Thu Aug 27
The almost complete lunar eclipse in Southern California. With the moon so dim, I can turn up the brightness to show more of the sky, stars, planes and clouds. 月食 南カリフォルニアで見られた、ほぼ完全な月食だ。月がかなり暗いため、明るさを上げて、空や星、飛行機、雲をもっとよく見えるようにした。
♠ Problem statement: given my miniflux server with hundreds of RSS feed subscriptions, add emoji country flags to each feed title, representing their country of origin and/or the country they’re associated with1. For example: Before: Not Just Serendipity by Thiago Perrotta After: Not Just Serendipity by Thiago...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: One week late and my commentary may be more scattered than usual because I’m in the final stages of a big move that’s dominated my summer and I’m exhausted af, so as always, be sure to click the links! _ONE 500 applications, 0 callbacks | Melissa & Johnathan Nightingale...
Bookmarked Extract and Review Web Page Links Using a Bookmarklet by Adam Douglas (Adam Douglas) To help combat these obstacles I set out to figure out a solution to extract and then review all web page links using a bookmarklet. I’ve found the bookmarklet I created “List Page Links” to be quite useful and figured I...
... I'm playing around with the idea of making a funnel neck jacket.
Today marks one year since I was laid off from a role I had for over six years. I still remember exactly what I was doing when I received the dreaded email from someone I thought I could trust. No, just kidding. I knew he wasn't someone I could trust, but he certainly acted like he was. I was doing a Peloton class...
2026-08-27Hello! This is an excerpt from Day 200, where I drafted a rant against the algorithmic apps that have changed people for the worse. I'm duplicating some of it here because the original article was long and cluttered. I hope this can be a cleaner version of the same text.I'll go right ahead and say that I...
This is what rainy days were made for. 🌧️🐶 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
The best home automations are the ones that you don't think about. If you're visiting family or staying in a hotel, you notice that the automatic thing didn't happen. Here is our list! Automatic lighting schedule: Lights come on when it's too dark and go off when it's light. When no one is in the room, the lights...
The berth was the tightest on the short arm and everyone said so. Notwithstanding had understood, coming in, that this was the thing to be glad of. Cane had traded a good adjustable for the curtain — heavy stuff, weighted at the hem — and after he hung it you could not hear the trolley run at all. He had packed out...
So sad I don't even wanna watch what I wanna watch, u feel me? For my own future reference, here's a list of videos I find interesting/want to watch but won't bc depression: Mary Cassatt: The Impressionist Who Painted The Mind by Nerdwriter1 Inside the Life of Monocle Journalist Fernando in Soho, London by NEVER TOO...
Apparently a Federal Court has said that it’s now okay for people to bring guns into the post office as long as they are “law-abiding citizens.” As a postal worker, this makes me feel [sarcasm] SO MUCH SAFER [end sarcasm]. (Actually, there is no end to my sarcasm.) (Also, a special note was made to remind postal...
August 2026. Sheffield. The rain returned to Sheffield today. I’d forgotten the joy of a good soaking. It came in quite a rush, heading down the hills to the Don, and tonight the interweb is full of pics of water rushing through Kelham Island. I don’t think the water will quite reach the levels of 2007, never mind...
A couple months ago I bought a Reterminal E1004 epaper display which I was going to use to display (in my living room) the temperature and stuff… but then it turned out that the update cycle is so absolutely horrendous that it’s not something you can have on your wall if it’s going to update often. And if you’re...
Quand nous apprenons quelque chose, nous faisons souvent l’erreur de vouloir parvenir l’expertise rapidement. Mais le monde n’est marche pas comme ça. Si nous n’avons pas de patience, notre projets serons manqué. L’expérience est toujours le même: au début nous avons l’enthousiasme pour commencer, nous disons que...
M-am uitat la trailer-ul GTA VI de pe Netflix și îmi place ce am văzut, păcat ca nu am PS5 sau PC pentru el. Mulțumesc că urmărești Jurnalul lui ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.
Browsing through old photos I came across this candid view of ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and yours truly. Simon Bierwald took the photo on September 18, 2011 at an event in Cologne, Germany. ESA invited dozens of space enthusiasts like Simon and I to cover the event on socials and other online venues. At a...
During my recent trip to China, I packed as light as I possibly could. We had 2 kids to manage, and I knew I'd be returning with a bike, so extra roller bags or check-in luggage were out of the question. I knew in the evenings and on my return flight I'd have downtime, so I wanted some sort of gaming system to keep...
So, I’ve been no fan of Gumroad for quite some time, and now they’ve gone even further all-in on using AI for everything and being especially gross about it.Here’s some alternatives that are worth considering. Ko-FiIt’s what I use for my main shop these days. Their pricing is quite nice: 5% cut for transactions on...
On Friday, August 30th, 1996, I published a message on the “soc.culture.argentina” Usenet newsgroup, announcing the existence of a new page on this thing called “the web”: the URL was http://sc2a.unige.ch/~kosmacze and it was my first personal website. That URL does not exist anymore, and sadly the Internet Archive...
I've just realised that today is the 450th anniversary of the death of the greatest of all Venetian painters, if not of all painters – Tiziano Vecello, aka Titian.
I’ve been doing tai chi off and on for over 40 years. I’m at the point where I feel qualified to teach it. Yet I’ve never written about it until now. It’s hard to write about, not just for me but for anyone. I have read books and articles about tai chi and they are interesting to a certain extent, but always somehow...
One of the things I’ve most read about Dolly Parton in posts online is that people say there will never be anyone as good as her. I have pondered that ever since I read the first couple posts. Yes, there might not be anyone like her ever again, she was the embodiment of good, or, as Jad Abumrad says in this video,...
Watching this movie tonight. Spielberg, Hanks, DiCaprio, Williams soundtrack, hard not to fault. What’s struck me is the other actors, Amy Adams, Jennifer Garner, Ellen Pompeo, Martin Sheen, Elizabeth Banks, all of whom I’d totally forgotten. What a fun movie, sometimes it’s nice just to kick back and chill out....
Talk about defying the odds. Maybe. Late last year, Operation Bluebird lunched a bid to “revive” Twitter, the micro-blogging platform Elon Musk bought in 2022. Operation Bluebird claimed — rather optimistically I thought — they could take control of the Twitter brand, as they believed Musk had abandoned the rights...
After taking a few snapshots of these cherry fritters, I knew there was no need to carry around a camera the rest of the day.Currently Listening: Cocteau Twins “Cherry-coloured Funk”Reply via email
At least once a week, I get to spend time with my nephews. They are little guys (elementary school), full of energy, and wonderfully curious. So many questions! The heat in Arizona (114 degrees yesterday) makes our afternoons challenging because we are limited to indoor activities. As a former science teacher, I...
It has been a while since I updated this page, and quite a bit has happened since the last one. I am still writing about security and working in the MSP world. Outside of that, I have spent a lot of time on self-hosting, physical media, and building tools that solve problems I keep running into myself.Here is where...
And now, a day after Dolly Parton's death, comes news of the death of Tim Curry. Like so many, my earliest memories of Tim Curry are as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I didn't see that movie until my sophomore year of college, but I was aware of it in high school.I was a drama club kid, so of...
It's been a while since I've messed around with my website. While Jekyll has served me very well, and until recently I had a workflow that worked very well for me. But then I went and messed around with my Obsidian Vault (yes, since the last time I posted about it), and while that was great for my day-to-day, it...
The client certificate management PR for Rogallo is very close to completion now -- although the thing has grown arms and legs and turned into a bit of a UI overhaul1. Something I wanted to add was a quick and easy way for the user to view the details of a client certificate that's being used for the current page....
On slow and incremental progressIf you've ever visited my changelog, you'd know that this website gets built almost every day; several times a day on most days. It's not just because I've been blogging regularly this month. Things get changed around a lot. Fixes, tweaks, overhauls. It's never ending. I have a Trello...
Academia is in turmoil regarding partially or wholly AI-written research. AI-written work is being submitted to journals, but it isn’t clear how much. Publisher, journal, university, and department policies are emerging and fluctuating. Technology develops, rendering recently enacted policies ambiguous, vague, or...
Look familiar? I accidentally published an unfinished draft of this article earlier this month. Whoops. Moving on from a selection of fragrant wood-focused sticks, today I’m taking a look at some resin-themed sticks from the assortment of samples that Bhagwan Incense kindly sent me for review. Dragon’s Blood # The...
In 2019 three students in their mid-teens – Paul Makles (Insert), Rene Vinter (Nizune), and Martin Löffler (FatalErrorCoded) – established Riot (stylised RIOT), an online chat platform targeting gaming communities. Funded by donations on Patreon, Riot operated at a small scale and ultimately ceased development in...
It is a testament to how much things have changed in competitive NES Tetris – a game released the same month the Berlin Wall fell – that this hour-long documentary by Summoning Salt that talks about the 2018 Tetris Championship covers the previous revolution in a play technique: I don’t watch a lot of sports, but I...
Am I scrolling too fiercely or I've had relatively mixed luck with computer mice over the years. I bought a Cyborg Rat 7 when I was competitively playing Starcraft 2 during the beta, so like early-mid 2010 and I didn't need to replace it until 2021. Because I'm a weirdo who had already changed both my midi...
If you've been on the job hunt lately (and that's rather a lot of us) you've probably been doing some combination of sitting on Google/Teams/Zoom/whatever calls, and possibly sharing your screen so that the other end of the connection can see your desktop. For the most part this isn't a big deal but occasionally a...
Last week I posted a link to a news aggregator website, which collects links to all different kinds of news articles and blog posts. It was brought to my attention that one of the links on this site pointed to a post titled "Stop Making TUIs", which advocates for abandoning text-based user interfaces in favour of...
Ayer leí este post de Nick Simson y me recordó de que yo ya le había agregado soporte de human.json a mi blog. Traduzco directamente del post de Nick: Uno de los grandes problemas del internet hoy en día es que muchísimo contenido es generado con IA. No hay manera consistente de determinar si un sitio es mantenido...
La clase de griego es el primer libro que leo de la autora surcoreana Han Kang, quién acabaría recibiendo el Premio Nobel de Literatura en el año 2024. Esta obra se publicó en 2011 y aunque es posterior a su éxito La vegetariana mantiene el nivel de una prosa profunda, muy detallista y dramática para reflejar los...
Some link titles have been slightly modified for style. Arts and entertainmentBreak out of convenient boxesSylvia's open letter encourages artists to be as creative as they desire. Create freely, and make your art bright and exciting. Take a leap beyond your wildest imagination. Let your art speak fully, let it be...
Nothing's more of a first world problem than the WiFi not working on your plane. Hell, it can even be a bit of a boon if you use your productivity right. But you're annoyed, you're stuck in a tin can miraculous invention, you've already come to grips with the fact that Starlink wasn't turned on for your flight yet,...
So it seems like NVIDIA has agreed to buy Hugging Face. NVIDIA is the company building most of the chips used in “AI” data centers and Hugging face runs probably the biggest repository for data sets and open weight “AI” models in the world (Hugging Face also offers inference but not at relevant rates and market...
HWC Asia Pacific: Round 3The second HWC: AP had only minor “AI disruptions” and was nowhere near as bad as the first. The AI agent(s) that were causing the disruption actually apologised on the IndieWeb chat and promised they will stop participating in any future HWCs. I genuinely hope they stay true to their word...
Path of the Idle: Old Gods Rising was released in full. I had a whole post about the beta for the game, but it seems to have been lost in my drafts. The beta was out for about 3 months on Steam and was genuinely the first idle game beta since DesktopHeroes that I really had fun keeping in the corner of my screen....
Eu honestamente demorei mais do que deveria para escrever sobre esse jogo. Foi um dos jogos que realmente mudou a minha concepção de como jogos poder ser extremamente "simples" mas se essa simplicidade for bem executada tudo se encaixa de maneira tão perfeita que beira a perfeição pra mim. Longe de mim escrever um...
Deze vrijdag komt het kabinet met de nieuwe AIVD en MIVD wet. Wat daarin staat weten we niet, maar wel zeker is dat we er heel kritisch naar moeten gaan kijken. De diensten hebben recent de verkeerde mensen laten arresteren en kwamen ook met onjuiste informatie over de inval in Oekraïne. Ook bleek kort geleden dat...
(CAMERA zooms in on Earth, on North America, on the state of Illinois, on the city of Chicago, onto a crowded street on which The Top Hat Tavern is located.)(VOICE OVER begins:) On Earth, there exists a most extraordinary species. With its intricate social behaviors and bizarre mating rituals, the magnificent...
Lots of organizations are excited about what AI can do to streamline their processes, save money, and juice margins. But AI's capabilities are founded on the data that AI accesses, and for many organizations that foundation is little more than sand. Pramod Sadalage and Prem Chandrasekaran write about how to build a...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Falun_Dafa_Protest_at_APEC_2023.jpg}}|thumb|Yayoi Kusama had an exhibition back at the SF MOMA coincidentally during APEC]] In the last day, a bunch of famous artists died and it made me reflect on what they are to me. == Dolly Parton and Conviction == First that I know of was...
Last night my father-in-law came over for dinner. We had chicken, which he loves, and drank a great chilled Falanghina he’d picked up the previous weekend in Guardia Sanframondi. Then my daughter suggested he see the photos from our last trip: I still had them on my Mac, so I screen-shared to the Apple TV. It was a...
Este script para sistemas GNU/Linux muestra una monitorización de la potencia de la señal WIFI en nuestra terminal Hace unos días el compañero bloguero Jose, en el blog de Tecno Y Soft, compartió un alias para zsh para monitorizar la WiFi en GNU/Linux. Podéis ver el artículo en el siguiente enlace:...
The temperature dropped by about ten degrees, bringing clouds and even a little bit of rain. I went in search of a pair of jeans for the first time in a couple of months, putting away the shorts for a while. I promise I’ll never complain about regular old ‘mildly warm’ British weather ever again. It’s lovely right...
This year, we decided to move our typical fall foliage bike tour up to late summer, to better enjoy some perfect weather, swimming holes, and sun. Because New Hampshire's bicycle infrastructure is woefully inferior to Vermont's (more on that later in this series), we decided to start in the nearest Vermont...
August 27, 2026 I'm thinking about how I'm using AI and whether I've allowed Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini too much access to my data through plugins, extensions, MCP, Work or Cowork. This all started after watching The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control, an episode of The Ezra Klein Show with Ezra Klein and Helen Toner....
Cuando leí este post "a bearblogger taught me this word..." me pareció un tema interesante, y hoy hojeando mi cuaderno de notas encontré que ya había escrito algo al respecto, no me acordaba de nada. También había creado unas palabras así que las listé y agregué algunas más que se me ocurrieron. Muchas veces cuando...
807 blog posts across 14 years. That’s how much I’ve published on my blog at the time of this writing. And here’s the question I’ve been turning over in my mind: “How do I convey that kind of volume across time in a more interesting way than a mere reverse-chronological list?” I’m not hating on reverse-chronological...
I’d suggest listening to this song while reading this post — it’ll help you understand the point of my use of italics. Most of my work is about literature and the arts, and I like it that way. I plan to keep it that way. In fact, I plan to go even further in that direction than I have. But I also have a long history...