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Due to a camping mishap that sent me to the emergency room yesterday morning (a part of our tent infrastructure ended up embedded in my thumb, but I’m okay), I forgot to take my Methylphenidate pill. I started taking this med a couple...
Hotel Wi-Fi asks us to make a strange trade. We trust a network we have never seen, operated by people we will never meet, using equipment we cannot inspect, because cellular service is weak and we need to answer an email.Sometimes the...
I regularly get marketing emails off the back of this site. "Here's a free license for our tool" or "can we put a link to our service in a post?" At least back then they were slightly human. Now all I get are AI generated shitty emails...
Born 100 years ago today was Valerie Eliot (née Fletcher), the second wife of the poet, and apparently the one who made him happy. The couple lived in Kensington, just around the corner from Ivy Compton-Burnett, and their paths crossed...
Saguaro and Cholla - Superstition Wilderness, Arizona Yesterday, it reached 112 degrees in Tempe. The low was 86. That is about as good as it gets this week. 🥵 I know. It's the desert, what do I expect? But the high temperatures seem to...
…at The Atlantic, and worth reading.
Folks were looking for a centralized website for Chorus which wasn’t just the repository, so today I threw together another site, MecaGorp, which will be hopefully where I put all future information about Chorus/Canimus and its related...
Folosesc Linux Mint de câteva luni bune și de trei, patru zile am pus GNOME lângă Cinnamon. Nemo este pur și simplu mai bun decât Nautilus - la Nautilus îi lipsesc câteva funcții utile pe care le găsești doar în Nemo. #blaugust2026...
The computer I use the most is my couch laptop. It's a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) running Debian 13 and sits on a little roller table thing that I can pull up to me while I'm sitting or push out of the way and the top of...
Into another world How I love listening to music! Immersing myself in the world of a song when I’m alone: this, to me, is similar to the feeling of reading a good book. Often, after having read a great book or having listened to a...
August 17, 2026 Translation: No one can ever again use Claude for proofreading their own prose unless they’re willing to risk that the whole thing might be flagged as having been generated by Claude. John Gruber
“All I Need” by Air & Beth Hirsch Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What’s a song you associate with your favorite photograph? We have black and white version of this framed on our wall. A quiet...
Para mí el verano está prácticamente finiquitado. Vale, los profesores y los niños siguen de vacaciones, aún mantengo la jornada intensiva en el trabajo, pero ya ha caido la primera tormenta, ya se está más fresco por la noche y el color...
I recently started thinking about VCRs, as you do. I'll spare you the train of thought that led me to this, but it started with a conversation about worsening eyesight and then it escalated from there. Anyway, VCRs. I still remember the...
With some delays, this week’s reflections will be brief. offline Offline week concluded prematurely, due to feelings of defeat as I watched screen-time going up — due to children using my phone for music and evening TV time (they are...
Dear reader,Recent conversations around “Hardcore” IndieWeb have surprised me. Apparently, writing your blog isn’t sufficient, as everyone should eventually build their own websites and stop relying on third-party blogging...
August 2026. Bristol. A day in Bath, a day in Frome, two (2) identical Chinese takeaways from Twerton’s wonderful Bamboo Garden, which proves I know how to live. After the Zig Zag beer in Frome, the Zig Zag rail journey home, as a fallen...
Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat. It’s badly written, but at least it’s got cool...
‘You’ can be just one, or two, Or millions more; How imprecise! Are words so few We can't keep score? What are words for? The Lord has noun and verb and phrase To tell the truth; His wisdom merits human praise, By impetuous youth And...
We’re so different. She brought gifts from Hong Kong: a moisturizer, hair mascara, hair treatment oil, and face masks. I know what the moisturizer and face masks are for; I have no idea what hair mascara and hair oil are supposed to do....
BoredOS is an x86_64, FOSS operating system, with extensive documentation and GPLv3 license. It was created from scratch and already has a graphical interface.
The past few days have felt HEAVY. I'm consistently pushing myself to keep going, but lately it feels like I'm walking through molasses. I continue to float aimlessly, moving forward without really knowing where I'm going. Most of the...
I'm really conflicted between naming and shaming this store, and not wanting to help them with more traffic for their rancid business model. For now, I have not redacted the social media handle in the picture. In Cologne, Germany, there...
In July 2022, I wrote “Thoughts on Leaving California” about my move back to Florida after twenty years in the Golden State; I followed it a year later with “A Year Back in Florida”, which ended with “I’ll check back in after another...
Today was EJ’s first day of the fourth grade! I think dropping her off this morning was far more emotional for me than for her; as soon as she spotted one of her friends in the yard, she zoomed off to them without saying goodbye. Quite a...
Two Birds of Paradise flowering off the same stem. Brilliant in the afternoon sunlight. ストレリチア 同じ茎から2輪のストレリチア（極楽鳥花）が咲いている。午後の日差しの中、その姿は鮮やかに映える。
Terima kasih untuk teman baik yang mengambil foto saya yang ini. Dua pekan lalu saya resmi menjadi mahasiswa untuk kedua kalinya. Yes! Tahun ini saya jadi mahasiswa pascasarjana. Magister di bidang Manajemen, di instansi tempat saya...
I’m having a new exhibition here in September this year, once again returning to 1200 Postcards on Queens Road in Hastings: Flesh & Bone An exhibition of life-drawings by Paul Watson. The new exhibition is entitled Flesh & Bone and will...
Más de una vez me sorprendí con mails olvidados que encontré sin querer poniendo una palabra en el buscador de mi correo Gmail. Es divertido navegar por mails que tiene más de 10 años. Recordarás con quien te escribías, que proyectos...
Introduction An occasional collection of things I've recently found on the Internet and added to my bookmarks. The Nex Protocol standard The specification for the Nex protocol, another "small web" protocol. Having discovered this, I...
I can't believe this is still a thing but I feel like it has to be said. I browse a lot of communities online on various topics that have no geographical significance and, for some reason, a lot of Americans will assume that everyone...
I went out to dinner and a show with a friend the other day, enjoying some pizza and then wandering over to watch a mediocre blues/country/folk band. This friend was my first roommate from when I first moved out at 19. He lamented that...
This afternoon I had a meeting with IT people at a huge US power infrastructure company. They had found a libcurl.dll file in their C:\Windows\System32 directory and asked us for help to upgrade it. Their vulnerability scanner identified...
Quoted Shoppers are still spending on expensive dairy products amid inflation by Matty Merritt (Morning Brew) With grocery item costs up everywhere, even $10 butter feels like a reasonable little treat. Writing for Morning Brew, Matty...
This is sacrilegious among some parts of Apple fandom, but I like using web apps. Oh, sure, I can imagine a world in which there’s a carefully crafted Mac app that has all the functions of a website I use but has all the Mac-like...
So tief in einer Sache verschwinden, ganz weltvergessen nicht bemerken, wie all die Minuten sich zu Stunden dehnen, und erst dann wieder zum Vorschein kommen, wenn sich der Magen schon vor Hunger verkrampft. Das ist einerseits wunderbar,...
Thanks to Ruben for surfacing this lovely post, and for his own thoughtful addition. Sylvia's journey from church upbringing to "nature as spirituality" mirrors my own path somewhat. Church I think I've always been an atheist; I never...
Many of the people building AI, and many of the people working on AI safety, share a common vision of what a good AI future looks like: We figure out alignment, build superintelligent AI, and it takes over the world, for our benefit....
A lot of things have happened this week, the rain has been calming down again, the plumber finally fixed the issues that caused my shower to floor, so rain is no longer annoying. Let’s see how things went from August 11 to 18, 2026! 🍦 My...
“Reading philosophy is valuable, but students can struggle to keep track of the reasoning. That’s why displaying the map of a philosophical argument can make the subject so much more accessible—especially to students new to the...
Robert Birming, an independent blogger, invited bloggers from around the web to participate in community blogging events in June and July. In June he hosted Junited, which encouraged bloggers to share blog posts they enjoy from around...
Stuart Robson’s post Solving CSS @layer Ordering in Design Systems with Design Token Metadata, a response to Chris Coyier’s Thinking Horizontally in CSS @layer, came to me at a serendipitous time. You know I love a good...
In July 2026, Linus Torvalds told the Linux kernel mailing list that Linux is not an anti-AI project and that anyone who objected could fork the code or walk away. The trigger was Sashiko, an automated review system whose published...
Touch Grass, the debut novel of Sydney based Australian author Mary Colussi, was published in June this year. And a fraudulent publishing deal was not too far behind. In this instance though AI slop played a part in giving the scam away....
“In 6 months, programming will be solved!” “Coding is dead!” We’ve been hearing for the last 2 and a half years. So - if programming is dead, if all the coding jobs are going to be automated away, why would I go all-in on studying...
Title: Yunzi's Blog Website: yunzi.co.uk RSS Feed: yunzi.co.uk/feed Documenting long forgotten history, especially in my home county of Worcestershire. Neolithic to Roman and 1939 onwards history. Bit hazy about the bit in the middle,...
I spent the weekend with my husband at LFG Con, a board game and tabletop RPG convention which was started in 2025 by three friendly-local-game-store owners. It was hosted at a hotel across from the Burbank airport, but we made a...
2026-08-17Hello!I found more images on this creek in the woods. I don't have much else to say, but I find the act of writing itself to be a bit soothing during such a busy month, so here I am.When I get the time, I do plan on asking the...
So Long Relayd, and Thanks for All the Fish 2026-08-17 Running relayd alongside httpd on your OpenBSD web servers is no longer necessary for injecting HTTP security headers. Thanks to the incredible work by rsadowski@ we now have the...
Catch and Kill is Craig Schaefer's new book. It's a cyberpunk and magic heist story, which will be familiar to fans of Shadowrun. Set in the future of the author's First Story universe (the home of the Daniel Faust and Harmony Black...
The eventful reign of John VI, bishop of Ravenna (726–744), from the "Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis".
I've been struggling with feelings of shame. With this project, confessing all the things I have—all under my government name, no less—it makes me feel like I've taken an extremely miscalculated risk. I guess in my mind, I found that...
Reflections on the impending closure of iconic independent San Francisco music venue, Bottom of the Hill from a dude who both played there AND went to shows there a lot Earlier this year I was sent an article by bandmates, friends,...
Last weekend, I finally saw the movie Perfect Days. I'd known about its existence for a long time, but never got around to watching it. Whenever I mentioned it in a conversation though, I heard nothing but praise. I also consider myself...
In my twenties I desperately wanted to go to London, but it was so ridiculously expensive to travel there. Eventually I figured out l the cheapest way possible: travel to Dunkirk (or was it Calais?) with a bus company and then take a...
♠ Previously. Problem statement: review an AI-written slop pull request from a teammate. We’ll use a clanker to review slop PRs. First, I invoke the /meat skill, turning the diff into a reading guide, inspired by David Crawshaw: /meat...
En la primera semana de agosto de 2026 leí el libro “El viajero mental: una historia de la psicodelia” de Juan Arnau. Tengo interés por los psicodélicos, lo psiquedélico, lo que se suele llamar los estados alterados de conciencia, los...
“The use of music,” Richard Powers wrote, “is to remind us how short a time we have a body” — a truth nowhere more bittersweet than in the creature whose body is the oldest unchanged musical instrument on Earth: a tiny mandolin silent...
There’s some beauty to this place. Love the downtown and bridges. The Wat Preah Prom Rath វត្តព្រះព្រហ្មរ័ត្ន temple shines. An older place across the street from Noi Cafe. I’ve visited any number of times. The temple has a few creation...
Last time, I found out that Rust’s implementation of subprocesses on Windows makes it impossible to spawn children that inherit selected handles without race conditions. Even if you do everything by the book, a simultaneous call to...
He’s hardly a household name today. But Utah-born John Held, Jr. helped create the popular imagery of the 1920s. Held made Jazz Age icons out of bobbed-hair flappers, college guys in raccoon coats, sporty women wielding tennis rackets,...
This is an article from a Silesian newspaper, originally in the Silesian language, about my great grandfather. The journalist while researching did interview my grandmothers sister. English translation below. Paul (Polish: Paweł) Zimnol...
A friend let me know about Olly’s recent blog post. Olly owns and operates Pagecord, a very nice blogging service running in the same world as Pika. It sounds like another indie blogging developer accused Olly of plagiarism, and that...
Also published on Letterboxd Most different than other “anti-war” war films, but also plays on a very thin line between philosophical meanderings versus armchair intellectualism. One of those rare films where you love it in pockets but...