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The key to my successful weekly planning system: Time blocking with Google Calendar and Google Tasks
I depend on this daily/weekly routine to be as productive as I can be. This is an update from a previous workflow which used Trello. Now, I use Google Tasks in tandem with Gmail and Google Calendar. Tools I Use Google Calendar Gmail...
Problem statement: the Keychron K2 (C3, stock firmware) disconnects from macOS after ~10 minutes idle — and there’s no way to prevent it. I spent some time looking for a fix. The usual suggestions: Disable Bluetooth auto-sleep in macOS?...
The other week I was the MC for day 2 of CSS Day conference. It was my first time ever being an MC for a conference! I was so excited and, honestly, very nervous at the start. My hands were shaking a lot, and it's no wonder, as Bruce...
Businesses need an Apple Intelligence policy before Siri AI becomes normal on work devices.Not after.Not once someone asks IT a weird question.Not after a user pastes client data into an AI-generated reply or builds a Shortcut nobody...
I read a post the other day about why many men don’t want to celebrate their birthday. I am one of those men. I’ve never really given why I feel that way much thought. I’m pretty sure it’s not related to any traumatic birthday from years...
Budgie, the late great Welsh heavy metal trio, gets credit for (among other things) the best cover (to my taste) of the Big Joe Williams song from 1935:
I recently read an article by Adriane Quinlan for Grub Street titled Dark, Dense, and Disappearing How pumpernickel bagels became an endangered species. The headline concerned me. I am a fan of the pumpernickel bagel. While I like most...
I ran into the classic “range over a channel” leak while working on a custom cron scheduler. I’ve debugged it on prod many times before, but writing one myself in a small piece of code reminded me how easy it is to write bugs like this...
Why bounce back and forth between So many options? Choose one and glean From others what you can, but fix Upon the one. Else you will mix Together what should remain clean. Evaluate as best you may Within a time, perhaps a day, And don’t...
public artwork, events, jul 3-5 2026, Knockree Hostel, Enniskerry, Wicklow (offsite project as part of the programme of Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray) In July, I will present a new pavilion and body of work about a plant known locally in...
RFC 10008 is brand new a specification detailing the new HTTP method called QUERY: This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent...
Back to writing [today_i_did_this] 28-400 A couple of years ago, I bought this bottle of shampoo. I have been reusing it and refilling it ever since. I particularly like the translucent, frosted plastic more than a crystal clear bottle...
Hope all the dad’s out there had a great Father’s Day today! I’ve spent my Father’s Day weekend doing the most dad things I could think of: teaching my kid to fish, wrenching on some bikes, taking the kid to an airshow and fixing stuff...
Some links don’t call for a full blog post, but sometimes I still want to share the good stuff I encounter on the web. ❧ Fancy Man Enjoys Tea (The Onion) – “Instead of simply heating a mug of water in the microwave, Baumer used a...
Antecedently: Let’s split up, we can do more damage that way; The Little Engine That Couldn’t (Produce Serotonin); O’Neal opens a retirement account Isaac proposes a distraction to lure the darmed guards into another car, get them to...
Hey guys, can we stop trying to turn the Small Web into Reddit, please? Yes, this is about Bubbles. All the guy who made that did was rip the feeds from aggregators that already do their job and put upvotes and comments on it. I DON'T...
I’ve been passively assuming that ANC is bad for you, that it causes tinnitus or something, but it looks like it’s more of a mixed bag. I finally got around to looking this up last week when I was trying to decide which headphones to...
Let's be enthusiast about something for a change. And then apologize for a stupîd mistake, because nice things are no fun if you don't mess them up.
2026-06-20Back at the car show...Hello!I'm writing short articles to accompany previous photos that I thought should have been included on this website anyway. I've got a massive backlog on my computer of both recent and old files that I...
In the New Yorker‘s 6/15/26 issue, a “Talk of the Town” piece “The Boards: Like Willy Wonka” by Zach Helfand on the theatre director Michael Arden experiencing indoor skydiving at a facility in Queens (in preparation for his latest show,...
Todo esto me ocurrió en un sueño, la madrugada del 20 de junio. En una de esas raras veces que se consigue dormir profundo a pesar del calor de la noche. En una estantería vieja de esta casa a la que me mudé hace pocos meses, encontré un...
I took this week off from work and I had wanted to spend the time being wildly productive, but of course reality happened and it was [fart noises] pretty chill instead. I made zero progress on any side projects, but I did clean my...
As usual - not counting the personal blogs I read :) I think after this one, I am fucking tired about hearing of digital sovereignty, and will stop reading about it for a while. online articles Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s...
Every mind, even the greatest, is a product of its time and place. The true visionaries are those unwilling to mistake the figments of their culture for facts; those daring enough to look at the world not through the microscope that...
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Esta misma semana, mientras yo escribía esto desde Norsborg con quince grados y una manta sobre las piernas, Greenpeace publicaba un reportaje con cámaras...
The most stubborn facts are those of the spirit, not those of the physical world. — Jean Gottmann, Geography and International Relations In 1914, before the First World War, there was this belief: “a European war would be economically...
Following the Lombard invasion and conquest of Venetia, a part of the Venetian population of the mainland cities fled or left for the settlements in the nearby lagoons.
After CalAction I wanted to experiment a bit with SpriteKit and try to make a small game for iPhone. I don't usually play any games on my iPhone myself, because most are overrun with garbage like ads and loot boxes. With Burst I wanted...
There are several problems with self-hosting at home by exposing the local network to the Internet. Among them, the public IPv4 address of the home network might change unexpectedly, requiring a Dynamic DNS configuration. Furthermore,...
Top Matter: Codeberg for the library, doc for the library. I bought an Xteink X4! It’s small! It’s cheap! It’s hackable! I have an e-book collection, if you could call it that, but I always purchased PDFs. This thing reads epubs by...
OK maybe it's probably just me but, I often want to "Like" other peoples blog posts after I read them and find something I enjoyed. For me, it is a simple way of saying: "hey I read this" and also "hey I like your post"! In the...
No search engine or AI model will be able to answer the questions that are most important on a personal level: the existential ones. Robert Birming Robert touching here on the contradiction of contemporary "always on" society; a culture...
June 2026. Armenia. There’s no stopping Mrs RM. No sooner did Wizz Air start twice-weekly flights from Luton to Armenia than she’s booked bargain seats and got a full itinerary for the trip, 16 hour bus tours and all. The theme for...
David Sinclair’s secret pill is the decoy. His longevity contest is really a bid to privatize the measurement of aging itself — and a Saudi sovereign wealth fund is paying to host the carving of the ruler. The pill is a decoy. The most...
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I just saw a Brit on BlueSky mocking “an actual respected American online news commentator” for pronouncing “Macron” to rhyme with “Ramone.” My first thought: Pronounce the word “Paris” for me. Likewise, one of the Guardian footy...
Hiked part 7/20 of the Marskramer Path, 18.9 kilometres from Lettele to Deventer. The area between Lettele and the Hanseatic city of Deventer is a small-scale varied landscape with meadows, forest and heath. After this you walk to...
Elfeed 4.0.0 使用分享 Elfeed 是一個 Emacs 里的 RSS 閲讀器，關於 Elfeed 之前寫過一篇 在 Emacs 中用 Elfeed 阅读订阅流，那篇文章没怎麼展示 Elfeed 的使用，更多還是在分享一些工具函数。前陣子 Elfeed 也更新到了 4.0.0，新增了很多方便的功能，我最近也用的很多，所以再分享一下它的使用，或許你會想嘗試一下它。 為了更直觀了解，我录󠄃了個視頻，也可以看看： YouTube: Elfeed 4.0.0...
Christian Tietze: For a while now I’ve been working with the people at Shiny Frog – the team behind Bear – on something new. Today it goes into beta testing. It’s called Lettera, and it’s a Markdown editor for macOS. I’ve always liked...
Uns tempos atrás quando a Mozilla, novamente, fez merda, dessa vez ao abraçar de vez a inteligência artificial, escolhi migrar para o Vivaldi. O que, até para mim, foi uma surpresa, visto que sempre fui usuário de Firefox e especialmente...
I look at the Japanese symbols that carry meaning entirely on their own.
Fragments on Eccentricity The concept of fomo has always alluded me. Part of the reason is a persistent need for eccentricity, for growing against the grain. That is not to say that I am persistently rebellious, but that there is a...
More than a year ago, I bought a copy of Carlyle's The French Revolution, all three volumes of it contained in one slim India-paper volume. It has been my bedtime reading, off and on, ever since, and last night I finally reached the end,...
I consider myself a deeply sensitive and loving person. I mean this in an entirely negative way. Sure in many parts of my life those traits are lovely and positive but when it comes to RPGs, it’s a handicap. I am deeply unsure if the...
A year of reading the Tales and Teachings from the Bhagavata Purana One year ago, I started reading Bhakti Yoga, Tales and Teachings from the Bhāgavata Purāṇa by Edwin Bryant. I picked it up because I absolutely love his book on the Yoga...
a half-assed review"> Mortal Kombat X combines unparalleled, cinematic presentation with all new gameplay. For the first time, players can choose from multiple variations of each character impacting both strategy and fighting style....
Work continues on my terminal-based Gemini client. So far today I've done a bunch of work on tweaking the presentation of a site, improving some of the widgets that go into the on-screen document. I've also added the start of a history...
A apărut systemd 261 și, ca de obicei, vine cu o listă lungă de noutăți, unele cu adevărat utile, altele care mă fac să ridic o sprânceană și să mă întreb încotro se îndreaptă acest proiect. Înainte să intru în detalii, trebuie să spun...
Another pride parade! This time in Northern Kentucky. T'was warm out! I took a bunch of photos.Currently Listening: Various Artists “SoundCloud's New Pride Anthems 2026”Reply via email
First off some precious memories. The days my wife and I went to Koh Kong which seemed so idyllic. The beach and then fresh seafood and cold beers. A bungalow we stayed in. This scene captures the peace and wonder really of going to the...
💡Read The Nonsense Machine now!Have you spent any time in a small business or tech repair shop like Benny’s?I remember going to them as a kid with my parents, and each one was chaotically stuffed like a moving van, or closet when a new...