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Educate yourself, welcome life’s messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs. Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922–April 11, 2007) endures as one of modern history’s most beloved authors, a wiseman of storytelling and a shaman of style. He was also, however, one great dad: In Kurt Vonnegut: Letters...
June 2026. Gyumri. Armenia. Well, over the border in Armenia, actually, but we need to recognise the genius of Tony Joe White at every opportunity. Mrs RM had really wanted to take that midnight train to Georgia from Yerevan, but on reflection turning up at the Hotel Alexandrapol at 1am carried some risk. Armenian...
Es ist fast ein bisschen bedenklich, wie viel Spaß mir das hier macht. Ich habe – natürlich – noch mehr Gedanken zu diesem Projekt, und weil mir niemand verbieten kann, einfach noch mehr über das Wie und Warum des Ganzen nachzudenken, mache ich das jetzt. Einmal ist da zum Beispiel die Frage, wie ich eigentlich...
Here is what happened. Over a few hours, a conversation with an AI model produced a biologically grounded framework connecting protein metabolism, mitochondrial function, connective tissue loading, circadian biology, gut-brain signaling, and genetic variation into a single organizing principle. The framework has a...
John Gruber writes about those annoying popups every website seems to have now and while he does a great job tearing into these ubiquitous, user-hostile patterns, one of the things that stood out to me about his piece was this meta commentary on blogging. Here’s John: If you visit a website you should ... see the...
It’s weird when this happens but some months are just full of things that feel like tasks rather than something I wanted to do. All of June has been full of nothing but talking about things that happened, physical objects, events, notes, reviews, and rather tangible shenanigans, other than my bike rides, those are...
My first memories of World Cup football are Mexico ’86. After Jock Stein died at the end of the qualifying match against Wales the previous year, some bloke called Alex Ferguson took over as manager. Not sure what happened to him after that though. Scotland, as usual, didn’t make it out of the group stage back then,...
The name of this post comes from a swap I made with Zachary Kai, a thoughtful writer and blogger who kindly explained how his Title Traders directory works and agreed to help me try it out. (This is such a great idea, and it originated at Kami’s Corner.) As you might glean, “Tend To The Small Things” is the name of...
Is this for real?! It’s 16:09. I’m lying on the couch. There’s a fan trained on me, circulating at full tilt. The temperature is 26 °C (79 F) inside, 33 °C (92 F) outside, humidity is high. Come again?! I live in the fucking Netherlands. Summer is supposed to be pleasant here. The average historical (1991-2020)...
IT and cybersecurity hiring has a gatekeeping problem.I do not mean that every requirement is unfair. Some jobs really do need someone who has touched the system before. If a company needs a senior identity engineer, a cloud security architect, or someone who can lead incident response during a live breach, it is...
背包可能是除了电脑之外，我最看重的通勤装备。过去用的是 Bellroy，起了换包的念头，是因为几次大雨把包淋透之后，开始有点担心里面的电子产品。英国的雨来的太不讲道理。 新背包现在用了 10 个月，非常满意，是 21L 的 Able Carry Daily Plus。这个容量很适合通勤，不会显得臃肿，也足够放下日常所需。 它的外观比较内敛，但又与常规电脑包不同，没那么中规中矩，保留了一些辨识度。 我比较喜欢它的几个地方： 用料扎实，电脑仓有离地间隙，能比较随意的放在地上。 X-Pac材料，防水。 空包也很立体，不塌。 肩带厚实，背负体验好。 收纳位足够，快取袋很深，日常拿东西比较方便。 隐藏式水壶仓，让背包外观比较整齐圆润。...
This week’s episode of Upgrade (which I listened to on a longish drive yesterday) has a preview of Jason Snell and Myke Hurley’s upcoming Designed in California podcast. No, not the “Road to the Apple II” series they’ve been squeezing into the Upgrade feed these past few weeks. This sneak preview—with special guest...
Last night I received an email from one of the large supermarkets. It was a product recall. I've never had such an email before, but it was quite clear that I had bought the product. I wondered how they knew, but quickly realised they would have all my purchase data via my loyalty card. Reading further into the...
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-8461 for the project FFmpeg, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix an out-of-bounds write in the MagicYUV decoder (libavcodec/magicyuv.c) caused by improper bounds checking, resulting in...
Blowing bubbles: This is an S-tier coping skill honestly. My hands are occupied. Breathing in and out has a purpose. I watch the bubbles float away and pop! Going "Louis Theroux mode": Louis' awkwardness, curiosity, and dry wit is his superpower, especially during his early days. I have this particular strain of...
An incomplete list of the Byzantine exarchs (vice-emperors) of the Exarchate of Ravenna.
I'm almost thereOn Tuesday, I finished week 8 of the program. The 3 runs followed this format: 5-minute warm-up walk 28-minute run 5-minute cool-down walk I picked a slightly different route for the first run. I ran very slowly while listening to Nina Simone and Otis Redding. On the second run, I felt an extra boost...
On the most recent episode of The Talk Show podcast, this monologue from Jason Snell made me nod my head (the passage starts at 1:35:47): [… Apple] decides to do a big feature. The circus comes to town, they build the feature, they launch it, they leave town, and that feature sits there. And the problem is, there’s...
Long Claude Code sessions eat a lot of context, fast. Each response injects tokens into the context window: prose-heavy replies burn through it faster than terse ones ($$). caveman is a Claude Code plugin that switches the model into a compressed communication style: drops articles, filler words, and pleasantries...
So, this whole "to buy Coffee, or not to buy Coffee, that is the question"-thing got me thinking a bit more: In my original post on the topic I made a call to "normalize giving" and I've been thinking: are there more ways of doing that, other than the giving itself? And then I thought: hey, we got all these commonly...
A walkstreet in Hermosa Beach, the last block before the sand. So much more pleasant without cars. ハーモサビーチにあるウォークストリート。砂浜の手前、最後のブロックだ。車がいないと、ずいぶん気持ちがいい。
Gladiator II llegó rodeada de polémica y críticas. Está claro que Gladiator es una de las mejores películas dirigidas por Ridley Scott y su secuela tenía que estar a la altura. Como ya pasa en la primera parte nos encontramos una película donde prima la acción frente a cualquier exactitud histórica. Una vez aclarado...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Wild few days but I'm nothing if not determined to see this project through till at least Wind and Waves come out. Anyway, in today's post we don't have a lot of icons. In fact, we have some pretty goddamn forgettable Pokemon designs. They were all...
My quick and dirty solution to avoid spamming your feed with crap.
James has been making quite a few quizzes! They’re all good fun and interestingly accurate! My result: I am a “Link Curator” and “Author”. [For up-to-date content, visit BurgeonLab directly (XML feeds don't fetch updates in real-time). For topic-specific feeds, visit /subscribe. Thanks for reading my blog using a...
Accendo l’auto, stamattina, distratto come al solito. Sul display da 85 pollici, modestia a parte, compare un messaggio a tutto schermo: anomalia. Suggerisce di cambiare la batteria. Clicco ok. Il messaggio sparisce. “La farò controllare più tardi” mi dico, con la stessa convinzione con cui ci si dice che si inizia...
Francisco Trujillo at The Conversation: We have developed what we call an ultrasonic espresso: a room-temperature brewing process that uses high-frequency sound waves to extract the flavour, oils, aroma and caffeine from coffee grounds. The result is an espresso-strength coffee made in under three minutes, but...
Rogallo v0.2.0 is now available. This version fixes some issues with links, makes gemtext parsing better conform with the specification, and also makes it easier to see where a link will take you. The first issue is a fix to how page-relative links were resolved if the page you were viewing was the result of a...
In this piece on why he blogs, Noah Smith says that blogging has allowed me to inject ideas into the discourse with unparalleled speed, breadth, and access. A researcher goes deep into a few topics; a blogger can quickly hit the main points of many topics. This enables speed; academics might take months to write...
June 24, 2026 Earlier this month, I wrote a post titled "Someone convince me to use Chrome". Since then, I've been using Chrome as my primary browser. As a result, I've become more mindful of my site's browser analytics. Looking at my Vercel analytics over the last 30 days, one data point that continued to catch my...
As a special snowflake, one tends to want to make modification to tool configuration without messing with colleagues or make those changes a part of the project. For example, let’s say you have a pyrightconfig.json file in your project, slurped up by your editor’s Python Language Server Protocol (LSP): {...
A few years years ago the curl project signed up and became a CNA. This means that we are masters of and can allocate our own CVE identifiers. For any security problems within our territory, it is we who decides if the issue should get a CVE or not. No more bogus CVEs. 57 CVEs During these years we have published...
James Stark is back in town, and he's pissed. Eleven years ago, Stark’s magician ‘friends’ turned against him and sent him to Hell, where Stark spent all of that time battling demons in an arena. Oddly, each time he got torn apart or nearly died, he got better and became more powerful in the process. After achieving...
I was writing a controller that watches Kubernetes HPAs and Istio VirtualServices for changes and coordinates between the two. Both watchers feed updates into the same reconciliation loop, and the loop needs to act on whatever the current state is, not replay a backlog of intermediate states it missed while it was...
Uh-oh, found a new garden center.Currently Listening: Semisonic “Don't Give Up Yet”Reply via email
Xavier de Maistre in an armchair, displaying his “book of discoveries” (Veyssier, 1860) Every so often I like to include a public domain image in a blog post. I’m fond of the woodblock and lithographic illustrations of the late 1800s. I try to avoid indiscriminately (un-)splashing every post but the real reason for...
Shall I end this life a pauper? If AI can do all work at human level or better, what stops corporations replacing us all with AI? This is the permanent underclass meme. The idea is: within a few years, all white collar work will be automated by AI, at which point there is no social mobility. The main way people cope...
The things I write the most are thoughts, ideas, introspections, because for me is hard to write about my life. It doesn't have to do with the fact of if I publish it or not, generally I can't write about my life even in my private notebook. Every attempt to have a journal hasn't been successful because of this...
My phone will ring some time in the next hour. It will be my Dad. He will be having a problem with his television. He will probably be pretty cross about it. He won't ask me to fix the problem. He will just blurt out "It's not doing anything." It's the same way a pre-schooler announces "I'm thirsty" instead of...
A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger. Continuing the John Grisham streak, this ie one of the few movies I knew about, but never seen. Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in their prime do a great job at filling the roles, but the whole ocnspiracy thingie feels a bit flat for me,...
I have to publish this now, we’re already halfway through W26. Current situation: JUST KIDDING I am actually inside staring at a computer instead of lying on my back in a meadow staring up at the sky. But I did see these nice clouds earlier today. Monday 08 June: The U of Ark college visit. Zeke really likes it and...
I have linked to videos from OTR a few times on my link blog but this one deserves a post on here. It’s a feature-length documentary about the “Golden Triangle” within Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, the history how it became the center of the global drug trade and how it in many ways still is. A fascinating story of...
I keep finding new gaps in my webmention implementation. Mentions coming in from Bluesky, Lemmy and Lobsters were showing up with no author at all, just a blank avatar and an empty name. Reddit and Hacker News bookmarks fared a bit better, with a username attached, but got flattened into a generic “bookmarked” icon...
J’écris pour pratiquer ma Français. Il y a plein des fautes en ces notes ci. Collectivement ces sont la réflection de ma qualité en présent. Je crois que tous que je publies est corrigible. Pas seulement les textes Françaises, dont je pratiques la langue, mais la totalité de mes publications. Il y aucun instance de...
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TIMBRE NOVELAS WIKIPÉDICAS[La Jornada, Martes 16 de junio, 2026]Hace no mucho Olga Tokarczuk dijo, o entiendo que dijo, que ha utilizado los recursos de la Inteligencia Artificial para llevar a cabo investigaciones preliminares para su próxima novela. También declaró que adquirió un modelo de lenguaje premium al que...
Seguramente necesitas esta cama para que tu esponja de lavado descanse plácidamente. ¡Cómpralo ahora! En Argentina las llamamos “bolucompras”, que sería “compras boludas”. Boludo es algo así como estúpido, aunque si lo buscas en la RAE significa otra cosa, pero en mi país tiene múltiples significados, y se usa para...
In 2014 I decided to try my hand at writing a book. I did, and it was terrible. Then in 2018 I tried again and wrote something not terrible but not great. Neither of these books had anything in common. In art school you are told you need to pick a style, or create a style. That way you stand out and become something...
2026-06-24Hello! This is now the oldest photo I've uploaded to the website.This is from my offline 2025 series, and I've talked about why I don't like looking at my past work. At least this time, I got creative with motion blur.It seems like anyone with a camera would try to take a photo like this, at any subway or...
The first trailer for the Taika Waititi directed adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel, Klara and the Sun has landed. I’m not one to complain about differences between the book and its movie counterpart — mainly because adapting a novel for the big screen is far from straightforward — but this two minute glimpse...
On this day ten years ago – the day the result of the Brexit referendum was announced – I was walking in Surrey, where I took this picture. This is what politicians used to look like (take note, Andy Burnham)...https://nigeness.blogspot.com/2016/06/picture-of-day.html