Home
Thu Apr 16
Well someone forgot to renew a certificate at #Bluesky
I am a few weeks late in announcing my theme for spring season 2026 at The New Leaf Journal. In fact, we are now closer to the sixth birthday of The New Leaf Journal than to the official start of spring. But all’s well that ends well,...
Hace unos años me compré en AliExpress unas cuantas unidades de este juego de cuerdas de guitarra: las D’Addario rojas para guitarra clásica. Suelen costar unos 12€ pero una vez encontré una oferta a un euro y poco. Llegué a pensar que...
I fell in love with a camera Leica discontinued. Four years later, it's still in my bag — and nothing has come close to replacing it.
Today's post is a submission to the IndieWeb Carnival, a monthly event where folks on the IndieWeb write a blog post dedicated to a theme hosted by one of the members. This month's theme is "Adventure" and is hosted by Pablo Morales....
This site, along with many other sites I’ve built since becoming familiar with the project in late 2024, is built with Web Origami. It has quickly become my favourite way to build static websites and work with and transform data. The...
In two parts. First, an appreciation of a piece of intellectual history written by Geoff Pullum: Geoffrey K. Pullum, The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to Emil Post, Historiographia Linguistica, October 2025 And then...
If you have not discovered Bubbles yet, then I suggest you go and have a look. In the Bubbles Team's very own words: Somewhere out there, someone wrote a really good blog post today. You'll probably never find it. Bubbles tries to...
Why is this happening?9 cups Desire fulfillment "Getting what you want" Expectations Performance Output The Devil ® Breaking dependency (in progress) Reclaiming control Breaking of chains Detach from something unhealthy 2 of wands...
Galen walked from the fog of dry ice and on to the stage like he always did, owning it, until there was only the mic stand between him and his people. But there was no roar this time, no blinding spotlight, no desperate desire in the...
This is an experiment in rewarding people who subscribe to open web feeds, Inspired by Dave Rupert’s RSS Club. If you are reading this, thank you for choosing RSS or Atom (inspired by The Internet’s Own Boy) over proprietary social...
“…only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited.” Nothing kidnaps our capacity for presence more cruelly than longing. And yet longing is also the most...
So this is interesting, I was on The Verge last week, as part of the wider discussion on EmDash, I posted a blog post on my thoughts on EmDash, which was cited a bit. I should add – there’s some paywalling on The Verge, so if you can’t...
I recently read the following text in the book Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick. "You are not only a human, but also a cyborg. You are a cyborg because you use machines to enhance your abilities and extend your senses. You use computers...
And I go out. Some beer. Warm day. More beer. Life. Life’s good.
When I started this blog in 2011, I built it using Jekyll. Jekyll served me well for fifteen years. It was fast enough, and though it would take me an hour or two to get the system reinstalled when I switched laptops, it mostly just...
Bon une semaine compliquée, j’ai été malade quasi toute la semaine donc j’ai pas réussi à faire grand chose de plus que de la veille tech et cleanup pour sortir une première version fonctionnelle de illiterate (ça reste en full wip). La...
Title: riz#000000me Website: riz0me.leaflet.pub RSS Feed: riz0me.leaflet.pub/rss just a personal blog! RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing consider becoming a supporter for 1$ a month
I was in the office today, working away, and I often have my personal laptop, a Framework 13 next to me so I do things like check notes and emails, listen to music, etc. I reached over to grab something on the other side of my desk and...
Mr. Verloc returning from the Continent at the end of ten days, brought back a mind evidently unrefreshed by the wonders of foreign travel and a countenance unlighted by the joys of homecoming. He entered in the clatter of the shop bell...
I found this quote below in a copy of Ver Sacrum (the official magazine of the Vienna Secession), displayed at an exhibition I went to recently. I wouldn't call myself a religious person, so the part about "God" doesn't particularly...
You Don't Need a Tech Stack. You Just Need a Text Editor.Plain text files built the internet before technology stacks were a thing. Honestly, there is no reason why your web presence cannot just be a simple TXT file.
Last night I spent some time talking to folks about books. I have several half finished stories that need to get wrapped up and I wanted to plan how I published them to get max eyes on words. Most people I know don't sit and read books....
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. YouTube now lets you disable Shorts videos in your feed. It’s not exactly disabling them, though...
This is a note from my journal that works as a constant reminder of being kind, something that's very important on my current journey. I share it here because, as simple and silly as it may seem, sometimes finding something simple at the...
A lot of zero trust talk still feels stuck at the login screen. Did the user pass MFA? Did the device check in? Did the identity platform approve the session? Good. All of that matters. But I think a lot of teams still treat that moment...
Now that I have video game mania, books are piling up at an even faster rate than normal. Therefore it’s time for some “Compulsive Vowing”: It’s gonna be five-out-one-in until I have read twelve physical books. I.e. I can only get two...
For this entry in the series, I have picked The world that changes by renowned songmaker Alkinoos Ioannidis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddiCJ76fPbs. What I discern in the songs of Alkinoos is originality as well as variety in the...
It's been a long time—more than a month, I think—since I posted a long post. The reason was the guilt of breaking my own promise to myself. Almost every day I thought about writing, but the guilt was so intense that most of the time I...
I’ve written about privacy a few times on my little blog. Two of the most shared and visited posts I’ve written are The Privacy-Security Rabbit Hole and the very outdated and long-winded Low Friction Introduction to Digital Privacy. My...
That’s the upshot of what Rothman, CEO of Sony’s Motion Picture Group, said at CinemaCon, held in Las Vegas, in the United States, this week, says Brent Lang, writing for Variety: At CinemaCon, the annual exhibition industry conference...
I bought a Canon PIXMA G620 photo printer to start printing family pictures at home and getting them up on the walls where they belong.
Dale Dorsey, professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, has died. Aaron Garrett writes: It is with great shock and sadness that I report the sudden passing of Dale Dorsey. Dale recently moved to Somerville College Oxford after...
I had to work these days on a Woocommerce store that had change its hosting provider and I noticed that some downloadable products kept failing after being moved to the new infrastructure. I did check the admin, and the problem was that...
Say what you want about agentic coding, but thanks to the Zed editor paired with the MiniMax M2.5 model, I was finally able to build an application I've been dreaming about for as long as I have been using digiKam. It's a companion to...
Hiked part 13/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 15.9 kilometres from Hoog Soeren to Kootwijk. You walk on wide paths through gently sloping forests and along the Asselsche Heide. It is part of the Crown Domains, in the past intended for...
2026-04-16Limited permission was granted to use photos taken for these events on this site.Hello!My school hosted a Greek Night, a cultural festival with circle dances, egg dropping, and lots of food. I didn't know how much I would like...
I've been struggling with setting up an AI Agent for a client. I mentioned it in my recent weeknotes and suggested it's because I'm used to a specific type of computer and LLMs don't marry with my mental model. Then I thought, the fuck...
Quoted Here’s Why Some Coca-Cola Bottles Have Yellow Caps in the Spring by Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner (foodandwine.com) So, to satisfy millions of soda-loving Jewish people during Passover, Coca-Cola produces an alternate Coke recipe for...
Well, it’s been about a year since my last round of confessions as a FOSS enthusiast and I do have a few more things that I thought I’d share! This was in part tangentially inspired by a post by Adrian Perales on controversies around...
Why Millions of American Dads Stopped Working — and Can’t Start Again In 1954, 98 out of every 100 American men between 25 and 54 were either working or looking for work. Today, about 11 out of every 100 aren’t working and aren’t even...
Album#35 The Gift 图1 《The Gift (Day Version)》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称： The Gift (Day Version) 歌手： Joyce Cheung 年份： 2026-04-06 风格： 钢琴曲、纯音乐 时长： 约 45 分钟 Joyce Cheung 这张 The Gift 我最近经常听，适合作为背景乐，听着很舒缓，给人一种平静的感觉，曲子都很耐听。有时放着这张专辑，躺着看书，看着看着、听着听着，就睡着了。 The...
Ayer, la presidenta de la Comisión Europea anunció que la UE ya tiene preparada una aplicación para verificar la edad de los usuarios en Internet. Desde hace varios años, la UE y los países que la componen, buscan limitar o controlar el...
Riverside Drive is one of Manhattan’s most beautiful and dramatic avenues. It’s also a place of legend and mystery, especially during the Drive’s early decades as a Gilded Age “millionaire colony” rival to Fifth Avenue. Which mansion...
This document is the earliest description of the translation of St Mark to Venice in 827–828, and also of early Venice. This is a translation by René Seindal.
I've finally been reprieved of the grind!
I thought I'd been to all 50 states. Now I'm not so sure. But I can check off Minnesota! + 18 photosCurrently Listening: Hüsker Dü “These Important Years”Reply via email
April 2026. Stirchley. Birmingham. With Attic ticked I could/should have caught the next train to New Street for my second Brum pub, but something was drawing me to Stirchley High Street. Not the Peanut Butter Jelly-me-up burger on the...
After getting back from my daily walk with Trix this morning, I got to thinking about how having a dog is a great way to meet people. We walk the same route every day. Part of it goes through a small neighborhood, and over the years I've...
O is for Opencode Recently picked up opencode go, which is a low cost subscription to try out some models like kimi k2. Its been a solid plan, as subscriptions go. At least it seems more sane than 200+ a month. In either case, its been...
No shit. Ticketmaster has to be one of the most-loathed middlemen ever to exist. Let’s see what kind of accountability they come up with.“A jury found what we have long known to be true: Live Nation and Ticketmaster are breaking the law...
For a good while now I've been pretty happy with the PageSpeed measurements of this blog, which in turn means I've been happy with the state of what's generated by BlogMore. I have pretty much everything that can be minified nice and...
theverge.com Limit your Shorts scrolling to zero minutes per day.And to think, I just cancelled my YouTube Premium Family subscription… maybe I should keep it after all…
You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you. I'm just about a week in at my new position. Despite how excited I have been, I was hesitant to speak about it, because it is such a new territory for me...
I've been reading mostly blogs lately, and it kind of shines through in these link dumps. Most of the links I've been collecting recently are blog posts, and only occasionally do I see something that fits in any of the other categories....
In my last post I mentioned that PAR2 uses Reed-Solomon over a finite field to detect and repair bit rot. I ended that one saying the tech exists but nobody put it in tools normal people would use. So naturally I started writing my own...
most A student invited me to their improv class "final exam," which is a show at a downtown venue known for student/avant-garde work. Of course I said yes. I asked two kids if they'd help me reclaim a couple wandered library chairs from...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: I just had a much-needed family vacation in Spain, where I also had to prepare for the biggest meeting of my career three days after my return, which I THINK went well, but I’ve always been...
whenever I browse a webring it feels like 90% of the sites are no more than a home and an about page. it's ok if people are more interested in web design than writing but it's not my taste. wordy webwring is for sites that host a lot of...
People don’t really learn new programming languages every year anymore thanks to AI, so why do I stick with this activity? Call me old fashioned, but I still like to dive into a new programming language every year, no matter what, and...
When Magistrate Lu Jianglai is assigned to solve a controversial case, he is targeted; he escapes but ends up falling off a cliff, his life hanging by a thread. Fortunately, he is rescued by Rong Shanbao, the eldest daughter and heir of...