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I remember back in November 2022, when ChatGPT was released and everyone was going crazy about how smart and humanlike it was. I sat down and started talking to it in Czech. After reading so many raving reviews and hyperbolic...
A sequel to New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, made between 2001 and 2003, is in the works. Much of the interest in the story to date though has centred on Stephen Colbert, who is to be one of the...
Title: Pikselkraft Website: pikselkraft.fr/jardin RSS Feed: pikselkraft.fr/rss A blog describing my approach to website development and design, with a focus on permacomputing. The content is available only in French, but I offer...
AI has recently been used on this blog just to improve the graphic design: I’ve asked for help on several occasions to fine-tune aesthetic details that would otherwise have taken me forever. But never when it comes to the content. And...
I'm experiencing a couple of conditions because I use a computer on a daily basis: tinnitus and eye floaters.
I go grocery shopping about twice a week and it seems there is a new "high" protein variant of nearly every product on the shelf. They have been doing protein cereals and yogurt for a good while now because those hide the whey powder...
Funny Thanks for this, Kottke. Zed Zed continues to be great. I’m still using it to remotely edit my notes. And I’m still flopping back and forth on Vim mode. The latest flop is in favor of it. Allergies JTR is right: ‘Tis the season....
From the mouth of the late Dean Potter in the trailer for The Dark Wizard (YouTube) (via Climbing Magazine ): When I was a little boy, my first memory was this dream of falling. […] My whole life, I’ve been obsessed with the dream. But...
(image courtesy of sky blue) i am from cherry blossom soap, from cheerios and sweet sip-ahh straws. i am from the flurry and frenzy of stacked kitchen benches. i am from the golden orange leaves, the grandmother ghost gum, whose long...
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. Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds, TechCrunch. An AI, powered by...
Will Larson: At some point, you will have learned about the passive voice, where the actor in a sentence is unclear. For example, my software didn’t compile. That’s a good example of the passive voice. However, you might not know the...
Ingrédients Pour la pâte voir la quantité sur le sachet levure de boulanger 250 ml lait (tiède) 500 g farine 1 pincée sel 60 g sucre blanc 1 oeuf 100 g beurre (bien froid et en morceaux) Pour la garniture 100 g beurre (fondu) 120 g sucre...
don’t worry my peeps still more superhero films surely will save us Send me an email Latest 3 posts 30 Mar, 2026 Haiku for Shiny Distractions 29 Mar, 2026 Haiku for Murdered Chickens 16 Mar, 2026 The Colbert Questionert Older Posts I'd...
Going past me yesterday morning, a tv ad for some remedy for, as I heard it, teeth stained by poppies (and other foods). Yes, coffee. With blueberries, black tea, and red wine, a classic offender against dental whiteness. Granting that I...
Replied to Re; Respond, Don’t Create by Herbert Lui (herbertlui.net) For many of us writing online, finding something worth saying is half the battle. And yet, this problem runs counter to one strategy to making ourselves heard: speak...
No sé si podría decir que Rodrigo Cuevas lo ha vuelto a hacer. «Manual de Belleza» es un disco en general bonito, adecuado, y que en determinados cortes sorprende y se aleja de lo que ha venido haciendo en sus dos trabajos anteriores...
Do you want to know how I know what I did during the week? I don’t really write bits of this day after day, I simply scroll through my gallery and see what pictures I took. Most of the time there are photos of games or devices. Every...
Does anyone else over-complicate things? I'm not sure what it is, but I've always been fascinated by "systems." They may be my most significant time suck. For instance, maybe, if I come up with the perfect system for getting things done,...
This is a rant about how broken everything Web is based on is. You know, the usual. No offence intended towards framework developers, I’m glad this technology exists, but I’m sure you know this feeling. It gets too much sometimes. I’ve...
Estos dos últimos meses han sido una montaña rusa en cuanto a emociones. Creo que finalmente, he empezado a sufrir los cambios de rutina debidos a no tener un trabajo. Básicamente, la falta de una rutina de obligado cumplimiento y sobre...
Ost-Ampelmännchen. Die zunehmende Dichte an Autos mit Kennzeichen L. Ein neuer Singsang in der Stimme. Toto, I don’t think we’re in Köln anymore. Ich bin in meiner Heimastadt. Eine lose Sammlung von Eindrücken. Ich komme kurz nach 6 Uhr...
Hello! Long time no see. I have missed blogging I just was more focused on editing and school for a while there but I want to get back into using this wonderful blog. It really is a great form of self expression, like a digital journal...
March 2026. Sheffield. Back home (they’ll be thinking of us) I managed a day’s housework before succumbing to the lure of Kelham on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. Oh well, the KIT, then. Earlier this month I treated our 2 Chicago...
A little family trip to Strasbourg crowned a week that was otherwise similarly mundane as the last couple of them. The city is well worth a visit, it’s very pretty indeed. I started reading a Japanese whodunnit on Saturday which so far...
"Scuola della Passione" (School of the Passion) from the "Venetia, citta nobilissima et singolare" (1581) by Francesco Sansovino, translated by René Seindal.
Jason Gorman writes about the word “continuous” and its place in making software. We think of making software in stages (and we often assign roles to ourselves and other people based on these stages): the design phase, the coding phase,...
Sacha Chua contacted me to schedule a coaching session later this week. She wrote about it here: https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/03/thinking-about-coaching-goals-with-prot/. I maintain a strict privacy policy with everyone I meet....
Books are strange things. Whenever I'm reading them, I feel wonderful. It's one of the greatest feelings in the world to immerse yourself in a story. It's a chance to escape the day-to-day life, to get lost in a fantastical world of...
I am again caught in paradox, because I am OUTRAGED at Quaritch stabbing the murder panther with whom Neytiri had just made friends, it’s a real kick the dog moment; on the other hand, that was a sick-ass parry/counter-attack combo that...
I've always liked pencils – the look, the feel and the smell of them – and the best pencils are surely those with a nice sharp graphite point at one end and a little eraser conveniently placed at the other. Who first came up with that...
March 30, 2026 Breezy and 71 this afternoon. Actually, it's shorts weather for the next several days. Got outside this afternoon and stacked about half the firewood that I split a week ago. Then reorganized the shed and put the...
Paul Kingsnorth’s Writers Against AI campaign asks writers to make the following three pledges: I will not use AI in my work as a writer. I will not support writers who use AI in their work. I will support writers, illustrators, editors...
Seen: Somehow this manages to be both nerdy in that only-in-San Francisco manner, and also thoroughly tasteless.
When life gets busy, even familiar trails can feel like an adventure. A recent hike—sunny, south-facing, and perfectly timed—reminded us that spring is just around the corner. From unexpected warmth to the first blooms, it’s the small...
I was thinking about something else[1] when the small matter of the volume of water in a lake came to mind. I looked at a map and waded into some murky waters. Of unknown depth. notethis post was better in my head. sorry os What can you...
Past Challenges A collection of completed blogging challenges. Well so far one. lol. 50 Blog Posts in 50 Days My completed 50of50 challenge - 50 blog posts written in ~50 days following prompts from Lou Plummer’s list. “Some are deep...
I know we haven’t done it in a couple of months, but in actual fact I have been stockpiling links for you anyway, as though it had been the plan to do it all along. To be honest life has just simply been just enough madhouse lately that...
As a quintessential Cold War child, still fixated on it, I periodically revisit films and documentaries about its most prickly moments. For years, I’ve observed, and occasionally joined, debates surrounding the two key films that managed...
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. Job 3:25, The Bible I knew it has brewing for a while, but I never thought it would actually come. This whole time I thought I would be...
Switch, map of functions, and interface registry for dispatching in Go.
This post brought to you by synchronicity, GenAI images on social media (disinformation on crowd size at the March 27 2026 #NoKings protests in various cities), and my personal nightmares–with links. (There are MANY LINKS below the fold;...
Against the morphological backdrop of the rest of nature, a giant pink bird on stilts sounds like something out of Lewis Carroll’s imagination. And yet flamingos came out of evolution’s laboratory, surprising and inevitable as the...
Saya sudah cukup lama menggunakan Dokku sebagai deployment tool. Saya bahkan menulis e-book yang bisa diunduh secara gratis di sini.Sebelum menggunakan Dokku, saya cukup tertarik dengan Kamal. Tools besutan 37signals ini telah sukses...
It was here my dreams were the strongest. The latest Apple computers, Adobe flash, the movie posters on the wall. The smell of cigarettes, old coffee and steel. Damp and dark hallways. Creativity and hard wood floors. When you're that...
Every morning I start the day by making coffee, feeding the cats, heating up a hot breakfast for myself, and then I sit with my coffee, a lap cat, and my happy light for 30-60 minutes. This trio of activities (coffee, food, light)...
I teach. I’ve mentioned that before. I’m not an expert; I haven’t published papers or articles about teaching or digital tools for classrooms. Occasionally, I get the urge to move away from teaching and into instructional design, but...
Last year, I announced plans to rewrite this blog in Ruby on Rails. It was hosted on Ghost for all these years (which is built with Node.js), and the idea was to rebuild it from scratch in Rails and write about the process as I went...
AI can sort of code, can't write
I’ll cut to the chase: Our calendar is light, and we need more projects. Especially projects with a UX design, UI design or hybrid creative/development focus. Small projects? No prob, we’ve got individual high-velocity contributors to...
Made some silly art of my online friends and myself today, redrawing memes or other images I saw online. I love mango. (this is referencing this meme) These are Suliman as purple Keroppi and Mono as a mix of his Jiji icon and Googie....
There's been a certain gloominess I can't shake, but despite that, I feel calm. I don't know exactly where it's coming from. I'm not sure how well I'd be able to think my way out of it. It seems like life really has just become a regimen...
Although for some things it’s fairly obvious that keeping a backup is good idea – like photos and videos – there’s some things that I often forget to think about. So as a reminder to me, and perhaps a warning to others, I’m making a blog...
His visit to Florida was extended for work and he was able to squeeze in visits to his parents. This gave me an excuse to be a slob, stack plates in the kitchen sink, order pizza for dinner and stream romantic comedies and other...
If global large-scale human communication continues to be concentrated within large social media platforms and content providers like YouTube, human languages may become sort of irrelevant in that space. Sometimes I Google for something...
This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. (If we missed anything, please let us...
Every morning, I get up before dawn to make coffee and saunter to either the bench under the apple tree or to the conservatory when it's either cold or when it rains. When I choose the conservatory, I usually open the doors to let the...
En faisant un peu de ménage dans les flux dans mon agrégateur RSS, je me suis rendu compte qu’une bonne trentaine étaient en erreur. En regardant de plus près, soient ils étaient mal formatés (mon agrégateur est assez rigide sur ce qui...
Music is a passion I've always had, but I slowly let go of it because I kept on comparing myself to others and I couldn't find the point of continuing when I felt that everyone was better than me. I've always had this pattern with my...
Nuclear Fusion Will Not Give Us Infinite Power Table of Contents How Nuclear Power Works Why It Will (Not) Fail Conclusion, or Rather a Punchline Energy is perhaps the most important input of industrial society. Ever since the taming of...
NVIDIA 的 GeForce NOW 是我近期最满意的订阅服务。过去两年因为出国工作，带在身边的设备仅有 MacBook、Switch 2 和 Steam Deck OLED。对于像我这样没有计划额外配置台式机、但又不想向画质妥协的玩家来说，GeForce NOW 提供了一个非常完美的补位方案，让玩家轻松以云游戏的形式，在任意电脑上享受 4K 游戏体验。 环境与配置我订阅的是 GeForce NOW Ultimate（官方最高支持 5K 分辨率与 240 帧）。...
In a violent future in Old Detroit, murdered police officer Alex Murphy is resurrected as RoboCop, a powerful cyborg law enforcer. As he fights crime, he begins to recover memories of his past and seeks revenge on the gang who killed...
Part 4 of my series on the book “The Art of Spending Money” by Morgan Housel. In life, there are different virtues you can attain over time. According to columnist David Brooks, we can sort them into two buckets: Things like our salary,...
Note: This is a last-minute submission for this month's Indie Web Carnival hosted by James. One of the most memorable museum experiences I've had was at the 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo Midtown in the autumn of 2017. The exhibition was...
2026-03-30Hello! I've been staring at my empty screen, thinking of what to write about. So, fair warning: today will be a lot more incoherent than usual. And I'm a pretty incoherent guy.There's a bunch of photography ideas running around...
What a month! After losing a job at the end of January, I started looking for a new one straight away. Seeking a new job nowadays is very different from how it used to be. Very long, multi-step and mentally draining processes are the new...
I write the petition in Persian because that’s the only language that reaches him. My Arabic sits in my throat—the language my grandfather used to describe the saql, the polishing motion that brings light through glass—but al-Shirazi...
So, being unemployed, I have to pay my own health insurance. This is currently around $500/month.This insurance uses high copays on medication in order to “encourage the use” of cheaper medications. I have four medications which are...
Today is March 30th, 2026. When I sat down just now to write, I invoked the internal web-browser inside of Obsidian. My "homepage" is the /posts dashboard for this very blog. I can quickly see the date of my last post this way. "...Four...
Apresentação feita para o 3º período de Analise e Desenvolvimento de Sistema da Unifafire. O post Como decisões de design impacto produto, time e negócio apareceu primeiro em Wagner Beethoven.
I was thinking about Pirate's recent post on how self help books suck, and I agree that fiction is more effective. But I've also been thinking about a "self improvement" strategy (HEAVY on the quotations) I used on my own stubborn brain:...