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At 22, Derek Sivers had $12,000 in the bank, paid $333 a month for a room in a Queens apartment with three roommates, never ate out, and kept his total expenses at $500 a month. He played music for $300 a show. Two gigs covered...
a half-assed review -- Need for Speed: Underground (2002)"> Rrrrum-dum-dum du-ru-ru-rum-dum-dum The song that put Lil’ Jon & the Eastside Boyz on the map is the unmistakable hint that you’ve opened Need for Speed: Underground, which was...
Zine#48 🎵 Sometimes It Snows in April - Prince News | Article The 'Paperwork Flood': How I Drowned a Bureaucrat before dinner. by Robert Kingett 作者是位盲人作家，政府每年都要问他一次「你还残疾吗？」(真让人讨厌啊) 从而决定是否继续给他发放福利金。...
This is a fun brainstorm about snail mail sign-ups. I’ve been trying some snail mail things to thank a handful of Pika customers. Unfortunately it hasn’t been very effective. There’s been almost a complete lack of response. I’m not even...
Que Shin Chan haya comenzado a emitirse en el canal Comedy Central ha sido razón suficiente para que vuelva a suscribirme a Movistar Plus+ (ya os conté que cancelé a finales de 2025). Es de las pocas series que disfruto y que puedo tener...
I was going to title this post Obsidian Sync is worth it. But I don't know what four bucks a month means to you. I can't say what's worth what to other people. But I can say that Obsidian Sync is great! Here are some reasons: It's fast.I...
No pensaba escribir al respecto, pero ¿por qué no celebrar algo exclusivo? El motivo: celebrar que este blog que estás leyendo cumple hoy, en este 2026, 15 años de existencia. También hace 15 años que empecé a utilizar openSUSE + KDE y...
Ea, con dificultad, pero he encontrado un ratito para contarte cosas de señoras que hacen cosas. Je. Alice Oseman - Heartstopper Heartstopper ha concluído y nos ha dejado un huequito en el corazón (a pesar de que las últimas tiras eran...
This is becoming a bit of a theme, lose something, order a replacement, and then the lost item reappears. Earlier in the year it was an AirPod, now it is a water bottle.Couldn't for the life of me locate my favourite water bottle, it is...
Today will be another coffee downtown sort of day. Then a walk somewhere and I’ll find another alley or side street that aimlessly branches off some other bigger street. It’s early still so enjoying the basic writing in bed with the...
Probabil ai în casă o cutie de aspirină undeva prin dulăpior. Toată lumea are. E cel mai banal medicament cu putință - îl iei când te doare capul, când ai febră, sau când simți că răceala pune stăpânire pe tine. Și totuși, cercetătorii...
Sábado, mates sin azúcar y una Lenovo negra sobre la mesa. Un Windows 7 traicionado por su propia gestión de recursos, y un disco mecánico de 500GB contra una distribución de Linux ligera, simple y eficaz, lista para ser instalada...
Team TopologiesOrganizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast FlowAuthors: Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais Team Topologies is a must-read for anyone involved in building software at scale. It moves away from the “everyone should talk to...
(You can click on these.) Addendum to last week’s newsletter: I learned about the wiby.me surprise button from Ethan Marcotte’s links feed. Thanks Ethan! Let’s not get stepped on today. —Brendan
This past Tuesday I typed C-x C-c in Emacs for the last time after 20 years of daily use. Though nearly half that time was gradually retiring it, switching to modal editing, then to Vim. Emacs is a platform, and I’d grown accustomed to...
Will it work???
Happy Lesbian Visibility Day to all who celebrate! Here’s a photo of Eryn and me being visibly lesbian in Cole Valley a couple weeks ago (photo by Eryn). #GirlsWhoKissGirls #lesbian #LVW26 #GirlsLikeUs #TransIsBeautiful
It's been 4 months since I've made a break with Trek. Heck, it's final time to return! This marks it the first episode I've seen in my post-smartphone era, and it shows. We start with most of the Borg-children leaving the crew. It's the...
Since my Framework had a coffee bath, I've been using a ThinkPad T480 that I picked up from eBay for £285 ($385). This has been my main laptop for a few days now, and I have some thoughts, so I thought I'd share them since I've read...
Yesterday, I found a post i think we're obsessed with aesthetic on the Discovery Feed. It featured quite a few nice quotes. My favourite was this one: It's a real "people die when they are killed" kind of quote. Your first reaction is...
Wheels Coffee Roasters adalah tempat hits yang selalu ramai terlebih saat hari libur. Kalau akhir minggu, semua cabang Wheels akan penuh dengan pengunjung, terutama turis yang mayoritas dari area Jabodetabek. Sebagai warlok, saya malas...
Title: Robin Monks 🏳️🌈 Website: robinmonks.com RSS Feed: robinmonks.com/rss I write about technology and how open-source standards and technology can create positive change. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing...
Reading Matt's post, "Why I Don't Use A Dedicated Music Player", with great interest. A dedicated Music Player is something I keep coming back to, time and time again but never actually get around to buying. For much the same reason as...
Today I dreamed of a river. It's weird because for the past few months the only dreams I've had are sleep paralysis-inducing nightmares or me doing everything I've been putting off, work-related or otherwise. But today I dreamed of just...
Hiked part 23/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 19.0 kilometres from Schaarsbergen to Otterlo. A long walk through the Hoge Veluwe National Park, with woods at the start and end and wide open heath in the middle. I saw deer in the heather...
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake is a fantastic book all about mushrooms and fungi but what made it a breezy read for me was how weird they are. It’s like Merlin got his hands on creatures from another dimension where the rules of...
I may use Russian words for places in this article, this simply reflects both the history (Ukraine was part of the USSR at this point in history) and the fact I'm more familiar with Russian language than Ukrainian. This doesn't imply any...
One of the aspects of being a parkrun ambassador that I really enjoy is jumping in the car or on the bike on a Saturday morning and heading to a parkrun event. I have blogged before about using my NENDY to decide where I should go, which...
I was at a meeting last night where the lecturer discussed how many OCTs he ordered monthly. He is in an MD/OD practice in a rural area, so he sees more medical patients than most. However, he says he ordered 275 OCTs/month. I think it’s...
The poets are getting older: Kay Ryan is 80, Dana Gioia is 75, Dick Davis is 81, Billy Collins is 85 – and today Ted Kooser turns 87. He's a poet who tends to get dismissed as a Midwesterner dispensing homely wisdom, but I think this is...
I finished this book a couple of weeks ago, but I found time only now to post my thoughts on it. This book is a memoir of Facebook's ex-policy maker who describes her experience at Facebook and how it turned from a project focused on...
(lots of discussion of men’s bodies in street language and similar references to sex between men, so not for kids or the sexually modest) Stylish? Or in costume? There can be a fine line here, often crossed flagrantly — in my opinion, at...
Twitter originally had a character limit of 140, based on the limit of SMS messages of 160, with 20 reserved for the username, many years later it was increased to 280. Bluesky's limit is 300, on Mastodon it can differ server to server...
Notes@svemagie@indieweb.social this one in particular is not a DM tho@svemagie@indieweb.social this is also a private DM I can see from Phanpy connected to my indiekit@svemagie@indieweb.social I can see your DM, even coming from Indiekit...
SHE DESERVED IT, and had an amazing time! We got to hear all about it and catch up with her at D&D, where she was EXTREMELY NORMAL about America in comparison to Nippon, even moreso than her usual VERY REGULAR AND CHILL opinions about...
When you search for privacy/data protection stuff, what you will usually come across are things like privacy guides, the privacy subreddit, interested tech-y privacy blogs and YouTube channels. They give you great advice and overviews...
Let me begin by saying that web bookmarks are great. You can just save links that you find interesting or that you think you might need later, and there they are waiting for you when you need them. I hope that whoever came up with that...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:Screenshot_-_Wikipen.png|thumb|Wikipen - my blogpost authoring native client]] The promise of LLMs writing personal software has been quite realized for me. Almost every day I have a new piece of software whose...
Spaces are still available on tomorrow’s Gilded Age Mansion & Memorials RIverside Drive walking tour. We’ll explore the backstory of this winding, scenic drive and the houses and monuments that marked it as millionaire mile that rivaled...
Making the Case for Slow TechnologiesIt's time to intentionally slow down the technology in our lives so our brains (and often our emotions) have time to react, think, and respond appropriately. We do not always have to maximize...
BlogMore has had a new release, bumping the version to v2.16.0. There are two main changes in this update, both coming from a single idea: internal back-links. Where it makes sense, I always try and link posts in this blog to other...
Earlier this week I quietly released an iOS app called scout, a Gemini protocol client. I built it quite a while ago but never published, and thought “why not?” Almost immediately after doing so, I read this post that really made me...
Macs have had issues with SMB and Samba on servers that aren’t Macs. Most forums online tell you to put really insane unsafe settings that make 0 sense. Socket options with static send buffer sizes and receive buffer sizes are something...
Calibre2OPDS for Nextcloud So my Calibre library is synced and lives in my server via Nextcloud, which I also have on my Desktop syncing to the Calibre program. I used to use Google Drive to just send books to Kobo. But then... Just...
April 2026. Easington. North Yorkshire. Mrs RM declined my offer of a night in a a campervan in a Cleveland car park, her loss. Two hours later I’m at the coast, “I can see the seaside !“, and planning blog titles for the Tiger in tiny...
Awhile back, Joel wrote about his Inoassis Y1 which is a little iPod-like thing that you can buy to play music. As with most things in life, I aspire to be Joel, so I bought one too. (Seriously, Joel is cool and has tons of ideas, so he...
As I wrote before, recently I got myself a XTEINK X4, even the blogpost is not that old I got it a little more than a week ago. After using it active several days I can really say the size is the big win and the best argument for this...
The Radxa ROCK 3a Since we got a new thermostat, along with a new heat pump last year, we’ve been connecting that to the Open Source home automation software Home Assistant. This hasn’t been to do anything fancy, but Home Assistant...
2026-04-25Hello! Let's address the elephant in the room: yes, this article has been published very late. It is less likely to happen in the future now that I've made some changes. Just pretend it's Earth Day.Happy Earth Day! A few days...