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We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery has trade-offs. Most apps that do this probably ship both...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Abolition of Man. It began as three lectures in 1943. Lewis looks at a school textbook that teaches children to dismiss emotions as mere feelings. He calls this book the Green Book. Lewis says such...
I was watching the Artemis II flyby last night. So of course I am rather tired today. I really like dashboards – I’ve been looking at the one for Artemis II by Canadian Space and it is rather fancy. Now I want my own for whatever kind of...
I am happy to share a new open source project I have been working on: @kylereddoch/eleventy-plugin-mastodon-share. You can browse the source on GitHub and try the live demo. It is a small Eleventy plugin that makes it easier for people...
If you use Quarry Park, please take a moment to complete the survey.San Mateo County Parks is working with Avid Trails to develop Single-track Mountain Bike Trail Standards that will guide the planning of sustainable, safe, and enjoyable...
Thanks for the tip. A week off work, dominated by having a streaming cold for a few days and a catastrophic failure of my home network drive, resulting in multiple days of effort to get it up and running again. All last week I had felt...
Crédito: NASA Se me sigue haciendo increíble que se puedan tomar este tipo de fotos y todavía más increíble que apenas fue tomada ayer. Vía: NASA Gracias por leer mi blog y ser un suscriptor.Si disfrutas mi contenido, puedes comprarme un...
These images NASA posted today of Artemis II flying around the far side of the moon are simply breathtaking! I can’t get enough of them.Source: NASA (https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby)Source: NASA...
Life is hard. Today, when opening Anki on macOS: DbError { info: "SqliteFailure(Error { code: DatabaseCorrupt, extended_code: 11 }, Some(\"database disk image is malformed\"))", kind: Other } Database corrupt? What is this, are we in the...
I grant myself the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to...
(image courtesy of titsay) gosh, what else do i have apart from the spiralling recesses of the depths of my own mind, and these scattered words on a page? i've felt a growing sense of otherness, as i've returned to my "real life". it's...
2026-04-07Hello! My homepage is getting boring, with all the landscape-oriented photos with the exact same aspect ratio. I oughta add a portrait of someone.This photo is near Washington Crossing, on the New Jersey side. But the bridge to...
Title: Baccyflaps Website: baccyflap.com/prs/blog RSS Feed: baccyflap.com/prs/blog/feed.php Hello, long-expected traveler. My name is rmf, and welcome to my personal homepage. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing...
Richard MacManus wrote a piece last year titled “Replanting Articles: Bring Legacy Posts to Your Website” and it resonated with me before I even got to the text. It’s exactly what I’ve been doing since relaunching my site last year. In...
I’ve been putting together a small app, and trying to make it very very good. I’m coding the whole thing1 myself because I enjoy the challenges that come with logic coding, and find writing SwiftUI code pretty fun and fast. It’s a...
“There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking person thinking… Walking and thinking are in a perpetual relationship that is based on trust.” “I: how...
I was on my analytics page the other day, one of my quiet routines. Not for numbers, not really. More for the referrals. It's one of the last honest ways to discover corners of the internet that aren't trying to sell you something. Plus,...
I've released an update to BlogMore, with another little straightforward addition. This time I'm revisiting the statistics page and adding a streak tracker, of sorts. Modelled after the GitHub contribution tracker, or indeed any number...
Marginalia Search Introduction Marginalia Search is a free and open source search engine developed and operated by Viktor Lofgren. It uses its own web crawler to build its index independent of any other search engine (contrast with many...
Con dos días de retraso en esta ocasión. No sé si os pasará igual a vosotros, pero a mí los periodos “festivos” como la semana santa me trastocan por completo. Además siempre pretendo hacer muchas cosas y al final acabo frustrado porque...
Mood: Melted. There is no other word for it. There is a practiced but familiar rhythm to my life that usually only I can hear. It is the rapid-fire thwip-thwip-click of a screen reader, the frantic, synthetic heartbeat of my phone as I...
I stumbled across this great post by Spencer Mortensen yesterday, which tested different email obfuscation techniques against real spambots to see which ones actually work. It's a fascinating read, and I'd recommend checking it out if...
Replied to Why your files are slowly dying by Wojtek Powiertowski (behindtheviewfinder.com) But even if you have copies everywhere there's a quieter problem that nobody warns you about. Your files are degrading right now and you probably...
The trial of Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, begins today. The trial concerns his actions at a protest during a Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid of a...
Jehan Azad: When people are in competition, they work harder if the game seems winnable, and decrease effort if they think they’ll lose. It’s implied that because humans are so far behind aliens, we are uncompetitive and so should put in...
I mentioned in my last post that I’ve been experimenting with different ways of digital drawing, leaning towards a more opaque painting style for colour than I usually would. I’m enjoying the results. My obsession with birds continues....
I got to meet some pagans irl, I'm pretty excited so I'm telling you *heart*. Anyways, first of all in deities, we now have a page for Hyytämöinen and Lievetyinen (winter and summer). Then, I translated plenty more myths: Runosong...
My blog relies on SourceHut (aka sr.ht) Git repo and Builds (their continuous integration/CI, like GitHub Actions). They’ve been down for around two days and I couldn’t deploy my site to my static host, Bunny Storage (this is my...
You might’ve already heard a lot about it by now since it’s gotten quite popular the past few months, but I have some things to say about the XTEINK X4 and how it’s become one of my favorite gadgets. If this is the first time you’re...
I, like many Christians, have been having a tough time loving my enemies. I mean this not just in relation to my car crash earlier this week, but in most facets of life. The real essence of the law is to try and not get angry in an...
Il est arrivé à Lisbonne ce soir !
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. LinkedIn hidden code secretly searches your browser for installed extensions, Cyber Security News....
Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did...
A primeira provocação ele agüentou calado. Na verdade, gritou e esperneou. Mas todos os bebês fazem assim, mesmo os que nascem em maternidade, ajudados por especialistas. E não como ele, numa toca, aparado só pelo chão. Outra provocação...
How, I wonder, do you form a whole life? What I mean is, how do you knit your individual bits and pieces into a coherent person? For years I worked in public education (14 as a junior high school principal). That became a central part of...
Hace más tiempo del que puedo recordar, quizá unos 15 años, me hice con un Kindle reacondicionado. Mi yo reaccionario se resistía a leer algo que no fuese en papel. Bueno, mi yo de entonces apenas encontraba tiempo para leer cosas que no...
I was inspired by, of all things, a video monologue by a Scottish surfer [1] who said that the future for them was challenging themselves in new ways. My guitar was close by and I thought maybe I should give myself a bit of a challenge...
Edie's been through a bevy of tests and now we wait for results to figure out the best path forward. ⊕Currently Listening: Harlan Silverman “Music for Stillness”Reply via email
It’s been 10 days since the last one of these link dumps, so this one is particularly long. Sorry! Hello, World, taken on April 3rd by Artemis Ⅱ mission commander Reid Wiseman. Artemis Ⅱ launched while I was in Geneva last week, and flew...
F is for Frames Just some css fun collected from gists and adapted, feel free to grab and share. Resize your images though and don’t use the width property, lol Le Classic Frame Ornate Frame Win 3.1 Frame Photo Viewer >_<...
A cloudy sunset into the Sea of Japan, in the Kyotango area at the north end of Kyoto Prefecture. 京都府の北端、京丹後地方の日本海に沈む曇天の夕日。
In late 2025 I put together a list of things I would dump in 2026. Three months of the year are done, so how have I been getting on? A mixed bag: ‘social’ media - down to one social media platform, using mastodon via federate.social. I...
April (finally !) 2026. Manchester to Tyldesley. You learn a lot about the UK transport networks as a pub ticker. Some towns stand out as tough to tick, particularly the string of mining towns without a railway station between Manchester...
vulture.comAudiences said ‘I do’ to the rage-bait-y rom-com, making it A24’s third-highest-grossing opening to date.I honestly did not see this coming, even with the high opinion and known quantity that Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are....
Every now and then, I have these moments where, for some reason, I suddenly start to marvel at really banal things. I don't know what causes it, but it feels like my threshold for what counts as "normal" or "unremarkable" gets lowered...
How a game made of light taught me that the most meaningful connections happen in the most unexpected places.
(Nota bene, each entry has a review using Seth’s proprietary three-point Good-OK-Bad scale, with emojis representative of something that stood out to me about the work1; please do not tell Seth, I am very scared of him) (R: Re-read; B:...
I am sitting on my wooden fire-escape deck in 2017 looking East watching the sunset shine againt some distant clouds. I am on the third floor of an aging walk up in a neighborhood full of two-flats and single family homes. It is...
When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched. Great sci-fi movie...
Tim Urban published 15 Wait But Why posts in 2014, reaching millions of readers with long-form explorations of AI, procrastination, and human psychology. Then he started a book. In 2017–2018 combined: one post. Seven years and 2,440 days...