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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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
youtube • video ID: S7MNvol83_0click image to load player youtube • video ID: l-kKNb1cPewclick image to load player Rest in Peace, legend. This article was originally published at:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Pourquoi est-ce que c'est moi qui mets le plus de bâtons dans mes propres roues ? Comment arrêter ?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I find beautiful, well-designed, native applications to be a source of inspiration when using my computer. I’ve posted on Mastodon about the native Mac applications that were hard to leave when switching to Linux. Now that I’ve fully...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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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...
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.
On 4/10/26 My USPS mail included a postcard showing penguins at Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, with brief messages from three different people, each signed with a first name. So as not to get these people embroiled in this discussion, I’ll...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Perelandra. It is the second book in his Space Trilogy. Dr Elwin Ransom travels to Perelandra, the name for Venus. He finds a perfect, unfallen world of floating islands and golden seas. The planet has...
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...
Because pika has been so nice with their api supporting micropub publishing I feel this desire to post more detritus and perhaps more of whatever it is I find myself doing. Perhaps not doing. The whole publishing thing is huge folks. It...
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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...
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...
Don't know what to do? Do nothing until you figure it out. Man, I sure love sitting around, doing nothing. It's awesome, perhaps the best use of my time. I think people give things like flow states too much attention. Dopaminergic...
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...
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...
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...
Title: Melodisi Website: melodisi.com RSS Feed: melodisi.com/feed I’m an editor, a fan of Berlin, a cat owner, a lover of electronic music - occasionally I enjoy compiling music tips - and generally interested in culture. Exploring...
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...
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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....
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...
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,...