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This morning in yin yogaI looked up at my left armMy mind focused on the asanaSuddenly distracted by a thought"My goodness, look at those wrinkles!"A smile bloomed on my breathWrapped my judgement in joyMy heart whispered into relaxation"How blessed am I to be hereTo find myself in my yoga"
So one of the biggest challenges for a lot of indie authors who self publish like me is getting our books in front of other people's eyeballs to begin with. One of the easiest solutions is getting real, honest reviews onto platforms like Goodreads, Storygraph, social media platforms, and online stores like Amazon....
The familiar sounds of the espresso machine never cease to calm me – the joy of the familiar, but also the potential of the variable: of sounds at new tones, of different cadences. Watching as the barista makes sure to stop pulling the espresso shot at 33 seconds — precision at every step.Classical music, quiet...
A nice moment in the iOS emoji keyboard – after selecting an emoji from the grid, its name shows up for a second: I have small reservations here, as reusing a placeholder like this trips up my “this is cheap” alarm. But otherwise I like that this – just like keyboard shortcuts in menus or tooltips – ambiently...
Another weekend, another Saint's Day in our village in Spain. Someone arrives very early in the morning and creates this just outside our door, at the foot of a set of about fifty steps up towards the church. There will be a procession later past it, and a few others around the village. Im not religious, but I love...
A quick update carrying on from this morning's release: as mentioned towards the end of the post, there was a small problem with the lint command where it would raise an error if a page or post linked to any page related to the new series feature. v2.40.1 fixes this. The linter now knows about the series feature and...
WordPress prompts are getting serious. We’re on proverbs today. Proverbs look great embroidered on pillows or printed on motivational posters, but are they really all that? Because “follow your dreams” is hard to take seriously when my dreams mostly involve panic, poor decision-making, and being chased by wildlife....
Not a webring - maybe some day - but an even cooler one! My wife and I went to the jewelry workshop our friends gifted us for our wedding last year. I had a moonstone at home I wanted to turn into a ring (yes, I do love big chunky gems as rings, as you might have already guessed from other pics of my hands,...
Can I call myself a runner now?After a strenuous end to week 5 of the programme, week 6 reverts to a shorter running interval at the beginning and ramps up significantly towards the end. Here are the 3 runs: Run 1 5-minute warm up walk 5-minute run 3-minute walk 8-minute run 3-minute walk 5-minute run 5-minute...
Today I used my bike as a tool and not just for excercise or hobby! My mom wanted me to go with her to some place, and even though she would just take me with her on the car, I decided to simply go ahead and take my bike to meet her there. It has been raining lately, but that only made the weather comfy and cloudy...
I took my bike out for a short ride again yesterday. The last days it was rainy and stormy, but yesterday, there was a bit of sun again. Also wind, but I took it relaxed. Nature also really calmed me down. I haven’t really realized sunset is so late, and I can still easily start a short ride in the evening....
When I visit a restaurant, I care a lot about the food I’m being served, and I want everything I order to be delicious. But arguably, my favourite part is understanding and appreciating the decisions behind each item on the menu, as well as the menu design, the choice of cutlery, the lighting, everything. For me,...
The one easy thing you can do to help surface indie blogs and websites is to link to them. That way, if someone comes across your site, you can help them continue on to similar sites. The best links are the ones in context. If you’re writing about something that a reader finds interesting, a link in your post...
Just hours before Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals, I was feeling a little confused and a lot exasperated. In Decentralized Disrespect I ranted about the apparent cluelessness of Polymarket's sentiment machine, which somehow had the Alien-led Spurs as a lock to win Game 1. That's not what happened. The Knicks won by...
A short essay on a rare epistemic habit, and how to spot it from the outside There is a kind of person who pokes holes in things. They hear a confident claim and reach for the exception. They take the unpopular side at dinner. They cannot let a tidy conclusion sit there being tidy. The obvious word for this person...
May 2026. Congleton. A first visit to Congleton in, ooh, four years. That was for a short-lived Brewhouse Tap north of town, and so is the Guide newbie. Excitingly, the Beer Guide describes an exciting “alternative” route to the Throstle’s Nest. Well, that sounds fun, and two miles takes me to opening time at 2....
[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 finally here, at the end of all things. In this post, we’ll use a Fourier series to get the formula for the center deflection of a simply supported beam with a uniformly...
Of course I found this in a Hacker News comment. Some background “AI tells” have been a thing for nearly as long as this heLLM-scape has, and they’re just about as bad as the actual machines they supposedly unearth. The whole problem with AI writing is that it imitates—badly—human writing, so I don’t know why anyone...
Eu já mudei o título e o rascunho desse post umas duas vezes e eu estou frustrado com isso. As anteriores eram títulos mais negativos e era o exato oposto do que eu queria escrever. A intenet nunca foi um lugar positivo, não vou ser inocente de achar que antes aqui era um lugar melhor. Mas de um tempo praa cá parece...
Mirroring a static Hugo blog onto ATProto with standard.site and Sequoia, plus the GitHub Actions wiring that republishes the records on every push without any manual steps.
Hello hello hello! We missed last weekend due to it also being the beginning of the month and putting out a polished zine (here and QB), plus the Media Guide on Monday was more than enough for one weekend... A lot of fun stuff has been building both in the background and on the site (if you've been paying attention)...
There is no theory too stupid to believe in. If there exists an idea about something, people will defend it. So I no longer wonder how people can believe in a theory that is so far removed from reality that you have to abandon all reason and logic to come to such a conclusion. You can apparently make every concept...
It’s been 25 years since I first heard Chester Bennington growling into a microphone, and ever since then I’ve been a fan of both hard rock and crossover. My goodness, what gems these guys from Linkin Park delivered in the 2000s. “Crawling” isn’t just on my all-time best playlist, but I can sing along to it at any...
There's an upcoming exhibition at the Azabudai Hills Gallery about "The Monsters" by Kasing Lung. They've put up these big window stickers, and I've been walking past them every day when heading to work. I was surprised how much I liked the illustrations / artwork for these. A few years ago, when Labubus were all...
We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting of continents and the splitting of atoms. Out of it all, we emerged as creatures muzzled by a consciousness that demands we...
It’s June, and June is Pride. Fuck the bigots, let us hear it for queer stories with happy endings. And if a few xenophobes get their innards in a twist over it, all the better. Beware: racism and xenophobia; drinking to dull pain; several instances of vomiting; internalized homophobia; heart disease and strokes;...
3 is the best number of list items, as Russell Davies explained in his PowerPoint book. Other good numbers are 5, 6 and 10. The worst number is 9. There you go, I've summarised the blog post in the RSS feed update so you don't even need to go and read it now. MEETING USER NEEDS, people.
Practically all of my work happens inside a terminal. Git, kubectl, tmux, ssh'ing into a server, open practically the entire day. Something I use that much has to be fast. Any lag in opening a new tab, typing a character or hitting tab for a completion is something I feel hundreds of times a day. It's death by a...
Been doing some work on the website to bring back post types on the site properly (something I haven't had since switching from Kirby). I now have articles, links, notes and books, all on the homepage and filterable. Hopefully nothing is too messed up in the RSS feed! 😟 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is...
Flying over the Santa Monica mountain range in Malibu. The white at the top of the frame are clouds covering the ocean. サンタモニカ山脈 マリブのサンタモニカ山脈の上空を飛んでいる。画面上部の白い部分は、海を覆う雲だ。
2026-06-06Hello! Trying abstract photography for the next few days.I still don't have a portable light that I'm satisfied with. I've come around to using the on-camera flash for certain effects, but it wouldn't have worked here. Instead, the trees above let sunlight leak through the leaves and fall on this spot...
A dear friend of mine is no longer working. She was laid off last May 2025 and hasn’t been able to find a new job for a year. A whole year without work. She was a copywriter. Today, her job is done by an LLM. Bad, but sufficient for the vast majority of clients of mediocre communications agencies in Italy. The...
Liked September becomes a pile-up as publishers swerve to avoid GTA 6 | Opinion by Rob Fahey (GamesIndustry.biz) Watching the impact that GTA 6 is having on the rest of the games market this year reminds me of an underwater nature documentary; specifically, the moment where startled fish scatter off to the sides as...