Tue Aug 11
Of the many oddities that a beginner has in macOS, the way to install applications is one of the most curious. Just drag the icon anywhere, preferably the /Applications directory. Installers (*.dmg files) usually open windows in the Finder with instructions. Marcin Wichary collected a handful of them to analyze the...
Privilege comes and privilege goes. I've had stretches in my life where I lived frugally out of necessity, not because I had a hidden virtue. Later in life, with debts paid off, we managed to save some dough for retirement. Well, retirement arrived, and although we don't have "buy your own helicopter" money, we...
We keep the Pook-Emu Bee link momentum going with more links from around the web. Key Food has many X for Y sales. In some cases you have to buy multiples for the sale price. In other cases the price applies to less than Y. With that in mind, I chuckled at having to buy five bottles of hot sauce for the $1 per...
One thing I keep thinking about is making sense of the Internet. Everything is mingled and mixed. I'm okay with it being chaotic. I'm not okay with my corner of it contributing to this jungle. Although a little outside of the context Jim & John talk about in their posts, I've long struggled with the newsletter...
Ich war heute zum Onboarding für Interessierte und Neumitglieder und dem sich anschließenden Treffen des Ortsverbandes (OV) von Die Linke Köln-Kalk. Es war ein spannender und spaßiger Abend! Ich bin zwar noch kein Parteimitglied, aber spätestens nach diesem Abend ist die Entscheidung gefallen. Das liegt maßgeblich...
If I had to boil down everything I’ve learned about hiring into one sentence: Optimize for people who give a shit.
Hot Weather EffectsThe temperatures are stifling, with an ongoing record-breaking heatwave due to the effect of nearby typhoons with temperatures reaching 38°C in some areas of HK. Indoor temperature when the AC is off reached 39°C in my room despite cross airflow from fans and opened windows. Air ConditioningI’ve...
“Movin' On Up” by Primal Scream Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you feel like you’re breaking free? Avoiding the Queen loaded phrasing of the question, I found myself wondering what breaking free actually feels like. As a completely unrepressed white male, the...
Okay so I went on this rabbithole of anti-smartphone stuff online (don’t worry, my goody-two-shoes writing-things-down-on-paper self said that I could) and one thing that came up a few times was the whole “phones and social media are actually super necessary and I t’s classist and clueless and frankly cruel to say...
Recently, I'm going through a bit of an Avatar: The Last Airbender nostalgia phase. Usually, the interval between these individual phases is pretty long - I think my last ATLA phase was around three years ago. The "nostalgia surge" usually lasts for a week or two, and then I move on until the next wave hits. The...
The fog coming in to work this morning was heavy, which always surprises me, living here in Maine. I assume that it’s normal for this area, but it’s still always a bit of a shock to go outside and not be able to see more than twenty feet in any direction. I’m already on the lookout for deer and wild turkeys and...
2026-08-11Hello!People from this area might be able to identify the specific historic park is being renovated, but I don't want to reveal it just yet until it's done. For now, I'm just using photography to document the progress and construction.The past few days have been dreary, with intermittent rain and a...
I just learned something fun this weekend. The seminal videogame Pong from 1972 looked like this: But there was a problem. Here’s Al Alcorn, the designer/engineer of the machine: The paddles on the original Pong didn’t go all the way to the top. There was a defect in the [circuit] – I used a very simple circuit, I...
So, The Expanse is over, at last, and I will probably write a different post talking about the whole series and my thoughts overall. For now, these are only my thoughts on the last book, let’s get to them, after the summary! The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the...
The Voyager 1 space probe is almost one light-day away from Earth. But the craft has been on its trajectory since being launched in 1977. Deep space flights carrying people will need to move at far greater speed if they are to, for example, reach Alpha Centaur, the star system closest to the Sun, in a reasonable...
Throwback notes. This was previously published on the Libro FM blog. I've edited one word, and have chosen not to link to the audiobook I am mentioning because of what surfaced about this author in 2026. I’ll be the first to tell you that I have a list of audiobooks for almost any reading taste. Comic books are a...
I was about to use the word ‘proscribed‘ in an email. Something made me pause to double check what it means. It turns out that it means literally the complete opposite of what I thought.
i-COL é uma dupla composta por ICE (que é membro compartilhada do iLiFE!) e a Corone (que é membro compartilhada do Non¬Fiction). Eu inicialmente só descobri a dupla por causa da ICE já que eu comecei a pesquisar, que é o outro nome quando você começa a se afundar no grupo, e vi que ela anteriormente já participava...
Over in the #tildetown IRC we were discussing the dozen and its variations. Along with the traditional baker’s dozen, skalnik mentioned the long dozen and metric dozen. Here is a full listing of the dozens variations. Half-dozen: 6. Self-explanatory, really. Baker’s half-dozen: 7. Gotta throw in that extra one (see...
Earlier this summer, the administration of the University of Dundee announced a plan to cut costs by, among other things, no longer offering students the option of majoring in philosophy. See this previous post. A petition was launched in protest of the plan. Oisín Keohane, lecturer in philosophy at Dundee, says...
Yesterday I was emailing with the always lovely Robin Harford, who has a wonderful website over at eatweeds.co.uk. We were discussing the sad state of the web, and wondering what can be done to prevent Google and the others from abusing our content. And within that discussion, he mentioned his hate for the word...
A job that requires zero cats, and yet Every place my partner Della and I have lived for roughly the last decade has included a dedicated "instant film" wall that showcases her stuff. At our first place it was polaroid because that's what we were still shooting at the time This was taken almost exactly 11 years ago,...
I wrote an essay for Kernel Magazine, Issue 6 about shrimp welfare Read it at Reboot
My colleagues at Thoughtworks tend to be big fans of Test-Driven Development, and many people in the industry advocate telling LLM agents to use TDD when building software. Birgitta Böckeler was curious if this really makes a difference, so conducted a few experiments. more…
You can tell when someone in a room is about to cry. Not from anything they’ve said. Something in the breathing, a stillness that arrived a beat too early, the angle at which they’re holding their face. You knew before you knew you knew. There are books about this — acting manuals, clinical guides, shelves of...
It's been a few months since I've started my new job. As I've mentioned on the /now page in the past, I've been working at a logistics warehouse, so I'm pretty much a cog in this country's supply chain. It's very physical, it's the direct opposite of easy, but it's essential and the pay isn't bad. However, I've hit...
Fiction Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. Beautiful prose and imagination. By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño. Beautiful and surreal prose, but completely unpretentious. Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories by qntm. I had already read most of these but they are very, very good, and it was a pleasure to...
My concept of technology is pretty wide range and also includes books and fountain pens, and I'm not being ironic. But it also includes Stoicism, the UN Charter on Human Rights, crop rotation, capitalism, meme generators, and “nonviolent communication,” etc. What is your concept of technology? Reply by email
Three Questions for When Your Practice Is Stuck mtift Tue, 08/11/2026 - 07:42 Out on my bike last week, I realized I had forgotten to disable notifications on my phone, which I use as my bike computer. Part-way into my ride, someone messaged me about work, and suddenly my mind started deliberating. My biking...
Eclipse, HWC, domains, and some random thoughtsI don't normally do weeknotes. I have attempted to do similar things in the past but they never stuck. Writing out a list of things that happened during the week, in great or little detail, simply doesn't interest me. I would gladly read weeknotes from bloggers I...
August 2026. Bristol. My train to Bath left in 50 minutes time; Google reckoned 54 minutes walk from the Port of Call to Temple Meads, which gave little time for dawdling on the descent through Cotham Hill. And so, once more, I could only pause at the Highbury Vaults, and marvel that they still have the full range...
Estas semanas mi cabeza estuvo un poco inquieta en cuanto al diseño del blog, de hecho una de mis últimas entradas habla de cambios que hice en el blog. ¿Estaré procrastinando porque no tengo nada que escribir entonces me pongo a tocar el diseño? Puede ser, pero también creo que todos a lo largo del año pasamos por...
Extreme low tide (-2.6) at Alki's Constellation Park brings visitors looking for anemones, sea stars and other marine life, hidden in the rocks and seaweed along the shore of the Puget Sound. ヒトデ探し アルキのコンステレーション・パークでは、大干潮（潮位－2.6）の際、ピュージェット・サウンドの海岸沿いの岩や海藻に隠れているイソギンチャクやヒトデ、その他の海洋生物を探し求める探し求めて多くの人が集まる。
A few weeks ago I finished reading Leviathan Falls, the ninth and final book in The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey. I started the series all the way back in October 2024. Not long before that, in May, is when I got my first e-reader to try to get into reading a little more seriously. I’ve read plenty of other...
I’m working from the beautiful Oregon coast for a few days this week. I set up a makeshift desk in front of three large-ish windows with a view of Neahkahnie Mountain. My image in video calls looks so much better here compared to my home office, which is in our underground basement and has only one tiny little...
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With everything that’s been going on in my life, it’s been really hard to focus on myself. I took almost a month off from running, but this week I decided to start back up again. My first half marathon is in ~96 days, which is both exciting and honestly a little terrifying. I originally set a goal for myself to...
Spinning legs 12 Aug, 2026 I found myself getting lost in endurance sports. When I’m climbing a mountain with my bike, or with my skis, everything feels very peaceful. My mind gets lost in thoughts, projects, ideas, and memories. No distractions. That’s why my favourite part of these sports is going uphill. Since...
Part 5 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series is the first page to open when a device, account, payment, or public service may be compromised.An incident rarely arrives with a reliable label. It begins with a login notification, a missing phone, an unexpected bank transfer, a...
Terry Godier has a post titled “Mea culpa” (which, given his framing, might’ve been better titled “Claude’s Culpa”). I’m not sure how much to even trust anything in his post given the backstory, but this line stood out: I was careless in relying on AI [...] without doing the work to understand Let’s face it:...
Recently I noticed unusually high load on one of my servers. It turned out to be due to my somewhat new Forgejo service being absolutely hammered by bots. It wasn't a typical brute-force attack, but rather a massive, distributed crawl from the Meta (Facebook) crawler. I guess they want all that juicy code we...
I saw Chris's post, The Grand Blog Reunification, where he explains that his cloud sync was silently failing and he wiped his computer without realizing he didn't have a backup. Oops. Not wanting to repeat that type of issue, I decided to revisit my own backup strategy. Back in 2022, I wrote about how I used my NAS...
i never want to work with anyone ever again. never want to manage interpersonal relationships, solve conflicts and try to hold it together. just let me work alone and let me be the only one responsible for my actions. "her koyun kendi bacağından asılır." hopefully.
I could have been born in Canada, but the family cleaved the space between wars. In the smelter’s shadow the grass bled arsenic the day great grandpa was born. The mines didn’t stop for VE day, but he did.He shot out of that shaft like an artillery shell into the Bismarck Sea of Papua New Guinea chasing phantom...
Last night I strayed from my usual listening home on Radio 3 to my former home, Radio 4, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the current Book at Bedtime is Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield, one of those classics that these days hardly anybody actually reads – including, in this case, me, despite...
Obwohl dieser Post so heißt, ist heute (fast) alles wie immer. 1000 schnelle Wörter, von denen wenig bis nichts Erwartet werden sollte. [30/1000] Zwei Gedanken zu dem, was ich hier seit 29 Texten mache. Das Ziel dieses "Projektes" in Hinsicht auf "KI" ist natürlich auch, mich selbst in den von LLMs generierten Text...
En la web Number Research Inc. están intentando encontrar y documentar todos* los números disponibles. *Actualmente, la web está centrando su investigación en números enteros positivos. Una vez que esto se haya completado, podremos analizar negativos y decimales. (sic). Vale, es una fricada infinita, pero ¿por qué...
Yesterday evening, while tinkering with Rogallo, I managed to nerd-snipe myself pretty well. I was playing around with the idea of better presentation of some forms of text/* content. While, of course, Rogallo handles text/gemtext just fine, there are lots of other MIME types that it will show too (pretty much all...
Today I took my camera again and tried some other motives in nature. This swan was one of them. I activated RAW images and tried to do some lite editing, first with Darktable, but then I chose RawTherapee, as that tries to adjust the settings to match the camera style. There’s so much to learn. I feel so overwhelmed...
Re:Paper is a pet project where I get to read interesting papers from the past and share my thoughts/impressions. It's not too dissimilar to book reviews, except for papers. Or paper-like things (a talk that gets published, an essay from an academic etc.) For 002, we have Carlo Ravolli's Physics Needs Philosophy....