Sun Jun 14
Just randomly recalled that as a kid, we used to say ‘fainites’ when asking for mercy or a time out. I thought it was a weird word made up amongst some friends. It turns out that it was a real word used throughout southern England.
“Waktu tidur, nafas kamu bunyi,” Abang, suami saya, berkata suatu hari. Saya menatap Abang dengan wajah horor. Hari itu libur dan saya menghabiskannya dengan kegiatan paling menyenangkan di akhir minggu: Bangun siang. “Masa Iya? Mungkin kecapekan.” Saya menjawab sekenanya, karena memang kalau kecapekan saya suka...
It's already Sunday so let's get right into it!The Week That Was🚘 The Devil Went Down to Georgia Auto MechanicsSarina DoriefoofarawfoofarawAnother new entry into Sarina Dorie's Devil's Delight series, with more on the way later this year!Sarina DorieAn interview with the author of The Devil Went Down to Georgia Auto...
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Sunday night, alone in my head. I'm in one of those moods: melancholic, missing something I'm never going to get back. The last time I wrote about it was two years ago, but I guess we're back here again. It's time to leave again. Soon I have to pack up my college life and move on. To be honest, I'm downright...
My switch-to-default git alias had been trying branch names in order: switch-to-default = !git switch --force main 2>/dev/null \ || git switch --force master 2>/dev/null \ || git switch --force $(git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD \ | sed 's@^refs/remotes/origin/@@') It works, but it’s trial-and-error....
Let me explain. First, greed-driven, shareholder value-focused businesses turn the web into a cesspool. Then we're offered an option to pay for a cleansed version of it. I don't have an issue with someone asking to be paid for their efforts to sift through garbage. What I do have an issue with is that only a...
June 2025. Haydock. Merseyside. I can still get thrilled at a visit to a new place, even if it is a mining village north of St Helens. Genuinely, I’d no recollection of Haydock, bar driving past the racecourse, and that’s virtually the now famous Makerfield. But Sankey Valley Park is an absolute joy, a proper oasis...
8th June - 14th June Started using my 9x14 grid paper Moleskine this week and it's pretty awesome. It really needs a pen loop (on order) but otherwise near perfect for what I need! There are two maple saplings and two ash saplings spontaneously growing along the end fence line. We have a wood of maples nearby that...
2026-06-14Hello! I published this article a little too early for folks subscribed via newsletter. You're welcome, I guess?This would be a perfect article for Juneteenth, but I'm already starting to forget details of this adventure so I better start writing it down now.I've been to loads of local events, including...
Some time last year, during one of the many bouts of minor illness which strike children who attend daycare or kindergarten, ours was laid up on the couch watching episode after episode of Go Jetters. We must've watched everything then hosted on ABC iView at least three or four times. I wasn't feeling too well...
As usual - not counting the personal blogs I read :) online articlesNot much appealed to me this week. The AI ‘Revolution' is Not a People's Revolution - AI companies overusing the term revolution is just a marketing ploy, and we should challenge it. Banger quote: "Accepting Blair’s revolution requires agreeing that...
I always had quite a hard time figuring out how DNS resolution worked. This video helped me a lot: https://youtu.be/mG8xibe6oVk Changing global DNS settings #/etc/systemd/resolv.conf [Resolve] #DNS= #FallbackDNS= DNSOverTLS=yes DNSSEC=allow-downgrade Domain=~. Cache=yes
For almost six years on my desk, in addition to the monitors and the current Mac, a mechanical keyboard IQUNIX F96 Coral Sea – now out of production, this one – has stood stable and proud. It’s become an indispensable tool for me, even though I occasionally find myself typing on decent Macs (not all the ones I’ve...
The curl project will not accept or otherwise handle any vulnerability reports during the month of July 2026. We call it the curl summer of bliss. curl’s submission form on Hackerone will be paused starting July 1, 2026. Summer of bliss starts: July 1, 2026. 00:00 CEST Submissions resume: August 3 2026. 09:00 CEST...
This was created for a social-media spot, but it seems to deserve sharing here, which has become the poetry empire of YoursTruly. Now, who's to say that we should tell What's on our minds, to pull from the well Of thoughts and share with worlds our ways? We're humans, and that's just what we do, Created by God who...
Good morning y'all. I saw that the Knicks won the NBA Championship. Rachelle and I actually watched part of games 3 and 4 mostly because Rachelle likes Mamdani. It's the first time I've really watched NBA basketball since Michael Jordan retired from the Bulls. Since I'm now an expert on the modern NBA game after...
This is like seeing a train wreck happening and not being able to stop it, no wonder he goes mad.
No blame, but still, never again I keep my calendar in the todo.txt format, in Obsidian, using the Todo.txt Mode plugin to move completed events to a done.md file each day. This week I opened that done.md file only to find it completely blank. Gasp! A plain text nightmare!! This was not supposed to even be able to...
Dropped off film for processing. Now we wait to see if I have any clue what I'm doing with the (new to me) classic Olympus camera.Currently Listening: Feems “Better Than This”Reply via email
Theo van Doesburg, "Base de la peinture concrète," Art Concret no. 1 (April 1930). Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. I started wondering a few months ago whether anyone was writing poetic and/or artistic manifestoes anymore. The last I could think of, before the brief Covid-era efflorescence of statements...
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farpotshket (yi: פאַרפּאָשקע), adj.: completely ruined as a result of attempts to fix a minor imperfection. (Jewish English Lexicon) This word doesn't just describe something that is broken, but something that is broken specifically because someone else tried to fix it, making it worse. It is used most commonly...
For the regular planning workshop at work (my second since I started), I have to be in Schwäbisch Hall from Monday to Wednesday. As train tickets are cheaper on Saturday than on Sunday and I was eager to explore the city anyway, I decided to already arrive yesterday (Saturday). Today (Sunday) I did my planned city...
From the Animation Obsessive newsletter, a fun and nicely illustrated recounting of the way Jordan Mechner animated his seminal games Karateka and Prince of Persia. It’s rotoscoping, as everyone knows by now, but on a hard difficulty mode: Mechner’s setup for Karateka was wild. Over his Moviola screen, he taped thin...
I’m been in a big building and tinkering mood recently, and have been really getting into Valheim. I play solo and honestly don’t have too much time to put into it, but I’ve been building larger bases and am legitimately excited to keep trying new things and progress further. I’m not much good at it, so while I’m...
El último libro que he leído es Oposición de la escritora Sara Mesa. Ya comenté cuando hice el examen de oposición que quería cerrar el círculo leyendo este libro. Me ha gustado bastante, no sé si por comprobar que ese choque cultural no lo tengo yo solo, o porque somos muchos los que vemos el funcionariado como...
Hockney died aged 88 last week. The work of the British artist and painter, purveyor of bold colours, was required learning in my final year high school art history course.
A couple months back, i stumbled upon the Wikipedia page for COBOL, and it's honestly incredible. You can read it here Read it? Alrighty, I'm gonna gush about it a bit now. First of all, the whole gravestone story was great. Peak comedy right there. I also love how the development timeline of COBOL is kind of a...
Life Notes As expected, a more routine week, although I was home alone from Sunday afternoon through to Tuesday evening which meant I got to watch the WWDC Keynote on Monday evening (I skipped Tai Chi as my foot was oddly sore). An intriguing set of new stuff coming, if Siri AI works as well as it did in the ‘live’...
Born on this day in 1811 was Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the prohibitionist bestseller Uncle Tom's Cabin. She was born, I was interested to see, in Litchfield, Connecticut, a small town that wisely changed its name from Bantam township, adopting the name of the great Mercian cathedral city, but inserting, for...
What caught my attention this week, shared on social.omgmog.net between 8 June and 14 June.
I’m not talking about the orange buffoon’s latest antics. I’m not talking about the sweltering heat that’s descending on Europe once more. I’m not even talking about the collective insanity that has pushed a racist, misogynist, authoritarian, conspiracist, transphobic, and climate-change denier’s virtual fortune...
É estranho como hoje em dia parece tão difícil pra mim ouvir um álbum inteiro. Não sei se me acostumei com o tipo de lançamento de alguns grupos que lançam EP em sua maioria e eles tem em média 15-20 minutos. E esse tempo passa voando! Mas quando o assunto é um álbum completo com 50+ minutos, eu tenho uma...
I scrubbed the oven this morning until it looks brand new (almost). I've twice walked past and opened the door just to admire it How sad am I? Simple things. Haha
For my 400 Divisadero series and to help track down some stolen property from my girlfriend I needed to figure out who owned a given building in SF. Here's the process I followed, using 740 Valencia Street as a random example (because it's the address for Dandelion Chocolate and I like their stuff).
Another big 24 hour race this week, this time the Le Mans one. I’m usually not a WEC guy but this one is special, of course. Otherwise this week was a calm one, again. (Next week won’t. Foreshadowing!) Taskmaster Series 21 concluded, which is always a bit sad. The ten episodes are going by so fast. Before this...
The setting sun reflects in the water, at the entrance to King Harbor in Redondo Beach. キング・ハーバー レドンド・ビーチのキング・ハーバーの入り口で、夕日が水面に映る。
June 14, 2026 This morning, I read an MPU forum post about Devonthink. I've had Devonthink starting with version 2 and currently have version 3 installed on my MacBook Pro. I don't often think about Devonthink because I never use it. Many folks use it as a document warehouse for its search features, which is how I...
Emacs features have a discoverability problem, and we’re chipping away at it one demo at a time. The years since I wrote the last one of these have yielded more surprising and useful finds, so it’s time again for a “batteries included” report. Note This is the third in a series of articles highlighting useful but...
So, Cauê Napier has created this nifty little thing you can add to your site called Town Square. Of course, I signed up for it right away and implemented it on Newsonaut. So where is it? Right over here. It's a joy to use. A stickman version of you hangs out with other stick people, tossing out messages that...
The invasion of the Lombards in 568 was only the first part of the Lombard conquest of the Byzantine province of Venetia.
When Fidelia Bridges moved to 93 First Place in Brooklyn in 1854, her neighborhood was an enclave of recently built brownstones set back from the street with roomy front gardens. Years later, in 1867, something compelled her to paint that front garden. Perhaps it was the contrast between the delicate yellow buds on...
Man so we’re watching Unsolved Mysteries, mainly because Mrs. Columbo wants to and Lordt knows she watches enough dumb shit that I wanna watch; she likes all the crime-o stories and similar that make you think your neighbor is a murderman, but every once in a while they’ll do a spookum and my ears will go spoing and...
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈 Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced Permalink to section 'Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced' # Cassette Beasts, my favourite video game ever, is officially becoming a series, with a new follow-up game coming — Cassette Beasts 2002! An announcement trailer for Cassette Beasts 2002 was revealed during...
I've released blogmore.el v5.3.0. This is a pretty small release but adds a command I realised I'd forgotten to add a couple of releases ago. Now that BlogMore has the concept of a post series, and now that blogmore.el lets you add and remove a series from a post, it makes sense that I'd want to link to a series in...
App Intents used to feel like one of those Apple developer topics most normal users would never think about.That is changing.With Siri AI, App Intents become part of the security boundary between the assistant, the user, and third-party apps. If Siri AI is going to help users act naturally across apps, then the way...
“Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning.” There are moments in life when we are reminded that we are unfinished, that the story we have been telling ourselves about who we are and where our life leads is yet unwritten. Such moments come most readily at the beginning of something new. To...
Lost Lambs es un libro en el que ocurren muchas cosas. Más de las que parece que puedan caber en 320 páginas. La familia Flynn. Bud, Catherine, Abigail, Louise y Harper. Padre, madre y tres hijas. Cada uno va a su aire. Está complicado hablar del libro sin destripar la trama, que incluye conspiraciones, un...
Ava did it, then Manu did it, then Thomas did it. So now I'm joining in. I haven't written a lot about AI on this site, so maybe this will give you all some insights as to what my opinions are on it all. 1. How was your first experience with AI models? I don't remember my first time actually using an LLM, but I do...