Wed Mar 25
Every day I am more and more annoyed by the way some of the blogs I have followed for years have started to “get with the times” or “catch up” on using those “tools” to “improve” their blogging in one way or another. I don’t even want to use those two letters, or the more appropiate three-letter acronym, because...
Upon quitting Claude Code, pressing C-c in the terminal produces garbage like this instead of the expected ^C: ❯ 0;5u9;5u0;5uc9;5u9;5u9;5u9;5u9;5u Something similar happens with C-a, C-e, C-l, etc. I am using zsh. What’s happening Claude Code enables the kitty keyboard protocol (“CSI u mode”) for enhanced key input...
Yankees’ Netflix debut is latest example of sports’ complicated TV landscape. The headline of this Andrew Marchand piece in the Athletic says it all. Did you know the Yankees’ regular-season games shuffle between eight different television outlets? The Yanks are big enough that casual fans will find them here and...
Just like mentioned in a post from earlier this month, I used decided to dust off the big camera (an old Sony Alpha 57 from around 2012-13, I think?) to do some "proper photography" in the botanical garden. The weather was overcast this time, compared to the beautiful bright spring weather during my first visit this...
Last week, the 28th edition of the German Perl/Raku Workshop took place in Berlin. It was great to see some familiar faces (as well as some new ones!) to discuss computing, our favourite Swiss army chainsaw, and much more. This report contains rough notes of the talks that I attended. German Perl/Raku workshop logo...
Molti di questi dischi in realtà sono usciti a febbraio, ma come dicevo il mese scorso per me è stato monopolizzato dagli Hällas quindi un recuperone mischione era d'obbligo!
From a post by ColdPlankton9273 on r/ClaudeAI : Everything I do runs through Claude Code. Not just coding. My morning routine, my CRM, my content pipeline, my lead sourcing, my follow-ups. All of it. I built a system that runs my entire business from the terminal. One command in the morning, and my whole day is laid...
2026-03-25Hello!I like lines. I like leading lines, whether they're leading you to a lamp or down a railroad. I like perpendicular lines, like that dine in restaurant that I obsessed about for a little too long (did that article make sense? I fear I might have lost everyone with that ramble).I also like solar power....
This is an excerpt from my journal. I explain how long-term projects help me stay focused. Local time is 23:00. I spent a combined total of five hours today doing manual labour by the stream. Half of that was in the morning and the remainder early in the afternoon, with a meal and then some computer work in between...
npr.orgHe will co-write a new movie with his son, screenwriter Peter McGee, and LOTR veteran screenwriter Philippa Boyens. Its working title is Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past.I like that they call his son a screenwriter even though he has zero writing credits on IMDb. Colbert also has no features to his name,...
Back in 2022 I added webmention support to this blog. The implementation worked but it was entirely client-side, so the page would load, JS would fire, fetch from webmention.io, and render the results into the DOM. With JS disabled or on a slow connection, the discussion section was just empty. It worked well enough...
My email address is spelled out in the curl license The curl license appears in many products Some people have problems with their products and need someone to email A few of these discover my email in their product Occasionally, the person in need of help emails me about their product. I collect some of those and...
“Can you plant a garden to stop a war? It depends how you think about time. It depends what you think a seed does, if it’s tossed into fertile soil.” “The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer,” Derek Jarman wrote as he grieved his dying friends,...
Tolstoy’s Calendar of Wisdom — March 25 During our lives we help each other: sometimes we help other people, sometimes we are helped by others. But the world is formed so that usually some people mostly help others, and some mostly receive their help. "As you acquire objects, and you use them, you should keep in...
How I turned a rarely used gaming laptop into an AI agentic infrastructure.The AI agentic platform is widely talked about, and that sparked my interest in the possibilities it could give. My laptop has been lying around without much use, so I had to make it useful. Considering the extent of possibilities and making...
Shubham Bose found the publishers of some news websites — often reputable outlets — are forcing readers to download, in some cases, an additional forty-nine megabytes of needless scripts and data with their articles. This might explain why some of us need to keep our phones charging (a no-no I know) while reading...
My impression of today was that it was difficult. Nothing was inherently terrible. I just felt off. Little challenges and frustrations that wore me down over the course of the day. By about noon, I was ready to throw in the towel. I was watching my nephews this afternoon, so I powered through -- played trains and...
"Scuazzero" (Rubbish collector) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
Fana and I have been spending time after work above the exhaust vents in the interstitial space. Normally it is just warm enough to keep the various liquids that are piped through the area from freezing, but sitting directly on top of the exhaust tubes reminds me of curling up next to a fireplace as a child. The...
In seemingly miraculous fashion, basic functions that I thought were lost to my Mac have returned. Spotlight is now able to find stock Apple apps, and Mail is now able to send emails. So what happened? I can only guess, but I do know what I was doing just before the miracle — fixing an error in Terminal, along with...
figure { padding-left: 3em; } Many software developers feel we are at a source control inflection point. GitHub has reigned for over fifteen years, and we may be in the early days of an exodus. Developers have become increasingly disappointed with GitHub’s service, features, and overall direction. Blame is often...
March 2026. Cologne. Germany. With mild alarm I realised that our two lads had actually been to nearly all the Old Town pubs, having arrived a day earlier and stayed out after Monday’s Proper Kolsch Day Out. Never seen them drunk. They recommended “Salzgasse”, but I needed to try the craft bar, which tellingly our...
Times are dark. There’s war (I’d call it a stupid war, but all wars are stupid, this one just happens to be more idiotic than most), and a horrible economy. There’s all sorts of horribleness going on around the world. It is very hard to watch or read the news and not be super depressed about everything. Now the rest...
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. OpenAI shuts down the Sora app. It’s (was) its TikTok of AI-generated videos. Disney scraps plan to invest USD 1 billion in OpenAI, Variety. Did you hear that *pop*? It’s the...
While it does seem impossible to come up with a 'dark pastel' theme, I have modified the "Midnight Operator" palette a bit in the spirit of the upcoming holiday. This will be my subtle, subconscious was to slip into the spirit of the holiday as we have decided to get together for Easter this year as a family. There...
Idris Robinson, a tenure-track assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University, is suing several university officials for violating his constitutional rights after they told him he would have his contract terminated in May, because of complaints about a talk he gave last year “on the Israeli-Palestinian...
As much as I wanted 'Automatic Noodle' to go on beyond its 176 pages, a tidy book can be perfectly delightful — and this was exactly that. ⊕Currently Listening: Haute & Freddy “Showgirl At Heart”Reply via email
Pruebo el gestor de ventanas Hyprland por primera vez en mi openSUSE Tumbleweed Desde hace un tiempo, dentro del mundo de GNU/Linux, ha despuntado un nuevo gestor de ventanas de tipo tiling llamado Hyprland. La novedad es que utiliza Wayland y ofrece vistosas animaciones composiciones de ventanas, debido a que se...
In the Butlerian Jihad (from Dune but popularized by many smolnet posters like Alex Schroeder) we rightly hate bots and scrapers but I’m in a bit of a glass house around that, since I’ve made a few scrapers for my own personal use as a way to get RSS Atom feeds out of sites that don’t have feeds. I love scraping and...
Efficiency and clarity are the bread and butter of UX writing, but often our own internal processes are the messiest part of the job. I’d like to share a UX copy review process that I’ve adapted from Dr Katharina Grimm, a UX writer who shared a brilliant video about performing UX copy audits. My system is slightly...
(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily life to me.) ICYDAK: 30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Everyday Life #1: know your rights #2: secure your communications #3:...
Não acredito que já estou a nove edições fazendo esse que é o único post minimamente certo de ter no blog todo mês. Pelo menos eu tenho ficado bem feliz com o resultado desses posts. Eu algumas vezes abro eles pra não precisar ficar procurando na minha lista infinita de favoritos aonde estão certas músicas ou pra...
Replied to Powering Product Discovery in ChatGPT by OpenAI Blog (openai.com) To build these deep partnerships, we want to offer merchants options for how they convert consumers. We’ve found that the initial version of Instant Checkout did not offer the level of flexibility that we aspire to provide, so we’re...
Le logiciel, un nouveau pétrole ? Extrait de mon journal du 24 septembre 2025 Nous sommes fiers de nous passer de pétrole grâce à des panneaux solaires contrôlés par des logiciels… appartenant aux producteurs de pétrole ! On a parfois dit que le logiciel était « le nouveau pétrole ». C’est faux. La seule chose qui...
#DiadelaPoesia #PoetryDay #literatura #ElSueñodelArtistablog #ElSueñodelArtista #arte #21deMarzo Aunque ya halla pasado el día de la poesía no significa que su celebración halla culminado sino todo lo contrario . En este post lejos de hablarte de algunos de sus máximos representantes aprovechare la ocasión para...
I won’t go into the reasons why you should use a password manager. I’m assuming that if you’re reading this blog, you’re nerdy enough to already have one. Right? Anyway, I’ve used plenty of password managers over the years. I’ve used Enpass, LastPass, Apple Password, Bitwarden, 1Password, and Dashlane, and there are...
After discovering TiddlyWiki from @jbaty, I went ahead to give FeatherWiki (a lightweight version of TW) a spin as a personal brain-dump bin. I really like how it’s just a lightweight, 58kb HTML file! I used it on Android but failed to get it working due to Android Storage Access Framework (SAF) limitations. I ended...
The constant urge to keep a grievances.md file while knowing fully well that this would be extremely silly. Reply by email
I recently received an email from a travel-related service announcing a “new login experience”: We’re letting you know about an update to how you log in to your account. Logging in is now faster and more secure on recognised web-browsers and devices. Instead of entering your account number and password every time...
It's been a little over a year since I bought my Framework 13 laptop and shared my initial thoughts, so I thought it would be a good time to provide you guys with an update on what I like, and dislike about this plucky little laptop. Performance I think this is a good place to start since my previous laptop was an...
I loved reading this post from Mat Duggan about the continuing rise of Markdown as a way of creating content. A couple of paragraphs of his that really stood out to me: And none of that [the fact that Markdown doesn’t inherently allow for stylistic changes - margin sizes, watermarks, etc] mattered, because it turns...
(image courtesy of sara riches) "what's stopping me from doing all 'this'— —gestures at hospital, inpatient eating disorder treatment facility— ...at home?" when i was asked the following question by my treating doctor upon entry to this program, i was awash with a mixture of feelings. i knew there was no malice, or...
I. The Misidentified Mechanism In 416 BCE the Athenians delivered an ultimatum to the people of Melos: the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. The Melians appealed to justice and were destroyed for it. Thucydides recorded the exchange in spare, unsparing prose. Twenty-four centuries later,...
Dependent Selfhood, Independent Totality, and the Recovery of the Historical Buddha's Metaphysics This paper proposes a novel hermeneutic framework, Neo-dvaita, for interpreting the metaphysical commitments of the historical Buddha as preserved in the earliest strata of the Pali Canon. Neo-dvaita, or allegorical...
Walking through the bamboo path, I find a moment all my own. 竹林を歩きながら、自分だけのひとときを見つける。
I feel like social media and recently the slate of AI-powered “tell me what’s here” features continue to show us the power and longevity of screenshots. After all, nothing beats a more or less approachable shortcut and a file format that works literally everywhere. But screenshots have issues, and I liked how Bear...
Well that took a dark turn... Heartsick beasts must be the most confusing chapter of them all... and creepy. I kept picturing all the little girls like the old horror Asian movies. I don't think I even understood it all, but it got dark.
Ayer, 24 de marzo se cumplió el 25 Aniversario del lanzamiento de Mac OS X. Oficialmente conocido como Mac OS X 10.0 supuso un cambio muy importante para el software de Apple. Un cambio que ha llegado hasta nuestros días, con un sistema operativo sólido y amigable a nivel de interfaz de usuario. Los primeros...