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(image courtesy of unknown artist on pinterest) continuing to heal within a place of, and designed for acute illness is a damned hard thing to do. because at some point, the question begins to bubble up. whether it's from within the pit...
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/03/20/our-commitment-to-windows-quality/Improved memory efficiency, lowering the baseline memory footprint for Windows, freeing up more capacity for the apps you runThe memory crisis is...
Linear has this hierarchy of layers to track, say, a feature. Not too dissimilar from all this "epic, story, task, sub-task" kind of nonsense that goes around. Linear calls it "project -> issue -> sub-issue" etc. I am going through a...
It's World Poetry Day today (though it should be World Music Day, as it's Bach's birthday).To mark the occasion I've assembled a little collection of poems in which one poet addresses or encounters or hails another – thereby doubling the...
NotesI have added the ability to my #activitypub deployment to subscribe to https://tags.pub federated hashtags but even thola vue depuis ma terrasse, avec le soleil qui rentre dans le salon pour réchauffer mon vieux caoutchouc, je m’en...
Erin Kissane: There is a lot—like a lot a lot—of research suggesting that using social media to keep up with news does not actually inform us but does makes us feel more informed. Many studies of many populations have found for knowledge...
I really like reading blogs. I also really like Mastodon as a social media, to keep in touch with people or to have a quick chat about random things. One thing I'm not a fan of though is when people post long articles which would be...
But otherwise they are just like humans... Every single beast story.
The routine of my life is - at its best - scattered. It’s difficult to find uninterrupted time to read a book. This is a self inflicted problem to some extent: I don’t make it a priority to read before bed like I am sure adult readers my...
When I was at university a Nigerian on my engineering course told a joke about corruption I adapt it for the present:So a Pakistani engineer, a Nigerian engineer and an English lawyer go to visit each others country after...
I mentioned a bit of this a few years back in a post where I shared some early computing memories. At the time, I only recalled what the games were about, but I didn’t remember the names or specific game mechanics. However, through vague...
March 21, 2026 I've been busy working outside for the past three days. A friend and I started by cutting up the remaining log stack and splitting about half of it for firewood. Then Thursday and Friday we cleared the cart path through...
In May 2010 we merged support for the RTMP protocol suite into curl, in our desire to support the world’s internet transfer protocols. RTMP The protocol is an example of the spirit of an earlier web: back when we still thought we would...
There are some terrific episodes in ST:TNG season 5, but more than anything else this is The Season When Worf Gets in Touch with His Feelings. This happens over the course of several episodes, primarily through Worf’s interactions with...
I climbed a mountain this morning! This is actually my second climb for the year but, today writing resulted! This was my usual local training hike, a mere 750ft-ish assent. I like it because it's usually not too busy in the mornings and...
March 21st is World Poetry Day. I am not a poet, nor do I read much of it. I have a friend who is an amazing writer but sometimes it's too deep for me. I am a simple person! I've written three in my life, so here's one which helped me...
My dislike strong opposition to engaging with “AI” generated things, be that texts, images, code or anything else is well-documented. But avoiding the mindless slop is still getting harder, as it seems that more and more developers,...
Note: This post introduces my new on-site Blogroll. You can view the Blogroll, which will be regularly updated, here. I have had a long-time interest in maintaining a blogroll on The New Leaf Journal and had a couple of blogroll pages in...
Quoted The Week in Brooklyn: March 15–21, 2026 by orli (brooklynbridgeparents.com) After more than a decade of broken promises, the Hotel Bossert at 98 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights is finally under renovation. SomeraRoad, which...
“Often the places we grow up in… influence how we perceive and conceptualize the world, give us metaphors to live by, and shape the purpose that drives us.” “Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered,” the...
Rating: 🟧 Type: Non-Fiction
Divine Liturgy was great today, thanks for asking. I had a really good thought while I was out on my patio earlier, and I wanted to make it the central theme of today's entry, but when I sat down at my computer to start writing, it just...
Fran Crossley makes the case for why the spring equinox makes the best new year. Rewriting, by James. Have a Fucking Website, by merritt k. Screenshotting Web Pages Without Cookie Banners, by larsi. Issue 05 (Spring 2026) of the html...
Remember this? 21 March 2020. We were two days away from total lock-down in the UK (and most of the world) due to the COVID pandemic. Speculation was high that it might happen, and the supermarkets were struggling to maintain stock....
Oftentimes, there exists more than one truth. I learned that today at an athletics event, where one of the workshops was dedicated to weightlifting for track athletes. Exercises like cleans, snatches, and more of the sort. Types of...
La red social dedicada a la cerveza Untappd ha publicado su ranking de cervezas del año 2025. Una extensa colección de cervezas organizadas por países, estilos y cerveceras. Centrándonos en España, un pequeño resumen de los resultados...
SpoilersMinor backstory spoilers in the first paragraph Our heroine, Zélie, has suffered immensely; her mother is dead, killed by the tyrant king's soldiers for the crime of having magic, her father beaten for the crime of being married...
One of the boys at work is gone for the weekend while he celebrates his wedding anniversary. Typically on the weekend we are all there, because that is when it is the busiest. The boys always seem to have plenty of work to do, and they...
Arashiyama's Togetsukyo bridge at night, illuminated in a special, colorful display. 夜、特別なカラーイルミネーションに彩られた嵐山の渡月橋。
Another OpenBSD article. There's at least two more coming, so brace yourselves. This one is about setting up OpenBSD as a router and controlling traffic with pf (Packet Filter)...
I found Caddy installation and usage to be as simple as advertised. The official documentation covered most if not all of my use cases. I am taking some further notes below. Run Caddy in a container Get the official compose.yml...
Here I go again, knocking on things I haven’t tried and probably won’t. Don’t take it the wrong way, though. My goal here is to be informative, not pejorative. Mistral is Europe’s answer to all the other generative AI companies. While it...
“Writing online” can mean many different things. A social media post, a forum entry, an essay, a poem – you name it. But my favorite format remains the short blogpost. A couple of paragraphs, talking about one experience, one idea, one...
I was thinking the other week about how I should write weeknotes more often. Last year I wrote fewer, after getting tired of them and finding fulfillment elsewhere; now I’ve come back round to it. It may do me some good again to document...
This month’s Emacs Carnival, my first participating, is titled “Mistakes and Misconceptions.” This story happened over the past few years, behind the scenes, and was just resolved this month when I posted about an annoyance I had with...
LinkedIn Sucks; Your Blog Does NotNowadays, LinkedIn seems to be the defacto platform for job hunting, but it tells future employers nothing about who you are. Your best career representative is actually your own professional blog or...
Noble Friends and Free Software Communities mtift Sat, 03/21/2026 - 08:24 In yoga and meditation communities, there’s a concept called kalyāna-mittatā, or noble friendship. The Buddha considered it so important that he called it the...
Aric Olnes on Facebook on 3/15: I just saw Martha Wash opening for Boy George & Culture Club in Sacramento on Friday night [3/13] and she closed her set with the entire Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus behind her singing “It’s Raining Men.“...
One of my favorite morning reads is The Marginalian. This morning Maria writes on solitude and its force. As an aside using the Current Reader app I just set some reads I want in the mornings. Sometimes I save the piece because it either...
Dana hatte mich beim letzten Nachbarschaftsabend im Kunsthaus Kalk zu ihrer Ausstellung mit Andrea Neumann eingeladen, auch um die Räumlichkeiten der Produzentengalerie Zoozmann und das dort ansässige Künstler*innen-Kollektiv...
March 2026. Cologne. Germany. Our first day in Cologne, six Kolsch down and no plan. Let’s just admire the Old Town, and let Mrs RM take photos she’ll wonder why she took a week later. Wandering down through Salzgasse, towards...
Last night as I was lying in bed I was thinking “wait, wasn’t there some book I was reading that I wanted to continue?” and that thought made me happy but then I became sad because I remembered that I already had finished it that...
在 Emacs 中用 Elfeed 阅读订阅流 图1 elfeed 阅读页面 在 Emacs 里，可以用 skeeto/elfeed 阅读订阅流（关于订阅流），为了方便管理订阅流，我还会结合 remyhonig/elfeed-org 一起用，在一个 org 文件里维护所有的订阅。 在 Emacs 中可以这样配置： (defconst spike-leung/elfeed-org-files "~/.emacs.d/elfeed.org" "My elfeed org...
I love that I am so passionate about a topic that makes me research and learn so much, that I go to conferences for, that I get newsletters and magazines about. I especially love that I feel so intensely about it that nothing could stop...
A rather curious Venetian fashion, with the curls set high, as a pair of horns, and as a sign of chastity and virtue.