Wed Aug 26
I feel the aquarium hobby is a retro hobby. Sure, the lights and filters have got much more expensive, and now rimless tanks are popular online, but the standard size tanks like the 40 breeder and the 75 gallon are the same footprint from decades past. What can I automate? Can I improve monitoring and alerting?...
I’m really satisfied to have fixed a couple IndieWeb libraries and website config issues. Too bad my ideas are far ahead of my ability to get things accomplished…
OpenGraph and Twitter Cards are the two most popular ways to suply metadata for rich link previews. Web sites usually provide metadata to both by using separate elements: I used to do this too, but these days my markup is simpler. Since Twitter Cards use , while OpenGraph uses , you can supply both on the same...
Been thinking about flooring and spotted this lovely chaos in a Shake Shack bathroom.Currently Listening: Joan Shelley “Easy Now”Reply via email
August 2026. Abbeydale Road. Sheffield. A tiny bit of culture between the pubs, and Sheffield does culture better than most. I’ve seen ballet, theatre, symphonies, comedy and major photographic exhibitions seen we moved North; it’s not all gallons of Magnet and chip butties here, you know. Sheffield presents its...
What started as a simple revisit to a summit we liked turned into an adventure we won’t forget. A wrong turn led us onto an overgrown path, once a vehicle track, now a struggle through thistles, fallen trees, and slippery slopes. We pushed through, doubting the decision, until ... well ..
I'm as sad as everyone about the death of Dolly Parton. Let me record a few thoughts:--I'm glad that I was a child in the 70's, that my mom listened to A.M. radio, which meant I heard all kinds of music, including Dolly Parton's songs, both old and new. The radio stations of my childhood played anything, so you...
From 404Media: We discovered that VGT3 was used to destructively scan books for AI training data by placing a tracking device in a shipment of rare books that a bookseller suspected was being acquired by an anonymous AI company. We saw the shipment travel across the country before finally landing at VGT3. Online,...
So che parlare di AI è sempre complicato, e il vibe coding pratica tendenzialmente esecrata (con più di qualche ragione), però ero curioso di provare
Some thoughts from internet friendsIn my post Thinking language, I wrote about my curiosity on the subject of inner monologues, especially those of bilingual and multi-lingual people. This led me to ask a question in the Web Writers' Forum, which I knew is full of excellent writers from around the world, many of...
I accumulated enough vacation days to take a week off, so I did. It was a pretty great summer experience (and by great, I mean, I think this is the best it's going to get). My team was really nice, and I managed to not be a wuss and make some connections. Enough about work! I'm kind of glad its over. I can focus on...
On what language models made cheap, what they left exactly as expensive as it was, and why the difference is the whole argument A scheduling manager writes the rule that shifts get posted on Thursday for the following Monday. From where she sits, it is obviously good: it gives three days’ notice where there used to...
♠ Problem statement: a coding agent stops when it thinks it is done, not when the thing is actually done. /goal sets a condition that outlives the turn. The docs call it a wrapper around a session-scoped, prompt-based Stop hook: every time the agent tries to end its turn, an evaluator checks the condition and pushes...
Kathleen Creel, recently assistant professor of philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University, has moved to the University of Michigan, where she is now associate professor of philosophy. Professor Creel’s work focuses on the moral, political, and epistemic implications of machine learning, and on other...
a tour of creating a family reading culture In the Netherlands, many families are in possession of magnificent ceiling-tall bookshelves — a practice I always envied. A shelf seems like an integral part of any well-doted intellectual family. The rows of books collected through the lifetime of each household...
Bravely Default II is a modern Japanese Role Playing Game that pays tribute to the artstyle of JRPGs of yore (spoilers throughout). As is the case with practically every entry in this genre, you are in control of a bunch of kids, or nerds, or nerdy kids, or you get what I am saying, who have no business being...
One of the small things I added to Medium in early 2016 was a change to the favicon: It came from an observation about the writing process. When writing on Medium, you are likely to have a bunch of Medium tabs open with other posts, yours or otherwise, for reference… but you usually only have one tab you’re writing...
One large mug, two Yorkshire tea bags, steeped in freshly boiled water for 2 minutes, squeeze and remove the bags, generous splash of milk. The weather has finally felt like it’s changing from the sweltering summer we’ve had, and the nights are closing in. Rain against the window, the rumble of thunder, the room lit...
Just what you wanted! And just in time for National Cherry Popsicle Day! A summary of my 2024 book, The Weirdness of the World, by the author himself. You probably haven't had time to read the whole thing (I don't blame you). So here's a synthesis of what I see as the most central ideas.(I wrote it for a book...
Ieri am cumpărat varianta originală/clasică a jocului Heroes Of Might And Magic III. Cei de la Ubisoft au lansat jocul pe Steam la prețul de 9.99 euro - un preț foarte bun pentru un astfel de joc clasic. După cumpărare l-am și instalat, dar nu m-am jucat imediat pentru că m-am ocupat cu altceva. Câteva minute mai...
AI Forever Work Woes Continue Unabated Photo unrelated; met a pretty metal seagull at the first beach we tried in Connecticut upon moving here years ago. Face of a villain. Absolute icon. In the last two weeks or so I've seen an increasing number of AI-focused tech people who are coming to this "I use AI every day...
So as mentioned on my Now page, I headed to Scotland about a month ago for a wedding and a cross-country road trip that sung to my soul. Taking a trip north of the border just makes me happy, and you can see why so much of the country’s culture is inspired by Caledonia. But I’m not here to wax lyrical about that, oh...
In early 1934, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Columbia Teachers College took an internship teaching drama and producing student plays at PS 24 in Harlem. Among her young charges at that “dreadful ancient New York schoolhouse,” as she would later recall, was a ten-year-old boy she was astonished to find...
youtube • video ID: hNI_Qx3cspEclick image to load player It takes a generational talent to take a song like “House of the Rising Sun” and make it in your own way. RIP This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/quickies/dolly-parton-house-of-the-rising-sun-live/
In the back of my mind I’ve always wanted to do some sort of goofy Amazon Mechanical Turk project. I guess it’s now or never. But I don’t have any ideas… Reply by email
Today, I’m 38.Thirty-seven was a year that was. It was a year of loss. I found out I was being laid off the day after my birthday. Nearly a year later, I lost my soul dog. Between those two losses (and a million other things), I feel like I lost a part of myself1. I’ve thought a lot about mortality this year. At...
The events around the demise of the Exarchate of Ravenna only involved the Venetians marginally. It is nevertheless important to the history of Venice.
I’m writing this in my favourite cafe, while enjoying a cup of really good cappuccino. The weather is great, the forecast is that it’s going to get worse in the coming days, preparing the country for autumn, I guess. I’m so happy to be here, to write in this calm space. I’ve suffered from a bad throat ache for the...
I love a good habit tracker. I’ve been using the habit tracking built into TickTick for ages now. But recently HabitKit appeared and it’s very pretty and brilliantly easy to use. But it’s expensive – I appreciate the effort put into these things, but I don’t see THAT much value in them. Then, a few weeks ago, I came...
The purpose of tear-water tea From Owl at Home by Arnold LobelAlt. textAn owl in striped pyjamas stands in his kitchen, holding a tea pot to his chest. He is crying and his tears fall in the pot, which is almost full. The colours of the drawing are muted and warm yellow, suggesting a cosy fire burning somewhere....
Jugulans is now developed on Chicken Scheme 6 After upgrading from Chicken Scheme 5 to Chicken Scheme 6 I am now developing jugulans on Chicken Scheme 6. This required only a minor change. jugulans is a text mode mind map application. With it you can build mind maps in the terminal. /- new child | /- creating nodes...
Back in April I joined my first Homebrew Website Club meeting and since then I’ve made a habit of reading the blogs from everyone there that day. The first post I read this Wednesday is from Thomas Vander Wal at his blog Off the Top. On this very hot summer day (108°F / 42°C) I’m reminded of blogs that used to have...
I went and Bubbled using the "random post" function, and found a couple of really great posts, with very little traction. Here is a list of the good ones I found, and I recommend going for a treck yourself. 16 Laps Around the Galaxy, 20 Laps to Go Ugly is Mine make bad art i am a bee landlord now Sometimes It’s...
Entre los episodios más recientes del Sueño del Artista se encuentra el caso del robo del Museo Isabella Stewart Gardner, ocurrido la madrugada del 18 de marzo de 1990, no solo es considerado el mayor robo de arte de la historia, sino también uno de los misterios sin resolver más fascinantes de Boston. Dos hombres...
I made a thing: the Foldable Tractatus, a free and open-source web app designed to make reading Wittgenstein's famous first book only hard (as opposed to really hard without it). I'm quite proud of this! First, you can check it out now. Then read below why I decided to make this multi-level meta-experiment that no...
Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, wir erreichen in Kürze den Niedriglohnsektor. Die gegenwärtige Außentemperatur beträgt 3000 Grad. Der gesellschaftliche Luftdruck ist enorm. Wir wünschen Ihnen einen angenehmen Aufenthalt und viel Glück bei Ihrer weiteren Reise am Existenzminimum. Und Kopf hoch, weil alles Kopfsache...
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell” Edward Abbey The modern world is built on a system in which we must “progress” in order to survive. The issue is that we never ask the question “towards what are we progressing?” When we look at a “growth at all costs” mentality, we can rationalize...
Once again, I am writing a new blog post, and once again, I am posting about a new game I made: WITH TEETH, my entry for Pervert Jam 2026. It’s been a really productive year for me on the gamedev front, eh? The idea for WITH TEETH has been bouncing around in my head for a while, and the one-week-long Pervert Jam was...
Every once in awhile something comes along that is completely unnecessary, accomplishes nothing, but is too delightful to not check out. Since the earliest builds of Mac OS X, modern macOS has featured built-in screen savers and there are plenty of excellent ones (I prefer Flurry myself.) In the days of classic Mac...
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-41992 for the project GNU gzip, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix decompressing two files in the same invocation of gzip (that's possible???) an attacker can trigger out of bound reads...
Five days after I first noticed it, the ability to upload a social preview for a repository has been fixed. So now I can finally update the preview for Rogallo again. From what I can see it took a couple or so threads in the community forums to get this issue noticed, and at least one person in those threads said...
2026-08-26Hello!I need to go back to Philadelphia one day. There are enough landmarks that I just haven't seen to make another trip worth it.Instead, my trips consist of shopping malls and home stores. While I sort through my latest bout of burnout, I hope that yesterday's page promoting interesting stuff across the...
Fixed ’em. Fixed ’em all. Well, almost all — down to 10 bugs on the NetNewsWire bug tracker. (See the Mac 7.1.3 release notes and iOS for the big list of just-fixed bugs.) This means I’ve gotten the app to the place I’ve wanted to get to for a long time, where the bug count is manageable and close to zero. So it’s...
Possibly, just possibly, related to the previous post. Recent research by Neal Caren, a professor at the University of North Carolina, has found people in the United States are not going out as much as they once did on a Friday night. Instead they are choosing to stay home more often than not. The pandemic played...
The wife and kids get back this Friday morning, but in the meantime I’ve been using my free time to get as many miles in as possible on the new bike. There’s a group that rides at 5am that I typically meetup with, averaging around 20-30 miles at 21mph. This morning I added in a stop to the local donut shop for some...
Share a song that captures the feeling of being proud. I have a hard time being proud of myself. I tend to let achievements pass without acknowledging them. But sometimes just getting through is reason to be proud, just making it to the next day. It’s something many take for granted, but I think is a good enough...
If my grandmother were still alive, today would be her 100th birthday (or possibly her 101st; she was 95 when she died, but she insisted that she was 96, so who can say for sure). When I was a boy, I would spend most of my summers with my grandparents, and it was very much that idyllic period that you see portrayed...
Neubrutalism is a digital aesthetic movement that rejects modern polished neutrality in favor of what they call “graphic bluntness”: high-contrast palettes, bold typography, strongly defined shapes, and conspicuous structure — especially outlines and hard shadows.
Okay, with this variant you win when the opponent can’t make a move on the board and is out of reserve pieces, just like the original 1960s game, but you only have six moves to win! Take six pieces each of an unused player color (if your version doesn’t have extra color pieces you can use dice or beads) and place...
Desde hace unas semanas, en mi vuelta al trabajo presencial, en mi oficina no podía acceder a mi blog. Era raro: podía ver otros blogs tanto en WordPress como en otras plataformas sin problemas. Comencé a pensar si había escrito algo que no haya gustado a las directrices del área IT. Sin embargo la solución venía...
I have a rough three-day work-stretch ahead of me, but the weekday Pook-Emu Bee links streak must continue (I will however compromise on feature images today). 1. Brainless TikTok trend causes $2,000 in damage to SoCal home (Daniel Farr for the New York Post. August 26, 2026.) States and localities should consider...
When Robert Birming, following Junited and JulyReply, called for contributions to AuguStory under the heading ‘The Story of your Blog‘, I thought to myself: If there’s one thing I can do, it’s write about my blog … but I found it much harder than I’d expected, simply because I’ve written about it so many times...