Sat Aug 15
I drew the cartoon above from a photograph that turned twenty years old last month. That’s Erika on the left, and next to Erika is Stephen’s bride Erin, and then I’m on the right, and next to me is Stephen himself, surprising me with a smooch the morning after his wedding. Stephen and I first met on a forum, five...
An excerpt of the "Liber Pontificalis" for Gregory II about iconoclasm in Byzantine Italy in 726.
We went to Boston the first week of August. The planning for this was unique as the first step was securing tickets to watch these young men perform in one of three cities. See, the closest city to us in which they are performing is Chicago, but the timing of those shows did not work for our schedule. Boston (well,...
Sitting atop a Spanish mesa one sweltering August night, watching the Perseid meteor showers streak the sky with the debris of a comet burning through the atmosphere against the backdrop of a billion dead stars whose signal light is only now reaching us, I found myself trembling with the parallel to life itself: The...
🎵 Listening to Diagnosis by Noa Bar. Been really enjoying Noa Bar’s music after hearing the song Diagnosis on NPR. The vocals are funky and the strong bass gets me.
2026-08-15Hello!An older gentleman named John came up to me and said he found a "water snake". He pointed to it, curling around a branch hanging over the creek. I tried to capture a photograph of this snake, but it was too obstructed by other twigs and leaves.His name isn't actually John, by the way. But that...
Controllers are already memed on for being notoriously hard to use and difficult to navigate with. So, when a game gets it right — when a game's UI is fast to navigate with — it feels great. But when a game gets it wrong, it's extremely painful. A quick pretext before we dive right in: I'm not a professional game...
My beast of a sweet potato. It was sprouting, so I shoved it into the ground. We're both happy with this arrangement. Excuse the weeds - a skunk has been coming in & out of the backyard and I've been too scared to get rid of them. More supermarket produce! These red lettuce look like garnets, but they taste okay....
Last night's Gardeners' World included a report from Farringford, Tennyson's estate on the Isle of Wight, where the garden, which had been entirely lost, has been restored to something very like its original appearance – much like an English cottage garden in style, but on quite grand in scale. It looks delightful,...
Getting stronger and running longerI ran a little over 4.5 miles today (about 7.3 km). There was a cool breeze in the air. A light drizzle started soon after I left the house. I felt the tiny water droplets on my face as I ran. It felt refreshing. This is the longest continuous run I've done so far since I started...
Dear Creative Soul,This has been floating in my mind for a very long time (inspired by something someone else said, I think?)Those who can create art, create art, those who don’t create art, try to put it into convenient boxes.I think this is why, to me, one of the first rules of creating art is breaking out of...
Came across Trevor’s post about link rot last week. The topic of fixing broken links on our websites is pops up occasionally at Homebrew Website Club meetings. I never really investigated how I could check every link efficiently on my Hugo site locally (not relying on third-party services). Since I have a Python...
I feel bad that I have not heard about The Odyssey earlier but thanks to Nolan as he made a movie about it. The storyline is taken from a famous ancient Greek epic composed by Homer about a man Odysseus who was forced to go on a war, leaving his wife and new born son. The journey costs him twenty years to come back....
August 15, 2026 Since I moved my email back to Gmail, I’m letting my Fastmail subscription expire at the end of the month. I still get a few emails trickling in from various places to my @ldstephens.com address, so I wanted a way to make sure I don’t miss anything potentially important. I decided to use Cloudflare’s...
I am, much to my chagrin, on Twitter. I first joined Twitter in 2011. I deleted my account in 2020 and started posting again in about May of this year, to "develop my writing career." I tend to have what may be anachronistic attitudes toward how people ought to conduct themselves in public discourse. Toward this...
Our last day included a baseball game, a wander through Coney Island, cake and a parting gift-bag.Reply via email
Bought 2 pins to add to my collection today. Sometimes you just see pins at a store and they immediately call to you. These pins did exactly that. I thought they were very appropriate for how I've been feeling lately. Reply by email
Another update to Rogallo, another new protocol! The main change in v1.9.0 is the addition of support for the Nex protocol. As with any other supported protocol, entering a nex:// URI into the command line will cause Rogallo to load up the response in the viewer and render it. Nex is kind of fun in that it's almost...
Say you’re writing a Windows IPC library for Rust, and you want to pass a handle to a child process. Maybe it’s a pipe, maybe it’s a file, maybe it’s a broker process handle. It turns out that there’s no correct way to do so due to Rust’s idiosyncrasies. WinAPI trivia time! The CreateProcess function, which is used...
NotesTest post from Plume, micropub extension for Firefox/Chromium derived browsers
Track Parody of Sympathy of the Devil with the song protagonist being the Unabomber Prompt I’d like to do a parody of the Rolling Stone’s Sympathy for the Devil, but making the protagonist the Unabomber and having the lyrics reflect that A.I. is going to undermine future human cognitive ability. Venue is suno.com....
Several months ago, a good friend of mine, who knows I’m into birdwatching, suggested I watch a YouTube documentary called LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching. Little did I know at the time that it would consume much of my free time and prevent me from blogging with my usual cadence! I’ll say it right away:...
I was out on a walk yesterday, listening to the ’70s Hits Radio Station on Apple Music, when “Don’t Leave Me This Way” came on. I pulled my phone out of my pocket to look at a text while the song was playing and was surprised at what the Music app told me about the song. I’m pretty sure George Benson never covered...
A sailboat cruises at sunset near the beach at 5th Street, while people and seagulls watch. ネットの間 5ストリートのビーチで、夕暮れ時、人々とカモメが見守る中、一隻の帆船がゆったりと進んでいる。
The Foofs (2025) anthology is here! It features all of the award-winning stories published by other mags in 2025, plus many, many more! You can pre-order direct from us now to get 15%, otherwise it'll be available everywhere books are sold online on September 1st!Paid subscribers get a free digital copy and Patron's...
I spotted this quote by Shirley Hibberd on the side of an enormous glass case, just outside the departures gate at SFO: Let us not despise the day of small things. A windowsill garden is better than no garden, and the dark area where cats quarrel and damp makes patches of unsightly mould, may be made bright with...
Two years, two years...I can't believe it's been two years since I started this blog and that I've wrote over 300 posts, those are a lot of words. I often read my old ones, it's weird to see how my writing (and life) have changed. I think I take my blog a liiitle more serious now, not like is a big thing, I just try...
The Sekulby have come. Stories of their culture have been faint echoes within Bennu since my arrival. The massive agglomerative ship is like a planet closing in on the station, or more accurately, like the station is being sucked into some haphazard planet's gravitational pull. My awe quickly turned to...
To get promoted as a software engineer in Big Tech, you generally need to show “ownership” of a product or area. This means being responsible for it and deciding what should happen over time. I often hear more junior engineers ask: “How can I demonstrate ownership when my manager hasn’t given me anything to own?”...
It’s a great topic. AI. Easy to dismiss. Easy to praise. But it isn’t everything. Not everything needs to be in comparison with it. Not every thought shared needs to take a stand for, or against, it. Not every article has to include a reflection on it. Sometimes you can just forget AI exists. Post the photo. Publish...
Muista, että kokiessasi mitään muuta kuin kaiken sisällään pitävää, kaiken läpi uuttuvaa pyyteetöntä Rakkautta harhailet.
Eu me perguntava se elas conseguiriam fazer um álbum mais divertido que o Delulu Pack mas pra surpresa de ninguém esse EP novo delas é sensacional. A vibe de verão é maravilhosa e tem músicas aqui que já tão no repeat a tempo mas todas as músicas do disco são gostosas demais de ouvir e até faixas como Blue Hour que...
Am folosit situl distrochooser.de unde am ales răspunsurile următoare: vreau o distribuție pentru uz zilnic sunt capabil să rezolv singur unele probleme cu calculatorul am folosit deja Linux în anumite scopuri vreau să utilizez valorile prestabilite implicite din asistentul de instalare performanța calculatorului...
It seems like I’ve earned a reputation at work for hating Excel. We recently had a workshop with different statations and flipboards about how to improve some processes etc. And well – I added a lot of “less spreadsheets” sticky notes. After a while someone approached me and asked what my problem with Excel was […]
I like being a purveyor of instant meals beyond just noodles. They're the most iconic, most abundant and the pioneers of an industry, sure, but variety is the seasoning packet of life. These caught my eye in the shop because at a glance I thought these were snack bowls, not instant meals. In my mind, "rice cakes"...
I've always felt the need to share links that I find interesting. I think it helps like-minded people find their tribe. I'm unsure if my efforts have helped much, yet I persist. A few days ago I got an email from Antonio Santos asking how the links in my feed work. They have a blogroll page on their site, but it...
Bound to the earth there you stand counting the stars as the heart takes you to the orange scarf that endows with enthusiasm those who turn their tears into a golden shower
I participated in the 2026 GMTK Game Jam, my role was a pixel artist. I share the sprites I made and talk more about the project.
It’s been exactly three years since I published my article about the Sony PS Vita so what better thing to do is than pick it out from the drawer where it’s been sitting for a while, play some games on it, see how relevant and usable it’s still in 2026. Half-joking, I did pick up this like a few weeks ago and played...
For the first time in a very long time I decided to take my morning coffee to the backyard, and since the 200-800mm was still on my camera I took that out too. There were a couple of small birds flitting around, I have a lot of yellow smudges for for picutres, but I was able to get a couple of nice shots. We think...
This one should be more fun than yesterday's Blaugust post You know those moments where you're going about your day, brushing a cat and they're like, leaning into it and purring and then suddenly you're hit with an intrusive thought about the existence of Might No. 9? And how you once foolishly gave money to it?...
Some highlights from the last month (ish) About the city I biked along the seawall, which I hadn’t done in a while Watched A couple of World Cup games — Norway vs England, and Spain vs Argentina I finally watched X-Men '97 (season 1), which was good! I need to watch season 2 soon The Odyssey was good I should...
It’s been a long time since we’ve taken a road trip, and even longer since we’ve been able to spend the night away from home (you try doing that with a dog, two cats, and fifteen chickens). We figured some day we’d be able to do it though, and TODAY IS THAT DAY. Ahem. It’s only an over-nighter, to visit relatives,...
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Thank you @zyd for the request, and IndieWebClub Bangalore for the prompt that sort-of points to it. You probably don’t need coffee explained to you. It’s the most popular drug delivery mechanism in the world, and could be considered the lifeblood of modern civilisation (or at least jobs-oriented capitalism). That...