Thu May 21
What can we learn from a defunct twenty year old Avatar: the Last Airbender fan forum?
“Let us love this distance which is wholly woven of friendship, for those who do not love each other are not separated,” Simone Weil wrote in her soulful meditation on the paradox of closeness and separation. To be separated from a loved one — in space or in silence, by choice or by circumstance — is a singularly...
My favourite typewriter, by James. Maître Chez Moi, par Laurent Gloaguen, via Karl. International standard paper sizes, by Dr. Markus Kuhn, via Eryn. The dials of Awake’s new Sơn Mài Guilloché Main collection, which combine sơn mài lacquer painting with guilloché engraving, are truly stunning. (Via Hodinkee). The...
Part Two of a two-part seriesby Grace Helton (guest blogger) [Joan Miro, The Garden, 1925; image source] In the first part of this 2-part series, I argued that relationships between humans and large language models (LLMs) do not qualify as friendships, even when the humans in those relationships are passionately...
Hello. Been a while. I'm sitting here on the mezzanine of my office building, watching the sun rise, waiting until I need to head up to work and clock in. I should be doing a lab for the Networks class, but I really don't want to. I'll make myself do them tonight when I get home, while I'm sitting in bed. I've been...
Looks like I'm not done quite yet. In the spirit of better link organization, I brought a page out of the interactive directory and into the main body of bookmarks, which for the first time is no longer a flat list of pages. Guess that says something.
Yesterday was World Bee Day (not to be confused with World Bidet) – and, by chance, I had in my change a £1 coin I'd never seen before, with the face of our King on one side and on the other an attractive design featuring... two bees. Today – how they keep on coming – is International Tea Day. And why not? Tea, if...
At first I thought of writing one small fact about iridescent clouds, but while reading the Wikipedia of clouds I got into a rabbit hole of random but very interesting facts. I've always liked clouds, but never looked into information about it or the oficial names, now I kind of want to learn. I'll list the facts...
cafebedouin@gmail.com — Abstract The trifurcation framework classifies reasoning failures into three operationally distinct types: Type A (drift across reasoning stages), Type B (axiomatic inconsistency), and Type C (indexical underspecification). The taxonomy was originally diagnostic: each type has a corresponding...
“Writing is the process by which you realize that you do not understand what you are talking about. Importantly, writing is also the process by which you figure it out.” — Farnam Street Reply by email
Articles Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunchGoogle is turning up the enshittification to 11. Here's a very accurate summary of Google's latest I/O conference. Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract - Jeff GeerlingAnd another product that's getting worse for the end user... it's always the...
Just in: GEB by HofstadterHeard about this on YouTube. And as your typical polymath I got it from my library. Hopefully I finish intro tonight and we'll see where this takes me. #books #polymath #learning #readingThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop This week has marked some of the first times I've not had the post-5pm "long covid crash" since I got sick back in March. I'm trying not to push myself but I've actually had energy?? and it's been WILD to think about how much of the last almost...
I’ve written previously about subdermal implants. As a result, I receive the occasional concerning message from people thinking they’re being tracked or the likes. Small, discreet, implantable chips do not exist. Important I fear writing this is futile. For somebody with a mental disorder, this will likely not sway...
With my latest book, Move Slowly and Build Bridge, complete, Goal 2 of this blog is completed, as well. Goal 2 was a big reason I started this blog. I wanted to write a book about FOSS in an open way, and I think I achieved that with my book about Mastodon and the fediverse. But now I need a new goal.
I write about my experience learning braille and using automatic transcription software and file comparison software to practice transcribing braille.
Sixty percent of Australian parents reported experiencing psychological distress, according to the results of the Parenting Today survey, conducted late last year by the Parenting Research Centre. It has been suggested the impact on the mental health of parents in Australia is contributing to current record low...
Dear Ciara, I am allergic to the cold. It is something that people struggle to understand, especially people I meet who are from or live in colder climates. "How could you possibly be allergic to the cold?" It isn’t a known allergen in the way pollen or dander is, and I admit: they’re technically not wrong. I’m not...
napavalleyregister.com 12 judges, 20 wines, the finest bottles Burgundy and Bordeaux could offer, alongside a handful of upstart California labels that most of the French wine establishment had never heard of. When the scores were tallied, a 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay had beaten them all. So had a 1973 Stag’s...
Back in 2019, before the world ended, I was trying to learn JavaScript. Serious JavaScript, not just hiding and showing things like I'd always done for microinteractions in websites. As one of my exercises, I published an app to collect people's favorite things. It was centered around a single sentence saying "My...
Agentic AI is not scary because it can write a better paragraph than a chatbot from two years ago. It is scary because it can read, decide, click, call tools, remember context, and take action inside systems we already struggle to secure. I have been thinking a lot about a recent piece in The Hacker News that frames...
Daniel Torres Burriel creó una webapp para registrar nuestro día a día. A modo de diario privado podemos crear entradas, registrar nuestro estado de ánimo mediante emojis. Cómo así mismo se define Mindful Journal es una herramienta de bienestar personal para la reflexión diaria y el seguimiento emocional. Nos...
I don’t like to think of myself as someone with “brand loyalty”, but it’s undeniable that I have preferences for the tools I use hardware and software-wise. When it comes to brands for any product, I like to think that I do my research and often go for the most budget-friendly options. I used Xiaomi devices for a...
It seems that, no matter where I turn, I can’t escape the talk about how we use our phones. It’s understandable they are an inescapable part of our lives, and for many of us, myself included, I can’t imagine life without one; the ability to contact someone anytime anywhere is a given of modern life. […]Thanks for...
Since my camping trip last weekend, I've been thinking about how strees free and spontaneous it was. That's nothing unusal for me, but seeing it in a blogpost made me realize how much more people tend to plan these things Here is the timeline of events, to prove my point: Saturday, 11:00: I feel like camping, I...
In Paul Krugman’s post today, he includes two charts. One is fine, the other isn’t. Here’s the first one: Generally, I’m not a fan of putting stuff in the margins that could be within the body of the plot itself, but at least it’s clear which label goes with which data series. Too bad that’s not the case with Chart...
A view of Rikugien Garden, one of several Edo era gardens in the city. 東京にある江戸時代の庭園の一つ、六義園の風景だ。
When we went to see the Mandalorian and Grogu last Wednesday, we drove back home along a dyke between the IJsselmeer on one side and a large nature reserve on the other. The light was spectacular, scattered clouds with bright sunlight breaking through at moments . Gorgeous. I asked / begged my husband to stop at a...
Em junho passado, a prefeitura de Ribeirão Preto lançou o aplicativo "Cuidar+On" pra substituir o antigo Saúde24h. Não havia utilizado o antigo, mas minha namorada tentou o Cuidar+On por três vezes e não obteve êxito. Ela marcou com especialistas por três vezes. Na primeira, a pessoa não apareceu. Na segunda e...
Let’s talk about Rolling Thunder. No, not the movie. Not the Bob Dylan tour thing either. And not the roller coaster or the Vietnam bombing campaign. Rolling Thunder the 1986 video game by NAMCO! (The first one, not the sequels.) I went in nearly blind, having only seen a clip or two of the game. Retrogaming isn’t...
2026-05-21Hello!I went to this fairgrounds event where they have artists come and show their tile arts for sale. I even bought a few! Thank you Coleen Magasic :-).It was warm, and I spent a lot of time outside. I wish I had the cash to buy more items, but even the smallest trinkets costed quite a bit of money, and...
De zorgen over digitale autonomie nemen toe, en steeds vaker krijg ik van (grote) organisaties de vraag: wat kunnen we NU doen? Nou heb ik wel een lijstje, maar voor we beginnen, besef dat we 15 jaar lang alles naar Amerika hebben geschoffeld. Of, we hebben het uitbesteed, en DIE mensen stuurden het naar Amerika. 15...
导出 Elfeed 选中条目到 GitHub Page 作为 Reading List 我之前一直用 elfeed 阅读订阅流，我挺满意 elfeed 的功能的，唯一的不足是手机上用不了 (懒得折腾将 Emacs 运行在 iPhone 上)。后来我安装 NetNewsWire 用一段时间，NetNewsWire 用着不错，但也存在一些问题： 我的订阅流是用一个 elfeed.org 文件维护的，纯文本编辑非常方便，比各种 UI 点击方便得多。但每次更新后，我都需要重新导入到 NetNewsWire 中，但只能新增缺少的，不会移除 elfeed.org 中没有的。如果我想完全替换成 elfeed.org 中的内容，我就得新建一个...
Problem statement: Claude Code likes to declare “done” without running tests. Said no overconfident LLM ever. prove_it by Justin Searls is a config-driven hook framework that intercepts Claude’s lifecycle events (SessionStart, PreToolUse, Stop) and runs whatever tasks you configure — tests, linters, AI reviewers —...
Three pictures this time. Feels strange to pose like this, but it is nice to not be serious!
Birkbeck College of the University of London will be eliminating its undergraduate program in philosophy, according to an email from the University’s Director of Student Services. The email states that the University has decided to stop admitting students into the philosophy BA program after the November 2026...
Springtime in full bloom. This week felt tough. I ended up in the office four days in a row. The end of each day arrived too quickly as I still had plenty of things left to tackle. It was great to get to Friday when I could get some exercise on my indoor bike trainer and then climb into my cave in order to catch up...
It was the oddest job interview I’d ever experienced. First of all, we arrived at the lobby as one big group, brought in on bespoke company transport—black vehicles with tinted windows. It rained on the way over, so everyone was wet, shaking out their umbrellas in a rustling like birds’ wings. We took the elevators...
Now that we're near the end of the free or cheap GitHub Copilot party, I thought it might be interesting to look at how much BlogMore has "cost" me to build, and what it would have cost under the proposed new pricing structure that is coming in next month. While I've looked at the comparison for last month, I've not...
Today I spotted a Spotted Flycatcher. I had no idea what this species was when I see it, or that I managed to capture it in such a good position. I wish I was a little closer (or had a little more telephoto reach preferably) as the image is quite heavily cropped, and I probably needed a faster shutter speed...though...
I read a blog post recently saying that it was ok to hate AI. While I agree to some extent, I think it was missing some key points about how to hate AI. It’s easy to just hate something you don’t like. We as humans have a natural propensity to hate or dislike things we are not familiar with. The problem is that this...
Found myself with a slice of time and made a detour to pop in the Cincinnati Art Museum.Currently Listening: Daði Freyr “I'm Out and I Wanna Go Home”Reply via email
I’ve been slowly listening to Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. I like his practicality. He’s never trying to be overly academic, as if he needs to prove how smart he is. He says Berkshire’s success doesn’t come from them solving hard problems, but from spending their time...
Yesterday I completed my third and final scheduled hour of the Conquer Cancer Australia relay. I say “scheduled” as from time to time people drop out, so I may drop in and do a fourth hour, if needed. Having done a few hours now, I am familiar with the process and am able to jump in if needed, especially during the...
Really short and spooky one this time. I was roaming about lowsec in my lil Hookbill as usual, and found a Firetail in a complex. So I warped in. They neutralized my capacitor completely (in short: i ran out of energy) so I was having real scary time keeping my repairing and modules running. I tried to disrupt their...
Let me tell you the story of what was sounding in Buenos Aires’ FM radios almost exactly 40 years ago. “Oktubre”, by “Patricio Rey y los Redonditos de Ricota” released in its entirety in October 1986, is widely considered to be one of the greatest albums of Argentine rock of all time. During that year they released...
Introduction I share all of my New Leaf Journal articles to my Mastodon account (@nafnlj@linuxrocks.online) using a WordPress plugin called Share on Mastodon. See what my most recent post (before this one) looks like on my Mastodon profile: See the post on Mastodon. The fediverse:creator Tag Note the “More from...
I have mixed feelings about Raycast announcing their move from the native interface to one powered by web tech (this is the same thing that made Photoshop’s dialogs so bad), but their blog post announcing the change has at least a useful list of some details that separate good native apps from bad web ones. I think...
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Singularity (6min31s). The new short film from Blender Studios, from the renowned open-source 3D editor. I thought it was pretty cool. The AI Resist List (in English). A database...