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Facing it head-on from the sidewalk, 1001 Fifth Avenue is impressive enough—a 23-story residential building clad in a limestone facade topped by what looks like a mansard roof that stretches into the sky. Viewed from the side, however, and this mansard roof is just a massive limestone slab supported by steel...
Mugshot of Raoul Villain, 1914. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. It took me a while to figure out why “Stuck in the Middle with You” has been in my head for most of the morning, and why it’s got me thinking about effective soundtracks. The song was (probably) most famously featured as the accompaniment to...
Over the past day or so, you may have noticed that Daily Nous was down quite a bit, and sluggish when you could access it. It turn out there were over 127 million requests (web communications) initiated with Daily Nous over the past 24 hours or so. That is 135 times the normal amount. According to my IT guy, the...
WebSub is one of those underrated technologies that quietly work in the background of the web and that I appreciate quite a bit. It’s not super hard to implement and at least in my experience it is super fast as well. (I think) WordPress has it by default, many of the feed-reading services use it as well and I often...
It looks like AI scrapers have been using a surreptitious method of making their marauding presence appear legitimate, this time by appending a bogus query parameter, or tracking tag, to the URL of the webpage they are targeting. In the last month or so, I have seen a stack of page visit items looking something like...
♠ Problem statement: a code block that quotes a markdown file swallows the first closing fence it meets, which is the inner one. The ADRs and LLMs post quotes a README.md that itself contains a fenced template. Written naively: ```markdown # README Use this template: ```markdown # ADR-NNNN: Title ``` That was the...
[!NOTE](As I minimise screen time during my holidays, I must admit I still scanned my RSS feed every couple of days — only the favourites tab — and saved anything interesting on Instapaper to read on my Kobo; with the intention of writing a blog post, here's one of those.) zero point one Joel points out how vast...
Speaking of user interface guidelines, developer Matt Sephton and others compiled many of Apple’s human interface guidelines, starting from 1980, all the way to 2014, including some goodies like early drafts, NeXT, Newton, and so on. Elsewhere, designer Geof Crowl put together his own list that goes broad instead of...
If you already own a smartphone, why would you use anything else to play music?
The heatwave in Germany is continuing and everyone is suffering. We’re simply not (yet!) prepared for so many days with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius. Thomas’s plants are also suffering from heat stress, even though he’s been watering them as best he can via a drip irrigation system since last year. Anyone...
Heya! So, I was talking about this a couple blogposts ago, but I'm actually making a bearblog-based rpg currently. I still have no idea when I'll be done with it (it'll probably take quite a while still), but the process of making it has been really fun! What initially prompted the project was this video by...
August 2026. Frome. Pub 6, or 7 (seven) for those on our Frome Roam who had popped off to Palmers Bottle Shop after Just Ales. I can tell you nothing about Palmers, which means it is guaranteed to make the next GBG. The pace was relentless, and some of our group went MIA, or possibly AWOL. Most of us made the Lamb...
This is the second installment of my series called Hitting the Digital Brakes. The first post was On the Joys of ImperfectionI didn't grow up with computers, phones, tablets and such. The tech I grew up with record players and my portable radio, camera's and my record player.The first computer came into my life in...
A couple of weeks ago, Fabrizio of Passo.uno dropped me a message on LinkedIn and told me that my article, “Substack writers, you need a website!“, was No.2 on Hacker News. I thought he was pulling my leg. I checked Hacker News and indeed it was true: I was on the front page. By the time I checked, I had dropped to...
Years ago, when my old company was decommissioning hardware, I bought the 2017 MacBook Pro from them, the 13" A1708 with function keys instead of the Touch Bar. I bought it because it was really good price, and my with my sister in mind as she needed something for her school. It served her very well for all things...
It’s popular for certain news organizations to have their reporters ask politicians how many genders there are. The “right” answer, apparently, is two. But a question like this is not fair to the politician or to voters. A politician’s opinion about the number of genders is irrelevant. The number is what it is, and...
The SNCF has plastered the train windows with corny stickers saying “let yourself dream”, “#nofilter” and “seat with a view”. Everybody awake is heads-down in their phone. Everything around here used to be the deepest and most vibrant shade of forest green. Now it’s a dusty and desolate shade of husk yellow. And yet...
i know this is supposed to be ironic but i can't get out of this music video. it's so funny but also so good 😭. almost makes me wish i was a divorced dad. the mean time - your monster (the beast inside) voices of angels in the hands of jesters for real.
Everything I shared on social.omgmog.net between 10 and 16 August: two old games having birthdays, a solar eclipse that failed to impress my kids, and a font you’ve definitely seen without knowing it.
“This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” by Talking Heads Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that captures the feeling of being understood. I can’t recall what she said, not exactly, as we lay in bed facing each other, inches apart. We’d been talking for a while,...
As for the unknown/unknowable, I think it’s all those other selves within us that are both a part of and separate from our conscious selves—memory, dream, demons perhaps better left undisturbed, perhaps not. A poet writes about any number of things, but whether confessional or not, every poem is in part a record of...
One subject, three lenses, let's fucking goooo Back in the Cohost days ["COHOST MENTIONED" ALARM SOUNDS] I used to regularly post these "one subject, three lenses" projects where I'd slap three different lenses on my camera and try to capture the same thing to get as much variance as possible, but for sunsets in...
HWC Asia Pacific: Round 2Can’t believe it is already nearly two weeks since the inaugural HWC: Asia Pacific event—this means meetup #2 is happening next Wednesday! (At the moment, HWC: AP runs on a bi-monthly basis on a Wednesday.) Who Is This For?Do you want to learn more about the IndieWeb and small web community?...
Back in January, I started an experiment by turning this website into a social media timeline-like experience. But now, we’re back to the roots. I like how each iteration of my personal website tells a different story. It’s a snapshot of how I wanted to represent myself online at the time of creating it. With the...
My review of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”.
Happy Elvis is Dead Day to those who celebrate! (Died on August 16, 1977. You have a year to plan ahead for the big five-oh anniversary next year!) Send me an email Latest 3 posts 16 Aug, 2026 The King is Dead 15 Aug, 2026 Two Day Holiday 14 Aug, 2026 Down in the Dirt Older Posts I'd Like You to See 05 Nov, 2024...
Who would you rather be, The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?When it comes to music, I'm not quite adventurous. I love music from the 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. The genres I listen to most are classic rock and the blues. I love a dirty guitar tone. I love a fast and tight rhythm section. I despise autotune. I'm quite...
As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse. It’s got huge robots, it’s got kaiju, this is basically big budget Power Rangers with decent writing...
So there I was, standing in the paper goods aisle of the Piggly Wiggly at 8:45 on a Tuesday evening, having a full-blown crisis over two ply versus three ply. Now, when you’re seven, you think adulthood is going to be magnificent. You imagine staying up until midnight, eating chocolate cake for breakfast, and buying...
Birding photos from Dutch Gap on Aug 15, 2026 My best bird photo from this morning is a dragonfly (Eastern Pondhawk, I think). Least Sandpiper Green Heron Red-headed Woodpecker. It's a juvenile, so its head is not actually red yet.
I'm home from the hospital after getting some surgery! Also general life updates
PyTorch profiles are going to look much better in the next release of Perfetto. Last time, I explained how PyTorch’s profiler emits events that overlap in ways that are technically forbidden by the Chrome JSON Trace Event spec. As a result, Perfetto used to drop these events on the floor. In the last release we...
What brought me joy New coffee! I’ve had this coffee resting for 4 weeks and it’s finally ready to be opened! Opening a new bag of coffee is always exciting. I’m a few brews in and I’ve found that I prefer it brewed with the TORCH Mountain Dripper over V60 because it gets me a bit more acidity. The fermentation...
Lauren Leek's Fantastic Essay explores why in the age of personalized algorithms for everyone, everything feels so samey. In her words: "We have never had more individual data and naive intuition says all that granular personal data should fragment us, splinter the world into a billion niches. And yet the opposite...
There is a huge list of people participating for Blaugust and you can go to Andreas’ website if you want a full OPML file to simply import to your RSS Reader. Personally, I haven’t added too many new people to my feed, but there have been a few which I’ll share! Fyr.io - Matt seems like a pretty cool guy! he is not...
I usually do my bike tours after work or on the weekend during the day. Yesterday, I did it in the evening. It was very nice, and some views (sadly, the camera on my bike phone isn’t that great) felt quite epic. I also managed to drink enough carbohydrates to not feel weak, but unfortunately it made me sleep badly...
No es la primera vez que visito un psicólogo/a por problemas de ansiedad. He tenido rachas mejores y peores en mi vida y desde que Chancla está empeorando su salud, decidí volver a pedir cita para obtener algo de ayuda. Creo que lo primero que una persona busca cuando acude a un psicólogo es la empatía. Vas con un...
Cet jeudi, 20 août 2026, Sacha Chua, Abdallah Maouche, et moi nous allons avoir une discussion sur le sujet d’Emacs. C’est encore une opportunité pour moi de écouter et parler en français. En plus, je peux apprendre plus sûr Emacs: c’est toujours intéressant! Sacha a déjà écrit à propos de cette réunion:...
Re: My spirituality in three stories In reply to: My spirituality in three stories — Sylvia's Studio As the title suggests, Sylvia shared three beautiful stories that illustrate her spiritual beliefs. I highly recommend you read her post first. While you’re there, browse her other writing as well! I’m always very...
Following on from html2gemtext, the inevitable has happened: I couldn't let the Markdown side of things remain unaddressed. While Rogallo v1.8.0 added some extra rendering of Markdown to make it look more "pretty", I felt it really needed to be handled so it had more utility. Being fully navigable, even by keyboard,...
Hindi matatagpuan sa Bear Blog Discovery feed ang pinagsasabi ko dito, ngunit puwede mo itong makita gamit ng RSS at ibang pampublikong feed. Kadalasan itong sinasabi kung nagsasawa na ako sa ulam sa bahay. Maaaring paulit-ulit na pagkaing inihain o nasosobrahan na akong kumain. Ayaw ko sanang magsayang ng ulam,...
2026-08-16Hello!I parted ways with John the local and started walking back to the trail entrance.As I was leaving the woods, the rain started to fall. I was following the trail, so I knew I would make it back to the parking lot; I was more concerned about the bike ride home.I hoped the rain would be enough to fill...
Which now is real? since no one edits text machines have sighted, then translated; Gs turn into Cs--we have the evidence! Which shall it be, what shall we make of it? A title shouts: “Hearing--Doing--Crowing”. You see? The race for content fails to polish, or maybe heaven’s finger’s in it, instead of “Growing” we...
Otro verano más que no estoy escribiendo ni la mitad de lo que me gustaría, ni de los temas que tenía en mente. Pero: no-pasa-nada. El caso es que hace nada he heredado una workstation en el trabajo. Eso quiere decir que ahora tengo acceso a cuatro máquinas distintas: mi portátil chiquilín (T14 de 2023 con Fedora 44...
Gordon Brander writes: The thing about computers is that they can do anything you wish, so long as you specify your wish in exacting detail. However, LLMs relieve this constraint. An LLM can extrapolate what you mean (more or less) from just a few words. So computers can do vibes now. It used to be that computers...
L’onanisme des utilisateurs de chatbots Quand bien même les chatbots ne seraient pas les produits de gigantesques entreprises centralisées qui cherchent à nous exploitent en pourrissant nos cerveaux, Internet tout en étant une catastrophe écologique et sociale, je le les utiliseraient pas. Quand bien même l’outil...
An HDR panorama photograph of Palos Verdes’ Bluff Cove, with beautiful clouds in the sky just before sunset. ブラフ・コーブ パロス・ベルデスにあるブラフ・コーブのHDRパノラマ写真。夕暮れ時、日没前の空に広がる美しい雲が特徴だ。
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There’s a bizarre aspect of AI coding that I’ve been trying to put my finger on, and I think it’s this: you can basically just decide how many bugs you want your software to have now. We discovered this first with security, because of course security bugs are the most non-negotiable ones. But I think once the...
I’ve been into stationery since I was a kid growing up in Chicagoland in the 90s going to Morning Glory and touching all the pens and notebooks. It’s gotten worse now that I have adult money. I’m not allowed to buy notebooks right now because I have too many notebooks that are unused or have one page filled in.
Astăzi, 16 august, Debian marchează 33 de ani de existență - o cifră care spune mai mult decât orice altceva despre cât de bine a îmbătrânit acest proiect. Totul a început în 1993, când Ian Murdock, pe atunci student la Universitatea Purdue, a anunțat că vrea să construiască o nouă distribuție Linux. A numit-o...
10th August - 16th August Along with basically everyone, I watched the eclipse using the traditional "colander and a sheet of paper" method. I took a few horrific snaps with one of my cameras but, without a solar filter, they were rubbish. It was strange because it didn't feel like a sunset despite being basically...
With 7 principles for keeping your app-data safe I love the idea of embracing the tendency to switch tools as a feature, rather than something to be avoided. Maxim said — I’ve tried keeping tasks directly in Obsidian, using Todoist heavily, classic GTD (as much as that’s actually possible), and the PARA method....
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