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My perennial favorite is Noi Cafe. Downtown. Easy to get to. Wonderful windows to the river. Comfy chairs and decent WiFi. Noi Cafe Sunday. Love just sitting and letting the morning swing slowly by. Captured in words because it’s what I do.
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Ups and downs and ups and downs. I’ve had plenty of sicknesses and such throughout life that have caused significant downtime, misery, hospitalization, immobility etc -...
Entrance to the Tamanoyu sento (public bath) in central Kyoto, opened in 1894. Their mostly older customers' bicycles are parked symmetrically alongside the entrance. 明治27年にオープンした京都中京区にある銭湯「玉の湯」の入り口。主に年配のお客さんの自転車が入口に左右対称に停まっている。
Like many millenials, I played a good amount of The Sims as a kid. However, I didn’t really play it for the telling-people-what-to-do part … I was in it for the setup. I still remember my favorite house: it was all propped up on the...
April 2026. Waterbeach. A week ago we were on our way down south for our last overnight stay in Mum and Dad’s Waterbeach cottage; a year’s stay without a TV and internet, a month sleeping on a mattress on the ground. A mattress covered...
Album#36 Quicksand 图1 《Quicksand》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称： Quicksand 歌手： Bialystocks 年份： 2022-11-30 风格： 摇滚、日语流行 时长： 约 38 分钟 最近在看一部动画 違国日記，是一部治愈系的动画，主角「朝」父母因意外去世，她的阿姨「槙生」将她领回家，成为「朝」的监护人。动画讲述了「朝」的彷徨，以及两个人的生活，和相互之间的成长。...
Qué onda, oigan… les quiero contar algo. Vengo llegando a la casa, venía de la calle, y pasé por un lugar donde antes iba a cortarme el cabello. Y me acordé de una vez en particular. El corte normal… hasta que dejó de serlo Una de esas...
Read on the website: Atlas Engineer was a perfect Open Source Lispy team to work in. I was not the best teammate, though. Here’s how it worked in Atlas and what I’m worried about lately.
A story of how a team used “The Wall of Shame” to turn a bottlenecked PR review process into an engaging game.
Lone Tree, Oklahoma - iPhone 12 Pro I have always dreamed of being a writer and photographer for National Geographic, or maybe Arizona Highways. I am captivated by the imagery in both publications. Good photographs tell a story, making...
Do intelligent people hold a position of power over less intelligent ones? What is the role of intelligence in class? How does intelligence relate to capitalism? Is praising intelligence ableism?
This is a bad post title. I didn’t pick today’s links out of a hat! What I mean is, here are some ways you can find a random site on the World Wide Web. There used to be a bit of magic to just surfing to some site you’d never seen...
My current workflow: claude Pure claude code. Straight from homebrew: brew install claude-code. claudey shell % which claudey claudey: aliased to cco --allow-oauth-refresh --add-dir ~/.cache --add-dir ~/.aws/cli/cache --add-dir...
NotesThe other fun project of the weekend was another kind of beast: I wanted to be able to listen system output from specifiFun weekend playing with Go to build a CLI + Web app dashboard to display commit/RC/Release deployment on our...
#Afrofuturismo #podcast #ElRincondeKeren #ElSueñodelArtistaBlog #ElSueñodelArtista #Arte #literatura #cultura Hace unos meses, mientras navegaba entre libros, música terminado en una espiral de búsquedas hacia nuevos conocimientos . En...
Hiked part 15/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 19.9 kilometres from Hoenderloo to Loenen. Woeste Hoeve is renowned for its wildlife overpass above the A50, built to prevent ancient migration routes from being blocked. In Loenen, a shepherd...
After the (quite terrible) Black Tulip I was ready for more Dumas. Therefore: Three Musketeers. It's (as I've been told) more accessible than Count de Monte Christo . As a bonus: I've seen the movies a few decades ago, but I don't...
I started using Devin for Code Reviews. I must say that it’s pretty good. I develop using Claude Code. It pushes changes, Devin reviews. Then I hook Claude Code to address the comments automatically (there is a checkbox in the Claude...
After streaming her performance at Coachella last year a seed was planted. If Lady Gaga ever took that show on the road, we'd try and catch it. ⊕Currently Listening: Lady Gaga “Vanish Into You”Reply via email
Explore the smol web with Bubbles All Aggregators Are Equal but Some Aggregators Are More Equal Than Others Bubbles is a new, brilliant, blog aggregator. Bubbles combines the power of RSS feeds with the power of voting. Of course there...
2026-04-18Hello! This busy week still hasn't ended yet; I've still got a few more events to get through.I love this photo for so many reasons. First, the silly reasons: the photo hides a lot that you don't see. I've done a pretty good...
Q is for Quiet One thing I miss growing up, was visiting my grandparents long gone house. It was in Northern California, pretty far from the interstate and even far far, at least in memory from much light. I remember summers visiting...
Last edited 43 minutes ago. Hey folks. Haven't been around for a while now. Wanted to drop by and say a quick hello, that I'm still alive. I'm afraid my last post was a bit on the dramatic side, and since then I've been meaning to write...
Even though I've got a lot of zine ideas cooking1, I've been working on one about my favourite foods. It's going to be called, "foods I could eat my body weight in". Doing the illustrations for the foods has been a great for easing...
Rip Van Winkle woke to a village that had simply moved on; a returning citizen wakes to a system that refuses to forget. TWENTY YEARS AWAY is a narrative engine that maps long-term displacement, from Kaatskill folklore to the modern...
“We are never simply seeing what’s ‘really there,’ stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past experiences. Instead, all human experience is part phantom — the product of deep-set predictions.” Attention is less...
I started using launchers shortly after returning to the Mac (from Linux) in 2005. The first one I used was the great Quicksilver. I’m sure I learned about it from Merlin Mann, who was Quicksilver’s biggest advocate, but I can’t point to...
For the past month or two I’ve been experimenting with building personal, self hosted software in Rust. The apps include anything from simple note taking, a wine tracker, image resizing, even a full blown RSS aggregator to replace...
Fair is fair, as much as I hate Quaritch and Quariitch in equal measure, the look on the latter’s big blue punim when he touched the arrows sticking out of his dead clone-dad’s skeleton-bones was an incredible moment on every artistic...
A term I keep coming back to over the course of my life is collective effervescence. You know that bubbly feeling you get at a really good concert or when the DJ at a party masterfully orchestrates the vibe? That's what Émile Durkheim...
Notes on Go's newly accepted uuid proposal and the tradeoffs behind the API.
While checking emails, a surprising email was sent stating reserve your child’s first private email from Proton. Proton (https://proton.me) a company based in Switzerland in 2014 when a team of scientists who met at CERN with a vision to...
Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring. Excellent sequel to the first masterpiece, expanding...
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Yesterday’s (4./17) Wayno / Piraro Bizarro cartoon shows two snowmen conferring: Left Snowman reassures Right Snowman that the frozen confection that they are eating in a cone (“fruit-flavored crushed ice” (NOAD)) is not in fact snow —...
After Chief Inspector Heat had left him Mr. Verloc moved about the parlour. From time to time he eyed his wife through the open door. “She knows all about it now,” he thought to himself with commiseration for her sorrow and with some...
Title: Notes and Drafts Website: notes.jkratz.me RSS Feed: notes.jkratz.me/posts_feed Always tinkering but it's mostly short(er) posts about whatever is on my mind. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing consider...
Stormy weather, cold weather, and hot-humid weather are all things that need to be considered when living the van life. Over the years I’ve considered that I don’t like storms. I can do cold (freezing) weather but I’d rather not. As for...
"Lazzaretto Vecchio" from the "Venetia, citta nobilissima et singolare" (1581) by Francesco Sansovino, translated by René Seindal.
Los Angeles 2011
I subscribe to various Brooklyn-New York City related feeds in my feed collection. On April 17, 2026, one of those feeds included an article by Karina Gerry for New York News 12 titled Free ‘stick library’ pops up in Brooklyn Heights for...
Much to my own disappointment, I'm not a journal-in-a-notebook-with-a-fountain-pen kind of guy There’s something aesthetically appealing about notebooks and fountain pens. I love the feeling of resting my hands on real paper, of my pen...