Mon Mar 23
All these people cheering when Quaritch talks about how they’re going to traumatize this entire species down to their core ancestral memories, like what do you all…want? Like is this—what do you think is HAPPENING here? Have you really been brainwashed into thinking that any war is a righteous one? Do you think...
Problem statement: given a command run with a ton of output, how can you take a glance at both (i) its first few lines and (ii) its last few lines? Let’s hypothetically call it lorem. This is what we want to achieve: shell lorem | head shell lorem | tail …ideally though we would like to run lorem only once. How...
Not pictured this Friday the 13th: Meeting with friends and their almost toddling child for a fish fry lunch (seriously good at The Pony). Then hitting up the park afterward and evaluating the appropriateness of playground equipment for the level of almost toddling child.Currently Listening: Thundercat feat. WILLOW...
Canon de cámara oscura crea en el lector una tensión sutil, pero persistente: ¿Está Vidal Escabia, el narrador, construyendo realmente su Canon literario personal e intempestivo, o hay otra inteligencia junto a él, trabajando en la oscuridad? Casa de Brooklyn en la que vivió Truman Capote (foto de V-M) Quiero creer...
Hace unos momento estaba lavando la ropa afuera, rápidamente me llegó el olor a pan, no era olor de pan hecho, más bien olía a que estaban horneando pan. Era un olor muy intenso. Es curioso porque no hay panaderías cerca, lo que me llevó a pensar que alguno de mis vecinos estaba haciendo pan, ¿tal vez para una...
I finally finished playing Return of the Obra Dinn(Great game, highly recommended), and that got me thinking about what I want from games. Many times hawe I looked at a game, not really been sold on the idea but being convinced by everyone telling me it's great, and like clockwork being dissapontied by it. Plenty of...
So, it’s already Monday and here are my notes for last week: Nothing to report, carry on. I know this is a bit boring to read. At the moment my brain seems to be in the same mode as my Wallabag installation, (which I did manage to get going again, for those keeping score) things go in, to be processed at a later...
A few weeks ago, ended up on the Wikipedia page for Wordle and was struck by how whimsical its origin story is. Josh Wardle came up with the concept for the game in 2013, and he finished the prototype in 2014 before putting it aside. He got back to it in 2021, taking inspiration from the 'one puzzle per day' format...
I’ve had a new neighbour for over a month now and I think she’s struggling with something.She wanders around the garden and inside the house, holding a book and muttering to herself.I just want to make something nice for her and leave it at her door. You might think, Tom, why don’t you just talk to her?Well, there’s...
I promise you I try to avoid linking to more than two articles on the same topic in each edition — and I really want to avoid my readers to feel too depressed reading this blog — but everything seems to be about A.I. or some sort of automation these days, either directly or indirectly. I also notice that most of the...
[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] At 21:30 Europe/Athens time I will do a live stream (~30 minutes from this writing). The plan is to continue some of the work I am doing on my denote-sequence package for Emacs.
No hay muchos cambios respecto a la semana pasada. La caída de SurpassHosting/HostDime ha hecho que mi actividad en el blog se haya reducido, pero ahora que me he movido a GitHub Pages parece que podré volver a la carga. Terminé Avenue 5. Me gustó la serie y me decepcionó no tener un final. Sigo revisionando Friends...
I don’t know if it’s just because I watched Louis Theroux’s manosphere documentary last night and am feeling particularly despondent about the state of the post-truth world we live in, but I was scrolling through my RSS feed on the way home from work today and it was depressing. To clarify, I subscribe to the Full...
The vibe Life maintenance and finish-line energy. Highlights My final class of my BSIT degree started on Tuesday. I am so glad that I am finally at the end of this journey! It has been a long road and frankly here towards the end, it has been a bit of a slog. I am looking forward to being done and moving on to the...
The past two weekends I've gone camping. To escape the heat. It's March in Arizona, and we have already hit triple digits. These record high temperatures are a new low for us. Yikes. In Phoenix, apparently we now only get two seasons: moderate summer (from November to mid-March) and extreme summer (from the end of...
Não ver anime atualmente tem seus lados positivos. Semana passada me deu uma louca vontade de rever Serial Experiments Lain, que eu devo ter visto originalmente a uns 20 anos atrás ou mais, em VHS, com o poder dos fansubs de antigamente. Na época assistir anime era igual a Netflix e Crunchyroll só que sem saber o...
In my mind, "Apple" as a brand used to be synonymous with "attention to detail" but sadly, over the course of the last 8 - 10 years, their choices have become anything but detail oriented. This year, things have gotten so bad that I'm starting to think they've stopped caring about user experience, accessibility, and...
The woman opposite me on the train would not stop talking at me! Not to me, at me. She wasn't opposite, as in directly in front of me at a shared table, but to my left, across the central aisle of the carriage. I'd made the first mistake of acknowledging her when I selected my seat. It's nice to be polite and...
The dumbest things happen to me on a night when I have a bit of free time. Last night for no real reason, I got caught in the fog of FOMO. Mister iPhone 12, caught up in the fear of missing out. And missing out on what? Micro.blog x BearBlog. That is to say, signing up for Micro.blog and then strapping to the roof...
Poesía sin fecha te invito a crear ( o a recitar ) #Diadelapoesia #21deMarzo #ElSueñodelArtistaBlog #Arte #literatura #Creación Porque la poesía no entiende de calendarios ni de días señalados.Ella se cuela entre las semanas, se despereza en los meses,se hace cómplice de las horas, de los minutos, de esos segundosen...
“If you are now wondering where to look for consolation, where to seek a new and better God,” Hermann Hesse wrote in his wartime manifesto for hope in difficult times, “he does not come to us from books, he lives within us… is in you too… most particularly in you, the dejected and despairing.” At the same time, on...
Speaking of fly-by-wire… William Langewiesche is one of my favourite technical writers. He finds a way to explain complex aviation aspects really well, and then add a certain amount of beauty and poetry on top of that. His style was a big influence on my book, and I like him so much I once compiled links to his...
m.youtube.comMartin McDonagh has been on a (slow) heater as of late and now he gets to work with a fine cast in John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, and Parker Posey.
The One Inch Frame A toddler pushes a glass toward the edge of a table. Stops. Pushes again. Stops and looks. Pushes it off. This is not destruction. It is the oldest experiment in the world. Marc Andreessen has observed — in conversation with Andrew Huberman — that “the sheer number of people in the world who are...
I’m beginning an experiment to try to increase my levels of mental energy. By “mental energy”, I mean being able to focus on challenging or creative tasks without quickly becoming mentally fatigued or susceptible to distraction. I often find myself in a vicious cycle of low mental energy causing stress and...
Los habituales ya sabéis que suelo ser mucho más activo en mi madriguera gopher1 que en esta web pero la verdad es que he estado desaparecido de todos lados prácticamente desde principios de año porque he estado ocupado con algunas cosas personales y también organizando y preparando la LibreCan 2026. Este año es un...
Continued From Part 2 The book repository was on Iron Street, a half-mile away from anyone who was still awake. The open industrial park was free of any traffic, and the air was still enough to hear the Orange Line pass by in the distance. When I arrived in the area, I wasn't too late for anything. We had officially...
Na een goede treinreis vanaf Brescia kwamen we 30 september, begin van de middag, aan in Napels. Nog tijd genoeg dus om direct de stad te verkennen. En wat viel dat tegen! Wat een chaos, wat een puinhopen op straat, afval, heel veel mensen in hele smalle straatjes, tjokvol toeristen en toeristrap-restaurants...
Back in the days when the late Sage of Tiverton and I were exchanging frequent text messages, he somehow convinced himself that my nightly routine was to retire to bed and read Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian. I've no idea where he got this notion, as I had never read the much praised Memoirs, but it was a...
Last edited 17 minutes ago. This is a (non-exhaustive) list of things I love seeing in blogs/personal websites around the internet: Pets Pages: I am begging you to create a gallery/page for your pets. BEGGING YOU. Introduce them to me. Tell me their names, ages, preferences, quirks. I want to know them. I want to...
Quoted The Best Anime of Winter 2026 by Kevin Cormack (Anime News Network) Frieren is now the new gateway drug to recommend to potential new anime fans, with the only downside that almost no other anime can hope to measure up. Anime News Network does a “best of” run-down at the end of every anime season. I decided...
For this year, I've decided that I'm going to draw at least one sketch per day. The goal is to build a habit and draw more consistently. Last year, I would sometimes go days or even weeks between drawing practice. So far, it's going well - my sketchbooks are filling up nicely, at a steady pace. One page per day. Not...
Los preparativos de WordCamp Málaga 2026 siguen su curso. Este año, el evento que se celebrará en la ciudad de Málaga se va a centrar en el eCommerce, pasando a llamarse WordPress eCommerce Summit. La venta de entradas ya se abrió y pueden adquirirse en a través de este enlace. El evento va a ser una ocasión única...
As a kid, I got diagnosed with a soy allergy; it caused me to itch everywhere and scratch until it bled, all over the body, and worse. I went through a desensitization process of weekly shots until my symptoms improved and went away. Until last year, I could eat soy with no issue; very convenient when you’re vegan....
I wrote an article called Exit through the gift shop > The fine line between culture and ostentation for this month’s IndieWeb carnival, hosted by James (capjamesg), where the theme was “Museum memories”. But before I wrote that, I was actually writing a list of museums that I’ve seen in my travels and moving around...
“It’s not just the problem of brazen cheating. In some ways, the more insidious threat LLMs pose to undergraduate learning is the promise of instant shortcuts.” . That’s Paul Sagar, Reader in Political Theory at King’s College London, writing at Unherd. He continues: Why struggle through that difficult article, why...
Tuntuu oudolta kirjoittaa tänne. Olen kirjoittanut jo, joka päivä, mutta kynällä. Jostain se vain tuli, netistä, maininta päivyrin kirjoittamisesta ja sitten eksyin Redditin Basic bullet journals-sivulle. Olen kirjoittanut päiväkirjoja, monta täyttä kirjaa, jo lähemmäs kymmenen vuotta. Viimeiset kolme vuotta on...
I have a dilemma; I wholeheartedly object to companies scraping my website for content to train their generative engines. I also firmly believe that, if a person wants to use a Large Language Model to synthesise my content, that's their right. Who am I to dictate how you "consume"1 it? I write in a very particular...
Dave Winer: A bit of history. Read this post from 20 years ago by Phil Jones. That’s what I was trying to do back then, just as Twitter came online. I didn’t know it then but was the moment when the web stopped growing. I don’t think, in 2006, anyone realised, nor could have realised, the profound impact Twitter, as...
Agama 19 no es solo otro cambio incremental. Esta nueva versión de Agama representa en realidad un nuevo punto de partida en varios aspectos, desde el diseño arquitectónico hasta la organización de la interfaz web, incluyendo algunos componentes reescritos y mucho más. Desde la anterior actualización de Agama 18 en...
Part 3 of my series on the book “The Art of Spending Money” by Morgan Housel. For me personally, when it comes to personal finance, one of the hardest things is to find a good ratio between the money I spend vs. the money I save. As I wrote about in the last post from this series, saving is what gives us...
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. Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety. Google has finally revealed what the “advanced flow” for installing apps from unverified developers...
Man these things are tricky to photograph and they look so small in the frame. My lens is out at a 420mm equivalent and I'm thinking I need (at least) double that for a good shot of these. The Chiffchaff, I've heard lots recently (they don't shut up, ha) but never actually spotted until today, and the Long Tailed...
I'm very particular when it comes to software development and UI design. When working on CalAction, I wanted to make sure that the app not only provided useful features, but also had a clean user interface that's easy to navigate, and that all bugs were ironed out. It took me a lot of time, effort and many builds to...
March 2026. Wuppertal. Germany. We’re following the self-guided tour map for Elberfeld, centre of the nascent tourist trade for Wuppertal. I guess you’ll be wanting to see a pub. Sadly there isn’t a pub guide for Wuppertal, perhaps Mrs RM will do one; but there’s loads of Untappd check-ins; That King’s Head has...
The "Diuersarum nationum habitus" by Pietro Bertllii is a collection of prints of how the people of the world dress, especially the Venetians.
A mission post by Lieutenant JG Sean Morgan, Lieutenant JG Lia t'Rehu Mission - Let's Do The Timeloop Again Sean blinked and he was back on the transporter pad, having just returned from dinner with his parents again. t'Rehu had been mid sentence, talking about something—how to figure out what type of soil and water...
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. — Alvin Toffler A rule (or boundary) turns a theoretical or philosophical stance into a clearly defined behavior: Do this, and your behaviors align with your belief. Congruence. Do that, and...
In the last few days, I've been thinking a little bit about how I am not being able to keep up with a routine. I really wanted to study and advance with a few courses that I need to do here and there, learn some stuff, and create something, but when I'm looking at the material that I need to consume or even trying...
"a flowering, withering of the heart" (Juni, 2026) (oil on paper / charcoals / floral collage) a mixed-medium piece exploring the messy, thorny and multi-faceted nature of healing. parts of you growing, withering, blooming, budding in places you least expect, and the gruesome reality of the energy required to...
Two things happened last Saturday: 1) I finally had idle time, 2) the weather was perfect for riding a bike. So at long last, I decided to check out Sindal Airport (CNL/EKSN). Actually, it's more like an airfield, but whatever.
Blogging ItchesAlthough I’ve been exclusively blogging with Hugo on BurgeonLab in the past four months (largely putting my first blog, Eclectic Passions and photography project on the back burner); I have been getting an itch to: Check out a new CMS, Astro Investigate a static Wiki generator like FeatherWiki (a...