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Posted on April 30, 2026 As always, this summer I had to net the figs. As soon as they began to ripen the birds noticed. How do you know a fig is perfectly ripe? A bird has eaten it. Figs are biblical. Certainly I enjoy eating figs under...
That's a lot of work for a name tag. 15 weeks of classes, 5 or 6 field trips, a final exam, and a practical application (I made a zine) to earn this.
A roundup of auditions, recalls, and booked jobs from April 2026. Published by AHE. on 30th April 2026 Auditions - 4 of those auditions Ads - 3 (self-tapes) TV Show - 1 (self-tape) April really picked up the pace. This month had my first...
The picture was taken by mr Nasser and shared on social media In appendix A of the book Root cause: Stories and lessons from two decades of Backend Engineering Bugs, author Hussein Nasser has these wonderful words to say about me: Daniel...
Golden Week started off rather silvery-gray with overcast skies and some light drizzle. Did another hike with some friends today. The destination was Mt Hiwada in southern Saitama. It's more of a hill than a mountain, only 300-something...
About a year ago, the UK government’s Office for Students (OfS) (whose “free speech czar” is philosopher Arif Ahmed) levied a fine of £585,000 on the University of Sussex after investigating how the university handled the case of...
Safety Officer ♥ Perimeter Monitor ♥ Long-Range Radar ♥ All-Terrain Support Vehicle ♥ Phu Quoc Guardian ♥ Forever BabyThank you, Spinach ♥ 2013-2026
This is one of the most irritating articles I’ve read in a long time, despite my interest in the topic. It didn’t need to be ~3,500 words (mostly “me” and “I”, or so it seemed). Skip to ”The beginning and the end” and read from there.
Claude Code status bar in a lovely Wednesday: mongodb (git:thiagowfx/atlas-mongo-promote-aws-peering ⎇ mongodb) [Opus 4.7 (1M context)] [██░░░ 406k/1000k 50%] $40.53 sid:{session ID} It feels good to be able to use more than 200k tokens...
On this day (penultimate April) in history, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train arrived in Cleveland OH, following his assassination on 4/14/1865. As described by Tim Evanson on FB today: The coffins of President Abraham...
Me every Monday.
I want to go out and make cool scribbles
"Gentildonne" (Noblewomen) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
Why read the book? The Westminster Confession of Faith was written in 1646 by Puritan ministers at the request of the English Parliament. It is a clear summary of what the Bible teaches on the main points of the Christian faith. The...
Colin Kidd: Harvey C. Mansfield, a professor of government at Harvard from 1962 until his retirement from teaching in 2023 at the age of 91, has never shirked any opportunity to burnish his reputation as a conservative ogre. His...
Possible Improvements to Displaying Code Blocks and SnippetsI’m currently writing a post on how to use a Bash script with Termux. In the past, when I have code snippets / code blocks present in the post, I will make comments inside the...
You ever just feel like all you'll ever amount to is just a series of impulses that can only see life as a series of unreliable snapshots and not the full, fluid thing it actually is? Yeah, me neither. Anyway, when I got home from trivia...
2026-04-29Limited permission was granted to use photos taken for these events on this site.Hello!Mahmood, musical producer and school classmate, represented his country of Bahrain by singing his own music. He competed against student...
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️ Superhero fans have debated for decades which character has...
I was out for a weekly foray for some beer and maybe a little expat companionship. I found both. The beer was a nice break and as usual I sat at Viva. There’s just a thing about going there for the drinking part I just enjoy. It’s at the...
I care a lot about privacy. I always advocate for services that don't collect or sell data. I use VPNs, ad blockers, and am usually careful about sharing too much stuff about me online. This blog goes against that third point, and most...
Life is full of chapters. And it’s up to you to understand when they cross your path and embrace them with vigorous happiness. This past week it’s been quiet on the blog as I was working on a few things to move forward into the next...
“A cat met up with a big male rat in the attic and chased him into a corner. The rat, trembling, said, ‘Please don’t eat me, Mr. Cat. I have to go back to my family. I have hungry children waiting for me. Please let me go.’ The cat said,...
Small edits: I've added maps to multiple pages on creatures, myths, and the glossary. I added images of the Northern maiden. I changed the navigation and it now has a section for "other information", in which there is a page for...
I chop and change my website almost more than I actually write on it. For giggles, I thought I’d share what my current website setup and posting workflow is. This site uses Jekyll. I love it because I do almost all of my writing in...
a half-assed review -- Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2003)"> By the time Need for Speed: Underground 2 hit the piracy scene, I was already in my first year of University, being busy with whatever students do: Warcraft III, movies and...
Hoy me han ayudado a encontrar en el fediverso algunos juegos de Game Boy de esos que no guardan partida en ningún sitio. Juegos realizados para que la progresión pueda hacerse introduciendo una clave o password.   –...
This morning I took delivery of a new Panama hat, the old one having become an offence to the eye, and summer being in the offing. The new hat, I was delighted to note, was made by the firm of Borges & Scott – a nice literary double-act....
As I wrote recently, I Love Bubbles. The new blog post aggregator (based on the RSS feeds of a curated list of blogs) has become part of my morning routine: making coffee, browsing my blogroll, opening Bubbles, and discovering new posts...
Last week, I had a call with someone for an upcoming project. I naturally asked how the weather was. Shortly after I asked, I realised that I don’t like to ask about the weather just because British people like talking about the weather....
Lindy Percival, Nathanael Scott, Daniel Carter, and others: This list of our 50 best films will likely provoke debate, but with the aid of 24 experts, including directors, actors, critics, curators and authors, what follows is an...
I struggle with how humiliating it feels to talk about and point out misogyny; how the general regression into conservative values makes addressing misogyny come across as a last resort card you can pull out to make yourself look like a...
Who knows that you blog?by David JamiesonDavid talks about his reluctance to share details about his blog with a colleague, and asks whether other people with blogs tell their friends and family.Read post ➡I saw this post in my RSS...
These are the basic settings for Emacs that I shared with Sacha Chua during our livestreamed meeting on 2026-04-30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7pcLdwuyxE. ;;; Sensible defaults that are not too intrusive and focus on common...
En tiempos de Facebook volvimos a estar en contacto gente que hace mucho tiempo no hablábamos, compañeros de colegio, familiares lejanos, conocido de conocidos, personas que habían desaparecido por completo de nuestras vidas. Las red...
After ReGoogling my phone a few days back, I also needed to factory reset it. I'm in the process of getting everything set up again, which gives me time to reconsider all the apps that I had installed before. So I will share a list of...
As part of my public homelab setup, one of the services I configured was a mail server! I got started with around a month ago, and have been running a bare minimum setup for a week. Here are some notes about the configuration process....
What a month! GitHub went down six million times, eleven thousand Vercel security holes have been unveiled, Copilot doesn’t accept new signups due to a super unsustainable business model (finally someone admitted it), Anthropic landed on...
I can be a bit of a curmudgeon and focus on the negatives when I feel the pressure. I know it's not good for me to get into that negativity spiral so reflecting like this is important. So, without further ado, here are some things I have...
It seems that dunking on GitHub is the flavour of the day. At the moment most of the social/news type things I tend to read are filled with the Ghostty news, as well as a small revival of posts and links to blog posts about all the...
“If it compiles, it works.” This feeling is one of the main things Rust engineers love most about Rust, and a reason why using it with coding agents is especially nice. After debugging some code that compiled but mysteriously stopped in...
Devil May Cry es otra de esas adaptaciones de videojuegos que Netflix ha ido haciendo en los últimos tiempos. Aunque la franquicia de Capcom creada por Hideki Kamiya lleva desde 2001 dando guerra, nunca está de más disponer de más...
I'm writing this on my phone so I'll keep it brief. Was roaming around as usual, trying to hunt down something with my Cormorant Navy Issue. Nice, very punchy blaster ship. If it gets close to you and can keep your ship still, your ship...
Started on Audiobook since I could not find the copy ANYWHERE yet for free (libraries). But turns out the Audiobook is great! So listening to this amazingly with a lot of attention! Maybe first-person thrillers are my flavor for Audiobooks!
This morning I'm experimenting with Bear again. I love the UI and the way everything is organized in the sidebar with tags. I'm considering it as a replacement for Drafts. My issue with Drafts is how cluttered the UI feels, particularly...
“Jettison Tattoo Removal, Negotiable Fee.”The sign, old-fashioned gold script on a dark wooden plaque, hung in a window between a Black barber shop and a corner store advertising money transfers. A smaller wooden “Open” sign hung from...
The part that makes living off the land attacks so dangerous is not that they are magic. It is that they are ordinary. That is the uncomfortable truth. A lot of attacks do not start with some flashy custom malware that screams for...
Recent massive shifts at Oracle gave me something I didn’t expect. A pause. It’s giving me more opportunities to drink tea, sit with things, think, and hopefully the pickelball court when the weather is nicer and I’m recovered from an...
“The measure of love is to love without measure.”— St. Francis de Sales Our second child came into the world a few days ago, and I recall a conversation I had with a good friend of mine (also a dad) about how it would be possible to love...
Just finished reading "How to Read a Book" — it was pleasant and thoughtful. Currently reading/enjoying "On the Calculation of Volume, Book 2" and "The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post"Currently Listening: Nine Inch Noize “Copy of...
This post isn't going to be about the typical criticisms of generative AI, but a specific experience I've had (semi-)recently that made me realize another downside of it. -- A couple of months ago I was going to participate in a game jam...
David asked "Who knows that you blog?", and a lot of responses have been written. And well, this is my response.
De la ultimul articol am mai adăugat câteva lucruri la Pure Blog Discover. Unele sunt vizibile imediat, altele funcționează în fundal. Sortare și filtrare Lista de bloguri are acum două opțiuni de sortare - ordinea aleatorie care exista...