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I have fallen out of love with the web framework Astro for mainly two reasons: too much bloat and lack of trust in the fetching and caching of remote images. (The takeover by Cloudflare didn’t help either.) With bloat I mean the many features I didn’t use or care for anymore, like Astro components, pesudo-JSX,...
Hello again. It's your boy Mike here, blogging about blogging (glances at Wouter). Today, I'd like to explore the topic of making my blog posts more durable. I recently completed importing a backup of some of my old blog posts. These posts were from 2012 - 2019 and required a fair bit of editing because I was using...
Posted on August 6, 2026 For a lot of us, as we get older, we end up with more of our parents’ stuff. In the beginning it could come as a welcome helping hand. You’ve moved into your own place and Dad’s been keeping that still-working toaster in the garage just for this occasion. And then the pace accelerates. Mum...
Was the first doge really the first? Did he even exist? There are some serious doubt about doge Paulicius (697·717) to be examined.
A meticulous jewel thief risks his flawless record against an equally obsessive detective and a volatile rival, while an underestimated insurance broker turns accomplice after decades of professional disrespect Good crime thriller directed by Bart Layton (American Animals) starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo and...
Two weeks after saying goodbye, we finally brought Cocoa home today. After Cocoa passed, we chose to have her privately cremated. We bought an urn for her and had a plaque engraved with the words Forever Our Baby Grandma. I also decided to keep a little bit of her ashes in a necklace so I can carry her with me...
Quoted Zantigo (St. Paul, Minnesota) by saundersreed (Atlas Obscura) Founded in Minneapolis 7 years after Taco Bell, Zantigo (named Zapato at that time) had a similar model of rearranging the same array of a few ingredients to fill out a menu of Mexican-American dishes. After growing to 82 restaurants by 1986,...
2026-08-05Hello!I realize that 180 days isn't exactly half a year, but it's a nice round number and close enough that I'm treating it as a milestone. By my count, it's six months of consistent daily uploads. I win.My photography has changed over the past six months, from winter to spring to summer. I thought it...
For years now I have adopted the view that religious narratives are fundamentally allegorical even when they contain elements of fact. Their goal is, nonetheless, thoroughly practical: to provide a framework within which society can flourish in a manner that is sustainable (i.e. viable over the long-term). The...
Last edited 7 minutes ago. I don't have contact with small children in my daily life anymore. It's kind of a bummer honestly. I liked working with children when I was interning at a local community library back in my college days, and when I worked as a teacher at a private English course. I don't miss teaching at...
TALKIN SHIT Not my finest entry in the series but I'm nothing if not a bird photo opportunist. Speaking of - I'm pretty sure this is our resident red tail (we named them Tobias) but I can't be 100% certain since I don't have all the tells yet and only got these two very brief photos. The tail feather coloring though...
Zack Rhodes is a Northern CA based cartoonist enjoying the many jokes that life and fatherhood throw at him. Innovator of Free Art Friday in Sonoma County. Receiver of a Community Enrichment Merit award. Currently getting beat up by his 2 year old son, Wade, while typing this biography.
For the past couple of years I've seen the concept several times: punch needling. I didn't think much of it, I preferred to crochet and knit, and I didn't need another hobby.Then I saw a cute coaster kit the other day, and I had to get it. The advantage was that the kit came with all the materials, including a punch...
O post não tem spoilers. São apenas minhas impressões de eventos e situações que transcorrem durante o filme Eu não tinha a intenção de falar sobre esse filme quando comecei a assistir ele. Mas certos aspectos dele me marcaram tanto que me motivou a fazer esse post sobre. A história do filme é a Izumi Hoshi (a...
“California Dreamin’ (Single)” by The Mamas & The Papas Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you think of your parents? My Dad loved folk music, my Mum loved pop. They had a lot more depth to their musical tastes of course —both enjoyed classical music and sang in...
A few days ago, I posted this image on Mastodon: The code I ran to get this two-month calendar on my Desktop was bash: if [ $(date +"%-d") -gt 15 ]; then cal -A 1 else cal -B 1 fi |\ terminal-widget --target cal --font Menlo --bg "#eeeeee" --text - I have since updated a couple of things and need more room to talk...
In “Why Sheep Need Pigs in Sheepdog’s Clothing,” Robin Hanson asked three LLMs to score how much status, social skills, and judgment matter for influence across five domains. Judgment came back higher than his argument wanted. So he asked again. The second prompt told the models to focus on “who is selected or is...
Introduction An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks. Airwave - an ATC Sim-Game Flight sims have been my thing for decades. It might be fun to play at being the voice on the other end at some point. CrashAtlas - Aviation Accident Database & Crash Map I didn't...
...Not exactly. As always, it's mostly hype based on flawed and cherry-picked statistics. Despite that, it doesn't mean adoption isn't up... Tech media is reporting that Linux's marketshare has officially grown higher than its ever been, finally reaching double-digits: 10%! This is based on figures from Statcounter...
♠ Previously. My dual-review skill runs two independent LLM reviewers over a commit / diff / PR, validates every finding against the code, and hands back one action plan — Blockers, Important, Suggestions. Recently I added a flag argument that closes the loop: argument-hint: "[branch|staged|all] [--pr NUMBER]...
Acum câteva luni am scris de ce mi-am construit propria platformă de jurnal în loc să rămân doar cu Pure Blog. Pe scurt: îmi plăcea Pure Blog, dar mă deranjau câteva lucruri mici - modul de urcare a imaginilor, imposibilitatea de a publica fără titlu - și în același timp am realizat că, deși nu sunt programator, pot...
Andreas tells a story of seeing an image of cats on social media with several many comments decrying it for being "AI generated". Do we now have the obligation to check each and every picture, video, quote, text, post, etc. that we come across for whether it's human or AI generated? Do we have to apologise profusely...
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Like many other software engineers, my coding workflow has changed dramatically since the start of 2026. And like many others, I've felt some mix of awe, grief, frenetic productivity, atrophying skills, and understanding less while shipping more. In this moment where the field is undergoing this rapid shift, I've...
Behold, it is I, the guy who continues to play new shiny videogames instead of sticking to my ongoing playthroughs. I’ve written before about my ongoing games, which games I would start over instead of resuming, why I abandoned them, and the like. This post will be different. Not a list of games, not excuses as to...
Downtown Bellevue skyline at dusk, seen from the Wilberton light rail station. ベルビューのスカイライン ウィルバートン駅から望む、夕暮れ時のダウンタウン・ベルビューのスカイライン。
I spent some down time at work today chatting with an 86 year old man, both of us standing in the lobby, neither of us in any rush. It wasn’t any sort of serious conversation about anything meaningful, just two people killing a little time. While we were chatting, I noticed a robot lawnmower across the street, doing...
As a Michigander, I have had an inside seat to the whole Abdul El-Sayed vs. Haley Stevens goat rodeo - as well as to the ways it connects to other progressive-versus-establishment-Democrat goat rodeos. And boy do I have some thoughts. yes he bloody well can beat Mike Rogers The big talking point among pundits right...
Here’s a good post and tips from Mike Harley: How I make my blog posts more resilient. Mike recommends self-hosting media. I’ve been back and forth about doing that vs. using something like Cloudinary or Cloudflare. I think Mike makes a good point, and I’ll keep the images in my blog repo. Mike also puts permalinks...
📍London, United Kingdom This is the first edition, and as first editions go, this will be remarkably underwhelming. We have begun with self deprecation, a method often used to premeditate a poor response to the publication. Desk of Nats only exists to serve a singular purpose of spelling out what I have created in...
Algunos cambios que estuve haciendo en el blog en cuanto a diseño e implementación de nuevas funcionalidades: Quité el buscador del menú. Lo integré dentro de la sección Archivo. En Archivo agregué Navegar por categoría Unifiqué las plantillas de la categoría Note y POV. Posiblemente le sigan más. En la home ahora...
Knowledge is freeOver the past few months, the Lisburn Road Library has become a place that we frequent. On Saturday mornings, if I’m not working, we go there to read. It’s conveniently located just 2 minutes away from where we live. It is a small library, but one of many. The entire library network in Northern...
Lately, I’ve been rereading the articles that I’d previously shared here. The goal was to go back to pieces I’d considered important enough to save, and to see why. I also wanted to discover parts of myself I’d forgotten. What were the topics I’d been interested in? What did my agreement with the authors of those...
By: Diederik Baazil | Rating: 1/5The book describes the political headwinds the Dutch company ASML found itself in, after people found out what the strategic importance of their products was. It is however a very light book. It glances over ASML's history, jumps back and forth in the timeline, and it keeps repeating...
My primary email address is hosted on Gmail, and I have used it for basically everything since Gmail was first launched in 2004. I access my email via IMAP and Gmail’s spam filter is great, so I haven’t ever had issues with the service. At the same time I do also want a more curated space for email that I control,...
I have a habit of giving all our pets nicknames, there's many of them for each of our dogs. We've Nelly for 4 days and already I have: Nells Bells Nelly Bean Nelly Furtado Man Eater (after the song) Nelly the Elephant It's anyone's guess which will stick. Our other dogs, Tia and Sid, are t-bone and squid (short for...
My podcatching app, Downcast, is stuffed full of podcasts. I couldn't bear to delete any. Except my phone is running out of space. Apps demand updates. But I do want to listen to them... eventually. Just like that sad pile of unplayed video games, gathering dust. I'll get back to that. Eventually. I've got podcasts...
-------------------- •3 bananas •11 coffee •1 piece spanakopita •1 chicken Kebab mit allem Vathi Sq. 700kcal •High protein schoko icecream 294 kcal 22.3 g protein •Cashews / Almonds •4 biscuits •1 yoghurt 10% (256kcal 11.4g protein) •1 cup rice 675kcal •1 portion roasted chicken with skin •1 coca cola zero •1/2 tube...
Free and open-source system monitor that sits in the macOS menu bar. It looks good and offers plenty of customization options.
Texas A&M is being sued by a group of professors and the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas over a policy that led to, among other things, a professor being banned from teaching Plato’s Symposium, the cancellation of an “Ethics and Public Policy” course, and the closure of the Women’s and Gender Studies...
Minimaps are an interesting UI element because they often feel very exciting – something about things being small, or responsive, or maps just being cool? – but fail to actually be useful. I find minimaps for coding particularly tricky because, at least in my world, code all looks very much the same from far away....
July 2026. Chesterfield. One more trip to write up and then I’ll do that July highlights post you’re all clamouring for. Mrs RM’s ongoing rehabilitation had meant a postponement of our Big (but largely sober) Trip to Chesterfield with Blackpool Jane, so I popped there myself last Thursday to explore the no/low...
https://manualdousuario.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/duckduckgo-oculos-de-sol-normais.mp4 After Meta, Google, and Samsung, it’s DuckDuckGo’s turn to launch its own glasses. Named Normal Sunglasses, they have no cameras, no AI, and infinite battery life. It’s a joke, but anyone who wants can buy them at...
Roshan: Wikipen '''Amber''' is my personal web archiver. If you found this page from a <code>User-Agent</code> string in your server logs, this is the crawler that visited you. == About == Amber keeps versioned, replayable copies of websites I read. The idea is to have my own personal Wayback Machine that I can use...
There's a quote from the book City of Thieves by David Benioff where a character laments the fickleness of talent: Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd hours, and she disappears for long stretches, and she has no...
Fahren für drei Tage nach Berlin. Fühlt sich ein bisschen seltsam an darüber 1000 Wörter zu schreiben (es ist halt Berlin) aber für mich ist das vor allem eine Möglichkeit zwei Dinge auszuprobieren. Erstens am Handy und zweitens die 1000 Wörter nicht auf einmal, sondern in (trotzdem nicht langsamer verfassten)...
FC Cincinnati dedicated tonight's match to raise awareness and support for individuals and families battling cancer.Currently Listening: Astrovan “Three Point Night”Reply via email
It's the rule, outlined in several pages of exam guidelines. I've never had to do it before; I've never been in a school so strict. I guess they have to be, when we're only a few short years away from holding people's lives in our hands. The upperclassmen say you can't have pouches inside, either, and so I scatter...
Last year I spoke at MK Geek Night about my personal reflections on how, after years of chasing IndieWeb perfection, I just accepted my imperfect website. I finally sat down to transcribe it and post it here. The base of this post was a transcript of my presentation but some editing is now present for added clarity,...