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A little over a week ago, as I was getting into the car with my kid to drive to his school, where I work as the Lower School librarian (serving grades 1-4), I got a text from the head teacher. (Sort of like a principal.) I thought, “Well...
Formulating an AI policy for my free software projects Introduction Lately I felt some pressure to formulate my stance on AI contributions in free open source software (FOSS) projects, as over time it is probably inevitable that I will...
2026-07-17Hello!I walked a long time without finding interesting photos. Even when the scenery isn't too familiar, the usual shots feel too typical and not worth my time writing an article on this website.In cases of limited inspiration,...
Diesen Post habe ich deutlich schneller geschrieben als die vorher, es geht aber auch deutlich mehr um mich. Wie immer ist er mit Vorsicht zu genießen. [18/1000] Ich frage mich in den letzten Tagen kurz bevor ich schreibe immer, ob ich...
Pumpkins bring about poetic peace in my mind.Pumpkins talk to me.Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins. Pumpkins, polka dots, infinity nets—all of Kusama’s trademarks can be found in Pumpkin (1991) above. They are the result of her working...
…at The Philosopher’s Magazine. (A relevant earlier post on this blog here.) I call particular attention to these remarks near the end of Professor Boghossian’s essay: According to the standard diagnosis, the humanities have been...
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I'm sure most people reading this will be familiar with the concept of "bean soup theory". In case anyone isn't, here's how Wikipedia describes it: A specific phenomenon described as a 'What about me' effect. An individual watches a...
El sitio estaba hasta el momento funcionando en un 99% sobre Jekyll pero me faltaba migrar uno uno de los apartados más importantes: el formulario en donde recibo los blogs, el cual hasta ahora dependía de WordPress. Para hacerlo utilice...
a half-assed review"> Twenty years have passed since the Prime Evils were defeated and banished from the world of Sanctuary. Now, you must return to where it all began – the town of Tristram – and investigate rumors of a fallen star, for...
Weekly notes? Weekly reflections? Weekly notes usurp my mental space. An inability to articulate blog-posts have me ponder a way to break from hesitating behavior. My drafts grow, my confidence diminishes. Mental space overtaken by life...
You go down empty-handed or the telling is a lie. That was the first thing Weha put in me, before the breath work, before the shelves, before she ever let me past the first drop. A teller carries nothing up. Not one shell, not one fish,...
I used to be a colorguard director. I used to be a very good colorguard director. I've taken kids to Indy and Dayton (iykyk). I've won awards. I've trained champions. Normally, I'd be busy as heck for the next couple weeks, preparing for...
I'm not pretentious when it comes to coffee. I like it slightly weak and bitter with a ton of milk or cream in it, and that's it. Go to any cafe in America and this is the kind of coffee you find: drip coffee, bitter but weak, with a...
July 17, 2026 I haven't been blogging much lately. Nothing's interesting enough to write about. Every day I open my MacBook and stare at a blank screen, wondering what I'm going to do with myself. I know some part of every day goes to...
On 25th July I’m teaming up with Discover Jesmond 1888 and Heritage History Her for an event in St. George’s Church, Jesmond. Jesmond? Want to make your mark in history? Come to St George’s Church Hall on Saturday 25th July to make a...
July 2026. Sandbeds. Keighley. Two hours into Day 6 of the Cask Camino; time for a posh pub break on the very edge of Riddlesden, technically in Sandbeds though I can’t see that on the canal walk map. In fact, ChatGPT told me it was the...
I admire them stubborn readers, whose reading goals aren't centered on juggling and finishing as many books as possible but about maintaining focus, one book at a time. I only have a small sample, of course. The few I've met and got to...
This is a list I wrote years ago when I was feeling decidedly unplayful, and needed something to help me focus on the good things in my life. It's remained one of my favourite tools in my arsenal to my focus on a life led by joy. It was...
The best thing that happened this week I haven't had the best week since I fell sick with the flu which prevented me from getting any kind of quality sleep in for the past six days in a row now. It's been a struggle to get anything done...
Just as there are transitional times in the life of the world — dark periods of disorientation between two world systems, periods in which humanity loses the ability to comprehend itself and collapses into chaos in order to rebuild...
Project Aces (from the Ace Combat series) has one of the best videogame OSTs ever. I am1 finally pleased2 to find their whole collection available on Spotify as of 2026. Previously, only a handful of them were available. No more fiddling...
Dear reader,415,000. That’s the number of sites that are using the Not By AI badge. When you add other ways to communicate this, the number is much higher. But not everyone agrees that this needs to be disclosed.Since people can detect...
Thank you so much, kind stranger, for being my first secret patron on Liberapay! I am speechless and so grateful for your generosity and support. If I had to guess what it is for, I’d put it down to the new Homebrew Website Club event...
I'm working out my own, custom, RSS bot thing that I should be able to auto-post from here and ideally instagram and other corporate social media. :wq
Desde hace rato uso el Pastebin de omg.lol para guardar snippets de código, configuraciones y comandos que reciclo seguido. Es rapidísimo de usar y ya lo tenía integrado en mi flujo. Lo único que me faltaba era lo mismo que ya hice con...
On May 3, 2026, I spent the afternoon walking around the Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook with a friend. That walk led to my May 25, 2026 report on seeing a large warehouse fire in Belleville, New Jersey, from across the river. I took...
caught a gorgeous sunset our first night in Victoria Highlight of the week: went to Phillips Backyard Music Festival in Victoria to see Angine de Poitrine (and Modest Mouse)! Looking forward to: chilling at home this weekend 1% nicer:...
A la vez que recuerdo comidas que he preparado muy bien, también recuerdo incontables veces de cuando algo se quemó, estas veces quedan aun más marcadas porque las experiencias negativas (según leí quien sabe dónde) se quedan más...
I just finished my second book by Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility, and I must admit I’m fascinated by the author’s ability to create thrilling stories that are essentially slow-paced. This is the second book in my recent memory...
Cuando se habla de Linux, la mayoría de personas piensa inmediatamente en Linus Torvalds y en el kernel que publicó en 1991. Sin embargo, pocas veces se cuenta la historia completa. El éxito de Linux no puede entenderse sin el trabajo...
Billed as Neo Dolly Parton melodic noise stark punk and post-punk soundscapes by my old mate John Robb1, Molly Vulpyne and her band rattle through a number of sleazy punky numbers that are pretty good but I probably need to sit with them...
A couple of days ago, Casey Liss took a break from arguing about temperature scales to tweak me about the recent passage of the Sunshine Protection Act by the House. The Act would make Daylight Saving Time permanent, something Casey...
Today’s new short fic zine release, The Currie Mountain Repository, is the first entry in a series called “The Tales of the Voyageur”. The series is an environmental science fiction adventure, focusing on locations throughout the...
Roshan: Wikipen [[The Inscrutable Success Heuristic]] refers to a situation where someone makes apparently stupid decisions which always pay off. If this happens often enough and the ideas seem particularly unlikely to work then it's...
A few weeks ago we went to Shreveport for a work meeting. We stayed at one of the casinos because my husband likes to play blackjack and it's super cheap to play there. I typically like to play slot machines but this time around they...
Caught an opening at a new gallery in College Hill.Currently Listening: BTS “Normal”Reply via email
Pues verás, uno de los problemas más fastidiosos que he tenido son los numerosos líos relacionados con la falta de memoria RAM. Por supuesto, esto es gracias a que tengo contratado el paquete mínimo; aun así, dado mi escasísimo tráfico,...
There was a time when a two or three year-old, refurbished flagship smartphone was a good purchase. But times are changing.
I’ve signed up. On Sunday 9 May 2027, I’ll be taking on the shortest route: 40 miles (65 km) with 2,823 ft (860 m) of climbing. I’ve ridden it before, although the 2021 edition ran in the opposite direction after the original event was...
One thing I like about 11ty is that common tasks for development oriented blogs are easily handled and syntax highlighting is no exception. I installed the Syntax Highlighting Plugin just like the documentation asked me to. Then, I had...
J’ai la confiance de faire des erreurs en public, pas seulement sur le sujet de pratiquer mon français mais sur tout ce que je fais. Je ne suis pas parfait. L’acceptante de ce fait simple me libère de la pression. Ce n’est pas facile de...
The just-set sun illuminates the clouds above King Harbor. キング・ハーバー 沈んだばかりの太陽が、キング・ハーバー上空の雲を照らしている。
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...
Don’t worry, it was fully optional. I assisted to a webinar about “the potential of AI” in the workplace, and you can already guess what sort of conference I had to go through yesterday. I shared a livestream of my thoughts on my...
مع السلامة (ma’a salama) melting pot. さよなら (sayonara), salad bowl. America is an omnibus of purple prose bound in balding eagle skin.We’re talking primo leather from a batty bird who steals hot dogs from kids at ballparks. True story....