Fri Apr 10
A few years ago, some sort of a bug at my work caused all of the timestamps appear as “54 years ago,” a seemingly arbitrary date. It took me a bit to realize: “Wait, you know what year was 54 years ago? 1970!” “Why is 1970 important?” asked another designer. I explained that by convention, Linux time counts up from...
“… All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity—it is to destroy it. Leave that to the moralists, my boy. History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads. The ideas that are born in their consciousness play an insignificant part in the march of events....
Two inner-city teenagers engage in an obsessive, innocent flirtation fueled by Lila’s sexually explicit overtures. Great coming-of-age movie, based on a story published under a pseudonym, telling the encounter between the author and Lila, a beautiful young woman. It’s a story about passion (teenage passion),...
Este seria el intento de phishing que casi me hizo bajar la guardia, pero por olvidarlo por algunos días lo pude analizar con mas calma después Hoy les traigo un chisme de seguridad que me llegó al buzón. Recibí un correo supuestamente de la ICANN (la autoridad máxima de dominios a nivel mundial) pidiéndome...
I am back in Bengaluru. Slept and rested a bit. I watched One Battle After Another on the way to Sydney and Naked Gun 2 on the way back. I really liked how One Battle After Another is told, DiCaprio’s role, the chemistry between father and daughter, and the climax. It’s a good watch. Yet to get back to work...
Read George's story, The Bug, now!What does The Bug mean to you?It means a lot of things to me—imposter syndrome, social malaise, suppression of anxiety—but more than anything it really is about a bug. Sometimes it feels as though you lack all control or agency in your life, and that something else (a bug, in this...
Pe 9 aprilie 2026, ultimul angajat plătit al Session Technology Foundation (STF) și-a încheiat ultima zi de muncă. De atunci, una dintre cele mai serioase alternative private la WhatsApp și Signal este dezvoltat exclusiv de voluntari, cu infrastructura finanțată doar până pe 8 iulie 2026. Dacă până atunci nu sunt...
I read Pablo’s post on AI-enhanced writing and Arun’s original piece that started the conversation. I appreciate both of them putting their thoughts out there — this is exactly the kind of discussion the open web is for.I want to start by saying I think Pablo makes some genuinely good points. Writing is a craft. The...
Above is Ben Nicholson's Auberge de la Sole Dieppoise, one of my favourites among his paintings, many of which leave me fairly cool. Ben, born on this day in 1894, took off in a wholly different direction from his father, the great (and still underrated) William Nicholson, pursuing abstraction rather than...
“Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.” “An experience makes its appearance only when it is being said,” wrote Hannah Arendt in reflecting on how language confers reality upon existence. “And unless it is said...
Long-time readers know of my love for and commitment to the open web: sites with no intervening platform, no paywall, just sitting there on the World Wide Web in plain HTML which cats and dogs can read! (Allusion alert.) My buddy Austin Kleon — with his 300k Substack subscribers — teases me about this. This is me in...
Three months back I released obs2nlm, a tool that takes an Obsidian vault and turns it into a single Markdown file so it can be used as a source for NotebookLM. Since then I've been using it a lot and it's working out really well. Meanwhile, one of my vaults has started to creep up towards the documented word limit...
Hello. The hasty monster in the header of this missive is named Mechnozoid and I must tell you that there are going to be more doodles in a similar vein to come. I am pretty rusty at drawing, but email is a disposable medium. If blog posts are ephemeral as lightning bugs by nature, exhibiting life only so long as...
This little simplistic device has been making the rounds on the smallweb lately, and I have fallen prey to the hype. That said, I have no regrets and have been enjoying my time with it, so here are my thoughts on the gadget. The X4 by Chinese company XTEInk is a 4-inch tall e-reader that has probably the least...
Key takeaways from Amazon's 2007 Dynamo paper.
theverge.comAn easier way to fix comment mistakes.I get that I'm only perpetuating things, but seriously folks, what are we doing here? This isn't news. Allow editing, don't allow editing. Why are we taking this shit so seriously?
Was able to take advantage of my Safari Park membership and visit with visiting family members. Got some great looks at very cool animals. I also had a lot of fun birding the wild birds too! Came home with lots of pics.
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
A mission post by Ensign Miles Archer Mission - Let's Do The Timeloop Again Location - Main mess Ensign Miles Archer sat in the mess after his shift, enjoying a vanilla soda and thumbing through communications to him. He piped the audio directly to his synthetic ear so no one else had to be bothered by the sound as...
This post is in response to On AI-enhanced Writing. Pablo goes into a point by point critique of Arun Venkatesan's post, Ai-enhanced writing process [sic]. I know I have a minority opinion on this, but why not judge the thing that's produced instead of judging how it was produced? Only Arun can judge if what they've...
I just published my motorbike servicing rant and went over to my Pure Blog Dashboard to take a look at some stats, when I noticed this: 101 posts in the last year; which means I've complete 100 Days to Offload for a second time! 🎉 The whole point of the #100DaysToOffload is to challenge you to publish 100 posts on...
It’s now been five days since Naida moved in with us. While not everything has been sunshine and rainbows, I was still surprised about how well everything went and how well she adapted to the new environment within a few days. Some personal highlights: In the beginning, she was afraid of entering our house and...
I am currently working on my review for Resident Evil, but I need to take some pictures and finish it up a little more! So far I tend to separate everything into the basics, art, gameplay, story, music and stuff; but I ended up turning this post into more of a retrospective about survival horror as a whole and...
This is an entry from my journal. The church bells were ringing in the distance. The first explosions echo in the valley. It is almost Easter in this part of the world. In about ten minutes there will be fireworks. I finished a long day’s work and then went for the nightly hike with my dogs. Walking with my canine...
Being able to quickly write replies to email, real actual email, was very valuable. That was the core of what drew me to Delta Chat. There are plenty of proprietary email apps set up around that feature but in the free world, not so much. Delta Chat was it and it was a gem because it was in many ways better than...
From a Github Gist by Andrej Karpathy (local copy for posterity): A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs. […] Most people’s experience with LLMs and documents looks like RAG: you upload a collection of files, the LLM retrieves relevant chunks at query time, and generates an answer. This works,...
Edie has returned to hanging on the top tier of the cat tree and onto the desk for attention (treats). In all the commotion of the last few days I hadn’t noticed her front legs had been shaved for the medical procedures. She seems entirely unbothered.Currently Listening: Slayyyter “YES GODDD”Reply via email
I managed to return my wife's favour after she introduced me to Kill Karl a couple of weeks back by introducing her to The Scratch. A dark indie band from Ireland that blends traditional Irish music with heavy metal in a way that sounds quite a bit like Tool but also Iron Maiden, Cave In, and The Mary Wallopers....
My Pook-Emu Bee links are a bit late today. I had to deal with an issue related to my wireless access point this morning and then some work assignments. Unfortunately, I did not have time to engage in my regular morning reading, but we can take advantage to clear links from my to-use backlog. 1. Bee Write Back is a...
I did a telehealth call this week about some third-party blood test results. As with most things in your forties, the cure is to lose some weight, exercise, and get better sleep. For whatever reason I feel like this might be the year I pull it off. 🤞 My brother-in-law told me about a woman who was arrested and...
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️ When I fall in love with a piece of art or entertainment, I fall hard. I might recommend it to friends, look up behind-the-scenes details,...
Today, I would like to invite you to join me on a calming adventure through winding streets, quiet little towns and magical forests. Make yourself a drink, get comfortable and relax. Take a sip. Take your time. I’d like to take you to a place at the back of my mind. This blog post has been written for the IndieWeb...
In case you’re unaware, I’m not a developer. I’m actually an autistic catgirl annoyed by suboptimal use of computing power, and fixing that happens to involve programming. Crucially, it also includes discussing foundational technology with people behind the scenes, and apparently that makes me more aware of social...
Hi, do you still remember me?I know it’s been a while. 225 days or so, if anyone is counting. Around the time I got laid off, my writing here began to slow down. It wasn’t right away, but gradually enough that I could feel myself slipping away. I remember telling myself I wouldn’t lose who I was in the process, and...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a small landowner with a half-dozen projects already underway is in want of more projects. It's garden start season, which means my basement is full of seedlings under grow lights, my chickens are released daily to scratch and turn the garden beds, I have three apple trees...
The dog’s name is Biscuit, and he has his own Instagram account. Mara discovers this the first weekend after moving into the rental on Telford Close—a Saturday garden party glimpsed from her kitchen window that she finds herself waved into by Diane, who lives three houses along in the double-fronted Victorian with...
Drupal As A Service: A Year In Open Source abmurrow Sat, 11 Apr 2026 - 10:02
There is a comforting, tactile safety in the old fashioned way of using a phone. You press the phone to your ear, the device emitting a heat signature that's instantly grounding. This heated device creates a seal of warmth and assurance. It is an act of self preservation. No one is staring at you. No one is gauging...
At 0107 WAT it took me quite an effort to keep my eyes open. It’s been a while that I’ve stayed up late to watch something. But what a sensation of joy was it to see the capsule beautifully make it’s way into earth and splashdown into the Pacific Ocean. The amount of math, engineering and science to send 4 humans...
2026-04-10Back at the university garden...Hello!It looks like I've sent up to one hundred emails out to each newsletter subscriber (one each day with the regular photo, as expected, and an additional daily email with the Originals for those who have supported me). I archive all my emails now, and going back, it's...
"Habito ordinario" (Ordinary dress) from the "Habiti Antichi e Moderni", published by Cesare Vecellio, 1590.
Ever since (re-)starting the blog, I've found so many interesting websites and online resources by reading other blogs. This is a really fun and rewarding aspect of exploring the indie web. I used to find it a bit weird when people said that "surfing the web" was one of their hobbies in vulgaris aerae 202X, but now...
The last of the cherry blossoms, the lush, "multi-layered cherry blossoms" (yaezakura) in bloom at Ryoanji temple. 最後の桜、龍安寺に咲いた分厚い八重桜。
I is for interesting This article: https://nikola-breznjak.com/blog/devthink/productivity-paper-pomodoro-kanban-tracking-and-actually-showing-up/ which was a summary of the audio recording here: https://devth.ink/e002_productivity/ Since I split my time daily between written notes and electronic ones. I found the...
Louis deRosset, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Vermont, will be moving to the University of Notre Dame. Professor deRosset works in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic. He is the author of Fundamental Things: Theory and Applications of Grounding, among other writings,...
When I first shared my Catppuccin Mastodon theme, it was a pretty personal project. I wanted Mastodon’s web UI to feel more comfortable for me, more intentional, and more in line with the kind of design language I already liked. That first version was focused mainly on a Catppuccin Mocha look and my preferred...
Not exactly sure what it is exactly, but I've never been one to watch too much television. I can't sit still long enough, typically to make it through a movie. Which is mind-boggling to me because I can drop an hour on some 'informative' YouTube video or a three and four hour long podcast without flinching. There...
April 2026. Manchester. A day in central Manchester, the modern bit between St Peters and the Irwell, with a diversion through Spinninfields (no ta), and a quick look at the history of Unionism (yes please) in the wonderful People’s History Museum. We meet Blackpool Jane (why don’t we ever use proper names ?)...