Tue May 26
Trăim în vremuri în care ai un calculator puternic în buzunar, cu acces la hărți detaliate ale întregii planete, cu GPS, cu indicații vocale pas cu pas, cu estimări de timp în timp real, și totuși o grămadă de oameni nu știu să se descurce de la punctul A la punctul B. În urmă cu 50 de ani, oamenii navigau cu o...
One of the things I like best about blogs is that posts stick around (or at least they should). I enjoy scrolling through historic posts of bloggers and reading about what they were thinking about 1, 5, or even 10 years ago—if I'm lucky. I've noticed that my most recent posts get the more attention than the rest of...
This week I read Ben Lerner’s new book Transcription, a fictional dive into the early days of the pandemic, technology, and the effect of both on memory and experience. One particular sentence (actually, just a part of a sentence) late in the book really hit for me: "I felt eight and eighteen and forty-five all at...
2026-05-26Hello! I've stepped out of the art market to present a photo of something different."This is an intervention. You’re addicted to this marketplace."- Jerry, via emailThe colors have changed a lot in editing, and although I did the color modification and editing on this one myself, I think it might have been...
BlogMore has been bumped to v2.30.0. This release is pretty heavy on new features, but it does also include one small accessibility tweak too. While looking through some of the neutral feedback from PageSpeed Insights I noticed it mentioned that in some cases I had a category and a tag linked on the same page, where...
If I get back on the GTD wagon there’s a lesson I want to take with me and really hammer home. When I’m off GTD the bad thing that happens is that I get an idea for an essay or something and I have to go do it right away because there’s no “bookmark” for it so I get driven by the latest and loudest. Fun, but it...
Veamos cómo previsualizar el renderizado de archivos en formato markdown en el editor Kate de KDE Utilizo mucho los archivos en formato markdown y si no los edito en la terminal mediante Vim utilizo Kate como editor principal. Y me acabo de enterar que Kate posee la opción de poder previsualizar el resultado del...
Co-authored-by: ur mom I don't get why people just gleefully add these ads for companies to their open-source projects that do not pay them a penny (but actively take money from them in subscription fees). "Assisted by blabot", "co-authored-by: slopgpt", "sent from my fartphone" Why? It's a fucking ad. I bet you use...
On May 22, 2026, TechCrunch published an article by Ivan Mehta titled Spotify’s AI bet: more of everything, less of what you want. I preface my thoughts by noting that I have never used Spotify—or is it now SpotifAI?—and nothing I have read or heard about it, including Mr. Mehta’s article, has made me think that I...
Cerca de mi casa hay una escuela secundaria, y no sé como sea en otros países, pero dónde vivo se suele poner un señalamiento sobre que hay una escuela cerca para que los carros disminuyan su velocidad. Lo raro de esa secundaria, es que según yo, no había algun señalamiento de ese tipo, y de hecho hace unos días...
I had the opportunity to test Indigo before its launch — on the 12th — a social media app that unifies the timelines of Bluesky and Mastodon. The duo of developers, Aaron Vegh and Ben McCarthy, have experience in the field. They’re also behind Croissant, an older app that lets you post simultaneously to Bluesky,...
It’s 2026. Whenever I’m idle in the gym, or in public transit, or in a queue, or waiting for GitHub to become available again (boooo!), I can simply open Claude Code on my phone and unleash my boredom creativity. I can open my corporate clanker claw assistant and do on-the-fly recon, troubleshooting & prototyping....
Actors are overwhelmingly diurnal, overtime is expensive, and film emulsion struggles with limited light, so since the dawn of time Hollywood has been using a technique called “day for night” – shooting during daylight, and then darkening and blue-tinting in post to pretend it was night time all along: It’s a method...
TIMBRE SI LA REVOLUCIÓN FUERA EL ÚNICO CAMINO [La Jornada, Mayo 19 2026]Fue ya hace años que la crítica Christina Sharpe, autora de ese libro fundamental sobre las postvidas de la esclavitud y las violencias racistas en el mundo de hoy—In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, del cual todavía no existe una traducción al...
Un par de dibujos hechos de forma completamente digital: "Turbo Skater" y "Vamos a jugar" Turbo SkaterFinalizado: 2026-05-23 › Ver más »¡Patina todo el día!
Alright gang WHO’S READY FOR SOME SEA-SPOOKUMS (it is me, I am ready to be saltily spooklepated) ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ Alright, legacy character in Elizabeth and Will’s son, whomst I guess technically we have seen onscreen (from when they did they Davey Bone on the beach in the At World’s End’s stinger), and that’s always...
I am now generating this website with Clojure (yes, right after rewriting it in GNU Make and shell; I have a problem, ok?). In a personal tradition, I used writing a static site generator as the project to play with and learn Clojure as a new language. While I’ve long scoffed at Clojure for its copious syntax (three...
Hooded oriole Thanks to everyone who came out to my birding birthday walk yesterday. I had a great time hosting and sharing my love of birds with you all. And the group spotted quite a few birds themselves and had great questions. The full list of species is posted on ebird if you are interested. I didn’t take a ton...
En mis viajes saqué muchas fotos a paisajes, monumentos. En muchas de ellas ni siquiera aparezco, ni tampoco nadie que conozca. ¿Que hago con esas fotos? ¿Tiene sentido tenerlas si ni siquiera yo aparezco en la foto? Me pregunto a mi mismo porque esas fotos no tienen personalidad, no son únicas: todo el mundo puede...
Table of Contents Two Definitions The Consequences of Digital Artworks Industrialised Production Two Definitions Art has always been one of the most central aspects of human lives. It is not unique to the human experience, but it has become more important to humans than perhaps no other species on the planet. The...
Spotted this piece while crossing Clark and Chicago. They start out covered in tar which is eroded away by traffic over time. This one has been here a while.I had been out for a little stroll during lunch when I passed it. I thought of turning around and taking a photo right there and then, but the traffic lights...
Of course, there is a subreddit for RSS. Of course, someone there was able to provide me a link to the kind of explainer page I was musing about just a few days ago. To quote myself: I almost think it might be worth creating a one-page website that anyone with RSS could link to. “Welcome to RSS. Here’s why you...
May 2026. Alba Iulia. Romania. See ! This blog isn’t all closed micros and Singapore rice. Staying overnight within the Alba Iulia fortress gave us a best spot at the changing of the Austrian guard the next morning (Press PLAY). I’ve no idea what they’re guarding, or why they’re Austrian, but I think you’ll agree...
While I was at the conference, my wife explored Brussels on her own. As you might know, she doesn't have a smartphone, and the only similar thing she has is a tablet with only WiFi capabilities. Public WiFi is more and more common, but you can still walk half the city without a connection. I asked her to document...
Change my design since I was off today! ✨✨✨ Still need to work a lot on the library section... but the rest is basically done! #website #updatesThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
May 26, 2026 I am aware that my time on Earth is finite. At 81 years old, I don't plan on going anywhere soon, but I recognize that I won't be here forever. Lately I’ve been thinking about making things easier for the people who will eventually have to pick up the pieces after I’m gone. Years ago I moved away from...
[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 sixth way we’ll derive the formula for the center deflection of a uniformly loaded simply supported beam is the Myosotis method, which I wrote about over a decade ago. This...
I’ve had a bike —now known as my bang about bike— for 15 years. I first used it to complete a Glasgow to Edinburgh ride, Pedal for Scotland, which was a big fun day out kind of event, very much enjoyed by amateur/part time cyclists doing it for charity. But it took COVID to really […]Thanks for reading and keeping...
I recently had one of those RMM alerts that looks simple at first, but immediately turns into a small rabbit hole. The alert was for a potential disk failure, and the important part of the event log message looked like this: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3\DR3. That sounds helpful until...
Como a manutenção de arquivos no Figma virou um plugin. Durante muito tempo trabalhei em arquivos de Figma que misturavam componentes internos, assets da comunidade e adaptações feitas em momentos diferentes do produto. O problema raramente aparecia no começo. Ele surgia quando alguém precisava manter, reutilizar ou...
Venho tendo um problema insuportável: hipersonia e fadiga excessiva. Por meses discuti com o meu psiquiatra que isso talvez fosse um efeito colateral de uma das medicações que eu utilizo. Fazia sentido, afinal isso é comum e ela também é usada como indutora de sono. Abaixa dose, sobe dose e nada muda. E o pior de...
Sometimes, I get frustrated with the writing community. I’ll casually post something about using AI for writing, and almost immediately, someone would drop a rude comment without finding out how I use AI to write! They immediately jump to conclusions and think I generate novels with a click of a few buttons. Yes,...
Petri AS, Krarup TG, Traustason S, Hajari JN, Hardarson SH, Kyhnel A, Kiilgaard JF, Stefansson E, de La Cour MD. Acta Ophthalmologica. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/aos.70159 If you detach photoreceptors from their choroidal oxygen supply, you’d expect the inner retinal vessels to make up the difference to help keep...
Staying slim and fit has always been a goal that has guided me throughout my life. I have been exercising with varying intensity and frequency since I was a teenager. Of course, there were the usual benefits of working out: Staying healthy, looking good, having fun. But when I hit a slump, certain reasons kept me...
Given the surge of interest in AI consciousness, the issue of "substrate independence" or "substrate flexibility" is now a hot topic in the metaphysics of mind. That is, does being conscious require having a particular material composition? Or can anything with the right type of functional structure and behavioral...
The definitive documentary on comedian Martin Short, exploring his career across film, television, theater and comedy. Great documentary about one of the most funny people in existence. Really well made, showing the nice parts of Martin’s life, along with the bad ones, it’s a moving documentary. Definitely worth the...
I recently added a gaming section to my website. This is yet another vehicle for my philosophy: to express thoughts in a relatable way; thoughts that I could have formulated in abstract terms. I got Florence (spoilers below) because it was peddled as a puzzle game. Given my positive experience with Gorogoa, I...
There’s a bit of an event going on in the TWG Online Discord server where everyone agreed to set a goal, to finish at least four out of ten selected games. This usually runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day—May 25 to September 7 in 2026. However, I am Mexican, so I went with Labour Day to Independence Day, which is...
The Holy Sea published the Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo's first Encyclical letter. And to my surprise, he speaks of how the world, humanity, should deal with AI, in great detail, and with great care. And clearly not a simple "AI bad, God good" piece. I've picked a few parts here, to share my thoughts. Though I'm...
Use Any Means or Method mtift Tue, 05/26/2026 - 08:13 Last Thursday night, I asked a Tibetan monk if we should keep using the same practices in a world where the political climate feels unstable and AI threatens to change everything. He chuckled at the mention of AI, paused, and then said to use whatever tools...
Recently, I learned what “disagree and commit” truly means, a concept everyone struggles with a lot. Committing to an idea that you disagree with is difficult. Or, let’s say it was, until today. The idea is that you may disagree with whatever life throws at you. You accept it as it is, but you have to commit to...
“Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.” “Memory is never a precise duplicate of the original… it is a continuing act of creation,” researcher Rosalind Cartwright reminded us in her fascinating treatise on the science of dreams. “The biggest lie of human...
One in nine of the physicians in the largest recent study of doctors who left American medicine never practiced it. They finished medical school. They finished residency — eight to ten years, the better part of a million dollars, the eighty-hour weeks, the whole sunk-cost cathedral — and then they did not see a...
This is a very minor release that fixes a couple of bugs and tweaks some of the development experience. Download Taylor v0.4.2 now! Changelog Lock the MRuby version used in the export docker image Refactor talyor-config.json handling Update the Dockerfile.dev for Debian 13 Fix OSX exports
Check out As in guillotine... for more. Ever since announcing that I’m on the market a couple of weeks ago, actively looking for my next gig, I’ve already had some great conversations with people offering insights, connections, and leads. Every one of those conversations included a variation on a single question:...
Picking up an old habit againReading used to be a favourite pastime of mine. For someone who used to ignore school homework to read books instead, I fell off the wagon very hard in my early twenties. I can’t quite put my finger on what did it; but the long and short of it is that I didn't read very much in the past...
Dear Ciara, It seems I have worked my magic too well. When I first moved into our new property, I spent the first month or so establishing a wildlife garden in the front yard. I planted a mix of natives and exotics under the rambutan trees in an effort to attract pollinators and beneficial birds. And it worked: a...
A couple of nights ago, I was about to post a song on The Headphonist, my music journal, when I decided the design I'd put up a couple of months ago wasn't doing it for me anymore. And because who needs sleep?, I went ahead and started hacking together a whole new structure for the website. Well, the last sentence...
In Real LifeLast week I caught up with my college classmate for dinner. It was really lovely as it reminded me of all the good times in Ireland! One thing we chatted about was the recent rise of popularity (and value!) of Pokémon trading cards. I grew up with Pokémon and 2026 is their 30th anniversary. I still...
I haven't had a proper professional website for many years. It's going to take a little longer.Currently Listening: Your Internet Radio “Echoes of Bluemars (Click the power button)”Reply via email
Read on the website: Internet learned to speak gibberish that doesn’t always coincide with literary text. But it can be converted back to that. Here’s my experiment along these lines.
I am a bit late on today’s Pook-Emu Bee links, but the links are better late than never. 1. Ghost CMS SQL injection flaw exploited in large-scale ClickFix campaign (Bill Toulas for Bleeping Computer. May 24, 2026.) PSA for those of your running Ghost. Not WordPress, for once. Winning over here. 2. Former Nintendo...
“Earth features 7 billion brains, each creating its own independent reality, only weakly overlapping with that of the others. That's a lot of parallel universes. And only a single main character in each one. When you make art or music, remind yourself: you're not making just one piece. You're making exactly as many...
New blog post, new folktale "Warrior Maiden", two ballads "The Russian, the Foe" and "The Daughters of Mana Scold Me", the myths "Origin of Fire" and "Lifting Fire up to the Skies", and an incantation for igniting the northern lights. In cosmology, a page for fate. I might have forgot to mention earlier I added...