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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...
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...
Hiked part 3/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.4 kilometres from Borne to Delden. You walk past the Carmelite monastery in Zenderen, where life behind the monastery walls still consists of simplicity and prayer. You cross even more streams:...
Entre le crash de mon homelab en début de semaine qui m’a prise une journée, de l’administratif et des appels pour une recherche de fuite la semaine a été courte à nouveau, mais j’ai quand même trouvé plusieurs articles intéressants ! 🌐...
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...
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...
It’s been a while since I’ve had a Podcast. The last time was when I was making daily videos and porting the audio over as an episode. I want to make a habit of creating again, this is the first step. But I’m not sure if I should bring...
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.
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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...
RepostsReposted: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/#atom-everything
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...
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...
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...
It’s May! What happened? This weekend was unusually hot! What happened? Everyone knows but no-one admits or cares… Anyway, welcome to another month of 2026. I like May. It’s got a lot of national holidays. It signals the start of lots of...
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,...
Esperando el primer café de la mañana, organizo mentalmente lo previsible del día. Si es el del lunes, en lugar del día, casi toda la semana.He intentando en alguna ocasión dejar el café, pasarme al menos al descafeinado, pero mi dieta...
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...
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...
Last week, I realized that I have turned into a Hater. I am reading snarky blogs on politics. My podcast list is full of tech opinions. I am watching 20-minute takedown videos on YouTube. I am constantly getting annoyed by the traffic...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
Need a website? Your first thought is probably WordPress. For a lot of people in the field however, the name sends shivers down their spine. It is both loved and hated in the webdevelopment industry. It's used on about 40% of the visible...
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...
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...
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...
A fun little creativity/art tip I've been wanting to write for a while...
This postpartum chapters are hard... I'm so happy I'm done with babies just for that.
A royal marriage and its tragic end, between Alboin, king of the Lombards, and Rosamund, a Gepid princess.
Divine Liturgy was great today, thanks for asking. Finally I was able to receive the catechumen prayers at the liturgy today. Glory to God! Prior to today, this weekend was exhausting. Just one Olanzapine, and your boy was basically out...
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...
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...
Testing publishing from Obsidian to pika.
Nowadays all my Xcode projects reference a Swift package that contains several modules. I try to make each cohesive part of my app a module. Several advantages apply; for my use cases, the most relevant are: If you have experience with...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
In this cartoon from the latest (5/4/26) New Yorker, Ms. Duck and Ms. Rabbit mourn their versatile paramour, Mr. Shimmer the duck-rabbit (or rabbit-duck); see my 8/24/25 posting “Shimmer is both a floor wax AND a dessert topping”, and...