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August 19, 2026 My sites have never been hugely popular and I’ve never had a large audience except for blips and spikes here and there. But that’s not why I have a website. I make blakewatson.com for myself. I do it so I can copy a link...
Rina wakes before the bell and lies still, reading her. Anna sleeps on her back, one hand curled near her chin. Everyone born down here sleeps like that, nothing like the training reels. Her breath is shallow and fast. It has been...
Just thinking, as one does, about the first and original Godzilla film (the original Japanese title being Gojira), released in 1954 as an allegory for the nuclear holocausts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and how every adult actor in that...
The implicit promise of modernity is: we have to work really hard for a few centuries, but eventually we’ll get to the Star Trek future where we’ve automated all the drudgery, and all work is meaningful, heroic, and dignifies the spirit....
A leading team of analysts are buried in the heart of GCHQ, secretly working to neutralise threats against Britain. Good TV Drama about cyber security and the unseen war. It feels a bit over the top at times, and it drifts into...
Partitioned life you seek of joy minus the suffering Homesick you thus are for a land that never is aspiring to a state you shall not be present in This rugged boat of yours can sail to the furthest edges where glaciers never melt and...
Keeping the Pook-Emu Bee weekday streak going on this sunny (here in Brooklyn, at least) August 19, 2026. I upgraded the InfiniTime firmware on my PineTime yesterday. 1 | Vindman Vaporizes $16.2 Million in Loss, Spends 36X DSA Candidate...
Got stuck in NYC. Made the best of it by seeing Upright Citizens Brigade sketch comedy.Reply via email
2026-08-19Hello!We are close to Day 200 on dpanphoto, and I'm compiling a list of links across the internet that I find interesting. If there's a website I should know about, please contact me! I do this, in part, because it helps me...
I knew of the existence of paperless-ngx for a long time. A new YouTube video now finally gave me the push to set up an instance on my VPS. It’s configured to use Bunny.net storage using S3 and rclone for the media files, and a restic...
Respuesta a la entrada en el blog de Victorhck.Fuente: quiroptero.blog
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Thank Goodness You’re Here (For the avoidance of doubt you should read what follows in a vaguely Yorkshire accent). This game is so daft. Set in t’fictional town of Barnsworth, Thank Goodness You’re Here is a reet send-up and celebration...
Well, not really but almost! It's preseason and I've watched a preseason game! For the past couple years, watching Titans games has been equivalent to self-flagellation. The team has been bad, and there hasn't been much cause for...
Internet à moda antiga: conheça a indie web, onde as pessoas ainda fazem seus próprios sites Also posted on IndieNews
Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk Look at this little guy. They don't know what an AI model is and they're so much better off It’s nothing short of an indictment of our society at large that Aaron Swartz, one of the...
….arrested on child sex abuse charges. Dr. Freud strikes again! (Thanks to David Gordon for the pointer.)
I can’t remember the last time I applied for a permanent full-time job, but it was in the years soon after I left school. I held a couple of these sorts of jobs, but have pretty much worked freelance since. Leads there have come through...
I only have ever seen my grandfather in this one portrait picture on my grandmothers wall, and on my mom’s nightstand when I grew up. In this picture you see a man in his thirties. He has a tall face, framed with dark wavy hair. He has a...
Picture a fairly ordinary MSP automation project. The first version reads an incoming support ticket and produces a summary for the technician. It saves a little time, touches one source of information, and cannot change anything. Then...
Dear Dad, Yesterday was your viewing. The past two weeks have been a whirlwind. Between mom getting sick, you passing, and planning your funeral... I have been so busy that I almost snort with laughter when people say, "Well at least you...
I am indifferent to the debate about what LLMs can or cannot do. I only know what interests me: writing good English and reading the well-considered words of other human beings. (Human beings have certain shared experiences on which I...
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If you follow me for even five minutes, you will find my disenfranchisement with modern smartphones is palpable. It seems to be a massive waste to have this capable device that sits in your pocket be nothing more for 95% of people than a...
For the past few years I’ve been working on reverse engineering and remaking an almost 40 year old DOS game. Despite its age, I’m often surprised by the complexity and little tricks the game used, one of which is sound priority. Here’s...
An astounding performance by Cory Wong, Joshua Redman, and more: Reply by email
I'm a little behind and just realized that Bear blog now gives users the option to add a Previous and Next to a blog post template. This allows readers to navigate to your Previous or Next blog post without having to go back to your...
August 2026. Coventry. Right, let’s leave inner Coventry and head to the underpass, follow those scooters. Spon End is the heart of the light manufacturing quarter west of town, watchmaking mainly, a place few tourists tread. Of course,...
Content warning for MATTERS GASTRONOMICAL, for SAFEWAY GAS-PUMPS BEING A DICK, for HOPEFULLY UNFOUNDED FEARS OF CANCER, and for POTIONS OF CRAP-YOUR-ENTIRE-SKELETON Hiya! So you may recall some time back—exactly how far I can’t recall,...
I'm currently reading “The Notebook: a history of thinking on paper” by Roland Allen. Here I am, urged to think on paper. I grow increasingly jealous of those in ownership of discipline and solitude for thoughts. My motherhood years have...
I’ve been thinking more about these weeknotes, pondering whether it’s time to explore a different format. Six years ago, I made a note that I was inspired by Ton Zijlstra’s format, and it’s served me well. But I’ve stopped looking...
This blog post covers two days spent in Phnom Penh. I decided to just write the one post and put down whatever. We leave here at 930am on 19 August. The 21st we will catch the bus to Kampot. On our way today I got to see green season...
♠ More and more I’ve been resorting to LLMs / Gen AI to file feature requests or issues/bugs in upstream repositories. Sometimes I get completely ignored, even when I follow the project guidelines. For example, last week I filed this...
Well, I’ve gone from initial, curmudgeonly reluctance, to shruggy acceptance, to full-blown, guns-blazing, AI mania at work. I’m writing skills, shipping agents, thinking through internal distribution logistics. I think I’ve used about...
A quick little update to Rogallo, bumping to v1.11.0. This release is mainly in support of people who like to use the mouse as much as, if not more than, the keyboard; and also in support of people who might wish to reclaim a couple of...
I like a good old rule of thumb. Like the one I came across recently. To quickly figure out if a certain food is an efficient source of protein, use the following formula: Protein (g per 100 g)×10≥Calories (kcal per 100 g) \text{Protein...
The Rise, the third novel of the Arcane Revolution Trilogy, is currently being promoted on Kickstarter to help me raise the funds for its final editing, production, and ongoing promotion. The Premise The novel picks up where From the...
Beautiful bike I saw walking around in Hermosa. It was parked up against a car, so I removed the background in Photoshop and replaced it with a purple gradient, for more of a studio look. ハーレー...
As a former librarian, I am always keen to learn of writers, artists and musicians vastly more illustrious than me who also worked as librarians at some point in their lives. So far, my list includes Proust (who took a job as a volunteer...
Microsoft Surface Pro 5 cu i5-7300U, 8 GB RAM și 256 GB SSD, se găsește SH între 800 și 1200 de lei. De unde scot oameni așa prețuri? Este o tabletă din 2017, nu este una nouă. M-am uitat pe eMAG la Surface Pro 11 și 12 - are preț de...
Ich bin mir nicht sicher wie hoch die Informationsdichte dieses Textes ist, man könnte ja mal nachzählen (meine Prognosen fallen niedrig aus). [33/1000] Informationsdichte ist ein Maß dafür, wie viel Information, wie viele Unterschiede,...
My review of “Avengers: Age of Ultron”.
The Mastodon team published some mock-ups of the upcoming version 5.0. The ideas all seem good to me, especially the greater distinction of private mentions (renamed “messages”) and the emphasis given to the lists (renamed “custom feeds”).
Without the void, the small square looked vast.I had begun to shrink, noticing everything but the important:black-and-white cats behind heavy grates, trees trimmed.I was moving backwards in time.Dangerously.Along the path of Infinity, to...
I made a smol client-side syntax highlighter that uses the CSS Custom Highlights API called MicroLighter. I’ll talk about why I made it in a bit but first I wanted to… ahem… highlight… some of the features. Zero-dependencies ~2kb...
Basically no one outside of Academia actually understands how Academia works. That's understandable, I don't really know how a law office works. In anycase, here is a super short rundown on the Acedemic Food Chain 1 The Food Chain 1.1...
This is my morning drink. A favorite! Iced Espresso Tonic from Peixoto Coffee Roasters in downtown Chandler, Arizona. The tonic is a Sonoran Desert inspired Prickly Pear and Lime. This was the first time I've had this flavor and it did...
Over a decade ago, Jennifer Whiting (Pittsburgh) asked us to seriously consider an idea of Annette Baier‘s regarding tenure and promotion decisions. Recent technological developments speak in favor of revisiting it. Initially, Baier’s...
A couple days ago, the fucking crawlers ramped up their efforts to get past my 429 error page, so I finally set up a fail2ban rule that would block anything that kept on poking at things.Hoo boy that was the wrong thing to do. When the...
“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.” If death is so enormous a mystery that we remain unable to wrap our grownup minds around it, despite comfort from our great poets and consolation from our great...
A year ago, I wrote about the four Anbernic handhelds built around an Allwinner H700 system on a chip I had purchased over a period of time. Two of those were heavily-inspired by two of my favorite Nintendo handheld consoles: the...
This post is about Windows. Last time we saw that sockets are pretty much just handles, and as such, they can be inherited. If a process creates an inheritable socket and runs CreateProcess with the appropriate parameters, its children...
En el blog Tecnoysoft publicaron el pasado 9 de agosto de 2026 una entrevista ficticia realizada por una IA. A raíz de ese artículo, me pareció interesante «reciclar» la entrevista y publicar en mi blog mis propias respuestas. El...
So one of the things I've been trying to do as part of my journey to lose weight and get fit is sort my diet out. As the saying goes, "you can't out-train a poor diet". And the worst part of my diet is definitely snacking in the evening....