Mon May 25
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Looking to buy fresh flowers, plants, or other greenery in the New York City of 1880? Various flower markets existed across the city, and one small market sat at the foot of Canal Street and the Hudson River. Here, flower and plant dealers hauled their wares every day and set them out from horse-drawn carts and...
Piccolo, by Australian app developer Josh McKinnon, tells you what time you can enjoy your last coffee each day, based on your nominated bedtime. Sounds like the coffee drinker’s friend to me. Most apps just add up milligrams. Piccolo runs a one-compartment pharmacokinetic model — the same maths clinicians use —...
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But the thing is, LLMs are very flexible. And you can use them just as effectively to write high-quality code more slowly....
The morning sun had barely begun to burn the dew from the lavender when the visitor arrived. He was a fuzzy, golden-belted bumblebee. From my vantage point at my table in the garden, I watched him navigate the stalks, his wings vibrating with a low, constant hum. He landed on a sprig of lavender with a clumsy grace,...
¿Querés tener un blog pero no sabes por donde empezar o simplemente quieres ver que otras opciones hay en el mercado para alojar el que ya tenés? En esta entrada, que pretende actualizar periódicamente, voy a listar algunas plataformas de blog para comenzar a probar. Algunas de ellas son bastante desconocidas pero...
Back in my early teens, I was a big fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 1 of the show had just finished airing in my home country, and in the US, Season 2 was about to start. Wanting to get more info about the new season was what made me join my first English-speaking online community, the Avatar Spirit...
Reposted The Art and Science of Kashmir’s Pink Tea by Sribala Subramanian (atlasobscura.com) The first step, a prolonged boiling of green tea leaves with baking soda, involves a bit of chemistry. Certain fermented teas, when boiled with a pinch of soda, change color from amber to deep maroon. Scientists call that an...
Caught this wild view on my last flight home from the east coast. I’ve never seen the last glows of sunset from above. Was even more wild in motion with a slight parallax effect.
In the spirit of RSS Club by Dave Rupert: Congratulations on joining a secret society! RSS Club is a collection of blogs (personal and otherwise) committed to providing RSS-only content. It’s like a newsletter delivered to your feed reader to celebrate the medium of RSS and breakaway from social media. I achieved...
Huh: FragCoord is a real-time GLSL fragment shader editor. Write shader code on the left, see the result rendered instantly on the right. No setup required — just start typing. That’s from the docs that explains how this website is Codepen but for shaders. Each example is hypnotic and fun but from a totally...
Esta va a ser rápida. Grosso modo, estoy cansado, y aunque hace calor en cierto modo estoy agradeciéndolo. La pena es que mucho de mi día se ha adelantado a horas bastante tempranas de la mañana (para mis horarios habituales), por lo que no puedo acostarme tarde. Y eso es una pena para mí, porque yo soy animal...
Still here! Just busy. For the past few months I've only posted once a month, and it's honestly weird to not be blogging as much. I didn't plan on being practically gone for so long, but I've been finishing up college, and dealing with all the ups and downs that come with all that. I'm 99% done with this chapter of...
The Vatican has just released Leo XIV’s Encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and I figured I would read through and give my commentary on such a pivotal document in the era of “AI” and the continual lockstep toward dehumanizing all of humanity. I sit at an interesting crossroads between Catholicism and Technology, and...
I’m doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on the table and provide for my family is not unimportant. It may come as a shock, but I am not in...
I don’t mean to compare myself in any serious way with a major thinker like Rowan Williams, but in his new book, Solidarity: The Work of Recognition, he is working on exactly the same problem that I have been working on in recent years: how to restore (or create!) a sense of a common humanity. But he is trying to do...
Awkiawki with slowcgi with NGINX on FreeBSD How to run awkiawki using slogcgi and NGNINX Awkiawki is a wiki written in awk. slowcgi is a server which implements the FastCGI Protocol to execute CGI scripts. slowcgi is a simple server that translates FastCGI requests to the CGI protocol. It executes the requested CGI...
I just discovered that I had a >120 GB VHDX file in “%LOCALAPPDATA%\Docker\wsl\disk\docker_data.vhdx“). According to the description of Ahmed Moussa on dev.to (and some other articles), this is the virtual hard disk when using Docker for Windows and WSL. The Virtual Harddisk is dynamically increasing when needed....
2026-05-25Hello! It's a federal holiday in the US which means I get the day off. I was helping with a class on community development at my school (hence the article yesterday written after a long week of classes) and now I'm just relaxing. I might even go for a walk later.We're still looking at photographs from the...
Esse talvez tenha sido um dos meses mais diversificados que eu pude descobrir certas bandas que geralmente estão fora do meu radar de músicas que eu procuro. Mas como sempre é bom estar de olho em músicas novas, eu tentei dar uma chance a elas e pra minha surpresa todas excelentes recomendações. Além do básico de...
Another cool scientist profile dropped on Nature earlier, and I wanted to share it here. Billie Goolsby uses robots built by Tony Chen to eavesdrop on the conversations between Frogs and Tadpoles. How cool is that! Essentially, it turns out that one of the key components of parent-offspring in these frogs is how...
I've had this holiday in my calendar for decades and rarely ever mention it but, today is the day! I'm not only celebrating, but living it as always! In celebration, I'm getting to work on one of my infinite self-hosting/indieweb projects that have been gathering dust while my attention …
I love the Windows 98 era of computing and gaming, but until now I didn't really have a good Windows 98 computer. Old Pentium systems are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, especially if you also want to have a period correct GPU like a 3dfx Voodoo card. Not to mention that a desktop PC takes up a lot of...
May 2026. Alba Iulia. Romania. Seven days in Romania, five (5) different cities overnight, with the alarm going off at 6am far too frequently for one of us. An hour in Cluj before heading to the station, reminiscent of one of those heritage railways in Essex that host Thomas, Percy and the local CAMRA beer festival....
Two national surveys, sixteen years apart, bracket a shift sharp enough to demand explanation rather than description. Physicians who left clinical practice in a 2008 cohort did so at a mean age of 57.1. In a comparable 2024 cohort, the mean exit age was 48.1 — nine years younger. The 2024 figure comes from a survey...
I have been tinkering with Helix editor lately since I quite like it. It's a fun little editor. Can recommend for those who like modal editing. I do not know if it'll ever replace Kate editor for me, but I'm challenging myself to try new tools, just for the fun of it. With Helix, I've used this git tool called gitu...
As I wrote, I had planned a bikepacking trip covering a total of 224 km. Well, things didn’t quite go as planned. Shortly after my post, I changed the route due to a lack of good camping options along the way. I read some bad reviews about the campsite I originally planned to stay at. Instead of a round trip, I...
Apenas los ambidiestros no habrán experimentado esto, pero la mayoría de las personas no puede escribir bien con la mano contraria (¿su mano no dominante se dice?), se puede escribir, sí, pero con una letra fea y desprolija, a eso me refiero. Uno de mis intereses en algún momento, creo que en primaria y secundaria,...
Something has changed with Antigravity since I first tried it out the other day. While looking at adding a related posts feature to BlogMore, I thought I'd give it another try out (having gone back to using Gemini CLI while I still could). That first (and last) time I tried it, while on whatever model it decided for...
Finally got too name the design I wanted for my website but fixing all the paths and changing all little by little is a pain ???? let's see how long it takes me. #website #codingThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
net/http/httptrace has been in the standard library since Go 1.7 and most Go developers I talk to have never used it. It exposes hooks for the points in an outgoing HTTP request that you usually cannot see from outside the transport: DNS resolution, connection acquisition, TLS handshake, the moment bytes go on the...
Racing in May can be strange. One week you're running 10 kilometres in 12 degrees, a week later you don't know what hit you when you're lining up late at night in 26 degrees for a 5k. No acclimatising, it just flips from one extreme to the other. A few years ago we still had snow in May. That's just how that month...
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Always Remember: Space and time are not separate, they are manifestations of the same thing. Electricity and magnetism are not separate, they are manifestations of the same thing. Compression and prediction are not separate, they are manifestations of the same thing. Chaos and order are not separate, they are...
Russian Philosopher Svetlana Mesyats is under house arrest and the offices and homes of several other employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences were searched, according to social media postings from a pro-Russian government account and other media sources. Meduza reports: 10...
Folks keep texting me, asking how I'm doing, why have I not texted back in so long, if I'm ok... I guess I should be grateful there are people in this world that care for me enough to insist in keeping in touch when I clearly am just a sucky friend, but all I want is to be left completely alone. I don't wanna answer...
I. Got A Dang Haircut I know—I am aware—that this is not the most exciting news, but gang you do not understand, I have been trying and failing to get my fucking top cropped every weekend AND SOME WEEK-DAYS for the past month, shit was getting floppy and unmanageable but my every effort was stymied. Oh it’s Saturday...
When I was a kid, my dad brought me to a friend's house up north. It was a nice place, with lots of trees and wildflowers. Before we left, she let me take a book from her library. I chose a book about identifying local wildflowers and plants. I thought I would outgrow liking nature, but I haven't. It comes and goes...
Parents have been raising children since the beginning of time. They learned from watching their parents and grandparents, from friends and neighbors and the accumulated wisdom of a trusted whisper network that had already figured out everything worth knowing. It was a gloriously imperfect improvisation in all the...
Today is the day of the Lichfield Bower, a curiously named celebration dating back to the reign of Henry II. Originally it was a muster or array, a way of finding out how many men could be called upon to fight if needed. All those capable of bearing arms would parade through the streets, accompanied by dancers and...
Gorogoa is a puzzle game where the player must arrange tiles on a grid to progress the story (spoilers below!, plus philosophy). The game’s mechanics are simple: click to zoom in or out of interactive elements in a picture, and drag a tile along the grid to reposition it. The plot involves a lad who spots an...
I've finished reading the Draft Guidelines for transparency requirement under the AI Act that are out for comment until the 3rd of June, and a variety of exemptions for law enforcement and similar actors greatly concern me. I haven't seen media pick this up in any meaningful way, but this should be highlighted and...
Behold, another week goes by, and here I am writing the introduction after being done with all of it. This time I’ll actually publish it in Monday, which is always the intention but not often what happens. Not a lot of videogames, not a lot of manga, not a lot of much, but I did continue and made great progress on...