Thu Apr 23
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
“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 becomes a fountain to which you return again and again, and which returns you to...
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 escaped and wants revenge. And, well, that is all. He just goes from place to place,...
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 season ticket enough it gets cancelled and you have to pay £88 a game. Mrs RM came...
I was reccomended a couple of white papers by a collegue (Thanks Ben Pope!) and I wanted to share them here. Being opinion white-papers they are both quite readable. Is machine learning good or bad for the natural sciences? Hogg and Villar make some very compelling arguments here about position of ML in the...
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 in young adult males who unsuccessfully attempt to pick up the snake. There was...
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 but not their caregivers. So that's "Jaden's dad" or "Emma's mom" or whatever,...
I offer for your consideration the following ethical motto: Do your thing. I admit: This motto doesn't sound very ethical. What if "your thing" is murdering babies for fun? Even ignoring extreme cases, what if your thing is just watching reruns of I Love Lucy? That also doesn't seem ethically good (though I've...
An interesting 10-minute video from gruz about Super Mario Bros. Remastered, a modern Super Mario fan remake with surprising depth that puts Nintendo’s own efforts to shame: What I liked about it is that it’s wrestling with the idea “How do you improve on something considered perfect?” and touches upon the important...
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 next 20 days Spotify will be sharing statistics from its history. (Today’s are...
(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 Authoritarianism in Everyday Life #1: know your rights #2: secure your communications #3:...
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 list of cleaning up. Reply by email
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 answer questions, I was forever posting and pasting links to various resources....
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, Arizona State University Paolo Mancosu, University of California, Berkeley James...
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, descoperit de cercetătorii de la Socket în timp ce monitorizau o campanie...
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 de la Cátedra Nelson Mandela, ahora dirigida por la antropóloga y escritora...
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 on Wallabag. Motivation The news is awash with headlines making claims about...
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 friction-maxxing is now referred to as a cultural trend? For the uninitiated, Wikipedia...
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 through, and finding it even more impressive than The Age of Innocence, and every...
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 pull, too. But for the next ninety minutes, we’re scrubbing in [like surgeons...
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 the very same ship I exploded him with: https://zkillboard.com/kill/134956268/...
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 never once wanted to be a teacher, despite my success in teaching a middle school...
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 not able to ID this lighthouse with confidence, but I'm pretty sure it's the...
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 “Bonto” Bontognali to talk at the first edition of the App Builders conference,...
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 twice. It’s that amazing. Serendipitously, I just found out it was recorded 65...
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 used brush pens quite a bit but have always applied too much pressure to actually...
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 de la ciudad por nombres de empresarios y personalidades que supuestamente han...
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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 Vim/NeoVim? I bet you do! :s/one/two But did you know that slash / is not the only...
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. “Used to freak me out. But then I grew up.”The lion slide in Gildeen park had...
¿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 principios del 2023, se anunciaba que se estaba trabajando en una nueva versión del...
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 PAI4 2. Bewertung und Vergleich des Programmes PAI4 3....
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 concept in a meeting to diagnose someone else’s error. The project continues...
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 alcohol (IPA) to be delivered so I could more thoroughly clean it. Well dear reader,...
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 so fun back then. The same goes for computers. Once we move I'm planning to get...
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 dashboards, more alerts, and more vendors than ever, yet a lot of teams still...
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 web is thriving. People are blogging and writing newsletters and sharing their...
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 leg: "if you do that again, I'll kick your ass!" ... What makes this the...
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 to it and it’s one less stressor in life. I was wrong. Routines are not fixed....
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 hit with this vertigo that makes me almost tip over, and leaves my feet feeling...
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 implemented a new server-level IP blocking strategy. I checked the logs and...
Dejó una gran huella en su momento de mayor apogeo, ahora sus ecos continúan siglos después... › Ver más »¡Patina todo el día!
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 secret management systems like AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, Google Secrets...
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, another couple of Robins. Just because I liked these images.
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 cloth. This means that someone could use a cloak or jacket to listen to memories or...