Sun Mar 29
It's early in the morning when the first rays of sunlight find their way into the poorly darkened bedroom of a young blacksmith. After one final stretch, he gets up, walks across the creaking wooden floor to the forge, and shovels coal into the furnace. Within minutes, a bright, warm fire is burning. That part, he...
This is an essay from my journal. It is a commentary on the prevailing norms in my culture and, probably, that of other cultures around the world. Strong cold winds this evening. Apparent temperatures are hovering slightly above zero degrees Celsius. The days remain cloudy. We have gotten plenty of rainfall, with...
… optional, that is. I’ve been working on an NSFW filter for Marginalia Search, as that is something some people have asked for, primarily API consumers. The search engine has had some domain based filtering for a while, based on the UT1 lists, but that isn’t a very comprehensive approach. We’ll land on a single...
Back in November I pre-ordered an Ollee Watch, which was delivered in February. After playing with the watch, I decided I didn't want it, so I posted it up on eBay - never worn, so brand new. A week or so later it sold and I posted it off to its new owner. A day or 2 later, the buyer messaged me saying the backlight...
I've been seeing talk around about wanting to capitalize on the AI bubble popping and picking up server GPUs for pennies on the dollar so they can play games in higher fidelity due to server GPUs having more video ram. I hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but most of those enterprise GPUs don't have the ability...
The books i’ve never even considered reading. The guitars i’ve barely touched these past few years. The vintage computers i’ve never restored. The fountain pens i’ve hoarded by the drawerful. If i don’t need these things, then why is it so hard to get rid of them? They aren’t useful, they aren’t that pretty, they...
2026-03-07（土） 【女子稽古会】 大阪剑联的女子委员会里的老师每位都是实干家，每年都会策划女子稽古会，今年是我连续第二年参加了。 上午是基础练习，下午是友谊赛，晚上是第二道场（聚会）。 基础练习的时候有专门练习步法，平时练习步法的机会不多，打算以后私底下多练练。 和大前辈 ID老师地稽古了，还被 L前辈说姿势很漂亮，稍微有了一些自信。 下午比赛的时候虽然又是一本都没得，但是比起去年有很大进步，至少是知道自己输在了哪里，知道了自己哪里做得不够好。 2026-03-10（火） 【修道馆】 前年刚开始工作的时候，想继续打剑就去问了大老师去哪里好，他推荐我去修道馆，但是那边每晚 6...
My sister got me a rainbow cardigan sweater a couple years ago for Christmas that is very fluffy and floppy. It doesn’t have pockets, it doesn’t have buttons, it just kind of drapes on me and is like a small blanket with arms. It’s not a practical sweater, but it’s cozy. Because it’s not practical, I always have to...
I'm using Mistral Vibe as my “AI CLI” when doing LLM-aided development. Sometimes I use local models, sometimes their cloud models, it depends on the sensitivity of what I'm working on. I grew a bit tired of having to repeat what I was working on when picking up each project again though and this post describes what...
La cena es otra de las películas españolas que aparecieron por los Goya. Se trata de una comedia protagonizada por Mario Casas y Alberto San Juan. Me ha recordado un poco al cine de Berlanga por las situaciones estúpidas que reproduce, bueno más bien sin sentidos, lo que hace que el toque de humor sea bastante...
Harald Slott-Møller, Spring. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. Well, it’s spring break, and none too soon—because friends, I am exhausted. Attempting to keep afloat in an increasingly difficult class filled with boisterous youth, finishing a first manuscript draft and submission paperwork and getting it in...
Either I have a terrible immune system, or the flu loves me, but I get sick every 3 months. I always forget about sickness, because it comes, and then it goes, and you forget again how absolutely wonderful it is to breathe normally.
Introducing version 2.0 of my simple graphical browser for "small net" protocols: back to the 90s -- in a good way.
Happiness is based on what is happening AROUND us. Joy is based on what is happening WITHIN us.~ Margaret Minnicks
Visto che ne ho blaterato a più non posso, spiegando a più riprese quanto i forum restino la forma di comunicazione online che amo di più e di cui più sento la mancanza, lo scorso febbraio ho fatto un piccolo esperimento e ne ho lanciato uno
2023 (2025 Re-Issue) • LP To see all 3 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/records/damian-draghici-meditatii-lautaresti/
2026-03-29 ¿Qué rayos es la Neo? Desde el 1ro de Marzo, el tema de conversación ha sido la Apple MacBook Neo. Mi YouTube se ha inundado de reseñas (platico más sobre ello en un rato). Solo falta una pequeña búsqueda y verás decenas de videos en todos los idiomas (que conozco por lo menos) hablando de este nuevo...
I have a work meeting at 9am I need to leave the house at 7am to drive there I should get up at 6am I'm wide awake at 5:15am
March 2026. Cologne. Our lads had headed down to the banks of the Rhine on our last afternoon in Cologne, and while joining them for a Kolsch at Martinswinkel (stop it) seemed appealing, those familiar outside seats at Pfaffen looking on to the main square won out. But the boys were still down in the old fish market...
Reflections on the week This week was a bit of a rocky start to the experiment – I think I was trying to change too many things at once. I am just beginning to get my sleep schedule back on track, and this will be my focus for the upcoming week. Other thoughts Earlier today, I posted some notes on cognitive...
On cautious, informed renting, and the lie of personal ownership Mum on the gas box at the house she and Meema lived in before moving to the cottage Lately I’ve been looking at the subscription software I use, trying to decide what should stay and what needs to go. The evaluation process is not as straightforward as...
23rd March - 29th March Unhinged behaviour from the British weather (more than usual, tbh) hasn't dampened the spirits of tree blossom. Several many trees around are in riotous bloom in defiance of the snow and rain. Gorgeous. My friend, Ellie, is currently enjoying Sakura season in Tokyo though and I'm not jealous....
Back to some of my more regular photography today with some messy hail showers on a brutal North Westerly wind flow. Not a lot of wind shear to hold these together for long (or much energy in general), but they still managed some soft hail amongst the stronger updrafts and even some weak Mammatus (2nd image) on the...
Google announced it’s no longer going to allow people to develop apps for Android without registering centrally. The demanding registration process will probably mean a lot of open source developers will not bother and stop developing their apps. Hobbyists will not be able to easily write and install their own apps...
I made a few updates over the weekend! All the images in /photos are smartly resized and they also load as you scroll so I’m not sending you 700GB of data down the wire. I have a lot of ideas about what I’d like to turn /photos into but either way it’s amazing how little work is required to build your own personal...
(image courtesy of fruitx2777) there is a quiet beauty in the moments of light that can trickle through what can be, for some, an overwhelming and seemingly bottomless darkness. i want to share a small interaction that i had with another patient on the ward. he is an elderly gentleman, who was admitted as an...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Still riddled with covid! Trying my best to recover but man, it's been hard going. Fri 03/27/2026 - Haunter Haunted was a kid request. With how long this has been going on I'm legit surprised Haunter hadn't come up yet. Sat 03/28/2026 - Azurill...
The other day, I did a short "gallery tour" through Harajuku and visited the Design Festa Gallery for the first time. As it says right on the tin, the gallery is associated with the Design Festa event held bi-annually at Tokyo Big Sight (I went there for the first time last November). It's an...
In February I left my employer after nearly two decades of service. In the moment I was optimistic, yet unsure I made the right choice. Dust settled, I’m now absolutely sure I chose correctly. I’m happier and better for it. There were multiple factors, but it’s not mere chance it coincides with these early months of...
There is a distinct, visceral kind of pain in watching an otherwise brilliant engineer hold down the Backspace key for six continuous seconds to fix a typo at the beginning of a line. I would be lying if I said I don’t cringe upon observing this action. What an amazing collection of tips & tricks! I use most of...
Hace dos meses que cambié trabajo a uno con más carga de análisis, lo que conlleva que necesite adquirir más y mejores prácticas con mi organización, especialmente el código. En dos meses he tenido que adoptar nuevas formas de hacer las cosas y me apetece dejar constancia de qué cosas ya utilizaba, y de cómo está...
University is so unserious lol. Graphic design is my passion.
Favorited Daily News Stuff 29 March 2026 by Pixy Misa (ai.mee.nu) That would be bad for OpenAI which is 100% bubble and good for Apple which is close to 0% bubble. As for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta, they'll survive either way, and Anthropic and xAI will likely do fine on a smaller scale than they had hoped....
Here’s some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases)...
The story about the original Macintosh’s built-in font set being named after “world-class cities” is well known and documented by Susan Kare on the Folklore site: The first Macintosh font was designed to be a bold system font with no jagged diagonals, and was originally called “Elefont”. There were going to be lots...
Last week, I biked to CNL twice, and both times I lucked out. First, I enjoyed watching and capturing a tiny Evector EV-97 EuroStar practicing touch-and-go, and during the second visit, I was lucky to catch a brand new Cirrus SR22.
“All you have is what you are, and what you give.” Simone Weil considered it the highest existential discipline to “make use of the sufferings that chance inflicts upon us.” George Bernard Shaw saw suffering as our supreme conduit to empathy. “We suffer more in imagination than in reality,” Seneca observed before...
She sat at the table in their spacious kitchen, anticipating his arrival home. He was never late; she expected him to come bounding through the door at any moment, full of his infectious enthusiasm. The last few years had presented some challenges, but now she had the solution. A gift he had longed for and she could...
Weeping cherry blossoms (shidare-zakura) bathed in morning sunlight, on Arashiyama's Nakanoshima island. 嵐山・中之島のしだれ桜が朝日に照らされる。
Last night the clocks were moved forward by one hour. The biggest consequence of this is usually one hour less of sleep. Not great. But there’s another thing that’s happening today, and it’s a positive one: All of a sudden, the evenings are longer again. More time to catch a few rays of sunlight on an afterwork run....
While interesting, and a bit over the top, these journal are giving my dyslexic brain a headache. Wish publishers would think about those things!
We are back onto BST today and longer days are here. Rejoice! It’s that time of year again when tax returns become due and must be paid. No rejoice. On my first day of BST (bullsh*t summer time), I notice a lot of complaints again about dear GitHub. Everyone is up in arms, rage-baited once more by something or other...
Back in January, I complained about the Apple Watch’s Timer complication being too complicated. A couple of days ago, Dan Moren told me on Mastodon that my complaint had been addressed in watchOS 26.4, which was released earlier this week. After a surprisingly quick update of my watch (I had already updated every...
2026-03-29Hello! A friend gave me a camera rag and cleaning kit. Autastic.I've taken a photo of an Apple headset before. In Toronto, Canada, I took a photo of it a few months after it was officially released, and before it became available to purchase in all countries.I then uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons...
Download PDF There is a man named Plinko who used to work as a clown on kids' night at a Ground Round restaurant in Jackson, Michigan. He was in his late forties or early fifties. His mother died of cancer, and somewhere in his grief he'd taken his name from a game on The Price Is Right. The math is there if you...
