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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...
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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.
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...
Blog posts might be a little sparser over the next few weeks, as my daughter and family are visiting from Canada (via Rome).
Having a gun isn't about who you shoot. I woke up this morning feeling not quite depressed anymore, glory to God. This whole week has been a bit of a slog, but I'm glad to be coming out of it at a better angle than when I started. It's...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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....
Professor Soble, emeritus at the University of New Orleans, died last year. Philosopher Raja Halwani at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago kindly shared this lovely tribute to his friend and collaborator: A Tribute to Alan Soble...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I sometimes regret posting blog posts which are just "look at this bug I found," but frankly, you should be seeing these bugs. They're crucial bugs. This bug was over an inch long and, according to iNat, is a "figeater beetle": All my...
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...
I hear the birds singing as I sit by the window and look out on the horizon. I like looking at all the colours of the sky in the moments after sunset, when ambers recede and the sky becomes ever more blue before night time. I hear the...
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...
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,...
March 20, 2026 Many of the best things on the internet were created by humans. Indeed, I would be confident enough to say virtually all of them. However, these days an awful lot of the crap on the internet is churned out by non-humans....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Someone called one of my Reddit comments “AI slop” the other day. Another developer defended me, checked out a few of my videos, and sent me this: Me and you do this cause we love this shit. It knocked me loose. I've been pretty...
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...
The first doges, from the "Chronica per extensum descripta" (1340s) by Andrea Dandolo.
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...
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.
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...
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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...
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...
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...
Here's a one-liner to generate PNG favicons in multiple sizes from the icon.svg file using Inkscape on macOS:
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
En la época actual lo tenemos más o menos claro, un CPC+ tiene más posibilidades que un CPC normal en especial:Mejores gráficos.Scroll lateral por hardware.Cartuchos.Joysticks analógicos. Puertos centronics más profesionales.Sonido...
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...
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/
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...