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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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
Most social groups include regular commentary about people who are not present. The remarks may be mild — a raised eyebrow, a shared observation about someone's choices — or they may be sharper and more detailed. The pattern itself is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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。
John Voorhees, reporting for MacStories: Today, Apple announced a new M6 chip that will debut in the Mac mini and an M5 Ultra that is coming to the Mac Studio. The company also announced an M5 Pro Mac mini and an M5 Max Mac Studio. Let’s...
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...
Covering a tune by Norman Blake.
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...
So tief in einer Sache versunken sein und so konzentriert, dass die Augen tränen, weil man vergessen hat, zu blinzeln. Per E-Mail antworten
Finalizado: 2026-08-23Pequeños androides que exploran y juegan por el mundo. › Ver más »¡Patina todo el día!
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...
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...
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...
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...
(And it’s not like they’ll ever be able to read this.) Because they’ll probably be somewhere between doing their own businesses, meetings, deadlines, coffee runs, reports, and the kind of busy that makes days pass without anyone...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
No big thesis for today—well, at least not yet. I've been feeling better over this last week or so, but the thing that always worries me about feeling better is getting into trouble—you know, thinking that I don't have bipolar anymore...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
A las nueve de la mañana murió el primer presidente. A las nueve y siete, el segundo. A las nueve y nueve, el tercero. A las diez, ya no quedaba ninguno. Las noticias hablaban de una misteriosa coincidencia: presidentes de países...
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...
… but Dolly was pretty damn close. Send me an email Latest 3 posts 25 Aug, 2026 There Are No Good Billionaires… 25 Aug, 2026 Stupid Summer People 25 Aug, 2026 Digging and Unearthing Older Posts I'd Like You to See 05 Nov, 2024 Election...
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....
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...
A scholar at Johns Hopkins, Lisa Siraganian, makes seven useful points!
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...
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...
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...
♠ 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...
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,...