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Just ask! Just do it™: […] So, to summarize, don’t ask “Any Java experts around?”, but rather ask “How do I do {problem} with Java and {other relevant info}?” Previously. — § —Reply via email#serenity
Do note that this is a slightly negative post, there is alot of negativity on the internet at the moment. Take a moment to reflect if you want to expose yourself to more negativity. There are plenty of positive posts out there aswell :) Something that puts a bad taste in my mouth are blogs with this text: Did you...
“You can expect good and bad luck, but good or bad judgment is your prerogative.” Dougal Robertson (January 29, 1924–September 22, 1991) was still a teenager, the youngest of a Scottish music teacher’s eight children, when he joined the British Merchant Navy. After a Japanese attack on a steamship during WWII killed...
Golf content on social media is my online junk food and the other day I came across a video interviewing professional golfers that asks: “What does an amateur golfer have to shoot to be considered good?” It’s a leading question because the phrasing implicitly frames a number as the answer for a qualitative...
Yesterday I had an appointment at a hospital some little way from Lichfield. For reasons I won't bore you with, I ended up arriving a full hour early. What to do? I'd noticed, on the way in, a red sandstone church standing apparently alone in the fields – Victorian by the look of it, and probably locked – but I...
I'm quite liking #Vivaldi, especially now I have dark/light mode switching working in #Ubuntu. If it sticks, I'll play with their email and RSS integration next. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
The Tales of series are Japanese Role-Playing Games (spoilers throughout!). The story usually involves some band of unlikely heroes on a quest to save the world from calamity. The characters you control gain experience and become stronger through random encounters with enemies as well as fights that forward the...
An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.
Video game consoles have a long history with web browsers. From the advent of the World Wide Web, consoles have been trying to get online. Browsers on video game consoles were initially very much an attempt to provide a cheap gateway to the web for a casual audience lacking technical expertise, though as time...
El navegador web Vivaldi ha lanzado su versión 8.0, donde la principal novedad es una interfaz de usuario unificada. Destaca sobre todo por la sencillez y accesibilidad a las diferentes áreas. Proporciona una navegación rápida y simple. Vivaldi 8.0 dispone de múltiples paneles, aprovechando cada parte de la ventana....
2026 Preface Back in 2022 I imported my photos from Instagram to my site. I started with Instagram’s official export file and converted to markdown files which is the format my site uses. While I worked on the import I started documenting my process. But my draft post lagged and sat unpublished for years. Tonight at...
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky | Rating: 2/5Where the first part was breathtaking in its scope and scale, this one feels almost claustrophobic. It took me a lot of energy to finish. It seems a rehash of the most uninteresting sections of the first book. I hope number three is better as this one is making me consider...
Maintaining My Own Brew TapNo, not beer; but for Homebrew, the package manager which I have used for over five years…? I don’t know how I lived without it before! I have decided to maintain my own tap for the first time because of the deprecations that will come into action later this year in around September 2026....
June 2026. Sheffield. Let the record show that I spent last Tuesday afternoon with Mrs RM at Meadowhall Shopping Centre, and spent nothing. There is nothing I want to buy now I’ve bought my annual pair of Riekes, though I’ll happily received Mrs RM’s discarded phone when she upgrades. I like the surveying part of my...
I recently took part in the excellent Over/Under weekly series, hosted by Hyde on LazyBear. I was asked to rate and comment on a few topics, and over/under rate them. As part of my response on Hyde's blog I had the opportunity to pose one question to the next participant. This week I learned that my question was...
June 10, 2026 Claude is my go-to AI tool. With the Drafts MCP connected, I can drop results directly into my Drafts inbox without copy and paste. One thing I do regularly: have Claude summarize a long conversation, then send it straight to Drafts. From there, a Drafts action moves it to my Notes folder. It's...
As mentioned before, I’ve been heading to Bubbles more and more to get my little blog fix every day. Hey, I’m an addict, I’ll happily admit that! Bubbles is great, and is definitely having a moment given how often it drives traffic to this silly little blog, but it does have some limitations. I don’t […]Thanks for...
Lo que en inglés se llama Easter Egg, puede ser un mensaje, imagen que se accede mediante un código secreto, una combinación de teclas, etc. Es una especie de “broma” que dejan los desarrolladores. Hace tiempo que quería incluir uno en mi web pero no sabía que hacer ni como implementarlo., Aprovechando que quería...
From Lando to DDEV: Replacing Custom Shell Scripts with Drainpipe mtift Wed, 06/10/2026 - 13:41 This article was originally published on Lullabot.comLong-running Drupal projects accumulate local development debt. For example, say you start using Lando for local development. You likely have a .lando.yml file and a...
Expertul în AI Mo Gawdat revine la The Diary Of A CEO pentru a dezvălui de ce AGI a sosit deja, de ce 30% din locurile de muncă vor dispărea până în 2027 și de ce cel mai periculos lucru la AI nu este tehnologia, ci oamenii care o controlează.Mulțumesc că urmărești ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.
Finished reading Sweating Bullets: Notes about Inventing PowerPoint by Robert Gaskins. I’m a big fan of dissections of all things pop, and although the topic of this book isn’t quite the same as a music documentary or a look back at 1980s UK TV programmes, the backstory of PowerPoint is in the same wheelhouse for...
What a 1966 chatbot and its horrified inventor can tell us about the voice in your pocket This week Ben Patterson, a senior writer at PCWorld, spent a long and comfortable afternoon talking to Sesame’s new voice assistant, and came away unsettled in a way he couldn’t quite name. The app — from a startup founded by...
That's what that title sounds like, lol. The kids were watching the Nintendo announcement video yesterday to see what kind of shenanigans were going on in Switchland. I sat and watched it with them to see if there was going to be anything worth $500. The short answer to that is no. The long answer is eventually. The...
Me cuesta pensar en onomatopeyas en Español, creo que es porque me he acostumbrado a verlas más en Ingles, estas se ven sobre todo en los comics y yo siempre los leo en Ingles ya que las traducciones son más rápidas en este idioma que el español (al menos en la página de Webtoon que es donde suelo leerlos). Por esto...
Back in 2024, I published a reading of the Online Harms Act from my perspective as an admin of a Mastodon instance. The Online Harms Act was a proposed Canadian bill meant to regulate social media to prevent "harmful content," particularly hate speech and child abuse materials. While the Online Harms Act ultimately...
There seems to be a fair amount of people in either extremes in the current AI landscape. At one side we see the “vibe coders” who use agents and allow them to merge code without any person even looking at the source, while on the other side of the field there are people who are against everything and anything even...
Ok you guys, I did it. I finally have webmentions working on my website. It's something I've always wanted to do but it seemed too complicated with my setup. I use a static site generator (SSG), 11ty, to build my site. Bloggers who use SSGs often host their sites on something like Github pages, Netlify or something...
Back in 2016-17, I started kicking around ideas for a name and associated domain for what would become this perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal. In so doing, I only checked for the availability of various domain names. One of my ideas was The Emu Café, but .com was taken (that of course...
Dear Viola: It’s hot here today, in the mid-eighties, and sticky. Not the California Valley sticky of my youth, where it hurts to breathe and your head feels as though it is stuffed with wet cotton, but sticky like wearing a cocoon of plastic wrap. I pulled another tick off the back of my neck this morning, so...
Gordon McLean and Case Duckworth had a good back-and-forth about typography and layout. Gordon says you should make your website uncluttered and easy to read. Case says there are reasons why you might not want to do that. Read for yourself: Gordon: Sort your sites out! Case: Your sites are fine! Gordon: Your sites...
It happened as we went about our nightly routine, our Golden Girls and Tiny Chef watched to cool down from the Serious Program we do before the jazz gummies kick in and wrap our brains in the dark and starry velvet of their loving embrace. The day being in the final turn of its wheel, this was less eventful than my...
Inspired by the Bear Blog question challenge and other blogging challenges, I thought I would make my own: the Taylor Swift question challenge. The questions are orientated more toward people who have heard a few of her songs, but, no matter whether you have listened to one or all of her songs, I hope you find...
The questions to ask a software consultant in an initial conversation that separate real experience from a good sales pitch.
Heya! For this... Well, I suppose last months book club, since we moved back the deadline a bit, I wanted to talk about 17776. So, first of all, 17776 is by far one of my favorite books ever. And part of that is because of how much advantage it takes of the medium that it's being told in. 17776 is told through a...
2011 (2026 Re-issue) • 2xLP, Limited Edition, Yellow To see all 4 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/records/omu-gnom-ai-grija-sa-n-ai-griji/
John Gruber on Daring Fireball: Perhaps the worst UI crime in MacOS 26 Tahoe was the inexplicable decision to add inscrutable, distracting icons next to every item in the menu bar. You will recall Jim Nielsen writing about it, rightly describing it as exactly the sort of thing that Mac users look down upon in...
Sometimes people refer to the web that you surf in your browser as the drive-by web, to contrast it with software that uses web technology but in which the SOP or the rest of the web’s security model either don’t apply, or only apply in some weakened form (IWAs, say, or MiniApps). Putting aside the obvious issue...
When I released blogmore.el v4.7.0 yesterday I finished off by saying that it was my intention, at some point, to rework the frontmatter-handling code so that it did proper YAML parsing. As often happens with these sorts of things, "some point" ended up being that evening. I've rewritten everything to do with...
🗼 和朋友在池袋相约 五月底陪女朋友参加学会去了趟东京。因为知道肯定没什么机会和她一起玩，所以除了去看了正好在那两天举行的剑道比赛，还约了大学院时期去高知实习时认识的小朋友 C 出来约饭。去之前问她有什么想吃的，答曰麻辣烫 XD 当天我在武道馆看完比赛转场去池袋与她相聚，先去了一下杨国福，外面排了太多人，而且店面看起来也很小，就直接放弃去了七宝。这是我第一次吃七宝，虽然一直都听说过但从来没去过，也算是顺便拔草了。 这一餐有两件让我意想不到的事：一，七宝的自助夹菜区竟然有秤可以称自己夹了多少；二，小朋友比我能吃辣，这就是生姜生产大县出身的人的能力吗，当年实习的时候记得她爸爸也特别能吃辣。 吃完之后在池袋逛，陪她去 A...
Last night (June 9th), at around 11pm, I had my first sighting of the elusive Noctilucent clouds for 2026. Not the brightest or longest display, though I'll happily take it. I'm not sure I have the motivation for the ~02:30 displays, but we'll see how that goes.
Turns out you can bend things using lasers. The process relies on two key characteristics of most solids, (especially metal and glass) Things expand when they heat up Things get soft and bends when they are hot enough So the process is simple* get the whole thing hot enough that it is soft and bendy (we can use a...
Prompt injection is about to feel a lot less like a weird chatbot trick and a lot more like a real consumer and enterprise endpoint problem.Apple’s new Siri AI is designed to understand personal context, answer questions about content on the screen, go to the web for current information, and take action across apps,...
I can't help but wonder whether we will look back on this AI hype in the workplace with confusion and embarrassment. If we indeed progress into a future where the bubble will burst, models will further close up, become too expensive for the average user, enshittified, or really specialized for specific fields and...
Esse é o primeiro review que eu vou fazer enquanto ouço pela primeira vez o álbum novo da Sakurazka46, apesar de que metade das músicas já haviam sido lançadas. Lonesome rabbit - Uma das faixas título. Eu já tinha amado desde o primeiro segundo que o MV saiu e ela só continua melhorando a cada vez que eu ouço. A...
The World Cup rolls around every four years, and with it the office sweepstake, the ritual where everyone gets handed a team at random and pretends to care how it does. I have no interest in football (I had to read a beginner’s guide to how it all works just to follow what’s going on), and I definitely don’t know...
When I reviewed “Village Fool” earlier this year, I had planned on saving this novella for a reading mojo emergency, but you know what? It’s June, and June is Pride–fuck the fucking bigots. Beware: asshole parents; homophobia; PTSD from bullying; child with apraxia; bisexual protagonist. Oh, and Canadian slang...
My raspberrypi was running "hot" in the case so I bought a fan. What I just realized this moment is that it was probably fine, but I want to watch it myself. To do that I need to install mmm-systemtemperature, but there is an extra step that I want to remember for the future since I'm using the MagicMirrorOS Step 1...
Liked Check it out, a weird little pen that looks like a coffee pot by Ricardo (Extra Fine Writing) You may not be familiar with the name, so let me break it down: [This pen] looks like a moka pot and was designed by Giuliano Mazzuoli. I came across a blog post on Extra Fine Writing titled Check it out, a weird...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Apparently this is day 211 of the project, meaning I'm about 20% of the way through the currently released pokemon. That's pretty daunting considering Wind and Waves will absolutely launch before I catch up so that'll be what, an additional...
Sunset from the cliffs of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, in the southern part of Los Angeles County. ヴィスタ・ポイント ロサンゼルス郡南部のパロス・ベルデス半島の崖から望む夕日。
“But I already have a website on Substack,” you argue. No, no, Substack is just a distribution tool to amplify your website. It should not be your digital home. In the last few years, I’ve noticed a pattern of writers leaving their websites to make Substack their digital home. Now, it’s kinda okay if they have...
2026-06-10Hello! This might replace the sunset wallpaper from my first few days of photography. I'll need to put it in the right aspect ratio, though...I'm out on a road trip again, departing mere minutes after the last person left my sleepover. I'll talk more about it once I'm home, because the internet speed here...
Enhanced Motif Window Manager on FreeBSD The Enhanced Motif Window Manager (EMWM) is a fork of the Motif Window Manager with fixes and enhancements. This brings the wonderful look of Motif to the X11 desktop. Virtual workspaces EMWM version 2.0 offers virtual workspaces. The FreeBSD packages contain EMWM version...
Via Alexandra Dishing It Up ..., I'm answering Davey’s Dish Podcast Quick Fire Quiz; ten easy questions about delicious food! What is your favourite way to eat eggs? With my mouth? Poached is probably top of the list; too fiddly to rustle up every day so a rare and delicious treat. Favourite sandwich filling? It's...
This short book is about reframing notions through a lens of nature, amicable connection, understanding what is enough, and the gift of sharing from both sides.Reply via email
Today I opened up my week planner as usual, put in my schedule, but paused as I went to close the tab. It read "2026-06-08".