Tue Aug 25
August has not been kind to me. Work draws taxes from my soul and the weather from my body. I read in deep, hours-long gulps on the weekend, then spend my time craving the feeling of crafting good sentences. On a day when the cold-induced sludge couldn’t get heavier, the light peeked through my closed glass window,...
I have learned many things through reading articles and resources on the internet collected through my feed subscriptions and articles linked from articles in my feed collection. I have also learned things through conducting research for my New Leaf Journal article projects. But in what will surely come as breaking...
2026-08-25Hello!A sequel to Day 100, where I gathered three hundred links. Most of them had little context attached, and it fell apart near the end. I regret that I didn't give myself enough time to allow that project to shine.This time, all the 200 webpages attached today have a whole paragraph of anecdotal...
I write about journaling a lot, since it’s honestly my most important practice. In my most recent post on the subject I made the case that active recall is an effective way to remember things, whether that be ideas, thoughts, or events. I'd like to expand on that post and make the case that journaling extends life...
This blog post is prompted by Robert Birming’s AuguStory blogging activity.1 Blaugust 2026 is still ongoing, but I’ve fallen behind my originally planned schedule due to family commitments. Nonetheless, I will continue to try to be productive and try to finish the month on a high! PrefaceI have written a post last...
When I was learning CSS’s grid feature (oh gosh, nearly ten years ago), I posted a few short videos talking about my understanding of the feature and how it worked. I was surprised to get scolded for sharing inaccurate information, “especially as a teacher”. Wait, what?! Who, me?! I get things wrong all the time....
Four years into living in our house, and somehow it feels colder than it did before. I think it’s because we bought this house with Cocoa in mind. We wanted a safe neighborhood so we could take her out at 3AM and still feel safe1. We wanted grass for her. We wanted a backyard where she could lounge around. So much...
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We went to the zoo in Emmen for my birthday! I took so many good pictures (and some crappy ones that bring me joy) so here is a LOT 🅰 These pictures were taken with my Campsnap Pro. The entrance to the Asia area of the park I made a beeline for the elephants :) This was such a highlight. I managed to get this...
I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me. The AI had the whole of the English language at its disposal — a lexicon surely manyfold the poet’s — and yet Whitman could conjure up...
Wie fast immer mit Begriffen lässt sich der des Anthopozäns nicht einer Person zuschreiben. Es wäre falsch, hier nur Paul Crutzen zu nennen. Begriffe hängen nicht nur an Personen. Die Proposition lautet, unser geologisches Zeitalter als Anthopozän zu bezeichnen, das heißt auch – nicht mehr als Holozän. Die Idee ist...
On July 31, N-able detected a threat actor exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in N-central. By August 1, the company had published guidance. Hotfix 1 arrived on August 2. Continued monitoring found a related attack path, so Hotfix 2 followed on August 6. That is already a difficult timeline for any IT or...
I find it hilarious that when I search for “working writer” on Pexel, they serve me numerous images of serious-looking people with typewriters. Honey, we’ve moved on from that, but I’ll use it because of the romanticism of it all. In truth, I work with two monitors, a mouse and a mechanical keyboard hooked up to a...
♠ A serendipitous discovery: macOS continuity. Picture this: I am using my corp Macbook Pro, whilst my personal Macbook Air happens to be close by. Both of their lids are open. In my corp Macbook, for some reason, I decided to move the mouse cursor to the edge of the laptop screen, using the trackpad. And then, just...
a half-assed review"> Many years after “Portal,” Chell reawakens at Aperture Science and tries to stop GLaDOS once again with the help of Wheatley, who has his own plans for the historical facility. Soooo, after releasing one of the most fun games of all time, what was Valve up to? Of course, making the perfect...
This book is, as my friend told me, indeed a page turner. Its almost 500 pages long but I finished it in a week—one of my fastest read ever. The story is similar to the movie of the same name (yeah, I saw the movie first). But I enjoyed the book more than the movie. This book is amazing. The friendly alien Rocky is...
Not Taking What Is Not Given mtift Tue, 08/25/2026 - 07:24 Last week I published episode 100 of Pretty Good Meditation. It did not involve much fanfare.When I first started recording these, I had intro music, I said the date and the episode number, and I sometimes mentioned my website or newsletter. There are no ads...
My first car was (is) a old 60's Opel, and it made me spoiled as a car owner. Calling it reliable is disingenuous, but with a bit of finagling - you'd always arrive eventually. No central locking to fail, no locking at all actually, someone has gone with a hammer to the lock. No worries though, not like you'd be...
My wife and I switched from Facebook Messenger and RCS to Signal almost a year ago for all our messaging needs. We have no plans to stop using Signal, but to be honest, Signal kind of sucks as a messaging app: No call notification on Apple Watch, meaning if you have your phone in your pocket on silence, you’d be...
I've been playing around with the new release of Omarchy Quattro on my ThinkPad and have been enjoying it quite a bit! The single biggest improvement over past releases of Omarchy has been the integration of AI agents with the system. Thanks to this integration, configuring Arch, Hyprland, etc no longer requires...
My interest in LLMs has increasingly shifted towards smaller models, small in terms of size and their ability to run on modest local machines. For some time now, I have been using models with fewer than 40 B parameters on my machines in some quantized way. Then I came across BitNet, a project that introduced me to...
A thoughtful moment in the Arrange Displays pop-up in macOS’s Settings when you choose to designate a screen to be a primary screen: It not only shows a nice preview of where your menu is going to land, but also changes the shape of the menu proxy you’re holding, to help you connect the two. (The whole interaction...
Elon Musk’s lawyers sent a cease-and-desist letter to Nitter’s maintainer, a legitimate service that displays X posts through a different interface. The person, who goes by zedeus, complied with the threat, took down their own Nitter instance, and stopped development. These guys don’t even bother hiding the...
As I get older, I have to recognize that some pains are inevitable. I worry a lot about my health and I get anxious about small symptoms. I know that I am kind of a hypochondriac. My pattern is as follows: I notice something that hurts or feels strange. I have an appointment with a doctor, they tell me it is not...
Siccome nelle ultime settimane mi sto dando a riascolti di vecchie glorie direi che possiamo chiudere qui, e per me agosto lo vincono i Cairiss con Wilderness
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...is like dancing about architectureI have written so many music-related posts over the years. They range from music recommendations, to gear reviews (these aren't directly music-related, but tangential), thoughts on music-adjacent films, gig recaps, and instrument talk. My knowledge may be limited, but that hasn't...
Dave Rupert wrote about shipping microlighter: a tool for handling syntax highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlights API. I saw his post the day he released it, and I had an implementation PR up for my blog by end of day. Then, like I do with so many things, I let it sit there. This is the period where my...
Eu AMO (muita ênfase nesse amo), dilemas ou questões que não fazem o menor sentido mas que podem gerar conversas infinitas. Quando eu leio algumas dessas questões eu fico instantaneamente fascinado e quero passar adianta pros outros e fico muito empolgado em saber qual vai ser a reação ou resposta das pessoas. Por...
Yesterday was one of those teaching days where I had plans going into the day, with back up plans because I wasn't sure the original plans would work, and then I went with the original. Let me explain, in case it's useful:--I had planned to do peer editing with my English 101 class. I got rough drafts by e-mail, and...
As I mentioned in my recent post, I’ve turned a corner with AI. Maybe not the corner, but my perspective has certainly changed. I used to see AI mostly as a tool to do basic Q&A and help me write simple scripts. I knew that other people used it to generate vapid scrawls for LinkedIn, or, more legitimately, to write...
There are two ways to sue a technology company for what its algorithm did to you. One of them hands the company a constitutional shield. Right now, nobody is choosing between them on purpose. In March, a Los Angeles jury found that Meta and Google had negligently designed products that injured a young woman who had...
I try to not look at Reddit too much nowadays, but I still end up there more often than I'd like to. One of the subreddits that keeps showing up in my feed is r/AestheticWiki, probably because I've joined the similar r/BooksThatFeelLikeThis. I've read and watched many condemnation of the "microaesthetic" trend. My...
New links in the Heap… “The ethics of war in the context of a culture war means that you accept that action you take in fighting such a war has harmful effects on your enemies, and that those harmful effects must be evaluated relative to their ultimate aims” — Barry Lam thinks “the culture wars could use some ethics...
I read two blog posts this morning almost back to back that got the exact opposite reaction from me. The more I thought about it, the more I needed to reconcile that. So, here's me trying to do that in pretty much real time... First, this post from James Zhan about a presentation he went to on AI writing vs Human...
As an expat living in Germany, online radio has become a good daily companion. I enjoy listening to news from my home country (and connect to my mother tongue), practice German language or just discovering music and stories from a random place around the globe. I found a GNOME app that is a genuine gem: Shortwave,...
Este desarrollo lo hizo un programador cansado de las redes sociales convencionales. Cosmos47, lanzado hace menos de un mes, es un feed social público que muestra las publicaciones de manera cronológica sin algoritmos y sin likes. La particularidad de esta es que la IA se encarga de catalogar lo que publicas en...
Decades later, trying to find a singular moment in an incredibly stupid series of star trek parody youtube videos Photo unrelated, here's Mastodon looking like an absolute unit Sometime around 14 years ago my bandmates and I were inflicted with a specific brand of brain poison known as "the DJO Star Trek videos"....
I am old enough to remember that when background images on websites became possible, suddenly a lot of websites got background images. When (i)frames became possible, a lot of websites got (i)frames. And you see the same thing over the past few years with scroll-based animations. What you also see…
So ganz ist der Crypto Betrug ja nie weggegangen, er hat sich nur verschoben. Heute vor allem hin zur Bestechungsmethode für die US Regierung und illegales Glücksspiel (“Prediction Markets”). Aber vor einigen Monaten wurde ich doch nochmal zu einem Crypto Thema interviewed. Es geht dieses mal vor allem um die...
In last week’s edition of Dense Discovery, publisher Kai Brach linked to an article, written by Kate Wagner, challenging the notion that our phones are over overpoweringly addictive. But they are, aren’t they? To Wagner’s mind, excessive smartphone use is a behaviour we have developed. But what is at the root of...
I love it when you are leaving at the end of your consultation with the GP with one hand on the door handle and his parting shot is "... and remember, if your chest starts hurting at all, just call 999." OK, I don't love it really. That was sarcasm. Anyway, this comment came today at the end of the appointment with...
Recently Johnson's ballad parody, 'I put my hat upon my head', turned up on this blog, apropos Marianne Moore's tin ear for meter. Browsing last night in a recent charity-shop purchase, The New Oxford Book of Light Verse – edited by Kingsley Amis – I came across it again, sandwiched between two other Johnson...
I love reading science fiction books. I especially love science fiction books that have a friendly and benevolent AI helping the protagonists. I really like it when the friendly and helpful AI is the protagonist. Characters in the books have implants in their heads that let them connect directly to The Feed. Many...
A few weeks ago, Noisy Deadlines posted a list of 5 albums that shaped her taste in music. I was going to write a post like this too, but it completely slipped my mind. Today she published another post about 5 books that shaped her, which reminded me of the 5 albums. So here's my list, these are 5 albums that had a...
Prietenul Alex mi-a scris pe Discord și m-a rugat să verific cât costă cooler AMD Wraith Stealth pe AliExpress în România. Am deschis link-ul pe care mi l-a trimis, după care am comparat prețul din România cu cel din Marea Britanie. În Anglia, coolerul era la prețul de 0,99 lire și în România același produs, același...
August 2026. Cardiff. A whole day in Cardiff with no plans. No football, no pubs, no Chinese takeaway trail through Splott. A quick look at the market, a triumph of function over form, and a dither at the big clock facing what used to be (in my mind) a run of top Brain’s houses. The Cottage, now restyled TC (as in...
Le jeudi 27 août 2026 à 14:30 Sacha Chua, Fabrice Niessen, et moi nous réunirons une deuxième fois pour parler d’Emacs. Sacha a déjà écris l’article pour cet événement: https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/08/27-aout-emacs-chat-fabrice-niessen-en-francais-partie-2/ À demain!
Today I woke up and saw a brand new VS Code error when I remoted into my coding box: A VS Code error saying that the remote SSH extension can't use the API terminalRemoteResolver and that I have to start VS Code with some weird command line flag or something. Trying to update my extensions didn't work. I still got...
What’s a song you’d want to hear while stargazing? I’ve always been mildly fascinated with space, with the moon, with the wonder of the stars. I can’t recall where it started, or when, but as my life settled down I started to look up more and more often. One particular night, not long after my Dad died, I remember...
Looking north from the Manhattan Beach Pier, at the beach bathed in golden afternoon sunlight. ゴールデン・マンハッタン・ビーチ マンハッタン・ビーチ・ピアから北を望むと、午後の黄金色の日差しに包まれたビーチが見える。
Blathering about a sign, plus a recipe for a chopped salad with a handful of gallery art pieces thrown in the middle.Currently Listening: William Orbit “Pieces in a Modern Style”Reply via email
Any rigorous thinking about the long-term future leads to extreme outcomes. It cannot, by construction, produce normal or mundane futures. “Rigorous thinking” means you have a model: a formalism for representing the state of the world, and a transition function to advance the state. You put the world into the...
During my break, I have also read The Ethical Slut. It's been on my list for a while, and I even had a Kindle version I just never got around to read; then I left Amazon years ago and deleted my account, and it seems like my conversion of the EPUBs via Calibre failed or I copied over the wrong files when I did my...
Surely cursed, they carried him, tiny, yowling, still wet from birth, and left him near the time-rift, the death-sentence destiny for all misshapen things. Who could love a three-eyed cat? The hungry time-rift void, that’s who. Hunched against the cold, they didn’t look back, lest his helpless, wriggling form defile...
Well I spent my youth under canvas roof, as I roamed from town to town I'm not fooling when I say I got no schoolin' Never liked the class bell sound .. Rory Gallagher
I'm still working on the client certificate management PR for Rogallo, which, of course, heavily leans on the API of Wasat. In most cases, I've noticed that something I want to do in the PR can already be done, but the work to perform the action would seem like unnecessary detail in a client application; I want to...
Favorited Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes — 1970s ferric formula is custom-made for vintage PC data drives | Tom's Hardware by Mark Tyson (Tom's Hardware) Creating mix tapes is hinted at as a possible use of a pack of UD-60Us. Normal-position tapes (Type I ferric) like these are not the best for...
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