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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, combined with other negative attributes, had left me wanting to find a space where I...
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 earlier this year, is, for better or worse, back. digg, however, is on the...
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 happy to say that not only is that done (and I'm taking a 5 day weekend around...
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 times in two weeks. Similar imagery appeared over a refinery in Perm and an...
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 West’s website. Even better, it’s almost identical to the one I’d been using for a...
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 Europe, the European People’s Party of Christian democratic, conservative and...
Hello SSGI've been thinking of ditching WordPress for a static site generator (SSG) for some time now. WordPress has been great for the last 12 years, and I have no gripes with it as such (except the block editor, which just refuses to co-operate sometimes), but rebuilding a (version of this) site from the ground up...
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 normally. Web Feeds in 2026: A Survey, by Mark. Wonders of Web Weaving, a new podcast...
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 operations, or asynchronous, where messages are emitted and received for decoupled...
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 thunder. These are generally shit to try and photograph or get in a position to...
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 started following Ken Forkish’s simple yeast recipes in Flour Salt Water Yeast....
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 años más tarde he leído “Malismo”, que llevaba esperándome en la estantería desde...
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 unfortunately slow as hell, particularly given the amount of articles I have in both...
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 Worldstone Keep. Seven of Sanctuary’s greatest champions await at the iconic campfire...
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 getting into sketching my thoughts and ideas, noting down interesting details and...
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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 changes relate to the cache. In the previous release I added a cache of the...
Family holiday, Big Sands beach, cycling, kite flying, fire pits, and only missing Granny Morna who is convalescing. Jack in his element charging about outdoors. We’ve had sunshine, rain, hailstones, 20mph winds all in the space of 10 mins! Cycled from campsite to the town, and beyond, 10.5 miles. Jack is 4.5 yrs...
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 my home office. Or... do I?
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 Victoria, one of the Leeds gems, refurbished by the ubiquitous Kirkstall Brewery,...
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, Lu Zhen Zhen, is pregnant, but Nie Yucheng hid his money from her so that she...
Software engineer Ajitem Sahasrabuddhe recently wrote a 6-post series called “Iron Core” about airline ticketing infrastructure. The entire series is probably too software engineer-y for us, but the third part has some interesting info about a particular 1960s user interface called “cryptic mode”: Cryptic mode was...
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 contexto, eu tenho uma relação de amor e ódio com NMIXX desde o lançamento de O.O...
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 snow amounts across the member nations. It's also fun as hell. I LOVE WEATHER...
Everything is so much, all the time, at once. Have a .plan file update. The usual warnings and disclaimers apply.
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 liked, what we hated, and what confused us, and we determine our policies and...
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 distinto al resto de las otras redes sociales que conocemos? No tiene publicidad No...
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 Leap 15.6 dejará de tener soporte oficial, lo que implica que no tendrá más...
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 pretty much anything else. Anyway, the biggest structural change was a recent move...
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 subscription if they adopt that model. Additionally, Todoist currently offers...
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 Spotify。其他不常用的占内存的应用也删了一些，卸载掉这些之后，我的屏幕使用时间先是直接降到不到 3 个半小时，然后在接下来一周降到了不到两个半小时。在这里总结一下自己卸载这几个 app...
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. It helped me make a lot of sites! I spent the last week or so migrating a couple...
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 human visitors. The table below shows traffic on this website for the last few...
Hi, if you're poking around my site and notice there's missing elements, I cancelled by Bear subscription until I get paid!
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 right). It’s a beautifully crafted, analogue, all mechanical twin lens reflex...
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.
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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 me thinking about how at a certain point in ancient history, circa 2003, comments...
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 collecting and reading feeds. At the time I used it in combination with FreshRSS, and...
Two days ago, during “The Android Show,” Google unveiled what it calls a new category of laptop: the Googlebook. The basic idea is to explore what a laptop and its...
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 also familiar with ideas “of their time,” ideas that were “in the air” and thus...
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 Gabbiano Ln, Carlsbad, CA 92011) Kids are welcome as are any bird-curious friends! If...
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 works, to know what we don’t yet know and to comprehend it. We need our arts to...
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 with a review of the latest changes to the ffs package that Amin has been...
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 type of person who usually waits until I absolutely need something, something...
I hope this comes across as fun rather than preachy! At least it has some drawings...
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 ended up being just fine. I studied at the library and walked home.Second, I can't...
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 thought to pass, I felt the most excruciating boredom I had ever experienced in...
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 items — which I used to include in the daily posts to add more substance. After...
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. Thankfully people are paying more attention to what I write here than I am, because not...
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 ambitious—which is why it came as a surprise when he decided to quit the ad...
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 count. I think it started watching The Voice growing up, it was like a ritual,...