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A collection of amazing open source projects built by Brazilian developers. It’s missing our own projects, right? Tip from Renan (the Brazilian guy who develops our projects).
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. This morning it was Go by The Chemical Brothers. Reply by email
I first posted this in 2020. Nothing has changed, really.---My spirituality has been a meandering path, from growing up in a Christian household and leaving the church at 12 to where I'm now.I did a lot of searching to find what I already knew as a child. Here are the stories that led me to this realisation.Story 1,...
Philosophy & Public Affairs recently—and knowingly—published an article written mostly by Claude, Anthropic’s LLM. The article’s thesis was supplied by Simon Goldstein, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong, who, he says, “worked with Claude the way a heavy-handed supervisor writes with a...
最近偷懒太多，没有每周写剑道笔记，趁着这周还没过去（这周末还要去稽古会），把此前的几次记录一下。 日程 2026-07-26（日） 2026-07-31（金） 2026-08-07（金） 2026-08-09（日） 比赛日 稽古心得 进攻的时候要气沉丹田，架构的时候想象有一团气在两手与身体之间。不要前后晃，每步进攻的时候都要定住，尤其是左脚要跟上，腿要适当绷紧，保持随时可以出击的状态。 声音还是太小了，要体会从腹部发声的感觉，每一次发声都会让力量汇集，以打出有力道的一击。气合要拉长至做完残心，比我现阶段的要长很多。 面对比我矮的对手要有从上打击的气势，老师说我有的时候打面会变矮……我觉得原因在于我有的时候左腿会弯曲。...
The last church picnic of the summer closed out with an incredible sunset. It seemed like the sky kept getting more and more stunning. Images included in reverse chronological order with no digital editing other than cropping.
You can configure your Hugo website to automatically embed an image into a web page as a Base64 string; this post shows you how. Let’s assume your Markdown posts have this structure: --- title: 'Some Title' author: 'Jane Smith' excerpt: 'Blah blah…' slug: some-title image: some-title.jpg --- This is my article… Then...
How, and why, I started playing guitarOn the morning of Saturday, 11 September 2021, I texted my wife to say that I would love to learn to play guitar. I can't remember what her reply was, but as soon as I finished work that day I hailed a cab and made my way to the Yamaha Music Centre on Bauddhaloka Mawatha in...
I’ve been slowly reading through The Trad Climber’s Bible over the last several weeks. It’s a collection of short stories from John Long and Peter Croft, two prolific climbers who greatly influenced modern climbing culture. It’s been a fun read, but something in “Chapter 15: Valhalla and the Birth of ‘The Stone...
A nice surprise when the meteor shower didn't pan out Lmao so remember yesterday? How excited I was about finally a night I could watch the perseids near the peak of the shower with minimal moon light pollution and clear skies? It fucking rained. Like. A lot. Another year of Perseid persecution upon me and my family...
Located one-point-one-five billion light years from Earth, the behemoth galaxy, at one-point-seven-million light in years in length, somewhat dwarfs our home, the Milky Way, which measures in at a mere one-hundred-thousand light years across. Using kiloparsecs as a metric, the size difference between IC 1101 and the...
Back to work after being out of the office for a couple of weeks. I’d left myself a reminder to go to the right location, as we’d had a seating shuffle while I’d been away. We had an extraordinary number of people saying that they were cold at their new desks, but, weirdly, the complaints were distributed across the...
Collecting notes on databases management, mainly Postgres. Change password It could be that connecting from localhost does not require a password. In that case, you have to replace trust with scram-sha-256 in /var/lib/postgresql/data/pg_hba.conf and either restart the service or run SELECT pg_reload_conf(); to apply...
This is saying from my brother when we were younger. My mum is asian, and part of being asian means she loooves getting the best deal.
We live in the future now. There are no rules anymore. I’m too tired to post. This totally counts. Goodnight, all! Send me an email Latest 3 posts 14 Aug, 2026 Does Posting That I’m Too Tired to Post Still Count for Blaugust? 13 Aug, 2026 I am Deadly Serious 11 Aug, 2026 A Foggy Longing Older Posts I'd Like You to...
Well, here in Lichfield, we had a typically English eclipse – which is to say that a magnificent bank of cloud (something scarcely seen in the past three weeks) rolled into place bang on time, right in front of the eclipsing sun, and in an otherwise largely blue sky. 'The world is disgracefully managed,' as Ronald...
I have expanded the pages of holy sites and 20th century tietäjät by quite plenty. I added a page for Finnish historical timeline, and ones for the folktales of Laurukainen, Heinonen in Käkisaari, and a Battle of Shamans. More epithets for Päivätär and Louhi, more info on Veteinen. New blog post and a new webring...
A nice moment I spotted in Asana – you can quickly record your name pronunciation (the video below does not have sound): As someone who has “How to pronounce my name” in the footer of his website, it’s much appreciated! The result appears as a simple icon next to your name: For discoverability, if you spot this...
Ayer se estrenaron las nuevas versiones de los Google Pixel entre otros productos, así que mejor que sintonizar a mi actual YouTuber favorito de tecnología para que en cinco minutos enterarme de todas las novedades que traen sus teléfonos junto a otras actualizaciones que presentaron sus otros dispositivos. Cuando...
CAFE PEREC de VILA-MATAS ///// 11 agosto 2026. En un ensayo publicado este verano en The Atlantic, advierte Rose Horowitch, que “el fin de la era de la lectura” (The Age of Reading Is Over) ya está aquí, en realidad lleva tiempo entre nosotros. Horowitch nos recuerda las circunstancias que envolvieron el definitivo...
Since a while I noticed that when I double clicked an MP4 file, VLC took really long (like several seconds) to open and show the file. Actually really annoingly long. But as I don’t watch a lot of movies, I never really bothered debugging it. BUT recently I came across on itsfoss.com and a tweet […]
2026-08-13Hello!As I write this, I am surrounded by many people on their screens. Playing mobile games. Watching vertical videos. I've been toiling away at this website for hours, writing articles and queuing them up to lead to these five photographs of the drained creek.I was surprised when I got here. I've been...
This won't be a lengthy post. It will consist of a small update and a brief explanation regarding why I am no longer publishing Sightless Scribbles to YouTube. For those that do follow my YouTube channel, you might have noticed that I began streaming again. I won't stream every day. My one hobby is reading and...
A few days ago, I was researching about ways I could put some of my tennis experience to use as a coach. I'm starting to see that even if I don't make it as a tennis professional, I could take other paths and create new goals. It turns out there's a lot of free coaching knowledge out there! There are many sites that...
I understand the argument that if you don’t like what Big Tech is doing, you should vote with your wallet. It’s a simple equation after all. Stop buying Apple products, de-Google your life, and delete your Meta accounts. And if you can —trickier for us knowledge workers— move away from Microsoft. Alternatives abound...
August 2026. Frome. Oh look, spoiler, a map showing our pub crawl route in Frome last Saturday. The best is yet to come, but every pub deserves a Retired Martin post, even the George, the most stately looking place in the market place. I just looked up room rates this weekend; minimum 3 night stay at £128 a night,...
There's no place of real and absolute peace in this mad world now. I am just sitting quietly here on the sofa, escaping a little of the heat of the afternoon while I try to expend as little energy as I can. (I worked hard yesterday. The price for that is no chance of any work today.) I'll probably try to have a...
Kev Quirk writes about people who’ve published their salary history online, and worries how it might skew readers’ perceptions in a keeping-up-with-the-joneses type way. Their article reminds me of that instagram effect where, because everyone posts their best selves and you know your whole self, it makes you feel...
I've released v1.8.0 of Rogallo. This release has a bit of an accidental emphasis on control of how things are rendered in the main viewer. Markdown While Rogallo is, of course, primarily aimed at loading and rendering Gemtext documents, I have written it so that it'll try and display anything whose content type...
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 images on the screen. Second, a server called...
Ayer, como medio país, estuve viendo el eclipse. Tenía unas gafas que me facilitó uno de mis cuponeros de confianza (sí, tengo más de uno) y me fui con un amigo a verlo al campo con un par de latas de refresco, una bolsa de palomitas y un par de sillas de camping. Fue un planazo, la verdad. La sensación fue muy...
Back in 2022, I wrote Web technology optimism hour, highlighting the things I thought were cool about the state of technology. Time flies. Let's do it again.It's still easy to be pessimistic, but it's nice to mine your feelings for the positive ones. The elephant in the room is AI, but I don't feel like throwing...
FEB 1The new month dawns upon you. With Mercury and Venus by your side, forget the transgressions of the past and grow into the awakening of the new. Take chances, discover truths, and live without regrets.Mantra of the day: Forgetting is growing.FEB 2Focus your energy on social obligations today. Friends need your...
I interpreted the Backrooms (2026) to be a story about grief and memory, and how rumination degrades what we remember. Even the movie's dialogue is circular at times (I liked the callback to Mary and Clark's roleplay sessions near the end). This would've hit harder if I felt more connected Mary and Clark. In theory,...
On why making things requires other people, and what kind of people, and how A nine-year-old writes a rap for a rap battle. She’s rapping about turtles. Her sister is rapping about dogs. She wants to read her rap to the family but she’s embarrassed — they might laugh. Her mom reads both raps aloud instead, in a...
When the pandemic hit and nobody could travel anywhere, I, like many others, found connections through Zoom calls. I had multiple scheduled calls with different groups: a daily morning call, a weekly Friday call, two board game groups, a poker night, a Call of Duty group, and semi-regular calls with various...
When we ponder our place in the world, we typically couch it in terms of our evolution as individuals or a group. We map both our shortcomings and aspirations on a historical trajectory. If we emphasise our frailties, we speak of the current state as one of decline. And if we focus on our strengths, we discern a...
I love children's art. I love modern artists because they drew like children and I am overly sentimental about children's artwork hung up in schools. I could never become an elementary school teacher, but I have a lot of respect for the few teachers there are that genuinely take children seriously, especially as the...
Part 6 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series turns a few reliable log sources into detections with owners, response notes, and test evidence.SIEM-lite is not an undersized enterprise SIEM. It is a small operating model for environments that cannot justify collecting every...
At the Bucharest Circus, the new young manager is trying to solve the major financial issues of the company by selling its only bear (old and about to die soon) to German hunters. But the artists do not want to sacrifice their favorite animal so the manager decides to steal the bear and run to the mountains to meet...
I was drawn to the Stop sign turned art, so I decided to take a photo of it -- in Guerneville, CA Related: We The People Matter Reply by email
Naturally I clicked into The Listening Museum when I saw it in Kottke’s feed. “36 mechanical keyboards and switches, curated and sound-mapped. From IBM Model M (1985) to Topre to thocky modern customs. Click any card, type on your real keyboard, hear it as if it were on your desk.” I clacked a few clacks and felt...
This week Ruben wrote about Feeling blue after the end of Heartstopper, his favourite series. I've never heard of this series before and I'm also not the target audience for it, but he said something in his review that got to me: "It’s the series I wish young me would have been able to watch, at a time when gay...
AI and Consciousness, hot off the press at Cambridge University Press and free online until Aug 26! Summary: Our most advanced AI systems might soon – within the next five to thirty years – be as richly and meaningfully conscious as ordinary humans, or even more so, capable of genuine feeling, real self-knowledge,...
On August 10, 2026, the New York Post published an article titled High school football player practiced for an hour with a snake in helmet — until coaches ‘shock’ discovery. How could I not open such an exciting headline? The article, which also links to the original local news report from KARK.com, explains that a...
Din când în când merită să faci o verificare temeinică a calculatorului cu Linux Mint, chiar dacă nu ai niciun motiv special de îngrijorare. Nu pentru că riscul de infecție ar fi mare pe Linux, ci pentru liniștea de a ști exact ce rulează pe sistemul tău. Mai jos las un ghid mai tehnic, cu comenzile exacte și...
I saw this post by Gabz a while back titled Iconic moments in gaming and I wanted to share my own! Of course, these will spoil game mechanics or plot twists and you should thread carefully! I will not be using <details> to spoil, though I’ll add skip buttons between each videogame I bring up. I will also list each...
Liked 5 apps new Linux users should install on day one by Dibakar Ghosh (How-To Geek) Most Linux distros are intentionally minimal to avoid bloat, offering a fresh and clean environment. While this is a major perk, knowing what to install first can be tricky for newcomers. So, to help kickstart your journey, here...
Ich bin gerade aus einer Trance erwacht und hatte 1000 Wörter im Computer stehen. [31/1000] Ich fühle mich nicht als hätte ich heute was zu sagen, aber nichts zu sagen haben hat noch nie jemanden wie mich (weiß, männlich) davon abgehalten trotzdem zu sprechen. Heute wurde ein bisschen gearbeitet, an der Arbeit...
So last night I played cricket. I did my usual – hung around for a bit and scored fuck all – but it was during the biggest solar eclipse since 1999. I was fortunate in seeing the Solar Eclipse back then. We were about 20 miles away from totality at the time (on holiday in Weymouth) and seeing it go so dark was...
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It’s been a few months since my post on leaving Gmail which sparked a lot of discussion on Hacker News. Email isn’t the most exciting topic in the world, but I figured I should give a little update on how things have been going after the move to Fastmail since so many people saw the original post. The quick version...