Tue Mar 31
One of the common complaints as old as the iPhone itself is the lack of removable storage. Thanks to numerous cloud options, AirDrop, and iPhones starting at large enough capacities for most people, this is less of a concern today, but what if you need to transfer something from a digital camera or even another...
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 ever lived, Moore was blessed with a genial personality, a sense of humour and a...
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.
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 mucho y desde hace tiempo dejó de ser esa plataforma de comunicación solo gamers...
“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 insight, is vastly superior to the power of thought, which produces opinions,”...
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 up being: Hitboxes for sky and ground Sound effects Background music Settings...
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 it's so exciting We're kicking this blog into overdrive! Relentless creativity:...
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 of John Davidson from other things, but it was refreshing to see this. It...
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 and I didn’t want to go abroad because of her seizures. So I figured that we...
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。
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 websites, blogs, RSS feeds, quirky sites for special interests and hobbies, forums,...
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 tener relojes radiocontrolados. La tecnología: la estación DCF77 Mainhausen es una...
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 easily and the next shiny thing is always on the shelf, ready to get used. So yes,...
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 Dan Abramov that capture this notion of “formats over apps” give a glimpse into...
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 a social media thread, not least because I would have almost certainly not read...
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 trillionaire. He owns roughly 42% of SpaceX, which is targeting a $1.75 trillion...
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 play with himself than with guns and knives. Each time he would throw me a...
(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 to. despite it being a question, and concept, that is on my mind each and every...
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 feeling based on a simple pleasant/unpleasant and high/low energy axis and i think...
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.
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 downloads. Attacks of this type on npm are rare, but they do happen frequently....
I am interested in how software feels to use. Back in 2024, I wrote:I want to learn about design, I thought to myself, excitedly. I was interested in why some things feel better to use than others – why do some tools feel like a delight, while others feel rough around the edges?Reading this back now, the word “feel”...
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 personal websites interesting is that they still feel like a person made them. Not...
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. Can it attract young (under-62) members with its exciting programme of motions...
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 nutshell, Camarda argues that NASA is demonstrating the same dysfunction that led...
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 around the mountains for several hours per day. This is basically paradise for...
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 Thing At A Time”Reply via email
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 official ceremonial apparatus of war, across a geography it was never supposed to...
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 exhausting, and I don't currently have the option to take any more time off...
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 confusing, some of it contradictory, all of it important. War rages, economies...
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 hundreds of times, and she wanted to see them. She saw Koala, Dingo, Wombat,...
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 actually sent. It actually worked. Sometimes this gets taken too far and the joke...
This silly Wordle “hack” I came up with has gone placesDon't ask me how I found out, but my Wordle hack has now been cited in two peer-reviewed computer science papers. I knew about one. This paper by my friend Nisansa was published in Feb 2022, in the height of the Wordle craze: Selecting Seed Words for Wordle...
… 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 concert was great. The person putting on the concert was Emma Joseph, who is very...
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) isn't exactly the most unique topic, and I think most of the things don't...
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)
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 seventies, the last time at least a decade ago. I also have seen the movie directed...
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, including the ethics of forgiveness, reconciliation, criminal punishment, tort...
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. Despite the allure of the pageantry, there was a dark cloud in the form of...
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 certain actions across all accounts that the SCP is applied to. This allows to deny...
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 Celestial Lights, Origin of Iron, and The Forging of Ilmarinen.
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 share here. Despite trying to keep a rich, diverse information diet, a lot of the...
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 percent. But SPACE. SPACE SPACE SPACE. Watching NASA launches and reentries is...
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 one of the latest WordPress theme from the IndieWeb wiki but unfortunately, I...
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. There's a strong feeling of doing things "The right way", "The Go way", "Idiomatic"...
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 writing in this article. It can't be that hard, right? Creative challenges like this...
I will need to reread the whole ending before the book club.... my mind is not into this.
Ou comment une poignée de parasites nous ont volé le web sans qu'on soit foutu de réagir.
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