Sat Jul 25
2026-07-25Hello! Sleepy morning.This is the Downingtown Borough Hall in Pennsylvania. I've passed by this building a couple of times on road trips, but never thought to step inside, despite it being the grandest building around in this small town.Downingtown has great views in certain spots; there's this nice river...
K.: “Just because things don’t go according to plan doesn’t mean the world is going to go up in flames. You need to relax and just let things happen.” How do I do that when it feels like a moral failing? When it feels like proof that everything is precariously held together by some stupid strip of scotch tape that’s...
I've just bumped Port79 to v1.0.0. There's no significant change in this release, other than the addition of the usual dunder-based metadata that is common in Python libraries; somehow I'd managed to leave it out in the last couple of releases. Now that I've successfully added finger support to Rogallo, and the...
Limerence is a freeware original English-language visual novel by Zalor, a solo independent visual novel writer/developer and commentator. It is written in Ren’Py and was first published on March 5, 2026. Zalor describes it in a brief, poetic introduction on its online home, Itch.io: This is a story of love not...
I’ve managed to fit in three sessions of life-drawing so far this month—on three sequential Fridays—with the possibility of another session next week. It’s reminded me of how valuable it is not to leave large periods of time between sessions: with weekly sessions I feel like I’m building on the top of the previous...
It takes a village to make curl. A rather big village. I have not been a solo maintainer of curl for a long time and I don’t even do half of the commits anymore Since today, the curl git repository holds the accumulated efforts from 1,500 separate and named individuals. Only 4.5 years since we passed 1,000. Yay for...
Estos días han sido una locura en muchos aspectos y literalmente no he tenido tiempo para estar sentado para escribir nada. Estas líneas, de hecho, van a salir del tirón, porque aunque acabo de empezar mi periodo vacacional estoy suficientemente liado como para no poder dedicar mucho más tiempo a escribir. Ya veis...
While this post is hidden from Bear Blog's discovery feed, it may still appear on your RSS feed and elsewhere. Everything that I share on the Internet world is only temporary. Although I try my best to track down my digital footprints, I feel like some of them should stay at the void instead. By the way, I have...
Let's begin this week's reflection with the highlight. Rio Roller - Mayhem II Quad Roller-skates Finally got Rio Roller - Mayhem II Quad Rollerskates! I also wrote a post about roller-skating. I am looking forward to Wednesday, given that the weather remains gentle. Japanese Progress Although my motivation...
♠ Problem statement: using pi, install an extension (package) as an one-off, without persisting it, for the sake of test-driving it, akin to pre-commit try-repo. Solution: % pi --help [...] --extension, -e <path> Load an extension file (can be used multiple times) [...] For example: % pi -e...
I remember this legendary software engineer at Facebook. His name is Bob. Bob is a prolific engineer – he was responsible for shipping Facebook Groups (among other things). He was also a hackathon legend, delivering hit after hit. At the time I was a massive productivity nerd. I had a custom Vim setup with my own...
Here’s a nice moment in Logic Pro, a music app. Like with most such apps, you can press R to record playing an instrument. However, if you forgot to start recording, or were just goofing around and stumbled upon something wonderful, you can press ⇧R and the recording will appear anyway, as if you had a time machine....
Today, my husband and I went to the zoo in Amsterdam, and I took my trusty Campsnap Pro with me. I love this little camera and its perfectly imperfect pictures so much. This is a selection of the pictures I took today. Most of them were taken at the newly opened aquarium, after years of restauration. It was so great...
I want my anti-smartphone books to be red-hot and flaming Molotov cocktails thrown uncompromisingly at the algo silo surveillance mental ice age. 🔥🍾 I want The Interior Castle. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (and The Treasury of the Dharma Eye). Days of War, Nights of Love. A Pattern...
You should be so bold as she Who made so much money. Amazing, you say to the trees On which cash should be plucked Like so many potatoes, weighing The longest branches low.
“How do you find problems worth working on?” a senior engineer I mentor asked me recently. He’s trying to make the jump to staff engineer and realized that the role isn’t just about doing the work he’s assigned. He also needs to get involved in figuring out what his team and org should be building. Someone else had...
Bookmarked “You don’t have to blog like me” by Dan Q This is your reminder that having a personal website entitles you to blog however you want. There are lots of patterns communities have developed but it’s basically all optional. The internet is yours! Also posted to: news.indieweb.org
Dacă ai auzit de Freenet acum câțiva ani și l-ai asociat cu partajare anonimă de fișiere, ce găsești azi pe freenet.org e un program diferit, sub același nume. Merită povestea, pentru că spune multe despre cum evoluează un proiect vechi de peste două decenii. Ce este Freenet Freenet-ul de acum e o platformă...
Sooner or later every one of us meets it: some service that has been running fine for months suddenly starts logging Too many open files, and most of the internet’s advice is to raise some limit to a million and move on. That works, in the same way that turning up the radio fixes a rattling engine. So before...
In a bout of inspiration this week I changed some of the framework on this site. It started by realising that the additional content below an article was wrapped up in the article tag. I found this when I tested SEOTesting’s new Content Evaluator tool and it suggested that there were parts of the page that were...
On this day 60 years ago, the New York Poet Frank O'Hara died, following a bizarre night-time accident in which he was run over by a jeep on a Fire Island beach. The literary world was shocked, and his friends thrown into convulsions of grief. At his funeral John Ashbery, fighting back his tears, read 'To the...
Last edited 8 minutes ago. First off, before anything else, I just wanted to give a big thanks to everyone who emailed me regarding my last post — people sharing their own struggles, or with tips for getting free stuff, or simply to say they appreciate the post/my writing. Thank you thank you thank you. It's...
Yes, I’m still playing Wordle in 2026. According to Wordle, I’ve played 1,559 games, I win 99% of the time, my current streak is 107 days and my longest is 278. Four numbers, and they’re mostly correct. What I don’t get is anything behind them, no per-game history, no way to compare a Tuesday to a Sunday, no sense...
One of the most challenging things about the CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) exam isn't subnetting, spanning-tree, routing protocols, ACLs, or calculating longest prefix match. The most challenging thing is figuring out what study resources to use. There's a ridiculous amount of CCNA study material...
July 2026. Sheffield. Back from Darlington and a disappointing Chinese takeaway (life lesson : never go back) I popped next door (ish) to see how many folk were going to watch the World Cup Final at our local. The Blind Monkey had decent crowds this last month for the England matches; I even heard people walking...
Una nota del blog de la librería La Central de2016 Recordando la sucesión de espacios que componían la retrospectiva que el pasado año el Pompidou dedicó a Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, uno se asombra ante lo impreciso que resulta rememorar la exposición partiendo de una idea tan genérica como la de «espacios». Sería...
Chegamos ao mais novo episódio de eu recomendando música demais porém dessa vez eu tomei cuidado em reduzir a quantidade de músicas esse mês. Eu honestamente queria mudar um pouco esse esquema, mas ainda não sei se é possível, que seria ao invés de postar sobre músicas individualmente eu recomendar um álbum inteiro....
For some time now, I’ve been wanting to try using <aside> elements in this blog for … asides, I guess. You know, those “btw…” sorts of comments, but in cases where a footnote feels like too much faff. Thanks to the neighborhood crows, who were particularly escalated this morning at 5:45 right outside my bedroom...
Titles are not posts! (See what I did there?) / rant My RSS feeds are increasingly full of posts that are just titles. Some titles are just posts. No additional words, no explanation, no other thought, no verbiage, nothing. A statement given in the title is repeated as the post content. That’s it. Worse is those RSS...
We went for a wander after soccer yesterday and the little one picked the Frog Pond. We grabbed a treat at the Tartan Coffee Company truck at the parking lot and headed for the trail. Of course I only brought along my new-ish 50mm on the camera and there were at least 5 little ducklings at the waters edge 1 and a...
Act One They woke her first, the way they always did, because she came up slower and Aaron liked to be awake when she surfaced so hers wasn’t the only face in the room that had missed him too. The waking room was warm. That was the first thing, every time — the warmth, engineered to arrive before consciousness did,...
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NotesThere is a Ideas.md in the RSC GitHub repo but I want to share on my blog some of the things currently in development :Stumbled upon a few (local) #AI tools that made me really curious https://www.feynman.is https://herdr.dev https://gith
That's the reason I've always felt that private journaling isn't for me. Is it an attention-seeking look-at-me kinda thing? I honestly don't think so. For me, writing in public adds more reflection to the words. I can sit for a good while in front of a blank screen, not writing a single letter, just contemplating...
Κάποιος φίλος με παρέπεμψε σε άρθρο του CNN που καλύπτει κάποιες από τις θρησκευτικές πρακτικές της Ελλαδικής πολυθεϊστικής ομάδας Λάβρυς: These people say worshiping ancient Greek gods is a route to modern happiness. Υπάρχουν πολλές τέτοιες ομάδες στην Ελλάδα καθώς και στην Κύπρο όπου κατοικώ. Η είδηση αυτή μου...
We can do some pretty clever things with "xargs".
About two months ago, I found the Teal programming language, which describes itself as a statically-typed dialect of Lua. It transpiles to Lua and runs typecheck on the developer’s machine, so it fills roughly the same niche as TypeScript. It’s used by quite a few projects, including LuaRocks and inspect. For better...
I woke early — it has been warm lately. It is strange how you can find a burst of energy at 5am, but today it came, for I decided to organise my bookshelves, sorting what books I am ready to donate to the local charity shop.I picked up books — stories — and thought about the good memories I had with them. I also...