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I live in the Greater Strasbourg area, and nearby, 30 kilometres away or so, there is a certain small-volume car manufacturer that understood years ago, before it was cool, that touchscreens in cars tend to age poorly. I love what they do instead of putting every command behind a fancy touchscreen: they try to give...
Album#38 Gospel According to Don Shirley 图1 《Gospel According to Don Shirley》専輯封面 专辑信息 专辑名称： Gospel According to Don Shirley 歌手： Don Shirley 年份： 1968-12-16 风格： Jazz，鋼琴曲 时长： 約 35 分鍾 前陣子重温了《绿皮书 Green Book (2018)》，故事是基于真人改編的，看完就把里面的黑人鋼琴家 Don Shirley 的音樂找來聴了聴，其中 Gospel According to Don Shirley 這張専輯我蛮喜欢的，最近也一直在聴。 Gospel...
I just spent this weekend writing my own little pastebin clone, called Vivipara. I also have bunch of thoughts about various programming languages. Read about it all in this one blogpost! Vivipara, my smol and quick text paste service For a while now, I have been looking for some sort of pastebin clone for myself....
I really like the concept of nicknames online. Being able to name yourself as whatever you want. We don't choose our names when we are born so this is a way to do that. Mix your real name with something else or choose something completely different, it's fun. I feel like my nickname online has become my third name...
🤷♂️ Life 📚 Read 📰 Considered 📺 Watched 🎧 Listened 🫀 Health Back with the Bend app to work on my mobility. Definitely helps, but need to make a proper part of my routine. Same with meditation, I feel the benefit, why do I end up stopping? “Not enough time” is my excuse which, frankly, […]Thanks for reading and...
Writing for UnHerd, in an article titled Boots-on-the-ground is Trump’s best option, Wolfgang Munchau elaborates on a logical argument in favour of committing to the war in Iran: […] Unlike Russia, Iran is not a nuclear power, and on conventional forces alone the US surely has the military capability to...
Walk into any old stone church and look up. The arches, buttresses, and ribbed vaults that hold the roof against gravity for a thousand years were not chosen for their beauty. They were chosen because stone is heavy and weak in tension, and the people who built those walls had to obey what stone could do. The beauty...
After a long trip, I'm finally home in Uruguay. The main purpose of the visit, aside form celebrating my birthday and seeing family and friends, etc, is bringing back with me to Berlin some of my old stuff, namely books. I came with a practically empty suitcase (which I will have to replace, because some time during...
Local AI shines when the model’s job is transforming user-owned data, not acting as a search engine for the universe.
The historic Tohka Saikan Chinese restaurant (1924) and the Shijo Ohashi bridge over the Kamogawa river, in a long exposure at dusk. 1924年建築の由緒ある中華料理店「東華菜館」と、鴨川に架かる四条大橋を、夕暮れ時の長時間露光で捉えた写真だ。
I never thought I would reach 5k subscribers on Youtube, so I owe everyone a massive thank you! To all of my new friends and the support over the last few years, it’s been an awesome time. Here’s to 50,000 in the future! People have asked in my comments about a “thinkpad collection” tour, and I thought I would do...
Every act of learning is an act of intellectual appropriation, incorporating someone else’s knowledge into your own mental library. Every act of empathy is an act of emotional appropriation, modeling the reality of another into your own in order to fathom it. I have appropriated the English language — not my native...
I liked the music, the volcanoes, the static color frames between acts. Shot on location in Poland and it very much felt like I was hanging out in the background while Charli XCX’s character went out and partied hard.I wouldn’t watch it again. Like if it was on in the background or if one of my friends was as nuts...
I was leafing through a collection of George Orwell’s essays when i stumbled upon this gem from “Looking back on the Spanish War”: I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our...
yes, as in singular one. Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded that their new AI model Mythos is dangerously good at finding security flaws in source code. Apparently Mythos was so good at this that Anthropic would not release this model to the public yet but instead trickle it...
Today, the singer-songwriter Donovan, a man not given to understating his contribution to popular music, celebrates his 80th birthday. A while back, on the occasion of another Donovan birthday, I wrote this: 'Today is the 67th birthday of that titan of troubadours, Donovan. Singer-songwriter, poet, mystic,...
With Obsidian instructions for seeing today’s schedule in your daily note I can still scarcely believe that what was supposed to be a 2-week experiment turned into a sustainable, calm-inducing way to keep up with all the time-specific events that make up my life. My aim in writing about it is not to have you do the...
They look like the kind of row houses that make Greenwich Village and the Upper West Side so picturesque—elegant stone facades, rounded archways, pops of stained glass, and cast iron railings on stoops and balconies. But this four-block span of loveliness, built between the 1860s and the 1890s, is part of the Mott...
looking at the bearblog carnival and realising that I haven't felt passionate about anything in a long, long time.
Okay, I’m calling it there. After wandering around town in the dark for an hour, I did eventually find a Great Horned Owl hooting. After reviewing my photos I realized…I’m not cut out for reviewing photos. Well, at least I’m only adding one more species. There’s a pretty clear a Brandt’s Cormorant with a bright blue...
mothership.blog Friend of the foof, Ellie Black, with a wonderful webcomic for Mothership. Highly, highly recommend!
I might be botching a Hank Green quote with the title of this post but I’ve noticed how it’s increasingly difficult to stay buoyant, to keep light on my toes, to feel optimistic about the future. In Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next Millenium, lightness is the first quality he notes for aspiring writers but...
betrayed my "small web" purity and started a substack. I'm too comfortable sending my writing to the void, it's more embarrassing to send writing to the void on social media but I will endure it to leave my comfort-zone and for the chance of attention. anything I post there will have already been posted on my...
Read on the website: We need resilient systems that fall back to sanity when broken / discriminating. And not whatever.
Co. Dublin, 1954. Courtesy National Library of Ireland on The Commons. Image with no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons. Marcel Bénabou tells us about the way his younger self pondered writing a grand epic which, centered upon his family, would also depict the history of the Moroccan Jewish community. He was well...
Eryn and I went to the Netherlands with her family for a week this May. We stayed in a cute AirBnB in Broek in Waterland, a small village about 8 km north of Amsterdam. I ran into Todd at our gate before we even left SFO—he was on the same flight, heading to Amsterdam to speak at a conference. What a small world we...
I was coaxed out of the house.[1] We went to Jupiter Artland for a walk around the sculpture park. Glorious weather: blue skies and fluffly clouds. A few hours spent walking through the woodland with big bits of art to look at very few minutes. Personal favourites include (in no particular order): Stone Coppice and...
After a failed attempt to install LineageOS on my primary phone, I spent a good many hours last week trying to revive as much as I could. After that misadventure, I’m several steps behind where I wanted to be - Instead of a fully functional LineageOS device, I now have a phone that is barely stable and doesn’t quite...
After noticing a broken link in a post yesterday, I got to thinking that it would be useful to add a linter to BlogMore. So I've released v2.21.0 which adds linting support. A number of things are checked and the results are broken down into things that are errors or warnings. Errors result from any of these checks:...
2026-05-10Hello! I'm up to no good again, staring at my screen and hoarding interesting internet stuffs to share on this here website. I'm planning to celebrate Day 100 with One Thousand Links of cool posts and works online. If you want to promote something interesting you made, now's the time to contact me.The lens...
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. This morning it was D:Ream with Things Can Only Get Better Reply by email
A dramatic coastal walk with killer views It is finally spring in Northern Ireland. The threat of sudden rainfall never really goes away, but it's sunnier than usual. We decided to take advantage of the good weather last weekend, by venturing outdoors see a part of the country we haven't seen before. We had planned...
Yes you! It's time to reach out, be nice, and say hello to strangers. It costs nothing and can make someone's day. Me, I'm a chatty person. Not all the time. However, people make the world more interesting. Back to the point of this!When I am reading someone's website, I am often moved to reach out to them. It can...
🆕 On the Shelves🤖👧 PragmataDeveloper: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.Publisher: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.Pragmata is a unique, sci-fi action-adventure game from Capcom. Follow Hugh, a member of an ill-fated investigation team, and Diana, a young android, as they navigate a lunar facility taken over by rogue AI in search of a way to...
GitLab announced layoffs today. They don't state how many people are affected, but honestly I find this really frustrating for several reasons: This is the one time where they could have won by doing relatively nothing. GitHub is having big outages on a daily cadence. All they have to do is market themselves as...
This year, I was late getting started with taking photos in Thomas’ garden. Whereas I’m usually out and about as early as March, I only managed to take the first pictures of his extraordinary plants this weekend, and I’ve probably missed the early bloomers this year. There were plenty of reasons: holidays, bad...
Video: https://youtu.be/13yIfxczLpc?si=pWqw95Ux3LBUI3NuThis one really hit home.The part that really got me was “watching other people do the things I want to do.” That is so me.
April 2026. Bethnal Green. London. An afternoon in east London with Joan and Dave, barely mentioning the T***p at all; just culture and cask and the Columbia Road. It helps as a tourist, UK or American, if you like a bit of scruff with your charm, which is why Bethnal Green is such a joy. The original “cultural...
A science teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing Earth’s sun, and realizes that an unexpected friendship may be the key. So we have Ryan Goosebumps looking like Jared Leto in a funny futuristic comedy-space adventure. The humour is...
This post is one of a series on local-first development with CAP Node.js. Initial, test and sample data - terminology Mocking data is likely the most common and useful of the various local-first development mechanisms that provide mock facilities. Before we start digging in, it's worth spending a minute on...
What caught my attention this week, shared on social.omgmog.net between 4 May and 10 May.
One season into ST:DS9 and am trying to decide whether to continue. The season concluded with the straightforward message that (a) Science is Good, (b) Traditional Religion is Evil (not merely intolerant but murderous), and (c) Revisionist Religion is … Not Great But Acceptable, Whatever, We Can Sorta Work With It....
Camping at Machicomoco State Park Trip: 56 Nights: 187-188 And the 2026 camping season has started. We spent the weekend at Machicomoco State Park near Gloucester, VA. It's only a 70-minute drive from home. Until a few weeks ago it was Virginia's newest state park, as it opened in 2021. It is dedicated to the...
I spend every minute outside of work with my kids and as the weather gets nicer I tend to document their adventures both for ourselves and our family back in Europe. I also really don't like to hold my phone while I spend time with them even if it's just to take an image or video. A phone always takes me away from...
This blog is moving to another domain Please update your feeds.This post is a part of my word-vomit series. Feel free to skip it.Hello. Good morning. It's Monday, and I am sitting in my office figuring out what I want to do today—experiments, data analysis, or computer modelling. I am more inclined to analyse the...
the xteink x4 open on a background of my Pocketbook cover. You can see the two books I'm currently reading The moment I saw someone post a picture of this little technological marvel slotted into a pocket Travellers Notebook (TN) on Reddit, I knew I wanted one. And a month or so ago I caved and bought one, because I...
Not knowing what to read, I decided to focus on this book these weeks and immerse. Just read for one hour and it's still so good it reads like a movie. I love Mellanie's character!
4th May - 10th May The dog lagged, unusually, behind for the whole last stretch of the walk home. When she eventually caught up after much cajoling, the reasons for her sheepish attitude became apparent; she was carrying half a starling and didn't want it confiscated. It was confiscated. Trekking over the field a...
In his latest video, Shelby from Tech Tangents unpacked, installed, and put to use a truly forgotten product: IBM 3119, one of the first consumer flatbed scanners. The setup was a small nightmare, needing a rare hardware card installed in a specific computer, an ultra-particular combination of two operating systems...
I’ve been posting about how you can make lots of HTML pages and leverage navigations over in-page, JS-dependent interactions. Now I’m gonna post another example. On my icon sites, I have a little widget that allows you to resize the icons you’re looking at. Previously, I implemented this functionality as a web...