Mon Jul 20
I came across this fun little comic titled We Didn’t Lose the Plot. It has a straightforward conclusion: more things should come to an end. The “things” referred to here is media like books and movies and television but I’d extend it to many other things as well. Like web projects. So often, things are built in the...
“We recently received a double-digit number of submissions from authors in the Far East… where we had strong evidence of machine generated content. Nothing made much sense in these papers, the authors, with their yahoo and aol type email addresses, frequently supplied false university affiliations, among other...
I’ll say it right up front: I’ve written my share of pieces on this topic, which doesn’t invalidate the observation Nicholas Carr made in his newsletter: I hate to be a cynic, but I’m guessing the main reason for the proliferation of these sorts of articles [about using your phone less] is that they’re algorithmic...
Hello! I’m on a funny journey right now where I’m trying to learn how to make websites in a sort of 2010 style, where I have an SQL database and render some HTML on the backend. It’s kind of an interesting journey because it doesn’t necessarily feel “easy” to me to make websites in this way: I never learned how to...
I've bumped Rogallo to v0.12.0. The first change is a simple addition of a !theme command to the command line. As much as possible, I've tried to make sure that every command that's in the command palette can also be run from the in-app command line, but I'd managed to leave this one out. Now you can type !theme and...
These aren’t polished essays or tidy aphorisms. They’re scraps I’ve carried around this month—half-heard thoughts, borrowed lines, sudden recognitions—that refused to be forgotten. Zuihitsu literally means “following the brush,” and while my version is shorter and scrappier than the classical form, the impulse feels...
Amidst all this travel, I finally got some time to install GrapheneOS on the refurbished Pixel 8 Pro that I bought last month. Boy, that was the easiest OS install I’ve done in a while. Barely took my 10 minutes from start to finish. And having spent a few weeks with GrapheneOS as my primary driver. It’s nothing...
Recientemente fui invitado a colaborar en el blog de tecnología “El refugio de un Nerd” (anteriormente “El cajón de Tecnología”). Esta es mi primera colaboración con otro blog. Me gustan estas ideas de colaboración exista. ¿De que trata esta colaboración? Un blog es invitado a escribir sobre una recomendación de...
Now that the World Cup is over, we can finally get back into the swing of things at fOOfARAW HQ. While we won't be getting much in terms of new movies this week as everyone cowers from the Goliath of The Odyssey, there are a ton of fun shows, comics, and albums to talk about. 📺 King of the Hill Season 15 — HuluKing...
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Earlier this year we made a plan to visit our friends in Portland, Oregon and do a camping trip at Crater Lake National Park. For months our family had been looking forward to it, especially my oldest son who is obsessed with volcanoes. This past weekend the day finally arrived. We crammed everything into the cars...
By way of follow-up to this post: I’ve been able to publish so widely because I am always attentive to the character of the publishing house or periodical I hope to write for. What kinds of books and authors do they publish? What is their core audience? Whom do they hope to reach? I make sure that my pitches and/or...
Another wee while has passed, and I've been reading more and more books. Especially with my XTEInk reader, it's so easy to squeeze in a few paragraphs here and there!
Book and World Snack FairThe annual Hong Kong Book Fair is here. I usually go every year and went last Friday. English books are available; but the majority are Chinese. My mom bought a cookbook and I didn’t get anything—there’s still books I have new sitting on the shelf… There’s a concurrent World of Snacks (food...
If you’re reading this, you’re seeing laze.net at its new home. And pretty much nothing should look any different. Any previous URLs should either be the same or automatically redirect. Old functionality is still there. Some things on the maintenance side have gotten easier for me (after struggling a bit with the...
This museum dedicated to comics and cartoons was so inspiring, I had to sit down and catch my breath. (Let's just say I _really_ liked the funny pages when they were a thing.)Currently Listening: R.E.M. “Oh My Heart”Reply via email
Last edited 15 minutes ago. Considering how much anything costs right now (bc of AI, blockchain, mining, or whatever the fuck is going on in tech), I have come to a point in life where I realized I can afford nothing. Add to that the fact that my main computer died and I'm struggling financially... well, what's a...
July 2026. Keighley. With Day 7 of the Cask Camino on hold due to a sporting injury, I spend an unnecessary day in Keighley making trips to the town’s three (3) supermarkets (Sainsbury’s, Morrison’s, Asda) to keep Mrs RM topped up with deli items and sparkling water, while I completed my 22k steps walking to pubs. I...
A friend of mine told me about this CNN article which covers the religious practices of a polytheistic group in Athens. These people say worshiping ancient Greek gods is a route to modern happiness. There are many such groups, including in Cyprus where I live. The news story gives me the pretext to comment on some...
Camera focus adventures with a super rad insect There's this metal corrugated awning that covers a patio in my backyard right outside the living room window; birds love it because it catches a bunch of the oak tree's acorns and like, win/win - I look out a window and there's a goddamn buffet for creatures both avian...
Une chronologie des capacités d’édition et de publication des navigateurs web.
On this day eight years ago, apparently I was enjoying a holiday in Ireland. This looks like somewhere in the Dingle harbour area.
It's time for a new chapterThis is my last post on my WordPress website. There is no point in tarrying. I must set a target for myself and get this over the line. With my Astro website rewrite steadily progressing, I see no reason to hang about here. I will make the switch on Saturday, 1 August. That should give me...
Această platformă pe care o folosesc este aproape ca o rețea socială. public articole, note (microblog), imagini+galerie, video + secțiunile de foto/film/carte și să nu uit de pagini este secțiunea de comentarii și cartea de vizită unde pot discuta cu vizitatorii toate tipurile de articole sunt distribuite automat...
Yup. Goat-proofing the chicken door really worked a treat. FML. 🤦🏼♂️ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
Sometimes, shit gets real and you really have to work towards a specific goal. The way there is not pleasant though. For purely illustrative purposes1, let’s say you have to prepare for a math exam at uni. The one (and frankly only) thing that always makes sure I reach that goal is the simplest productivity tool...
I find myself doing this every month so I find myself Googling this every month so, in the spirit of "write about it so you never forget it", I decided to write it down. And, who knows, it might be useful for you too. When I get my photography scans back from the lab they arrive named with a sequential number that...
Sinds 2024 run ik OpenTK, met als doel zo goed mogelijk te laten zien wat er in de Tweede Kamer allemaal gebeurt. En, om daar ook nuttige email-notificaties over te versturen. OpenTK is begonnen omdat ik (vanuit de Internetwereld) ineens geconfronteerd werd met een wet die over DNS (mijn hobby) ging en over een paar...
Looking down the last block of Manhattan Beach Boulevard at the palm trees, the pier, and the ocean. ダウンタウン・マンハッタン・ビーチ マンハッタン・ビーチ・ブールバードの最後のブロックを見下ろすと、ヤシの木や桟橋、そして海が見える。
We all know the drill by now. You paste an error message into a chat window, and out comes a fix, an explanation, and a slightly smug amount of confidence. Sometimes the fix is even correct. These days I describe a whole tool to a machine, go refill my coffee, and come back to something that mostly works. Five years...
♠ Previously. Problem statement: LogSeq v2 is moving its graph format from markdown files to a sqlite database: What’s New with Logseq DB — May 16th 2026 Big update: Logseq is splitting into two versions This is not OK for my workflow. The whole point of adopting LogSeq was, just like Obsidian, the promise of...
This time it’ll be different, they say. This time it’ll be about the people, they say. This time it’ll be a change for the better, they say. This time the system won’t win, they say. Colour me apathetic. Another PM we didn’t vote for —I know, we vote for the party not the person— in a system that feels increasingly...
The eleventh episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:In Episode 11, I chat with flaMEd, the author of flamedfury.com about, among other things, web communities around games and television shows, sharing music interests with a personal website, community in the indie web, and more.I hope you enjoy the...
Last week the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese unveiled his government’s AI strategy. Part of the proposed framework includes a provision to ensure Australian writers, musicians, artists, and journalists, are paid in the event their work is used in the development of AI agents. This is as it should be....
Our last hike in the Franconian Switzerland took us from Pottenstein into the Püttlach Valley. Along the way, we discovered beaver dams, the Hollenberg ruins with a stunning panoramic view, and free-roaming goats - before rewarding ourselves with iced coffee at a local bakery.
Bear (a notetaking tool) has simple image resizing, with one extra nicety – if your images are near each other, resizing one will snap to the width of the other: In the Finder, columns snap to the width necessary to keep all the names untruncated – and not one pixel more: (Sidebar: This is also the only place I’m...
Just for the record – I recently wrote a piece on Ivy Compton-Burnett for Engelsberg Ideas.Here's a link...https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/ivy-compton-burnetts-forgotten-genius/
Last night on our Writing Livestream, I announced that Arcana Labs was taking a forray back into software development with our first large gaming project: Ecliptic Mariner: Diaries. Inspired by a combination of my own frustration with not having a specific tool I wanted, and classic games of my childhood like the...
The World Cup final is over, and justice has been made. As much as I love Messi as a player, Argentina just fell off this tournament and I didn’t want them to win at all. Spain managed to play fair and attack during the whole game, and even though two of their goals were invalidated, they still managed to score and...
A visitor to today’s recently restored Waldorf Astoria might be dazzled by the Art Deco design, the luxurious lobby, and the ghosts of all the actors, inventors, and heads of state who made it their temporary home. What that visitor might not realize is that “the hypen”—as the hotel was called before the hyphen was...
I recently got my documents in order with Paperless-NGX. It’s been on my todo list for years, but I mistakenly believed I would need a document scanner to make effective use of Paperless. Not so! Mobile camera scanning is pretty good, and so far I prefer the QuickScan app. Almost immediately, I wanted an MCP...
2026-07-20Hello!This time, the monochrome image is square. For some unknown reason, I chose to talk about Adrian Vila's square and monochrome photographs on a day I published a non-square image. Oh well.I feel weird taking photos at a children's playground, but it was empty and I made sure to get only the...
Es ist Pflicht beim Lesen dieses Artikels Eruption Radio zu hören. Dass die nächsten 1000 Wörter voller Fehler und Quatsch sind, merkt man dann gar nicht mehr. [19/1000] Schreibe heute schon wieder nach dem Spazieren, aber dieses mal mit Musik. Ich höre das, was man als Jungle bezeichnen könnte oder vielleicht als...
Two weeks ago a buddy took me and the kids for a short boat ride to Sambro Island. They did all the planning, getting the boat in the water, etc. I took the kids. There sits a lighthouse with a small, modern, solar station beside it. It and all the buildings around it are falling down with the memory of how Canada...