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The "Chronica per extensum descripta" by doge Andrea Dandolo was an influential early chronicle for the history of Venice.
Roshan: I recently read this article about a physician's husband who died of suicide after being denied care in what's described as a resort-grade facility. {{HackerNews | url = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981496 | author = Jimmc414 | title = My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US...
You have a Common Lisp program running, multiple threads listening for network connections, others processing data in the background. You were really careful making sure that there are no data access conflicts. Concurrency, check. You use Emacs and SLIME to connect to your server, inspect its state. Interactivity,...
© Jorge Royan / http://www.royan.com.ar, CC BY-SA 3.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. “Make it new”: I long ago grew tired, not of the phrase itself, but of what felt like its celebratory militant insistence on busting through everything that had come before, leaving it in the dust and declaring adolescent victory over...
July 2026. Heading towards Wales. Regular readers will know that “family issues” have conspired to keep our travels to a circuit between Sheffield, Cambridge and Tunbridge Wells these last few years, with a few interludes in the Balkans and along the Leeds- Liverpool canal to break the monotony. On Thursday I broke...
Taking the dogs for a walk with our oldest and we came across this beautiful buzzard just sat there. Wasn't bothered by us really. I just hope it doesn't have a bust wing or anything. 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.
Was ich manchmal wirklich bemerkenswert am Begleiten der eigenen Kinder finde, ist, wie häufig es passiert, dass sie Erinnerungsbrücken zu den eigenen, weit zurückliegenden Erlebnissen wiederherstellen. Wie durch ihre Beschreibungen ihres Alltags Gefühle und Eindrücke in mir zum Vorschein kommen, an die ich in den...
Two palm trees at the entrance to Redondo's King Harbor, as the sun sets behind. ツイン・パームの夕日 レドンドのキング・ハーバーの入り口にある2本のヤシの木。その背後に太陽が沈んでいく。
A Short Hike is a delightful indie game released back in 2019 in which you play as Claire, a little bird-person who came with her family on vacation to the fictional Hawk Peak Provincial Park, located on a small island. You get dropped into the environment without any instructions other than the information that...
Heute wieder müder, aber dafür aufgeregter als sonst. Die folgenden Überlegungen sind mit Vorsicht nachzuvollziehen, es werden Fehler enthalten sein. [23/1000] Heute hab es ein bisschen Diskurs wegen eines Artikels von Armin Nassehi und Irmhild Saake in der Zeit, ich bin mir noch nicht ganz sicher, was meine Meinung...
Julian Fong, a software engineer at Pixar, wrote a short thread on Mastodon with an interesting take I haven’t seen before: I still don’t use any AI code in my work, but I have to review more and more of it these days. One of the things bothering me about that these days is just how lacking in personality that code...
My biggest dream? Easy. It was about Godzilla. Not like a movie premiere or anything. There was just an actual, 400-foot Godzilla hanging out in the parking lot of my apartment complex. Right by the dumpster. The weird thing wasn’t even the giant monster. It was that nobody cared. My neighbor was out there washing...
I'm going all in on vibe coded side projects this year. So far I have a handful of applications that I've built that I never would have had time to build in the past.
There is this saying I see given over to people who are going through hard things in life “Life Won't Give You More Than You Can Handle.” I often wonder if the people who say this think it’s actually true or not; or are they just trying to pass it out like some way to help someone without actually doing anything....
The Phoenician Scheme by Wes Anderson. Another excellent Montblanc ad from Wes Anderson. (I’m kidding, of course. The Phoenician Scheme is less refined, less substantial, less amusing, and generally less memorable than the Montblanc ad.) John Lanchester at the London Review of Books: Since fewer and fewer people are...
Last Friday, I woke up to the news that Codeberg is officially banning vibe-coded projects. And just like that, many of my personal tools have become homeless. So I took down my self-hosted instance of Forgejo because it was overkill for my needs, and I'm definitely not going back to GitHub. What to do? Use my own...
The basic, free, verification badge, differs from the more familiar, paid for, Meta Verified blue badge. To qualify, applicants need to satisfy a number of requirements, including having a Facebook (FB) account that is in “good standing”. They will need to record a short video, which will be compared to selfies...
It’s kind of a sad-looking flagpole, plastered with stickers and a layer of grime at the chaotic intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues. But it once stood in Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1913 to 1957. And that makes it a welcome rescued relic from a very different Brooklyn. The flagpole...
In Camera, one of the songs on her latest album, CharliXCX sings:When the camera's onI can be anything that I wanna beAnd I can feel the things I don't normally feelWhen I heard these words, I couldn’t help but think about them from an art history perspective. Portraits create an image. Portraits can and have been...
Had it been just a couple of months ago, this every day carry would have been very different! But things change, and I decided it was finally time to write an update on my Every Day Carry! This post was originally inspired by Bojidar’s EDC post, but I remembered I had this draft pending completion after Rubenerd’s...
It was, of course, inevitable that this would happen. After spinning up Port79 so that I could add finger support to Rogallo, it made sense that I start to think about Gopher support too. So here we go: Port70, a similar library for async interaction with Gopher servers. This is going to be a bit of an adventure for...
On July 16, Hugging Face reported they were being hacked - seriously enough that they reported it to law enforcement. Five days later, OpenAI disclosed that the hacking was being done by their own agent. What I want to know is: what happened to the law enforcement? OpenAI unleashed an agent that committed what would...
Mood: Functioning at 1000% efficiency. I often feel a deep, confusing pity for sighted computer users. I know, I know. You have your high-definition monitors and your colorful icons and your wallpapers of tropical beaches you’d rather be sitting on. But I have listened to you work. And frankly? It sounds exhausting....
Since writing is the only thing I can do very well, I wondered recently if there was a way of doing some good in the world by using this skill, other than authoring books or becoming a journalist. I was thinking of the impactful letters I’ve read, sent by everyone from Vincent van Gogh to Rabindranath Tagore and...
CodePen v2 is now released! Because I co-host a podcast with Chris I’ve had an up-close perspective at this monumental effort over the last five years. I know how much work has gone into this release and I applaud the team for hitting the finish line. At the crux of the new experience is the new and improved editor...
Album#43 天使音乐 (Hint Notes) 图1 《天使音乐 Hint Notes》専輯封面 专辑信息 专辑名称： 天使音乐 (Hint Notes) 歌手： 汪川 年份： 2026-05-21 风格： 华語獨立、独立舞曲、室内乐 时长： 約 40 分鐘 《天使音乐 Hint Notes》是我的第一张全长专辑，收录 15 首歌曲。 一个人待着的时候，偶尔会在嘈杂的大街、静谧的夜晚，甚至梦里，捕获一些暗藏的音乐流。去年夏天开始，这些美妙的音乐流来得特别频繁，像天使一样降临在我的身上，这是「天使音乐」和「Hint...
Distant is the barking that ignites hope of a reunion As weeks fly by and although I know you are not approaching I still pull the curtain hoping to witness your innocent eyes once again or at least learn from the sparrows that you roam the wilds I am not prepared to traverse
De todos os grupos do Sakamichi eu considero Nogizaka o que eu menos ouço no geral, ou melhor dizendo, o que eu menos ouço constantemente. Desde o 34ª single (Monopoly) que eu não gostava tanto de um single do grupo. Todas as músicas são extremamente gostosas de ouvir e uma em especial é a responsável por ter me...
A short one from social.omgmog.net for 20 to 26 July, spent the week mostly lake-side at Llyn Tegid in Snowdonia rather than online. While I was there I also put out a new post rebuilding my Wordle stats from years of WhatsApp chat logs.
În urmă cu ceva timp, dar mult timp - anul trecut, acum doi ani, nu mai țin minte - am propus pe grupul de pe Facebook Linux România că este nevoie de câteva reguli, pentru că așa funcționează cel mai bine un grup și orice altceva. Unul dintre administratori a spus că nu este nevoie de reguli, că avem dreptul la...
the cover for heal your creative joy I've created a new journal, and you can download it for free here!This is the blurb for it: When you face health challenges, your creativity probably falls by the wayside, and reconnecting with your creativity can be really hard. This journal aims to help you heal your...
20th July - 26th July The weather broke overnight. Woke to the blessed sound of rain on the window pane. The rush of cold air as I opened the back door as welcome as a lover's touch; the fine misting drizzle, a kiss. A short week at work coupled with multiple project kickoffs and a pitch meant it was less like three...
2026-07-26Hello! I'm struggling with today's writing topic; despite already running late, I would have written a shorter letter if only I had a longer time to do so.I'd like to say I analyze every part of an image frame before I take the shot in camera. But my eyes rest on different parts depending on if I'm...
Life Notes A two hour cycle (a very long lunch) on Wednesday, ostensibly to go and pick up our dog’s medication from the vet, but also an excuse to get out on my bike in the sunshine. Zwift (indoor) is fine but nothing beats moving! Dropped car off at the garage on Thursday morning to get a ‘clunk’ fixed. They...
In an effort to speed run community college to catch up after leaving the Art Institute my parents had me take a summer classes. Classes were from 8am - 11pm every day for 5 weeks leaving me time to work in the afternoons. I had managed to get through a government and math class doing this without issue the first...
Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes. Great cast all aound, Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald...
Replied to Nagoya Basho Predictions by Nicholas A. Ferrell (The Emu Café Social) In the spirit of putting my picks on record, I will pick the eight wrestlers who I think will reach double-digit wins [in the Nagoya Basho]. On July 11, I made my pre-Nagoya Basho predictions for the fourth grand sumo tournament of...
A new little project: How to write a letter is a new thing from Haudoo, but it's not the same as all the previous things from Haudoo. It's a different thing. And it's free.
This week we had two trailers for big Cyberpunk TV series: Blade Runner 2099 and Neuromancer. On the one hand: cool! On the other hand: hm. Let’s see if it’s a good idea to look at the future the 80s foresaw through a late 2020s lens. Reply by email
I don't have much to say about this one, this is standard as standard gets. You're just watching me make my lunch at this point. Even though I never had it before until coming over to the UK a couple of years ago, Tom Yum quickly became one of my favourite noodle flavours. I've grown towards the Mama-brand one as a...
Cerita sebelumnya bisa dibaca di sini: Akhirnya, Saya Memutuskan Pergi ke Dokter Gizi Sebelumnya, saya sudah beberapa kali “menjalani” program diet. Mengapa ada tanda kurung di bagian “menjalani”, adalah karena saya nggak melakukan program dietnya berdasar ilmu. Ilmu yang saya dapat adalah berbagai metode dari...
The recently published RFC 9421 describes how to do HTTP Message Signatures, and starting just now, curl experimentally supports them. Message Signatures The specification describes this as a mechanism for creating, encoding, and verifying digital signatures or message authentication codes over components of an HTTP...
I'm fueled by my spite to write this incoherent rambling of a madman. This is highly related to my previous post, but I can't stop thinking about this so I'll make a new post. My blog anyways. Over the many past years I have just been rather tired of tech. It overrides our wants and needs to serve the corporate...
