Tue Jun 23
Someone on Tildes pointed out a contradiction at the end of my “I almost got hit by a car” story, where I say that, since the incident, I started using the Loop Engage, which reduces 16 dB — far less than the noise cancellation on AirPods Pro 2, estimated at 27 dB. “An 11 dB difference is far greater than it sounds...
My home audio system goes through a Denon AVR-X1700H as the primary receiver. My house has three pairs of ceiling speakers: one in the living room, one in the dining room, and one in the kitchen. When listening to music I want them all streaming from the same Spotify source, but if I'm playing video games I...
Grade10 Trading Card ShowI spoke about Pokémon cards a few weeks ago. Last weekend, I attended Grade10, Hong Kong’s largest card show at Hopewell Centre, Wan Chai. The building is quite unique as it is a round column, plus it has one of those vintage observation lifts which is worth a ride if you’re ever in HK! It...
She may well be correct, but let's have some context. I live on the outskirts of a small village, which has one road in. There's no out unless you want to drive into the sea, so you turn around and come back the way you came to leave the village. My house is off this road, and my driveway is just over 500 feet (155...
2026-06-23Back at the car show...Hello! First, a technical note: I've blocked AI bots from scraping this website. The arms race will continue, but hopefully I can be sure that humans are the only ones reading this.For the past week, I've been on an unofficial hiatus as I pry myself away from the photography world (a...
My thoughts on 📦 Don't put yourself in a box My personal mantra regarding blogging has since the beginning been that I am doing this for myself. That's not to say that you, dear reader, are unimportant. But if a writing a post didn't help me get something of my mind, help me grow or help me refine my ideas, then it...
Me dí cuenta después de varios meses que no podía recibir dinero en Ko-Fi, el sistema directamente no tenía botón para dejar propina. Y eso es debido a que Paypal (que raro) me estaba solicitando algunos documentos adicionales para desbloquear mis pagos. Me tenía retenido el dinero que había recibido. Por suerte ya...
The vibeThis was one of those weeks that had some fun tech stuff, some meaningful spiritual time, and one really hard life update right in the middle of it all. I am trying to focus on the good things where I can, but honestly, the job and insurance scramble has been a lot.Highlights⌚ The new Apple Watch Ultra 3 I...
I keep thinking about MacCharlie, this strange product from 1985 that turned the original Macintosh into a dual-purpose machine that could also run software by its chief competitor, early PCs: I’m fascinated by it because it almost feels like cargo culting: “hey, PCs are big and ugly, so if we make a Mac big and...
Glitter Blessings: Practicing Seva at Pride mtift Tue, 06/23/2026 - 11:31 Last summer, Marnie and I spent a day volunteering at the Twin Cities Pride Festival. We worked the booth for the Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance (MUUSJA), and we had our own special UU-flavored offering: “Glitter...
期望韩炳哲在《爱欲之死》里提到：如果说有一样东西需要对当今社会日益频繁发生的「失望」负责，那么它不是不断升华的想象力，而是不断提高的期望值。 过去，人们先经历，再留下记忆和图像。现在，我们还没有真正进入一个地方，就已经在观看它最漂亮的样子：最好的光线，最干净的构图，最适合发布的角度。 经验反过来变成照片的生产过程。 现实现实从来不是这样。 天气可能不好，街道可能杂乱，行人可能很多，展览可能普通，餐厅可能拥挤，人可能疲惫，关系也可能尴尬。这些并不是现实的瑕疵，而是现实原本的质地。 图像世界和网络会把这些东西过滤掉，留下「最好」的瞬间，传播那些易于展示和观看的一面。...
It has been five days since the last edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. While I ordinarily publish links in the morning and it is now the evening, I submit some late links today to keep the backlog under control. Today (June 23, 2026) was primary election day in New York City. I did not have a primary to vote in, but I...
War ein bisschen überrascht, wie gut ich mich gestern nach den 1000 Wörtern gefühlt habe. Hatte direkt im Anschluss auch ganz viele Ideen, die ich am liebsten gleich noch mit aufgeschrieben hätte – natürlich habe ich das alles wieder vergessen. Aber die Motivation ist geblieben, dabei ist das Ergebnis ja wirklich...
Les habitudes nous permettons à être efficace et à agir sans considérant les détailles chaque fois. Néanmoins, les habitudes doivent changer marginalement ou profondément pour notre développement vertueuse continuel. En ce sujet là, j’ai commencé à lire et à écrire en Français. Le grand plan est de pratiquer la...
This book is simply incredible — epic in its scale; a scale matched only by the darkness of the veil, the brief glimpses you get of its vastness. Like soft wan milky starlight illuminating the corners and edges of a building so enormous you can't quite comprehend its size. This is what Le Guin does so well. I read...
Redesigning as a method of interrogation. Okay, okay, okay. I did it again. Sometimes you design a thing, or redesign it, or evolve it, and you think you're there. But this unsettling feeling sinks in, and you think: “I’m not happy with this. What’s the problem?” Friggin' vibes Lo and behold, the structure is fine,...
Today I scanned some photos taken by my grandfather, possibly during the late 1920s/early 1930s in California (at a period in his young life where he ran away from home and travelled across the country on the rails as a self-described hobo) or slightly later in Pennsylvania (when he was dating my grandmother). My...
I am starting to learn about Linux firewalls because directly exposing Bocia to the Internet, without a VPN, makes it crucial to secure the machine as much as possible. The first concepts I got familiar with are the ones explored in the following podcast episode. https://youtube.com/live/YJZV79C-rNU Blocklist...
Release presentation At 09:00 UTC (11:00 CEST) today I will do a traditional live-streamed release presentation of this release over on my Twitch channel. Numbers the 275th release6 changes56 days (total: 10,817)276 bugfixes (total: 14,187)531 commits (total: 39,077)0 new public libcurl function (total: 100)0 new...
If I could give someone younger than me one piece of advice, it would be… well, first of all, they’re not going to listen. I know this because I didn’t listen. I don’t remember taking a single piece of advice from an older person when I was young. I remember people giving me advice. I remember nodding. I remember...
I'm BackA former colleague once told me, "When you see a swimming pool, you don't dip your toe in. You do a cannonball." When I rediscovered blogging a few years ago, I started accumulating domains like bad habits. I went five hundred straight days writing three blog posts every 24 hours, and a good chunk of that...
(image courtesy of avogado) i know that change is the easiest way out, deep down, too. i just feel absolutely powerless at the behest of my mind, especially right now, and wish that i was strong enough to enact such change. but when change is the thing that terrifies me the most, where routine and structure are the...
I'm in need for some lighthearted stuff. I finally finished a painting from a few months ago, and did a quick gouache doodle in my notebook using the Google captcha look (but slightly wrong). Gonna redo that on proper paper some time with taping off sections, nicer letters and the correct amount of squares; but I...
"Garden" never means the same thing to any two people. I don't usually list "gardening" as one of my hobbies. I don't usually tell people "I'm a gardener." Because everyone has varying ideas of what that means, and because even other "gardeners" and I will have radically different notions of what "gardening"...
I've just made public, and published to PyPI, v0.1.0 of Rogallo. As mentioned a couple of times recently, it's a terminal-based client for the Gemini Protocol. This is a very early release, with lots of things still to be added. Right now it's at a place where it interacts with the basics of the protocol, handles...
Lately I've been feeling like some part of me is trapped in ice, or stuck at the bottom of a lake. Unreachable, like crossing into the part of my hometown where there's never any phone service. It makes me feel like I don't have all of myself at my disposal right now. (Do we ever?) It's a late night at home, real...
Create one of those Uses pages. Still a work in progress, but there's a good chunk of the stuff I use on there now. https://kevquirk.com/uses 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.
In 1651, in the aftermath of a century of religious war, Thomas Hobbes set out to end the age of faith. Leviathan proposed to replace the quarrelsome authority of priests and prophets with a single secular sovereign, and it did so by recasting the human being as a piece of machinery: man as matter in motion, the...
I have a keen sense of smell. I smell things that other people apparently can’t. If I had a dollar for every time I asked someone, “What is that smell?”, I would have a hundred dollars. Last weekend I was making my way towards a hotel entrance for a work event. A security guard was sitting just out front in his golf...
This week was wild, one of the most hectic days at work, watching the World Cup at church, getting some late birthday presents for myself, taking pictures, maybe a date? I don’t know what’s going onnn. Alas, here’s some notes on it all, from June 16 to 22, 2026. Let’s go! 👔 Happy Father’s day to the people...
I didn't play Street Fighter (or any fighting games for that matter... too many button combos), but every time I see a Lexus of this era I can't not see Ryu next to it.Currently Listening: Yoko Shimomura “Street Fighter II Ryu Stage”Reply via email
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-55200 for the project libssh2, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix an out-of-bounds write in ssh2_transport_read() due to a missing upper bound check on the packet_length field,...
10 years ago I woke up in a tent in Glastonbury and realised that the utterly unthinkable had happened. We spent the morning, we festival goers, wandering around in a daze. It can be true?! Can’t it? It was. The magical otherworldliness of Glastonbury faded quickly that day as the real world, the horrible hateful...
Our bodies do not have a maintenance mode. Every system that keeps us functional — muscle mass, bone density, mitochondrial capacity, neuronal connectivity, immune calibration — is maintained only in response to demand. Remove the demand signals, and the biology interprets absence as permission to downregulate. What...
TL;DR: AI slop is bad; human slop is worse
Just something I experience more and more these days. When it comes to reviewing code, the descriptions, commits and such can be massive blast of information: Full of extraneous details depicting what was changed. The main point is why was something changed. And often in only one huge commit with massive diffs. I'm...
In the last week I've found myself in two situations where I had to explain that despite all the crap I've been through, I wouldn't change a thing. That I love who I am, and I'm the product of everything I've lived, hence, I shall love all that past shit as much as I love past sunshine and rainbows. Amor fati is a...
Talking to people, friends and strangers alike, has always been its own kind of nightmare. My heart races if I even think about having to talk to someone. I lose courage before I’ve even started. Wait, is it possible to lose something you’ve never had? My best friend once told me it felt like talking to a wall when...
Historias Corrientes es una de las series que llevaba teniendo pendiente desde, bueno, desde su época. Entre 2010 y 2017, es una de las series de la última “era de oro” de Cartoon Network, y de todas ellas quizá sea la más adulta. Entre sus temporadas 7 y 8 da un giro bastante fuerte: de ser una serie de cuestiones...
Why spend 80 € on a simple cap? Because it fits my big head perfectly, is very comfortable, offers good sun protection, is high-quality, and also keeps me from being blinded by the sun. With this cap and my hat, my collection of summer headwear should now be complete. Interactions & Comments
“I’m very fond of the take-home essay, as there’s something irreplaceable about the experience of articulating a theory over the course of multiple weeks—doing background research, letting the ideas marinate in one’s subconsciousness, and chiseling away at the draft until every word is perfectly placed.” That’s Tom...
A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the District Attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family. Oh wow, this is probably the best movie based on a book by John Grisham I’ve seen so far. It’s really nicely made, and the performances of Susan Sarandon,...
We spent a week exploring Franconian Switzerland, starting with a Lego exhibition and a visit to Nuremberg Zoo.
Parece que foi ontem que eu comecei esse blog. Não tinha muito motivo para iniciar o blog, e eu estava querendo voltar a escrever a bom tempo mas não queria usar nenhuma outra plataforma que eu tinha abandonado. E depois de procurar e ficar sabendo de coisas como neocities e outras plataformas que estão voltando a...
Roshan: Wikipen A common sentiment expressed in coastal American cities is that it's awful that the government is able to ticket people for improperly curbed wheels and parking meters not paid while simultaneously unable to punish those who openly use drugs and defecate on the streets. The latter is a valid concern,...
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June 2026. Gyumri. Armenia. Unexpectedly, the two carriage “commuter” train left Yerevan bang on time, and arrived in Gyumri bang on time, 3:05 hours later. With that sort of reliability Armenian Rail should take over Northern Rail; it’d take a day to cross the Pennines but at least you’d know that in advance. A...
GIMP has always had an interface problem. I’m not blaming the GIMP team (they’ve built something powerful on a shoestring). They’ve been clear they’re not interested in copying Photoshop wholesale; their FAQ argues that designing around actual user research beats imitating someone else’s interface decisions. Fair...
The colors of this theme were entirely too hard to decide on, therefore a default greyscale has been chosen and the theme has been named STONE. Re-typesetting this blogThe serif setup here follows Maggie Appleton's garden thematically. Every styled element is on this page so I can check the CSS against real content....
Franz Schneider Brakel GmbH + Co KG: Forty years after the Brakel door handle workshop, FSB is bringing back an unmistakable design by Dieter Rams. […] Revised and future-oriented, the entire lever handle is now manufactured locally in Brakel from aluminum. The gray tone of the rgs reappears in the new Aluminum Pure...
A nearly severe thunderstorm approaching Swindon, UK yesterday. I say nearly as I didn't see any hail, notice any strong wind gusts or read any reports to suggest otherwise. For a 'homegrown' UK storm it had a brief but somewhat photogenic shelf cloud for a while.
Si me hubieras preguntado hace unos años qué era una de las cosas que más disfrutaba, habría respondido sin pensarlo dos veces que los videojuegos. Y creo que si exploras un poco más mi blog, lo podrías notar. Siempre han sido parte de mi vida. Siempre estaba al tanto de nuevos anuncios, lanzamientos, noticias, la...
This blog is moving to another domain Please update your feeds. Its a story of a warrior—born Saxon but adducted and raised by Danes—and his struggle for survival during the reign of King Alfred the great around year 850. From the first episode I was hooked. It was as if I were watching real life Game Of Thrones....
Limiting myself to 9 because that's what the format was, but I could prolly go WAY harder Last week, the 9 Steam Games I Want to Spread page was going around all over socials and I wanted to do one, but instead of "make an image with it and social media post it" I kinda figured it would be great blogging vector...
Tenho meu Kindle à uns 5 anos e logo quando comecei a usar já fui buscar formas de customizar. Infelizmente a Amazon faz de tudo para trancar o sistema do dispositivo, mas nada que ficar 4 anos com o modo avião ativado não resolva. Depois de anos sem atualizar, finalmente meu kindle estava em uma versão de firmware...