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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] Today, the 13th of April 2026, at 15:00 Europe/Athens I will do a live stream in which I will develop the new modus-themes-exporter package for Emacs. The idea for this package is...
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....
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,...
I read a great post by Kev and replied via email. In that email I wrote a few lines I thought would be great to share with you… Love that fact that the real internet lovers are gathering in their own homes (website) where we can look...
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....
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.
"Nobile in Abito d'Inverno" (Nobleman in Winter Attire) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
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,...
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...
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...
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A system-level critique of zero-cost consumption and attention economics.
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...
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...
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.
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...
It’s a beautiful day and these trees are beaming. Reply via email
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...
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...
Title: Robert Finch Website: robertfinch.ca RSS Feed: robertfinch.ca/feed My personal website about me, my family history, and my interests & hobbies. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing consider becoming a...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Miracles. He takes on the difficult question of whether miracles can actually happen. Lewis argues that a purely natural world cannot explain our ability to reason. He shows that if nature is all there...
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...
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...
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...
I made some improvements to the Krita pixel art brush bundle.
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...
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...
Nothing new, but interesting read !
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
From the Visit Pittsburgh site, for 4/12’s occasion, “How to Celebrate 412 Day in Pittsburgh”: We love celebrating Pittsburgh every day, but 412 Day is an extra excuse to honor all things Steel City. Whether you live in the 412 or...
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:...
Kathryn's parents are in town so we popped over for a visit. ⊕Currently Listening: Future Islands “Sail”Reply via email
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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。...
Today is day four of my fast. I'm officially under 300 pounds. This is basically a water fast. I'm allowing myself to drink water, coffee, and diet soda; I'm also letting myself chew gum and eat a few hard candies throughout the day....
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...
Secara default, storage service yang digunakan oleh sebuah aplikasi Rails adalah local service. Ini berarti, file-file yang di-upload via aplikasi Rails akan disimpan di folder storage di server yang sama dengan server aplikasi.Tidak ada...
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...
Khmer New Years is upon us. This is the third new year we get to celebrate. This one with water and stuff and a lot going on downtown we will not end up doing. It mostly is a time for families to get back together, enjoy some food, drink...
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...
Quarto appuntamento della Sagra, con il tema Sovranità Digitale scelto da Gilberto
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...