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The New Leaf Journal celebrated its sixth birthday on April 27, 2026. To celebrate our website’s sixth birthday, I decided to undertake writing a series of six articles on wisdom I have accumulated from running and writing for NLJ. I will begin this series on the sixth anniversary of the publication of the first NLJ...
Grrrnd Zero Algorave 2026 is happening right now and all night long, if you’re into that sort of thing. more info over on grrrnd zero LIVESTREAM ON YOUTUBE (I’m still not a huge fan of the name of the genre as rave makes it sound less diverse than it actually is.) Previous
The 2026 edition of the Windup Watch Fair San Francisco was at Fort Mason this weekend. I only made it to the fair for a couple of hours on Friday, but I think I made the most of my limited time there. I bought a couple of ads from Ad Patina: a vintage Speedy ad for Eryn and a Jackie Robinson “Think Different” ad...
Here are some of the adventures I’ve had whilst trying to record from the Sky Stream puck using OBS Studio and ffmpeg. I have split my Sky Stream box into two HDMI outs – one goes to the main TV and the other is coupled with a Ugreen HDMI to USB converter or capture card. What I’ve tried: OBS Studio I began by...
Read on the website: There’s a bunch of guiding principles I follow when blogging to ensure what I do is kind to others. Here are some.
Wanting is the menacing margin of error between desire and need. It is the blade that vivisects your serenity, the hammer that shatters your wholeness — to want anything is to deem your life incomplete without it. It is a perpetual motion machine that keeps you restlessly spinning around the still point of enough....
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the entrance of the park, bathing in the sun A little known fact about me is that I can imitate parakeets. I made the sounds with this guy and we had a chat :) an okapi behind red bushes Elephants! My favourite animals :) These two are Sam and Max (which made me all nostalgic :) ) Zebras! Photographed with the b/w...
Creating something can be an easy target for the day when you find it hard to follow a purpose at the moment. We decide what purpose to follow because we want to and it is easier to live with one. But it is difficult to decide what purpose is fitting or fulfilling. By creating, we produce something permanent that...
Spent this morning at Minnebar. This year was the 20th anniversary. I’ve had several posts about Minnebar on this blog through the years. I’ve only been able to go a couple times over the past ten years and it was good to see many familiar faces. (Even some Minnesota expats. 👋, Luke!) (Oh, and I left my conference...
Because the past, oh, 16 months, have been hell (see footnote 1), I am several months late with this review; with the next book in the series to be released in July, I better get caught up! Beware: alcoholism; references to narcissism and emotional abuse; drug addiction and violence as backstory; fatphobia. Murder...
This post assumes basic familiarity with arithmetic coding. I’ve written an arithmetic coder, like, three times in my life, so the mistake I want to highlight is likely amateurish. But since I didn’t have a clue that my understanding was incomplete, I figured I needed to write a post about it.
Books and some pages I read in April 2026 Non-fiction Vintage Didion by Joan Didion (2004) 200 pages 3 stars A collection of previously published essays focussed on US politics. The essays date from different periods. There are also three chapters from her book "Miami" in it. Usually I like to read Didion, but...
Vuelven las olas a tocarte los pies y luego se van desplazan las rocas a la orilla del mar y luego se van derrumban huellas y castillos de arena de pronto ya no están el sol las ilumina todo el día así brillan, brillas. Chocan con estatuas inmovibles que respiran o no avanza sin prisa la ligera ola da vida o no...
A royal marriage and its tragic end, between Alboin, king of the Lombards, and Rosamund, a Gepid princess.
RepostsReposted: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/#atom-everything
April 2026. Skipton. Last week we went to Skipton again. Three (3) reasons; a re-opened GBG new entry to tick, a blog post series idea to explore, and a pork pie to audit. In 2022 I had declared Stanforths the best pork pie in England, but a recent change of ownership (if not name) had seen a string of scathing...
The original 2004 Gmail iteration of the now-ubiquitous modern status bar (here presenting undo send) was internally nicknamed a butter bar because… well, just look at it: (I believe at least Google today calls this a snackbar.) The UI pop-up element hosting Google Talk inside Gmail – the very same thing that’s more...
After writing the earlier post I had to AFK to attend to normal life things. When I finally sat back at my keyboard, I decided to write my own take on minified_filename. To recap, this is what Copilot/Claude came up with first: def minified_filename(source: str) -> str: """Compute the minified output filename for a...
Tipo Autor Gênero Livro Uketsu Terror, Suspense O livro “Casas estranhas” do autor japonês Uketsu possui uma premissa muito interessante, ocupando um nicho similar a “House of Leaves”. Fui introduzido a obra pelo vídeo do Cathal Crumley, um arquiteto que se sentiu fascinado pelo uso da arquitetura como veículo...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot Everyone has experienced this. There are studies and papers on why doing a thing X will yield less of another thing Y. Then, in reality, the opposite gets done and works. So what's the deal? Supposedly BART's problems weren't that they were letting in...
Yesterday was a tough day, even though that wasn’t the plan at all. It was a holiday and the weather was perfect, so I figured I might as well go for a bike ride. What else was I going to do…
Having recently read Richard Holmes's excellent account of Tennyson's early years, The Boundless Deep, I was amused to come across this picture, in J.G. Riewald's Beerbohm's Literary Caricatures (a great book for browsing in). It shows Thomas Woolner, the only sculptor in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, sculpting...
You’re in a conversation. You’ve made a point — something specific, evidence-based, maybe uncomfortable for the other person to hear. They don’t refute it. Instead, they say something like: “You seem really upset about this.” “Let’s try to keep this calm.” “I’m sensing some hostility.” “Why are you so worked up?”...
A long-awaited hike to a familiar summit took an unexpected turn when lingering snow on the ridge tested both my preparation and patience. Between sore legs, broken gear, and a sudden plunge into deep snow, this spring adventure reminded me that mountains always have a way of keeping things interesting.
In one of my previous posts I shared images from a 2016 trip to south east Washington area surrounding the town of Walla Walla and in particular the views from Steptoe Butte in the Palouse region. The first part of the trip though was a campout at Palouse Falls State Park. The campground itself is very bare bones,...
Desde que creé el blog quería tener un libro de visitas, pero no sabía bien en que contexto ubicarlo. De manera silenciosa, tímida y de forma experimental, hace unos días agregué un blog/categoría llamado Textos Perdidos en donde publico lo que es un intento de poesías. Para dicha sección no quería que se dejara...
Ontem eu recebi um link de um vídeo que era sobre a China (pendente se é de lá mesmo) criou um espelho que vai "destruir" com academias e personal trainers. O espelho em questão é um monitor com ia (lógico que é com ia), que simula com personal e que aprende e se adapta conforme você faz exercícios certos ou...
Supongo que una consecuencia de que un barrio se convierta en “barrio de bien” es que donde antes había un descampado para aparcar ahora hay un parkímetro. Y una consecuencia de no leer, es pagar por parking 4h antes de que sea obligatorio pagar. $2,5 la hora. La parte buena es que aparcar gratis era uno de los...
A fun little creativity/art tip I've been wanting to write for a while...
In ‘small thoughts’ posts, I’m posting a collection of short thoughts and opinions that don’t warrant their own post. :) It's been a while! ☁️☁️☁️ I have a hard time finding the words, but I am sad that so much of our inventions seem to reinforce shame we already have culturally in real life. I think I feel it the...
Despite the accidents and injuries, Alex Zanardi was an example of resilience and endurance in front of adversity. Not only a role-model, but one of the greatest humans of all time. Rest in peace 🖤 This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/quickies/alex-zanardi-a-legend/
2026-05-02Hello! A reference to the Disney movie Mary Poppins Returns, my favorite movie.I love when things line up like this. Trees on both sides, the gray sidewalk almost straight to the horizon, with slightly hilly landscape. It might be a bit weighted to the right, since the bright gray road on the right is a...
This postpartum chapters are hard... I'm so happy I'm done with babies just for that.
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree I really enjoyed Travis Baldree’s first cozy fantasy novel about Viv the orc and her non-adventurous adventures serving this new-fangled beverage called coffee. Bookshops & Bonedust is a prequel to that story, taking place all the way at the other end of Viv’s career as...