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May 12, 2026 I’ve been refining my file-over-app workflow lately. For things like blog posts, daily notes, journal entries, and notes, I prefer working in a markdown text editor. In my case that’s MarkEdit. At the same time, most of the ideas and thoughts that eventually become those things start in Drafts. Of...
Almost two months ago, I switched back to Ubuntu as my primary operating system. While I still have a Windows 11 VM, I never really use it. Ubuntu 26.04 fits all my needs I had since switching to it. While I installed it during the beta, the final LTS version has also been released since then. I used Linux already...
This post is one of a series on local-first development with CAP Node.js. Calesi and mocking remote services In the context of CAP-Level Service Integration (aka "Calesi") we can mash up remote and local services, and in the full spirit of CAP generally, run everything in airplane mode, i.e. fully locally. Working...
For years I've been having a love-hate relationship with Instagram. I'm still there because I value the interaction with my friends, some of them remote, but I'm always annoyed by the quantity of ads that show up in my feed. Now that I'm fully coming back to the small/indie/personal web, I'm trying to take with me...
RSS feeds are really great and I use them a lot for keeping up with personal blogs, corporate tech blogs and what's new at AWS. I don't think there's any other medium, apart from maybe email, that's so scalable, easy to understand and has such a rich ecosystem of readers and other tools. That said, there's nothing...
Mi cuaderno de notas Hoy por fin me he decidido a escribir un artículo sobre mi sistema de gestión de notas. Es algo que tenía pendiente de hacer desde hace tiempo y lo había dejado en la lista de artículos pendientes demasiado tiempo. Gestionar las notas y apuntes del día a día ha sido para mi siempre un tema que...
Hantavirus and Andes virus 101As a trained medical professional, I feel the need to inform and raise awareness of the latest MV Hondius (cruise ship) hantavirus outbreak in early May 2026. Here is a quick rundown of facts about hantavirus in general, and the specific human-to-human transmissible strain called Andes...
I read a story I wrote and published last evening: https://protesilaos.com/books/2026-05-12-mask-of-phantes/. It is about a magic mask. Whoever wears the mask gets all the attention. The themes I explore in that publication are about desire, personhood, and learning.
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” “When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist,” Henry Miller wrote in his stunning letter to Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903–January 14,...
Alvin shared this post on Mastodon and I couldn’t agree more with Brine, the author of this little love letter. You can read it here: Discover: A Love Letter To...
The eleventh track of My Top Tracks When I was doing A levels at my local college in the early '80s the were two groups of students that hung out in the common room. One was the trendy types into Culture Club and so on with floppy fringes and fashionable clothes. The others were the weed-smoking hippies. I was in...
This post by Daniel Gilbert immediately resonated with me, because I struggle with procrastination and have found AI tools to be surprisingly helpful in overcoming it. I have a stale task waiting to be done, but I just can’t bring myself to get started working on it. All I really have to do is pull up my AI agent...
Un articol foarte bun despre cum va fi internetul în viitor What will the Internet look like in 2036? 2046? These are questions that are near-impossible to answer. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try. To be fair, this question is more philosophical than logistical... but I can't help myself....
Brief re-introduction On April 27, 2026, I celebrated The New Leaf Journal’s sixth birthday by announcing a project: I would publish six articles featuring the “wisdom” I have collected from my six years of running this humble online writing magazine. I not only promised six articles, but I also set an ambitious...
It’s strange what information school decides is important. Because somehow I spent years learning about wars, several presidents with identical facial hair, and at least nine different dudes named Henry, yet nobody mentioned that Gladys West is the reason GPS exists. That seems relevant. Gladys West’s mathematical...
Following up to my agentic consent piece, a reader (Shugo Nozaki) shared with me some interesting perspective around human consent (both by email and post) that I felt like was worth exploring and discussing! He pointed out that while our current model of consent still relies on direct human perception and some...
If you browse to hakkerman.eu, you will end up right here. Well no, you'll end up on my homepage, same-same. You don't have to worry about updating your RSS feeds or whatever. hakkerblog.pages.dev is staying, in reality, hakkerman.eu is just pointing directly towards hakkerblog.pages.dev. The main reason to get this...
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This week was definitely characterized by a return to a lot of nostalgic things. No complaining, you will see what I mean as you read :P 🤱 It was Mother’s Day in México! I feel bad because I didn’t do breakfast for my mom. But the rest of the day was good nonetheless. It was on Sunday so my church had a special...
Micah Nathan: Writing, I told them, isn’t supposed to be easy, and of course it can be tedious but that doesn’t make it rote. Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it. An LLM can...
Not much to share, but I had two nice fights. And I saw cool things in the game. Was just roaming about with my Hookbill as usual, until I spot a Catalyst Navy Issue. Ended up being rather tight fight, but I managed to stay in right amount of range to eventually win the fight: They were using railguns, so using the...
Este post del blog Rubenerd, que a su vez cita este toot de @evacide en Hackyderm, me parece una reflexión corta y acertada, sobre todo para los que empezamos a movernos por Internet a mediados de los 2000. En general ya sabéis que me alegro de que algunos estemos volviendo a crear sitios en Internet con cierto...
As many regular readers know, we live in the North Wales countryside, which means it can take time to get the latest and greatest when it comes to technology. As a result, we were previously "limited" to FTTC (fibre to the cabinet) which had a max speed of 70Mbps. As a result, we got okay internet speeds: But then I...
I never understood what people meant by “strategic thinking” or “being strategic.” I couldn’t accept the feedback when I heard “you need to think more strategically” as well. Nobody could explain what that “strategic” word meant. I finally understood the real meaning when I tried to build an engineering strategy...
Having had Copilot crash out the other day, while working on the linter for BlogMore, I decided to lean into Gemini CLI a little more and see how that got on. When I first tried it out, a week back, I found it worked fairly well but could be rather slow at times. On the whole though, I found it easy enough to work...
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Here’s Scott Jenson in his insightful piece “The Ma of a New Machine”: the chatbot interface [makes us] feel like deep cognitive work is happening. But the interface is fundamentally reactive. It spits complex text at you, you skim it quickly, and you immediately type a reaction to keep the momentum going. My...
El daycare al que llevamos a nuestra hija usa Procare para comunicarse con nosotros. Desde la app podemos ver cada vez que le dan un biberón, le cambian el pañal, se echa una siesta. También suben un montón de vídeos y fotos de cada actividad. Me hizo ilusión los tres primeros días. Ahora me limito al email que...
I can’t recall where I read those words —Stop waiting to be ready— they feel at once trite, and yet remain simple, to the point and, annoyingly, hit the nail on the head as far as I’m concerned. A similar saying would be ‘The right time is now’. This one time at boot camp A […]Thanks for reading and keeping RSS...
Al buscar un texto en Firefox mediante Ctrl+F si no encuentra el texto buscado, Firefox reproduce un sonido bastante desagradable. Vamos a modificar eso para que reproduzca uno de nuestro sistema Kit: La mascota de Firefox En el navegador Firefox, mediante la combinación de teclas Ctrl+F nos abre una caja de...
The best thing the crypto industry coined might have been the expression “rug pull,” but I’m not happy about that. To me, it perfectly describes how it feels when an app or a website randomly changes your scroll position for no rhyme or reason. You’ve seen it so many times before: you start reading a webpage, but it...
2026-05-12Hello!I was hesitant to take this image, because it's just some leaves that I see all the time. But I'm sharing it today because there's a chance that there's a reader that doesn't see this all the time. I go to gardens and see flowers that aren't common in my area, because they're colorful and novel and...
Okay maybe this is platforming heresy but when I was little I hated the “coyote time” in platforming games. Still do. It’s there in order to make the game more welcoming and forgiving atd I applaud that sentiment but what happened was: “Oh. I can’t reach the other side. Because I’m jumping too early. Because the...
The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape. Following the pretty mess that was Prometheus, this movie is actually a proper Alien movie, with monster horror elements and cyberpunk and techpunk...
Album#39 海马森林 (SEAHORSE FOREST) 图1 《海马森林》専輯封面 专辑信息 专辑名称： 海马森林 (SEAHORSE FOREST) 歌手： 表情银行 MimikBanka 年份： 2024-04-23 风格： 流行、搖滾 时长： 約 36 分鍾 最近又聴到《海马森林》這張専輯，依然很喜欢，喜欢它优美抓耳的旋律、好聴的人聲、丰富耐聴的編曲 (悠扬的大提琴和薩克斯)、有趣的歌詞，任何時候拿出來播放都不会聴厭。 关于《海马森林》: 2014 年我们在德国杜塞尔多夫录制了第一张专辑，录音棚不远处有一片大森林，我们时常会去逛逛。那里古老的巨树遮天蔽日，把脖子后仰到极限也望不到枝桠蔓延的边际。 2024...
Every measurement shortcut follows a recognizable sequence. First comes the exciting phase: a new tool produces results at a scale and speed impossible with previous methods. Papers accumulate. Discoveries multiply. Funding follows. Careers are built on throughput. The shortcut becomes normal before its failure...
I drew this from a photo of Derwentwater taken by my partner’s sister. Digital drawing using Sketchbook on my tablet. There’s a lovely brush called tattoo inker that I used for the outlines. It feels very nice to draw with. I actually shared this a while ago on socials but have been neglecting my blog. I’m currently...
For the past few weeks since “releasing” my first app to the public on GitHub1, I kept iterating and improving the app. Here’s a snapshot of it today: Meshmaker today, May 2026. I’ve added several features, and however silly it might sound for this little solo tool, it’s exciting to get to write a blogpost like this...
Administrators at the University of Hertfordshire are eliminating not just philosophy (as reported last week) from the school, but also undergraduate programs in English Language and Linguistics, English Literature, Creative Writing, and History. The reason given for these cuts is that the programmes are ‘no longer...
I have another busy day ahead of me, but we cannot forsake our daily Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Syncthing 2.1 adds group organization and proxy support options (Fla for AlternativeTo. May 12, 2026.) I approve of having “the ability to group devices and folders in the GUI using a new group attribute.” 2. Airbnb enlists...
mcsweeneys.net It’s certainly a rare bourbon, the kind of bottle you only get by calling in lots of favors (or having something really damning on your supplier). But is the Director Ka$h Patel Kash Patel FBI Director edition Woodford Reserve bourbon destined to sit alongside a King of Kentucky 17-year? A Heaven Hill...
Ahhhh so that motile was Dudley!! I did not consider that when the previous book ended. Now this is an awesome twist!!!
The vibe A slower, slightly worn-down week that still found a little room for rest, tinkering, and small wins. Highlights 🥵 Last week was quite warm/hot. This whole winter/spring actually has been pretty warm. I am not looking forward to the Texas summer heat if this is how the spring is. 🤒 Well, again, I was sick...
Building this blog was the work of several evenings of hyperfixation. Agonizing over every small detail felt strangely delightful rather than burdensome. I’ve always told myself I’m not a creative person in any sense of the word, but maybe art doesn’t have to look like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel to mean...
May 2026. Sheffield. I’m no glory-hunter. Not for me the trip to Crewe Alex to see Cambridge United promoted. I couldn’t get a ticket. I chose the last Saturday of the grass roots season to watch “Proper Football”. Bramall Lane, home of legends like, er, Eddie Colquhoun, where the modern day stars drive normal cars....
I had friends over last week for my first-ever LAN party. It was as good as I could have hoped: we set out Doritos and pizza and two-liters of soda, we plugged my thrift-shop laptops into a secondhand router on a folding table, and my friends and I played hours of Capture the Flag in Unreal Tournament. That game is...