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📝 2026-07-16 17:05: Anyone using Pop!OS with Cosmic? I tried it when it was first released, but I...
Anyone using Pop!_OS with Cosmic? I tried it when it was first released, but I looks like they've done a lot of dev work to it and it's improving all the time. Considering installing it again... Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS...
I love reading. I caught the bug as a middle-schooler when I got caught skipping school, and as punishment, I had to read The Chronicles of Amber and do a book report about it. Even today, opening a book and fanning the pages to get the...
“I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me… There is not a single degradation of the body which I must not try and make into a spiritualising of the soul.” “Oh, to be reborn within the pages of a book,” Patti...
Oops -- you ran an aggressive de-bloater on your rooted Android device, and put it into a boot loop. What next?
There’s a ton of information on the internet about baking sourdough. Some present the process as simple, when it’s not. Others make it intensely complicated and nerdy. Some will say that making a nice loaf requires great precision in...
New computer means new configuration from scratch! Since Emacs is the mainstay program I use across devices, I want to document how I’m doing web development with it right now. First I took the time to go over my init.el and remove...
Banks and financial institutions in Canada make a lot of money. In the first quarter of 2026, the big 6 hit $19 billion in profit, up from $14 billion the year prior[1]. They have refined their businesses to be well-oiled machines, yet...
Most of the tech support I have done for family, friends, and everyday users starts before I touch the device.Someone hands over a phone with a strange warning, a laptop that will not sign in, or an email they are afraid to open. They...
There are insights, vistas, glimpses and perspectives that don’t fit into any particular pattern or category. I like to call them scenes, and as photographs they always have their own charm. Here are a few of them from our trip to the...
Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use...
a half-assed review"> Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities! In case you didn’t...
Okay, I just wanted to say “Clear and presenter danger.” Let’s you and I see if there’s any chance I’ve got something to back that up. I think I have. Earlier this week, a friend did me the favour of alerting me to how a show called “The...
Mudanças são sempre assustadoras, de uma forma ou de outra. Uma nova cidade, um novo trabalho, uma nova vida. É como esotou agora. Nunca pensei que conseguira largar tudo, me mudar e recomeçar. Genuinamente ter um novo início. E olha o...
Tuli Márquez y Guillem Caballero publican la ópera rock sobre el famoso anarquista en forma de disco doble y lo llevan al escenario en octubre. Durruti, t’estimo. Continuar leyendo Durruti, t’estimo en Papel Continuo.
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I wish I could remember how this podcast came across my radar so I could give credit where it’s due. But alas, I cannot. It’s episode 217 with Dr. Iain McGilchrist. At one point, he shares his perspective about how science and reason can...
…via Professor Lawsky’s spreadsheet at Prawfs.
Carried this one home from a Nordic cafe in Pioneer Square and it is the best espresso of the year
This was not what I expected. And I know to expect shocking from Murata. But I didn't knew how much sex was involved... got interesting, to the point I could not stop reading, mainly the evolution of the society. But that ending was a...
Kids play in the water as the sun sets behind the Manhattan Beach Pier. マンハッタン・ビーチ マンハッタン・ビーチ・ピアの背後で太陽が沈む中、子供たちが水遊びをしている。
See also: day one, day two. There is only one thing that is better than two days of HTTP workshop, and that is of course three days of HTTP workshop. The final day of this edition of the series started out with us again shuffling around...
The website that hosted this review is no longer online so I would like to keep it here. The below review was written when I was sighted. I am fully blind now. Side note, nearly 15 years later, this game seems like some serious fun now!...
Writing for the world is something which has ebbed and flowed for me over time. I’ve always liked sharing my thoughts, starting with websites all the way back when I was a kid. In times when I sustained it, I had various “blog”-like...
In writing and publishing, I’ve been everywhere. I’ve been edited by men and women, by the non-binary and the trans; by the old, the young, the middle-aged; by liberal Catholics and trad Catholics, by mainline Protestants, by...
The worst possible thing I can do when I'm having a bad AuDHD day is start organizing my office, and that's the main thing I'm inclined to do, probably to somehow reclaim a bit of control. The process is the same every time. I wake up,...
I have been wearing smartwatches for over ten years now, pretty much ever since Apple released the first Apple Watch. I went through several of the basic models, eventually landing on the Apple Watch Ultra and up until recently wearing...
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Matt creates and designs some great apps, they are thoughtful, and considerate of the user. The fact his latest Micro app is called ‘That Guy’ suggests, with a subtle wink and a nod, some knowing on his part about what he has created...
There was, a long time ago, a small kingdom, and in that small kingdom was a prince who deemed himself just. This Prince reveled, above all else, in subjecting his people to the most peculiar trials. In his Princely youth, he enjoyed...
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2026-07-16Hello!This was a weird place — I'll start with that. Some music and arts building that was open to the public but felt empty; I left a few minutes later to look for lunch.These lights are not electronic. They are open to the...
Rating: 🟩 Type: Non-Fiction If you are an avid reader of Doctorow's blog "Pluralistic" you will have probably heard most of the arguments here before. That isn't too much of a complaint, after all, Docotow specifically says the point of...
There was a Man, and still there is, Who more than man became; I learned his name -- I-AM -- and since I’ve never been the same.
Had to put the ebook reader in airplane mode to finish this library book. That's on me, I'm slow.Reply via email
Problem statement: a site / domain needs pop-ups for OAuth / logins, but I don’t want to disable Safari’s pop-up blocker globally just to appease a couple of domains. Safari lets one scope the exception on a per-site basis. The domain...
#impresionismo #Arte #pintura #HistoriadelArte #ElSueñodelArtista Impression fue el nombre del cuadro pintado por Monet que casualmente daría nombre a una de las vanguardias artísticas más conocidas por el público en general y que ,...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] You’ve probably seen somewhere that the density of Saturn is less than that of water. If there...
there's an incentive on the internet to put yourself in a box. when you're on a big social media platform, the accounts you follow, the posts you like, and the stuff you yourself post, put you inside a box of "this is who you are and...
Vom Spaziergang zur Beobachtung zum Begriff zum Netzwerk. Ich bin heute besonders müde, deswegen gibt es auf diesen Text noch weniger Garantien als üblich. [17/1000] Musste gerade erstmal nachschauen, ob ich heute nicht doch schon meine...
I have a use case where I need to copy files from Nextcloud to S3 storage using my phone, and I think I finally found the perfect apps for this. While I use rclone on my PC, I wasn’t aware of any app for this on Android. But there...
Wu Y and Chen Y (2026) Paradox of atropine in myopia control: exploring dose-dependent efficacy, rebound effects, and optimal risk-benefit balance–a perspective. Front. Public Health 14:1878312. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1878312 This...
The last few days have been intense, haven't they? Well, thankfully, my personal barometer is reading a bit lower today. Some days, I have a decent idea of what I want to write here and can follow a basic framework, but today is one of...
I share my process with a timelapse talking through the process of making this retro dating sim style scene in Aseprite.
Read Developing your mindfulness practice 🙂! now!So… read any good pamphlets lately?I love a good pamphlet, and by that I mean crazy pamphlet, even when it was Jack Chick telling me that I am going to hell. The internet has ruined them....
“The fact that you, an expert human, generated the text is evidence that the view is worth thinking about—more so than if the text were generated by an LLM.” That’s Eric Schwitzgebel (UCR), writing at The Splintered Mind about why he...
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July 2026. Kelham. Sheffield. I know jealousy is a terrible thing, but I really am jealous of Simon’s frenetic progress towards completion of the Beer Guide. It’s not always fun, and BRAPA has the really scary stuff still to come...
I've released v0.9.0 of Rogallo. The first big change in this release is the addition of syntax highlighting to pre-formatted text. Much like in Markdown, Gemtext also supports pre-formatted text bounded by code fences. Gemtext supports...
Recently, I was talking with an online friend that I met in the FGC community. We quickly developed a kind of gaming friendship where we discovered that we both shared the same interests and played the same games, other than fighting...
Este plasmoide que he realizado muestra de una manera muy gráfica los valores ofrecidos por las estaciones de aficionados que se recogen en Meteoclimatic Hace unos días compartí por el blog otro Plasmoide similar que ofrece los datos de...
Yes, this one is a real word according to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Borrowed from Latin, this word (and its cognates like the French bibliothèque and Spanish biblioteca) means "library" in modern English. Libraries...
Following the celebration of my 20 years with Linux, I wanted to recreate the moment I installed Ubuntu “Breezy Badger” 5.10 for the first time, and with QEMU it was quite easy to do on my modern Fedora 44 environment of 2026. Install...
Anthony Albanese, the Australian Prime Minister, says he wants to make Australia an “attractive destination” for investment in AI development, during a speech delivered on Wednesday. Albanese also wants to balance the opportunities and...
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. WikiCity. One more creative way to browse (or fly over) Wikipedia. Every entry is a building in a...
You know what, I was kind of busy last week with my OCC project, and I was also building a website for a friend who is opening her own doctor's office, and so I completely forgot that my blog turned three years old last Thursday! Well I...
Eu amo o detalhe da capa que a Chodan ainda está com o joelho machucado Eu fui conhecer QWER muito sem querer. Era uma época que eu estava um pouco desanimado com K-POP. Nenhum dos grupos da geração atual realmente me chamaram atenção e...
I’ve been drowning. I’ve been trying to keep my head above a raging storm of feelings that I never knew had a collective name when put together: anticipatory grief.1 Obviously, like everything in my life, once I can put a name to...
Replied to Cup Noodle unveils first-ever cold-water instant ramen in Japan by Oona McGee (soranews24.com) The new noodles were in development for five years, with Nissin adopting a new noodle-making technology that allows the noodles to...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weird week. The skies have been smoke-filled and air-quality alerted to shit, ICE is killing civilians (again), my country is / is not / is again / wait no / yes...
Me gusta la simplicidad de los blogs de la plataforma Pika. Aprovechando la versatilidad de WordPress quise imitar el diseño de este en mi blog. Este a sido el resultado: Antes se veía así: Ahora se ve así: Lo que hice es ordenar un poco...