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Mandy Brown: ...reading isn’t about reaching empathic dead ends, or recruiting platitudes about how we must understand each other [...] To reduce reading to the practice of empathy is to divorce it of its real power and pleasure: to enjoy the fruits of another person’s creative effort, to think with the writer and...
Se me hace muy raro llevar una semana de vacaciones. Me queda otra por delante hasta encontrarme… no tengo muy claro qué. He sucumbido a la tentación de mirar el correo corporativo para hacerme una idea. Todo está bien y creo que puedo pasar la semana tranquilo. Ayer estuve tentado de irme a pasar toda la semana...
Before Hades, Supergiant Games already had a place in the indie gaming scene, even though their previous games didn’t get as much of a spotlight, they were known for delivering quality from the start. One of their first titles was Transistor, a sci-fi themed action/tactics RPG hybird released in 2014—about four...
When to consider self a poet? How many poems published appear In pages of the printed zines? How much of the art to understand, And cite the rules, the dos and don'ts? How many famous tomes to read By modern and ancient pens and pixels? Must one or many how-to books Take precious space on crowded shelves? How many...
August 2, 2026 I spent 20 years in the equipment leasing business, so I have a lot of experience reading and interpreting lease agreements. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind before signing up. First, read the lease agreement carefully. You may even want to have an attorney review it. The most important...
I have not been running. The last time I ran anything serious was a decade back. The max I have been doing is walking. Though I must say I love walking, especially with friends and family. It’s a great way to have conversations. I tried running again a few years back and dropped it. I wanted to start running again....
Marking up my content collectionsMaking my website IndieWeb friendly has always been the goal. With WordPress, I could simply install a plugin to inject microformat properties such as h-feed to the site, but building everything from scratch in Astro meant I had to do this manually. I spent some time writing the...
Let me start by saying happy belated anniversary to Absurd Pirate and Mrs. Pirate! I enjoyed reading their post, What I Learned About Relationships After Being With My Wife For 8 Years, which got me thinking about my own relationship advice. I'm in my 50s, and I'm on my 3rd marriage, so I've had a few bites at the...
Should i redesign my blog?1 Should i switch back to pocket notebooks from A5 notebooks?2 Should i buy and restore a thirteenth typewriter?1 Should i repaint our bedroom?2 Should i sell my Apple Watch Ultra?1 Should i reinstall my balcony’s irrigation system?1 In isolation, these are all good questions. Trouble is,...
Tim Barry at Dogwood Dell Dogwood Dell is a 2400 capacity amphitheater in the middle of a city park owned by the City of Richmond. Every summer Richmond does free shows just about every weekend as part of a summer long Arts Festivals that has been happening longer than I've been alive. Tim Barry is a local musician...
Dans cet article, je détaille pourquoi j'ai adopté le format TXT comme socle de mon organisation, comment il s'articule avec une structure de dossiers et des outils en ligne de commande (TUI), et ce que cette approche m'a permis de simplifier au quotidien.
Born on this day in 1867 was Ernest Dowson, a minor poet, Decadent and doomed – but he left the English language three fine, musical phrases that have long survived him. I told the story in this post from fifteen(!) years ago...
Blaugust 2026 Feeds 以及我是如何用 Elisp 製作的 生成了一份 Blaugust 2026 Feeds (更新於 2026-08-02)，如果你需要可以點擊下載，然後导入到你的 RSS 閱讀器中。如果你想 參加 Blaugut，現在就是最好的時間！ 這份 OMPL 文件裡沒有完全包擴 Blaugust 2026 – Meet the Mentors & Participant List 中的博客，因為有的博客無法訪問，有的在頁面上找不到訂閱連結，所以缺失了几個博客。如果在連結裡找不到你的博客，歡迎邮件聯系我，我很樂意更新進去。連結我會定期更新（可能每隔 7 天），你可以看連結後的更新日期了解是否更新過。...
My review of “Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter”.
I wasn’t sure I was going to say anything about Blaugust because I’m already posting a lot lately, but why the heck not. So, a belated welcome to Blaugust 2026! From the intro: If you’re new to blogging, it’s a great opportunity to meet many cool people, get help with starting up your own website, and participate in...
Life Notes Very busy at work, lots going on so been struggling to find time for any other activities, not read much, not commented on many blogs, just keeping ticking along with my ‘move every day’ target, which has spread to other habits including a daily journal, and Crucial Tracks entry every day too. Jack has...
Aloha from Honolulu! I have vacation brain, so I'll do a summer-themed repost. [Photo from the Bishop Museum malacology exhibit] *************************************Every spring I suffer the Summer Illusion. The following three incompatible propositions all seem to me, in the spring, to be true:(1.) When summer...
Lots to love in this book. Plenty of bad things too. I might or I mightn’t read more books from this guy. Reading over his bibliography, he sure has a lot of interesting pitches that makes me really curious. The main story here, I liked. It’s an adventure story that does feel like an adventure story but also has a...
What brought me joy I discovered the indie typeface, Missive Serif, last week and started using it for headings and UI elements. This week, I set it for the blog list page as I found that I much preferred it over Rosario (font for body text). I really love how the blog list looks now! It was a rather cool week in...
Friends of the Earth International. CC BY-SA 2.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. I feel like I’m in mourning. Reading my friend Dirk’s post yesterday, I learned about the generative AI crowds’ bulk purchase and destruction of printed, often rare, books to train their models.1 Buy the books, take them apart, scan and...
If you’re a professional web app, your key shortcut situation is not to be envied. Once the operating system grabs the ⌘ shortcuts it requires (⌘M to minimize, ⌘H to hide, ⌘Q to quit, etc.), the browser has its turn, claiming everything from ⌘R, T, N, L, W for tab operation, to ⌘F, P, O, and S for other things. And...
Welcome to the 95th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about Fortran. In this edition: Graham explains the wonders of a programming language that has been able to adapt in an ever-changing world. Adrian enumerates many of the wrong reasons why FORTRAN/Fortran is not at the forefront of computing today. In our...
At this exact moment curl’s summer of bliss 2026 ends. We (the maintainers of curl) took the entire month of July off from vulnerability reporting and in this post I will try to explain how this went. (If you feel like skipping the wordy blab below, the single word answer is: fine) This was possibly our best project...
Welcome! We have three weeks worth of stories, poems, and more to get through so hold on tight and enjoy the ride.The Week That WasThe Unified Theory of SalsaSteve WheatOur first of two poems from Steve coming over the course of the next couple of weeks.LandlineRusty EpsteinThe bangers from Rusty continue to come...
Forster lists, social etiquette and the root of all text Image of crying tree touching the hills taken by me My friends, you might have noticed I did not post anything last week. It’s been a rough and rocky time. The miracle we were praying for did not come to pass (again), but miracles have surrounded us...
Até recentemente esse era o meu clima favorito. Na verdade ainda é o meu clima favorito como ser humano vivente. Sem calor demais e nem chuva parar atrapalhar caso você precise sair. Principalmente quando o assunto era fotografar. Ter o tempo nublado significava que tudo ia ficar bonito e uniforme. Todos dizem isso...
I close my eyes and see the Great Hall. This is where they host the Met Gala! I can’t help but think about that when I stand and watch as tourists congregate, ask for information, and walk around to get to the exhibits they want to see. There are at least three ways you can enter the main galleries: by walking...
Un manifeste Offpunk Ce texte est une traduction en français du Offpunk Manifesto rédigé par Arlon de Serra Grande et que j’ai co-signé An Offpunk Manifesto (English version) Versão em português La révolution ne sera pas numérique Alors que l’hyperconnexion apparait comme le symptôme d’un futur inéluctable, un...
July 2026. Monkseaston. Tyne & Wear. Whitley Bay ticked, Spanish City gelato licked, I headed for the metro back to the Toon. It’s a problematic map, every stop the gateway to a classic pub that distracts you from culture. I really should have popped back to the Tynemouth Lodge for Bass (patience !), but fell at the...
August is here again, and so are the monarch butterflies. We have had milkweed in the back garden for a few years now and we always seem to get one or two monarchs come back. It is also the time of the year that the rest of the back garden flowers start popping, there will likely be a bunch more pictures of flowers...
A retro-computing heavy week over on social.omgmog.net, 27 July to 2 August: Half-Life on Mac OS 9, a new GammaOS handheld firmware build, and a demoscene UI retrospective, alongside the usual scattering of tech and web links.
În urmă cu câțiva ani o firmă britanică a inclus o clauza care cerea acordul pentru a revendica sufletul nemuritor acum și pentru totdeauna celor care foloseau serviciile sale și nimeni nu a observat. Din păcate nu știu anul când s-a întâmplat și nici firma, informația am aflat-o din cartea Oameni vs Tehnologie...
Some books are heavy. Others have weight in them. I just finished a book of the second kind, a book I’d been meaning to read for a long time, a book I waited to buy a copy of even though my college library had it so that I could mark it freely with my pencil, a book I’d started reading yesterday. Even before I’d...
Today was a wonderful day of fossil hunting on the east beach in Whitby. We were ready to get down onto the beach before the tide was out enough to let us on, and got off not too long before it would have been back in again (but with more time to spare than the last time). Fossils were found. Rock pools were...
I thought this was poison ivy because I'm a west coast idiot at heart We moved to our New England place in the fall of '21 so it wasn't until the following spring that these vine plants with three leaves in the pattern I'd thought was a shoe-in for poison ivy danger (which I'd never seen before, coming from the west...
If you are a fan of Star Wars, and you have seen Disney tv series, The Mandalorian (2019), this movie is going to be a fun. Otherwise, you will find a few aliens fighting with each other, and a tiny baby alien (he is actually 300 years old) doing his cute things. That cute alien, Grogu, is the key strength of the...
This past week, LC and I have made a conscious effort to spend even more time outside. To keep our vibrations up. To get some sunshine on our faces, breathe fresh air, and be near some sort of body of water whenever we were able to. Not speaking for LC, but I'm basically a plant (sun + water are essentials to my...
It was just another corner brownstone tenement. Empty and boarded up for years, its facade was marred by graffiti and a tattered Chinese restaurant awning hung across the ground floor. The time came to bulldoze the old building, which held court at the southeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 116th Street. But once the...
During my break in July, I said I wouldn't read. I partially lied! I did not read any papers, blog posts, or most news articles, and I initially wanted to extend that to books as well. But I ended up ordering and reading some, and one of them was Whipping Girl! Originally released in 2007 and edited a bit in 2015...
I have been working on a new post type for The Commonplace Post featuring a HUGE header text that I want to always: fit across the page and flow on one line. The Commonplace Post, July 2026 issue Considering “Fit Text” is an option in WordPress with the help of Gutenberg, where “the text will resize to fit its...
Writing for the Under The Juniper Tree blog, author “Gyro” comments on the death of magick: I do not want to be performing sex rituals to summon demons á la Epstein, but I want to feel that not everything can be reduced to pure opportunity costs and ROI, that there is something beyond productivity and FOMO and...
Quoted The Sadness of Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Onosato's Poor Performances and Defeats at the Nagoya Tournament (Sumostats) Excluding withdrawals, it was the first time in 35 years—since the July 1991 Nagoya Tournament with Asahifuji (8-7) and Hokutoumi (9-6)—that multiple Yokozuna failed to reach double-digit wins and...
27th July - 2nd August The morning is crisp and clear enough to hear the plaintive bleating of sheep from over the fields. Sheep always sound alarmed like everything is distressing them. Same, sheep. Same. I am trialling folding my #SilentSunday photography shares into my weeknotes (see above) because they're both...
… but I’m also not not saying we should punch people with smart glasses either. (Seriously, don’t punch people with smart glasses.) (But do take their glasses off and step on them.) (Violence is never an answer.) (Except when breaking smart glasses.) (Happy Blaugust.) Send me an email Latest 3 posts 02 Aug, 2026 I’m...
On a recent flight, I watched a mother across the aisle play peek-a-boo with her small son while next to me a grown man in a VR headset spent six hours ascending the levels of a video game. It occurred to me that what I was doing between them — reading — was also a game: a peek-a-boo of ideas advancing across levels...
The account of the election of the first three doges of Venice (Pauluccio, Marcello and Orso), from the anonymous "Chronicon Altinate".
Another rather calm and warm week.Workwise I’m currently working on a big task with a technology I haven’t used before, so this takes up a lot of my mental energy and struggling with all the weird little mistakes one does when not fully knowing something is surprisingly draining. I’m learning a lot, though, which is...
2026-08-02Hello!I went on a sunset photowalk across the Delaware River again, although a different part to the lookout from a few days ago.The weather was a bit spotty, and I wasn't sure if it was going to rain down while I was outside. The storm clouds in the far distance were approaching this way, and there was...
Marcus Hutter—oldheads will remember him from AIXI—recently published a book: Job-Less Utopia: Macroeconomics in the Age of AGI. I’m always curious what the people building AI think or want the future to look like, and I’m also always looking for non-doomer takes on the post-AGI future, so I decided to read it and...
