Sat Aug 22
This is an entry from my journal. I have had several false starts with reading fiction. The stories are interesting, I know, but I never feel invested in them. A friend recently persuaded me to read Anton Chekhov. I though it was time to give it another try with my reading practice and, indeed, I read The lady with...
Dearest Cocoa, Today marks one month (31 days) since you’ve been gone. I don’t know how we’ve survived this long without you. It honestly doesn’t feel like it has been a month, and yet, somehow, it has felt like an eternity. I wake up each day thinking about you and fall asleep each night wondering how your day has...
It's another standard fare post! I haven't had this one before, so there'll be very little in the way of experimentation this time. Bear with me. I was worried the "stir fry" prominently displayed on the front of the package would mean that the instructions involved bringing out kitchen implements more involved than...
0:4 It’s been a while since I wrote my last post about a match involving my favourite club, SV Wehen Wiesbaden. I’m not quite sure why, but I promise to do better, as I still have a season ticket and try to watch every home match. I’ve even convinced my wife. She has one now too ;) The start in the new 3. Bundesliga...
Yard sales are dangerous. I don't need any more things, unless it's a pin, hat, t-shirt... Currently Listening: Luci Gang “Headlock”Reply via email
In 2006, a group of thieves performed what is considered one of the most famous and smart bank heists in the history of Argentina when they rob the Banco Río branch in Acassuso. Good crime comedy, feeling like a Latin-American Ocean’s Eleven. It entertains properly and it will keep you glued to the screen for a bit...
Close up on plate of sashimi at Restaurant Hayama, in the Helms Bakery complex. Umm. カンパチ ヘルムズ・ベーカリーの複合施設内にある「Hayama by WATAMI」の刺身盛り合わせのクローズアップ写真だ。うーん。
Winter isnt what it used to be. We haven’t felt a good cold wind in weeks and it isnt even September… But the trees are blooming.
Share a song that perfectly captures longing. The early days of relationships are wonderful things, all that new relationship energy in your system, spending as much time soaking up this new person, learning them, hearing them, feeling them, touching them, and all the time just wanting more and more and more. But...
I read this post on the trending page and I thought it would be fun to make my own list, because I like to make lists. Clouds. Predictable I know, I already talked about the reasons. Mechanical watch/clock. I think is incredible they managed to make such a precise machine. Martial arts. That kind of discipline and...
A guide to building the kind of friendships where you can actually be yourself You’re about to meet more new people in a shorter stretch of time than at almost any other point in your life. You’ll sit next to strangers in lecture halls, share a bathroom with someone you met last Tuesday, and get invited to things by...
CAP supports the Model Context Protocol, and treats it beautifully as "just another protocol". The support comes in the form of the @cap-js/mcp plugin, which has these feature flags: { "cds": { "mcp": { "per_action_tool": false, "prefix": false, "format": "cql" } } } In this post I want to explore the...
2026-08-22Hello!I've completed another book. It's been a long while since I last did some extensive reading on paper — in fact, I've only finished four other books this year. This one, which I completed in August, is Semicolon by Cecelia Watson, a book studying the English language mark.This is a book recommendation...
I came across a New York Post opinion column by Lydia Moynihan titled The Gwyneth Paltrow AI controversy only hurts women. This may be rich coming from someone who, in the last month, has published reports on a free air conditioner and free printer left out for the taking in Brooklyn, New York City, but really? When...
By Gary Panter (178x128mm) The “Punk Comix” blog series ended half a decade ago, but I found a couple of items while rooting around in the attic today, so I though I might as well just post them. So this is one of those foldey-outey things… … for an exhibition? At the Gracie Mansion Gallery in 1989? It’s a very nice...
I have been hiking a lot recently. Mostly because I go back to the child mines on Monday, a job that precludes me from taking off into the woods for three hours on a random Tuesday morning. Partly because the local silviculture plot just opened up 700 acres for public exploration (with the caveat "do not enter...
I am almost certain that I could make the switch to a "dumb" phone, if not for just a few applications. I would not call my selections critical, but instead, I consider them life enhancements. These are apps that I feel are helpful, or add value. They may not necessarily be my "favorites," but I would miss them the...
I was just attending a virtual academic conference, where, frustratingly and annoyingly, 9 out of 10 sessions were about AI. But then, in one of the sessions that discussed human writing vs AI writing, I saw this slide: Human Writing (good) Machine Writing (or bad human writing) Idiosyncratic Cliched Circumlocutory...
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I've released v1.12.0 of Rogallo. This version contains a number of internal changes, as well as some user-facing improvements. Improved navigation history For a wee while now I've been wanting to tweak the way the navigation history works. Up until this release, this was simply a backward/forward affair with no...
I've written before about using objects as writing prompts (see this blog post for explanation and pictures). Usually I spread objects out on a table and have students pick one. We do a variety of types of writing: description, writing in the voice of the object, free associating to access memories based on the...
NHAM Fest 2026 is up next week, and it’s full of indie musicians flexing their stuff online. It’s worth checking out if there’s a stream you’d like, or just pop in and see what’s happening. It’s all free, and you don’t have to chat if you don’t want to, and you might discover some great new music. Here’s the...
An interesting mechanism in YouTube I just learned of. If you right click once, you get their context menu: If you right click again, you get the native browser menu: This is clunky and not discoverable, but I can see YouTube team’s bind here. As far as I know, it is not possible to extend browser’s native right...
I’ve dialed back my TV show consumption recently. There are a lot of shows I want to watch but I feel like I’m busy enough already. It’s kinda nice having less to keep up with but I do still feel the FOMO.
Yesterday evening, I finally did the last step and shaved off the remaining few millimeters of hair on my head. This morning, I took the chance and prompted a new avatar that represents my current style. I know, AI-generated stuff everywhere sucks, but I really like this one, and it looks quite accurate. 👨🏼🦲...
Busy times, with much family activity, but I did manage to get away for a day's walking in the Cotswolds with my brother and friends, in the course of which I revisited the monument to the Bray children in Great Barrington church – 'one of the finest in England,' in Mrs Esdaile's estimation (it features in this...
I have had some difficulties working out how to do draft posts in 11ty and went with a standard solution that has worked well over the past few years. However there was one big drawback for me. Last year I decided to reduce deployment times to the various hosts that I use. This was reasonably easy to do by dropping...
I spent my birthday holding court in the snug at Casements; a number of dear friends stopped by and it was so, so nice to see them all. Many thanks to everyone who made it and to Gillian & Co. for taking such good care of us. Eryn made pancakes to start the day off right. I didn’t manage to take a single photo while...
Ab dem Augenblick, als ich begriff, dass Bücher im Grunde eine Technologie sind, mit deren Hilfe Menschen ihre Ideen in die Zukunft schicken können, war die Sache für mich klar und ich war verliebt. Bücher sind Zeitreisemaschinen. Per E-Mail antworten
I like to geo-tag all my “stuff” so of course I also like to geo-tag my blog posts. I just wrote a tiny little plugin to do that. I looked at a whole bunch of plugins, I used Simple Location for a while until I realized that all of them are doing way too much. All I need are two input fields for latitude and...
Spent the day working on some art for the first time in a few weeks, so that was a nice way to fill the day. This image below isn’t from anything I did today, but is an older one that I’m still happy with. Hope everyone’s weekend is going well. Send me an email Latest 3 posts 23 Aug, 2026 Back On My Art Thing 21...
By: Iain M. Banks | Rating: 5/5This series was recommend to me, because I was complaining about all Science Fiction nowadays seemed distinctly distopian. Well, this actually includes an utopian society. The book has a lot of humor and great world building. The action is constant, and there are no boring bits in it.
About the RevampIf you’ve been to my site before—you may have noticed a bit of a change since yesterday. Last night, I pushed a lot of features and stylistic changes to my site (over 100 commits?!) It was long overdue and I’m feeling happy I got it done (but not too happy it was done in the month of August when I...
♠ Previously. CodeBurn shows Gen AI / LLM code usage: where did all the money burning tokens ($$) go? CodeBurn is a free, open-source, local-first tool that tracks AI coding token usage and cost across 41 tools and agents (Claude Code, Pi, Codex, Cursor, and more), broken down by model, project, and task. It reads...
NotesGoogle Workspace now receives mail for 21.8% of MX-publishing domains and Microsoft 365 for 16.8%. Together that is 38.
This is a little outside the kind of thing I normally write about here, but I have been following the discussion around MacStories returning to Twitter/X over the last couple of days, and I kept finding myself thinking about it.Federico Viticci is someone I have followed for years through MacStories. Obviously there...
The branches of that tree are cut in such a way as to reveal a ladder all the way to the top. Where there should be a door locked tight. Sealed. against the sky. If you were inclined to see this portal so high up and then forced your way through, you would find only roots.
I’ve moved my blog. Well, I’ve moved three blog posts and two pages. That will expand soon :) The reason for my move is part something I want to discuss and part something I really don’t. The discuss part: I have this account and I really like the thought of having one place for everything. I also can tinker way...
August 2026. Newport. The east side of Newport into Maindee doesn’t have the haute couture shops and artisanal delis of the city centre, but it does have the Chicken Man. And it has a GBG newbie that’s been awaiting my visit for a while. Weird Dad (“I know you are, Dad“, says Matt), plays to the stereotypes with a...
I was emceeing RenderATL last week! It was a really cool event. I was busy hosting The Commits Awards as well as the main stage at the conference itself and I am too pooped to pop now that it’s all done. But, it was still really great seeing coworkers and friends in person and witnessing the thousands of developers...
“If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me.” This essay and poem are now part of the Universe in Verse book. In 1865 — a year before the German marine biologist Ernst Haeckel coined the word ecology, the year Emily Dickinson composed her stunning pre-ecological poem about how life-forms come into...
What if we retired the 'should it be fantasy or science fiction' argument and did something different? There's a bot on Bluesky called NESBot that posts links to resetera threads and one that caught my (and a lot of people's eyes) yesterday was this: Ever since Final Fantasy VII released and hit cultural paydirt,...
I love my RSS reader. It's the first thing I reach for when I'm "catching up." As I'm reading through my list of feed items, I often come across blog posts that do not give me any way to interact with the post! Here are some options in the order of my own preferences. Webmentions # The gold standard is webmentions....
I closed my Redbubble and Etsy shops since they were effectively collecting dust. I still have the Ko-fi donationware brushes online though.
Esse é um dos meus álbuns favoritos do grupo. Todas as músicas, sem exceção, são únicas. Divertidas. E excelentes! O meu maior problema no entanto com ele é a dificuldade de sair de qualquer músicas, todas dão vontade de ouvir inúmeras vezes sem parar. E definitivamente é um problema pra mim conseguir ouvir o álbum...
While I'm not lactose intolerant I have a lot of friends who are, and so as a generous host I like to keep Lactaid on hand. I noticed that the letters for the Tic Tac logo could be moved around to make Lactaid, so I figured rather than keep them in the normal packaging I could make a custom box!
So, I have this little app, Epoch, that I use to keep a journal. It’s a tiny Rust web app that runs as a systemd service and uses SQLite as the database. I use a desktop and a laptop regularly, and use Syncthing to synchronize them, including Epoch’s database. That way I can use the app on both devices without...