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a half-assed review"> Explore the vast land—and skies—of Hyrule In this sequel to the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild game, you’ll decide your own path through the sprawling landscapes of Hyrule and the mysterious islands floating in the vast skies above. Can you harness the power of Link’s new abilities to...
Hubo un tiempo que Internet era bien distinto de lo que es hoy. Mucho de nosotros la recordamos. Esa aldea se construía entre todos, cada uno aportaba y hacía su propia casa en su terreno, sin grandes pretensiones, sino formando parte de un todo, una pequeña comunidad que cada vez se volvía más grande. Un espacio...
A few months back, Ars Technica published Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true. I haven't used an online password manager in 5 years. Previously I had been using Bitwarden, which is fine, I just prefer to take ownership of as much of my digital life as I can. My setup is...
I asked Claude Opus 4.7 to generate a global CLAUDE.md for my tone & style based on historical usage for 12+ months. The result1 was added to my thiagowfx/.dotfiles repo, cross-posted here for ease of reference and future preservation. I expect this file to evolve over time. Updates won’t be republished here; the...
Following on from the previous release, which was all about trying to get a big PageSpeed Insights win through image optimisation, I'm chasing some more validation from that site by trying to squeeze just a little more performance out of the code that BlogMore generates. BlogMore v2.25.0 has the following changes to...
May 2026. Sheffield. Mrs RM has been hard at work on her blog this month, and it would be amiss of me not to congratulate her on beating my blog view count AND starting to make money by recommending a travel bag that will fit in that Ryanair sizer if you wear 3 pears of pants and 2 overcoats on the flight. Retired...
This is mostly a newsletter about circumventing the capital-a algorithm, but even I must acknowledge that a backwards clock is right four times a day. Google knows I’m a sicko for Chicago videos. Add in some advocacy for our city’s undersung beach-town side and yes, I am going to click your thumbnail. That’s how I...
I have added two new themes to the current development target of my ef-themes package. Screenshots are available below. Remember that the themes are highly customisable: you can change practically everything about them. ef-arcadia is a light theme with a verdant, humid aesthetic. ef-atlantis is a dark theme with an...
Recently I beat a game that I have owned since about 1997, when I first bought it with my chore money as a kid. It’s time to review Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins!!! First the name: While the NES and SNES full-sized consoles had the Super Mario World series, the ones with Land in the title were aimed at the...
2026-05-20Hello! First, a technical note: I've disabled link tracking on this website. It wasn't primarily for analytics, but because it was bundled with the ability to correct links after initial publishing, I hesitated to disable it. But after one hundred days of links working fine, I'll take my chances. You can...
Krakow has a pinball museum. I’ve been a few times. It’s a great place to go for an evening. I’m in Krakow for WordCamp Europe in a few weeks, and I’ve suggested this and Krakow’s parkrun as things I want to do whilst listening to talks about how AI is going to ruin us all. Surprisingly this seems more popular. So...
[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.] In the introductory post to this series, I mentioned that the shear is the derivative of the moment. It’s easy to see that for our specific problem, the simply supported beam...
This is one of my journals. It’s passport sized and perfect for on the go journalling. It’s the one I used today, but I may or may not use it tomorrow. You see, I have multiple journals, in various sizes and they live all around the house. I journal where I am. And in the bedroom I have several journals because...
Tipo Diretor Gênero Filme Christopher Nolan Ficção científica, Drama Interestelar é um filme contraditório. Focado no espaço, os momentos mais cativantes acontecem na Terra, e com uma trilha sonora grandiosa, os momentos mais intensos são aqueles de puro silêncio. E afogado nestas contradições, Christopher Nolan...
This blog is moving to another domain Please update your feeds. This was my first time when I saw so many details of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. I knew about him as a religious figure but not as a real historical character. This series brings him alive. Everything about this series is amazing. The actor who...
Replied to ATmosphere 1.0.0 — Liftoff by Matthias Pfefferle (ActivityPub for WordPress) When you publish a post, ATmosphere shares it on Bluesky and stores the full article on your AT Protocol account as a structured record. Bluesky replies, likes, and reposts come back as comments on your WordPress post. Approved...
Tor Project a lansat zilele astea o campanie de strângere de fonduri dedicată proiectelor care luptă pentru libertatea pe internet, iar modul în care au gândit-o e destul de interesant - se bazează pe criptomonede și pe un mecanism de finanțare pe care o să-l explic mai jos. Campania rulează pe...
Heya! So, I've recently taken up the hobby of playing every mainline Final Fantasy game in order of release. Mainly, this is because I've played Final Fantasy 14 for... Oh god, 4700 hours already. So, it felt a bit silly to not know anything about the series of games its a part of. It's obviously not required to...
I enjoy playing around with old computers and software from the 90s and early 2000s. My childhood computer was the Amiga 500 which I still have and which I love dearly, but the Windows 9x/XP era of computing is the most nostalgic for me because this coincides with my teenage years and my early 20s, and there are...
When I was a teenager, I was fortunate enough to receive a trip from Make-A-Wish. It was possibly the only good thing to come out of a torturous childhood illness. I’ve wanted to give back for some time and recently reached out to volunteer. During that process, I encountered the most dystopian thing I’ve seen in...
Dropping a column from a database table is one of the simplest possible migrations, if you just look at the syntax. But if you run that migration in a large application used by a ton of users where taking the application down for maintenance is not an option, you may run into problems.One thing I didn't realize...
This is a Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE) test, using EchoFeed to post to Mastodon. (some of this is probably going to look weird, which is what I'm testing) x-post on: Mastodon
A mission post by Captain Amelia Waterhouse, Lieutenant JG Sean Morgan, Lieutenant Weho Lape Sabril, Ensign Miles Archer, Petty Officer 3rd Class Rao Komasch Mission - Lick Your Fingers Clean Amelia had grown bored with the flower vines that had previously been the projected privacy divider when the mezzanine was...
Este fin de semana llega al Palacio de Congresos de Torremolinos, la décima edición de FreakCon, el festival de cultura geek, videojuegos, series y películas, manga y cómic de Málaga. Por supuesto, tras diez ediciones, van a tirar la casa por la ventana y y habrá un motón de invitados, tanto nacionales como...
I paced myself and only had half a pastry per day.Currently Listening: Future Islands “One Day”Reply via email
In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processes answer” direction that “AI Overviews” (you know, those AI snippets in current Search that are wrong about 10% of the time) thereby...
Vivir en Chihuahua en este momento es presenciar un espectáculo ridículo y de absoluto cinismo político. Si eres de los que, como yo, analiza la realidad sin ponerse la playera de un partido, sabes exactamente a qué me refiero. Estamos atrapados en una “pelea de inválidos” donde el ciudadano promedio es el único que...
My journey at 42 the computer science school is coming to an end. On 14 May 2026, the staff of my local campus of 42 made a major announcement: Starting from 29 May 2026, my local campus of 42 will transition to a satellite campus. This means that from this date onwards, us students will no longer have access to the...
Just another late weekly notes… It was a busy weekend and first of this week, it almost escaped my mind. The vibe A full, proud, slightly chaotic family week. Between the college graduation, the party, the choir concert, and the quick Lubbock trip, this one had that “life is moving fast, but in a good way” feeling....
When I was very young I, like many kids, thought subjects like history were dull and impenetrable. A series of meaningless dates and events to memorise for the sake of writing history reports. But by the time I was a young adult my attitude had done a 180 - I was a full blown history nerd, thinking about empires,...
Sean Keilen’s Shakespeare’s Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts may be the best book about liberal education that I’ve ever read. Keilen maintains throughout the book a double focus. Focus one is Shakespeare’s portrayal of scholars in three plays, and the lessons they must learn about the relationship...
Eu nos últimos dias, realmente fazem um ou dois dias, eu comecei a considerar tirar mais screenshots de páginas, textos e imagens que eu gosto. Por razões de poder ver uma coleção de "memórias" no fim de um ano. Eu geralmente deixo esses arquivos dentro de umas 5 pastas o que evita eu querer apagar tudo pra manter...
Where in the world should you buy philosophy books? Sure, there’s the convenience of large online retailers, but there can be more to buying a book than just getting a good price on it. Do you want books and reading to be a live part of your city’s culture or the places you visit? Do you want to live in a place...
I was at work this morning, alone in the office and doing some paperwork before opening, when I caught a glimpse of two little black eyes peering at me from around the corner of a cardboard box. Mouse? I thought. After a moment there was movement, and I saw that it was not a mouse. For the briefest moment I thought...
I planned a bikepacking trip for the coming weekend, but I am not really sure if I overestimate my power, if I will eat enough, and if I will be able to put up the tent on my own. 😅 I watched so many YouTube videos on bikepacking in the recent years that I really need to try a multi-day trip (just two days for now,...
Last October I posted a review of 11/22/63. In that post I wrote: This was 900 pages of wasted time. I enjoyed most of it. But the ending ruined every good feeling I had about this book. Why did I read it? Nothing changed at the end of the story. Nobody got a happy ending; not even a smidge of one. It feels like a...
Been having more and more Japanese in my dreams lately. Just woke up from another funny dream -- 2 actually. One that Sora the Troll (YouTuber) forced me to start using Japanese on a chat. Another one where I was with my little family ona giant bed watching movies, cozy and dark. There were even unlimited snacks on...
Last night I played some New Age easy listening music while reading and this morning I found out that my 100.000th scrobble is now “Age Of Loneliness” by Enigma. I’m not sure what to make of that. Reply by email
The concept of “suicide contagion”—the phenomenon where exposure to suicide or suicidal behaviors influences others to commit or attempt the act—is a heavy, complex reality to unpack. This five-track A.I. audio series explores that exact ripple effect. By tracing a narrative thread from the initial, isolated act...
The great myth is that truth is an emergent property of fact, that it bubbles up from the bottom of reality once the mind attains enough fathoms of factuality. But objective reality — all those things like gravity and light and the fossil of the Archaeopteryx that exist whether or not we believe in them — is pocked...
Looking across Sagami Bay at Mt. Fuji and Enoshima Island, from Hayama Harbor. 葉山港から相模湾を隔てて、富士山と江ノ島を眺める。
Let’s postulate a scenario where I, an open borders lunatic with one immigrant parent and one Swedish parent, could’ve been convinced that Sweden should keep some limit on the amount of people who gets to stay temporarily, and/or some limit on the amount of those who gets to move full citizenships. I’m not saying...
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-45250 for the project FreeBSD, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a kernel stack overflow when validating permissions of the setcred(2) system call, allowing arbitrary code execution in...
Not always, but sometimes when I need[1] to concentrate™, I put some music/noise on. Either through headphones or the speaker. FIP often fills silence satisfactorily. Brown noise also works. Sometimes I turn to youtube for long background tracks like the ten-hour long White Noise Sounds of Frozen Arctic Ocean with...
The AI generated result summaries on Google searches, that we’ve become accustomed to recently, sound like they will be a thing of the past when a new search… experience is rolled out shortly. Because your curiosity doesn’t always fit into keywords, we’re also introducing the biggest upgrade to our Search box in...