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Dept: Office of Patriotic SustenanceTruthiness: 250%Title: Chief Cooking OfficerFineprint: Who needs to eat anyway?Mode: menuOkay team, it falls to us to assemble the greatest menu of American dishes ever comb-bound into a booklet to be...
TALKIN SHIT Cardinals all the way down, man. Quick sidenote: celebrating my country feels pretty gross in normal times and these are far from normal times, so if you too are in the states: may your weekend be hopefully filled with like,...
I am an absolute sucker for female protagonist urban fantasy surrounding books and libraries, and this is a good example of that sub-sub-sub-genre. Sitting in the Venn diagram intersection of library-based urban fantasy and disabled...
June 2026. Apperley Bridge. West Yorkshire. Back on the Cask Camino last Sunday, which seems to be the regular date solely on account of the Travelodges on the way being £30 rather than £189 that day, at least till we get to Skipton. We...
Do you remember the little drama with Apple and Google proposing two contradicting ideas about the native CSS way for masonry layout implementation? It is all over, and what we got is a beautiful compromise between the two in a the form...
Happy Birthday America! You did it. 250 years old. Well done!We just won’t ask those guys over there about it though (you know, the natives). Anyway, as Aimee Mann says: Today’s the Fourth of JulyAnother June has gone byAnd when they...
The best thing that happened this week It's been a really productive week with a lot of meetings (yes, those can be productive) and work done. I'm currently moving slowly on the migration of our production cluster to use Envoy Gateway....
Quick bump to BagOfStuff. v1.2.0 adds something I totally forgot yesterday. While adding the del method to the history classes, to make it easier for me to manipulate them as if they had the interface of a Python list, I totally forgot...
Setting sun reflects in the water at 5th St. in Hermosa Beach. 5thストリートのサンセット ハーモサビーチ、5thストリートの水面に映る夕日。
Another small update from me today. I have news! It's small news, but still, I hope the Bear Blog community can take this and use it. I finally have a theme based on my blog in Bear Blog's theme directory! It's called Low Vision Reader....
Equal Earth • Greenwich Meridian A world map for everyone The Equal Earth Wall Map is for schools, organizations, or anyone who needs a map showing countries and continents at their true sizes relative to each other. Africa appears 14...
I blog because I want to share knowledge. That’s how I have fun. It feels rewarding to sit down and formulate your thoughts after spending a week researching a topic for a side project. Oftentimes, such topics are largely unexplored:...
Compañerxs, como ya muchxs saben, soy una persona autista con comorbilidades debido a un apagón autista prolongado, lo que me lleva a convivir con una fibromialgia. Hoy recurro a mis redes de apoyo para poder seguir resistiendo a este...
Welcome to the firt day of our hiking-vacation in the Fränkische Schweiz. If you think that we had a relaxed and lazy start .. you might be wrong. It was a day full of caves, forests and gorgeous views ...
Hey everybody, I have a really important update for you all. Anastasia has found a new spot to sleep in, and it’s fucking fabulous. She found it the other day when I was going through an old cabinet for my lady things (pads), and OMG why...
John Gruber, on the question of why Claude’s Mac app is an “Electron clunker”:Finding out that one guy — who is a senior Electron maintainer — has led the teams for the desktop clients for Slack, Notion, and now Claude is like...
2026-07-03Hello! Short article today after yesterday's ramble.This is just some props that I had lying around: a deck of cards, a cardboard box, some paper, and a printer. And a flashlight. I set the cards at the perfect position to stay...
It’s also the 4th of July here. Some holiday or other. We don’t do US holidays but I get messages sometimes from Americans wishing me a happy day. Most of them are not in America. I guess most of them are “from America” and not living...
You get to fuck off; I have to fuck off. That was a negative piece of self-talk I had in an internal monologue against the haters who probably don't even exist. What, you don't internally monologue against the haters? You should try it...
Terence Eden recently published a post titled This blog is written in en-GB. Before I even read the post, I knew what it was going to be about, and that I had to make that change myself too, for the same reasons as I'd guessed he was...
I'm off to London today, so here's a post from some years back, in which I marked the July 3rd birthday of the actor George Sanders...Born on this day in 1906 – in St Petersburg, whence his family wisely returned to England in 1917 – was...
Solo Female Travel to Kauai, Hawaii – My Personal Adventure It goes without saying that when you are exploring the world on your own, you make safe decisions. Be mindful of your surroundings and look both ways before crossing the street....
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la...
It keeps happening. I can't control it. Sometimes, I feel nostalgic for some old piece of tech, and before I know what's happening, I'm already browsing eBay looking for one. That's how I ended up with an old Thinkpad from 2004 recently....
Uno de los problemas mas molestos de administrar un droplet minimo es que el espacio de 25GB se sienten limitados en poco tiempo, por lo que no que mas que administrarlo de tal manera que no se desperdicie nada. Introduccion Este es un...
You wouldn’t have bet on it, the frail famous poet teaching at Harvard as a visiting professor and the athletic secretary of the campus residence half her age. But every great love exists against probability, belongs to that region of...
Gestern Abend habe gesagt ich gehe jetzt nach Hause um meine 1000 Wörter zu schreiben und dann bin ich auf der Couch eingeschlafen … [8/1000] Wie gesagt bin ich mir nicht sicher, ob das mit der Abgrenzungsarbeit auch auf Plattformen und...
When I was a little girl, I had a secret reading spot.We had an attic that you could only reach via a wooden ladder that was hidden behind a ceiling panel. In my eyes, that little rope on the ceiling was the gateway to my reader’s...
Finished reading: The Butcher’s Masquerade by Matt Dinniman 📚 Gosh dangit I love these books so much! Carl is definitely starting to turn into what he hates, it’s an interesting progression. The developments in the last couple of...
As I write. As I type. As I adapt manifestation of expression. Minimalistic approach to words. Elegant simplicity. Poems hidden in lines; lines hidden in words. Games conjured by accidental voice in my head. Head full of narrators and...
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Go 1.26 rebuilt go fix from scratch. If you haven’t tried it yet, give it a spin: it rewrites the code in your module to use modern language and library features. It has quickly become one of my favorite features, and LLMs are a big part...
OverviewThis week kept circling the same operational lesson: the boring control planes are where the damage starts. Remote support, SharePoint, phone systems, firewalls, Microsoft 365, developer packages, and AI workflow servers all...
Celebrating Zan's trip around the sun.Currently Listening: Todd Rundgren “Birthday Carol”Reply via email
El de fútbol de 2026 ha conseguido por méritos propios coronarse como el mundial más contaminante de la historia. Centrándonos en las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero, el informe “FIFA’s Climate Blind Spot: The Men’s World Cup in...
Es tan raro leer un libro escrito en los 50s donde se habla sobre cómo todo se volvió rápidamente consumible, resumido y sin sustancia. Me hace preguntarme qué hubiera pensado el autor en la actualidad, el "contenido" que consumimos se...
(You can click on these.) Addendum to last week’s newsletter: I learned from Leia that the last words of David, the patron saint of Wales, can be translated in part to “be cheerful and do the little things.” What a lovely coda! Thanks,...
Soy un gran aficionado a los podcasts, sobre todo sigo podcasts de tecnología y algunos de misterio. Pero hoy no vengo a recomendaros un podcast normal, es una ficción sonora de una calidad de producción increíble. Se trata de Los...
Where one would like to see less "meta posts", another starts a month of reply collecting... Gotta love the vibe there!
It’s been a hectic week. Lots of work, meetings, and things to get done. I still have things on my list. I might have to work a bit tomorrow. I continued with my regular P.T sessions. I could also play last Saturday, which was fun. BTW,...
In today’s mail, a big card from the United States Postal Service; the crucial sentence is bold-faced: Official Change-Of-Address Validation The Postal Service has received a Change-Of-Address order asking us to forward mail from this...
Every judge of your work can be escaped or fooled except one. The advice was go collect your nos. Send so many asks that rejection stops costing anything, and the yeses fall out of the pile. It works, where the asks are cheap. But it...
10 lecturas publicadas en blogs que me gustaron y quiero compartir. Para más lecturas recordá que podés visitar ¡Blog!¡Blog! Cómo Internet convirtió la autonomía en una carga individual | El cuarto del Gato Oscuro “Técnicamente...
A month ago I was in Asia on a long trip, and so I was excited to see some temples. Temples are huge tourist attractions, especially in Thailand, but not all of them are equal (or so I've learned). Although these were legit holy spaces...
I read the Tintin comics when I was 7. I loved the yellow coat he wore so much, I pestered my parents to get me one. Sadly they didn’t make long yellow coats for 7 year olds, the best they could do was buy me a raincoat. Which I wore...
So this is a bit of a regular feature – I’m going to share piece of tech that I’ve been enjoying that doesn’t suck. Because let’s be honest, technology sucks. Here’s something that’s good, fun, and doesn’t take the piss with their terms...
We have collectively been recovering from a physically and emotionally draining two weeks of marching band. We all were caught napping at some point throughout the early days of this week! It’s been nice to have activities wind down this...
main ul.no-multiline > li, main ol.no-multiline > li { margin-bottom: 0; } My blog has a ton of lists, some of which contain only 1 line per item while others can have more than 1 line per item. I find that for the latter, the list...
Hidde hosted an AB meeting this week in his home city of Rotterdam. I’m grateful that the heatwave had broken before I got there. I missed the first half-day—I had been in Geneva that morning, and only got to AMS in the early afternoon....
My Pa sent me these clippings from a local paper. It is from my Great Granny Jackson's 100th birthday party. Us kids all loved her she had a real twinkle in her eye. I remember her chain smoking until she gave up for her health at 96....
Luis Carlos Pando - Sobre el anuncio de Sony y la muerte del formato físico Este tema ha generado mucho ruido en redes. Por ejemplo lo estaba escuchando esta mañana en este podcast: PlayStation y la muerte de los juegos físicos -...