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This is the third China Miéville novel I’ve read, behind The City and the City and Railsea. One thing I really like about Miéville’s work is that he manages to make every novel so different from the others, and all so very good. Embassytown continues his streak, though it does have some parallels with The City and...
Here's one for Father's Day, tangentially. A loose, joyful almost-sonnet, written by Gavin Ewart, sixty years ago this month...June 1966Lying flat in the bracken of Richmond Parkwhile the legs and voices of my children passseeking, seeking: I remember how on the13th of June of that simmering 1940I was conscripted...
El primer domingo en el que dedico un rato a sentarme delante del ordenador y poner algunas cosas digitales en orden. El primer domingo desde hace mucho tiempo en el que escribo esta retrospectiva semanal en la semana que toca, y no con retraso. Hoy salí en el periódico. Han escrito un reportaje sobre la...
Everything you need to know about JSON-LD and how to implement it.
Celeste es una serie que puede verse en Movistar Plus+ y esta protagonizada por la actriz Carmen Machi. Seguramente, vuelva a estar en boca de todos estos días porque hace unas semanas se publicó que la cantante Shakira había ganado su juicio a Hacienda. Esta serie, Celeste, va de esa investigación que se realizó a...
This is the sort of book I usually hate. By law books about writing are so desperate to explain the world to me that I struggle to keep my eyes open. I don’t have much patience when I feel someone’s talking down to me, with them having figured the universe out already. Isn’t it always more exciting when a writer is...
…was the day I finally stopped over-optimising my plain text lists Moving my tasks away from apps to plain text lists was supposed to simplify everything. To take the pressure off. So why have I spent so many years optimising them? Because I didn’t understand the job they did best. Every task manager does these 3...
The Brooklyn Bridge most New Yorkers know is a slender wonder of steel wires, stone towers, and sweeping views. But there’s a less visible part of the bridge at ground level. These are the anchorages—the masonry structures on both the Manhattan and Brooklyn sides that secure the cables supporting the bridge while...
Antecedently: Paging Dr. Crowbar; an absolutely delicious list of supplies and equipment; a surprise visit from the Titan submersible We now rejoin these AK-47smans advancing upon us, already in progress Dani would like to No Ticket this gentleman, physically shoving him from the connective-space between cars; to...
El puré especial de la tía era lo único especial que tenía, eso y que era la más alta de la familia, aún se preguntan de dónde abra tomado los genes del crecimiento; pero la altura era algo con lo que había nacido, en cambio el puré era algo que ella había creado con su habilidad y esfuerzo, por eso peleaba a capa y...
Over at The Conversation, Dexter—an 11 year old from Las Vegas—asked Who was the first transgender person? The answer, by Ky Merkley PhD and Nick Winters PhD, is well worth a read. Storied Colors, via Jeremy. The site’s design is lovely, including the design of its URLs (e.g....
Nominations for the 2026 Tiny Awards, are being accpted until the end of the month, June. Entry is open to websites of a non-commercial and/or personal nature, launched between July 2025 and July 2026. Submissions from brands and agencies are not accepted. The same goes for apps. Given only relatively new websites...
I am currently in the process of migrating to a new mailserver setup that is integrated into my normal hosting setup on a new VPS at netcup. This time, the setup is based on the Docker images and configuration from a project called docker-mailserver (I previously used the other more popular docker-mailserver). It’s...
Am citit articolul scris de Dan Abramov în care încearcă să explice de ce întrebarea „unde sunt instanțele Bluesky?” este pusă greșit. Nu e un articol rău, dimpotrivă, are câteva idei tehnice interesante, dar mi-a rămas ceva în cap care nu îmi dă pace. Ideea centrală a articolului e că ATProto - protocolul pe care...
Luckily it was too warm to sleep last night, as I'm not sure I would have made the effort to go see these storms otherwise. These are distant thunderstorms near Lille in France. That's at least 150 miles to my South East, so I'm quite amazed the skies were clear enough to capture some distant lightning. I was...
Representatives from the United States and Iran are already meeting in Switzerland to agree on a permanent end to the war. Many important details remain unknown, though the way things are set is already giving us an indication of what to expect. Both sides can claim victory. Though it is only a Pyrrhic one: another...
I lived a relatively standard life for a long time. Then I went independent, had a taste of success, then failed and moved home into my dad's. My mental health had been bad for sometime, had been declining for some time. But then I opted out of work & most productivity for a few years. Then in 2018 I became...
Read time: 4 minutes. 927 Words I'm old enough to have seen the Internet become a thing. From the early days (for me) of simple emails and web pages, and squealing dial-up modems connecting to the web, to what we have now. Over that time things have gotten much more complex, useful, pleasing, and fast. We now have...
Wake-on-LAN is used to power up devices via LAN. ip -br link to find the name of the network interface in use. sudo apt install ethtool to install the tool required to inspect the Ethernet configuration. sudo ethtool enp2s0 to check whether Wake-on-LAN is available and/or enabled. Wake-on: g means it is enabled. I...
I’m disappointed that I’m missing the 2026 UK heatwave; don’t get many of those, do you ? Meanwhile in Yerevan; Oh. On our tours this week all that visitors from the Netherlands, Sweden and Kaliningrad wanted to talk about was the World Cup the weather, yet another thing the UK cultural export. Can we blame global...
2026-06-21Hello! My camera is still out of order, and I'm still cleaning up my photography files.I'm also trying to get over the fact that internet strangers are outnumbering people I know in my readership audience. That's not just people who I know offline, but anyone who has sent me an email and said hi. There's...
15th June - 21st June They're spreading manure this week — the whole village stinks. Why is it always the week we need to leave the windows open‽ Freshly mown fields are like catnip for buzzards. Big, hovering predators –like US drones over Afghan villages– waiting for a rabbit, exposed and unaware, to come hop hop...
Life Notes Jack had his Nursery Graduation on Friday, cape, tasseled mortarboard and all. I still feel a bit emotional about it, a milestone and all that. He is still very much not into participation and performing though, which is a-ok because neither is his Dad! Scotland vs Morocco was excruciating to watch. At...
What’s your top tip to be successful in life? Okay, WordPress. Slow down. I mean, people love asking this question because they expect some profound answer. Wake up at 4:30 a.m. Manifest abundance. Drink green juice. Read seventeen books a week. Network with billionaires. Become one with your planner. My top tip is...
Not-so-fat Bike Winter was a total bust. We barely had any snow down in town. So little that I questioned whether I should bother with a fat bike any more, if winters were going to be like this. But we also have plenty of sand here. I love riding the shoreline of Washoe Lake in the winter so a bike that can traverse...
So, awhile back, I decided to start self hosting my music collection. I’m sure I’ve at least mentioned it somewhere here on the blog. I re-downloaded my entire collection and more beyond that. Nearly 5TB of new music was stored on my various hard drives. It took months. And by the end, I was pretty damn proud of it....
I mostly spend this week up in Cologne. A bunch of in-person meetings, a bit of hanging out with friends and coworkers, good (and some not so good) food and the days went by very quickly. For the first time in quite some while I took the train instead of driving and frankly – when it works and once you’re in the...
Whenever there is a will, there are two things: a way and an obstacle in the way — that place midway between desire and destination where one’s will collides with the will of the world, with the parameters of permission for imagination we call reality. The triumph of life is turning that collision into a particle...
June 21, 2026 I saved a guide called npm: A Free Guide for Beginners to GoodLinks the other day. This morning, I wanted to read it and keep it for future reference, but I realized GoodLinks isn't where I want to store this kind of material. I briefly thought about DEVONthink, but since I uninstalled it recently, it...
When your friend is playing backup in a free concert in the heart of your city on a Friday night, it is required to leave the house.Currently Listening: DYAN “Looking For Knives”Reply via email
So anyone who has spent considerable time with me has probably learned how much I love a drive in movie theater. Crysta and I started going to them when we lived in Indiana, mostly visiting the Lakeshore Drive In in Monticello (though the now-closed MELS at the Starlight in Mechanicsburg was in our rotation too)....
Diário de Bordo Esse tipo de resumo semanal sempre me chamou atenção nos blogs pessoais que sigo. Como cada pessoa tem gostos e interesses diferentes, sempre tem algo legal pra descobrir nesses resumos semanais. Hora de começar o meu. A ideia é simples: compartilhar semanalmente as coisas interessantes que topei nas...
It's handy when your riding buddy is a photographer. You end up with some nice photos. 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.
Introduction An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks. Gemini hypertext format specification The specification for the hypertext format used by the Gemini protocol, also known as "gemtext". Currently I'm developing my own terminal-based Gemini client so this...
I’ve heard this claim now really often: at conferences, in keynotes, even in casual conversations: “With AI, we’ll soon only need to work two or three days a week.” The narrative is seductive, I admit: technology will finally liberate us from the grind, freeing up time for creativity, family, leisure, hobbies – who...
The Outsiders in 1966. Public domain image courtesy KLRA Beat and Wikimedia Commons. Last night, I watched the first episode of Art21, which featured a bit on Louise Bourgeois—and then this morning, found David Byrne tossing out an aside about her in Bicycle Diaries. I love that sort of coincidence. But it was one...
A Memphis law school graduate battles an insurance giant. What’s the difference between a hooker and a lawyer? The hooker will stop screwing you after you’re dead. To see all 15 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/movies/the-rainmaker/
A few links from social.omgmog.net, 15 June to 21 June, that deserve more than a passing share.
Before I say anything, I’d recommend you just visit the site of a new little app called Liquid Radius, click around, and see how you feel (don’t install it, though!): So. One of the design memes surrounding macOS 26 Tahoe from last year – the one with Liquid Glass – was this screenshotted quagmire of mismatched...
If you don’t speak French, you might never have heard of the AZERTY keyboard — the weird cousin of QWERTY with its shifted number row and a scattering of accented letters across the board. Even if you do speak French, you might not use AZERTY — the Swiss and Luxembourgers type on a QWERTZ-based layout and French...
Ooooh and Aaah at the new KDE release, KDE 6.7! With PlasmaLogin instead of SDDM...