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I’m dictating this into iA Writer on my phone as I head home after walking my kids to school. Dropping my kids at school, let alone taking the extra ten minutes each way to walk them to school, often feels like a burden at first. “But I...
Yesterday I met with Amin Bandali to talk about Emacs. Amin asked me if he could record the session, which I agreed to. The video is available on Amin’s website: https://kelar.org/~bandali/gnu/emacs/ffs-emacs-ext-prot.html. We started...
This is my Week of Complaining, I think. I do so laughingly — laughing to keep from crying, to be sure, laughing bitterly, but hey, I’m laughing. All teachers, I think, are shaped by our experiences as students. We remember what we...
2026-05-14Hello! I'm posting this photograph for two reasons.First, the obvious reason: I was out on a walk with the cloudy sky threatening to rain down on me, half an hour away from any reasonable shelter. Would have sucked, but it...
Briefly noted: today’s Zippy strip has our Pinhead rowing to a half-rhyme: Zippy is keen on spleen (‘bad temper; spite’ (NOAD)) and is happy to vent his in a half-rhyme. In particular, the feature rhyme of /strim/ with /splin/, m – n...
You have a light switch for that. Right? Or, if you use Philips Hue/Tradfri/Etc., you might have an app for that. I have Philips Hue. Disconnected from the internet. But I still have to turn on the lights that I can't automate, such as...
I'm deeply enthusiastic about music reality shows. I like seeing the growth of the participants with each performance and the different arrangements of songs that I know, how every person can transform a song. I've seen more than I could...
Stories from many times and places show two ways of life. One way is wide and smooth like a paved road. It offers ease and pleasure. Many people choose it. Yet it leads to ruin. The other way is narrow like a footpath. It demands effort...
Falling in love with photography again My new Rolleicord V (manufactured in 1954-1957), more information can be found on camera-wiki.org. Recently, I bought a new (to me) camera: a Rolleicord V (manufactured in 1954-1957, shown on the...
A simple realization I somehow didn't arrive at until just now: this project is self-imposed art therapy. I remember my time in therapeutic spaces—hospitalization programs, treatment centers—and how art therapy was a basic fixture:...
OK, fazia tempo que um álbum de girl group1 coreano não me deixava tão empolgado. Ou pelo menos empolgado o suficiente pra eu ter que fazer um post pedindo pras pessoas ouvirem. Mesmo que não sejam fãs de K-Pop em geral. Um pouco de...
I wasn't quite planning on making a new release of BlogMore so soon after the previous version, but I had a couple of ideas that I wanted to add, and then also got a nifty request too; so here we are: we have v2.23.0. The first couple of...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop We got a doozy today. I'm still recovering from long covid and I've also been dealing with a huge work project that involved some weekend work and long nights and I'm...
Editor’s note: Missing the daily links? They became “weekly links.” After a year, keeping up the daily pace started to take its toll. The longer gap between posts brings another advantage: a focus on cool links, leaving aside the news...
A las 5 AM Ba. ha empezado a hablar. Se quitaba el chupete para decirme todo lo que yo no entendía. Escuchaba con atención el tono, los gorjeos. Yo estaba descansado, extraño, oyéndola en la oscuridad. Después la he acunado y he...
Hay una red social distinta a todas. Se llama Friendster. Quizás te suene el nombre porque lleva el mismo que aquella que existía antes que existiera Facebook, pero que desapreció en 2018. Hoy resurge de otra manera. ¿Que tiene de...
A few days ago I stumbled upon this blog post by Matizeta where he talks about "the alive internet" and shares several ways to bring humanity back to the web. His focus on human interaction, and especially the part about comments, left...
The last few years, web traffic from bots has increased rapidly. Some sources1 claim that automated activity now accounts for over half of all web traffic. This is even more pronounced on small websites like mine, as I don't receive many...
Chazz Martin was a former New York City ad man, twice divorced, who’d spent his entire adult life living in Manhattan’s Upper East Side. To those who knew him, he was the epitome of a New York socialite—erudite, debonair, and ruthlessly...
As frequent readers might know, I have been playing around with this site for a while. In fact, I do it so often that non-frequent readers probably also know - lately I’ve talked more about changes to this site than I’ve talked about...
Last week I shared a post by David about backing up his blog. Except, due to a brain fart on my part, I called him Glyn, who is someone else entirely. Why? I have no idea... maybe I started writing the post before I had coffee....
El pasado 30 de abril de 2026 openSUSE Leap 15.6 llegó a su fin de vida oficial. Es hora de actualizar a openSUSE Leap 16.0 sí o sí openSUSE Leap 15.6 llegó a su fin de vida oficial el pasado 30 de abril de 2026. Desde entonces openSUSE...
Plenty of scrappy looking showers were zipping through on a cold Northerly air flow yesterday. Not much wind shear or instability to hold these together for long (as usual), but some cold air above helped with a little hail and some...
The Lombard invasion of Byzantine Italy in 568 was a pivotal event in Venetian history, as it kicked off the movement towards a distinct Venetian society, culture and, ultimately, state.
a half-assed review"> Ascend the Forgotten Tower, blaze a trail through the jungles of Kurast, and storm the gates of Hell to defeat Diablo himself. Then, scale the peak of Mount Arreat to face Baal, the Lord of Destruction, in...
Tangentially related to the previous post… because what we need right now is another news aggregator dedicated to AI. Otherwise the re-launched social news website (quite unlike Reddit), which went offline some two months after returning...
For those of you in the United States, Canada, or the Bahamas, may I recommend: CoCoRaHS - the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network CoCoRaHS is, as the name implies, a community volunteer effort to measure rain, hail, and...
This post is about a little app called Feeds, how it has evolved and fills all my RSS needs. The Reader I’ve tried many RSS readers, but the one that stuck for a while was NetNewsWire. It has such a simple no nonsense approach to...
I hope this comes across as fun rather than preachy! At least it has some drawings...
Hello! 8 years ago, I wrote excitedly about discovering Tailwind. At that time I really had no idea how to structure my CSS code and given the choice between a pile of complete chaos and Tailwind, I was really happy to choose Tailwind....
This post is one of a series on local-first development with CAP Node.js. Everything is an event In Five reasons to use CAP, we see that everything is an event. Whether synchronous, such as via HTTP requests and responses for OData...
i haven't posted on here for some six odd months. there is no particularly dark or tragic reason for this - i simply lost interest for a time, as women like me are apt to do (i.e. those who flutter and flit between consumption and...
Sitting for coffee mornings is my moment. My time to find the pace of life in Siem Reap. It’s a mix. Sometimes very slow and personal. Other times it seems frenetic. The Khmer coffee places seem sometimes a mix of both. Lalatte is this...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: I’d been looking for a simple, clean blogging template for years that wasn’t filled with a ton of bloated features, and it turned out one was hiding on my blogroll all along, on Jessamyn...
Okay, I’ve set the times for my open birthday bird walk. If you are in the San Diego area and want to come birding with me, you’re welcome to join! Date: Monday May 25 (Memorial Day) Time: 5:00 PM Location: Batiquitos Lagoon (7380...
Sometimes I'll hedge on a title for an entry and leave the original one in the post URL.Currently Listening: Pavement “Here”Reply via email
Back in January (I know it’s May now, I’ve been in a doing rather than documenting kind of mood for the last few months – I honestly thought I’d already made this blog post) I joined in with World Sketchnote Week. I really enjoyed...
May 2026. Leeds. 3 hours between train in Leeds, time for the Freedom breakfast in Spoons (Becketts Bank), the culture, and a pint in a re-opened classic. Oh, they’ve got rid of the “Family” in the title. Sign of the times. Anyway, the...
Miyu was once the picture-perfect rich man’s ewife—devoted, loyal and utterly consumed by her marriage. Then, she finds out about her husband’s affair. But the betrayal didn’t stop there. She divorces him after finding out the mistress,...
Supe de la existencia de Mauro Entrialgo en algún momento a finales de la segunda mitad de la década de 1990. Uno de esos veranos de pueblo, conocí a la vez las letras de Manolo Kabezabolo y las viñetas de Herminio Bolaextra. Treinta...
I. What the Numbers Actually Show On April 28, 2026, a satellite captured black smoke rolling across Tuapse, a Black Sea port city in Russia’s Krasnodar region. The smoke came from an oil terminal that Ukrainian drones had struck four...
May 14, 2026 The other day I wrote in my notes: I'm contemplating migrating my task manager to the free version of Todoist. I'm speculating that Things 4 may be released soon, and I'm hesitant to pay an upgrade fee for three devices or a...
Dear reader,I started my blog because I enjoy writing, and the thought of having my own space to share my thoughts felt exciting. I also saw blogging as an alternative to social media platforms, where the hostile discussion culture,...
Three years ago I wrote about a workflow to generate PDF files out of my Markdown content, both on this website and on De Programmatica Ipsum. That first setup involved Pandoc and TeX, and it was a solution that worked well, but was...
Before I went to pee halfway through Project Hail Mary, I could say I was invested. but after a two-minute break away from the constant assault of flashy images and dialogue made to maximize audience engagement without allowing a single...
The Boring Internet, by Terry Godier, via Jeremy. Good essay, but I really hate how the text is only revealed as you scroll. Fortunately, you can quickly scroll the whole way to the bottom, then back up to the top, and then read...
Title: yo walsh! Website: yowalsh.com RSS Feed: yowalsh.com/feed.xml Michael Walsh is a front-end designer/developer & translator in Villarrica, Chile. His blog features tech insights, humor, travel, and web projects. RSS users are my...
Your Brain Runs on Gut Bacteria January 26, 2026 • Health • Longevity ⌇ Connect ↗ Based on Professor Tim Spector’s interview on The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett Professor Tim Spector is one of the top 1% most-cited scientists...
Yesterday I attended the first assembly of the Democratic Tech Alliance (DTA), which gathered in the European Parliament. Membership of the alliance includes European political groups like the Greens/EFA, the liberal/center right Renew...
Everything is so much, all the time, at once. Have a .plan file update. The usual warnings and disclaimers apply.
Along the way of life, I have discovered three things you can almost always do in your darkest hour that almost never fail to recover the light: Learn something. Help someone. Feel it all. We need our sciences to learn how the universe...
之前在我不再做的事里写过我不再纠结屏幕使用时长，但不纠结不代表放弃改善，我还是在注意手机使用时间的，也正是因为开始注意，我才做到了不纠结。 在注意手机使用时间之前，我的日均屏幕使用时间在 4~5 小时之间。我其实一直知道自己很容易在通勤时一上车就无意识地刷手机，某天又一次从电车上下来，头昏脑胀又心里空虚，我终于做了以下改变。 卸载 APP 四月开始，我陆续卸载了几个 app，先是豆瓣，然后是 Instagram，最后是...
I’ve been home-baking bread on and off for 15 years. I started with commercial yeast breads, and then followed The Bread Baker’s Apprentice and focused on sourdough (levain) breads. Eventually, I got tired of maintaining a starter and...
Economist Alex Tabarrok (GMU) recently wrote of “ideas behind their time”. He explains: We are all familiar with ideas said to be ahead of their time, Babbage’s analytical engine and da Vinci’s helicopter are classic examples. We are...
Hi, if you're poking around my site and notice there's missing elements, I cancelled by Bear subscription until I get paid!
I've done more shopping within the past few weeks than I've done in the past few years. I'm not a huge shopper. I don't like looking through racks of clothes and then trying things on and then (the worst part) making decisions. I'm the...