Wed Aug 12
Three days ago, I wrote the post Geohashes for my photos about my recent use of Geohashes as a short alternative to long GPS coordinates and expressed my hope that my favorite platform, Vernissage, would support them… and I created a GitHub issue for Marcin, the developer. Three days ago… Marcin released a new...
a half-assed review"> 2017 came and after getting enough play time in AC Syndicate, I bought the new AC title, Origins. While not a reboot, it does move the time frame of the game way in the past, during Ancient Egypt, exploring the secrets hidden in the dunes, as well as the connections with the past civilizations....
Here’s a cool fish trick: abbr --add jjc --set-cursor -- 'jj commit -m "%"' This adds an abbreviation, which is a like an auto-expanding bash alias, that puts your cursor at the % character. So when I type jjc in my terminal and hit space, that expands to: jj commit -m "<cursor>" Handy!
Strathfield is a suburb located in the west of Sydney, Australia. I don’t know many people living in the area, so I’m not there often, but have occasionally wandered the streets near the railway station. About a third of residents were born in Australia, while a reasonable number of people hail from Nepal, China,...
2026-08-12Hello!The bird feeder is empty, I think. It has squirrel protection — the dome at the top should prevent squirrels from taking the birdseed — but squirrels are clever, so I wouldn't be surprised if they ate the week's supply.This entire area looks untouched, with vines every which way and a thick wall of...
The second day of Thor's birthday celebrations included dumplings, museums and a cabaret performance overlooking New Jersey.Currently Listening: Kate Bush “Nocturn”Reply via email
I have had the disks from my Drobo 5N sitting in protective cases for five years. We had a power cut while it was doing something and from that point I was unable to connect to it despite everything I tried. I did get in contact with a specialist Drobo recovery business who quoted over £1k to restore the files, plus...
Denominación de Origen es un documental que puede verse en RTVE Play que sirve como preámbulo a la consecución del segundo Campeonato Mundial de Fútbol por parte de la selección española. Sin lugar a dudas, ha sido una de las alegrías de este verano de 2026. Honestamente, tampoco ha sido una sorpresa que el grupo...
RebirthAuthor: RR HaywoodGenre: Sci-fiReleased: 2026Rating: ★★★★☆How do you prevent a hero from saving the world?In the first trilogy, three heroes were extracted from their timelines to save the world. Now we need them again. Meet Ben Ryder, Safa Patel, and Harry Madden. Just not as you knew them. Three selfish...
For years I've been trying to find a single roast to become my house coffee. I've had some really great roasts, and I end up chasing those flavors. When the bag is gone I try to find more of it again.
I found an old blog post about my reading habits, and decided to update it for my current habits plus some funny things related to me and reading. What are yours? I mix up physical books, audiobooks and e-books and I always have several books in progress. Some I read in the morning, some I listen to while working on...
Safari broke tap to top for tabs (say it three times fast), and Bear added two-fingers gestures. Ivory – a Mastodon client for iOS – tries a different approach in a slightly different setting. The normal tap to top gesture works as expected, but tapping the top again returns you back where you were before: I believe...
Figure 1: My view of Liberty Square (自由廣場), as well as the National Concert Hall (right) and National Theater (left) from atop the steps of Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall. Writing this, I have arrived at the island of Formosa, the adopted home of the Republic of China (中華民國) as well as the Taiwanese people. I intent...
When I first created GopherMap, I made it pretty strict about what it did and didn't consider a valid map. Unsurprisingly, reality did what reality does and, pretty quickly, Rogallo met maps that didn't fit with this strict approach. So I relaxed things, accepting pretty much anything that even vaguely looked like a...
This one is a few days late. Most of my free time last week went into personal projects, and I kept choosing “one more thing” on the server over sitting down to write this. LOL.The vibeRestless, but in a good way.My brain has been stuck in that mode where it keeps finding one more thing to build, fix, or improve. It...
Dear reader,I have been trying to reform my relationship with technology. From filling small moments of boredom with algorithm-driven content to spending hours on end with my devices, these issues have bothered me for years. It was time to take charge and stop letting technology control me.But reducing my usage has...
On Letterboxd star ratingsIt's not uncommon for me to head straight to the cinema after work most days. Today was no exception. The port of call was QFT, to see Hunt for the Wilderpeople re-released in cinemas for a short run. I've seen it many times before, but never on the big screen. It was, of course,...
Pictures from seeing the opera Carmina Burana live in San Francisco with a full chorus. Here you go. You can watch a performance (not the one we attended, unfortunately) here if you like.
August 12, 2026 I saw this in my RSS feed this week. It caught my attention, so I wanted to learn more about it. Embedded watermarks in text When a supported Claude model generates text, it weaves an imperceptible watermark directly into the text itself. You won’t see it, and it doesn’t change the meaning, quality,...
This is my rebuttal to a response of my response to a response about a post (Andreas, look what you’ve started!). One thing that the internet never fails to remind me of is that I tend to see the world in broad brush strokes whereas many see it in intricate detail and hold their view as unassailable. I say “there is...
The University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts is trying out something new this coming term: a dual grading system in which professors give students ordinary letter grades based on the quality of their work, but what shows up on the student’s transcript is either a “pass” or “no credit”....
It's been 21 days since we've had to say goodbye to my soul dog, Cocoa. It has not gotten easier, but I am trying to learn how to hold the grief that is within me. I have hard days, and then harder days. There has not been any easy days. I don't know when those will come. I don't think it will be any time soon. We...
We watched the eclipse this evening using a colander. And not just any colander, but a thematically-correct colander with a star shape in it. Blurriness courtesy of J who took the picture.
There’s been buzz recently about how a nascent web and mobile astronomy app, Dark Hours, got wildly incorrectly rejected from Apple’s App Store. Then maybe it turned out that the rejection wasn’t so wild because Apple may well have been looking at the astrology app the developer first submitted under the name...
A few days ago I wrote a post titled "Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change". I don't write posts with the intention of getting lots of clicks, but this one seems to have struck a nerve (or the headline was clickbaity enough) because it went kind of viral (at least in small web...
Can we complete a perfect Sunday-Friday Pook-Emu Bee link week? With this, we are 5/7 of the way there. Free discarded furniture on Love Lane in Brooklyn Heights. I took this photo on August 6, 2026. Articles 1 | New $472M electronic brain modernizes aging CH-47 Chinook helicopters (Amir Kholam for Interesting...
Jazzy Listenin': New Groove - Peter Beets From 1990 to 2003, my dear Grandpa presented a weekly show on the local radio station called Jazzy Listenin’. In this series, I’ll discuss his albums to honour his memory, as I listen my way through his collection. Today’s album is “New Groove” (2007) by Peter Beets. My...
Meteors Shower, one might say! Long exposure of the stars from the 2017 shower; you can see one (1) streak on the right side Since I was a small child, a thing I looked forward to every year is a near-end of summer tradition where we'd go out into the backyard on a blanket or a sleeping bag and watching the sky...
I have been subscribed to Clarkesworld for more than two years now—I blame Amin—but it took me this long to finally finish one of their issues. I am just terrible at reading I guess, but since they are a great sci-fi magazine I don’t feel particularly guilty about supporting them even if I am not taking advantage of...
August 2026. Bath. I’d opted for a couple of nights down in Bath, a little luxurious but the student residences on the edge of town were cheaper than a Doncaster Travelodge, Twerton Mill’s riverside rooms near Bath City FC spotless and (most importantly) with high-speed Wi-Fi. OK, they’re also half an hour’s walk...
On a whim, I decided to ride my eBike on a 30+ mile ride. Men of a certain age love WWII or Civil War history; I love both types! Some quick searching of the Richmond area led me to pick Malvern Hill Battlefield as my destination. Looking along the route, I saw there was a BBQ place along the way. Sweet, that looks...
After I learned how to make a Mac widget with TerminalWidget and how to determine the locations of celestial objects with Astropy, the natural thing for me to do was combine the two into a widget that tracks the planets. I’m using the ancient definition of planet, which includes the Sun and Moon but not anything...
There's this eclipse happening today, and later this month, another one that, according to what I've read, will be visible in Brazil. In other times, maybe in another life, I would've been excited to watch the phenomena. Idk when it stopped being interesting to me. When did I lose the whimsy for eclipses? I can't...
An account of the anti-iconoclast rebellion of 726–727 in Byzantine Italy, from the "Historia Langobardorum" by Paul the Deacon.
The Gnome Shell user interface has mostly seen minor refinements and quality of life updates in recent cycles, but on the design side we’ve explored a lot of longer-term things we’d like to do. Some of these we have relatively complete plans for, others are more vague ideas that need more research and prototyping....
A little over 10 years ago, I got into Reprap because I was intrigued with possibility of a machine that could print most of its own components. A self-replicating factory still sounds like a cool idea. I was intrigued with the possibility of being able to replace any random component in my car or some other context...
I had fun cosplaying at Matsucon and I went on stage too! At Matsucon this year I spent bunch of money on the artist alley, but I also had signed up for a "cosplay catwalk" which was very spooky but interesting. Photos But first some photos! Video of the catwalk thing I have no idea how Zola will work with video...
Erst mal wachwerden, dann rein und rausschälen in die eigene, dann die Routinen der anderen. Dann Kaffee, dann schnell durch die Abfertigungshalle. So läuft’s, so laufen die Tage. Morgendliche Tortur de force. Kompromittierte Zugänge in den Tag. Bürokram, Behördenkram. Überall Kram, generell viel Gram. Wir stolpern...
------------------------------------------------ You may have noticed on the Fediverse that I haven't been trying to permanently configure my Stream Deck lately. Instead, I've built my own solution. This solution consists of two components. First, a client running on my phone that displays 32 buttons with small...
♠ Previously. Problem statement: make my cdg shortcut jump from a linked Git worktree back to the main checkout when already at the worktree root. The shortcut originally stopped at the current checkout’s root: alias cdg='cd "$(git root)"' I wanted two consecutive calls from a worktree subdirectory to behave like...
This is a topic that comes up from time to time, including in the latest “Prot Asks” I did with Oliver: https://protesilaos.com/prot-asks/2026-08-11-oliver-minimalism-distractions-independence/. Oliver wanted to say something and first checked with me if it was okay to do so, given that it could demonetise the...
I received my pre-ordered Clicks Power Keyboard this week. It's a quality iPhone accessory and it made my thumbs very happy. But a Clicks account is required for firmware updates, and that's a deal-breaker for me. I was excited when the Clicks Power Keyboard was first announced. A mag-safe physical keyboard that...
A long time ago, in what now feels like a galaxy far, far away, large language models were next-word predictors. You gave them an unfinished chunk of text, and they continued from where it left off with plausible-sounding sequences of words. When OpenAI announced in 2019 their ground-breaking GPT-2 model, they...
It means knowing every time we leave that the passport we’re holding is a political object that represents rights and privileges together, that a return ticket isn’t just a piece of our logistical organization, but – as we were saying before – what’s missing for migrant people in how they manage their idea of time,...
I currently have 70,000 unread emails in my inbox. Do not @ me. (Unless you want to send me an email; then definitely @ me.) Send me an email Latest 3 posts 13 Aug, 2026 I am Deadly Serious 11 Aug, 2026 A Foggy Longing 10 Aug, 2026 Mondays and Millionaires Older Posts I'd Like You to See 05 Nov, 2024 Election Night,...
On KPop Demon Hunters and the limits of self-acceptance In KPop Demon Hunters, a girl group called HUNTR/X plays sold-out stadiums by day and holds a magic barrier against demons by night. Their leader, Rumi, is hiding that she is half demon herself. The film is smarter about shame than almost anything else made for...
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The missing getting started guide for dérive Linux, how to take a closer look at it.
Estos últimos días hemos estado dándole forma al nuevo Hitz. Refinando, proponiendo ideas, descartando otras, viendo qué podemos hacer para que sea un lugar acogedor donde la gente pueda caerle a conversar, ver qué pasa en la escena y compartir música. La escena musical siempre ha existido pero de forma dispersa....
“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” The year of reading more and writing better is well underway with writing advice the likes of David Ogilvy’s 10 no-bullshit tips, Henry Miller’s 11 commandments, Jack Kerouac’s 30 beliefs...