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Probably the worst part of original GTD is having a list of calls. That just doesn’t parallelize nor serialize well since nowadays each call is a multi-hour affair if it’s a hold/wait system, or if it’s a “we’ll call you back sometime...
Una semana más, un nuevo post, esta vez sobre un tema del que no creo haber hablado antes en este blog: IA. Este post de verdad que iba a ser algo para darle el beneficio de la duda a la utilidad de los agentes de IA como OpenClaw,...
I had a PDF in English, so I asked Claude Code to translate the text into Italian and convert it to EPUB. Done – it works and reads well. It took me less than 5 minutes. Things that, I don’t know, might not even have occurred to me to do...
Sol Seppy has a fucken cool name and, on debut album "The Bells of 1 2", sounds a bit like Jenny Lewis crossed with Lily Allen singing on dark and moody trip hop beats with slow hoover rave. "Listen to this" demanded my wife handing me...
(image courtesy of Psyca-art: Overflowing Emotion) i love you like le papillon; a butterfly. i love you like cats love the soft sun of a dying afternoon. i love you like how i stashed my hot tears down the back of my throat to keep those...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la...
March 2026. Bonn. Germany. More highlights from our half day in Bonn, which seems to have stolen the Pied Piper from Hamelin for its pedestrian crossing. Apart from schnitzel and a beer, the essential activity in Bonn is a visit to Haus...
DrupalCon 2026 DrupalCon was in Chicago this year. I arrived Sunday morning and after connecting with a couple of coworkers we hit a nearby Irish Pub where I was able keep an eye on the Purdue game as we ate. I attempted to go for a walk...
Replied to Notable links: March 27, 2026 by Ben Werdmuller (werd.io) For the record, my posts aren’t written or conceived with an LLM, although I know an increasing number of people who use one to write a first draft and then edit. I’m...
The gas takes twenty minutes to reach pressure on a cold morning. Werner Kessler lights the line at five, turns the valve, and sits on the stool beside the bench listening to the hiss climb toward steady. The workshop is dark except for...
Como era de esperarse, este aparato dejó de funcionar. Irreparablemente. Claro, en realidad es reparable, pero las molestias son tantas para su tan bajo coste que sale mejor comprar otro y olvidarse del asunto. Igual tenia curiosidad por...
We had a long weekend due to Yugadhi and Eid. I didn’t do much. Mostly spent time at home, sleeping. I feel rested after a long time. Summer Pink flowers of Bengaluru. On Saturday, I was at IndieWebClub/BLR meetup. I could help some...
Some - admittedly biased - opinions about using AI to write prose. And the poetry that makes prose better.
You Don't Need a Link Tree; You Just Need a Link DocOne of the easiest things to create yourself is a "Link in Bio" page. Asciidoctor and surge make it even easier.
I finally knuckled down and started playing again with Vim. It has always been a huge turn-off, what with all those weird key combinations to learn and remember. The famous one is the noob cross-posting in a gazillion forums: HELP! How...
I sent the following two texts to my BGFF(FN1) today, about an hour apart: charged the solar battery and plugged the fridge into it to see how long it lasts. The sun is my friend measuring the bedroom windows for reflective coverings to...
Added more vegan recipes. Added some new sites and banners to the Links page.
The last few outings haven't been a great success for any decent bird images. Maybe I'd been somewhat lucky recently and perhaps a little distracted with some mildly interesting weather coming my way (another post). Anyway, here are some...
2000 pages of Leibniz, much of it previously untranslated or unpublished, will be published next month. A page from one of Leibniz’s philosophical manuscripts (“The Place of Others”), showing revisions, deletions, marginalia, and binary...
In a future ruled by attractive people, mutant terrorists kidnap a rich man’s daughter to claim rights for the ugly. Escaping police, the mutant leader crashes into a planet of crazy miners where no women live. Masterfully blending...
For Sprint planning I like to name my catch-all / umbrella Epics as “potpourri”. Why? Just because. Example: GitOps pipeline for Terraform – potpourri GitOps phase potpourri – ArgoCD production wrap-up One advantage: because no one else...
After using the TCL tablet for two months, I’ve come to the conclusion that my tablet doesn’t need a screen with smooth motion. I only read static content — still text. This realization made me take a fresh look at a type of device I...
No sé si sabían, pero aquí en mi sitio tengo una página donde comparto las canciones a las que les he dado “fav” o “like” últimamente. Básicamente, estoy escuchando música durante el día y uso mi Stream Deck para darle “fav” o...
E-mail from Ellen Kaisse this morning, for the annals of mishearing: — EK > AZ: I got all bent out of shape this morning when I thought I heard an ad for a prescription drug called Vivaldi. How dare they appropriate the name of a beloved...
Here's a collage of a faded Master Charge sign, lovely hand painted type of Superior Carpet Service, and a mighty fine specimen of a late '60s Ford Fairlane 500 fastback. ⊕ separate photosCurrently Listening: MF DOOM “Arrow Root”Reply...
Na ons bezoek aan Napels zijn we verder richting zuiden gegaan. Langs de kust naar Sicilië. En heel bijzonder, dan ga je met trein en al de boot op om aan de andere kant gewoon weer per trein verder te reizen. Tussenstop in PaolaVanaf...
It was nice to hang out with friends on the beach this week. I’m loving the sunsets this time of year. The sky has been clear and I’m noticing a lot more stars and planets. With the warm weather, it seems like everyone else has been...
The weather was cold, dark, and wet yesterday, which mirrors how I’ve been feeling lately. Underneath all the gloom and seemingly oblivious to the storm, a stream of lights rushed to and fro; always traveling, never arriving.Reply via email
Inspired by Vaudeville Ghost’s make bad art. I’ve always felt a resistance towards learning how to do art “properly”. Over the course of my life so far, I did occasionally look at short tutorials for some things, or booked one-time art...
Winter is over and, as for my city, the hot weather is welcoming us. It's time to use a fan to survive and turn the AC for some extreme days. Winter is my favorite season, I'm biased towards a good hot chocolate and soups (those that are...
Some link titles have been slightly modified for style. EntertainmentAfrica (Toto)...but it lists every country in AfricaEvery independent country in Africa gets mentioned in this take from There I Ruined It. (Thanks to Barry Hess for...
A while back Calibre—a book management program which I have been using for years—integrated AI features, in an option that showed up in the context menu, when selecting a book and clicking on View, titled Discuss selected book with AI....
Above photo by (David Fairchild, Marian Fairchild), 1914. 1 I'm currently on holiday in Blenheim, New Zealand, enjoying a hot still afternoon outside. As I was walking around earlier, I was lucky enough to spot a few jumping spiders! If...
2026-03-27Hello!I went to a railroad museum and saw the displays of many old trains. I got to see the impact of the steam train on the US economy and its history, which was more exciting than the inner workings of the trains themselves....
It could always be worse. I had a great day at the gym yesterday. My workouts have been getting easier on me. I'm not too sore at all today, and I've been lifting heavier with every workout. When I first started, I could barely lift much...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve been working my way slowly through Reingold and Dershowitz’s Calendrical Calculations. This...
Hare doesn't have a package manager. This is by design and I'm glad for it. No dependency hell, no lock files, no node_modules black hole. However, you still need a way to pull in third-party code. There are two approaches: system-wide...
In this 30-minute video I talk about the Greek god of war, Ares. I note how the very concept of “god of war” can make us feel uncomfortable because (i) we associate the divine with something noble and (ii) we consider war ignoble. I...
Since the announcement of Bantam Tools’ acquisition of AxiDraw manufacturer Evil Mad Scientist on January 16, 2024, I have been lurking around the remaining AxiDraw accessories at RobotShop EU, always in fear that they will disappear one...
I like to put my hands over the top of a cup of warm tea. I enjoy the warmth, and want to hold onto it for as long as possible.Whether I am holding a textbook or exploring blogs, if I have a cup of tea by my side I want to feel its...
Photo by Jakub Żerdzicki on Unsplash I have profiles on Trakt, Letterboxd, Serializd, and Simkl. So this is not one of those posts where I picked a favorite without actually trying the alternatives. I have used all of them enough to know...
This paper proposes a novel hermeneutic framework, based on Dvaita, for interpreting the metaphysical commitments of the historical Buddha as preserved in the earliest strata of the Pali Canon. Dvaita, or dualism, treated allegoricaly,...
I'm really proud of what Pure Blog has become, and honestly a little overwhelmed by the interest it's received since launch. The feedback and enthusiasm from the community has been genuinely lovely, so thank you. That said, since...
I have discovered that the Sussex Dialect word for a sea mist is a roke. This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture,...
I’ve been hoarding photos of things outside for a little while in the hopes that I could find some theme to tie them altogether. They’re getting kind of numerous, though, so I think it’s time to put them up. These range from the snow...
Read Isis Aquino and Monica Louzon's story, The abyss in the depths of her eyes, now!Monica LouzonWhat was it about this story that made you want to translate it?There are several different kinds of poignant loneliness in this story that...
Heya! So, let's say you wanna get rid of the upvote button on your blog for whatever reason? How would one go about doing that? Well, there's actually a couple different options, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. Here we...
Just some quick medical updates. HRTI’m now on week three of estradiol injections, and it’s going pretty well. My mood has very much stabilized, my skin has cleared back up, and I’ve gotten the hang of injections. Also my boobs are...
Music I enjoyed recently Краснодарский край by Dan Korshunov SMS by UncleFlexxx I Can't See by eternityz, EXODIA, deity Boomstick by dutch dj project In the House by dutch dj project Just Us Now by Mzade Zittern im Bein (Scheppertus...
This is a response to Absurd Pirate's post on the importance of philosophy, in which he tries to argue against reading self help books. I absolutely agree, but I don’t think that listing and describing fields of study can serve as an...
The best thing that happened this week This week I put CalAction on the App Store! Right after it went live I soft-launched it on my social media, including LinkedIn where it got quite a bit of love. I even had the first few sales of my...
When I started self-hosting essential digital services via YunoHost in December 2024 I was taken aback by how easy and smooth the process was. Something that had appeared daunting to me just days before became a child’s game. A catalog...
March 27, 2026 I switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and here's why: Firefox's "Clear cookies and site data every time you close Firefox" setting (under Privacy & Security) gives me fine-grained control over what gets wiped on quit....
“Life will break you,” Louise Erdrich wrote in her passionate insistence that “you are here to risk your heart.” It can happen with a shattering, or with a thousand small fissures, but the great paradox — the great salvation — is that...
After an internship visit at a fascinating company, I cycled home through the city centre. A quick detour to the bookshop to pick up a newly released book by a somewhat peculiar but absolutely wonderful artist. You have to do something...
Looking up from under the giant weeping cherry tree at Honmanji Temple. 本満寺の巨大な枝垂れ桜の下から見上げる。
If you are even a mild St. Vincent fan, I recommend her fantastic new live album: Delta Air Lines…responded to the continuing shutdown by suspending special services for members of Congress, including airport escorts and red coat...
Why & backgrounds execution but doesn't stop output from flooding your terminal.