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On the surface it may seem that simplifying your (digital) life will feel like a breath of fresh air. In my experience it's the opposite of that. Complexity feels completely rational and comforting, while ruthless simplicity feels...
Remember when this used to be a book blog? No? Well here are some thoughts on Traveling Practice by Yusuke Norishiro and transated by Takami Nieda.
Yesterday I visited the Home Building Association Bank in Newark, Ohio, a Louis Sullivan jewel box bank built in 1914. It’s currently owned by the Licking County Foundation (oh, grow up), which restored it at considerable cost over...
Last year, my citizenship ceremony just missed July 1 by a couple of weeks, so today is my first Canada Day as a Canadian citizen. I moved to Canada in 2013 and have since completed two postsecondary degrees, had three different careers,...
body{ h1 { display: none; }} .title h1{ display: block; } I made this blog to get back to the tiny scribbles, the little things that I could make, and let those little things make me. I wanted those tiny scribbles to not just be the...
Since you landed on my blog, the chance is high you’re a tech-savvy web geek. If you publish stuff yourself, the chance is even higher that you came across standard.site, a set of lexicons to sync your writing with the AT Protocol....
Quoted World Cup debrands mega stadiums by Matty Merritt (Morning Brew) It’s the first day of the World Cup, and in addition to sporting fresh new grass fields and extra tall beer cans, 11 stadiums across the US have scrubbed thousands...
….as well as remarks by the four commentators: Hans Halvorson, James Ladyman, Michela Massimi, and Kyle Stanford.
Uit een vandaag verschenen onderzoeksrapport (PDF) blijkt dat de AIVD en MIVD slordig en soms onrechtmatig omgaan met bulkdatasets. Bulkdatasets zijn grote bestanden vol data over vaak miljoenen willekeurige mensen, data die op een of...
The most popular link last time was this (now paywalled) Ask Molly column, with the Guardian review of my husband's new book, Lady C, second. As a barbecue hater, I enjoyed this.A Q&A with an interesting writer, who gives the only truly...
¡Lista de palabras para este mes! Salieron muchas interesantes, siento que puede dar para historias divertidas :) Fichero Articulación Derrotar Poste Conducto Sabor Relleno Vicio Minigolf Barcelona Para más información sobre este reto,...
George Thomas, writing at The Atlantic:Yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts delivered what conservative originalists have long been rooting for: overturning Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. That 90-year-old decision, which the...
There’s a huge golf tournament happening near the co-working spot I work from, the Riverside U.S. Senior Open 2026. It’s been cool seeing the course prepare for this event over the past 2 months. First the fences went up, then they...
I've been quite tired lately, and I suspect this is because I haven't taken a midday nap in some time. Even after my morning caffeine dose, I still go about my day with much fatigue, but it's been tough trying to nap because even though...
July already, and my late mother's birthday (she'd have been 105 today) – and it's Canada Day, marking the anniversary of the Canadian Confederation, formed on this day in 1867. It was on Canada Day in 1980 that 'O Canada' became the...
Joan writes about how they encounter people that bring an "AI Note taker" to every catch-up and meeting. Recording every word, and transcribing it. (Or is it mutilate? You never know with those things!). And they feel unsafe to say they...
It was ten, maybe eleven years ago. I was picking my oldest kid from school, he was 4 or 5. When he came out, I gave him a hug. We walked to the car, I buckled him into his car seat, and hugged him again. "Hey, dad, why are you hugging...
June 2026. London. A day at the in-laws, bearing up in the Tunbridge Wells heat better than me, and then the 17:10 into Charing Cross for a gig. The rail advice was not to travel unless absolutely necessary. I asked ChatGPT for guidance....
Remember when Marie Kondo was telling us all to ask if things "spark joy"? And we all lost our damn minds folding our underwear into perfect rectangles and arguing over whether we were allowed to own more than 35 books? Good times....
Recently, I wrote about using Go's net/http/httptrace to get the per-phase timing breakdown for HTTP requests - DNS, TCP, TLS, and server processing. After writing about that package, I wanted to know what the same breakdown costs in...
Perhaps we see something of the future when we look to the past. Chloe VS History, a YouTube channel, presents significant chapters of our history, hosted by a buoyant young woman named Chloe, a would-be time traveller, and seen through...
My recipe for not hating myself consists of three elements: 1. Keep changing -- and by changing, I mean improving, and by improving, I don't mean "be more productive." I mean be a better person today than I was yesterday. Better means...
El próximo 1 de septiembre John Ternus asumirá el cargo de CEO en Apple. La compañía de Cupertino es una de las más rentables del mundo, pero tiene un futuro repleto de retos. El anuncio de este cambio se hizo en abril, cuando la...
Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 2: The Middle Ages. It is the second book in his clear and readable church history series. This volume covers the long medieval period from the fall of the Western...
Il y a une semaine, le 24 juin, c’était la fête nationale du Québec. Beaucoup de bleu. Aujourd’hui, c’est la fête nationale du Canada. Beaucoup de rouge. Même si au Québec, le 1er juillet, c’est plutôt la journée des déménagements : la...
Thought I was done adding new pages to my link directory, but no. This time a really small one, that collects a few strays from other sections, and mostly balances things out. There are now one hundred links per page on average, which...
Heute ist der Einsendeschluss für den elften Zinetausch von zines.cool und ich habe—mit leicher Verspätung, sorry Jenni—auch was fabriziert. Mein Beitrag fällt unter die Kategorie PerZine, kurz für Personal Zine, und enthält einige...
rabbit rabbit rabbit, the sultry bunnies of July! But they are no match for Mononga Hela, the monstrous snake that swallows fat Carnegie melons, prodigious feral boars, and of course entire railway trains whole — the fearsome creature...
Zack Rhodes is a Northern Ca based cartoonist enjoying the many jokes that life and fatherhood throw at him. Innovator of Free Art Friday in Sonoma County. Receiver of a Community Enrichment Merit award. Currently getting beat up by his...
ADHD maybe?I started 18-20 hours fasting x4 a week since end of March. Like magic, seriously like magic, for the last 2 months, I have been able to keep my house spotless clean (where I would often go a month without even dusting...
La creación del contenido de una cápsula Gemini es muy sencilla, y su limitación una virtud en los tiempos que correnFuente: ENTRE DRAGONES Y PINGÜINOS
Bring ihm back some trance of clips apocalypse. Shown by winds along meridians and the broken Portal of Forgetting.
Today was nice earlier for walking. I went to Family Cafe which is a nice walk for my morning coffee. It’s been some time since going but there’s this nice sense of sitting outdoors with the drink. The buzz of conversation in Khmer in...
Dieser Post wurde sehr schnell geschrieben und nicht auf seine Falschheit überprüft. [7/1000] Hatte am Wochenende die Ehre (?) eine Masterarbeit über den Wandel des Journalismus unter Bedingung seiner Plattformisierung zu lesen, und ich...
Essa a é a segunda vez que eu vou tentar escrever sobre um álbum. Mas é a primeira vez que eu vou estar incluindo as fotos do álbum em si. Eu sempre quis poder apresentar música junto da parte visual que é a produção do disco e encarte....
This essay is adapted from Traversal. She is looking at the staff lines of a strange symphony in blue, her cautious disbelief punctured by a burst of delirious wonderment. Brushes and tubes of paint are scattered about her — paint she...
TL;DR: I've updated the Plankton Valhalla Bestiary. Did you know that Aether Mug has an older sister website? It's called Plankton Valhalla and I publish my essays there (go check it out!). I started it back in 2022 as a repository of...
A disjointed post that slides into the future to mention an email digest I've been toying with. Currently Listening: Fensler Films “G.I. Joe PSA Compilation”Reply via email
Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely. In fact, the human genome is less a script than a puzzle that gets harder the closer they look. Knowing the entire...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. In which I briefly comment on the books I read each month, so a few years from now when I’m trying to remember one of them, I’ll be able to find it here. Since I’m a media omnivore, it also...
BAIRD WHITLOCK AS AUTOLOCHUS: This Hebrew is son of the one God, the God of this far-flung tribe. And why shouldn’t God’s anointed appear here, among these strange people, in this strange place? Here, Gracchus, in this sundrenched land....
Me pongo a pensar cuantos boletines que seguía en Substack dejaron de publicar, quedando allí pausados por largo tiempo sin saber si volverán. Pienso en las modas de una nueva plataforma en que todos quieren subirse, ser vistos, leídos....
2026-07-01Hello!I photographed the Patrouille de France in the skies above Baltimore, a city in the US. Eight military aircraft left colored trails of smoke of red, white, and blue as part of various celebrations around the US.I was...
TLWR1: If you want to help Venezuela but don’t know how, donate to World Central Kitchen, share the link, or donate and share the link. ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ ⦁ As a man constantly beset by overthinking-paralysis, I am struck in times of crisis with a...
Happy July! Here are a few photos from my phone from the last month with neither rhyme nor reason to the theme. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.
Writing: The Textbook Case Part 4 Watching: Trainwreckords Playing: Portal & UT2K4 Tinkering: Keep reading... Same shit, different day(s). There seems to be some sunny skies ahead, but on the whole, the struggle is still very real. It's...
After spending a few years in the realm of split ergonomic keyboards, I had mostly stopped paying attention to regular mechanical keyboards. Times sure have changed though; what used to require group buys, long waits, and a suspicious...
There were more lagoons on the coast of Venetia than what exists today, and even the lagoon landscapes were different. In fact, had it been left to nature, there would have been no lagoons today.
I loved Lee Lai’s first graphic novel, Stone Fruit, so when I heard that her newest book had won a lot of awards I determined to keep my eye out for it at the library. I finally got it the other day, and it is really good. It’s about a...
This is a guest post by Yuki about some tricks we use for Lua code compression in our shared ComputerCraft pet project. I’ve written about how we adapted bzip2 for this purpose earlier; this story is an installment that takes place in...
The US Department of Education has issued a new rule that makes the availability of Federal financial aid for students conditional on whether the programs the students are enrolled in meet an “earnings premium” criteria. According to a...
The last few months have been intense, so I haven’t updated the newsletter, but here I am. I also haven’t been watching as many Chinese dramas as usual. I tried to finish Zhan Zhao Adventures (emphasis on try). The drama had everything...
As threatened in my last post, here is the continuation of the diary of our holiday in Brittany. See earlier Brittany posts : Holiday in Brittany: August 1999 Holiday in Brittany – August 1999. Part 2. Holiday in Brittany: August 1999....
When something terrible happens, we reach for one of two boxes. The person was a monster — there were signs, there always are, and if we look hard enough we’ll find them. Or the person was ordinary and something in them broke, an...
One of the Summer Sessions gigs that takes over one part of Bellahouston Park, last night saw Alanis Morissette headlining a line-up of amazing female led bands. Local Glasgow band Lucia and the Best Boys were already on stage when we...
I read a comment stating that git (a tool programmers use to collaborate on code, sort of like Word’s Track Changes) is not a version control system but a “system for creating a version control system.” That got me thinking about other...
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Introduction An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks. JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites Handy guide to how JSON-LD can be useful for personal websites. TownSquare On the one...
Remember me While you drown in ancient waters lured by a shadow's promise of comfort remember me Whenever bitter frost shortens your breath and the hierophant's teachings ring hollow remember me Once nobody recalls your brave foray into...
Como se ve que no me puedo estar quieto, estoy probando muy suavemente un nuevo diseño para algunos posts. Lo he pensado sobre todo para posts largos. Podéis verlo en este post de hace unos días, “El momento adecuado”, y además así lo...