors until some semblance of summer remains with relative consistency. Estate I’ve been using some of that time to review all...
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Most SQL tools treat SQLite as a “flavor” of a generic SQL parser. They approximate the language, which means they break on SQLite-exclusive features like virtual tables, miss syntax like UPSERT, and ignore the 22 compile-time flags that change the syntax SQLite accepts. So I built syntaqlite: an open-source parser,...
Sundays are often so busy for me that by the end of the day I'm ready to crash (hence my lack of a post yesterday). But the past few Sundays, instead of feeling overwhelmed as I have every Sunday for the past five months, I've felt gratitude and peace. So what changed? Mostly my perspective. Sundays are busy because...
In the brave new year of 2026, most European public institutions, politicians and infrastructure services (transportation, official weather services, alert systems) continue to broadcast their communications on a closed, proprietary social network owned by the world’s richest man: X (formerly known as Twitter). This...
Quick post for y'all now that I can use my macbook while standing (long story, I can't sit due to surgical recovery, it SUCKS). My homelab went offline at about 13:00 UTC today likely because of a power outage. I'm going to just keep it offline and not fight it. I'll get home in early April and restore things then....