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my trusty old s20 fe suddenly decided it didn't want to register any touch input out of the blue. so now i effectively can't use it and it sucks ass. i have been using it for 5 years and was going into 6 so i guess it served it's time but i still feel frustrated about it. i made the music player huawei phone back...
Back in 2006, when I first started Thriftmac, it was hard to find free Mac apps. In fact, it was hard to find any Mac apps at all. That meant snapping up links to pretty much any freeware I could find. On the plus side, it also meant that those few apps were likely maintained by developers willing to stick it out...
The view from Wythenshawe ParkIt’s a sunny day in Manchester. A short but crowded tram ride has taken me to Wythenshawe Park at the edge of the city. Eager concert-goers have taken over the park today; I follow a great host of them through the gates and past the ushers into the open green. A shimmering guitar...
Read Never Quit Your Post now!Do you have any cats?Do I ever! I have four, three Maine Coons and one feral trash cat adoptee. It’s roughly eighty pounds of cat. Their names are Fergie, Fiona, Fidget, and Phoebe. I thought it would be cute to give them all F-names, but all it did was ensure that I would call them all...
I eat grits. I always have and I always will. Because they're delicious, that's why. Grits are a simple dish: ground corn, salt and a little butter, the traditional way. Sometimes folks get a little fancy and start adding cheese, chopped sausage or bacon and other delicacies. Grits are a savory dish. They are not...
In a previous post I talked about WezTerm, a cross-platform terminal emulator application written in Rust that I liked. This time I’m going to talk about another one written in Zig called Ghostty, and I like this one even more. Ghostty is yet another brainchild of Mitchell Hashimoto, of HashiCorp fame. The...
The Nintendo 64, Nintendo’s 5th generation home console, just celebrated the 30-year anniversary of its June 23, 1996 launch in Japan (it made it to the United States on September 29 of the same year). Nintendo Life commemorated the occasion with a collection of Nintendo 64 memories in “All-Consuming, Joyous,...
Últimamente he dedicado ya bastante de mi tiempo en refinar y dar los últimos detalles a Hitz-Musik.net, y todo este tiempo me he puesto a pensar bastante en una contradicción que nunca vi venir (al chilindrín). La neta, me siento muy feliz de revivir el proyecto. ¡De verdad! Después de tantos años, volver a jalar...
Reading the leftist Jacobin magazine article with the title Toward Simp Liberation? led me to the remarkable investigative journalism piece from The Cut by Ezra Marcus titled Revenge of the Simps. Its subtitle is how a community of porn addicts tried to rescue the teenage camgirls they worshipped from the clutches...
Eu mesmo aqui, o maior fã de i-COL da minha casa vindo fazer outro review, dessa vez do novo EP delas que saiu em 2025. Comparado com o Ri-Di-Dong que é de 2022, você consegue ver claramente a evolução de ambas como vocalistas. Chega a ser assustador a melhoria que ambas tiveram nesse tempo. ホシツナギ Do primeiro...
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The doctors surgery texted me just twenty four hours after my echocardiogram scan. They said they had received the report from the scan, and asked me to please make an appointment with the GP so he could discuss the results with me. One day. The NHS doesn't normally move that fast, does it? I still don't know what...
📌 I'm a little behind in putting up my #bookshelf books for 2026 but it's in the works. 📚 Book 18 of 2026 - Finished (8/19): The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman (5/5⭐) When I picked up this book, I honestly didn't realize it was ~694 pages. I started it at the end of July, and it felt like the book just...
“State, provincial, and national policymakers in Canada, the UK, and US have pursued controversial proposals regulating access to gender affirming care, public bathrooms, and competitive sports… Many trans and nonbinary philosophers find themselves forced to make difficult decisions about where to apply for graduate...
In his talk “Why AI Is Breaking Software Security As We Know It” (my notes here), Feross Aboukhadijeh talks about the Axios npm incident and how the maintainer got phished by succumbing to (amongst other things) a faux Microsoft Teams interface: this is the kind of thing that AI makes easy to do, because it can vibe...
Just for the records: The first morning of the year on which I had to turn on the lamp at my desk when starting to work. Reply by email
Au départ de Montréal, quelques 1 700 km au compteur pour visiter une partie de l’Ontario, dont les fameuses chutes du Niagara, avant de revenir au Québec par les Laurentides. Récit d’une belle semaine de découvertes. Escapade dans l’Ontario jusqu’aux Chutes du Niagara, en revenant par les Laurentides. Jour 1 —...
I've just made a small update to BagOfStuff, my little support library for my personal Python-based FOSS projects. This release makes some more changes to the history classes, adding an add_or_replace method, and also making some improvements to the type hinting by basing the classes on MutableSequence rather than...
Die Schatten, die die Kieselsteine am Morgen werfen, werden länger. Sie sind langgezogener, als vor ein paar Tagen um dieselbe Uhrzeit. Auf den Straßen sieht man nun mehr langbehoste und daunenbejackte Körper, deren eingeschriebene Pigmenterinnerungen an vergangene Sonnenstunden schon verhüllt wurden; atemberaubend,...
A detailed database of Microsoft brands for their cloud solutions: the names, dates and duration of each one, all backed by trusted sources. I don’t think there is another technology company with an identity crisis as acute as Microsoft. Marcos Daniel’s tip.
a half-assed review"> A test subject wakes up in a scientific facility controlled by a sadistic artificial intelligence and must escape with the help of the only instrument she has–a gun that makes portals. I think this is the game I have finished the most times, and I think I bought it at least several times: Mac...
2026-08-20Hello!I saw a quote somewhere that read something like: "young writers only write about themselves, not realizing that bad autobiography is the most oversaturated genre on the internet." This blog is not that high above the mass of text posts on algorithmic platforms, but I ought to put more weight on the...
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I’m a bit late with Pook-Emu Bee links today, but the streak continues. By the way, WordPress’s admin area looks different after the latest update. Change in color contrast. I’m not complaining. I ordered a Wacom One tablet on Ebay. Need to test, but looks good out of the box. 1 | Google is buying all of Spirit...
One day at a time. Keep going. :) A brief message. Written on a Post-It and left in the workspace where I volunteer. I don't know how long it has been there. Who wrote it. Or, the intended recipient. For someone who is discouraged? Keep going. You've got this! One day at a time. Focus on today. Try not to worry...
I read Peter Bloem's post about the ten rules for keeping your critical thinking while using AI to code. I don't follow all of them but it's a great list to keep in mind so you don't forget how to think when you are using agentic coding.
I’m going back and rereading my novel-in-eternal-progress, and… … it’s not terrible! Hooray! Maybe 2027 will be the year I finally finish the fucking thing. I’ve only been working on it for a decade now. Speedy, I am not, at least with this one. Maybe I can cut the production time on the next down to a lean five...
Part 2 of the Light Offensive to Think Defensively track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series uses a controlled message to test email authentication, filtering, reporting, and response without collecting a real credential or turning coworkers into targets.A click rate by itself says very little. A recipient may...
The great mercy of life is that we can change, we can reroute, we can surprise ourselves. The great pitfall of prediction is that, mercifully, we are unpredictable. — “All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured,” Tove Jansson wrote in one of our civilization’s great works of...
♠ Today I found myself with 13 open terminals, more than half of them running Pi or Claude Code, the rest with various projects and explorations split amongst work and personal affairs. 13!! This is not a matter of pride. I need to take a break. ∎ — § —Reply via email#ai #dev #serenity
We had a solar eclipse here in Europe last week. I didn't see it this time, but I've seen I think two partial eclipses before and they were always fascinating to witness. We had a total solar eclipse that was visible in South Germany where I live back in 1999. I remember watching this from the roof of my school with...
An introduction to wizard-style inline skating, a creative style combining flat-ground tricks and street obstacles.
I figured out how to use Indesign back then and made these little guys. Dioxazine was supposed to have more issues but I got a job shortly after. Jet's Cook Book This one was all the recipes I had collected and used often enough that I wanted to keep them in a little printed book. Feel free to print it out and try...
Finished reading Steve Marriott: All Too Beautiful by Paolo Hewitt and John Hellier. I’ve been a big Small Faces fan since I was a teenager in the 1990s. I knew the basic story arc of Steve Marriott’s life, but this filled in lots of the detail. The book makes the point that if Marriott had survived a few more years...
From GitHub’s blog post, The August 17 outage, and the work ahead: Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion. Holy shit. That doesn’t look sustainable. And assuming this activity is driven by AI bots rather than growth in paying customers, it’s probably bad news for the bottom line. I...
Back in January, I wrote about how over the past several years I’ve actively worked to decentralize my online presence and reduce (as much as is realistic) my use of giant social media platforms...
I've been watching the NFL since around the mid 80s. I remember the '85 Bears defense and all the media they were doing. I watched Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Mike Singletary and many other greats play football. I'm a long time fan, though these days I mostly just...
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We’re nearing the end of August 2026, and I figured it’s time I give up the pipe dream of writing a 2025 recap the way I envisioned a whole year ago. Some sections are what I did write over the past eight months; other sections I simply could not muster up the willpower to write about this late in the year, hence...
I. Herein Verick considered himself a fortunate man and saw no reason his friends should think otherwise. He had said as much to Whereas that morning in the queue outside the bay, watching the ring fill for the panels. “My wife wants for nothing.” Not a boast. An accounting. “She has her berth, her name in the...
-------------------- -6 coffee -2 eggs fried in butter + pinch salt -2 slices wheat with rye bread katselis german-type (each slice: 123 kcal/ 2.9g fibre/ 4.0g protein / 1.0g sugars/ 0,64 g salt) -Μπριαμ λαδερο ΜΦΒ 350g (22% eggplant/ 22% potatoes/ 15% zucchini / tomato /9% carrot / 8% green+red peppers / 7% onion /...
WordPress.com Education, is an initiative launched earlier week, designed to give school students across the world resources to setup and maintain their own blog: This isn’t a stripped-down classroom version of WordPress.com. The Student Plan includes plugin support, 6 GB of storage, backups, staging sites,...
SFUSD’s Queer Trans Parent Advisory Council had its first meeting of the new school year Thursday night. This is my second year serving on QTPAC; I joined last summer. I’m looking forward to seeing how we can help the district’s queer and trans kids this year. #education #QTPAC #san-francisco #SFUSD
I don't know if this is just a school tradition, or something very recent, but the batch of 2026 in my school got together and got special graduation hoodies printed. I think the design is top notch on them. The team that made it did a great job with them. I'll be honest, I don't know the batch of 2026 really well....
It's nice when studios get a chance to spin out independent rather than be shut down entirely With larger companies doing evil shit on a regular basis and the workers getting inevitably fucked by that, it's nice when there are stories that take a somewhat different route! Coming off a report from Gamesbeat,...
An unconventional photo post Back in May, I bought a new (to me) camera: a Rolleicord V, which I wrote about here. Since then, I’ve taken it with me on a couple of walks, and have familiarised myself with its controls. After some initial mishaps, I can say that I really love using it: the camera fits my hand...
The past few days have been a good poetry days, in a more well-rounded sense--by which I mean, I've been doing more than just writing down a line or two. Let me capture what a good stretch of poetry days looks like:--A few months ago, I had an idea for a poem, Jesus buying a fixer-upper of a house. I didn't do...
a really rough sketch of how I plan and journal in a blank book I use a notebook for almost everything I might want to write by hand, the only thing I don’t keep in it are long-term lists for projects and such, those live in my notepad. The daily lists are all in my journal, and are processed at the end of each day...
It’ll be wasp season soon —he says, well aware that the very idea of “seasons” is an increasingly futile one— and so any slight buzzing has me frantically scanning for something, anything, I can use as a weapon. I don’t think I’ve ever told the story of when I was stung. It was, I think, my Dad’s birthday. I can...
Do you know how we communicated with the Artemis II mission? All that crispy high definition video? When I can barely get 5G on Earth, how did they get such a good connection to stream the footage live? I am finally getting around to sharing some of my work on this site. Last week I delivered a presentaiton ahead of...
August 2026. Coventry. Nearly finished. But not quite. Oxford Nick and I found a short cut to the legendary Broomfield Tavern tucked away off Spon End, and I immediately sighed “Oh, that’s the Broomfield“. In my mind, I visited all the 14,000 odd pubs on my spreadsheet (the big one) in either 1996, 2001 or 2022. If...
From the day that I stepped into a manager role till today, I've been relying on other people to do my job. Every passing year, I sacrificed a piece of my software engineering 'expertise' to organisational constraints.: the work that requires me to help aligning people and problems, gathering context and structuring...