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I recently went to Dorrigo Rainforest in NSW, Australia. I'm really happy with the pictures I got. Enjoy! I feel especially lucky to have seen these glowworms in action! If you're not familiar with these little creatures, then I highly recommend you spare three minutes to watch this video by David Attenborough. The...
WIP: On the greener side20 minutes before sundown... Just. I could do more if my toddler wouldn't call so much ???? #art #onthegreenerside #artprogress #wip #coloredpencilsThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
The iOS 26 update introduced a bug in the Czech keyboard. Instead of the customary háček (ǍǎĚěǦǧǏǐǑǒǓǔY̌y̌) in the bottom row, another key was duplicated, removing access to the accent character (or, a diacritic) very popular in that language. Here is the before and after of this situation: Ordinarily, this can be...
Con la reciente e histórica visita de Trump a China se ha vuelto a poner sobre la mesa el futuro de Taiwan. Mientras que EEUU siempre ha visto a la pequeña isla como un aliado frente al gigante chino, estos últimos la dan por anexionada antes del 2049, justo cuando se cumplan 100 años de la fundación del actual...
Happy Little Free Library Week! This annual observance has been running since 2013, when the LFL folks wanted to recognize all the folks voluntarily setting up Little Free Libraries. This year’s dates run May 17–23, 2026.
Sebastian shared this paragraph in his recent devlog that resonated with me: Focus is the new bottleneck. I kept coming back to this thought all week, and it finally crystallized: code isn’t the barrier anymore. Modern AI tooling lets me build pretty much anything I can clearly describe. The thing that separates...
If you're even remotely into Kubernetes, you've probably heard about the ingress-nginx retirement. It's no longer maintained so it has to get replaced with something else. That something else is obviously something to do with Gateway API because it's the new hot thing everyone should be using. I tried a bunch on a...
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This is the weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, new podcast episodes, recently published open access philosophy books, and more. (If we missed anything, please let us know.) SEP New: Plato’s Laws by Chris Bobonich and Katherine Meadows. Economic...
This is a very strange essay. Alex Rosenberg writes that narrative history “fails to explain anything because it attributes causal responsibility for the historical record to factors that contemporary neuroscience reveals to be fictions — convenient ones, but fictions nonetheless.” The causal factors narrative...
I’ve done a lot of tech support, previously operating a tech support business which had me helping all varieties of people, both at their homes and remotely. Here is an attempt to catalogue some of the tips and tricks I picked up. Worth noting is that the primary demographic I found myself helping was the elderly....
The Brooklyn Bridge is celebrating its 143rd birthday on May 24, the day Gilded Age New Yorkers could finally walk across this wondrous span and celebrate the uniting of Brooklyn and Manhattan. Over close to a century and a half, the Brooklyn Bridge has taken the honor of the city’s most painted and photographed...
Previously. I’ve been self-hosting atuin for quite a while now. As such, I no longer need an account in the official server (created a long time ago). Problem statement: delete that account. Note that I am currently logged into my self-hosted server. As such, the first step is to switch back to the official server:...
I went camping with a mate this weekend, it was fun. Here are some pictures I took: View from the camping spot Alternative view from the camping spot Early morning wood fired coffee hits the best Espiecially followed by some goulash It was nice to rewind a bit, it's so much easier to leave my phone in my pocket out...
Hey guys! I'm excited to announce that The Perfect Host, the fifth book in the Mia Graves Saga, is coming out on August 10th, 2026! Like the previous entries in the series, you can pre-order the eBook on Kindle. Pre-orders for the paperback can also be made from Amazon or any retailer with the ISBN 9798295897726...
This is an iconic observation: If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design This isn’t, however, just the story of Apple’s Creator Studio icons. It’s the unfolding story of icon design across the entire macOS platform. For example, take a look...
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“All of man’s miseries stem from his inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal When I think about the challenge of living in the modern world, the constant that continually crosses my mind is that we are so unable to revel in silence anymore. We fill the potential silence with noise, continual...
I've recently participated in an entrepreneurship workshop hosted by my university, which focused on idea generation for a startup. I have absolutely no plans to do that, and I think I am the wrong person for this, but I wanted a brief glimpse into the mind of people in that space. We tend to be complete opposites,...
May 18, 2026 Marked 3 is officially out Marked 2 will continue to be available for those who don’t need everything Marked 3 offers. It will always be a one-time purchase, but won’t see a lot of updates, other than to keep it running as new OS versions come out. I’m a very light user of Marked and don’t really need...
So the other day I started something new, to coax creativity out of me. I made dotty art, wrote about that on the blog last week or so. And I loved it. So much that I bought a larger canvas and some new markers with a dot and a brush tip. I started. Lay out the canvas on a tray and made dots. Lots and lots of them....
A simple pleasure? Well, I suppose the obvious answer is coffee, but that feels too broad. That’s like saying your favorite part of being alive is “oxygen.” No, the genuine pleasure is making a cup of coffee and then remembering, with the sort of quiet ecstasy usually reserved for religious visions, that you also...
I have been waiting for this book for what seems *ages*, and I’m delighted to have gotten an ARC. Sleep, who needs sleep. Beware: suicide, classism, sexism; fairly detailed descriptions of a decomposing body; spoilers for previous A Rip Through Time books. An Ordinary Sort of Evil, by Kelley Armstrong By all rights,...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop A slightly more managable haul for one blogpost - gonna try to get to a rhythm where I do these about 4 at a time but not more. That way the blog isn't all pokemon all the time [thom yorke starts menacingly singing YOU DO IT TO YOURSELFFFF in the...
I see that the charity Butterfly Conservation is running a poll to find Britain's Favourite Butterfly. At present, the Peacock is leading the vote, unsurprisingly, and in second place I'm delighted to see the Orange Tip, ahead of the Red Admiral. Has anyone voted for the Dingy Skipper, Britain's dullest butterfly, I...
The "Liber Pontificalis" on how a Byzantine general invited the Lombards to come and possess Italy, if they pleased.
Every blog on Pika comes with an already built-in and hassle-free feature that I find amazing in its quirkiness and simplicity: guestbooks. Do you remember the days when people used to write little notes, drawings and messages for people they cared about? And whose joy at receiving these messages meant something?...
A recent visit to Teotihuacán — the ancient Mesoamerican city in present-day Mexico, built by earlier cultures around 600 BCE and later rediscovered by the Aztecs — left me wonder-smitten by the see-saw of our search for truth and our search for meaning, by a peculiar confluence of chemistry, culture, and chance...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] A few years ago, I wrote a post describing how I asked ChatGPT to solve a couple of elementary beam bending problems and how its answers were persistently wrong, even after I...
2026-05-03（日） **本次高光：**轮转稽古的时候打到了去年年末友谊赛冠军一本面。 最近拿到了教士称号的 MY老师说我最好的地方就是会积极地找所有的老师稽古。还记得去年我刚开始一周二到三练的时候，他夸我进步很快，还说一定要帮助我变得更强，这让我怎么能不更积极地去向各位老师讨教。 2026-05-06（水） 黄金周给自己定下了稽古两次的目标，轻松达成了。 最后一天久违地去了 K剑，和好久不见的 KI大叔地稽古了，发现我可以看到他的一举一动，甚至打出了几本...
Quite a few weeks ago now -- I think it was around the time I started work on blogmore.el and got the new MacBook Air -- I remember sitting in a cafe in Edinburgh and via Mastodon having a conversation with Andy about tweaking better results out of PageSpeed Insights. I seem to remember him correctly observing that...
May 2026. Whitby. A stunning walk along the Whitby coast, arriving back in town to discover Eddi hadn’t been yet. I can’t get my head round gigs 6 months in the future for artists and audience as old as we are. Planning 6 days ahead is my limit. The smart hotels on the cliff top include the Royal, whose bar is...
Om Gupta, writing for India Today: The researchers believe smartphones fundamentally changed how young people interact with each other. More time shifted online, while face-to-face socialising declined. According to the study, this reduction in in-person interaction may have contributed to lower fertility rates. The...
I really managed to mess up my sleep schedule beyond anything resembling smart. I’m wide awake now. I won’t be tomorrow morning, quite the opposite. Reply by email
Today was my third presentation here. It means I have only one more to go before I can leave this place and pretend it never existed. It did not go how I planned or how I hoped it would go, and that knowledge is making me writhe in embarrassment. I tried. I tried so hard. The fact that it didn't go the way I...
Monday is here. So too after taking the weekend off are my Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. Maniac strangles 7-year-old boy in Brooklyn park: cops (Dean Moses for Brooklyn Paper. May 18, 2026.) These sorts of troubling Brooklyn headlines are seldom about places I visit. That is mostly true in this case as well, but...
初体验这次做了一个基于 Nexus 的激战2中文转换插件： https://github.com/DayuGuo/lang5-nexus-cn 起因是 lang5 原版插件在 macOS 上的兼容性不太理想，而 Nexus 系列插件对 macOS 和 Linux 的支持都比较好，所以我就尝试把它迁移到 Nexus 框架下。 之前我做过不少 WordPress 插件，但游戏插件还是第一次尝试，体验很不一样。 一开始，我也试过直接优化 lang5 原版插件的兼容性问题，但折腾了几天并不顺利。尤其是在 macOS 上运行《激战2》本身还需要套一层 CrossOver 的 Windows 环境，很多问题并不完全是插件层面能解决的。...
Any arrangement of stabilized commitments operating in an environment that changes faster than the commitments do will eventually face a structural problem: how to acknowledge that operational practice has drifted from the commitments without dissolving the authority that grounds the commitments. This problem...
Exploring the mural by Brandon Hawkins that celebrates literary figures. Currently Listening: Joy Again “Looking Out For You”Reply via email
tl;dr: With panoramax.libre.net.ar we have set up the first (public) Panoramax instance in the Americas. It allows the collection of street-level imagery in the Argentine territory. Una versión en español es disponible en OpenStreetMap Panoramax is an open-source system for creating a commons of street-level...
I created a Google Form and Google List to try and create a community Instagram directory of folks out shooting with Ricoh GRs.
Big changes once again to The Media Guide this week. We've been working on a lot of website improvements to make things a bit more fun and stylish—and a lot more are on the way. If you're reading this via email, you won't really notice a difference, but if you're reading on the web, there are a ton of cool flairs. I...
Oh, dear -- another server for the Gemini protocol. What use can that possibly be?
Payment terminals, ATMs, Amazon, international transfers, currency exchange apps. Whenever you get the choice, never agree to an automatic currency conversion. It's called Dynamic Currency Conversion (DCC), and it works like an airport exchange booth bolted onto the payment. The terminal or ATM operator sets the...
Tidö är som vanligt köpta av fossilindustrin: De svenska lastbilstillverkarna Scania och Volvo genomför en omfattade lobbykampanj för att sänka EU:s krav—och har fått direkt hjälp av den svenska regeringen, kan DN avslöja. Det är så så så svårt att komma ihåg att den här avgrundsdjupa grymheten är en emergent...
2026-05-18Hello!The article I published yesterday, where I aggregated a bunch of internet links to celebrate Day 100? Yeah, I'm not doing that ever again. Way too much effort. I much prefer the shorter stream of thoughts that I can just get through in a moment's time.Although, In a Moment's Time is a great song.......
In the navigation, a new section for "later folktales": folktales which are mostly prose but include some runosong lines. I added more to "kade" in glossary explaining how it's similar to the evil eye. In cosmology, added a page for "fate". In deities and heroes, added pages for Kihovauhkonen and Leävätär.
So my sketchbook was almost exclusively sketchnotes during January. But what did I do in next? 30/30 Pretty weird to hold a 30 day challenge in a 28 day month, but that’s what happened in February. I’ve already shared some of the pieces I contributed to 30/30, flight, Derwentwater, but I decided to use the time...
Tonight I'm feeling rather flat. I'm normally a happy, cheery, efervescente kind of guy, but tonight nothing interests me. There's no specific reason. I'm just listless. I always have so many little projects and activities on the go, but I can't find stimulation to do any of them tonight. I'm not posting this for...
A walk in the soft morning light of Arashiyama's Bamboo Grove. 嵐山の竹林を、柔らかな朝の日差しの中を散歩した。
La otra vez en reunión con amigos, uno comentaba que había borrado la app de Instagram de su móvil pero que no podía volver a instalarla porque no recordaba su contraseña, ni siquiera con que email se había registrado. A lo que muchos respondieron que les pasaba lo mismo: no tenían registro de sus contraseñas. Me...