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I’ve been very happy with my Y1 MP3 player over the past 9 or so months. I take it with me everywhere! It’s a companion on my commute, it’s a focus tool in my open office, it’s a way to have a single-purpose device that doesn’t have the...
Personal websites. I have some thoughts...
We had packed lunches every day for 10 years and retired at 40 Auntie Beeb Just reading an article about the FIRE (Financially Independent, Retire Early) movement and I have Opinions™. First, my obligatory declaration that I'm not...
June is over! Did you know this month was my birthday? Yeah it’s kinda crazy, a lot has changed, I am twenty six now yet more than half the movies I watched were Direct-to-DVD 50 minute films made to sell action figures! More things...
This morning got a slightly later start on a few things I wanted to write on. I ended up with morning coffee at home with the morning music I enjoy and kinda let the blog down. I like starting something earlier. It never matters what it...
Postcard photo of footprints on the sand at sunset. On the beach at Longfellow St. ロングフェローの足元 夕暮れ時の砂浜に刻まれた足跡を写した絵葉書。ロングフェロー通りが浜辺に突き当たる場所にて。
Last year I got myself a PO Box and started asking Internet strangers to send me a postcard, if they liked, rather than plain old email and contact forms. Since then, I’ve enjoyed an occasional surprise “postcard from the Internet”, and...
Celebrate with Taurine
Dear Self, You visit Bubbles every day, and with good reason. You are finding new voices, interesting sites, and realising that the internet you loved all those years ago is still out there, you’d just forgotten how to look. It’s a great...
Yesterday I went to Safeway–a grocery store in town we only go to once or twice a year–because they’re the only store in the area currently carrying the (very good) Waterloo Root Beer Float seltzer. Safeway was our primary our first...
For the last couple of days when it was really hot I had my big fan running almost 24/7: during the day to bring some respite through moving air and during the night to make sure that the cooler air from outside makes it into the parts...
A swan and their cygnets on the bank of the River Bulbourne by The Old Mill, Berkhamsted. Boiling. In the UK we are not equipped to live through day after day of mid-30s°C heat, with the temperature only dropping into the mid-20s...
Some reflections while cataloguing my playing card collection.
I've just updated BagOfStuff with a change and addition, in anticipation of some work I'll be doing on Rogallo in the near future. The change is a small and simple one, adding del support to the history classes. The addition is a simple...
My dinner for June 27 was delivered by a courier bubbling over in delight about the coming Fourth of July, which he identified as my national day (adding that he was Peruvian and his national days came at the end of July — surprising...
2026-07-02Hello!I'm writing this after watching Kimberly Clark's fight against excessive consumer culture. She produced a guide to stop shopping addiction — with a theme song! This five-video long series on overconsumption is amazing....
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. ¡El boletín de noticias de la FSF está aquí! La Free Software Foundation (FSF) es una organización...
I was popping off about negation being an act of creativity, when Blake Watson introduce me to the idea of the “This Page Intentionally Left Blank”-Project (Internet Archive): In former times printed manuals had some blank pages, usually...
I published “Thank You, Canada” yesterday morning, on Canada Day, listing a bunch of things I appreciate Canada for, and the first thing on the list was universal healthcare. Well, 6 hours later—thanks to the forces unbeknownst to us—I...
Quería compartir mi opinión respecto al anuncio que dio ayer Sony sobre sus planes de abandonar el formato físico en PlayStation para 2028. No es una noticia que me haya tomado completamente por sorpresa; era algo inminente, pero...
Let's do some Julyreply shall we?? Photo unrelated, here's a sick-ass sunset from the other day As Junited has come to an end, its originator reached out about this little thing called JulyReply that sort of acts like a "yes, and" for...
Every couple of months I need to recharge my outside cameras. It is annoying but expected as batteries degrade over time. Temperatures in the weather from hot to cold affect the batteries too. My system is local and I don't use the cloud...
We just released Perfetto v57 and I wanted to share the new things I’m most excited about. This is something I wanted to do for past releases but I just never quite got round to it. It’s also something I plan on doing more of going...
I recently had a "phone support" call with my parents, where they needed help with their computers and smartphones and the internet router. They regularly ask me for help, because they're completely overwhelmed and out of their depth...
And here we are again, another half year has passed. Time to take a quick look back at my June. Well, not much actually happened … There was my trip to the office. I was in Schwäbisch Hall for a few days for the planning workshop that...
I always see these posts about ditching smartphones and going back to flip phones that only call and this and that. I assume these people don't use auth apps or phone 2FA. If you don't need them to access work or have a non cellular...
All the things that I wrote below were written on the first day of my holiday. A holiday that I took to solve some personal issues and refresh my mind a little bit. I'm better now, but I wanted to post this anyway because someone might...
Nice Marmot "Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man." Paradise Season 2 We finished watching Paradise Season 2 last night. I was wondering/hoping it'd wrap the whole thing up, but I guess we're getting a third...
I visited my eighth and final Louis Sullivan jewel box bank yesterday morning. The Purdue State Bank (now a Chase branch) is in West Lafayette, Indiana. As a graduate of the University of Illinois, I have thoughts about Purdue University...
Why ability can’t be factored from a single life A student with perfect pitch sits in a Mandarin classroom. Perfect pitch is close to an ideal endowment for a tonal language — the four tones are pitch contours, and she can hear them...
I admit it—I didn’t watch this drama because it had a compelling storyline or deep themes. The primary reason was that I wanted to support Zheng Yecheng, who I think does good work and need more publicity. Still, I was curious why he...
Things have felt heavier than I expected lately, and I have caught myself being more quiet than usual. Not in a dramatic way. Just one of those stretches where my brain feels a little slower to warm up, and the things that usually sound...
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Favicon Website. This entire website is served from inside the “favicon” — that little icon you...
June 2026. Sheffield. Thursday morning saw a bit of tension in the dining room at Tunbridge Wells’s Russell Hotel, which had kindly found Mrs RM a fan while I was out melting in London. You’ll remember Mrs RM had ordered the Full English...
Detesto el desorden. Detesto que cualquier objeto inanimado que se precie esté fuera de su sitio después de su uso. Así que detesto a las personas que, por ejemplo, al finalizar la compra de productos, dejan el carro del supermercado en...
So here is a new project on GitLab called NeXTClock: a small browser-based recreation of a NeXTSTEP-style clock applet from the 1990s. This modern version renders a 64-unit clock face into a square <canvas> using JavaScript and...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_-_Taskmaster_KB_for_Credential_Proxy.jpg}}|thumb|One of the pages in the KB]] Having a single store so I can query my second mind of things I've written down has always been something...
New links… Despite skepticism about philosophy as a whole, specific philosophical research programs make progress. But probably not yours. — Still, “you might be contributing to, even if not helping to constitute, philosophical...
Why read the book? R.C. Sproul wrote Can I Trust The Bible? It is a short and clear book from his Crucial Questions series. Sproul takes the most common objections people raise against the Bible and answers them one by one. He looks at...
Read What Do Moms Know About Fashion? now!Who do you find yourself relating to more in this story, the mother or daughter?As a very independent and strong-willed person, my younger self would have answered that question as definitely the...
I have found a peculiar delight in encryption, and particularly in using pgp-based asymmetric cryptography. This is especially useful for securing email communications, but doing so requires remembering to run M-x mml-secure-sign or...
I would say DeepSeek was the most accurate. 🤷🏼♂️ https://intheweights.com/p/kev-quirk 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.
I was looking for an alternative to Tinkercad to simulate building, coding, and running Arduino projects. SimulIDE Circuit Simulator seemed like an ideal candidate. SimulIDE is a simple real time electronic circuit simulator, intended...
Hace ya más de un año y medio que estoy en Mastodon. No sé bien la razón por la que entré. No soy de probar nuevas redes sociales, simplemente porque no me considero un usuario habitual que crea contenido en estas plataformas efímeras y...
Intended audience: data compression geeks. The Burrows-Wheeler transform takes a string as an input and rearranges its characters, grouping them by context. It is invertible with 𝒪(1) additional input, and together these properties give...
Replied to I Do Not Recommend Google Hardware by Marius (マリウス) For its first year or so, the Nexus 5 was actually a likeable phone ... Then the hardware started giving up. The battery, which had been mediocre to begin with, became...
My dumb-guy summary of Mosh is that it’s like SSH but feels almost like you’re typing locally and keeps your connection alive through internet blips, computers naps, etc. It’s fitting pretty nicely into my remote-dev rig.
These past 6 weeks have been quite tiring to me, and I have so many reasons to be so very tired of things right now. I’m doing what I can to enjoy the things I’m able to do, but, oh god do things suck right now, for so many people that I...
On making mistakes and not starting overLast week, I wrote a blog post that I now regret publishing. I felt it was too negative, I was complaining too much, and it didn’t feel particularly helpful to me or anyone else. In other words, it...
New vegan joint opened down from the studio. Currently Listening: Pneumatic Tubes “A Letter from TreeTops”Reply via email
Am citit un articol scris de Manuel Moreale, The AI Compass, despre cum discuțiile pe tema inteligenței artificiale se ciocnesc mereu pentru că unii o judecă după cât de bună sau rea e, iar alții după cât de mult schimbă cu adevărat...
For years I was firmly in the mechanical keyboard camp, and specifically a 60% person. No numpad, no function row, no arrow cluster, just the keys I actually used, in a footprint small enough to leave room for the mouse. A handful of...
This is my bike. This is my bike!! I have been riding bicycles regularly as an adult for the past 15 years or so. At one point, I was riding to and from work every single day, rain or shine, as my primary mode of transport, and it was...
Afgelopen 25 juni deed ik het openingspraatje van de Surf Privacy en Security Conferentie. Nou heb ik vaker over digitale autonomie gesproken, maar deze keer heb ik het nadrukkelijk meer over wat er nu moet gebeuren. Of zoals de titel...
…for exercising her First Amendment rights after the murder of Charlie Kirk. She did not, however, get her job back, but my guess she will walk away with more than one million of the settlement. Hopefully these kinds of payouts will...
Yes, late pictures are late. It happens. For the last couple of years Lyssa and I have gone back to DC to spend Thanksgiving with her family (my in-laws), and one of the things we do is see a hockey game while we're there. In 2024 it was...
Jack Loftus, at McSweeney’s:Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend its tired text and interpret the super-secret...
June has just ended, and it was fun to take part in Robert’s Junited campaign, even though I had a few days with gaps and only managed to collect 29 links. For my first time participating, though, that’s pretty near optimal. Today Robert...
a half-assed review"> In an alternative universe where Superman establishes a new world order under his iron fist, Batman and other heroes must fight back against Superman and those that have pledged their allegiance to his dictatorship....
Wednesday in EKSN wasn't looking promising airplane-wise, but I decided to bike there anyway, because a) the weather was wonderful, and b) I wanted to test our new backup bicycle that we bought second-hand. But no sooner had I reached...
Voy poco al cine. Pero cuando voy, la verdad es que creo que termino siempre en películas que me gustan. Y Supergirl ha sido una de ellas. Sin ser yo una persona muy de superhéroes, nada conocedora del universo DC, he disfrutado esta...