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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...
“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...
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...
Last night, I was reminded of this clip from Slavoj Žižek where he discusses the futility of happiness. To summarize, he says that happiness is an "unethical category" because people think they want it but are actually more driven to...
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....
- 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,...
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...
Cherry Blossoms are starting to come out in Arashiyama. 嵐山では桜が咲き始めている。
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...
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...
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...
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...
How to test unary gRPC services in Go - handler logic, interceptors, deadlines, metadata propagation, and rich error details - all in-memory with bufconn.
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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
Ayer vi Un poeta de Simón Mesa Soto.Ciclo auspiciado por el espacio cultural Caligari Autores. Les cuento brevemente el argumento. Un poeta colombiano, gran promesa en su juventud, se encuentra viviendo con la madre, con el lazo con su...
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....
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...
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...
An amazing storytelling and mind blowing visuals. 5 stars
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...
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...
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...
`#` starts a comment in Bash, but not always. A small quirk with a clear rule.
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...
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...
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...
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...
(a posting that clearly will not to be to everyone’s taste) From the Titan Men Store (an adjunct to the gay porn studio), among a huge variety of silicone sex toys currently on sale, this cute little item: (#1) The 6″ probe (in pink and...
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...
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...
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),”...
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....