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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...
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'...
Me: Walks away from the house, wearing my Airpods ProSiri (In my Airpods): Would you like me to run automation “last to leave home”?Me: YesSiri: Sorry, I didn’t understand that.🤦♂️
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
When I said these would be occasional, I meant it! Spring has sprung here in RVA. The pollination is upon us and everything is covered in a gold-colored dust. Ugh. However, now that the threat of a serious freeze is done until November,...
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?
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...
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...
Nice #Artemis dashboard
Hiked part 7/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.1 kilometres from Garderen to Putten centrum. The Speulder and Sprielderbos still partly consists of the old, communally managed malebos. The forest between Garderen and Putten has been a...
E-mail from Ellen Kaisse this morning: I don’t know how I failed to learn this for 60 years or so but Purcell’s cataloguer is a Z person, Franklin Zimmerman. You probably have known forever, but thought I’d mention it just in case. How...
Some things will forever disturb me living in Southeast Asia. I am not close to or friends with many expats. There are a few that I keep track of mostly by meeting them every so often or watching their YouTube vlogs. I wanted to discuss...
Never underestimate time alone. It's a weird thing when I'm alone. Sometimes I think I might actually have autism because when I am actually alone, I can really let the wiggles out and all other kinds of silly little behaviors. I was...
“… 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...
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...
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...
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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....
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...
I wrote a review of the visual novel Kanon re-released by Steam in 2024.
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...
Drupal As A Service: A Year In Open Source abmurrow Sat, 11 Apr 2026 - 10:02
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Links at the start. Some of the usual nonsense. A small moan about macOS.
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...
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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...
"Habito ordinario" (Ordinary dress) from the "Habiti Antichi e Moderni", published by Cesare Vecellio, 1590.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
…by bots, scrapers and arseholes, what’s the point of stats? To be clear, I don’t usually have stats on my site. But as I just changes to a new system I wanted to have stats for a while make sure check all the posts and pages worked. I...
A response to a blog post about using AI to enhance writing.
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...
J’ai hésité un peu avant de publier cette note de la semaine, un peu vide à mon goût. Puis je me suis rappelée ma première note : sans se prendre la tête ni sur la forme ni sur le fond Du coup, je la publie quand même malgré le maigre...
“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...
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...
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...
I can't believe I didn't know this earlier! Do you have ceramic mugs and stuff 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...
Key takeaways from Amazon's 2007 Dynamo paper.
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...
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。
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...