Fri Mar 27
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, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic,...
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 painful to eat at summer). So I can say a lot of bad things about summer, I...
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 squirrels that I'd spotted over the last few weeks and had saved on my hard drive.
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 cyberpunk grime, grotesque characters, dark humor, and anarchic energy, this is a...
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 installation via make install, and vendoring directly into your project with git...
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 “corazoncito” si una rola me gusta. Las canciones son automáticamente listadas en esa...
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 with hundreds of free-open source apps available at the click of a button. It was...
Some - admittedly biased - opinions about using AI to write prose. And the poetry that makes prose better.
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 the pilot flame. Outside, the Steinach is iced at the edges, and the air coming...
Added more vegan recipes. Added some new sites and banners to the Links page.
Why & backgrounds execution but doesn't stop output from flooding your terminal.
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 hadn’t even considered before, but which now seems perfect for my needs. I’m...
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 services. I applaud Delta for doing this, but why the heck do members of congress get...
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. Cookies, cache, browsing history, form data, downloads, and active logins can each...
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 explain how we can appreciate the nuances by incorporating in our thinking the...
This week I joined a session at school on the topic of career planning. I had an hour of time to work through a series of questions designed to help me make progress on a goal. The goal I chose for the session was to think about my career goals. What do I want to do in my career? What is my dream?I love technical...
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 showing signs of starting to grow again, so that’s nice.FibromyalgiaLast night I took...
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 later today” it’s not great to have multiple such “calls of damocles” hanging over...
Disclaimer: All ideas and research are mine, but this paper has been written with the help of Claude Opus 4.6 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...
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 workshops, but I just couldn’t find anything in there that made me want to stay...
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 resonated with me, and I’m a sucker for literally star-crossed lovers.Are you...
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 notation as he developed his ideas. They’ll appear in a new three-volume edition...
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 what each one does well. And to be fair, each one does do something well. But...
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 der Geschichte Bonn, 10 minutes south of the station by tram or underground...
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 not a fan. The whole point of the web — its beauty — is that it’s unrelentingly...
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, Nanobot, etc, sin embargo pasó algo que me frenó en seco y el cambio de opinión fue...
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 an earphone. It was Kill Karl; Mindless Self Indulgence-style heavy alternative...
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 before. ✱ Thanks for enjoying the RSS feed and reading! You can leave your...
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 enjoying being outside too.
(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 around me dry. i love you like being the first in line and the last to savour...
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 keep them cooler this summer. the sun is my enemy Actually, in both cases, my...
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 you're unfamiliar with these marvelous little creatures, then go read this or...
An excellent 17-minute video from The Art Of Storytelling that analyzes the now-infamous 2021 Mark Zuckerberg Metaverse introduction video: What I liked about it is that the author goes beyond cheap shots and deeper into both storytelling aspects (drawing from his experience)… Now, as you can tell, the big problem...
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 distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
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 Napels hadden we makkelijk in één keer naar Sicilië kunnen reizen, maar we wilden...
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 sharing this video!) iox Blog: How can we make it work?This feature from the indie...
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 do I exit Vim? Yeah! At least I remembered ESC :wq+Enter. I also learned that ESC...
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. I'm a history nerd.So, with spring underway, with woodpeckers drumming through...
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 day. Last week I bit the bullet and ordered two upgrades for my AxiDraw SE/A3:...
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 folks with WordPress. Other than that, it was just fun to see and listen to so many...
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
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 via email
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. Clicking it opens a chat interface that connects to any “provider”—also known as...
[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 week I hit Chapter 11 on the Mayan and Aztec calendars and came across a...
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 in-app purchase which I think is wild. Since releasing the app, I haven't sat...
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 argument for the "importance of philosophy." If philosophy is to be distinguished...
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 uses this nomenclature, it’s very easy to find my own tickets in JIRA this way –...
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 with that book voucher from the Christmas package. Just after stepping out of the...
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 blizzard we had back in the beginning of February, up until just a few days ago, so...
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 Remix) (feat. Gilo a Rooky030) by Scheppertus Tears, pain and blood by IC3PEAK Reply...
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 desarmarlo y así lo hice. Introducción Como muchas de las cosas que desarmo,...
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 go: 1. make_discoverable This is the only way to completely get rid of the...
“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 every time it happens, you live to see you are unbreakable. And so, a poem....
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 announcing it a couple of months ago, I've spent pretty much every spare minute working...