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Pinto Creek - Roosevelt, Arizona A leafy canopy filters rays of sunlight. The shallow stream wends its way through the desert. Cool and clear. Cactus and Poplar. Light and shade. Desert and riparian. Worlds apart. Separated by inches. Streams in the desert. Respite for animals and humans. Relief. Solitude. Beauty.
`#` starts a comment in Bash, but not always. A small quirk with a clear rule.
One of those days when seeing your name featured in an article published by a major UK music magazines is rather disconcerting. While going through my feeds the other day, I came across an article about a local music band I previously collaborated with, Ember Rev. Their third album, which I mixed in 2019, has...
How to test unary gRPC services in Go - handler logic, interceptors, deadlines, metadata propagation, and rich error details - all in-memory with bufconn.
The wireless page-turning Kobo Remote is an absolute piece of junk. It’s made of not one but two of the worst kind of plastics you can hold — a sweat-inducing smooth plastic on top and a grime-attracting grainy plastic on the bottom. From the way the parts are assembled to the type of button switches used,...
Earlier today, I read a post on another blog (hating on AI writing), and then the NYT article linked in that post. Both were interesting reads, and my reaction was something you'd call hagedō in slightly antiquated Japanese online slang: "Vehemently agreeing." They made me think about my own opinions and stance...
16th March - 22nd March 6:11am. The birds are having full blown conversations. The weather says Spring but the cold dew under my bare feet reminds me Winter is not that long ago. I pad back to the house to put shoes on leaving wet footprints on the flagstones. Common Name Scientific Name European Robin Erithacus...
The job of a code reviewer isn’t to review code. It’s to figure out how to obsolete their code review comment, that whole class of comment, in all future cases, until you don’t need their reviews at all anymore. This is a really good post. I chose not to add my own takeaways here because there are too many. Read the...
These are my minimalist themes. They use few colours and will appear mostly monochromatic in many contexts. Styles involve the careful use of typography, such as italics and bold italics. If you want maximalist themes in terms of colour, check my ef-themes package. For something in-between, which I would consider...
Heya! So, I've had both this blog and my personal website for quite a while now. Both are over a year old at this point. I think the personal website is more than three years? I don't quite know, actually. Anyways! I wanted to talk about easter eggs. Fun stuff you can find on my website, and on websites in general....
There have been races I've been more prepared for. More consistent training sessions in the weeks leading up, more mileage as well. Nothing much to do about that anymore, though. I had to take today's race as it is, with the form that comes with it. The good thing about low expectations: they lower the tension. No...
Eid al-Fitr 2026 Permalink to section 'Eid al-Fitr 2026' # Happy Eid al-Fitr to those who celebrate! While I am not a Muslim, I live in a majorly-Muslim country, so Eid al-Fitr is an official holiday, though here in Malaysia, Eid Mubarak is more commonly referred to by its Malay name, Hari Raya Aidilfitri, Hari Raya...
A mission post by Lieutenant JG Cillian Jarkil, Lieutenant JG Veda Dragomirov Mission - Let's Do The Timeloop Again Veda was struck so hard with a sense of deja vu that she stopped in the middle of the corridor. She blinked as she saw Sean Morgan exit the transporter room and quickly turn away from her. His eyes...
“It’s a mercy that time runs in one direction only, that we see the past but darkly and the future not at all.” “The past only comes back when the present runs so smoothly that it is like the sliding surface of a deep river,” Virginia Woolf wrote some years before she filled her coat-pockets with stones, waded into...
(image courtesy of vassilispitoulis) i feel a small, but distinctly chilling shudder ripple through me. i almost didn't notice it, at first. it's fascinating how the body can get used to these kind of occurrences, until each warning sign is no more notable than a slightly stronger breeze, or a momentarily biting...
Last edited 11 minutes ago. If you're just interested in seeing cool links and quick updates, you can skip the sop of "Fickle memory" and go straight to the fun stuff below. Fickle memoryI've been feeling very disconnected from the world lately. It might be because I'm alone in the house since the aunties left for...
Quiet days are a must. Days where you don’t foist the “need-to-dos” on yourself. Days where moments of sitting outside and listening to the birds or feeling the wind blow make up the majority of the day. When reading a book or listening to music or writing a blog post or rearranging a room or taking a nap or just…...
I shipped some updates to my notes site. Nothing huge. Just small stuff. But what is big stuff except a bunch of small stuff combined? So small stuff is important too. What follows is a bunch of tiny details you probably don’t care about, but they were all decisions I had to make and account for along the way to...
I use a gamified todo app that I log into daily, and have been using it for almost a year now. The interaction with six of my friends kinda drew me in; we can have goals together, send each other encouraging messages, visit each other in our rooms and gift each other items. Each day I check off enough on my list, I...
Or the Liberating Fear of Betrayal What is trust? Choosing to trust is a decision that is much ridiculed today. It is in many cases easy to see with the benefit of hindsight that it was foolish to trust someone, but doing so in advance is of course much harder. In general we are moving in the direction of trusting...
Estamos de vuelta. Sé que este blog ha estado caído desde hace el día 18 por la noche (y de hecho a día de hoy no está disponible ni en todo el mundo). Junto con este blog otros de mis sitios Web, como mi blog de música folk, también se fueron a negro. Lógico: estaban alojados en la misma máquina. ¿Qué ha ocurrido?...
My favorite type of weather is whatever weather they’re having in Ireland. Or Italy. Basically anywhere that is not here and comes with a reasonably priced house and an ocean view. Or an emerald green view. With sheep. I’ve started looking at houses in other countries online, which is a very normal and responsible...
As I have started streaming on Twitch again, I have been reminded of what a truly enjoyable and fulfilling experience it is when I interact with good people over a shared love of music. As a result, my desire to blog on a daily basis has lessened. So if the frequency of my blog posts is less than it has been, it is...
A few months ago, @joelchrono asked me to collaborate on a post he was working on which involved sharing a game one would bring to a desert island. I realized I never cross-posted the submission on my own blog; so here’s a copy of it: Given a desert‑island scenario, I’d probably escape reality by revisiting fond...
See the series post for an overview of all the episodes. Introduction 00:00 Introduction. 03:12 Patrice confirms that the constraints that we looked at in the previous part are checked in an "after" phase handler. Revisiting core CXL building blocks 05:55 Patrice jumps into the cds REPL to revisit some of the CXL...
On June 13, 2021, I photographed “Uncle Susan is a Wolf” graffiti in Gowanus, Brooklyn. I turned that photograph into an investigative Uncle Susan article on December 29 of the same year. While conducting research in the spirit of a prior project I undertook regarding BLOB Dylan tags, I ascertained that Uncle Susan...
A quest for simpler, more independent tools Recently I talked about the importance of owning your work, not just the app you used to create it. Another side of that idea is nicely put in this advice from Trevor Flowers — The best advice I have for new nerds: Refuse to pay rent. Don’t subscribe. Don’t lease. Don’t...
Read the storyThere are plenty of short stories that center on miracles, but few stories feel like actual miracles themselves. And that’s true of Chelsea Sutton’s “(Skin),” published in Diabolical Plots in October 2025. In “(Skin),” Sutton, a self-described writer of “gothic whimsy,” does something remarkable: not...
The NTLM authentication method was always a beast. It is a proprietary protocol designed by Microsoft which was reverse engineered a long time ago. That effort resulted in the online documentation that I based the curl implementation on back in 2003. I then also wrote the NTLM code for wget while at it. NTLM broke...
Man wird auf ulkige Art zum Teil des Stadtbildes, sagte Katharina und meinte damit die Blicke und Fragen, die wir in den Ehrenfelder Straßen um das Studio komplementaer herum bekamen; was wir denn da machen würden, so mit Knete, Stempelkissen und Klemmbrett bewaffnet. Wir waren auf der Suche nach Reliefs, Prägungen,...
When I powered on my Xbox Series S for the first time, there was no ceremony. A flat interface presenting a collection of rounded boxes arranged in grids and lists. It felt no different from Windows 11. An interface designed for general computing (primarily productivity and work) should not be the blueprint for a...
March 2026. Cologne. Germany. Cologne wouldn’t quite be in my Top 5 German cities*, yet, but I’ve enjoyed getting to grips with the wider city on two recent trips. And our hotel (Inception, £67 a night) is just far enough out of the Old Town to give a glimpse of a real city beyond the schnitzel and Japanese tour...
Keeping a diary of performances I’ve witnessedMy attempt to turn this website into a disjointed, mini-social-media-site for myself has resulted in yet another brand new section: a gig timeline. I decided not to limit this to just music. I am documenting theatre performances, talks, and other kinds of performance art...
March is definitely super busy... I want to write but I have no mind or energy for it. Birthday (x3), Dutch courses and test, Book club, work training... my mind is full. I am still here, but I have almost no mental energy left to add content for now. And with the warm sunny days coming up, I might actually end up...
I’m up today at the crack of dawn. Nice and fresh. I made coffee and threw my hands to head, like a football striker who should have scored in the wide-open goal but instead, kicked it over the bar. Milk. There was enough for me, enough for maybe about 3-4 cups of the black gold which I turn brown by adding the...
Checkboxes from today involved unpacking suitcases, going to the studio, watering plants, getting ducks in a row and noticing spring. Currently Listening: Sleigh Bells “Rill Rill”Reply via email
It is common knowledge that Luigi is just a palette-swapped Mario, and that the characters facing left are the same characters as those facing right, only rendered mirrored. This interesting 9-minute video from Core-A Gaming explains how this can be kind of tricky for fighting games in particular: Suddenly, a...
Programming is an art. It’s less like fine art or music and closer to architecture or carpentry – combining form and function – but it is an art. If you don’t believe me, consider code reviews. I’ve definitely done code reviews where I admired the mastery on display, where the elegance of the solution shone out like...
The last game I've played during my two-months-long a month with PS5 was Judgement , the 17th (sic! ) instalment in the Yakuza series. Kyohei Hamura, a yakuza boss and our arch nemesis It's my second Yakuza game after Yakuza 0 , so I'm playing disregarding any order - like some anarchist hippie! Heck, it's not even...
Het Internationaal Energie Agentschap zegt dat we zuinig aan moeten doen vanwege de oorlogen in het Midden Oosten. Ministers in Den Haag zeggen dat het niet hoeft, want er zijn hier geen tekorten (!). Doet wel erg denken aan ‘COVID blijft in Brabant’. Kennelijk een Nederlandse traditie! Maar, natuurlijk komen die...
Scène de salle d’attente Extrait de mon journal du 6 mars, dans la salle d’attente du docteur X. Le couple entre, asphyxiant l’air de l’étroite salle d’attente avec leurs remugles de fumée de cigarette. Les deux s’asseyent à l’aveugle sans jamais quitter leur smartphone des yeux, sans que les pouces ne cessent de...
I love the storytelling work that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York does. For example, the Frame of Mind podcast highlights short stories of people’s relationships with museums – around fifteen minutes long each. It is a great listen.Last year, I watched a video by The Met on their YouTube channel as part...
- Swedish – Bellz"> When I asked Bellz to do the “Lost and Found” interview about her country, I never expected the amount of dedication and passion she will put into this, which can only be matched by my gratitude. Thank you a million, Bellz! ❤️ Without saying too much, because she says it so damn well, I present...
I came across an article recently that references something called Crocker's Rules. I had never heard of them by name, but when I read the definition I realized I've been operating this way for most of my career without knowing there was a term for it. The short version is this: if you declare Crocker's Rules you...
Part 2 of my series on the book “The Art of Spending Money” by Morgan Housel. One of the main theses of the book is the following: There are two ways to use money. You can use it as a tool to improve your life. Or you can make it the measure of your status, to compare yourself with others. It’s pretty obvious which...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Fri 03/20/2026 - Taillow Friday's entry came via RNG. I am legitimately surprised I've never seen this one before but also it's like, regular-ass bird. Do all generations have regular-ass birds?? And like don't get me wrong. Love birds. Top tier...
Chef Steve came into work yesterday and mentions in passing that "The Wallflowers are coming to Wisconsin this year." "THE WHAT!?" I said before snatching my phone out of my pocket to fire a voice conversation with Grok. Sure enough, not only are The Wallflowers coming to Wisconsin, it's the Bringing Down the Horse...
Music streaming services often advertise their product by highlighting that they have a (more expensive of course) option for uncompressed or Studio Quality audio, because it supposedly sounds much better than compressed MP3 files. Uncompressed just sounds better, it's clearer, has more dynamic range, more depth,...
Favorited I wish reply articles worked better by Maddy Miller (madelinemiller.dev) Something that I felt was missing however, was the ability to find actual “reply articles”. Articles written in reply to mine. These generally are my favourite kinds of conversations to see, because it means someone was motivated...
T. W. Rolleston, 1910. Image with no known restrictions via Internet Archive Book Images and Wikimedia Commons. I can’t remember what I was reading recently that referred to Alfred Watkins, the British photographer and amateur archaeologist who really brought the idea of ley lines into conversation. At any rate,...