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The vibeProud, comfortable, and happily absorbed.I have a lot of things in progress right now, but they are the kind of things I genuinely enjoy working on. Even when I find another kink to work out, I am still having a blast with it all.Highlightsđș Work continues on my Jellyfin server. It has been an interesting...
TL;DR: As professional writers, we donât have the luxury of ignoring AI; itâs learn the skills or get left behind. Still, Iâm excited because AI has genuinely made me more productive and work (personal and work-work) has become a lot more fun. However, Iâm also exhausted because thereâs so much to learn. However,...
I've been continuously selling off the bulk of my Magic cards. Last month I set all my prices to like five cents under market and let the things fly. Hobbit cards have people buying again. Not going to invest in anymore for the shop outside of what extras we might need to offload when we buy personal packs in the...
Visual Studio Code was a reluctant adoption ages ago when I first tried it. Microsoft makes terrible software but VS Code was an exception. It seemed like they were warming up to opensource. Since about a year back or so, it is lined with AI garbage in every crevice. It is bloated and it is unusable. I have long...
In this ~2-hour video I talk to Per Nordlöw about some of his custom extensions for Emacs. I learn from Per how he approaches Emacs as a tool that can be extended to meet the requirements of oneâs workflow. In the process, Per shares his screen to show me extensions for snippet expansions, linting and project...
WinAPI represents most âthingsâ as HANDLEs: files, cross-process mutexes, threads, jobs, etc. Sockets, however, are a notable exception: while on Unix systems theyâre no different from files, Windows denotes them by a different type: SOCKET. The reason for this is that sockets are a userland abstraction provided by...
Recent additions to the Heap of Links⊠A free online pamphlet with 25 pieces of valuable advice for your college students â âThe College Success Rulebookâ by Nathan Nobis âWhen I asked [the students] how they were managing to keep up with the brisk pace of the reading assignments, one of them candidly said, âWell,...
One of the most annoying parts of writing web applications is that in general: you can't trust browsers. But, you have to trust browsers at some level because that's how users interact with your software. As browsers get more capable with APIs like WebUSB, Built-in AI, or other absurd things; administrators want to...
Two Experiments in Steadiness and Ease mtift Tue, 08/18/2026 - 08:59 In August last year, I wrote about what I might do âwhen family logistics settle down.â I called it âlaterâ thinking. I wanted to be available to my kids if they needed help. I believed that a more spacious time was coming, but looking back Iâm not...
Day 88. I think he sees it now. I thought as much last week but, for sure, this morning confirms it. 107.1 107.1 106.9 107.1 Itâs consistent for sure. Itâs a plateau. He forgets I can see that heâs gotten away from what he was doing. Heâs eating a little less carefully, his exercise levels have dropped. I can see...
Another weekday means another set of Poook-Emu Bee links. I photographed this suit case on August 14, 2026, on Court Street between DeGraw and Sackett. Only the brave wheels away a âfreeâ suitcase in Brooklyn. 1 | Jeanie Buss battling siblings over sale of remaining Lakers shares to new ownership group: reports...
Three to be exact. They are following me now, taking great enjoyment from tripping me up, shoving me over the one whoâs snuck behind, snickering on all fours as I topple backward.People think Iâm clumsy or drunk. In the cafĂ©, they swap the sugar for salt, collapse into fits when I spit out my tea. I christen my...
I started up a little project to go to most of the taco joints in town. I say most because Iâm not going to every place that has tacos on the menu, like chain restaurants. Iâm targeting taquerias and places that feel close to qualify as one. Ottawa is more known for shawarmas than tacos but I figured this would be a...
I've been thinking about how resilient my site and posts are lately, so I found Naty S's post, Re: The Loss of Links Continues, where she writes about her efforts to mitigate link rot, to be quite relevant and interesting. Do not contribute to link rot! # I think one important piece of the link rot puzzle that Naty...
For the remainder of 2026 I still have three races to go. I'm currently preparing by training hard but focusing on keeping my training load balanced to avoid any more injuries. I'm mainly doing one or two easy runs on the shorter side, one hard session (either a Norwegian 4x4 or hill repeats) and one long run each...
Hi, Iâm Tess, and Iâm seeking election to W3Câs Board of Directors. One of the most consequential tasks facing the incoming Board is to hire a new CEO, and the stakes are high. In order for W3C to remain the best venue for the creation, maturation, and maintenance of web standards, we need a leader who will...
I regularly encounter questions along the lines of âhow do we scale things up?, in particular around projects related to free knowledge, FLOSS or citizen science. It has basically started from the first citizen science effort and accompanied me through most of my volunteering work. And itâs a question that has...
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GeForce NOW este serviciul de cloud gaming al NVIDIA: Ăźn loc sÄ rulezi jocurile pe placa video din calculatorul tÄu, ele ruleazÄ pe serverele NVIDIA, iar imaginea ajunge la tine prin streaming. Practic poÈi juca titluri recente, cu ray tracing Èi DLSS, chiar Èi de pe un calculator fÄrÄ o placÄ video puternicÄ, atĂąt...
Changing my writing setup, yet againAfter a short stint with my Git-based writing setup, I have returned to the familiar interface of Bear. The appeal of having a Git-based workflow was the central repository of posts I could access through my computers and my phone. However, SoloMD turned out to be erratic with the...
The Smell of AIby Kevin WammerKevin talks about his opinions for various use cases for AI and LLMs.Read post ⥠I started reading this post and thought to myself "oh here we go, another piece about how awful AI is..." but as I got further into it, I found myself nodding along. While I don't feel as strongly as him...
The weather has cooled off at last, and there was even a little rain last night, creating the first puddles I've seen in weeks â a welcome sight. With memories of the July-August heatwaves still fresh, here is an apposite Wodehouse quote that I came across today: 'Do you know what Jeeves said when I asked him why,...
Agosto sta finendo, cosĂŹ come l'estate, cosĂŹ come il mio cervello che immancabilmente si Ăš sintonizzato sui Righeira (languidi brividi!)
The summer I turned sixteen, I took a bus across Bulgaria â I suppose you could call it running away, though my parents were aware and unconcerned â to go sit on the edge of the Black Sea and watch the blue horizon, to touch its infinite loneliness and infinite happiness. I have watched many horizons in the lifetime...
Rogallo v1.10.0 has been released. This is a pretty small release, with a bug fix to navigation, and an improvement to how navigable Markdown documents are if viewed in the application. In Rogallo v1.8.0 I made some changes to how Markdown documents are shown, if they're encountered and detected in Geminispace (or...
Your goal in this game is to eliminate 999 penguins by combining three or more of the same color. (I managed to reach 170 penguins left.)
Pets A while ago we got a Betta, and we recently adopted a hamster as well. The whole family loves them. Mahjong Iâve started learning Mahjong, hoping eventually to be able to play with my dad friends. Iâm playing mainly on Mahjong Soul and Iâm slowly climbing the ladder. Swimming Our pool was closed for summer...
Over the years, Iâve participated in a few system design interviews. Some went my way and others didnât. One thing has stayed consistent: when Iâm designing an online system, transaction isolation almost always comes up in the discussion. When the requirements call for a CP system, I usually go for a...
Emanuel Maiberg, writing for 404 Media: A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazonâs book buying operation, which hasnât been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired by an AI company for training data, and following it around the country to its final...
Last week Twitch announced that it had automatically opted all of its user accounts into using all content for training Amazon's generative âAIâ models. They didn't send their users an email or notify us within Twitch. They posted about it on X, a platform I don't use, acting like they were doing us a favor by...
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In the latest installment of why we canât have nice things, I noticed that my markdown viewer of choice, md-tui didnât support mouse scroll wheel handling⊠or did it? Running md-tui inside of Tmux, inside the terminal, no work. Running md-tui outside of Tmux, do work. Neovim inside of Tmux, do work. Scrolling the...
What I write is not 100% human-written anymore. I started using LLMs to help me write better and they do wonders.
â Problem statement: wait before opening an upstream Helm chart upgrade PR, without putting a timer in the PR workflow. In other words: implement dependency cooldowns1 in Kargo. A Kargo Warehouse makes newly discovered Freight immediately available to a Stage that accepts it directly: Warehouse ââimmediateââ>...
2026-08-18Hello!This is the final photo from my drained creek photo series. I wanted to highlight the influence the creek had on this woods, my personal connection to it, and the physical mark it leaves behind when it's dry.I didn't realize how shallow the water was. When the creek had water flowing through, I can't...
Iâve long liked Federico Viticciâs MacStories, although Iâve drifted away from it as itâs gotten more focused on AI lately. (Note: this is what writers call âforeshadowingâ.) Iâve been listening to the Connected podcast he co-hosts since before it was called Connected. Federico is a man of strong opinions and, from...
I always love to take pictures on the road (from the comfort of the passenger seat), preferably with my Campsnap cameraâs, hence the title of this series: Campsnap Adventures. I have another Campsnap adventure post coming up later this week, of our visit to the zoo last week. I still need to whittle down the...
Currently taking stock of my social life, and throughout life, the same patterns emerge. Iâve always been a more solitary person. Iâm an only child, and my parents were rather neglectful and homebodies as well; so we never really went on trips, they never took me to the playground or anything. I played in my room,...
Ich bitte um Aufmerksamkeit, aber nicht zu viel. 1000 frische Wörter, schnell und wirr wie immer. [32/1000] Ich habe die letzten Tage im BA-Hyperfokus verbracht und bin deswegen nicht wirklich zum Schreiben gekommen, gestern Abend ist das Ding endlich fertig geworden. Ich habe natĂŒrlich sofort angefangen,...
This summer I intentionally took a month+ âoffâ of all things social media and screens. The heat this season has been real and I had lots of travel and offline work to do. So I fully embraced it. It was great. Now Iâm starting to scrape the surface of what I missed and what everyone ⊠Continue reading Things to Read...
[!NOTE](As I minimise screen time during my holidays, I must admit I still scanned my RSS feed every couple of days â only the favourites tab â and saved anything interesting on Instapaper to read on my Kobo; with the intention of writing a blog post, here's one of those.) Axxuy wrote that she uses mainly the...
My colleague Marko IliÄ has published an insightful piece on how to schedule work on the critical path, and I recommend reading it before proceeding here. ContentsElimination vs. Scheduling: An Organisational PerspectiveWhat's Good for the Goose..."Preloading" as SchedulingScheduling Is For ClosersGeneral-Purpose...
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I knew I wouldnât be able to keep up the Blaugust momentum, but yesterday I just didnât have the oomph to get anything done on the blogging front. It was a busy day at work, and after coming home and having some dinner, I just wanted to lay about on the sectional with my spouse and do nothing. A post a day month can...
Read on the website: Codeberg Pages moved to a new back-end (git-pages.) This caused me some pain. But Iâm now on the other side of it, and I want to share some gotchas.
Part of the reason why Iâm at Thoughtworks is because Iâd like to see a software development organization founded on technical excellence as an example for the rest of the industry. The trouble is that I have little aptitude or inclination for the hard work of building such an organization. So I rely on working with...
PrefaceI havenât had the chance to share my thoughts on the first virtual Homebrew Website Club (HWC) event I hosted two weeks ago! Hereâs a post about my experience being a first-time organizer of such an event. BackgroundHaving attended this meetup in the US time zones for the last eight months, I have been...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_Stylometer.jpg}}|thumb|Moderators sound like moderators]] Recently there was a big hullaballoo about the fact that Claude is watermarking their generated text. John Gruber called it a 'perversion of writing': {{Quote |text=My error was believing Anthropic that their...
1. Oh damn, you caught me in the middle of something. I was just trying to make a list of Windows versions for a friend â in Google Docs, of all things. Should be easy. I already grabbed this one off of Wikipedia and massaged it a bit, but itâs still kinda ugly: I donât love the tight padding here. Let me try...
Last week the hospital had called me to arrange an appointment for an ultrasound echocardiagam scan. Unlike the pregnant women used to having their belly's rubbed with jelly to look at baby, this one was having the jelly rubbed on my chest to have a look at my heart. Since they called for arranging the appointment...
Working title. A near-future hard-SF setting for a short story collection. What this is A shared world, not a plot. Eleven modules, each deriving from the ones before it, ending in a kit for making individual stories. Nothing here is a premise on its own; everything here is a condition stories happen inside. The...
Mood: Tired. Just tired of it all. The air always tastes of exhausted ozone and venture capital these days. It's a cloying stench that's polluting the beautiful bedrock of society. Tech Bros are currently engineering the loudest, most abrasive reality possible. They are building a surveillance state so privacy will...
Looking back, seems I didnât post too much this year, but most of the posts in my Quickies section was of people passing away. Sad year, sad, sad, sad. Keep your loved ones close. Call your mum. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/quickies/prety-sad-year-so-far/
August 2026. Coventry. See how many times I nick Nickâs map of the Official Proper Day Out in Cov. I didnât really need to think about a half dozen Coventry pubs* for our half dozen Pub Men. Town Wall Tavern (temporarily closed), Gatehouse Tavern, Broomfield Tavern, Nursery Tavern (thereâs a theme here), Old...
It's time someone wasn't a coward about this It's Blaugust, which means it's August, which also means that I'm hearing cicadas in full force outside; while usually that causes me to make a post about our song of the same name (I'll do that later), instead this call of the summer insects caught me at a time where I...
Like most people who studied English Literature in college, I've fantasized about writing a novel one day. Over time that goal has, let's say, slimmed responsibly to fit its britches. These days I'm more interested in short stories, but in many ways the genre is just as challenging as its bigger-boned cousin. For...
It's absolutely on brand for me to start a new series, Life Lately, disappear for a couple of months, and then come back without mentioning it again. It was not on purpose, I promise. I even had a draft from May 24th that I never got to post (and will never post). Let's just start over again, before it even began....
After reading What software do you use daily in 2026? on Lobster, I learned about Chafa. Described as: The premier UX of the 21st century just got a little better: With chafa, you can now view very, very reasonable approximations of pictures and animations in the comfort of your favorite terminal emulator. The power...
Since 2014, I've compiled an annual ranking of science fiction and fantasy magazines, based on prominent award nominations and "best of" placements over the previous ten years. If you're curious what magazines tend to be viewed by insiders as elite, check the top of the list. If you're curious to discover reputable...
Iâve been using Opus 5 as my main coding for the last few days 1, and I noticed something odd: the code comments stopped using em-dashes; everything is double hyphens (--) now. Instead of going off a gut feeling, I decided to actually run some checks. agentsview indexes all my conversations into a SQLite database,...