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“Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself.” “The power of ‘the Eye of the Heart,’ which produces...
On the eve of the launch of NASA‘s Artemis II ten-day Moon flyby mission, Maciej Cegłowski warns that the heat shield of the Orion spacecraft and command module, which the crew will use to return to Earth’s surface, is not safe: In a...
FunnyThanks for this, Kottke. ZedZed 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. AllergiesJTR is right: ‘Tis the season. I’ve...
If you haven't worked with AWS before, or at least not to that extend, you might first want to know what Service Control Policies (SCPs) are. SCPs are a type of policy that you can apply on the organization level that allow or deny...
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A couple of weeks ago we took a little break. The first adults-only break since my daughter was born. For that reason, we decided to do something that was quite close to home. I am still was quite nervous about being far away from her...
On March 22, 2026, Andreas at 82MHz published a blog post titled Mastodon (Bluesky/X/Instagram) is not the right platform for posting long-form content (a blog is). As a threshold matter, I am glad he wrote this as a blog post instead of...
Desde que descubrí Discord (hace ya más de 10 años yo creo) siempre fui muy fan de la plataforma y de lo que te permite hacer. Es el lugar donde decidí crear la comunidad de Mode 7 y ya llevamos varios años ahí. Pero Discord ha crecido...
Eventually I got the an image of our Japanese flowering Crabapple in focus, but this particular photo pairs so well with my attempt to capture the chunky robin that eyes me with suspicion... ⊕Currently Listening: Courtney Barnett “One...
… is that, a couple of weeks ago, I lost my drawing stylus. I was using it to doodle the logo for this server at a tiny coffee shop benefit concert. I am always annoyed with myself when I lose things. But I have no regrets because the...
Uma turned three today. She walks and talks a lot now. We are in Sydney for a short trip to meet her cousin and celebrate. Today we went to Koala Park Sanctuary, Sydney. She has heard The Koala Who Could by Rachel Bright and Jim Field...
Here’s the thing with ATproto: It’s very impressive from a technical perspective. If you begin to grasp what this protocol enables, you’ll inevitably become a fan (at least you should in my opinion). Posts like “A Social Filesystem” by...
This is ultimate March: tiger tiger tiger, as the inaugural rabbits of April mass for April Fool’s Day, Leonard Bloomfield’s birthday, and this year at sundown tomorrow, the first day of Passover, as Good Friday and Easter Sunday are...
WordPress PlaygroundWordPress released my.wordpress.net earlier this month and I only got round to testing it out. An in-browser WordPress sounds great for local testing and experimentation—great for tinkerers like me! I finally tested...
Note: This is a list of things that I thought of / noticed while blogging. It's a "garden post" that will be continuously updated. I was originally planning to make a long-form post about this, but meta-blogging (blogging about blogging)...
I’m not very happy about it, but I ate the oatmeal.I got the job through my father, who was a high-falutin’ military muckity-muck with too much pull, brass balls to match his medals, and far too much confidence in a son who would rather...
I will need to reread the whole ending before the book club.... my mind is not into this.
A cherry tree branch overlooking the Oigawa River in Arashiyama. Shot on Kodak Ektar 100 film. 嵐山の大堰川を見下ろす桜の枝。Kodak Ektar 100フィルムにて撮影。
Books of March 2026 Below are the two books I finished reading this month. Fiction The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954) 423 pages 5 stars This is a re-read, I have read the book several times, first time in the early...
I recently completed my second reading of The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly. This is my attempt to linger on my reading, as I posted earlier. It's not a review but a reflection on how the book affected me. When I first read the...
i know this is a really late entry to the carnival but it wouldn't be on brand of me without a last minute submission. now i present you this awesome meme graph: this little graph can accurately describe what mood you are currently...
I read The New York Times, The Morning, almost every morning. On March 30, 2026, the main content of the newsletter was readers’ questions. It begins as follows: Your questions There is a lot going on in the world right now, much of it...
I know I'm not supposed to get too excited about space launches. I know things could be delayed or postponed up to the last second (almost literally). I know that today's weather briefing put the chances of launching tomorrow at only 80...
This is my entry to the April 2026 Grizzly Gazette Carnival on the topic “Your favourite unconventional animal".My favourite animals are cats, undoubtedly [1] [2]. This month’s Grizzly Gazette Carnival invites participants to think...
2026-03-31Hello! Tomorrow marks April Fools, but I'm busy; I don't have the time to set up something fun. Sorry in advance.Today, after weeks of seeing bloody adverbs in my drafts, I'm going to try and eliminate all adverbs from my...
I discuss some methods of reducing image size using Linux command line utilities like optipng and Image Magick. This includes reducing colour depth and applying dithering.
(image courtesy of unknown artist) "so, what now?" the question of how i feel about my "final day", one that has found its way to almost everyone's lips, and tumbles from it like water from a cliff. and one i simply do not have an answer...
John Davidson: diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome at a young age which alienated him from his peers, he struggled with a condition few people had witnessed. Excellent little emotional film that puts Tourette’s under the spotlight. I knew...
April Fools Day is somewhat of a legendary day among nerds. Historically it's been when the nerds at GMail introduced GMail Custom Time, where you could interrupt causality by making GMail look like you sent a message before it was...
Cada uno de los dos cambios de hora me acuerdo mucho de que tengo varios relojes radiocontrolados en casa. Y me acuerdo mucho de que vivo demasiado lejos de Alemania y en una casa con los muros demasiado gruesos como para que sea útil...
This is the 50th anniversary of Apple Computer, and the sites you’d expect are publishing their love letters to Apple’s early products, including the Apple ][.As I was reading these articles and listening to a related podcast yesterday,...
Go (or Golang for some) may not be the best-in-class language for everything, but I think it's ideally suited for LLM coding. The community is special in a way that is a bit differrent than communities of other programming languages....
Count Releases 0 Commits 26 Contributors 1 Pull requests merged 0 Issues closed 0 At a Glance Jumpy Alien Community Site Jumpy Alien I spent some time this month and finished polishing off the Jumpy Alien example! The final touches ended...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Man, the covid still going strong. I'm back at work partially (I'm remote, not exposing anyone) and it's just brutal how much even sitting at a desk for a few hours is...
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. A supply chain attack affects the axios package on npm. This package has 100 million (!) weekly...
March 31, 2026 I'm a fan of the Pivot podcast with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. In today's episode from 17:42 to 27:21 Kara and Scott discuss a mind-boggling possibility: Elon Musk is on track to potentially become the world's first...
This is an excerpt from my journal. I express the connection with my surroundings and how I do not need all the answers. Minutes to eleven. Another rainy day comes to a close. I just came back from my nightly hike with the dogs. We walk...
I was listening to Ye's newest album Bully earlier this morning, and it was good. The standout track for me was "Mama's Favorite." Ye had a wonderful relationship with his mom, and the part at the end of the track where she tells him...
Last night on the vintage music quiz Face the Music – an awful smugfest, really, but strangely compelling – the guest was Gerald Moore, who had recently celebrated his 80th birthday. As well as being probably the finest accompanist who...
Quoted The Old Internet is Still Here by Tyler Gaw (tylergaw.com) There’s a frequent lament of missing the “old” Internet. It’s different for every person that thinks it, but it’s usually a feeling of loss for things like personal...
First of all, I added more to Louhi's page: a little bit of info on her in Tavastian (Häme, Pirkanmaa) runosongs. In deities, I made a page for Kuohutar/Kosketar. In myths, I translated runosongs of the Nine diseases, The Release of the...
The tension I keep coming back to I recently read Joel’s post, “Unpolished human websites”, and it hit on something I think a lot of us who care about the independent web have felt for a while now. He is not wrong. Part of what makes...
I opened my news app this morning. By the fourth headline my mind stopped reading and started mapping. The map it made was one of contagion, a fire spreading without any formal announcement or congressional declaration or any of the...
you could waste it, you could spend it, you could simple live in it ..... or you can take it and make it your own :))(Note that this is not an April Fools joke lmao)
I thought of something that I could get other bloggers to do too, and then I was doodling and this idea came up!So here are five silly things about me. I have a shelf full of things I can use to journal in or plan in. I get bored so...
Why is the sky blue? It’s not as simple as Rayleigh scattering since Mars has a red daytime sky but blue sunsets, the inverse of Earth. Are two heads better than one? A neat probability puzzle: two friends each independently tell you the...
Dear readers, we have some exciting news to share! Starting right now, this blog will be written exclusively by AI. Yes, you read that right — AI is the author and the future for 82MHz has never looked brighter! Why this matters, and why...
Linda Radzik, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, will be moving to Binghamton University (SUNY). Radzik works mainly in ethics and philosophy of law, writing about “moral issues that arise in the aftermath of wrongdoing,...
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV) and TBQH this year “visibility” just sounds threatening to me. The more visible we are, the more they come for us, and I’m fucking tired of it. Tired, and scared.
Ou comment une poignée de parasites nous ont volé le web sans qu'on soit foutu de réagir.
Christina and I had the opportunity to go to our first game of the year. We sat as close as either of us have ever been to the field in our lives. I love being at the stadium so much. I bet it would be a fun place to work inside of....
I have a bunch that I want to write about this month, but that'll all be in different posts. Just got back from Atmosphere Conf in Vancouver and settling into a false Brooklyn summer.ReadingI read so much this month but have little to...
April brings the joy of the annual CAMRA conference, this year from St Albans (aka Greater Luton), a chance to assess whether the Fighting Cocks really does have the oldest beer in the country. CAMRA, once again, stands at a crossroads....