Fri May 01
My Bear Notes experiment is moving along nicely, though I was tempted to pull Drafts back into the mix this morning. The only thing still rattling around in my head is the app-vs-database question whether I want my notes living in a proprietary store rather than plain markdown files. I think I can get past it....
A man with a three line tattoo on his forehead: Do it messy.Do it scared.Do it unprepared. He walked into every room already apologizing with his face, which is to say he walked in honest. The tattoo wasn’t a manifesto. It was a scar that learned to spell. Something that happened to him so many times it finally came...
¡Este mayo de 2026 es el mes de LibreLocal! La Free Software Foundation (FSF) invita a partidarios del software libre como tú a organizar un meetup para reunir a la gente y intercambiar ideas, aprender unos de otros y celebrar el software libre Los meetup de LibreLocal se organizaron por primera vez en 2025....
I found out about human.json so I added it to my page. I thought it was rather interesting idea, and might as well participate to it. I do not plan to use "AI" tools for the ethical reasons alone, so it seemed fitting to have that. Now to find more people to vouch for. :) And I'm interested seeing if others have it...
I did it! In April, I did one month of daily blogging, one new post per day. Usually I put all my blogging thoughts into the thought-log, but I think a milestone like this warrants its own entry. I wasn't really planning on doing this challenge; it just "happened." I read a post on another blog and thought "why...
County Roads, Take Me Home My phone served up a cover version of this John Denver classic as I was chauffeuring my wife around yesterday. Something about the lyric hit me in a way that I'd never noticed before. Almost Heaven, West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River Life is old there, older than the...
Happy May Day, Beltane, and Calan Mai! Here are a few photos from my phone from the last month with neither rhyme nor reason to the theme. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.
I keep coming back to the same thought with theMacBook Neo: this might be the first Apple laptop in a long time that actually makes sense for normal school life. Not fantasy school life. Not “my parents bought me a fully loaded MacBook Pro” school life. Real school life. Homework. Google Docs. Research tabs...
My favourite season is springFlowers burst from the earth in joyTrees dress in the brightest greenBirds sing the days awakeChildren play in the street outsideTheir laughter brightens my dayMy heart slowly exhales, releasesThe darkness of winter, i close my eyesWind blows the last clouds from my mind
Ross Barkan: The culture … does get stuck. We are too backward-facing already. The Metropolitan Review has run its fair share of retrospectives, but I’ve been in the mood, of late, to crack down on them. There is always going to be another anniversary of a great old work of art. There is always another famous dead...
Folosesc platforma Pure Blog pentru acest jurnal, care este una foarte bună, simplă de folosit și ușor de instalat. Totuși, are câteva lucruri mici care nu-mi plac, dar nici nu mă deranjează prea mult – pur și simplu îmi stau în minte. Așa că am apelat la AI, mai exact la Claude AI, și am folosit Claude Code pentru...
Heya! So, the Gazette chose "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin for this months book club (well, last months technically, but the deadline is the 8th of this month). Anyways, as is tradition, I'm gonna review it here. So, first and foremost, did I like The Dispossessed? Is it a good book? Well, yes! I'd say it's...
I will be the first to admit that I'm sometimes bad at responding to texts — but I'm not 113-unread-messages bad, as the notification badge on my Mac makes me out to be. It sits there mocking me, over a hundred messages that despite my best efforts I can never clear. No matter how many times I right-click to try and...
Simon had always considered himself a creature of habit, finding comfort in the predictable rhythm of his days. But today, that rhythm had been disrupted by an unsettling undercurrent; a feeling that something was amiss. From the moment he stepped out of his apartment, a sense of being watched had prickled at the...
Tener una trituradora de papel siempre ha estado entre mis sueños. Me encanta escribir. En reiteradas ocasiones fantaseé con escribir un diario y lo intenté. Pensé que el diario debía ser mágico, porque cada cosa que escribía parecía transferirse al cerebro del resto de habitantes de la casa. Después de varios...
Birdchosting to the max, my friends This morning while I was taking out my AM litter haul (living with this many cats you do multiple empties per day) I heard more birdsong than usual, and it sounded a little distressed. Upon closer inspection: They were flomping around on the ground violently and I was really...
There's a telenovela I started watching called Las hijas de la señora García. My Spanish still isn't that great yet, so I mainly enjoy it because it's a show I can actually understand. The storylines are rather simplistic and over-the-top, so it's quite easy to follow. When I started it, I thought it was just going...
I have seen a blog post asking Who knows that you blog? making the rounds lately and for me the answer is pretty easy: probably everyone who knows me but not many people are even remotely interested. (Some are and: thank you! I really appreciate it.) I have noticed (or at least it’s something I tell myself) that it...
Quelques petits changements apportés ces dernières semaines sur le Carnet. Le plus visible, c’est que j’ai finalement cédé à réutiliser une police avec empattement pour le contenu. Les performances sont légèrement impactées, mais beaucoup moins que ce que j’avais imaginé : le score EcoIndex de A est conservé. Et...
Antecedently: Shootin’ dudes twice and puttin’ ‘em on ice; Murine Gear Solid; you can get surprisingly decent nachos at the Frightened Pirate We decide to kind of pre-introduce our characters to the table, then work them in organically as game goes on. Heute wir haben: Amy’s new character Sebastian ‘The Bastion’...
If you haven’t seen it yet, one of my open source projects that I’ve been “maintaining” for a while is called todometer. It’s a glorified to-do app with a progress bar, in a desktop app. It’s built with Electron and React, and I first shipped it in early 2017! todometer has served me well over the years, and so...
I had some idea that many popular games have mods to tweak them – from small appearance tweaks and fan-made translations, to bigger gameplay or UI changes (and even an occasional trojan horse). What I didn’t know was that for some games there is a whole community of modders who do one thing and one thing only: they...
April is over, there were many birthdays and celebration parties from friends and family, there were also unexpected losses to mourn. My siblings visited for a while and we went out quite a lot. We returned to the moon and landed safely back on Earth, everyone I know of except Amin got an XTEINK X4, I got some new...
I've read a few posts about people leaving GitHub recently, and following my short note to the Fediverse a number of people have piped up saying they're not fans of GitHub, either. From the reading I've done, these frustrations are usually threefold: Microsoft ownership Microsoft training Copilot on open source...
My library shelves are organized by genre. There about 14 subdivisions. Within each subdivision, books are arranged alphabetically by author's last name. Each shelf has a tag indicating its range (which authors, alphabetically, are on each shelf). The ranges use the last three letters of the authors' last names,...
A few days ago, I wrote a reply to an email by my friend Cris, keeping each other updated about our lives after a few months of not hearing from another. Writing it really helped me realize some good changes and upcoming things to look forward to. A part of it that stuck out to me and that I felt like keeping here...
My choice of paid AI is probably strange to most … besides Gemini, which is assigned to me at work (meaning, work pays for it), I’m personally paying for … Mistral. Mistral is seen as Europe’s leading AI service alternative to US services. You’d think I’d go for Claude, and it IS tempting, as I do admire their...
Recovering the “forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence” alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds. There is a myth we live with, the myth of finding the meaning of life — as if meaning were an undiscovered law of physics. But unlike the laws of physics — which predate us and will...
It’s been a busy week, both at work and at home. I think the heat also made the week much more tiring, but thankfully, it rained a bit yesterday. Hopefully we will get more rains. Uma at South United Football Club. It’s summer camp. I spent a bit of time organizing the NMG/2026 introductions and making them. It’s...
so im not generally a smoker i used to smoke socially and the number of cigs i have a month hovered around like 4-8 per month depending on the number of gigs i would go to. but i think i might have had my last cigarette and joint ever on April 10th 2026. i think ive fucked up my tonsils quite badly. im heavily at...
I just found this blog post from Rob Bowley in my RSS feed and one paragraph just so resonated with what I read and hear so much: For CEOs and founders hoping to benefit, the answer isn’t as simple as handing out Claude licences […]. It’s investing in the engineering culture and practices. Unglamorous, slow […]
Hello! One of my long term projects on here is figuring out how to write frontend Javascript without using Node or any other server JS runtime. One issue I run into a lot in my frontend JS projects is that I don’t know how to write tests for them. I’ve tried to use Playwright in the past, but it felt slow and...
I opened an article by Zoe Skyforest for Hackaday titled GameCube Bot Records Your Play in a Weird Way. The article opened: If you wanted to record yourself playing on a GameCube, you could use a VCR to capture the video output on tape. “If you wanted” eh? “Could…” Talk about presumptuous. How about I wanted and I...
2026-05-01Hello! It's May now!Last night, I performed at a school concert with a jazz band, where everyone gets to watch me struggle with my cheap old electric guitar. Seriously — the thing's nearly a decade old at this point and the plug is loose; no amount of tightening seems to stick for more than a day or...
Half the web might know about your blog, but how many of your in-person acquaintances, people in your household, community, or workplace, know you blog? Do you even tell them? Do you want to? The question came up at Forking Mad this week, and started me thinking. When I uploaded the first version of disassociated in...
Si, continuamos con la serie de tutoriales basadas en el hecho de que ya tenemos una red privada virtual (VPN) desde la que podremos acceder a la autenticación de servicios a los que solo nosotros accedemos. Introducción Hasta el momento hemos tenido éxito en dejar solo las rutas necesarias para NextCloud y dejando...
Good evening, worms and germs! Please hold your applause until the end. We have 8 wonderful categories to run through, covering 40 different finalists recognizing some of the best short fiction that was published in the year 2025.Our aim with The Foofs is to put a spotlight on "the little guy." With hundreds, if not...
My first thought was the field of pink petals. Day by day, petals fall from the tree as green leaves grow from the blossom. I wonder for how long the petals will keep falling. There seem to be a million dots of pink in spring, from which there is a new perspective to see every day. Yesterday I saw a reflection....
Four of the five steps in every unary RPC handler are wire plumbing. Pin the service function signature and they fit in one generic adapter per transport.
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...
Habe dieses Essay schon letztes Jahr geschrieben für ein Seminar über Tod und sexuelle Bildung. Grade habe ich das wiederentdeckt, und weil "Zeug posten, das ich für die Uni schreibe" anscheinend etwas ist, was ich jetzt mache, darf das hier natürlich nicht fehlen. Die Idee war, systemtheorethische Überlegungen mit...
Because there’s more than the Orange Man that spills over the Atlantic! Agitpop by The Iron Roses. I had the pleasure to see them live at the Reconstruction Tour last year. Ben by Macklemore whom I have dreadfully neglected since the glorious Macklemore & Ryan Lewis days. Heroes feat. DJ Premier is particularly...
Just over three years ago, I wrote a post about blogging. In hindsight, that was a pretty “OK” post. Blogging, and blogging about blogging, has continued to thrive since then. Blogging has strengthened its legitimacy as both a hobby and a source of revenue. It has never been easier to blog: true in the 90s, true...
I consider myself a decisive person, though I do have my weaknesses. Major purchases, like electronic devices, are always a soap opera. The Apple Watch one lasted a few years. At the end of 2025, a special episode aired with a major plot twist, typical of the best soap operas. Without giving it much thought, I...
April 2026. Wigan. Another weekend, another trip to Manchester, but this time for a rare Saturday gig. Not that the lack of football means Piccadilly is any quieter, Platform 14 showcasing the nation’s favourite train beers. Perhaps. A change from a train at Platform 14, toward Blackpool rather than Liverpool,...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. In which I briefly comment on the books I read each month, so a few years from now when I’m trying to remember one of them, I’ll be able to find it here. Since I’m a media omnivore, it also includes games, movies, and any other media of note that I engaged with. Do we have...
Interesting stuff elsewhere… “There are lots of decisions that, in an ideal world, would be made in a flexible, holistic, discretionary way, but which cannot be made that way by institutions that have lost the public’s trust” — Daniel Greco on public trust in higher education The Splintered Mind turns 20 — Eric...
In a post yesterday I finished off by saying: At least I have, as of the time of writing, 1,380 tests to check that I've not broken anything when I do hand-clean the code. But, hmm, there's a question: can I actually trust those tests? It's not like I wrote them. This was, of course, slightly tongue-in-cheek,...
evet başlık şu anda türkçe kullandığımı düşündüğümde biraz ironik ama anlatmaya çalıştığım şeyin açık olduğunu düşünüyorum. türkçe benim ana dilim ama ben neden bu blogda hiç türkçe bir şeyler yazmıyorum? bunu sorgulamaya biraz arkadaşım suliman'ın gönderisi ile başladım. sonuç olarak vardığım birkaç kanı var....
Una nueva entrega de publicaciones interesantes que leí y son interesantes para compartir. El fracaso del email seguro: privacidad, metadatos y la ilusión Suiza en 2026 | El Gato Oscuro Una excelente entrada donde el autor analiza la verdadera privacidad y herramientas de herramientas como Proton Mail y hace un...
In this short video I demonstrate my new package for Emacs. It is called buffer-to-pdf. The idea is to save your current buffer to a PDF, while preserving how it looks. This means that your font size, theme, and other visual effects are preserved and written to the PDF. buffer-to-pdf is not meant to be a replacement...
It is the first of May which means it is May Day, or Day of Work/Labor Day here in Germany, a day where you, ironically don’t work. I just learned yesterday that in the UK May Day isn’t on May 1st, but the first Monday of May, which, honestly, makes a lot more sense as the first Monday of a month rarely falls on a...
I've been a customer of One Medical for many years. I was devastated when Amazon bought them in 2023. Despite my chagrin at this acquisition, quality of care did not change when Amazon took over, so I have stayed using the service.1 Health AIEarlier this year, Amazon began to force all One Medical customers onto its...
Finding joy in web designI'm really leaning in to the idea of treating my website like a digital garden—a truly personal corner of the internet. I've made a few changes with this in mind: A new /garden page, where I've aggregated links to all sections of the site, such as my blog (/notebook), /now, /uses, etc....
We just published a blog post about Symphony – an agent orchestrator I built for my team at OpenAI. Here I wanted to share a few behind-the-scenes bits that didn’t make the cut. Earlier this year I joined a team that had gone all-in on Codex. And it worked! It worked because we designed the software in a way that...
Don't forget to take regular backups of your blog. You've put a lot of effort into writing your content. Don't rely on your blog provider to take backups for you. If you self-host, the backups should be part of your regular backup routine. If you are relying on a third-party blogging platform you should keep your...
Brian hovered near the surface of his bowl, watching the world above the water ripple with distorted shapes and colours. For weeks, he had been still — too still — drifting listlessly as a faint pink tinge coloured his watery world. The medicine had done its work. The sores that once marred his golden scales had...
This morning I was one of the 283 finishers at Coburg parkrun event #517, and K was one of the 14 volunteers. From last weekend’s post and the previous weekend’s post, it may seem that I only go to parkrun to participate in challenges, but one of the biggest influences as to where I’ll parkrun is where my friends...
We welcome May with a new edition of the daily Pook-Emu Bee links (after a spotty week). It looks nice outside my window… 1. Stripe introduces Link, a digital wallet that autonomous AI agents can use, too (Sarah Perez for TechCrunch. April 30, 2026.) While this is certainly exciting, I would suggest considering not...
I had a wonderful visit ay Court Street Books in Florence, AL this week. These folks know books and love book people.