Mon Apr 27
This essay is adapted from Traversal. “In the great chain of cause and effect,” Alexander von Humboldt wrote as he was teaching science to read the poetry of nature, “no single fact can be considered in isolation.” When the first European colonists made landfall on New Zealand’s shores in Humboldt’s lifetime, the...
Arts and entertainmentPlease compensate the work you appreciateA certain Brain Baker encourages you to financially support your favorite artists, especially through ethical means. Why are there no art movements anymore?Contemporary art becomes diversified and democratized, as kwist said. Indie web and online...
Yeah it happened. Lol. As expected, the Hookbill died a fiery death against a Breacher. It seems my fit is not very good against missile ships. But honestly, that Breacher was super tanky! I could not break its shields at all. I was kind of awestruck by it. https://zkillboard.com/kill/135071750/ I then undocked...
April 2026. Skinningrove. North Yorkshire. It wasn’t until the last few years of Beer Guide completion that I really got to appreciate the Scottish coastline, but I always assumed 30 years of ticking meant I knew most of our seaside villages. But apparently not. A night in the campervan in a car park in Loftus (the...
A couple of weeks back, I finished my first 30-day PACT. During this time, I wrote and published one post every single day. Whilst I didn't continue with the daily posts, I really enjoyed the momentum it gave me. That's what I want to replicate now, but in another area of my life. In February, I wrote about an...
Jeremy se embarcó en una idea: construir una página de tipo Wikipedia personal, privada sobre la boda de su abuela en base a un puñado de fotos viejas que conservaba la familia. Utilizó WikiMedia para ello. Wikimedia para quien no conoce es la estructura en la que se basa Wikipedia. Es gratis y puedes usarla...
Did you know I kinda always forget what to write in the main, regular section of these weeknotes? The structure I usually type these things is something like: introduction, games, books or manga I reading, shows/movies/anime I watched, youtube and blogposts, leaving the regular notes at the end! It’s a bit weird to...
Calibre2OPDS for Nextcloud - pt. 2 I finished my code! It took awhile for the PHP generator to work, but I decided to call it a day and just do some sanitation of those stupid /r spaces before zipping. Hours working on that bug (the hardcoded script worked on my Kobo) and then it was finally working. I mainly worked...
This afternoon I’m thinking, again, about simplifying my digital life. Specifically: whether I could get by with just my iPhone and iPad. The MacBook Pro is endless. Options, tinkering, decisions. The iPad isn’t. That’s the appeal.
Stalwart v0.16 was released, and with it support for automatic DNS updates for things like TLSA records (DANE). It also supports Bunny DNS, so it’s interesting for me. Will I replace my current mail server (with docker-mailserver) with Stalwart soon? 👀 Interactions & Comments
I meant to write this last week, shortly after I finished listening to Episode 612 of Upgrade. But things didn’t work out the way I hoped, so now I’m rushing to finish these few paragraphs before this week’s episode comes out (they’re recording as I type). I have nothing to say about the Tim Cook/John Ternus news...
4096 is a Russian UI artist (I just made up that title) who creates interesting audio-visual mashups. Here are some of the best ones: Interfaces of rhythm games (like Guitar Hero): Windows startup sounds, incl. fun hi-def reimagining of their splash screens: Windows error messages: If this looks like fun, check out...
We mistake prediction for understanding. In long-term relationships—romantic partnerships, friendships, family bonds—we develop the capacity to anticipate behavior with remarkable accuracy. We know what our partner will order at a restaurant, how our friend will react to bad news, which topics will trigger our...
Those who know me remember how I used to be in love with GitHub. The idea was genuinely interesting: Git is a decentralised system, which is great, but discovering repositories and projects was hard, and GitHub solved that under the premise – or promise? – of “Social Coding”. But Vito, everyone moved to GitHub, that...
In case you hadn't heard (it's all I've been going on about for a couple weeks, so you probably have heard - sorry) I spilled coffee on my Framework 13, then after lots of testing and cleaning, I confirmed that the main board was dead. The new main board was delivered this morning, so I went ahead and got it fitted...
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. China blocks Meta’s $2B Manus deal after months-long probe, TechCrunch. I don’t know what are the geopolitical implications of this news, but it’s funny to see Meta in such a...
It was my niece's birthday and we got together to celebrate. + many photosCurrently Listening: Nine Inch Noize “As Alive As You Need Me To Be”Reply via email
Dear Ciara, It has been some time since I’ve written. I took the holidays to actually rejuvenate, to realign myself, and honestly—I’m feeling refreshed for the first time in a long time. The move was exhausting, and I felt all the changes associated with it creeping into my work life. But now, something has shifted....
I did some more tinkering with BlogMore yesterday, adding two new features. The first is one I've been considering adding for a wee while now. For a large part of the lifetime of this blog I used Disqus to provide a comments section on every post. It was, as you'd imagine for a small personal blog, a pretty quiet...
I was sad today! I love discovering, and reading new, personal blogs. I'm always interested in people and opinions. Imagine my sadness when I stumbled onto a new (to me) blog, only to discover that the author had an AI Generated Summary at the top of each post. In my opinion, this is devaluing the work. All that...
Good morning readers, I wrote this letter to myself to help process a few things on my mind. It's much more for me than it is for you, but it's also something I wanted like to share. So, let's begin again... Dear Self, Yes... you did put your life on pause. In a way. Starting in Germany was so exciting for you! I...
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at Codemotion Madrid! The event was really cool. I think I heard the organizers say that there were at least a couple thousand developers there, and there were multiple talk tracks throughout. I got to meet some internet friends in real life for the first time, and see some...
There’s a curious pair of limestone row houses on the lower end of peaceful, park-facing Riverside Drive. Each looks similar from afar. They share the same color of stone, and both facades have bow fronts. But on closer look, you’ll notice that each sports different ornamental bells and whistles. One has a conical...
In the United States, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) maintains the official U.S. time reference. NIST distributes this reference to enable all sorts of applications from meteorology to GPS satellites. Programmers are probably most familiar with distributing time using the network time...
Two centuries after her death, a powerful human/alien hybrid clone of Ellen Ripley aids a crew of space pirates in stopping the aliens from reaching Earth. A good “reboot” of the Alien franchise, moving the story 200 years forwards, with clone-Ripley being more badass and indestructible. With a great ensemble, with...
La semana pasada fue intensa. Tanto es así que estoy escribiendo estas palabras el martes siguiente antes de las ocho de la mañana, una hora a la que no es nada habitual que esté haciendo cosas distintas a plantearme dudas existenciales como “quién soy” y “qué año es este”. No soy una persona que habitualmente se...
W is for Weird At first I was thinking to say ‘websites’ for this prompt, but then I thought, lets go with ‘weird websites’. So many of these i discovered on the useless web and drip with that web 1.0 vibe. I miss the culture and days when the web was just weird. So here are a few ive saved over the years...
There's something to be said for maintaining Gemini content in Markdown and converting it, rather than writing it directly in Gemtext.
I’m back with Part 6 of the Everyday Defense track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we’re locking in backups that actually restore, building a setup that survives ransomware and failure, and walking through how to verify your backups before you ever have to rely on them. Backups are one of those...
Tech companies have been promising that online shopping or booking a hotel can soon be handled by AI. Just tell it the different standards you're setting and to pick the cheapest price, and off you go. We've seen agentic AI spectacularly fail; email inboxes cleared out, databases and hard drives deleted, and more....
AI gave me two different brew recipes for the same coffee in two separate chats. When I pushed back it changed its answer — not because I was right, but because I pushed. That's why I can't trust AI.
Happy Birthday, New Leaf Journal! I made The New Leaf Journal public on April 27, 2020. Thus, today, April 27, 2026, is The New Leaf Journal’s sixth birthday. With the exception of 2024, I have published a “birthday article” for each of our prior birthdays. I took this photo of my afternoon coffee on July 20, 2025,...
Despite a terrible start, April is the month I’m finally catching up with the TBR Challenge–and I’m even managing to post this review just shy of a couple of weeks late. The challenge theme was ‘fool’s errand’, described by challenge host extraordinaire Wendy as “some harebrained idea or scheme, some sort of...
The first anthology from Foofaraw Press has arrived. You can pick up a copy of A Great Big Fuss (2025) direct now and everywhere books are sold on May 1! We have a limited edition hardcover, paperback, and digital version (ePub and PDF), or all of the above at our Metalabel shop. Print copies purchased direct also...
I grew up tromping around the woods of upper lower Michigan. I am one of the few people I know who would not starve to death if dropped into the middle of said woods. Yet every single year, I learn that something else is edible. Here are three things I learned are edible THIS WEEK. Also a revelation I had on...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Screenshot_-_Rowik's_Semantic_Search.png|thumb|Now, with semantic search]] One thing that annoyed me on this wiki is that the search bar shows inline results based on a prefix search, and then if you ask for a full search you get a full-text...
I've noticed that there are a handful of popular topics that get brought up more than others on the Bear Blog Discovery Feed: AI, meta-blogging (blogging about blogging), social media, the indie web etc. Another topic that pops up every now and then is minimalism. I've run into a few posts where people are voicing...
Previously. I love just to manage a small collection of related scripts within a given codebase. An example in our Terraform codebase1: % just check-{hit TAB for completion} completing values check-aws-config -- Validate AWS profiles in ~/.aws/config check-aws-provider-tags -- Check AWS provider default_tags...
Faculty at Arizona State University are developing a new philosophy major program with a focus on artificial intelligence, consciousness, and ethics. [Sou Fujimoto, “Many Small Cubes”]ASU’s School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies already offers philosophy bachelors degrees with concentrations in...
Heya! So, I was originally going to make a post about Final Fantasy XIV, as i said last time, but I kind of got sidetracked, and started playing the new tomodachi life game. I'd never really played much of its predecessor. I owned a copy, but that was about it. Never got the appeal. I think I get it now though....
Listar coisas, planejar metas, se organizar no calendário. Arrumar o seu dia em blocos como se sair desse plano fosse a pior coisa do mundo. Eu já fiz esses todos, ao contrário do que vai parecer esse post. Alguns deles realmente me ajudaram uma época da vida, eles faziam com que eu não precisasse me preocupar em...
(And I don’t just mean my page dedicated to pictures of my cat, but I have that, too.) In the upper left hand corner, there’s a cat, and if you click it, it’ll chase your mouse! Click it again and it’ll go back to the corner. (If you’re currently on a smartphone, it still works, just not as well.) I got it from the...
While not necessarily a direct response to JA Westenberg’s post, her writing did make me think a lot about the way we stack up different technologies in our collective minds. It’s very good, you should go and read it. The link’s just above, I’ll wait… It got me thinking about the way we talk about AI - specifically...
Tune into any discussion of the technologies widely referred to as ‘artificial intelligence’, and you’ll find that terminology is all over the place. Language is forever fluid and evolving, and with a field as quickly moving and with as much marketing influence and buzzwords as artificial intelligence, it isn’t...
I'm a wee bit fascinated by the structures people build on their allotments. Let me show you what I mean.
Gestern fand der vom Cozibo-Kollektiv organisierte NRW Zine-Stammtisch im irgendDorf in Gelsenkirchen statt. Ich habe die Zeit genutzt, um die Schnipsel unseres Albanien-Urlaubs 2021 in ein kleines Travel-Zine zu verwandeln. Das war mein erster Besuch in Gelsenkirchen und die Stadt hat es geschafft, meinem Eindruck...
2026-04-27Hello! I'm just realizing that the amount of readers viewing through a RSS feed probably outnumber the readers viewing through email. That's unnerving, because I don't know who any of you are. If my posts have been aggregated somewhere, let me know! I don't know you exist unless you email me.Anyway, I need...
After writing about my self-hosted RSS workflow, I’ve found the perfect desktop companion for Miniflux. It’s Newsflash — a polished, native GNOME newsreader that connects directly to your Miniflux instance via API. It’s been my daily driver ever since. What’s next: evaluation Android apps to connect to Miniflux,...
I have a couple of episodes sketched out for the next season of Y2KFM and was checking out what is popular in the podcast world. I have my handful of go-to podcasts to listen to in the car when dropping off/picking up kids and going to the store. Radio Lab Decoder Ring The Retroist Darknet Diaries The Empty Bowl and...
People think that discipline is all about doing the thing, but it's not, it's about not doing all the other things one could be doing. Not dividing your attention. Not listening to all the distractions. Ignoring their call. But isn't that effectively the same? No, not really. It's similar, but sometimes a change in...