Fri May 22
On the backside of gratitude and documenting the days, there's an ever growing list of awful things.Currently Listening: Jesse Welles “Red”Reply via email
The Vanishing Wild, written by Queensland based science writer and photographer Justine E. Hausheer, was published recently. It was the introduction to the book’s subject that caught my eye: Australia is a country celebrated for its wildlife, yet native species are in crisis. In the last 200 years, Australia has...
This is so so so good! And I actually understand almost 100% of it! Also learning a lot from it. So I bought the next 2 Manga's in the series. There are 9, I'll see when I get bored. But the dopamine boost is real
I am a weak, weak person: dangle a librarian protagonist, and a would-be protagonist in a historical romance who is not a duke/marquis/earl/viscount somewhere near me, and I’ll jump on that book. Hard. Sadly, shortly after the reading slump from hell hit, and the book languished in the humongous digital TBR shelves...
Released this Wednesday (20th), WordPress 7.0’s headline feature was supposed to be real-time collaboration. But in the final stretch, after beta versions, Matt Mullenweg, the project’s leader, postponed the feature and promoted LLM integration to be the version’s centerpiece instead. (Matt’s leadership was a...
I wish The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had sacred indoor spaces where anyone could go to contemplate, pray, or just sit in peaceful silence. Sometimes I feel like I need to get out of my house an go to a place where my thoughts and intentions can be drawn to God and to holy things. To turn my...
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Since ChatGPT launched, I have had a hypothesis. Since it is a probability-calculating machine trained on the text contents of the Internet, it should return the "average result" for Web-content-based questions. For example, if I want the average of all blog posts on some common keyword, I should be able to get an...
A eulogy for (Nintendo’s) Mii, written for Sevgi’s Resurrecting Networks workshop at the Internet Archive Europe. Mii were born on 19 November 2006. Even though they still theoretically exist, we declared them dead as Nintendo discontinued StreetPass, on 8th April 2024. This eulogy is made of two parts, one written...
I used to be a puppet, and now I'm an automaton. For the longest of time, I felt like life was just happening to me. I was going with the flow. Not because I wanted to drift, but because I had no other option. I never had any hobbies because everything felt like too much effort. I know... what a cliché, but if you...
So I got my bicycle from the shop and used it to return home! That first trip was definitely an experience. I had never rode a bicycle on the road alongside other moving vehicles. When I was a child I had a rather big patio, and even though I went through the streets a few times, there were not a lot of cars—I...
Richard Pettigrew, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol, will be moving to the University of Oxford, where he will be the new Wykeham Chair of Logic. Professor Pettigrew works on questions across a range of philosophical subfields, including epistemology, formal epistemology, decision...
Es muy probable que si tienes alguna duda y preguntes en un foro o grupo te respondan que vayas a los logs. Se, son groseros, pero hazles caso, incluso la IA lo recomienda XD Introducción Es muy probable que te encuentres con un problema extraño que no sabes como resolver. No es tan complicado como parece, pero sin...
I was too busy yesterday to put together my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. I am busy today as well, but not too busy to take a link break. Article Links 1. Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore (Amanda Siberlin for TechCrunch. May 21, 2026.) This is a fair list but the article misses...
I will eat molten pig iron before I will use AI for anything. That’s the entirety of my post. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Send me an email Latest 3 posts 22 May, 2026 I Will Eat Molten Pig Iron Before I Will Use AI For Anything 20 May, 2026 Nature Can Bite Me (Not Literally, Please) 19 May, 2026 Re: If You...
Previously. Problem statement: An ArgoCD application shows a persistent diff on a PodDisruptionBudget — spec.selector.matchExpressions is in the rendered manifest but missing from the live object. Sync doesn’t clear it. Hard refresh doesn’t clear it. Syncing with replace or with server-side apply or with force...
10 lecturas publicadas en blogs que me gustaron y quiero compartir. Para más lecturas recordá que podés visitar ¡Blog!¡Blog! 2001: Una odisea en el espacio» y la evolución humana: ¿obra de la naturaleza o de extraterrestres? | La Piedra de Sísifo. Interesante análisis filosófico sobre una de las películas de ciencia...
As Jan Lukas wrote, and as Patrick wrote, and as Kev Quirk wrote, it really does look like BitWarden, the go-to password manager since LastPass screwed up, is starting to sink. After LastPass, 1Password, and now BitWarden, it really seems that self-hosting a password manager is the only option.
Echemos un vistazo a las novedades de Agama 20 y la recién publicada versión 21 del nuevo instalador para SUSE y openSUSE. Agama 19 se publicó en marzo de 2026, desde entonces hasta hoy muchas cosas se han estado mejorando. Echemos un vistazo a las novedades de Agama 20 y la recién publicada versión 21 del nuevo...
It should come as no surprise that I have concerns about certain words. I mean, sure, some words are fine. They’re dependable little workhorses of language. “Chair.” “Toast.” “Tuesday.” They show up, do their job, and leave. No fuss. No attention-seeking. And then there are words that feel like they were created...
[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.] The fourth way we’re going to derive the formula for the center deflection of a simply supported beam with a uniform load is the conjugate beam method. This is probably tied...
2026-05-22Hello!Remember how I said I don't usually set up a composition and wait for someone to walk in the frame for a photo? Well, today is one of those exceptions.This historic clay factory was open to the public the day I went, so I walked up the stairs and got to the upper floor. I'm not sure where the...
The giant 3D cat bilboard, Yataien, and crowds of people in Shinjuku. 新宿にある巨大な3D猫の看板と屋台苑と、集まる大勢の人々。
Why do a lot of people feel undesirable during the online dating process? We can of course face rejection while we are already in touch with a person because it just doesn't click. But at least there was an initial willingness to get to know that person. With this post, I want to focus on the rejection that happens...
I was in Chennai for the first half of the week. I couldn’t get a confirmed 1st or 2nd class train ticket. So I had to fly from Kochi. It’s such a waste of time and money. Chennai is hot, hotter than Thrissur. But I mostly worked from Indoors, so it was okay. It seems like it’s been raining a lot in Bangalore, and...
28c is too hot (or 82f for those that use Fahrenheit). I'm ready to tap out at 22-23c. I should have made the effort to get up before the daytime heat started suffocating me. So, I only managed an hour or two out in the sunshine, smothered in factor 100(!) and whilst carrying enough water to rehydrate a small...
C’era una volta un paese in cui, quando stava per piovere, guardando fuori dalla finestra si diceva: “Domani piove!“. Fine. Ombrello, forse un impermeabile e… via! Poi è arrivata la meteorologia moderna, con la sua palette cromatica degna di un semaforo impazzito. Oggi non piove più: si emette un’allerta gialla. Poi...
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Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️It seems Dark Horse Comics will close their “Things From Another World” retail stores by the end of June. For me, the Beaverton location is...
“We can never go back,” bell hooks wrote in her moving reckoning with love. “We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago.” And yet we do go back, over and over. The tragic flaw of our species is the price we pay for the mind’s magnificent...
I read Kevin Wammer’s latest post with interest: he switched to Android a few months ago with a Pixel 10 and talks about all the apps he’s installed – replacing some he used on iOS – and how he’s using them in his new ecosystem. I envy him a little. I love being immersed in the simplicity of iOS and enjoying the...
I’ve been trying to think of a better experience for people who click on an RSS link or button. It currently seems like gate-keeping. If you know what RSS is, you’ll figure it out. Everyone else will be baffled. Chrome shows you code, Safari offers to open an app, Firefox downloads a file. Compare that with the...
I compare three privacy-sparing mapping apps which work on a fully-deGoogled Android handset
I have more patients who have problems with using this solution than ones whose comfort is improved by it. I had a patient recently who saw two different doctors because of his lens fogging. Then, he would put a new one in, and it would get better. He said that on a recent trip, he bought some multipurpose solution,...
💡Read Plate V now!How long do you think it’d take you to realize the cave was alive?I don’t think I’d ever realize it was alive… Given you’re a chemist yourself, does the ability to describe things in the most unimaginative ways possible lend itself to being a good chemist?Well, we’re taught that every reaction...
I like to drum along with my fingers when listening to music. But not in a "just tapping to the beat" kind of way. Instead, I pretend to play some imaginary instrument, probably one with keys ... so something like a piano or an accordion, depending on the orientation. There are no hard rules, but over the time, some...
The other day I met with Amin Bandali to talk about life issues and practical philosophy. Amin asked me if he could record the meeting and write about it, which I agreed to. You can find the recording on Amin’s website, together with an overview of what we covered:...
On a quiet Sunday in late April, we traded epic hikes for a simple countryside walk -revisiting a familiar route, spotting cows in the meadows, and capturing the quiet beauty of Bavarian village life.
The previous release of BlogMore had some work that improved the HTML, ensuring that the HTML validator was happy with the generated code. Yesterday evening I ran it over more of the pages, and found a couple more things that made sense to address. So v2.26.0 takes this a little further and tries to clean more...
Overview This week had a very clear pattern: attackers and researchers kept circling the tools that sit closest to trust. Endpoint protection, CMS platforms, VPNs, cloud identities, developer tooling, and admin planes all showed up in the signal pile. The practical lesson is not glamorous, but it is the work: know...
Two approaches to institutional openness; each has a different purpose, and will bring about different outcomes.
Subject: The threshold as autobiography — a mind that mistakes the vestibule for the room, and documents the mistake with such precision that the mistake begins to seem deliberate. It was the season when the maples had not yet decided whether to fall. A traveler arrived — not rude, one grants this — bearing a...
Blogging Wisdom Project Part V Introduction We are reaching the end of my six-part “blogging wisdom” project in celebration of The New Leaf Journal’s sixth birthday. For our penultimate entry, I will tackle a subject which has the potential to nip a potential blog in the bud (a fitting way of phrasing the matter for...
Wagner Moura as Marcelo in The Secret Agent. Photograph: 2025 MK2 Films A film diary updateI walked out of the cinema last Saturday having seen my 100th film for the year. Not the 100th at the cinema, the 100th overall. Being a diligent Letterboxd logger, I could tell you exactly where I've seen them. These are the...
I love looking at origins of obvious things, because of two things: They help me get unstuck. If you go far enough, you will find out that even the most ossified conventions that are older than you haven’t always been this way. They put me in the mood of “what of the things that feel normal today that deserve to...
May 2026. Sheffield. Central Sheffield isn’t underpubbed, but apply the cask ale filter and the area around West Street looks a little different. I’ve lived here more than 5 years, I ought to have visited all the real ale pubs in Sheffield, but Cavell’s cafe bar had escaped me. A local institution, probably, across...
In response to Don’t Plan So Much which is an interesting theory if your life allows for it. You might think that you cant head out because you have kids, but either you can call in a favor from your partner for a kid-free night, or better yet, bring them with you. Kids love camping, […]Thanks for reading and...
I was 20 years old–a college sophomore–and civil rights leader/anti-gangster rap activist C. Delores Tucker was coming to speak at my school. I wrote a piece for the school paper about her forthcoming visit: *Mary Washington College Bullet*, Fredericksburg, VA; February 15, 1996, page 5. Article transcript Dr. C....
I love reading books, long time back when I first moved to Portland, OR and commuted to work on the light rail I would read about a book per week. I really loved that part of my daily commute just sitting and reading while the world passed behind the train windows. Now 13 years later I still read but my daily...