Mon Jun 29
So with today’s writing prompt, I’m meant to answer “What’s a time you followed your gut and it turned out to be exactly right?” Which is hilarious. Because my gut isn’t some wise, mystical oracle. My gut is just a tight little ball of localized panic. The administrative nightmare of existing inside my own body is...
As June closes and the last-half of the year quickly approaches, I want to share posts I had pleasure (re)visiting during the first-half. Scroll to find a selection from my blogroll. At this moment, I am making every attempt to convince myself that I’ve run out of things to ponder on, weighted under the growing...
It's been roughly 23 years since my path virtually crossed with Alan's. And this week? They crossed in real life.Currently Listening: Dredg “El Cielo”Reply via email
The following is an entry from my journal. An entry from my journal. I comment at length on two articles, one about incels and the other about a scientist, to make a general point on the centrality of community. Earlier today I read two articles: Do violent incels dream of orgies in the sky? by Valerie Stivers for...
Bill Buxton’s “long nose of innovation” is the standard antidote to breakthrough mythology. A technology that seems to arrive overnight has almost always been gestating, quietly and invisibly, for decades — a long flat nose — before it reaches the steep cliff of adoption that everyone mistakes for the invention. The...
I praised ⌘⇥ recently in my essay for cleverly not showing itself when you press the keys really fast. Here’s another nice detail. If you press and hold ⌘⇥, you will eventually stop at the end. (You can then press ⌘⇧⇥ or ⌘` to go in the other direction.) However, if you are already at the end, pressing ⌘⇥ again...
The English-educated Chinese in Malaysia are dying out, and that could be a good thing. I am what many Malaysians would call a banana: Chinese, but more proficient in English. To others, I’m not “banana” enough, because by some freak of geography and luck, I can converse badly in Mandarin and in a rare form of...
Beginning with fall 2025, I started establishing seasonal themes at The New Leaf Journal. My fall 2025 and winter and spring 2026 themes were a bit catch-all and arguably under-utilized. But that changes with summer 2026, because I have settled on a clear and distinct topical theme that will not go under-utilized....
Last year, around Labor Day, I visited five of Louis Sullivan’s jewel box banks: Farmers and Merchants Union Bank in Columbus, Wisconsin National Farmers’ Bank in Owatonna, Minnesota Henry Adams Building in Algona, Iowa Merchant’s National Bank in Grinnell, Iowa People’s Savings Bank in Cedar Rapids, Iowa These all...
Today I turn 45 which is, if you think about it, half of 90! And also about 30 years older than I feel on the inside! What is age? What is time? What is reality? I certainly don’t know. Current situation: Pretty flowers Goobie says No journal ONLY PET. Monday 22 June: Study anatomy! Work! Lily to therapy! Go to the...
Dear reader,Marxism, propaganda, and forcing views. These were some reactions on browser company Vivaldi’s social channels when it published a blog post supporting LGBTQ people.Many argued that Vivaldi should focus on improving its browser instead of making political statements. As if these two cannot exist at the...
Boss Fight Books es una editorial especializada en libros sobre videojuegos. Tienen unas cuantas decenas de títulos publicados. Éste es el primero que leo. La primera vez que escuché sobre Animal Crossing fue en la escuela. Me cambié de escuela para segundo de bachillerato y trataba de encajar. Me hice amigo de un...
Pretty big month for the web. Tons of great posts came out, Apple WWDC took place and a few shocking acquisitions happened as well. I have been travelling for work and with family this month a lot so no other crazy updates from my personal life this month, but as always great music recommendations for you all and a...
Eu sempre fui fã do terminal. Como bom Linux aficionado, usar o terminal virou algo rotineiro, preferível até. Gosto da simplicidade, de como as coisas são constantes. Inclusive, esse foi um dos motivos de ter aprendido a usar Tmux com as hotkeys padrão, mas eu entro nesse assunto em uma postagem futura....
There’s some new default whitespace handling in the latest version of Astro! I noticed that when I updated my blog template (this blog! Right here!) to the new Astro 7.0, a bunch of words and spacing were broken up in weird ways. Turns out, in the brand new Rust compiler, there’s some very specific JSX changes....
CJ Chilvers: Before influencers, there were bloggers. Before bloggers, there were TV stars, rock stars, and movie stars. Call them whatever you want, but individuals have always been the drivers of engagement and trust. This is a point Alex Cowen reiterated in a recent talk given in the UK. It seems to me you don’t...
Learn how to play this TCG and use the fan-made client, then come play in our casual tournaments!!
(image courtesy of OlgaNovikovaArtist) tonight, a girl, streaming tears she no longer cares to hide remembers the distant shape of a boy she use to know. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ a shape that used to close its weary eyes each night, eyelids seared red from the tireless plucking for long, dark lashes of possibility to place on the...
The vibeThis week still felt heavy in a lot of ways. I was not really feeling like myself for part of it, and the stress and anxiety from everything going on has definitely been hanging around. At the same time, I kept trying to move things forward where I could: writing, site cleanup, the how-to series, and a few...
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Hot take: if you feel comfortable with Markdown, you don’t need an editor that displays the formatting. Any plain text editor will do. The rest is just fluff.
本月摘要 抓住机会去蹦了妹宝李泳知的现场。Repo 正式抛弃手机端 Obsidian，开始在苹果笔记里记电子笔记和日记，用 Forever Notes 框架整理。 女朋友的美留网友来大阪，借机自驾去了玩了半天，在日本夕阳百选之一的海边看到了绝美落日。每次租车都是一样，在去提车的路上狂搜开车教程，拿驾照两年还是依然要贴上初心者标识才安心，总之又是一次安全出行。 和女朋友在一起一千天了。没有太隆重地过，但是她给我买了我看中很久的卡包，我之后给她付学潜水的学费。 剪了和高中时期差不多长度的短发，给理发师看照片的时候被说是男式发型XD 最后效果非常满意。 到信贵山高安山远足，造访了柏原市的葡萄酒庄，葡萄酒和葡萄汁都很好喝 =w=...
2024 Toyota Rav4 Cost of Ownership Analysis - Forecast vs Actual [!topics] Topics: FIRE 2024 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid XSE Summary Back in 2024 we purchased a Toyota RAV4 Hybrid. Before the purchase I modeled the expected costs of various other make/models/trims. For the RAV4 we estimated ~$13.6k / year cost of ownership,...
This weekend, on the way home from a drive-in event at the mighty Mahoning (largest screen in the US! only 35mm projecting drive-in left!), the Simulwatch crew and I stopped off at Timeline Arcade in York, PA. We dropped $10 a piece for an hour of time in their substantial arcade. Their front room has a nice mix of...
Few months ago Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines… This blog post on Unstory is short, but really impactful. 5 paragraphs, and will never rank for anything, but it’s hit me more than any blog post I remember in the past few months. I often think about short blog posts, born of the school of a minimum of 300...
I've gotten both a baby and now a teen cardinal on my lifer list, I'm so stoked lmao Ok so like, a month ago I photographed a baby cardinal who was learning how to fly and was this awkward little frumpy mess - but today?? TODAY I GOT TO SEE THEM MORE GROWN UP and it's fucking glorious. Please observe!!! The color...
In my employment contract there is no mention of productivity or an expected outcome. The one thing that is stated: I give time, I receive money, which means I trade time for money. Wouldn't it make more sense to demand something that is more valuable to my company than time? Time alone does not help them in any...
Over the years, we have received, read and handled way over one thousand vulnerability reports filed against curl. We have seen most kinds. It is time for me to try to help future reporters by providing a short guide on how to submit a truly excellent vulnerability report to an Open Source project. Researchers We...
Moments, a beautiful photo sharing, quiet community, site has revealed their pricing. As an early member —sorry Founding Supporter— I get the opportunity to pay $89/year for some additional features. Is free still worth it? Is their paid for tier good enough to stump up the cash? I’ll admit when I first signed up...
June 2026. Yereven. At ten to nine, the whole city of Yerevan seemed to descend on Republic Square. And bang on nine, the singing fountains outside the national museums and Government buildings came to life. Press PLAY to try to identify the classical piece being played. Quite a cultured lot, the Armenians; the...
In December I wrote Forty-two about being forty-two percent of the way through my career break. Time has flown since then. Today the progress bar reads one hundred percent. What I said I would do When I announced the break in May last year, the plan was straightforward: a seven-week trip through the UK (with many...
The 1876 Centennial was an all-out party in Gotham—fireworks, military parades, musical performances, and thousands of American flags and bunting draped over the windows of city buildings, houses, and hotels. But the Sesquicentennial, or America’s 150th birthday? By comparison, it was much more low-key. The big...
Announcing: The Drupalers Webring abmurrow Tue, 30 Jun 2026 - 11:15
2026-06-29Hello! I'm getting into the weeds of camera fundamentals and physics.I was talking with my friend who lent me this camera regarding the focus customization of it in real-world use after my comment a few days ago.The camera focuses fine! I captured this photo handheld from above. It has great focus on the...
“The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.” Long before there was Yo-Yo Ma, there was Spanish Catalan cellist and conductor Pablo Casals (December 29, 1876–October 22, 1973), regarded by many — including Yo-Yo Ma — as the greatest cellist...
Kelp washed up on the shore creates a nice composition amid small waves at Rat Beach in Torrance. 砂浜 トーランスのラット・ビーチ(通称) では、岸に打ち上げられた昆布が、小波の中で美しい構図を作り出している。
Today a little stone hit our car window. I thought it was a stone. It looked like a small very dark pebble, about 2 cm, but then someone in the car said that it could be a small meteorite, I found that idea so funny that it stayed in my mind, it probably will for more time now (because writing it down will better...
Content warning: sexual assault. Every year, I receive a glowing review from my employer, effusive, even. But each year, I dread the review. ‘This time, it’s going to be bad,’ I think. ‘I’m sure my boss was annoyed with me by the tone of their last teams message’. ‘I can sense that she wants to replace me’. ‘It’s...
That was part of Rebecca Tuvel’s answer to a question from journalist Evan Goldstein about “the benefits of almost getting canceled.” [Annie Vought, “Demeter” (detail)]Professor Tuvel (Rhodes College) was interviewed recently by Goldstein for the Chronicle of Higher Education. It was nine years ago, readers may...
I love flying, even though I rarely do so -- I'm not one for travel. But when I get the chance to fly I find it hard to not just sit there, staring out of the window, marvelling at the view. Today I got the chance to get a pretty good view of the area close to where I used to live when I first started this blog (and...
If you are using uv to manage your python dependencies, you may run into difficulties when trying to execute a script from within a cron job, as the virtual environment has to be activated first. If you came for a quick answer, the solution is below. The key points are that you should use the full path to the uv...
🗓️ 22 to 28 juneThe weeknotes are back! I was sitting down to edit my now page, looked for my notes for it, and found some old weeknotes instead. I realised I missed some parts of it, so here we go again :Dfavourite thing this weekSuch a great talk with my ergo therapist. She was so kind and showed me a great new...
Probabil că știi deja de Chat Control, propunerea Comisiei Europene care ar obliga platformele de mesagerie să scaneze automat toate conversațiile private ale utilizatorilor, inclusiv cele criptate end-to-end, și să raporteze orice conținut suspect direct la poliție. Dacă nu știai, acum știi, și vestea proastă e că...
Distinción del Festival de Estepona, dirigida «a creadores que han difuminado las fronteras entre géneros literarios mediante la experimentación» Una obsesión por la literatura tiene algo de manía honesta. (Vila-Matas a Juan Marqués en el diálogo posterior a la entrega del premio.