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I guess i have a new hobby: going to a concert not to see the headliner. As Big Freedia cancelled her whole European tour, the Jazz à Vienne festival’s organizers scrambled to find a suitable replacement. Fortunately, the New Orleans...
Rachelle and I bought our house in Richmond in late 2022 and moved in early 2023. The ULTRALOQ U-Bolt Pro Z-Wave Smart Lock was the very first smart device I installed after setting up Home Assistant. Requirements # Our must-have...
Like every other software company these days, my company has been pushing all of us to use AI for everything. Don’t write code, let AI do it. Don’t message each other, let AI do it. Don’t think, just let AI do it. From what I can tell...
July 2026. Sawley. Derbyshire. The pint of Abbot in Pub 5 was a mistake. I sensed a dash to the station and a return to the warm embrace of the Sang Lung was called for. But our last pub was just across from the trains, and I ought to...
We break readily, when we’re flung into the scrap pits. We lie in quiet piles, legs twisted, arm actuators malfunctioning due to the ‘sleep paralysis’ protocol when we’re junked. But only the exterior breaks.Yes, our ceramic shells crack...
LineageOS now has a web installer. The project warns, however, that it doesn’t handle the entire process, and that you’ll still need to follow the instructions on your device’s wiki. Even so, it should make things considerably easier...
Hi, my friends! I can’t believe we are halfway through the year already and this is my first time writing up a new blog for you. To say life has been busy would be an understatement. Now that things have slowed down a little, I hope to...
Esta publicación esta inspirada por la entrada del blog de Fanta (me encanta el título que le puso). Hace tiempo quería mencionar algunos Youtubers que sigo (de los que miro casi todos sus videos) , que valen la pena recomendar. NewEsc...
Dietes bicolor irises, serenaded by the late afternoon sun. ディエテス属 「ディエテス・バイカラー」。西日にやさしく照らされて。
Imagine you open your inbox one morning, and you are greeted by an email with a ginormous attachment. It contains hundreds of pages of written communications between members of a local theater group. A local theater group where a murder...
The other day I was listening to this episode of Decoder Ring where they talk about how bad modern sculptures tend to be because we no longer have the educational pipeline and infrastructure to produce professional level sculptors. We do...
Heya! So, it's been a while since I've last talked about my guestbook website, guestbooks.kamiscorner.xyz. And while development has slowed down a tad due to me being fairly busy, I did still add a couple of fun features - Which I'll...
I'm back home, back in Scotland, after a touch over a week in the Netherlands. It's been a great week. Much like on the flight out, from the aircraft, I managed to get a view of a part of the UK I like. This time it was Whitby. While...
July 9, 2026 Well, that was one hell of a Fourth of July weekend. Friday evening, July 3rd, a thunderstorm blew through and knocked out our power and internet. A tree came down with it and took out the power line and internet line to the...
For context, I have gotten a lot of emails either asking why I deactivated my account or just sending me well wishes after the deactivation. This post is more for them than anyone else. If you don't care about random techbro website...
Interface designers must have the same maxim as doctors: primum non nocere Matt Gemmell Time after time we hear the same stories; companies shipping radical new UI that alienates stalwart users, "Google changed Gmail and now my mum can't...
This was the title of a post I’ve had stuck in draft for a while. It was also the post that got the most ‘votes’ to be written and published, which was handy for me as it was almost done anyway. Revisiting old drafts is always an...
Ah, so you think I’m going to talk about the dance called Tango; but no, this time I’m going to talk about an album called “Tango”, by those two towering figures of Argentine rock, namely Charly García and Pedro Aznar. Now, you’re...
This past week I've been writing a lot, first the Walkman post and then my IR sensor project. I've gotten some really nice feedback on both; the Walkman post in particular seems to have resonated with a lot of people, which is...
Yesterday at work something very weird happened. During our lunch break, the conversation focused on me, at least for a couple minutes. My group sat next to another coworker, she’s older in age than most of my group, from another...
No es la primera vez que me pasa, y me genera cero confianza. Así que otra vez toca una queja sobre el verme obligado a usar Claude. No me gusta cuando las herramientas que uso cambian su comportamiento sin aviso. Incluso cuando es para...
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Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: Back in January, I put together Five Things from the “I was made for the library…” wing of the archives, and my trip to ALA a couple of weeks ago led to my writing two new articles that I’m...
Usually our adventures are about cycling or hiking. This day was packed with historical sightseeing! Starting in the 11th century, we saw castles, gardens, palaces and impressive fountains ...
For the present entry, I am picking a piece from the works of Lavrentis Maheritsas. Lavrentis was at his peak before modern audiovisual technology became the norm, which means that it is hard to find any of his songs rendered in high...
Some time ago I resubscribed to Komoot Premium using some tricks to get it cheaper. But I don’t use Komoot to track my rides or even manage them there (OsmAnd is still my favorite app for that!); I just use it to plan them, especially on...
Earth is in danger! A giant meteor is going to crash into our planet, destroying all life. Luckily, the space-faring Atlantean civilisation is here to help. They used to be an ancient civilisation on Earth, thousands of years ago, before...
I am back with Season 3, Part 2 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are making domain email harder to spoof with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, without turning DNS into a self-inflicted...
Back in the days of Geocities, I spent a lot of time hacking away on raw HTML and CSS. I enjoyed tweaking things, making it just right and experimenting with random ideas I had. I’d sketch things out, then turn them into a close(ish)...
Touch Grass went to the local bird sanctuary on Canada Day where, fittingly, I saw a lot of Canada geese and ducks, which followed us around when they saw we were carrying birdseed. (you’re allowed to feed the birds at the sanctuary.) I...
What the fuck even is "Magical Insurance Bureaucrats" anyway? Compilation of a bunch of the art - this is my "tone piece" for the project more or less For a while now, I've been working on this thing called The Ongoing Adventures of...
I saw this article at Inside Higher Ed this morning, guided by a Mastodon post from Techmeme. The title of the article is “Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat,” so if you’re sick to death of reading about...
Detective Enola Holmes heads to Malta, where her aspirations merge in her most complex and dangerous case yet. While the movie has some pretty harsh ratings, I can see why. It’s not as witty and bubbly as the first two, but it makes up...
“In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.” “I work like a gardener,” the great painter...
While this post is hidden from Bear Blog's discovery feed, it may still appear on your RSS feed and elsewhere. I guess that I should rewrite that one bleurgh (aka word vomit) post from my other blog. Why did I even spew out random words,...
Just to reassure you that I did get moved into the Avant community yesterday, mostly with things in a disorganized mess. At the moment, so, so tired — bone-exhausted — but extremely far from settled in, just enough to take my meds and...
As an Indiekit supporter and user, I’m really appreciative of Paul for maintaining this open source project. After a short hiatus, he’s back to review pull requests and issues! I made a PR for some Markdown quality-of-life features and...
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An op-ed about curiosity published in the New York Times yesterday will resonate with many philosophers. Angela Palmer, Self-Portrait (scans engraved on glass) Written by Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a neuroscientist at King’s College London, it...
Eu queria fazer esse post o quanto antes, mas ao mesmo tempo eu queria muito organizar meus pensamentos pra não fazer um post tão corrido. No fim, fiz o meio termo e esperei um dia depois de ter feito o rascunho do post. Acho que nunca...
There is probably something you have been about to do for years. Not neglecting — preparing. Getting ready. Waiting until the timing is better, the savings deeper, the moment less exposed. You are not lazy about it; if anything you think...
Today sitting with coffee at Noi Cafe in the afternoon. It’s an escape to a view downtown I love to see. A window to a world and some words at Noi Cafe There’s these big windows that have always held fascination for me. They give this...
O Ecoleta conecta cidadãos a cooperativas de catadores — e a escolas, condomínios e empresas — para doar, coletar e dar destino a recicláveis. O post Ecoleta: de um case de UX a um produto real apareceu primeiro em Wagner Beethoven.
There's something wrong with my phone. It's incredibly old (iPhone 12, released in 2020, got it in 2022), but that isn't even the worst of it. What's worse is its battery life—you can imagine after so many years of use. But worst of all...