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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. Amazon to end support for older Kindles, prompting user outcry, BBC News. Kindle models released...
I have been wanting to build a starter theme for a while that feels more like the kind of web I actually enjoy using. Not sterile. Not overly polished. Not trying to look like every SaaS landing page on the internet. That idea turned...
A while back, I published a post called “The joy of writing online”. In there, I talk about how great it is to be a part of the “blogging on your personal website” club. Since then, I also got more and more into the ATproto community and...
My process of using AI to enhance my writing without giving up control.
A veces me obsesiono con ciertas frases, pueden ser cosas que alguien dice o que leo en algún lado, pero más algunas que me llegan de repente a la mente. Cuando pasa esto me dan muchas ganas de escribirla y estoy todo el rato...
Replied to Hate Meta? Even Realities Is Making the Smart Glasses You Want by Julian Chokkattu (WIRED) The company announced the Even G2 smart glasses, sporting a bigger display in a lighter frame, alongside the R1 smart ring, which can...
The World Wide Web is one of the greatest inventions of humanity. This medium gave me the opportunity to do what I do, made me passionate about it, taught me so many things and gave me so many laughs. In many contexts this saying sounds...
I am still playing a ton of Diablo IV in my free time. We are currently in a shortened season ( only 12 weeks ) and the new season starts in about 3 weeks with the new Expansion and class rework. There will be tons to write about then,...
Last week I shared a link to a post about which data is processed when you verify your identity with Linkedin. A friend got in touch and noted that this post and in fact the entire site seems like it was written by AI to him. He pointed...
I can't believe I didn't know this earlier! Do you have ceramic dishes that look kind of like this, with streaks caused by silverware and whatnot? I assumed the ceramic was getting scratched and slowly ruined, which bummed me out because...
Looking down at the Amanohashidate sandbar and the Asokai Sea, one of Japan's three scenic views. Taken next to a cherry tree at Kasamatsu Park. 日本三景のひとつ、天橋立砂州と阿蘇海を見下ろす。傘松公園の桜の木の横で撮影。
(image courtesy of unknown artist on weibo) i'm not sure how to make this one nice. how to make it palatable. how to wrap it up in a neat, put-together bow that bounces ever-so-slightly as it's tied off in a flourish. i've reached depths...
Me, in 2025, on Mastodon: I love tools like Netlify and deploying my small personal sites with git push But i'm not gonna lie, 2025 might be the year I go back to just doing builds locally and pushing the deploys from my computer. I'm...
A few weeks ago I told the story of the exams I passed to enter the “Bachillerato Bilingüe” class in my high school. Among all the things we had to learn for the exam there was the elimination algorithm to solve systems of linear...
Lots of beach time the last couple weeks. More sunset photos incoming.
Sakuran es un manga seinen que cuenta la historia de Kiyoha, una niña que llega a un burdel con 8 años y acabará convirtiéndose en la cortesana más solicitada del local. Moyoco Anno es la autora de Sakuran y siguiendo la línea de sus...
In the context of the #DigitalIndependenceDay (https://di.day), I noticed discussions on whether Tool A or Service B is “sovereign enough.” But – the more I thought about it, the clearer it became: Digital sovereignty isn’t binary. What...
Continuing my laborious examination of the 2026 MEN.com 5-part DVD The Men’s Room (TMR). So far, two postings on the goofy “human urinal” segment (#1): 4/8 in “human urinal” and 4/9 in “human urinal, the photo album” (nobody expects a...
Lange hat es gedauert und das Warten hat sich gelohnt: Heute kam die Zelda-Pixelfibel von elektrospieler bei mir an—eine wunderschöne, kompakte (16,5 cm × 16,5 cm) Hardcover-Liebeserklärung an die Zelda-Spiele auf dem Game Boy Advance....
“At the end of my life, I know I won’t be wishing I’d held more back, been less effusive, more often stood on ceremony, forgiven less, spent more days oblivious to the secret wishes and fears of the people around me.” The price we pay...
The first novel from Thrawn Trilogy was great, but flawed. It was too afraid to steer any further from The Saga. But I was so invested that very swiftly I started reading the follow-up. Dark Force Rising is more of what made Heir......
Very technical post, feel free to ignore if you're not working on KDE stuff. Since I'm on KDE Linux, I use flatpak apps for pretty much everything, such as Kontact suite. I wanted to test out how my Breeze changes would look like in...
CSS Naked Day 2026 4 月 9 日是 CSS Naked Day，庆祝这一天，可以将网站的 CSS 全部移除，「赤裸」地展示网站的内容。 CSS 赤裸日背后的理念是推广 Web 标准。简单明了。这包括正确使用 HTML、语义化标记、良好的层级结构，当然，还有那个经典的文字游戏。用 2006 年的话来说，是时候展示你 <body> 的真面目了。 (it’s time to show off your <body> for what it really...
What it does… As said, fzf is my go to for great shell search and tui’s. Basically add a fuzzy search to everyting you can imagine. But this is not what I want to write about, today I want to show another usecase of fzf in combination...
There are too many entries in my git stash: shell % git stash list | wc -l 69 I would like to completely empty it, nothing there matters, it’s all draft junk accumulated over months. shell % git stash clear Verification: shell % git...
Longtime readers may remember that time I kvetched about how every job I wanted as a kid was met with "that doesn't pay well," as if getting rich was the only thing that ever mattered about one's daily project: me: "that doesn't pay...
H is for Hobby Im back stealing topics from the main site! From them: Is blogging a full-time job for you? Something you do on the side, in addition to your full-time job? Or is it just a hobby,something you do for giggles? My guess is...
I might be late to the game but I’ve been developing a personal iOS app I have wanted for years, but never had the time or chance to dedicate a few weeks to. In a few hours, I have a functional app and I only need to tweak a few things...
The Making of a Poem, the excellent Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, prints its authors' names in UPPER CASE, above the name of the poem (and why not?). Thus it was that, browsing in its pages last night, I came across a poem written by...
While Org-mode is fantastic in its core functionality, there is a lovely little extension that creates a way to build a wiki for all personal knowledge, ideas, writing, work, and so much more: org-roam. A “clone” of ROAM research, if you...
April 2026. Tyldesley. You can’t come to Tyldesley and just do the lone new GBG entry. Perhaps I should have gone craft, but the lure of the longstanding “Proper” pub was too strong, so the Union Arms it was. Thwaites on the bar, a clear...
When a successful, but tired Tokyo-based playwright who has sworn off easy women and casual encounters takes refuge in the countryside, his plans are disrupted by a horny woman who pedals fast into his life and is unrelenting. The...
It's Holy Friday, and I intend on going to my parish's service tonight. One of the subdeacons was saying that it's supposed to have some of the most beautiful music the church sings all year, so I'm excited for it. I haven't attended any...
[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] At 14:00 Europe/Athens I will hold a live stream about Emacs. Specifically, I will work on my modus-themes package. The idea is to write more tests and refine the relevant...
Back in 2022 I wrote about automatically generating responsive images in both JPEG and WebP formats using Hugo shortcodes. In those days, browser support for WebP was still quite spotty so we had to generate both formats and do a little...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tuesday 04/07/2026 - Dragonite Ok this one was for me. Purely because I saw this ”they're going to super hell” post and I wanted to draw a goddamn dragonite. I love...
Such was the house, the household, and the business Mr. Verloc left behind him on his way westward at the hour of half-past ten in the morning. It was unusually early for him; his whole person exhaled the charm of almost dewy freshness;...
Dr. Sarah Okonkwo had been on Kepler-7 for eleven days when she heard the term that would change her research trajectory. She was in Ring C’s maintenance bay, recording device pressed against her palm, watching Maya Reyes recalibrate a...
Over the last couple of years, my opinions have changed about the term software engineering. In this blog post, I share what I see as the difference between software engineering and software development in the age of AI.
Don't you hate it when you go out in public, and the public is there? Jokes aside, my relationship with the public is difficult. I think most interactions are actually neutral; just passing each other, sitting next to each other,...
If a stranger is annoying me, they'll probably never know it. I have tremendous patience and will put up with most things as long as I can maintain the peace, even if I'm seething inside. But there are other times when I reach a breaking...
Usually, when heading somewhere or doing some mindless task (doing the dishes, cleaning, grocery shopping), I listen to podcasts or music. It's a good way to fill that unused time, to provide input through a sensory organ that isn't...
After adding the streak display to the stats a couple of days back, I got a little more obsessed with knowing what sort of runs of days of posting to the blog I had. I even said in that post: It almost makes me want to do a...
A night at 1200 Postcards (that’s not me DJing) It’s been a strangely busy past few weeks, to the point where I’m not entirely sure where all my time disappeared to. Well, I guess first there’s the fact that three friends and I have...
JA Westenberg: Every developer who sees HN thinks, “I could build that in a weekend.” And they’re right; they absolutely could. In fact, I’d assume they’re pretty shite at their jobs if they couldn’t. What they couldn’t build in a...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Problem of Pain. He faces the hard question of why pain exists if God is good and all-powerful. Lewis starts with the nature of God and human free will. He shows how pain often acts as God's...
Nu am treabă cu programarea și nici nu lucrez în IT, dar am dat peste câteva articole care m-au prins și am rămas să citesc până la capăt. Primul a fost The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Catacombs al lui Andrew Nesbitt, care extinde o...
2026 is doing something right for the small web. People are building tools that don't try to replace things. They just make them better. Bear Roll is one of them. https://bearroll.dev/ 🐻 The discovery conundrumBear Blog's Discover page...
Today I decided with my first brain I shall go walk and have coffee somewhere. Like usual. I enjoy sharing the places I get to every so often on the fediverse and maybe a photo here and a story that somehow connects it all. The writing...
I haven’t been posting here much lately, but I’ve been playing Pokémon Champions since it came out and I’m honestly having a good time. It might sound controversial, but as someone who grew up playing Pokémon, it’s amazing to see all the...
Ne rien avoir à penser Se faire prendre pour des crétins parce que ça fonctionne Google l’annonce : il y a plus de personnes dans le monde avec un smartphone Android que de personnes qui ont accès à de l’eau propre et des égouts. Cela...
I occasionally see a headline that makes me think “it would be hard to explain this to someone in [insert year].” That was my first thought when I read a new report by John Hayward of Breitbart titled Uganda Says It Was Cyberattacked...
2026-04-09Hello! Well, this is something.Last month, I got in contact with WikiPortraits, an international organization that captures photos of people for Wikipedia and its sister projects. They let me go to the New Directors / New Films...
After he is seriously injured in a battle, the Marquis of Wu’an is found by Fan Changyu, a butcher from the village of Li’an. As he hides from his enemies in the village, he grows closer to Changyu and they eventually get into a marriage...
Sometimes I just don't want to work. Yet it is assumed that I have to work five days a week. Yes, I get money for that. But my employer also assumes that I am motivated five times a week. That I am productive five times a week. Even if I...
RSS Gets You Off the Platform; Curation Gets You Off the DrugLeaving a predatory platform's algorithm feels like going into some form of recovery. However, RSS cannot fix all of your content consumption problems. Recovering from "the...
The results of Edie's scan confirm a mass is cancer and we'll need to go through a bit more hardship. But the prognosis is good that the issues she's been having will lessen and we can get back to more quality time, less struggle.Reply...
I just got home from South Korea, where I taught some workshops at an event hosted by the U.S. Embassy Seoul! The event is called TechCamp Korea 2026, and the participants were a cohort of young professionals, entrepreneurs, and...
Martin Peterson, currently professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, will be moving to Southern Methodist University (SMU). Professor Peterson works in ethics, particularly normative ethics, engineering ethics, and the ethics of...