Fri Apr 03
My bubble and I have been reading Tanya Klowden and Terry Tao's new state-of-the-union style philosophy paper on AI, Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI. I should probably write a post about it sometime. In that paper, Tanya and Terry mention this other paper, Roy Wagner's "Mathematical...
Ragnarok Online (RO) is the one and only MMORPG I've played. My main period of activity was around my middle school years, with the tail end of it stretching into early high school. I'd spend hours upon hours grinding levels in that game, much to my parent's chagrin. The funny thing is that despite of this, I never...
We saw plenty of cherry blossoms at Kyoto's Botanical Garden, but these red tulips in the afternoon sunlight was my best shot of the day. 京都の植物園ではたくさんの桜を見たが、午後の日差しを浴びたこの赤いチューリップが、撮った中で一番いい写真だった。
I try to keep my smart home appliances in the Apple HomeKit orbit, but I have couple switches around the house that don't support it. As a result I've been running a Homebridge VM in Parallels on my Mac for a while now. It works but I wanted to remove Parallels subscription from my setup. I started looking into...
Items of interest elsewhere… A survey of Kant’s relationships with women, including the “catastrophically underrated” Caroline von Keyserlingk — Daniel Andreas dishes on Kant’s love life. Don’t miss the sexy letter from Maria Charlotta Jacobi “You applied to a PhD program in philosophy in the U.S. You haven’t been...
M säger ja till att släppa in SD i regeringen om Tidöpartierna vinner valet i höst. Okej, det stinker och jag är mot det så kan oppositionen samla sig please?! Ja, jag vet att det är väldigt otäcka typer i dom andra tre oppositionspartierna och att bara just ditt oppositionsparti är bra (oavsett om det är...
My warm breath steams up my glasses a little bit. I have my cold pillow resting on my chin. I’m still under the covers. I started my morning with a book, Hot Chocolate on Thursday, a cosy tale that took me to Japan and Sydney all without my leaving my bedroom. I love reading in the mornings, although of late I have...
Dass ich nicht alleine bin mit dem Traum vom besseren Internet war mir schon länger klar, aber dass auch echte Menschen ein Interesse an einem Internet abseits von "Social Media" haben könnten, habe ich erst heute begriffen (nämlich im Gespräch mit den echten Menschen, liebe Grüße) … Und begriffen habe ich auch,...
How to set up Commitizen, Commitlint and Husky to adopt and enforce the Conventional Commits specification in your Git project.
Seeds are a psyop. I tear open a little paper packet. Inside are some grains of expensive dirt. The packet assures me this dirt is not ordinary dirt, however. No. This dirt is MAGIC dirt. If I put this magic dirt on top of some ordinary dirt, add water, and stick it in the sunlight, a plant will happen. Sure, Jan. I...
We are on holiday. The week before the holiday was mostly spent covering for things that can happen during the vacation. Of course, you can’t imagine everything and solve it. But I think the teams are doing okay. So all is well. Uma at Sydeny Opera House. The holidays are going well. We got to celebrate Uma’s...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Back from April Fool antics, thank you to all digimon fans who did not crucify me for speaking ill of agumon, and to those of you who did? I forgive you. Thurs 04/02/2026 - Komala Anyway yesterday was a hit of RNG and we got the blue koala! I think...
Matt Glassman blogged about this topic yesterday, and I thought it was an interesting subject to recall. As he wrote, here are “the national news events for which I can recall precisely where I was when I found out about them. Excludes sporting events, elections, (most) court decisions, and the passage of...
The other day I had a coaching session with Sacha Chua. Sacha asked me if she could record and publish it, to which I agreed. More here: https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/04/yayemacs-10-emacs-coaching-with-prot-packaging-emacs-lisp//. Our next meeting will be done live on the 16th of April 2026 at 10:30...
i think i'm burned out and have been for a long while now. just wondering for how long can i keep being functional and when will the pot boil over.
March 2026. Long Sutton. Lincolnshire. A couple of nights down in Waterbeach seeing Dad, eating Nepalese mixed grill at the White Horse, and trying to fathom out the new post box on The Gault. and then, like Supertramp, the long way home via Curry Charles and Dereham Spoons. Charles is in splendid form, though he...
The most consequential choices we make are rarely dramatic. They accumulate invisibly—an inbox answered, an errand run, a social obligation fulfilled—each individually defensible, collectively catastrophic. By the time we notice, years have passed and the life we intended to live remains hypothetical. This is not a...
2026-04-03Hello!This is a follow-up to yesterday's post, where I took a photo of the entire market at large. This time, I'm zooming into one booth, isolating an interaction between a single customer and a baker.When I took the wide shot of Lancaster Central Market, I thought about the market as a whole. How it could...
Sometimes, rarely, in the forest of human creations, a bit of nature shoots not just above the clouds, but out beyond the moonHank Green in https://youtu.be/x69_tivrN0A
"La processione del Venerdì Santo" (The procession of Holy Friday) by Gabriel Bella.
Quoted More Classic Capcom Titles Have Arrived On Steam, But, Of Course, There's A Catch by Jack Yarwood (timeextension.com) [T]hese new releases are simply reissues of the GOG versions we've seen published over the past two years. However, they are already proving divisive with members of the gaming community. This...
Hi friends, In March, Scour scoured 813,588 posts from 24,029 feeds (7,131 were newly added) and 488 new users signed up. Welcome! Here's what's new in the product: 🔃 Feed Diversity OverhaulScour now does a better job of ensuring that your feed draws from a mix of sources and that no single interest or group of...
Going through a bad migraine, so I started this as audiobook for now until I can read again.
Last week I wrote about how I thought I was being scammed by someone on eBay. In the post I said the following: I've asked eBay to step in and help resolve the situation, so we will see what happens. But there's a lot of buyer protection on eBay (and rightly so) but there's very little in the way of seller...
I’ve decided to implement the human.json protocol on my website as well. Basically, this file is a way for websites to vouch for the human authorship of others. It comes with a web extension you can install that will let you know if a site is vouched by another. I saw a couple of people doing it and decided to jump...
Today I read Choosing my own standards by paco. The first sentences of his argument hit home: 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...
C is for creativity I have been stealing the ideas for the daily prompts based off the categories provided with the A to Z challenge main blog. Which hasn’t been creative. Going to stop doing that going forward but its been nice to have a break in thinking up words to write about. So in the spirit of creativity, I...
Explore how to enable and use the x86-64-v3 optimized Ubuntu variant for better performance on modern hardware without sacrificing stability.
My Dearest Elsie, I scarce have the strength to hold this pen, my fingers are near numb from scrubbing silver and folding napkins into what Master calls "swans" and I call "lumpy potatoes." Another party tonight; can you believe it? The third this week! The drawing room reeks of cigar smoke and desperation, and Lady...
Recentemente saiu a notícia que g00gle iria usar agora os robôs para fazerem resumos das notícias dos sites que trazem (fique alarmado), notícias já que muitos usuários não querem ter o trabalho de clicar no site para ler certas (pasmem), notícias. Isso me pegou de certa maneira que me fez vir escrever sobre isso...
I’m a couple of days late to Apple’s 50-year anniversary. But I find it still a great occasion to share this video snippet that I rewatch from time to time. It’s from a 1994 interview with the late and great Steve Jobs. It’s short, I recommend you watch it in full (full transcript at the end of the post): This...
Tahun lalu saya menulis weeknotes untuk mendokumentasikan apa saja yang terjadi di minggu tersebut. Namun saya berhenti karena rasanya konten jadi redundan dan mengurangi waktu saya untuk menulis tentang hal lain. Karena itu, tahun ini saya coba untuk menulis secara bulanan saja. Setelah bersusah payah melewati...
This sequel to "Children of Blood and Bone" follows all the sequel rules; much action! bigger plot! such characters! wow! In all seriousness, it's a rollicking good fantasy. It feels like a classic "middle book" — a stopgap between the rush of the first book and the sweet climax. There's is absolutely nothing wrong...
I found that some of the doodles I make for other people are the most rewarding. I love making art for you guys on bear, trying to bring your ideas and wishes to life. So for the bear blog community, I would be open to making a few pixel art pieces without any cost, if it's under 64x64px, with one piece per person....
In the previous post, I wrote: I understand that the best way to compare two things visually is to switch between them promptly in situ; our visual system is really good at spotting even small changes when aided this way. I thought it would be fun to talk about it briefly, because it gives me a chance to show you a...
Read Lisa's story, The Retro Diner, now!What makes you hopeful these days?The collective action of concerned citizens to address current issues is the only thing outside of my own circle of family and friends that is currently giving me hope.Do you view this story as a one in the Groundhog Day family of stories?No,...
Do I think protests like No Kings move needles? The comment section says no. (Also, we’re all AI.) ⊕Currently Listening: Michael Penn “Revival”Reply via email
Whenever I would post to my blog here back in the day I would run the text through ProWritingAid, because to be honest, it was necessary. My spelling and grammar has tanked since the introduction of smartphones in my life. It's so embarrassing, but it is what it is. My old boss at work back in the day had on his...
I created an LLM ‘literature professor’ who discusses stories with me after I finish a tale from Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (or Tales of the Liaozhai), using the 2006 Penguin translation by John Minford. As I read through the book, one of the most important things I learned about Tales was...
Heya! So, as you might know, I host and maintain guestbooks.kamiscorner.xyz, a guestbook service for indie web blogs (specifically bearblog ones, though it can be used on any website). Now, it's been a while since i initially started working on the thing, and it's been pretty stable for a good while now, so i...
Back when I first really got into writing Emacs Lisp code, one of the first things I got very used to and really fell in love with was being able to eval-last-sexp (C-x C-e) the code I was writing, either to test it right there in the buffer, or to cause it to be bound so I could use it elsewhere. It was so...
Apple is rolling out age verification for iPhone and iPad in the UK. The idea is to get the device “owner” to verify their age so that they can access “certain services”. Apple has already removed encryption for UK users in 2025: Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection in the United Kingdom to new users....
Me encanta la filmografía, y bajo el criterio de mi opinión personal, queiro compartir las tres mejores películas Colombianas: Matar a Jesús (2018) Laura Mora. La estrategía del caracol (1993) Sergio Cabrera. La vendedora de rosas (1998) Victor Gaviria. Nota: Nombre (año) Director(a,es).
TIMBRE SOMOS LO QUE OLVIDAMOS [La Jornada, Marzo 24, 2026]En alguna de sus novelas, cuyo título ahora mismo no recuerdo, Margaret Atwood aseguraba que somos preponderantemente lo que olvidamos. Eso que no sabemos de nosotros mismos y que, para colmo de males, no sabemos que no sabemos, ejerce un poder espectacular...
Two years ago I published “Apple, please fix the Safari Reading List” which suggests some improvements and highlights one critical bug that Apple should fix to make Safari Reading List usable. Having a robust system to keep things for later is crucial for my workflow. Unfortunately, nothing changed since then and it...
We spend our lives searching for portals to the possible. They are rarely gates swung open for us by some great hand. Often, they are where we least expect them — in the chance encounter, in the small unconscious choice, at an inconvenient moment, in a quiet corner of the quotidian. Oftener still, they are the...
La verdad estoy sorprendido. En un principio esto se llamaba «Proyecto: Herramienta de edición con inteligencia artificial», pero mientras editaba y editaba este artículo, me topé con la realidad de la inteligencia artificial; No es tan inteligente ni es omnipotente. Introducción Todo este artículo comenzó como una...
Came across this wonderful video from 1969 with Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross. The performances of the songs are superb, and there is such a lovely warmth between the two of them.
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night. Five stories, in five different cabs, in five different countries, happening at the same time. It’s absurd and funny, and it doesn’t have a grand finale, but still manages to impress...
Sometimes catching someone else up on your life (or writing such a blog post) is like those weekly status calls at work where it feels like you’re justifying your continued employment to your co-workers. Kinda weird, right? Instead of giving a summary of what I’ve been up to, I’m going to share a couple sentences...