Fri Jun 05
Today I'm introducing a new project called Daily Designer with daily quotes from designers I admire.
Enquanto eu pensava no que poderia ser o quinto post aqui da semana e vendo alguns vlogs de pessoas que eu gosto que moram pelo mundo eu notei que nem todo dia precisa existir uma aventura absurda. Muitas vezes o nosso dia-a-dia é apenas um dia comum e essa galera que faz vlogs na maioria das vezes também tem todo...
I was wondering while looking at the birds yesterday that, like how people do bird-watching, there could be birds that do "human-watching"? We are everywhere, there is variety of people and variety of activities on the street. We ourselves do "people-watching" when we are bored and look at the multitude of people...
Today I attended my first Magic the Gathering (MtG) draft: a “secret draft,” where players did not know ahead of time what series of the trading card game would be played. The event was held in a breathtaking church building, now used as a community centre. The building is also home to the Pianodrome, an...
Limbo is a puzzle platformer with a dark aesthetic (spoilers below). It has a monochromatic colour palette while the entire screen is rendered through a grainy film filter. You assume the role of what appears to be a boy: its silhouette is grey while its eyes emit light. This is all you know about your character. It...
Following on from the enigmatic "Tape 05" earlier this year, Scottish electronica legends, Boards of Canada, have dropped a whole new album, "Inferno", which is –in a word– "lush". Sticking to their classic formula of chopped up spoken word over wash synths, the whole album seeps into your mind leaving you feeling...
I recently completed my first long trail race, set in the Southern Drakensberg mountains with Emma, my siblings and their partners. It spanned 2 days with 30km on the first, and 15km on the second, winding through valleys and around mountains. It was spectacular. I love coming to the Drakensberg, which is a...
I see that the supermarket chain Sainsbury's is doing its bit to cut 'emissions' by removing brown eggs from its shelves in favour of white ones, which, according to its research, have a 12.7 percent lower 'carbon footprint' than their brown cousins. This major contribution to achieving 'net zero' has, of course,...
My favourite thing about owning a 3D printer is the very specific tools which I would never pay for. Take a guess what this is for: It is a key for popping out portafilters from the group head on my espresso machine Oridinarily I can do this with a teaspoon. The only problem is later I use that teaspoon for stirring...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
There are dangers to feeding ducks, as AJ Jefferies’s latest animation illustrates. via ColossalReply via email
May 2026. Elsecar. Barnsley. There’s a lot more to Elsecar than an industrial heritage site, a chippy and a classic pub. “The village now attracts over 500,000 visitors each year, to its heritage centre, historic sites and award-winning park.[according to whom?] ” notes Wikipedia, which at the end seems to express...
It’s been a good week in general. The work schedule is back under control. I am getting back to normalcy there. I also played after a long time on Sunday. We played singles again. It was tough but fun. It tests one’s stamina and technique more than doubles. I enjoyed it. I am back to physical P.T again. I have also...
Just been looking at the photos on my phone. Various serial numbers, instructions, pics of car parts and weird dark pictures trying to see down the back of cabinets. Also pics of family and holidays
[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.] We’re in the home stretch of this series, so ANIAT will soon go back to complaining about Apple’s UI choices.1 Next week’s WWDC keynote should provide some inspiration. But...
It is there like a constant whisper, like a ceaseless gust of thought rustling through the canopy of the collective mind: the haunting sense that ours is a particularly difficult time to be alive, that reality today is particularly hard to bear. Such sentiments are errors of proximity — we live too close to the bone...
It’s a lovely day to upgrade my system: % brew upgrade [...] Homebrew will ignore formulae, casks and commands from these taps when `HOMEBREW_REQUIRE_TAP_TRUST` is set. This will become the default in Homebrew 6.0.0 or 5.2.0, whichever comes first. Enable trust checks now with: export HOMEBREW_REQUIRE_TAP_TRUST=1...
June 5, 2026 I found it interesting to come across two posts in my RSS feed about aging and eye problems the other day. Robert Breen Eleven years ago, just after my fiftieth birthday, I started having trouble reading late in the day. This is common for people of a certain age, but the reason I was struggling wasn’t...
Our youngest is spending the night at her friends tonight so my wife and I will have the house to ourselves. I’m looking forward to the quiet time.
It watches over me, constantly. I feel it judging me, intrusively. From above, assuming. Taunting me, regularly. Overseeing me, intentionally. With regularity, pulsing. The desire to touch it, possibly. Press the red button, boldly. For what purpose, pausing. I acknowledge it, respectfully. I feel no fear,...
Ever since I wrote a post about the molly guard, I have been on the lookout for those, and I think I collected enough to do a little follow-up. First, some classic industrial molly guards from a museum in Germany: This IBM electronic typewriter had a gorgeous perspex molly guard around the power button: Other...
I have a couple of days solo soon (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) and whilst I’ll still be working it does give me a little scope to get some other things done. One of which will be to check the brakes on my bang about bike as they are squealing again, not long after getting new discs […]Thanks for reading and keeping RSS...
As an Orlandoan, I’ve been to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure many, many times in my life. So has my spouse. But somehow, we didn’t manage to go there together until recently. We enjoyed a few of our old favorite rides, and then we made new friends over lunch. If you’re ever at Islands Of Adventure and...
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Dear reader,Leaving WhatsApp has been the most demanding privacy-related change I have ever made. It took years of preparation: moving conversations to Signal, and waiting until I graduated from university, so I didn’t have to bother with group assignments that got organized through WhatsApp. Last year, I was...
A shortish Friday note with some shortish Friday thoughts from a shortish Friday writer, who also sometimes writes on other days.
I know so many things are bad in society right now. Aside from global warming, we are collectively better off than any human generation in modern history. I have no intention of dismissing the bigotry today. Racist gerrymandering is stripping votes from people of color. ICE raids have attacked U.S. communities. The...
I have a cold. I haven't had a cold in 6 months. I've been using my brain almost nonstop. Today I feel so bored because all I want to do is lay on the couch and watch mind-numbing TV... but at the same time... I am bored... I want to use my brain but my brain says 'no'. #life #healthThank you for following my feed!...
Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch: For a few dollars per month, consumers subscribing to Instagram Plus ($3.99/mo), Facebook Plus ($3.99/mo), or WhatsApp Plus ($2.99/mo) will gain access to extra features, like profile customization, super reactions, and story insights, among other things. In addition to these...
2026-06-05Hello! Along with showcasing shiny cars (both vintage and new but modified), the event had a spot for parked boats, both on water and on land.I didn't bring any special lighting with me, but I don't think they would have allowed it anyway. Still, the sunlight, filtered through clouds above, provided a...
Me acompañaron durante mi vida: en la infancia y durante mi adolescencia hasta convertirme en un adulto. Me apoyé en ellos, me hacían sentir parte de algo, me dieron alegrías. Gracias a ellos tuve anécdotas y hermosos momentos que compartí con seres queridos, momentos que hoy puedo recordar con alegría y...
I’ve been playing with a few toys. IndexedDB notes… let’s start there. Ooh, I’ve just spotted something undesirable as I type this out! I wrote the first sentence, pressed ‘Save Note’ and then wrote the second sentence. After that, I pressed ‘Save Note’ again and it pushed a new document instead of overwriting the...
After adding floating and inline tables of contents in BlogMore the other day, it was time to update blogmore.el to include commands to toggle the related frontmatter. So, with the release of blogmore.el v4.6.0, two new commands are now available: blogmore-toggle-show-toc toggles the show_toc frontmatter property....
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If I didn't go to college and major in something "important" (whatever that means), I would be a train or subway conductor. I don't know why, but I always imagined it would be interesting. I'm sure it's just like any other job, but every time I see a train (particularly subway trains) and I briefly lock eyes with...
When we moved to our new place not far from CNL, I hoped that I'd have occasional opportunities to photograph smaller private airplanes. What I didn't expect at all was to encounter military airlifters at our humble airport. Which explains my cautious optimism when I noticed that the latest NOTAM for CNL contained...
Bosnia and Herzegovina qualified for the World Cup, their first since Brazil in 2014. Penalties, heart attacks, veteran Edin Džeko (a month younger than me) leading a squad of kids I've never heard of. Italy probably walked in cocky and paid for it. Bosnia played like a team with nothing to lose, backed by a...
A short essay on a single idea about how to tell the real from the relative There is a move so simple it sounds almost like nothing: hold everything fixed but one thing, change that one thing, and watch what happens. What stays the same across the change is stable under that test — and stable things have a claim on...
I started working on the class Universe of GravityLoops, my gravity simulator in Interlisp and LOOPS. I defined the class itself and the main methods, Universe.Register and Universe.Simulate. The class represents a collection of bodies and manages the parameters and state of the simulation. Universe.Register adds a...
If you thought “oh cool!” as soon as you read the words “Ethan Marcotte” above, then you and I understand each other. Ethan is a widely-cited author, designer, activist, runner, cat person, and one of the nicest men to have ever called me “you son of a bitch,” so I will try not to embarrass him by effusing overmuch...
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C. asked if I wanted to go for lunch this Sunday. My immediate reaction was to say no, to find an excuse to bow out. Not because I don’t want to see her (I miss her dearly), but because I’ve somehow become afraid of stepping away to have fun. What if something goes wrong while I’m away? Instead of ruminating and...
We've got a brand spanking new museum in Cincinnati. It's dedicated to lens-based art.Currently Listening: Boards of Canada “Inferno”Reply via email
Just as I was heading home I found this young ball of fluff happily sleeping on a branch out in the open, seemingly without a care in the world. It was content to sit here for a good five minutes or so before it was inevitably disturbed (not by me!) and our photoshoot was over. Just a bit more telephoto reach would...
Today in 1851, 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin' first appeared. In 1856, an Alabama bookstore was forced to close and the booksellers run out of town for selling Harriet Beecher Stowe's book. Alabama needs to remember stories like this so we can do better. #books #alabama
I recently finally returned to Poland, after ~living in Taiwan for 7 months, where I was … bike riding, learning Chinese, and getting some experience in certain things that I never thought I’d do in my life. Upon my return, I decided that it’s finally time to admit that I’m no longer just a tourist, and make my...
Flying over the intersection of 10 and 105 Freeways in Los Angeles. フリーウェイ・エアリアル ロサンゼルスの10号線と105号線のインターチェンジ上空を飛行している。
Dependiendo de cual es tu entorno en el que navegas, es posible que te hayas encontrado con bots en un contexto malicioso, beneficioso o neutral. Hoy quiero hablarte de los que mas me gustan, los que hasta una mayor investigación llamaremos, «ChatBots Utilitarios» Introducción Como siempre, comenzare con una cita de...
It’s been 13 years, 2 months and 12 days since I joined Cloud Four. But today’s my last as its Creative Director and a full-time team member: I’ve decided it’s time for something new. Words can’t adequately express how grateful I am to have worked with such an amazing team (teams plural counting all our esteemed...
Aunque a los dos años de ese fatídico momento ya me había dado cuenta de la metida de pata, aquí sigo. También es cierto que en Londres las cosas han cambiado a peor y no he sido el único que ha acabado saliendo de allí. De todas maneras, conociendo la idiosincrasia de la capital británica, imagino que la gente de...