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It takes 21 days to form a habit.I used to think that I could build a routine, and keep it as long as I was disciplined enough. There is comfort in that mindset, in believing that as long as we find something that works, we can hold on...
Cybersecurity has a bad habit of mistaking specialization for maturity. A recent piece at The Hacker News got me thinking about something I see more and more often in real environments: we have more specialized roles, more products, more...
‘Back In My Neighborhood’, our summer anthem for those sweet visits with family and friends, is out into the world! Hear it now: Bandcamp Spotify Apple Music YouTube Music Amazon Tidal SoundCloud We wrote this song after visiting Clara's...
I just went through a tour de force of going through all the subdomains (and domains, lol) that I have gotten and set up for random side projects over the year. Good god. I cancelled a whole bunch of auto-renews and now have a long todo...
This post is hyper-specific but I am quite sure I’ll forget how to do it the next time it happens again, so I’m better off documenting it. External Secrets: External Secrets Operator is a Kubernetes operator that integrates external...
Justin Neuman: At the start of a session, I might pull a trick from my meditation or yoga practice and say, as we’re opening our computers, that I know how tempting it is to check our carts, our socials, our text messages. I feel the...
I slept all day yesterday, went to bed at 9 PM, and have gone through most of the day still tired. What can I say? I'm a sleepy guy. Anyway, things are feeling a bit dull today. I don't have a whole lot on my mind, but I know that'll...
I’ve thought about this thing for a bit. How living here has basically reshaped the dialogue. I get to see a few expats now and again. Sometimes a person just arriving or another person that’s been here 10 years or longer living. I’ve...
This is the farthest I've ridden in one day!
I'm just back from yet another visit to Worthing (see Nigeness passim). This time my reading on the train was Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, which I resolved to read after enjoying The Age of Innocence so much. I'm about halfway...
Dejó una gran huella en su momento de mayor apogeo, ahora sus ecos continúan siglos después... › Ver más »¡Patina todo el día!
A week or so ago, I talked about how I might have killed my Framework 13 by dumping a full mug of coffee over it while it was running. In that last post I explained how I'd stripped the laptop down and was waiting for some isopropyl...
Things got a little deep yesterday, so how about a joke today? But not just any joke! THE joke! The Greatest Joke of All Time™! So there are these two woodchoppers. One of them chops off the other's leg. Says the one with the chopped off...
Dacă folosești Bitwarden CLI în vreo automatizare de pe server, ar fi bine să citești ce s-a întâmplat ieri. Versiunea 2026.4.0 a pachetului @bitwarden/cli publicată pe npm a fost compromisă ca parte dintr-un atac supply chain mai amplu,...
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has announced its latest class of members, and several philosophers are a part of it. They are: Julia Driver, University of Texas at Austin Melissa S. Lane, Princeton University Jane Maienschein,...
This is a complicated background to a mishearing posting that has itself turned out to be more complex than I first imagined — a mishearing of the title word in the song “Cardinal” as recorded in 2024 by Kacey Musgraves. This posting is...
Back in the late 1990s, like plenty of people who were very online, I was a very avid user of Usenet. There were a few groups I was very active in, even a couple that I maintained a FAQ for. Being that active and wanting to help and...
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. Spotify turns 20. To celebrate the anniversary, they’ve launched a special website, and over the...
V is for Vertigo When thinking of a fun word to have with V, I thought it would be fun to admit a weird weakness I have for elevators. For some reason, every time I leave an elevator that has ascended after more then a few floors, I get...
Hiked part 21/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 11.2 kilometres from Elspeet to Echoput. Left Elspeet along a quiet lane and walked past an old brick farmhouse dated 1788. The route then went through the Gortelsche Bos, with beech and pine...
NOTE: Some of the articles mentioned in this post were selected at random from my RSS feeds between the 23rd and 24th of April 2026. I didn’t take time to cherry-pick anything. Other articles came from my long list of bookmarked articles...
Canadian author and researcher Kathryn Jezer-Morton documented friction-maxxing in an article (paywalled) for The Cut, in January this year. Weeks later, a Wikipedia page was published about the phenomenon. Is that, then, why...
(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily life to me.) ICYDAK: 30 Proven Tactics to Resist...
2026-04-23Hello! I've been posting a lot of recent photos to the website this month, and I'm keeping the old ones just in case I'm not able to get out and about that day.I took this photo yesterday, out on the water in Raritan Bay. I'm...
You’re alone in a quiet room when the concept hits: you’ve been defending a dead project because of what you already spent, not what you’ll gain. The recognition restructures your decision. Three months later someone deploys that same...
Today I got my ass kicked. Granted, I didn't play much, like an 1.5h or so. But I wanted to share something small but I found it amusing. Couple days ago I exploded this guy: https://zkillboard.com/kill/134894857/ Then today he exploded...
I initially published this tip on r/neovim Reddit, and folks liked it. It will soon probably disappear in the maze of memes, so it probably makes sense for it to be a blog post. Here it is. Do you know the substitute command :s in...
Sunday Zine Club #21’s theme was splash. I decided to gather my pictures of children playing in the rain and use them to tell a little story. I’m still getting used to using a fude style fountain pen but I am enjoying the results. I’ve...
TIMBRE PRESIDENTA CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM. PRESENTE. PARTE I. El pasado 13 de abril ofrecí una conferencia magistral sobre la relación entre la impunidad, el cuerpo y el Estado en la sala Miguel Covarrubias, en el marco del décimo aniversario...
¿Quién recuerda el PC Fútbol? Pasé largas horas frente a este juego, con amigos y en solitario. Corría el año 1997. Muchos de los que jugábamos en aquellos tiempos seguramente lo recordemos con cariño y con una sonrisa en la cara. A...
Back at the studio and trying really hard to get back into the swing of things.Currently Listening: The Strokes “Going Shopping”Reply via email
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake - Lower Salt River, Arizona When I moved to Arizona (in 1997), I read an interview with an emergency room doctor about rattlesnake bites. He referred to them as “testosterone poisoning” – most bites occur...
April 2026. Alderley Edge. I’m not sure my heart will stand these tense City games, but after a period of letting the lads use my season ticket I thought I’d better see The Arsenal, apparently champions elect. If you don’t use your...
Ten years ago, almost to the day, I delivered what turned out to be the “best-selling” talk of all my conference speaking career, with effects that I can feel to this day. I was invited by my friend (and community extraordinaire) Junior...
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After listening again to Rufus Wainwright’s cover of the whole album at the weekend, this week, as I left the office, I put on Judy Garland’s concert at Carnegie Hall. By the time I’d made it to the train station I’d been moved to tears...
Yesterday, I published an article about my former dreams of being a basketball coach and my unexpected one-game stint as a baseball coach when I was in high school. While it is the case that I once wanted to be a basketball coach, I...
Oli and Craig sat on the wall outside Burgon’s News, the newsagents at the edge of Gildeen park, eating crisps. “You ever hear the story about the lion slide?” said Craig, through mouthfuls of Ready Salted.“Hasn’t everybody?” said Oli....
I really want to get to know, and to like, Zelazny's works. So, when I found Dilvish in the Little Library, I was excited. So, how was it? Not great, Bob. Not great. Dilvish, after a fight with Jelerak, is locked in hell. Now he has...
I want to talk about Signal, but "current affairs" won't let me. Published by AHE. on 7th April 2026 If I could ditch my phone completely and go back to a flip-phone, or one of those cool slidey ones from the 2000s, I would. Phones were...
Roshan: [[File:4141a19b-12a-IMG_4346.webp|thumb|Astra really enjoys her new skill - walking]] Astra and I like to go to the local park in Mission Bay to play. The classic thing that happens is that we end up knowing the other kids' names...
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Today, I managed to get my first Blackcap on camera. He was buried deep in the bush and was hard to even get a clear shot of his face. I didn't even realise he was mid-song until I got home and see the images on a bigger screen. Also,...
Esta semana ha estado particularmente caliente aquí en Chihuahua, entre escándalos de seguridad y decisiones públicas cuestionables y aquí en la capital, con la aprobación por parte del cabildo para cambiarle el nombre a algunas avenidas...
Rating: ⭐ Type: Fiction
It couldn't be free storage forever
This is a crisply written book. It’s short and pacy, and I loved how it got straight to the action. (It's also another entrant in the SPFBO XI contest.) Amara is a seamstress, and a threadwitch, with the ability to awaken memories in...
I checked my emails this morning and saw an alert from Cloudron that New Leaf Journal had become non-responsive. By the time I saw the report, NLJ had recovered. I was a bit alarmed since I had recently increased my server resources and...
Life, uh, finds a way. That's what the internet recently feels like to me. Tech bros and corporations are doing their best to fuck things up and make everything AI generated and agentic and an absolute nightmare to use, and yet the indie...
Do-nothing software development
“These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.” Not often — a handful of times in a lifetime, if you are lucky — you come upon a work of thought and feeling — a book, a painting, a song — that...