Sun Jul 12
🗓️ 6 to 12 Julyfavourite thing this weekWaiting on a bench to be picked up and staring up into the leaves of a large tree, mesmerised with the sunlight playing with the leaves.writing I have finished edits on a mini journalling workshop, still struggling with turning it into an ebook. Now I only need to make a...
This ↑ is what happens when Joe Dart breaks the sound barrier playing “Dean Town”. (And not when i drop my phone on a 2,000-year-old theatre’s stone steps trying to put it in my pocket — my back pocket.) Vulfpeck’s concert at the Jazz à Vienne festival was the best non-jazz concert i’ve ever been to, but also one of...
Photo courtesy of Film Heritage Foundation A gem of Sri Lankan cinema comes to BelfastBack in November 2025 when we went home to Sri Lanka for a few weeks, we had the pleasure of seeing a restored version of Gehenu Lamai (The Girls), Sumitra Peries’ acclaimed 1978 film, in the cinema. The film had been restored by...
“What happens to writing when the production of prose no longer guarantees the presence of a mind behind what’s written?” James O’Sullivan, Psyche.co, 29/05/2026 Then James answers with: “Writing has always asked of the person who does it: a willingness to stand behind words, to mean them, and to accept the...
Hi. I'm not home right now. But if you want to leave a message, just start talking at the sound of the tone.Currently Listening: Laurie Anderson “O Superman”Reply via email
As icons continue to change across Apple’s platforms, I have thoughts. They mainly revolve around two perspectives: What I think of icons as a long-time user of Apple’s platforms. What I think of icons as a digital collector and physical archivist of icons. Let’s see if I can articulate my thoughts. Apple Recommends...
My last 5 books - July 2026 edition This is a new feature in which I will copy and paste my recent book reviews from my books page These are the last 5 books I have read. I will update in a month or 2 when I've read 5 more. I'm Starting to Worry About this Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin Rating: **** Uber driver...
The pencil was invented in 1565 in Borrowdale, Cumbria, which is not Wales but is close enough for our purposes. The gas bill has been available since the introduction of domestic gas supply. Together, they constitute a complete cognitive offloading system requiring no subscription, no beige background, and no...
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Incrível como as coisas mudam com tanta facilidade. Recentemente em uma das minhas várias incursões descobrindo e lendo blogs pela internet, topei com um que orgulhosamente dizia ser hospedado no StaticHost. Curioso, nunca tinha visto esse provedor antes, então entrei em mais um rabbit hole e o resultado foi migrar...
Lots of links shared on social.omgmog.net between 6 and 12 July, from old handheld games to a live map of Britain’s railways.
Che bello, che fatica, che caldo, che tuoni! Bellissimo concertone, bellissimo goderselo con Efi e Zel e beh, dopo qualche mese ho rivisto Michele e soci quindi non posso che essere contento!
I’m glad I’m doing these public posts about “years of the content creators.” I started doing the research for my current book about a year ago, and it’s good to go back to my Zotero notes, refine tags, and review items to see what I’ve missed.
Léon Guérin, La Morale en histoires, 1842. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. When a book leaves me feeling vaguely ambivalent, the would-be-writer me should probably ask why; was it something about the book’s style, the subject matter, something else or both or more that had me finish it without...
Alles wie immer, ab morgen darf ich wieder an anderes als Judith Butler denken. [14/1000] Habe gerade in Nummer 6 nachgeschaut, was ich dort über Butler geschrieben habe und musste ein bisschen schmunzeln, weil ich statt Parallelpo(i)esis statt Parallelpoesie geschrieben habe (ist inzwischen korrigiert). Was...
Ruben and I are doing a collaborative writing challenge where we both write our thoughts on the poem “Repeat that, repeat” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. We’re not trying to do an academic formal analysis, rather share our own thoughts. You can read Ruben's post on his website.If you are interested in writing your...
Life Notes Busy busy at work, which has dominated most thoughts this week. Vera MOT passed thanks to my father-in-law having the tools, know how, and bloody mindedness to replace the failed headlamp unit. What a faff, but what a hero! Friday I picked Jack up from nursery, and he and I headed to Blair Drummond...
My parents, my sister, her husband, Eryn, EJ, and I spent this weekend in Sonoma celebrating my folks’ 50th wedding anniversary. We stayed in a hillside AirBnB a bit west of Glen Ellen. The drive up to the house was pretty harrowing, so we spent most of our first day lounging around and enjoying the pool. Then we...
Con este post es como si estuviera volviendo a loa orígenes del blog, cuando lo alojaba en Bearblog y estaba temporalmente sin PC, escribía todos mis posts con un editor de texto llamado Markor, escribía en markdown, como siempre. Sin embargo eran tiempos más simples, al final el blog no dependía tanto de mi y yo no...
Hello RSS readers! Project Inbox 2026 is coming along very nicely, thank you. Don't worry, that's still my only MAIN project. I do other small things in parallel with the main project. This entry is a small thing I did recently in my pocket notebook "system" that I'm very pleased with and would like to share...
Jul 13 2026 There is a scourge of AI-designed signs taking over America, especially small businesses and organizations. I will not mince words: these signs are disgusting. They are maybe the most aesthetically ugly and repulsive things I have ever seen. It is fascinating that AI is capable of producing something far...
Inspired by Andy Bell, a few years ago I added a music page to my website. It is a mirror copy of my Discogs collection that I have meticulously maintained for over a decade now. A few folks have asked me before “how I keep my Discogs collection in sync with my music page”, so here is the answer. Next time someone...
2026-07-12Hello!On a regular park walk in the afternoon, I paid attention to the light and saw this squirrel climbing around above me.Every time I go on a photowalk, it ends up producing images that I would never have expected. I got fewer keepers than I hoped for, but maybe that's just my standards increasing over...
Coartadas es una comedia romántica de risa fácil protagonizada por Jaime Lorente y Adriana Torrebejano. Es una adaptación de la película francesa Alibi.com. Esta película fue dirigida por Philippe Lacheau en el año 2016. La versión española ha sido dirigida por Martín Cuervo. Entre los actores secundarios destaca...
July 2026. Bradford. Back from the Ginger Goose, Mrs RM said she didn’t want anything to eat, which I took as instruction to head out immediately and come back with a healthy tea. I headed out into Little Germany, a part of Bradford with unrealised potential, expecting to find a dozen pizza/kebab places on the way....
Plain text tasks, pencil notes, digital caveman-ism, and some OBTF love I’m enjoying a bounty of family life at the moment! It truly is a delight. It’s also a time when most of the spare spaces of my calendar and brain are comfortably full. So this week I will share with you a collection of things that I believe to...
I wrote before about my (mis)adventures in photo backup along with some technical musings about bit rot which can lead to corruption of old files across backups. Ever since I wrote those posts I have been working on a solution custom built for my use case: an Apple Photomator and Apple Photos user who wants an easy...
I've just released Rogallo v0.6.0, which contains the last big feature that was missing to make it a viable daily-driver Gemini Protocol client. That feature? Client certificates. From now on, if you visit a capsule that requests a client certificate, rather than an error being shown, a dialog will pop up: When you...
Un aspect de ma personnalité est l’introversion. Ça veut dire que j’ai le disposition de me renouveler par l’introspection ou, autrement, par minimiser les stimulais externes. J’écris beaucoup parce que ça me donne la chance de diriger mon attention en le sujet qui m’intéresse. Comme ça le monde externe devient...
I'm gonna kick off our first post with something not terribly unconventional. What I mean by that is that this packet of Mama Mi Goreng instant noodles is available at our local Tesco, so it's not like you have to go hunting for it in eccentric little out-of-the-way shops (not that you shouldn't be doing that...
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. This morning it was I Can’t Stop Me by Twice and it is 100% because Instagram keeps showing me reels of that girl who screams along with it Reply by email
Replied to Journal Prompt July by Laura Cameron (The Well-Apportioned Desk) I found a great list of July journal prompts over at BaronFig from 2024. The thing I love about this list is that there are 50 prompts to choose from ... A few of the ones I want to tackle? ... What is your favorite summer song and why?...
The book weaves together stories of people connected to Steller’s sea cow and its extinction, though only indirectly. The focus is on their personal fates, though only indirect. It also explores other species driven to extinction. Whether through egg collecting (which I personally have never heard of before) or...
I need a place to describe this algorithm, since it seems to be undocumented on the 'net, so here it is. SRC is a replacement for MTF in BWT-based compressors. According to OpenBWT, it’s the best known MTF replacement measured by compression ratio, if you don’t want to use context modeling.
When I was at Medium, over a decade ago, I really enjoyed going deep on typography. People seemed to generally enjoy what we did. Writers really loved automatic em dashes and range dashes, discovered the beauty of hanging punctuation, and as funny as it might sound today, the smart quotes were a huge hit, too. I was...
Rose Horowitch, writing for The Atlantic (gift link): Reading has come to seem extraneous even to some of the best-educated members of society. Margaret Rennix, Harvard’s assistant director for humanities and social-sciences support, told me she’d spoken with a student who was struggling to read a book written in...
I still remember well how I used to save everything: music, photos, eBooks, documents – just everything. The fear of missing out or losing something was simply too great. But at some point, I realized: I *had* everything, but I wasn’t *using* any of it. The shift from hoarding to tending was a real liberation for me.
It's a beautiful morning here in North Wales. My wife has taken our youngest to his cricket match, and our oldest is upstairs playing with his Lego out of the heat. Me? I'm sitting in the sunroom, listening to the goats and chickens, with a coffee and book. Perfect Sunday morning. Thanks for reading this post via...
In 2024, I attended ICST in Toronto. I went to attend the first "Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing" workshop (AIST), where I gave a tutorial on a potential competition and participated in a panel (which, turned into a roundtable discussion) about the field. Our concerns at the time were principally about...
A little bit of everything! Migrated to Linux, adding custom emoji to my blog, some thoughts on stuff I've read recently, and a whole mess o' links!
Its a biographic movie of Michael Jackson which takes you behind the scene in his real life. He was talented from his early childhood, and so does his four brothers—basically whole Jackson family. His father trained them all, but he was strict and controlling. Later he broke free from his controlling father, and...
Writers and bloggers, does this happen to you? You sit down to write a weeknote or some journal entry, but suddenly, one of the topics becomes really long and you decide to split that off into its own separate post. You continue with your original piece (back to square one); but it happens again. I’m just trying to...
Last week I picked up the EP-1320 Medieval and I’ve been tinkering with it all weekend. Besides it’s buck-wild look, it comes with a bunch of expertly recorded medieval samples: flutes, bowed harps, gitterns, reeds, trumpets, bells, battle toms, rowdy peasants, and coconut horse hooves. This makes it sound like a...
Last night I found myself watching Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums again. I say 'again' but I hadn't seen it since I watched it, in a cinema, when it was released, all of 25 years ago. It was the first of his films I'd seen (I only caught up with Bottle Rocket and Rushmore later), and I remember being mightily...
We’re currently experiencing the second major heatwave in Germany. After the 41 degrees Celsius we had a few weeks ago in June, the 35 degrees now actually feel quite pleasant. Contrary to my usual habit, I didn’t manage to get around to taking photos in Thomas’ Garden in June, so I’m now posting some new photos...
Mid-century modern chairs on a colorful, rectangular deck overlooking The Strand in Hermosa Beach. モダンアート ハーモサビーチの「ザ・ストランド」を見下ろすカラフルな長方形のデッキの上のミッドセンチュリー・モダン風の椅子だ。
“I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars,” Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska wrote in her lovely poem “Possibilities.” Our preferences, of course, hardly matter to time — we live here suspended between the time of insects and the time of stars, our transient lives bookended by not yet and never again. Time...