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Aliens are around us but government is trying to keep it a secret for almost 7-8 decades. Worst part is that the DOD and a private corporation is developing technology by experimenting on captured aliens. Good people fights back as they understood that the aliens belongs to an evolved species who lives with empathy...
I remember when Hollow Knight: Silksong came out and people playing the game demanded an easier and less punishing experience. Soon articles came in questioning the decisions Team Cherry made while developing the game. Terms like "Artificial Difficulty" were thrown around, players venting online that the game was...
Some link titles have been slightly modified for style. EntertainmentIt's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownershipPopcar explains why digital ownership is important in the gaming community. On K-pop and generative AI(CW: AI-generated imagery) Some personal thoughts from gogumapizza about the cover...
From you the tireless honeybee I draw an example for my own life to remain consistent in my commitments to never make discounts on my principles and to always contribute with whatever way I can to the common good that unites us Από εσένα την ακούραστη μέλισσα παίρνω παράδειγμα για την ζωή μου να μένω συνεπείς στις...
A decade ago, when I was still speaking at conferences and heavily marketing myself, I’d often think of personal branding ideas. We’ve seen the trends. The business cards. The t-shirts. The stickers. The buttons. The socks! Can’t forget the socks. My logo is branded across not only my sites but my computers and my...
♠ Problem statement: ctrl+d in pi took several seconds to quit. The culprit was pi-memory’s session_shutdown handler. It sent one last LLM request to summarize the session, wrote its answer to the daily log, then ran qmd update. Pi awaits all shutdown handlers, correctly, so quitting waited for everything:...
The person who opened the “issue” asking for better E-Ink screen support in the Readeck app for Android, whom I mentioned in my first impressions of the Boox Go, gave us a gift this Sunday: they submitted a pull request toward this goal, along with a ready-to-use binary. It still needs some polish, but it’s already...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader...
I was lucky enough to grow up in a house with a backyard and a pool. To the side of the pool is a guesthouse with white stucco walls and a multicolored tile roof. In my earliest memories, the guesthouse had a bed where aunts and nannies sometimes slept. As a child I cared only for its bathroom, where I kept my...
By: Bob de Graaff | Rating: 4/5Yes, the Netherlands had its own CIA. Spies and everything. But with about 1% of the necessary budget, and you get a typically Dutch version of it. Always underfunded, more lucky than competent, the IDB was never going to be a great success. This book gives a fascinating insight into...
On this evening 14 years ago, I was watching, aghast, the television coverage of the London Olympics opening ceremony. My memories of it are mercifully vague, though I do of course remember the James Bond stunt with the Queen, all those nurses prancing about in celebration of that envy of the world, our NHS (which...
August is a week away, which means I'm on the cusp of three distinct yet overlapping seasons: portfolio, primary, and tomato. Meditations ensue. portfolio Like a good Boglehead, I rebalance my portfolio once a year. I do mine in mid-August. I...guess?...you could call my approach to my finances "barista FIRE,"...
Table of Contents Nuclear Strategy for Individuals Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes Diplomacy Studying at the Swedish Defence University gives you an odd way of thinking, where everything can be modelled through the lenses of nuclear strategy, international relations (ir), and the tactics employed in various contemporary...
Ich habe Angst, dass hier viel von Gestern wiederholt wird, aber das soll niemanden davon abhalten, auch diesen Post mit Vorsicht zu genießen. [24/1000] Eine Frage, die im Halbschatten (und am Ende) des Posts von Gestern steht, verdient vielleicht ein bisschen mehr Aufmerksamkeit. Die Frage ist die nach dem...
Something about the last two years has eroded my ability to focus. I find myself doing less deep work and more context switching. I’ll give you three guesses why. It is what it is though. I used to be an i3wm zealot, and I remember it fondly, but I don’t have the time or energy to sink into maintaining a functional...
Today, the world is made of people. This gives people a tiny measure of leverage: factory workers can sabotage the machines and halt production, truck drivers can strike and halt the entire economy, the police can stand back and let a protest topple the government, the military can mutiny. This sets a limit to how...
I am considering going deep into the subject of the Reading Act. Starting with history. So I am brainstorming how to go about this and do a sort of self-study syllabus. It would be nice to know if there are courses out there. I only find courses on Literature itself, but not on the act of Reading and holistic...
Powershop is in the process of updating all their clients to their new mobile/web application. With this change, the old import Powershop data from downloaded CSV, does not work anymore. That needs fixing, of course.
Nice moment in Slack and Medium – when logging in, the login code that arrives via email is already there in the subject, in addition to hiding inside: This feels good for two reasons. One is the obvious one: you see the code earlier, it might show up in a notification, etc. But also, this should prevent multiple...
The Garmin Cirqa has been out for 3 days now, so of course I'm qualified to write a not very comprehensive review. I want to go over why I bought the thing in the first place, the fit and finish, battery life, the software situation and whatever else I'll think of while writing this piece. Over the past few weeks my...
Go’s proposal to allow examples with any signature was accepted on July 8. Today, an example must look like func ExampleXxx(). go/doc skips the function as soon as it sees a parameter or result. The example doesn’t appear in go doc or on pkg.go.dev. The restriction comes from the two jobs an example can do: appear...
It feels like not a lot happened this week. My workplace has been rather boring, my gym-going is pretty standard, there were a lot of things happening on my gaming side, and such, but well, here’s a summary of things. Oh right, the weather. This week was rather sunny for once, seems like the rainy days are coming to...
2026-07-27Hello!It's about that time where I need to start preparing for both the half-year Day 180 article and the landmark Day 200 article. Just my luck; I've gotten myself into unforeseen busy work that I need to clear up outside of photography and this website.That doesn't mean I won't keep rambling on this here...
The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so clearly something was wrong. Luckily my wife was able to get hold of a local falconer who was able to catch him and hopefully nurse him back to health. 🦅 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to...
Photo by Tyler on Unsplash The small web and self-hosting are cool and all, but what if you want to deploy a homemade Node or .NET app in a Docker container somewhere? Pretty quickly, you end up needing (or wanting) something like: A Git repository. A CI/CD pipeline that builds your project’s Docker image. A Docker...
Hotter water for a high elevation washed bean, and a cold brew batch that worked
The experiment took one word. Hearts of Glass is a story from this site — written with models, as most of the fiction here is, but outside the pipeline the archive documents: it began as a conversation about human hibernation, and the machinery never touched it. A couple sleeps through deep time in an automated...
Dear Creative Soul, There is always going to be someone who does something you don’t get. There is always going to be someone who doesn’t treat you with respect. There is always going to be someone who says something that make you feel sad. There is always going to be someone who makes you want to scream. There is...
The pitched roofs, overhanging eaves, curlycue flower petal motifs—is this really the entrance to the Third Avenue Elevated at 28th Street, or is it a house from a fairy tale? Painted by Staats Cotsworth around 1940, this depiction of an ordinary train entrance feels fanciful, almost magical; the city itself is...
Introduction I recently published an article about creating and publishing a new visual novel in ONScripter-EN titled Under the Alien Sky from beginning-to-end from July 17-19. I created that piece within the restraints of two Itch.io game submission jams. While the tight July 17-19 time limit came from Kenney Jam...
How do I find a balance between growing as a person and being genuinely myself?
I have a thought experiment for you. Imagine if the next time you go to sleep you wakeup in someone else’s body-mind. And they wake up in yours. A full swap. What would that be like? If your first reaction to that was, “Oh I would be surprised”, or “It would be so weird”, I have to caution you and clarify the setup....
I haven’t written a post in a long time but it’s been on my mind all these weeks and months. Writing these notes offers me some relief. Things have been busier and not the good kind of busy. My father-in-law hasn’t been well; my wife has been away. She returned about 3 weeks back, only having to rush back a week...
Four Big Books is the title of a course I’ll be teaching this coming term — my last as a university professor! What follows is an outline of what I’ll be saying to my student on the first day of class. • • • • • Back in 1982, at the Cannes Film Festival, the German film director Wim Wenders brought other filmmakers,...
One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course, never breaks.) The moment I stepped out of the airplane, the Andes towered over me like the stone thrones of gods, snow-capped over the...
Estas palabras las estoy escribiendo al vuelo, casi en una especie de ejercicio de escritura automática, en el porche del bungalow en el que me estoy alojando unos días. Hace sol. El paisaje está ligeramente turbio y huele raro, quizá por el humo de los incendios de Ávila, que aunque no están cerca de donde estoy,...
I’m writing much less because I’m thinking, much less. I’m thinking much less about what I watch, what I read, what I use or what I eat, what I do and who I am. It’s a period, it must be summer, it’s a period in which I watch, read, use, eat, do and am, and that’s it. Nothing more. There’s no lightheartedness, only...
Here’s (usually weekly, but during the summer, monthly) report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. (If we’ve missed anything, please let us know.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy New: Model Organisms by Michael Dietrich and Nedah...
It’s funny how silence can be a cool, refreshing glass of a water or an oppressive force of nature.
I have received a 009 Society Kerr Stuart Sirdar, a new 009 narrow Gauge loco produced by Rapido Trains UK. The next day I received a package with two more from elsewhere. I had pre-ordered one when they were initially announced, then the 009 Society Exclusive version was announced and then I also received one as a...
July 2026. Whitchurch (Shropshire). OK, they’re not all “wonders“, but illiteration innit ? Whitchurch (Salop, there’s loads of them. See also : Newport) is a pretty little town, overlooked by those on the way down to bigger hitters like Shrewsbury and Ludlow and Cwmbran. Famous for clocks, I later learn. The half...
Having spun up Port70 as a support library for my effort to add gopher support to Rogallo, the next thing I needed was some code to parse the "gopher map" responses that you get back from Gopher servers. While this could have been some code in Rogallo itself, much like with Gemtext, it seemed sensible to put it in...
My war against Screen and against Online is over and this is the peace treaty: No screen without a matching TODO item. I can spend any amount of time online or on devices or watching TV and do anything on there as long as I do this: Away from the screen, with the screen off or out of view, I look at my “to do” list...
AusAlert is a new, nation wide, emergency warning system being rolled out by the Australian government. Should there be a crisis or disaster of some sort, authorities will be able to send warnings to mobile phones in the vicinity. The alerts, which will be heralded by a short, but loud siren sound, are designed to...
I'm doing the DeepLearning.ai + RedHat vLLM course. Here's a dump of some of my handwritten notes (from the ReMarkable 2).
Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, joins forces with an unlikely companion on an interstellar journey of vengeance and justice when an unexpected adversary strikes too close to home. This feels less than a superhero movie and more like a mashup of Star Wars and Guardians of the Galaxy, and I’m okay with that. It’s a simple...
In 2025, the number of people in Germany paying by credit or debit card overtook the number of cash payers for the first time. At first glance, it seems that cash (coins and banknotes) will eventually become completely obsolete here too. I’ve personally noticed this: I pretty much pay for everything via my...
Writing my response to Michael Harley’s blog post arguing against the merits of weeknotes has, ironically, had me think more about weeknotes and seek out more weeknotes to read. I’d toyed with the idea of creating my own weeknotes for a while and, rather than dwelling on it endlessly, I’ve decided to just give it a...
Antirez, the creator of Redis, recently argued that expert programmers using AI should think of themselves as being Linus Torvalds. The key part of his analogy is this: Automatic programming, instead, in the hands of people that are expert technicians, or expert programmers, expert designers, expert software...
What I sometimes find truly remarkable about spending time with my children is how often they help me reconnect with my own long-forgotten experiences. Through their descriptions of their daily lives, feelings and impressions surface within me that I haven’t thought about even once in the past 40 years. Simon is...
Jason Grigsby has a great article where he surfaces an opinion from the Safari team about how AI agents shouldn’t get special treatment: An agent acting on a user’s behalf is, in effect, assistive technology: it should operate a site as the user would, and the site should not single it out for different treatment....
There were ducklings waiting for me when I arrived the other morning at the office where I was beginning my work day. They were in a box stacked atop the morning’s delivered mail. This is not an infrequent event out here in the woods. Usually it’s chicks that come through, but occasionally it is ducklings, sometimes...
The twelfth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:In Episode 12, I chat with Georgie, the author of Hey Georgie about, among other things, writing about travelling, blogging as a self-reflection tool, why someone should start a personal website today, and more.I hope you enjoy the episode!Wonders of Web Weaving...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop (and that stop has come!) I got sick last week and it kinda messed up my rhythm; I've traditionally been able to be sick and keep drawing these but I had enough other stuff going on that when I woke up last Monday morning I realized...I hadn't...
Hace de unos meses que estoy sin pagar ningún servicio de streaming de películas (lease Netflix, HBO, etc.), una razón es la de reducir costos debido a la reciente mudanza que llevó una considerable cantidad de dinero, la otra es que las últimas veces que tuve me la pasaba más eligiendo que ver, que viendo. Como...
I started this blog last Monday, and have been adding posts and pages, trying out stuff, and changing various things on it most days since. It was mostly just a case of re-orienting myself after some time away from the platform – other times it was just trying things out to see what they did. Some things have been...
I had the sudden inspiration to post on here since I haven’t in a while. Here are a few things I am grateful for lately: my little corner of the world good rooftop views bánh mì flowers in a cute vase semi-spontaneous travel wide open spaces (the concept but also the song of course) new journals bookstores (except...
My jj experiment is going well As mentioned, I’ve been trying jj lately, and I’m beginning to see the light. Or at least some of it. Here are a few key changes I’ve noticed. {% aside %} Disclaimer: I am mediocre at git and a total beginner at jj. This post captures my thoughts as I learn. It’s not meant to be any...