Wed Jul 08
Man, I've been circling on this idea for some weeks now and couldn't quite figure out the best way to open, but I think this is a great one: About a month ago, Flathub announced a ban on slopcoded applications. Evangelos “GeopJr” Paterakis, developer of a number of popular Linux applications and ton of other things,...
Since JanerationX started a new blog on Pika a couple months ago, I have been enamoured by it. She is not afraid to express her thoughts and is refreshing to see. I’ve been meaning to add her to my blogroll because of how cool she is, and I have wanted to comment on some of the posts, such as the one on the human...
“To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice.” Yes, we spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins. The boundary is so difficult to discern because, when all the stories fall away, there is no...
Since the coding part is now done, I decided to solder the Arduino and IR sensor on a bit of perfboard, and then put it in a case. I don't have a case though; but what I do have is a 3D printer, so I'm going to try my hands at designing one. This was interesting because I've never really designed anything before....
With the thermostat tapping out at 80° it was time to take additional action to cool the house.Currently Listening: Tycho, Sea Lemon “Anotherwave”Reply via email
I’m not a typewriter geek in the least, but having grown up using my mom’s typewriter and, later, in middle school, an electric typewriter, I can certainly understand how people enjoy typewriters as a hobby to obsess over. And like any tactile hobby, it’s best to have a nearby physical brick-and-mortar store nearby,...
Birgitta Böckeler now reports on her recent experiences trying local LLMs for coding. She compares them using two standard tasks, and tries out the most promising model for day-to-day use. more…
What should we tell people whose commitment to de-Googling is wavering?
While looking for something else, I found this poem I wrote once as an encouragement to myself. I needed it today, maybe you do too.When you are thinking about thingsThat make you feel sad and lostGet out of your head, loveWhen you think you’re not worthyOr too stupid or weird to do what you loveGet out of your...
TIMBRE ESCRIBIR MAL [La Jornada, Junio 30, 2026]Dijo el periodista y editor argentino Diego Fonseca en un tweet (todavía les llamó así) que leí el 26 de mayo del 2026: Tengo un problema con IA: usa la “—“, “no es X sino Y”, y tríadas (como ésta); organiza y enumera; mide el “tempo” (endecasílabos/yámbicos);...
I only take photos occasionally, even though it’s one of my great passions. Vacations are, of course, the perfect opportunity for this, although I have to make some compromises here too, because no woman who isn’t keen on photography will tolerate waiting for hours for the right moment in the long run. I’ve reached...
Algumas semanas atrás, encontrei essa postagem “How to manage this Hugo based page from my Android phone in 2026 - foosel.net, que entra em detalhes sobre como gerenciar um blog diretamente do celular. O setup do blog é bem similar ao meu, usa Hugo, com código hospedado no GitHub, mas diferente do meu, que é...
With how busy I have been with the new job lately, and my increasing push to focus on projects and uses of time that remove annoyance, unfortunately today’s announcement is not a shiny new project (of which there are a few in the hopper), but instead infrastructural news. I know, it’s so sexy. In a move surprising...
“We asked 100 people: What are the top three companies on earth best positioned to make a world-class Mac-assed Mac app?” Buzz! “Apple!” Survey says: Yes! Apple at the number one spot. Makes sense. Who better to make the very definition of a great Mac app than the people who make the Mac? No brainer, I suppose....
John Gruber at Daring Fireball penned a short eulogy for Maestral: As of today Maestral continues to work just fine. I don’t know when these certificates are expiring. And I don’t know what I’m going to do when they do. Dropbox enshittified its app – my friend joked once that Dropbox is a rare example of a company...
Have you heard? AI companies are hiring philosophers! Sort of. News about jobs for philosophers is the kind of thing you might expect to read about at Daily Nous—for example, here is a post about which philosophers are working for which AI-related firms and organizations—yet articles about the topic have been...
A life organized around a to-do list takes the joy out of living. There's always stuff to do, obviously: somebody has to wash the dishes, sweep, go grocery shopping, get that cabinet door fixed. The problem is not the to-do list itself. It's the timing of tasks. I tend to do things whenever the stars and my brain...
A simple act of kindness always sparks another, even in a frozen, faraway place. When Smeerensburg’s new postman, Jesper, befriends toymaker Klaus, their gifts melt an age-old feud and deliver a sleigh full of holiday traditions. I have no idea how this movie flew under the radar for me, but wanting to tick a few...
Yes. Again. More AI. Sorry, this stuff just won't go away on its own, so clearly, we need to help it along into its grave a little.
I’m currently towards the tail end of my leave after a medical procedure. I cannot believe time has flown so quickly. When I first got the leave chit, I thought to myself: So many weeks! What in the world am I going do during this time? But now at week four of my leave, I’m feeling a mild tang of panic as my leave...
Una de mis opiniones en cuanto a productos tecnológicos es que, al menos en mi caso, los AirPods Pro son a la vez el mejor y el peor producto de Apple. La cantidad de magias que incluyen hace que, en cuanto te acostumbras a ellas, sean casi insustituibles. Y sin embargo duran muy poco y, por lo menos en mi caso,...
EDDIE MANNIX: It’s a swell story – a story told before, yes, but we like to flatter ourselves that it’s never been told with this kind of distinction and panache. EASTERN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH: Perhaps, sir, you forget its telling in the Holy Bible. EDDIE: Quite right, Padre. The Bible of course is terrific. But for...
The name Venice is from the ancient tribe of the Veneti, whose lands became a Roman province, with the name of "Venetia et Histria"
Ye Li, the granddaughter of the venerable Lingshan academy’s headmaster, descends from the mountain. The mountain has been sealed off by the order of the Dowager Empress, and she has only been allowed to leave after almost a decade because she was going to be engaged to the Prince of Ding, Mo Xiuyao. The prince,...
July 2026. Sawley. Derbyshire. A fair few pubs for the 6,629 good folk of Sawley, most of them in the Good Beer this century. I’d started at the smart allrounder and GBG perennial White Lion, by which time the breakaway group had already declared the Ay Up at the similar Harrington Arms “not drinking well”. When it...
tw: discussions of eating disorders, depression, starvation and hospitalisation i've... been in a bad place lately. for a little while now, actually.. it's been an overall fairly shitty first half of my 2026, opening with a series of exceedingly difficult months, during which I: returned to a job i've idolised for a...
La mejor manera de mejorar Thunderbird es escuchando a las personas que lo utilizan y desarrollar el cliente de correo intentando condensar todas las opiniones para mejorar este gran cliente de correo electrónico Hace unas semanas, el equipo de desarrollo del cliente de correo Thunderbird mantuvo conversaciones de...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop There was a period of time earlier in this project where I was worried my blog posts would be too much pokemon all the time, and thankfully that's no longer the case as I've gotten into more of a stride. The other side of this is of course is that...
Zilele astea am dat peste o veste care m-a făcut să mă opresc din citit și să recitesc paragraful de vreo două ori, pentru că nu m-am așteptat s-o văd așa curând. Nvidia, compania pe care o știam până acum aproape exclusiv pentru plăcile video, a scos un CPU. Nu e vorba de un experiment de laborator sau de un anunț...
Ashur has a lovely website and a brilliant eye for detail (look at the URL!). I have been replying to folks' blog posts every now and then over the years, notably in #JulyReply season so I jumped at this nice bit of design work. Basically inspired by social media threads, Ashur added an indicator to relevant posts...
2026-07-08Hello!This is my favorite photograph from the fireworks event on July 4. If I wasn't interested in telling a complete story of my experience at the display (and the heavy storm that followed), I would be publishing this photo by itself.I've already written about what happened that night in the previous...
This Sunday I am meeting again with Christian Arzu from the @linkarzu YouTube channel. We will look into the basics of Org mode. How to use it to write documents and organise your life. Our previous meeting about getting started with Emacs is here: https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-07-05-emacs-live-with-linkarzu/.
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Breathe in. Breathe out. Standing in the fresh warm summer’s air, I found my breath slowing, and deepening. I wandered as I transitioned from the feeling of indoors to the Nature of outdoors. Trees and bushes and the light sounds of Nature accompany me as I put one foot forward in front of another.The fresh smell of...
I try to commute to work via bus as much as I can. My local bus-stop is in the middle of the local village center. There is also a small store next to this busstop, where tourists tend to congregate. And next to this store, there is a household who have a dog. This dog (a german shepard) is not a dumb dog. This dog...
My blogging mojo comes in fits and starts. I’ve been enjoying having a little more freedom in approach since switching to, essentially, two streams of posts; these shorter (or at least less considered) Notes, and the longer Musings style, umm, essays? Since writing about not being able to finish a Draft I’ve managed...
June has flown by it seems, and that means Junited-2026 has come to an end. This initiative by Robert has got me reading a lot more blogs this month (and I actually missed two weeknotes…) I’d thoroughly enjoyed discovering new bloggers and was in a “consuming mode” for most the month. Fellow readers who discovered...
Ich lasse mich nicht von meiner Müdigkeit abhalten … [12/1000] Ich habe schlechte Laune aktuell, nicht nur weil ich gerade zwei Stunden lang Youtube-Videos darüber geschaut habe, wie kaputt alles ist (was man eben so macht), sondern auch, und das gehört wahrscheinlich zusammen, wegen der politischen Gesamtsituation....
Finished reading Tsunami Kids by Paul Forkan and Rob Forkan. An incredible story of their unconventional upbringing, the tragic events of Boxing Day 2004, and their subsequent business success. For me, the book is let down a little by the writing style and a lack of editing, which stopped it from being a totally...
Note to self. I've had the joy of bringing a few sites live the last days, and in one case it was a multi-site with 7 different domains. During the process I needed a simple overview of the DNS propagation status. Before I've used online sites for this kind of stuff, but this time i reached for a CLI way instead,...
The setting sun reflects on the wet sand, through the Hermosa Beach Pier. 夕映え ハーモサ・ビーチ・ピア越しに、沈む夕日が濡れた砂浜に映り込んでいる。
Previously I opined that Valve was about to win the console generation. I couldn't have possibly predicted that both Microsoft and Sony would just self-sabotage so hard that they're both going to lose. Between Microsoft's decimation of the Xbox division, slaughtering off the IdTech team, and continued increases of...
In exchange I will finally start updating my Presently page again. I just got the Recordkeeper’s Fatigue for a while, you know how it is. ANYWAY SO NORMALLY I can only get two treadmill-miles done on my lunch break; each one is in the 8-9 minute range1, which leaves me time for a quick shower and grabbing food...
Sometimes I firmly believe if I wasn’t deaf that I would listen to many podcasts. I still remember years ago when the first podcasts started popping up and I was already deaf by then, how frustrated I was when blogs I liked to read switched over to podcast. Transcripts wasn’t even a thing back then. […]
I worked with a guy for twenty years. I knew his three daughters by sight and watched them progress and graduate from the school system that employed their father and me. I knew this guy's wife, his father, his mom's health history. I knew what he did in the Air Force and I knew about most of the other jobs he'd...
After seeing Andy Bell talk about it on his site, I’ve gone ahead and added the ATMosphere plugin to the site to try and publish the site over the ATProtocol (which integrates with Bluesky) using standard.site. If this works well, reacting to this post on BlueSky will mean that likes/boosts/comments will feed...
Conoce y ponte en contacto con los autores de los blogs que forman parte de directorio de blogs personales en español ¡Blog!¡Blog!. Muchos de quienes escribimos blogs estamos en la red social Mastodon (así de marginales somos) y aprovechando que mi instancia incorporó la funcionalidad Colecciones, creé una que...