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last night, i stood in the bathroom after everyone had fallen asleep and stared at my face longer than i meant to. there was toothpaste drying near the corner of the sink. one of the towels had been left on the floor. from the bedroom, i...
Two Experiments in Steadiness and Ease mtift Tue, 08/18/2026 - 08:59 In August last year, I wrote about what I might do “when family logistics settle down.” I called it “later” thinking. I wanted to be available to my kids if they needed...
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...
My colleague Marko Ilić 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...
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 It’s consistent for sure. It’s a plateau. He forgets I can see that he’s gotten away from what he was doing....
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...
Am I posting too many film reviews too often?
Agosto sta finendo, così come l'estate, così come il mio cervello che immancabilmente si è sintonizzato sui Righeira (languidi brividi!)
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...
Emanuel Maiberg, writing for 404 Media: A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired by an...
The interaction between hardware design and firmware implementation requires strict consistency in embedded systems. Firmware must exactly match the schematic-level component configuration and connectivity. In current workflows, this...
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...
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...
Better Models: Worse Tools A very strange Pi issue sent me down a rabbit hole over the last two days. The short version is that newer Claude models sometimes call Pi’s edit tool with extra, invented fields in the nested edits[] array....
Recent additions to the Heap of Links… A free online pamphlet with 25 pieces of valuable advice for your college students — “The College Success Rulebook” by Nathan Nobis “When I asked [the students] how they were managing to keep up...
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...
August 2026. Coventry. See how many times I nick Nick’s map of the Official Proper Day Out in Cov. I didn’t really need to think about a half dozen Coventry pubs* for our half dozen Pub Men. Town Wall Tavern (temporarily closed),...
Currently taking stock of my social life, and throughout life, the same patterns emerge. I’ve always been a more solitary person. I’m an only child, and my parents were rather neglectful and homebodies as well; so we never really went on...
Unfocused references demonstrate that time became a funnel. All-devouring clocks put free will at a disadvantage. One could no longer think differently. Choices made years prior were Holy Writ. And so it is decided: the world was...
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 one’s workflow. In the process, Per shares his...
GeForce NOW este serviciul de cloud gaming al NVIDIA: în loc să rulezi jocurile pe placa video din calculatorul tău, ele rulează pe serverele NVIDIA, iar imaginea ajunge la tine prin streaming. Practic poți juca titluri recente, cu ray...
Reddit pide que me haga una cuenta para navegar los foros. Ni madres, le digo yo.Fuente: quiroptero.blog
I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep up the Blaugust momentum, but yesterday I just didn’t 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...
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...
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Pets A while ago we got a Betta, and we recently adopted a hamster as well. The whole family loves them. Mahjong I’ve started learning Mahjong, hoping eventually to be able to play with my dad friends. I’m playing mainly on Mahjong Soul...
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 “free” suitcase in Brooklyn. 1 | Jeanie Buss battling...
The summer I turned sixteen, I took a bus across Bulgaria — I suppose you could call it running away, though my parents were aware and unconcerned — to go sit on the edge of the Black Sea and watch the blue horizon, to touch its infinite...
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...
In the latest installment of why we can’t have nice things, I noticed that my markdown viewer of choice, md-tui didn’t support mouse scroll wheel handling… or did it? Running md-tui inside of Tmux, inside the terminal, no work. Running...
Last week Twitch announced that it had automatically opted all of its user accounts into using all content for training Amazon's generative “AI” models. They didn't send their users an email or notify us within Twitch. They posted about...
WinAPI represents most “things” as HANDLEs: files, cross-process mutexes, threads, jobs, etc. Sockets, however, are a notable exception: while on Unix systems they’re no different from files, Windows denotes them by a different type:...
I’ve long liked Federico Viticci’s MacStories, although I’ve drifted away from it as it’s gotten more focused on AI lately. (Note: this is what writers call “foreshadowing”.) I’ve been listening to the Connected podcast he co-hosts since...
Looking back, seems I didn’t 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:...
I regularly encounter questions along the lines of “how 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...
[!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...
Wispy clouds at golden hour, on the Hermosa Beach Pier. 白い雲、黄金色の桟橋ハモサビーチの桟橋で、ゴールデンアワーのふんわりとした雲。
I started up a little project to go to most of the taco joints in town. I say most because I’m not going to every place that has tacos on the menu, like chain restaurants. I’m targeting taquerias and places that feel close to qualify as...
Man, the page really does feel like it's on fire today, so I better write fast. I felt myself getting manic again, which is typical just after a depressive slump. Thankfully the slumps have gotten easier, and at times a bit shorter—just...
Hi, I’m Tess, and I’m seeking election to W3C’s 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,...
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,...
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...
I've been married for 12,785 days How it started 35 years ago How it's going
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 – a welcome sight. With memories of the July-August heatwaves still fresh, here is an apposite Wodehouse quote...
Three to be exact. They are following me now, taking great enjoyment from tripping me up, shoving me over the one who’s snuck behind, snickering on all fours as I topple backward.People think I’m clumsy or drunk. In the café, they swap...
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...
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...
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...
I’ve 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...
♠ 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...
PrefaceI haven’t had the chance to share my thoughts on the first virtual Homebrew Website Club (HWC) event I hosted two weeks ago! Here’s a post about my experience being a first-time organizer of such an event. BackgroundHaving...
Read on the website: Codeberg Pages moved to a new back-end (git-pages.) This caused me some pain. But I’m now on the other side of it, and I want to share some gotchas.
I always love to take pictures on the road (from the comfort of the passenger seat), preferably with my Campsnap camera's, hence the title of this series: Campsnap Adventures. I have another Campsnap adventure post coming up later this...
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.)
What I write is not 100% human-written anymore. I started using LLMs to help me write better and they do wonders.
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...
Over the years, I’ve participated in a few system design interviews. Some went my way and others didn’t. One thing has stayed consistent: when I’m designing an online system, transaction isolation almost always comes up in the...
TL;DR: As professional writers, we don’t have the luxury of ignoring AI; it’s learn the skills or get left behind. Still, I’m excited because AI has genuinely made me more productive and work (personal and work-work) has become a lot...
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...
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...