Sun Apr 12
I finally finished my albatross project: replicating all our Postgres shards to Databricks. This is great news.In broad strokes, we export our Postgres databases daily from the backup snapshot, then ingest those Parquet snapshots with Databricks. Previously, we had done a hacked-together variant of the same process...
I feel like my translation quality has been poor lately, but I kind of don't care. So now there are myths for the Death of Lemminkäinen, the Song of Lemminkäinen (+ Väinämöinen's journey to Pohjola), and the Drinking Party of Saariala, as well as the ballad Sing, My Wretched Tongue, and incantation for greeting the...
To stay on top of the various comings and goings in the ol' tech industry (and always stay diversified/never put all eggs in one basket), I run a number of independent projects, while also maintaining active accounts on several other platforms. If you want to follow along at home, here's a basic list (omitting some...
El Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid (TSJ-M) ha estimado los recursos interpuestos por varias instituciones y organizaciones contra la Ordenanza Fiscal 8/2024 del Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Esto supone la nulidad de pleno derecho de la tasa por la prestación del servicio de gestión de residuos. La anulación de la...
A game originally released in 1996, the first to ever use the term “survival horror” to refer to itself. This is was the entryway for a whole generation into a genre that has seen a resurgence in recent years, thanks to the franchise’s return to its roots, from RE7 to the remakes, and its latest title, Resident Evil...
Hyde from lazybea.rs runs a blog interview series called Over/Under, where bloggers rate a mix of topics as overrated or underrated, then pass a question along to the next person. I’m issue 61. A few of my takes: NAS: underrated. Built mine from spare parts for under £200, runs Jellyfin, file sharing, and SSH. No...
Gathering notes on metrics and monitoring for Linux (servers). Current data Following advice gathered from this post on the YunoHost forum, I found btop++ to be the best tool for observing the metrics of a system at present time. It is a simple solution to see at a glance how loaded the system is while it’s running....
Antes de mais nada eu achei engraçado estar escrevendo um post sobre como ficar longe da internet em um dia, mas estando na mesma internet enquanto escrevo sobre isso. Contradições fazem a vida mais interessante (não fazem não). Eu gosto muito de interagir com as pessoas ao vivo, se tem uma coisa minha que eu não...
Quoted Nothing to Carp About by Dan Lewis (nowiknow.com) As the Los Angeles Times reported early that year, there’s no reason why Asian carp can’t be farmed and served to humans; one fishery manager called it a “tasty, fleshy fish” whose reputation as a bad meal isn’t deserved. It’s common in Vietnamese dishes and...
Regular readers will know that I've been on quite the CMS journey over the years. WordPress, Grav, Jekyll, Kirby, my own little Hyde thing, and now Pure Blog. I won't bore you with the full history again, but the short version is: I kept chasing just the right amount of power and simplicity, and I think Pure Blog...
On April 6, 2024, Jon Jefferson Tan reported on an interview of former NBA player Jason Caffey by Scoop Jackson. Mr. Caffey had enjoyed a solid eight-year NBA career from 1995-06 through 2002-03. Pertinent to the issue we will discuss, Mr. Caffey spent his first two seasons and change with the Chicago Bulls, winning...
A short and rather quiet week. Helping out my coworkers in their project was a very welcome change of pace at work. The allergies came back with a vengeance after I ran around all Easter weekend, telling everybody that I think the worst for this spring is over. So I spent most of my days in that weird antihistamine...
I just realized–well into 2026–that I never posted my sad TBR Challenge performance for 2025; I barely managed to write reviews for half the themes in the challenge, and mostly well after the fact.* Still, I tried, and I want to record that effort, pitiful as it is–I hope it spurs me to, despite a late start, do...
Top Matter: Codeberg for the library, doc for the library. I took the one part of the suttered Omaha open source project by Google and i’m making it a library I can consume elsewhere. That is all.
The Insider (El dilema en español) es una de las últimas películas que he visto. Aunque ya tiene sus años, es de 1999, refleja como la industria tabaquera buscó artimañas legales e incluso, nocivas para la salud, con tal de aumentar sus beneficios. Sinceramente, quise ver esta película porque al situación actual con...
WIP : On the greener sideFinally back to working on this with sunny days and a toddler who finally sleeps! Managed only 2 figures today since the sun is not long yet. Once I have more hours of sun in the evening I can work on it longer. I can't seem to draw on artificial light. #art #onthegreenerside #artprogress...
The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few metres; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least resistance which is automatically followed in aimless strolls (and which has no relation to the physical contour of the ground); the appealing or...
Reflections on the week I’m definitely noticing improvements from making my sleep schedule more regular. But I need to continue with this – in the past, I’ve found that I get the most benefit after a week or more of keeping to a fairly strict sleep schedule. Improving sleep: what’s worked for me Over the years, I’ve...
General happeningsBetter weather this week, I general felt better since some health problems cleared up. I tried shifting towards an early-sleep-early-wakeup schedule this week, and it seems like my body hasn't fully adapted to it yet. In one way it has already payed off though: I've been using the extra morning...
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One of the hardest things to learn in life is that the heart is a clock too fast not to break. We lurch into loving, only to discover again and again that it takes a long time to know people, to understand people — and “understanding is love’s other name.” Even without intentional deception, people will surprise...
"Nobile in Abito d'Inverno" (Nobleman in Winter Attire) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
Yesterday, with the Lichfield grandchildren (who, like the Canadian grandchildren, have pleasingly retro tastes), we watched Lassie Come Home – the 1943 feature film that spawned a succession of inferior sequels and corny TV series. The original is surprisingly impressive and hard-edged, and set not in America but...
unfolder.app via maya.land Unfolder is a 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft.I haven’t given it a spin yet, but this looks incredibly cool.
Today was such a beautiful day in Richmond, and I decided to enjoy it by taking a tour around the city on my ebike. Since I'm in the market for a new bike shop, I rode out to Kul Wheels as they're an official bike shop of my bike brand, Aventon. Bonus points because they're right on the Virginia Capital Trail. There...
This is an entry from my journal. Another productive Monday comes to an end. The days are getting warmer. Nights continue to be cold though. I spent most of the morning hours doing manual labour on my land. I prepared some raised garden beds and planted tomatoes. In the coming days I will do the same for zucchinis,...
I might have mentioned once or twice that I use Obsidian. One of the fantastic things about it, is the plethora of Community Plugins you can install to get your productivity setup just right. The thing is, it's a bit of a double edged sword. After years of Obsidian being my second brain, I'd amassed quite a few...
Install AnkiConnect: AnkiConnect enables external applications such as Yomichan to communicate with Anki over a simple HTTP API. Its capabilities include executing queries against the user’s card deck, automatically creating new cards, and more. AnkiConnect is compatible with the latest stable (2.1.x) releases of...
1. Die steifen Gleichungen aus STDTST 2. Die nicht-steifen Gleichungen aus NSDTST 3. Weitere Testgleichungen 4. Literatur The fragments of theory available for stiff problems give a great deal of attention to model problems. L.F. Shampine (1980) Es [das Buch] zeigt auch, wie der Numeriker abstrakte Theorie, die...
今年的第一次跑步 上个月在女朋友出差的一周里，我整理了衣柜，整理出来了一些很久没穿的衣服打算卖二手。但是一直没有抽出时间，那一袋子旧衣服就一直摆在墙边，有一些碍事。 上周末天气很好，于是带上那一大袋旧衣服和女朋友「一起」去了离家两公里的 2nd STREET。她骑我的原付小摩托，我在后面跑步。一路上红灯不少，最后我们几乎同时到达了。 虽然很久没跑步，但是剑道练习一直没有停下，并没有觉得身子很沉。下午的两三点钟虽然很晒，但是温度还是十分适合跑步的，想要趁夏天还没来赶紧多跑一跑。 每次去卖二手都会心情复杂...
I quipped on BlueSky: It’s interesting how AI proponents are often like "skill issue" when the LLM doesn't work like someone expects. Whereas when human-centered UX people see someone using it wrong, they're like "skill issue on us, the people who made this" This is top of mind because I’ve been working with Jan...
April 2026. Barkisland. West Yorkshire. As you’ll observe, I don’t tend to suffer from writer’s block, unless I stupidly follow pints of Old Peculier with pints of Wobbly Bob and suffer the consequences. Vikram Seth is still struggling with his follow-up to the epic “A Suitable Boy“, a novel so good I took two days...
I was watching an interesting conversation between Hank Green and Sherri Davidoff about Claude Mythos. They covered a lot of topics but one idea stuck with me. They were talking about how the future of AI probably isn’t one giant system that does everything - it’s more likely going to be lots of small, specialized...
Hu Yaobang was a pro-reform member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Joining in the 1930s, he was promoted to General Secretary of the Secretariat in 1980 and proceeded to move up the ranks. In 1981 he became the highest ranking role in the party, the chairman, before that role was abolished in 1982 and became...
Evelyn Marsden, a steward and nurse on the Titanic’s doomed 1912 maiden voyage, became known as the only Australian woman to survive the tragic sinking of the ocean liner. Marsden helped distressed passengers, before eventually being told to get into a lifeboat. Growing up, Marsden used to row in the Murray River,...
The experiment with building an MCP server continues, with some hacking on it happening over a couple of hours while killing time in an Edinburgh coffee shop. It is, of course, a solution looking for a problem, and I suspect I'm the only person who will ever use it, and even then only as a test, but building it is...
Some clients don't allow AI in their codebase. Here's what working without it looks like in 2026, and why I think the trade-off is worth it.
I asked my son if he could learn to build anything, what would he want to build. He is twelve years old and autistic and he does not elaborate unless you ask him to. He said, "I want to measure the temperature outside." That was the whole answer. No explanation, no context, no story about why. Just the thing itself....
6th April - 12th April This week has gone so quickly! Forget-me-nots are carpeting the wood and the desire paths are lined with yellow tulips and daffodils. An angry blackbird suggests I fuck off. A tree fell in the woods, bright down by Storm Dave. I was not there. I did not hear it. I've been struggling at work...
Who would have thought that when you don't speak for a day you suddenly forget how to, voice interference like a lost radio signal can't fully puzzle sentences. Unused vocal chords move slowly, inhale, move my mouth as I exhale and then repeat again until the speech refines itself I will understand what I say. Who...
The threat quantum computers pose to encryption is growing faster than many expected. Historically, the internet has relied on algorithms like RSA encryption and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) to exchange encryption keys and verify identities across the web. These algorithms are in danger of being entirely broken...
For writing more, without worrying about losing or lending your pen Photo by the Author, taken with a still going strong iPhone 14 Pro I love writing lists and making plans using simple, practical tools. Tools like locally stored plain text, fountain pens, and mechanical pencils. As much as I love the feel and space...
One of the casualties of Apple’s otherwise brilliantly executed transition to retina pixels has been the mouse pointer, which remains aligned to what “traditional pixels” used to be, rather than the retina/physical/smaller pixels. Turn on the zoom gesture from a few weeks ago, and you can see the challenge. The...
I run an Arlo-based home security setup, and most of the time it behaves as expected. A few months ago, Arlo shipped a major app update that broke the automations we depended on. I reconstructed them, only to encounter a new problem: whenever we came home, our phones would hound us with alerts that somebody was in...
Influential industrialist Vanger’s niece Harriet disappeared under mysterious circumstances 40 years ago. As a last attempt at solving the case, he hires investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist. I did watch the 2011 US-version of the movie back when it appeared because it had Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. If I had...
A 16-year-old with no credentials and no capital could just do things. The world of bits offered the freedom to build without being drowned in arbitrary constraints, in a way that didn’t require assembling vast capital or prestige or connections, where your creativity and work could speak for itself, and you had...
EJ & I took the California Cable Car today to meet up with Eryn at her Iaido dojo, and from there the three of us walked to Japantown together for the annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival. The weather didn’t cooperate—it was overcast and rainy—but we had fun anyway. Fair food was eaten, crowds were...
My second vibe-coding projectI have been continuing to use Lovable to make things for personal use. My second public project is a data visualiser, specifically, one that can be used with CSV exports from my personal finance app of choice, Finances 2. I've named it Finviz. Not the most imaginative name, but it gets...
The Professor had turned into a street to the left, and walked along, with his head carried rigidly erect, in a crowd whose every individual almost overtopped his stunted stature. It was vain to pretend to himself that he was not disappointed. But that was mere feeling; the stoicism of his thought could not be...
2026-04-12Back among the starry night sky...Hello! Every so often, I cycle through a regular process of building a high ego over something stupid and having it crash down. I wonder if this blog is unintentionally becoming an ego thing.Anyway, enjoy an article of me praising myself on how clever I am.The effect of...
It took me a long time to make the jump, but I finally did, and my god is the reMarkable tablet a joyful product. My long time colleague and friend have used the devices since they first came out, and have always been raving about them, but I always felt I have enough devices and my needs were met on the note-taking...
If you're one of the millions of ass-busting Americans who have found yourself somewhat fed up with the diminishing qualities of some of the most prized workwear: Carhartt and Dickies. I have something to report to my fellow blue-collar superheroes. There is a new kid on the block who has been making waves for a...
Conceived as a romantic English landscape garden and enhanced by sloping contours, rock outcroppings, and dramatic river views, Riverside Park began opening in stages in the 1870s. Since then, it’s undergone a lot of changes—and it helps to click into the image above to see them. For starters, the original Riverside...
The appearance of Mythos – a private LLM allegedly capable of finding a multitude of 0-days – has made people concerned about being denied powerful tools. This seems to be a turning point in the mainstream discourse, and it motivated me to complete the think piece I’ve been meaning to write for a while. I have a...
Kathryn's parents are in town so we popped over for a visit. ⊕Currently Listening: Future Islands “Sail”Reply via email
I find it tedious to have to backup databases every week. And I also think weekly backups should be turned into daily backups. If I had to do that, I don’t want to do it manually. What’s the best …
I’ve been using an Elgato Stream Deck to control my lights in my office for the past several years. The one I have (with 15 buttons) has worked great for me, but I noticed that I only really use 8 of the buttons. The rest work perfectly fine, but I always forget the macros I have saved there, and really just go back...
Quarto appuntamento della Sagra, con il tema Sovranità Digitale scelto da Gilberto
Thyroid doc visit tomorrow. I haven't been checking on my emails or anything outside of phone messages for about a week now. Friend showed me a 20 yr old photo from college and it reminded me of how I wasn't smart enough to get anything other than an art degree. I have skipped almost two weeks of writing. I am...
I have a bad habit, left over from when I had a website1 and aspirations to I don’t even know what kind of position in the media and writing landscape; I always think anydangthing I write has to be like Proper2, not just in Form but in Content, like I gotta have a full-on fleshed out Thought and Conclusion and gotta...