Thu Jul 30
July 2026. Whitchurch. Shropshire. A short post to end Whitchurch on a high. A 4pm opener, 12 minutes walk to the station, train to Crewe at 16:44. Perfect. And the Crafty Dragon, which I am going to call the Magic Dragon, opened a minute early. I like that in a pub. Opening half an hour early and not telling folk...
Iba al minigolf cuando las cosas se ponían feas, cada casita o figura plasticosa que le daba personalidad a los hoyos, él los adoraba como si fueran dioses y su forma de rezarles era practicar una y otra vez, recoger las pelotas que se desviaban de dirección y volver a empezar. Sentía que derrotar a los guardianes...
Lo Blackwell is an aspiring travel journalist who gets the gig of her career; the maiden voyage of an intimate luxury nordic cruise liner, and witnesses a murder — or did she? Our erstwhile heroine is a borderline alcoholic with a head injury and so sleep deprived she's the end level boss of unreliable narrators,...
Anyone who knows Kyla and I, will say we're incredibly close sisters. People often mistake us for friends with her blonde hair and my asian face, and the fact that we act like best friends.
Toot.community is shutting downby Jorijn SchrijvershofSadly, toot.community is shutting down in October. This post talks about why Jorijn has made that decision.Read post ➡ So much of this post resonated with me and aligned closely with my reasons to step away from Fosstodon. Being a fediverse server admin is a...
The industry has a maddening relationship with solved problems. A thing gets figured out, packaged, documented, and shipped, and a decade later half the field is building it again from scratch. The old solution was rarely wrong. Somewhere along the way the proven thing got traded for something that looked cheaper,...
Christian Arzu from the @linkarzu channel on YouTube has just published a ~16-minute video with the title What I Need From Emacs: A Video for Prot. I am happy he has done this and am eager to discuss those concepts in further depth. In this article I will comment on the specific points Christian raises as well as on...
I saw Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie two nights ago, and it blew my mind. It reminded me of the first time I saw The Science of Sleep by Michel Gondry. Back then, my mind was just, "You can do that in a movie?" This time, though, I already knew you can do whatever you want. The rules are arbitrary in every...
Here's a one-liner to generate PNG favicons in multiple sizes from the icon.svg file using Inkscape on macOS:
A quick bump of Wasat to v1.3.0. This follows on from the work started in v1.2.0, improving how hybrid mode works and also making host certificate verification information available in the response object. The main improvement to hybrid mode is that it's now a little more discerning about when to fall back on TOFU...
I’ve got a lot going on at the moment which means I’ve not been posting here. Big whoop, right. Yeah, work is busy. At home we are in the last week of Jack attending nursery (his last day tomorrow!) and we are spending next week in Nethybridge —yes the one that was evacuated last week cos of the wildfire in the...
Mastodon is a truly decentralised micro-bloging platform. Anyone sufficiently motivated, and technically proficient, can start their own instance, or community. Depending on the administrator, instances can be completely isolated, accessible only to its members, or federated, that is, interconnected to all other...
Giles Edwards-Alexander does an experiment to see if decomposing a large function helps reduce token costs, suggesting that is may now be possible to measure the economic benefit of refactoring more…
Words have always had a way with me. They find me if and when it suits their fancy. If they do find me, they usually find me between thirty minutes and thirty days after they would have been just perfect to tell someone... (This post contains interactive elements. Check it out on the web page.)
In the middle of my bleakest winter, my friend Andrea gave me a battered copy of a forgotten book from her elderly father’s used bookshop in rural Texas, by a man named Hockley Clarke. I inhaled it in a day. Born in England in the final year of the nineteenth century, Hockley Clarke grew up loving nature. When he...
Stake-outs are the worst part of my job. I’m too easily distracted. If I do a crossword puzzle or text on my phone while sitting in the car, there’s a good chance a cheating husband walks right by me, grinning and tucking in his shirttail. Contrary to the exciting lives of television detectives, real investigations...
There have always been great games. We find plenty of old, obscure titles and appreciate their design today. Not just that—they’re fun. Lately, many of us rediscover old things. We revisit them, tweak ’em, steal from them. Celebrate them or view them in a different light. Share ’em. That’s another topic. I spent...
As is our abortive, and often-skipped tradition, dependant entirely on my ability to maintain the habit of putting the interesting links onto a list for later use, here are all the interesting internet things I’ve found since our last internet highlights post. List Frequent Flyer MOS-8502 (aka Studio 8502) has just...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Huggies_Overnight_Diaper.jpg}}|thumb|Huggies overnight diapers - a marvel of modern science]] Modern materials are amazing magical devices to create a prosperous society. They are ever-present to a degree that we have normalized their existence but they have transformed the...
Lo primero que hago nada mas abrir los ojos, todavía en la cama, es coger el móvil. Ya no tengo redes sociales, pero la costumbre sigue ahí. Así que leo los emails. Uno de la biblioteca pública diciendo que en dos días he de devolver Earth Angel porque alguien lo acaba de reservar. Entonces caigo en la cuenta de que...
I watched the movie "Valentines Day" (2010) for the first time today, which stars, among others, Taylor Swift. The energy in this scene (especially the enthusiastic and excited way in which the words are said, while Taylor carries a huge bear) 1 fills me with joy:[call out: "Save the Lattes!"]Taylor: They're putting...
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2026 third quarter ended June 27, 2026. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $109.4 billion, up 16 percent year over year. Company gross margin was 50.1 percent, including a favorable impact of approximately 2 percentage points from tariff refunds. Diluted...
So the title of my last post was originally “Online Friends vs Raising Satan In Your Basement,” which I reposted with a new title: “Online Friends vs Summoning Goats In Your Basement.” Why the retitle, you may wonder? Well, that post refused to appear in Bear’s Discover feed, which is just… weird? I’m not getting...
plain-form.com via robinsloan.com Pure insanity. Ferro Mono Black?! Are you kidding me?! And Black IV??? What??? I feel like I’m going into shock looking at these letterforms. Beautiful, delightful, should not exist.
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Where’s Tamara?. A virtual logbook, with real-time tracking, of Tamara Klink’s current voyage. Tip from Digão on Órbita. Dustin Mierau. Another one of those personal sites...
Heya! So, it's been a while. I think I've only made like, one other post this entire month? Which, is kind of a glacial pace. Mostly, it's just because I've been rather busy with a ton of life stuff™. I did find some time to do various other small projects though! Like adding some features to guestbooks, as I've...
Some rules and guidelines after spotting patterns, gaps, and disappointments in my reading list: Read physical books; do not read online articles. Physical books allow for longer engagement with an idea and do not have a comments section you can immediately refer to to see what others think about a topic, giving you...
Items of interest elsewhere… “Du Bois is read as the Black Hegel, and Fanon as a Black Sartre… [but] turning non-Western thinkers into tame versions of ourselves is a kind of intellectual colonialism that we need to get beyond” — Takeshi Morisato on the risks of comparative philosophy “The very same bits of nature...
2006 (2026 Re-issue) • 2xLP, White Label, Test Pressing To see all 2 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/records/luna-amara-loc-lipsa-test-pressing/
Esse é o primeiro grupo que eu venho fazer review que eu tenho acompanhado desde o começo, que é só uns meses atrás, e a primeira vista não dá pra não fazer comparações com Keyakizaka46. O primeiro uniforme, MV e tudo mais lembra muito o grupo e foi o motivo que eu fui ver sobre o grupo. Apesar das comparações as...
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One Take PassThe phrase “one take pass” is probably not proper English. It’s a common phrase you’ll hear in Hong Kong for taking any sort of exam or test; meaning to pass the exam on your first try. If you’ve followed my weeknotes (W24, W30), you could work out I’ve been having lessons for about 2 months, once per...
This post is a part of my word-vomit series. Feel free to skip it.Howdy. That's the first word came to my mind around half an hour before I started writing this word-vomit. I have no idea why but after that I was repeating it many times in my head so that I will not forget to use it. From past few weeks, I have so...
Replied to Some Highly Subjective Grades for Nagoya 2026 by Josh K (tachiai.org) M7E Kotoeiho 11-4 – Led the basho after 10 days before running into trouble, having adjusted to the higher level of competition at his highest ever rank. Despite being knocked out of the race, finished strong with wins against two...
Last year I talked about my faithful Logitech C930e webcam, and at the end of the article I mentioned that I have to manually disable the autofocus, and that sadly that setting is gone at every reboot, and even every time I unplug the webcam; my question then was, can I automate this somehow? And the answer is yes,...
The venerable cp command is well-known to any Unixer. Whether you want to copy one file or a whole tree recursively, cp is always available and always ready to help. However, as with most things in life there is more than one way to cp the cat. In this article, I’m going to explore some alternatives to cp that you...
Introduction Two days ago, I announced my plan to review a significant number of short visual novels submitted to the minimalist O2A2 2026 – Only One of Any Asset Visual Novel Jam (“O2A2”) (see my article about my own submission) and proceeded to review 11 entries. Because I introduced the project there, I will skip...
The first doges, from the "Chronica per extensum descripta" (1340s) by Andrea Dandolo.
Depending on which social bubble one is into, people are drawn to letting LLMs do everything. Latest tools promise to fully configure or even manage entire server setups. While that sounds amazing (and I want to try it out some time) that approach has some downsides: So, while these tools are impressive, they’re not...
GitHub has a handy issue type field that’s available to organizations. The default values are Bug, Feature, and Task. You can also define your own custom values. They appear in the web interface but, unfortunately, there isn’t a way to interact with issue type via the GitHub CLI. Inspired by Den Delimarsky’s post, I...
OpenRouter # Today I signed up for OpenRouter. The Unified Interface For LLMs Better prices, better uptime, no subscriptions. Its main selling point is a single LLM API endpoint to rule them all, without lock-in to a specific provider or model. Upon signing up you’ll get an API Key: sk-or-v1-..., which you’ll save...
Going on digital detox and analogue for the next 3 weeks on Holidays. See you all in 3 weeks and hopefully many handwritten posts!Thank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
Check out As in guillotine... for more. David Epstein’s Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World is one of my favorite books, not because it validates my own professional career, but because it does so with a wide range of research and compelling stories that support his counterintuitive (to some)...
2026-07-30Hello!This is (part of) the Delaware River. I walked downstream for an hour and got attacked by many bugs, but the view was worth it.This image was the best out of my collection from that photowalk. It's such a classic landscape photograph, with beautiful sunset colors and the horizon on the lower...
Another season of travel is wrapping up. As hard as travel days and flight delays are, there is always something magical about seeing the world from above.
Part 2 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series applies the same evidence-first baseline to macOS: updates, encryption, network exposure, powerful permissions, management, and recovery.The platform already includes Gatekeeper, XProtect, System Integrity Protection, signed system...
Only the good die young All the Evil seem to live forever That's taken from the Iron Maiden song Only the Good Die Young from the Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album. I've been thinking of this lyric a lot recently as I keep seeing good musicians and actors, people who spent their lives bringing joy to others, die...
End of July? Seriously? Feels like yesterday when I celebrated New Year’s Eve, and all of a sudden it is the end of July. Can we all slow down a little, please? Not a little. Slow down! You, time, the world. Pretty please! I’m in a good mood today, but not in a good one to write interesting intros, so let’s go...
Heute wird es, wenn nicht komplex, doch ziemlich abstrakt. Trotzdem sind alle Angaben ohne Gewähr. [25/1000] Habe am Dienstag beschlossen, dass ich mal über Komplexität schreiben sollte, und gestern dachte ich, dass diese Übung hier ganz gut geeignet sein könnte, um mich warm zu machen für die BA. Dass es dort auch...
Tangentially related to the previous post, this 8-minute video from CrowBranch is a fun tier list of various ways games try to keep you in bounds: The limits here are I believe unrelated to precision, and rather to wanting to keep the player within a controlled, designed environment. (We once covered a story of this...
Steven Spielberg’s Munich (2005), we’re told, is “based on real events” but that should probably read “very loosely based on real events.” That was relatively clear when the movie was released but has become incontrovertible as time has gone by. I don’t want to get into any of that, though; indeed, I don’t want to...
This is just a quick post and an update on my previous one to tell you that Dunwich Heath has been on fire since yesterday afternoon. Many people have been evacuated and the fire service still have no idea when they will be able to get the blaze under control. Below, I have added a link to the local BBC report....
Concluding the thing I started three entries ago, I've replied to the pile of email I'd let accumulate. And I'm really pleased with my new hand-rolled personal contact database...
Blog posts might be a little sparser over the next few weeks, as my daughter and family are visiting from Canada (via Rome).
I've been participating in Hack Club for about two years so far. I've written posts about when I went to Shipwrecked and when I won Campfire. It started in late February. Whilst I was working on building this website, I checked the Hack Club Slack and discovered a new announcement. You notice something big coming...