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Umbraco 13 reaches end of life on 14 December 2026 and has been security-only since December 2025. Your three options, what the upgrade to 17 involves and how long it takes.
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. ¡El boletín de noticias de la FSF está aquí! La Free Software Foundation (FSF) es una organización creada en Octubre de 1985 por Richard Stallman y otros entusiastas del software...
This year I've watched shows that I really liked and in this post I want to talk about them! The Marvelous Miss. Maisel In 1958 New York City, Miriam "Midge" Maisel, a young, affluent Jewish-American housewife, embarks on a stand-up comedy career after husband Joel, an untalented amateur comic, abruptly leaves her...
July 2026. Cramlington. Northumberland. When you say “Northumberland” these days you think Harry Potter, posh Cambridgeshire families at the beach, and a small island covered in bird muck. But there’s an awful lot of old mining towns before you get there, I can tell you. I spent ages getting ChatGPT to work out the...
This week’s weeknote will be shorter than usual—because I’m trying to write a lot more this month! Completed Passed my driving exam on my first go last week! 🎉 Really chuffed since the pass rate for first-timers is only around 30%. See One Take Pass for more. Managed to only write one reply for Robert’s JulyReply...
I spent most of my day today at our family's cottage, just off the lake, finally relaxing...
本月摘要 参加了一次地区的剑道形讲习会，回家的时候下起了大雨，还好带上了雨衣，久违地在雨里骑了摩托。 参加了罗大力例会，见到了几位老朋友，还偶然认识了母校剑道部 OB 会的顾问。 又双叒感冒了。近一年已经感冒三次了，要怎么才能避免频繁感冒？ 虽然感冒但还是带同样感冒的小同事去吃川菜了，她好爱毛血旺！ 随意的观赛了一下世界杯（挪威在本届世界杯的最后一战），找来自己曾经几乎全程在看的世界杯剪辑重温，发现自己看的是 16 年前的那一届。 去看了世终的演唱会。和老朋友见面，朋友的朋友因为台风没能来看，让我捡到了便宜。 收拾了东西，给书架加了一层放每天要用的东西；买了亚克力隔板，整理了一个收藏展示层。努力给每一样东西安排一个地方。...
I occasionally come across people who call themselves “almost vegan” “practically vegan” “99% vegan” and similar descriptions. The reasons for that are usually casual in nature: They still want to enjoy grandma’s great cake, they don’t wanna cause a ruckus at the company barbecue, and when it’s pizza night, they...
My balance is still fried since abdominal surgery. I know I need the challenge, but I need that challenge in a quiet solo setting, not in the middle of a youtube class. I need to work towards doing the downward dog again. I do that by doing yoga respecting my body.This is where I went wrong in the past. I felt I had...
Now, I haven't been on an airplane since before 9/11, but I vividly remember what it's like to be insanely bored during a flight before the days of mobile devices. Laptops and Palm Pilots still existed, but I was poor and a teenager, so I didn't have either, and I definitely would have done anything for a portable...
So, I’m taking part in Blaugust again. I’m not even going to try to do 30 this month. I’ll be happy with 5 or 10. But this is #1, so it’s a start. The last time I wrote something, I talked about how I was considering going back to music subscription services simply because I missed their music discovery options....
Não acredito que eu realmente cai no hiper foco de jogos em FMV. E estou aqui pra falar de mais um jogo do tipo. Na verdade jogos FMV sempre foram incríveis, desde a época do Windows 95 quando os jogos em CD-ROM começaram a usar todo o espaço que existia para colocarem atores e vozes e vídeos em qualidade duvidosa...
2026-08-03Hello!I've been trying to grow a backyard garden for over a year now. I would like to take photos of the vegetables growing and the flowers blooming behind my house, but I'm at the stage where I think it's just weeds growing...There's a reason why botanists and gardeners are paid positions. At this park, I...
I did something I promised myself I wouldn't do here last night. Luckily, I don't think anyone noticed, and I corrected myself and took it down again this morning. What I did was copy an old post from another blog (my own of course – I'm not a copyright-ignoring AI crawler bot), edited it a bit, then published it...
Blogurile care participă la Blaugust 2026 și care mi se pare interesante le mut în alte categorii, ca atunci când se termină evenimentul să nu pierd aceste blog-uri - nu cred ca o să dispară din flux până anul viitor când începe evenimentul din nou. Mulțumesc că urmărești ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau...
Zine#56 數位園藝 🎵 Boléro - Herbert von Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker Boléro 是法國作曲家 Joseph Maurice Ravel 於 1928 年創作的大型管弦樂作品。 整首曲子小鼓以固定的節拍，從頭到尾反覆演奏，如同心跳一般，在這之上各種樂器重複演奏著同一段旋律，越到後面，曲子變得更厚實、音量也更大，直到最後全管弦樂團齊奏。給我的感覺就像是在一座塔的內部，爬一條螺旋上升的阶梯，隨著爬升离塔頂越來越近，塔頂的透進來的光也越來越亮。 最早聴到這首曲子，大概是在數碼寶貝 (第一季的 21 集) 里聴到的，當時 Boléro...
When the events I share on my weeknotes are few and far between, it’s often because I wrote a lot of posts already talking about stuff that was interesting to me during the week, so, yeah it happens sometimes! In any case, this is some of the other stuff that happened between July 28 and August 3, 2026! 📅 In case...
102 asks O’Sullivan’s question from the writer’s side: what happens when the production of prose no longer guarantees a mind behind it? Mandy Brown answers the same question from the reader’s side. Reading, she writes, “presumes that what we are reading is the product of a mind, that the reading is itself a...
I'm so sorry for blogging about blogging, you can skip this one but there IS a good cat photo at the end lmao As usual, there will be unrelated photos sprinkled about my post because I'm highly visual; enjoy some birds on a power line from the photo backlog! I’ve mentioned before that I've gone full hog into RSS and...
♠ Previously. I’ve finally removed the GitHub MCP server from my Pi configuration, after piloting it for a while with pi-mcp-adapter. GitHub already has a mature CLI (gh) installed and authenticated: % gh --version gh version 2.97.0 (2026-07-31) https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.97.0 % gh auth status...
Todo empezó el domingo por la noche. Como tantas otras veces, dejamos a Chancla cenando y salimos nosotros a cenar. Cuando llegamos, estuvimos fuera unas dos horas solamente, tuvimos cuidado cuando abrimos la puerta, pues ya no oye bien y como su sitio favorito es dormir en el suelo junto a la puerta, no queríamos...
“Conservative and international students face different challenges: one feels forced to self-censor while the other reports fewer job opportunities. No significant impact on employment is found for either but conservative respondents report higher rates of satisfaction in philosophy.” That’s a brief summary of...
Yesterday, I found a Painted Lady feeding on the nectar from our newly planted Buddleia bush. Olympus OM1-II with 40-150 f/2.8 Pro and MC-14.
I just started using Harper via an Obsidian plugin and so far it is working great. It is open source and runs locally with no external dependencies, doing everything it needs to and nothing else.
The vibeExcited, overheated, and running on fumes.I am genuinely excited about what I spent the week building. I just wish I had felt better while doing it.Highlights📰 The biggest part of my week went into creating The Defender’s Dispatch, a new CybersecKyle newsletter. The first issue lands this Friday, August 7.🛠️...
The last few weeks I've been feeling more tired than usual, to the point where I'm kinda unable to study, read, or do anything job-related outside my working hours. Those few moments it happened, I felt like I was cheating on myself or even doing something bad for myself, like I shouldn't be playing something,...
This book had some fantastic passages. The detail that Baker captures about the life of a falcon is impressive and offers an interesting window into this bird of prey. But I struggle to see who I can recommend it to. I only see the most bird obsessed people making it to the end. It’s essentially a collection of...
Browser engineers encourage blogging about issues with engines, so here I’m reporting an issues with Safari that doesn’t respect the justify-content property on the subgrid containers. The justify-content is not only a property of a flexbox, but you can also use it on grid containers to define how to distribute the...
It’s rained for a good portion of the day, which was a welcome change. Even though Maine is filthy with lakes and ponds and rivers, it’s also apparently in a drought, or so I’ve heard. Many wells in the area have gone dry, but fortunately ours is not one of them. I have lived in some extremely dry places in the...
Once again, I didn’t wake up by the sea. Oh well.Nevertheless, good morning. Reply by email
I just finished listening to Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu, and I want to preserve my thoughts while they’re still fresh. First of all, this book is written in such a unique and interesting way. I loved the structure and the way it explored the internal experience of being Asian in America. I also loved the...
jugulans a text mode mind map application Jugulans is a text mode mind map application. It lets the user build a mind map using just the keyboard, and save it in org-mode format. /- new child | /- creating nodes -----------|- new sbiling | | | \- new parent | | | | /- up | | | |- down |- moving nodes -------------|...
The next step in my running journeyAfter finishing the Couch to 5k programme a few weeks ago, I immediately subscribed to the paid version of Runna and signed up with a personalised running plan. The plan is designed to improve both my speed and distance. At the end of 12 weeks, all being well, I will be able to run...
I've seen Dave Rupert do posts that only appear in the RSS feed. He called it the RSS Club. In his words, It’s like a newsletter delivered to your feed reader to celebrate the medium of RSS and breakaway from social media. I like that ethos and am choosing to do the same. What posts will qualify as part of the RSS...
“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of the entire existence, but is in a certain sense the whole.” To face the question of what makes us who we are with courage, lucidity, and fulness of feeling is to face, with all the restlessness and helplessness this stirs in the meaning-hungry soul,...
Chris Shaw is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “Purpose”. Thanks, Chris, for hosting and for picking a strong theme! I keep seeing people ranting over the internet about this and that and how everything’s turned sour: games, music, politicians, etc. And while it’s absolutely true, I feel that...
Recently a person I'm following on Mastodon posted a picture of two cats. It was cute and kind of funny. I saw it, chuckled and forgot about it. But then someone replied that they ran the picture through an AI checker and according to this the picture was very likely AI generated. So the original poster apologised...
“Back in the 1940s, when we became independent from Denmark, our economy was extremely poor, and there was a very strict quota of importing goods. So before Christmas there were very few gifts to buy. But there was no quota on paper. We had printing plants; we had authors. So the tradition of making books and...
The wage floor for American farmwork fell by a third. Two different things could have caused that, one defensible and one not, and no one has separated them. In late summer 2025 the USDA discontinued the Farm Labor Survey, the instrument that measured what American farmworkers earn and set the wage floor for the...
(image courtesy of unknown artist) i miss being human. i miss the feeling of words carrying more than weight, expectations, obligations, overload. i miss the sanctity of crafting them for others back when meaning was deliberate, messy, raw, intentional, full of... itself. when it took days, weeks to sculpt thousands...
August 3, 2026 I watched a video yesterday about moving from third-party productivity apps to Apple's built-in Notes and Reminders, getting ready for Siri AI. The reasoning: Siri AI is going to work best when it's pulling from Apple's own apps, not third-party ones. I'm not running any open-weight LLMs locally, so...
“Sorted for E’s & Wizz” by Pulp Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you want to take a midnight drive? Are you bonkers? I’m 52, have a 4 year old son, so a midnight drive means some horrible emergency that I don’t even want to contemplate. However, back in my youth,...
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️In the mid-1990s, our elementary school class took on a big, multi-week project: The Mini City! For a portion of each school day, we acted...
This past week, we found ourselves back at Heidrun Meadery. The last time we were there was almost a year ago, in August celebrating my birthday, with Cocoa. It's one of our favorite places to spend a quiet afternoon, tucked beneath the trees with a glass of mead and our very own DIY charcuterie board. I wasn't sure...
Calvin Coolidge served as the 30th President of the United States from August 2, 1923 through March 4, 1929. He was notably the only president to share a birthday with America, having been born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, on July 4, 1872. Coolidge’s presidency coincided with the 150th anniversary of American...
I can conjure every possible spelling of Sarah McLachlan's name and never get it correct.Currently Listening: Sarah McLachlan “Adia”Reply via email
Whenever someone asks what your favorite quote is, they’re setting a trap. There’s invisible pressure in that question. You’re supposed to say something profound. Something in Latin, or from a guy with a beard in the 1800s that proves you’ve spent serious time reflecting on the human condition. You’re supposed to...
What if the musical memories of songs last played months ago were not held in the muscles, but in the heart – the passion coming through with every E that follows C? The occasional B, played at just the right moment, adds depth. I love the moment of getting into a song: when the notes flow and you’re enjoying the...
Mac’s operating system has a peculiar way to install apps. An app typically arrives in a file with a .dmg extension (it stands for “disk image”; my brain always reads it as “damage”), which upon double clicking becomes a kind of a drive. You go inside the drive, and there is the app icon. But the journey isn’t over....
A smart thermostat was one of the first connected devices I purchased when I started building our smart home. I wanted automatic presence detection so the thermostat could set an away mode when we leave and "we're home" mode without us having to do anything. Never mind the fact that Rachelle and I both work from...
If you've ever visited my main web site you might have stumbled on Grid Bike. This was a game that teenage me wrote on my VIC-20. I was bold enough to submit it to Personal Computer News, and ended up having it published in the December 21st 1983 edition. I still have my copy of that magazine. I've also kept a copy...
Who knows how reality will continue to develop? There’s no way to prepare. When you can’t be prepared, be prepared to find poetry in the chaos. Secret messages, serendipitous grace, lines of meaning in a whirlwind of uncertainty. “It's gonna change, baby dollIt's gonna change, honey ballIt's gonna change, sugar...
In you the tall mountain we find the stability that inspires our deeds In your open horizons we escape from the tunnel of our everyday affairs and with the patience that builds civilisation we restore within us the cosmic order Σε εσένα το ψηλό βουνό βρίσκουμε την αταραξία που εμπνέει τα έργα μας Στους ανοιχτούς σου...
Some buildings in New York are so stunning, they make you stop in your tracks. The Knox Hat Factory, at Grand Avenue and St. Marks Place in Prospect Heights, is that kind of building. It almost looks like a castle, with the yellow brick factory walls fortified to protect the interior, and a corner watchtower to help...
Sam AltmanOpenAI CEO and co-founder This one goes to the list of great ideas of the AI bros. As someone replied on X, “What if you just talked to your children?”
The August issue of Foofaraw Zine is here! Download below or read in our purpose built ebook reader. Of course, all stories will be published for free on the web throughout the month, but paid supporters receive a PDF/EPUB with all of the month's stories at the beginning of the month, along with a few other goodies....