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En mayo se celebrará la segunda edición de LibreCan, el encuentro para las personas que disfrutan del software libre y la cultura hacker Ya en 2025 divulgué por el blog el primer encuentro LibreCan que se celebró, dando la palabra a Lucio, su organizador para que nos hablara en primera persona de lo que iba a...
Hoy he podido revivir otro quiero y no puedo marbellí. Como todos los veranos, tengo que buscar campamento para mis hijos. El verano es muy largo y aunque vivamos en una ciudad turística, no podemos estar dos meses y medio de vacaciones. Afortunadamente, en Marbella, hay multitud de opciones en forma de campamentos:...
I’m in a bit of a reading slump and have been for almost a month. It’s not unusual, I’ve talked about it a few times before, as I do tend to go through these from time to time. This time I seem to be conducting a little self reflection experiment. As I find myself less and less interested in reading, I find myself...
stephango.com This project has been a battle between my competing desires in science and art. One part of my brain searches for reliability and precision, while another part searches for those elusive imperfections that remind us what feels real. Solving for all these problems is how I arrived at Flexoki. I hope you...
Back in high school, I was a big fan of the anime Bakemonogatari. From today's viewpoint, this is an old anime; the first season aired in 2009. After watching it (because the sequels weren't out yet, it must've been ca. 2011), I went out of my way to get the original light novel it was based on. It ended up becoming...
I've shared my menubar apps before, but it's been a while so I figured it is worth a revisit. These are the ones I use every day and I keep them organized with Thaw. Hazel: Automates file organization using rules I've set up. Folders stay clean without me touching them. Dropzone: Makes it easy to move files, upload...
Today, I learned that my blog is on Bubbles. Normally, the fact that a random site &madsh; for reasons unknown — has picked up my blog wouldn’t excite me in the least. But a) Bubbles is actually pretty neat, and b) they do exercise editorial control. So I’m pretty pleased that my boring blog made the cut.
The last days I was quite busy mentally. So here are some thoughts I just need to write down to get them off my head and give you something to read. 😄 Still on vacation, I got the idea that I want to run the Windows 11 VM on my laptop with some better graphics to also be able to watch video streams with DRM that...
If you've ever exported a WordPress site and ended up with a folder full of markdown files, you know the feeling: the content is there, but it's not quite ready for anywhere else. The metadata is in the wrong shape, the image links are all broken, and the idea of fixing things post by post is enough to make you...
Not so long ago, I considered myself basically a capitalist, and—echoing folks like Ralph Nader and Elizabeth Warren—would have said our problems are with corporate capitalism. Maybe so, but whether or not corporatism is the capitalism that Adam Smith envisioned, it’s the capitalism we have. Inasmuch as the notion...
Welcome to another installment of “things that interested me today but aren’t enough to warrant a blogpost by themselves so I bundled them all together here”—I hope you find something that catches your eye! Again I don’t really plan to do these every week but it just so happens that I felt like writing about...
My best friend lost his Dad yesterday. Understandably he's extremely upset, and I feel awful for him. I never know what to do in these situations - "how are you doing?" just feels such a stupid thing to say. Like it's nowhere near enough. Of course he isn't doing well, you fucking idiot! His loss has brought about...
The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life and it’s beginning to have an impact on my general mood. Most of the time it’s well-intended; coworkers working through a problem with a chatbot before bothering me or someone exploring unconventional ideas before bringing it to a broader...
This is an excerpt from my journal in which I comment about processes in our world that do not fit into some neat divide between right or wrong. Twenty minutes to midnight. I am back from the nightly hike. As always, I have my four dogs for company. Hoot… Hoot… Hoot… The owl is nearby. It is here to hunt and kill...
Anything you give your time to and polish with attention will become a lens on your search for meaning, will lavish you with metaphors that become backdoors into the locked room of your most urgent reckonings. In my nascent adventures in pottery, I have observed with great fascination how two different glazes, when...
The largest mall in America is suffering like all the others, but it's holding up in the scheme of things. + lots of photosCurrently Listening: Jellyfish “That Is Why”Reply via email
N is for Nowhere One of the best places ive ever been was in the middle of nowhere. I have to say, if you’ve never been away from the cities, away from traffic, in a random out of the way place. Just west or east of a places with people, you really can enjoy nowhere. I miss it some days, as im working to hard, or...
This is how I feel after tax season. 😐 Also PSA: Pelicans are big birds. It’s terrifying when they start asking for handouts…don’t train more lap pelicans.
Pourquoi est-ce que c'est moi qui mets le plus de bâtons dans mes propres roues ? Comment arrêter ?
The best thing that happened this week A few things actually! My daughter was part of a dance show in the theme of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She did so well and it was very fun to watch. I'm a very proud dad. My post on using Render Hooks to generate responsive images got quite a bit of traffic. I've been...
Speed has become the primary virtue of the modern world. Everything is sacrificed to it. Move fast (and break things, not as a goal but as a consequence). Wisdom requires allowing yourself to be undone by experience: An opinion dismantled by reality. An artifact torn apart by the real world. An idea destroyed by its...
This post is about post I’m so meta (but not “Meta”)! Some context I grew up in the UK, where, by and large, post was delivered through a slot in the front door called a letterbox. When we moved to Melbourne in 2006, we took on a Post Office Box (PO Box), following a recommendation from a friend whose mail had gone...
Acum câteva zile scriam despre cum HDD-ul extern atașat la Intel NUC se demonta noaptea din cauza USB autosuspend - nucleul punea adaptorul JMicron JMS578 în sleep după câteva secunde de inactivitate, iar când încerca să scrie pe el, primea device offline error și demonta partiția de urgență. Am dezactivat...
Anthony Chemero, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, will be moving to Vanderbilt University. Professor Chemero works in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and phenomenology. He is the author of Intertwined Creatures among other writings, which you can learn more about here and...
A lot of AI security tooling sounds impressive right up until you picture using it during a real week of cybersecurity work. That is usually where the shine wears off. Most defenders do not need another system that spits out more alerts, more summaries, and more possible issues for already stretched teams to sort...
I have too many pots on the stove. The magazine, the podcast, the ramen website, my own writing, the shop... I can't do all of that on my own. So. If Hardcopy doesn't take off by the end of the year, I'll just sunset it after Christmas and reinforce focus on writing and the magazine. I have three halfway written...
Bluesky went down for half its users for about 8 hours on Monday. Jim Calabro wrote up an excellent post-mortem that is worth reading in full, but the root cause is something I keep seeing across languages and runtimes, and it's worth talking about on its own. One endpoint in their data plane, GetPostRecord, fanned...
April 2026. Sheffield. I did get back from Retford, eventually, and arriving in Sheffield at 10 to 5 gave me a rare chance of a seat and tea with Mrs RM in the Rutland. I gave my dearest an hour’s notice, so she’d only be half an hour late, and picked the seat closest to the jukebox so I could be deafened by the...
Quick little update for BlogMore, with a bump up to v2.14.0. This release comes from another feature request from Andy1, where he asked if it would be possible to have a year-based bar chart in the stats page. Funnily enough I'd been thinking about the same thing just yesterday. I'd been wondering if it was worth...
This month’s Grizzly Gazette Carnival theme, hosted by Sage, is “what is your favorite unconventional animal?” I’m very glad to be given a reason to blog about frogs. I’m not certain that frogs qualify as an unconventional favorite animal at this point, because they’ve become very popular with people of my age group...
My brother Spencer works as an artist in Asheville. He's also into nature conservation, leading a nature journaling class and regularly weaving ecology and local wildlife into his work. When UNC Asheville announced plans to turn a local urban forest into a soccer stadium, he pushed back, in part by raising awareness...
Replied to Adebayo’s 83 and PPG in 60 Point Game Seasons by Nicholas A. Ferrell (The New Leaf Journal) Bam Adebayo’s unexpected 83-point outburst inspired me to look at PPG and points per 36 minutes for NBA players in seasons in which they scored at least 60 in a game. I recently published a new NBA research project...
A new proposal from the Swedish government is to stop welfare and other social help to those convicted of severe felonies. I’m not onboard with that idea. We’re not supposed to have the death penalty in Sweden and I don’t like the “once a thief, always a thief” mentality. If they’re not in prison or in psychiatric...
What Version History, a YouTube show from The Verge, does really well is revisiting older tech products from today’s perspective without allowing nostalgia to take over. This episode about the Western Electric 500 – the canonical American landline rotary phone – is worth watching by all UX designers. There is no...
Having infused by persistent importunities some sort of heat into the chilly interest of several licensed victuallers (the acquaintances once upon a time of her late unlucky husband), Mrs. Verloc’s mother had at last secured her admission to certain almshouses founded by a wealthy innkeeper for the destitute widows...
Editor's note: Every week, I publish the phone's home screen from a blog reader. Want to participate? Fill out this form. Want more? Check out the archive. All app links go to the App Store, Play Store, or F-Droid. What is your name and what do you do? Felipe Siles. I’m an art educator and audiovisual producer, a...
Pattern First Abraham Wald, during World War II, examined bullet-hole patterns on returning bombers. Every other analyst in the room recommended reinforcing the areas with the most damage. Wald recommended reinforcing the areas with no holes — because planes hit there didn’t return. The story compresses a...
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After about five months of AI bots hungrily munching on my blog’s free training data, they seem to have abruptly stopped. It’s a good sign, but given they seem to be hammering most other sites on the web, it’s somewhat odd. Here, I have a quick look at the numbers to see what’s been happening. An AI bot, bored of...
Unlike what happened with the ARC for Faithless in Death, I actually remember grabbing this ARC, even though I am not sure why I did; most likely, I was thinking that I generally can get through these even when most everything else I try to read stalls, and that 2025 was really hard on my reading mojo, so why not go...
Yes, you read that correctly, I made and in the end of March published a zine!! Specifically an art zine. It is a collection of all of my digital art pieces from last year that (I'm pretty certain) have never been published before! How can you feast your eyes upon them, you might ask? Right HERE!! The best part?...
Schalten in Programmen. TENDLER: 7. Start, Statistiken und Schalten Das Schalten im Programm LSODA Das Schalten im Programm DEASY Das Schalten im Programm RKF4RW Das Schalten im Programm NTI/SIMPLE Das Schalten im Programm PAI4 1. Kurzbeschreibung des Programmes DEASY 2. Die nichtlineare von Misessche Iteration 3....
On Monday, I sent an email to the local amateur radio club, asking about their classes. That evening, I get a response: "Your timing is impeccable. The next class starts tomorrow evening." I spent Tuesday signing up for other classes I want to take. These include a Skywarn training this weekend and a Master Gardener...
It’s not uncommon for games to be localised, especially when moving between the Eastern and Western worlds. Of course there is the case of differing languages, but there are also many more innocuous elements that can become lost in translation that need adaptation or which must be altered to respect certain customs...
Tenía ganas de escribir sobre el C2E2, el evento de cómics y entretenimiento que tuvo lugar en Chicago hace unas semanas. Quería escribir algo negativo. Que la entrada del día son $80. El parking otros $20. Que una vez aparcado, hay que andar mucho o incluso coger un autobús. Que el evento está a reventar y es...
the water (gracht in dutch) I had to cross to reach the inner city an alley (love to photograph alleys, as you can tell from this series :D The market square. At the end is city hall straight across from city hall is de nieuwe kerk (new church) the market reflected in the cheese window display another alley another...
It has come to my attention that today is World Art Day – an occasion that seems to be little marked here: no going to school dressed as your favourite painting, or at least clutching a reproduction thereof (perhaps just as well – it would probably be wall-to-wall Van Goghs, with the odd Monet). Anyway, I thought...
Previously. I started to use Claude Code to generate flashcards for my (new) Tech Deck via AnkiConnect, covering books and topics I’m studying for to consolidate my SWE-SRE knowledge. The workflow: I tell Claude which book or topic to cover, it researches their key concepts, checks my existing cards (notes) for...
Getting laid off just before the holidays has given me time to think about some things that, somewhat paradoxically, don't have anything to do with looking for a new job, doing paperwork, or worrying about insurance. Specifically it's given me time to reflect upon a conversation I had some months ago about how...
2026-04-15Hello!The title is a bit inaccurate; it's more a curated botanical garden, but since they have exhibits for different flower types and labels, it feels like a museum! It even has a ticketed entry.I ought to be talking about my photographic process, but in all honesty, I'm not sure I had any thoughts for...
Not good news. Word that the university, located in the American state of Massachusetts, is to close. I didn’t go to university after leaving high school, couldn’t decide what to study, but maybe a liberal arts degree might have been a good fit. If I’d known, back in the day, such courses even existed. And while a...
I subscribe to Herbert Lui’s “blog on creativity, marketing, and the human condition” with my feed reader. On April 9, 2026, I opened what was then his newest post, titled Creative enfeeblement. I had a feeling based on having read some of his other recent writing that it would touch on the effect of AI usage on...