Fri Aug 28
Nested between two giant cedars in the remote old-growth forest where I live much of the year are the rusted remains of boxy car. A tree root has seized one of the rear wheels. A sapling has growth through the glassless windshield. Bright orange fungi have colonized the driver’s seat. Lichen and moss cover nearly...
It’s been a good but busy week. Lots of work got done. Though I think I am still lagging according to my TODO list. On a side note, I have been fairly active, with standard two days of P.T. and two days of pickleball. I have not made any progress on running. I did run a bit on Sunday but nothing throughout the week....
♠ Problem statement: nested shell quotes made a remote PostgreSQL update harder to run than the update itself. The target is an Alpine Linux host. Its Miniflux configuration contains the database connection string, so psql must run after sourcing /etc/miniflux.conf through doas. An inline command quickly becomes a...
Der beruhigende Klang aufploppender Aufbackcroissantverpackungen am Morgen. Die Drehung, das Rollen, die Rituale, der Zauber von Stabilisatoren und Weizengluten – die hochindustrielle Lebensmittelproduktion weiß, ihre Geschichten zu erzählen. (Gott, sind das lange Wörter.) Per E-Mail antworten
Proviamo a spiegare in poche parole cos'è e come funziona un feed RSS e la sua importanza per la diffusione di notizie nella rete.
Starting new habits to try to improve some aspect of my life is not a problem. Trying to maintain any of them beyond a week or so is a different thing altogether. For example, I must have tried to train myself to touch-type properly many times over the years. I've always managed to get myself past the initial...
As a lot of people, I had most of my code published on GitHub. During my #unplugTrump (reduce the amount of US services), I decided that I want to move my code somewhere else. Codeberg came totally handy and was recommended a lot. Before I even really arrived there, Codeberg reacted to the increased resource […]
Amazon Mechanical Turk is shutting down soon. I came up with an idea for a small project to say goodbye. I was getting pretty excited to build this, but I just discovered that Amazon has stopped allowing new Mechanical Turk (MTurk) requester signups. Since I don’t already have an account, I cannot execute this idea....
People who live by a river are used to seeing more or less water flowing past them at different times. We live in a city by the Rhine, but not right next to the water, so at the weekend we popped over to the nearby Rheingau to take a closer look at the current drama of the lowest water levels in decades, although...
For many years one of my favorite videogame sounds has been In Your Hands—even mentioned it on a post about music that’s always in my head—a soothing and melancholic score that comes from Gris, an indie game developed by Nomada Studio, released in 2018. Official cover for the game I will be saying this many times...
What’s your favorite song about patience? I am not patient. I am more patient than I used to be for sure, but my default is not to wait, is to do the thing. Unless there is thinking involved, in which case I have a tendency to over think things. I’m also better at NOT doing that too. A lot of my patience has been...
Estar fotografando a tanto tempo e não ter mídia social a mais de dois anos significa que eu raramente posto as fotos que eu faço em algum lugar e muito menos as pessoas ficam sabendo o que eu fiz de foto. E depois de muito tempo enrolando eu decidi fazer um pequeno livro de fotos, pequeno mas grande o bastante pra...
Did get a moon photo from a few days ago though, here's that August 25th's moon, decidedly un-eclipsed You gotta know at this point how into photographing stuff in the sky I am (and hey, if not go peruse the moonchosting tag to get a better idea) so a lunar eclipse had me so goddamn excited!! But, like many other...
I've spent part of the summer finishing the process of putting together the quilt top for the quilt I hoped to be assembling during Summer 2026 Quilt Camp at Lutheridge. We've also been going back and forth on the size of the bed we plan to have once we move into the Spartanburg fixer-upper house we bought back in...
In January 2025 I resurrected a Signal account that had, for all intents and purposes, fallen into disuse, and I shared it here on the blog with the intention of using it more often and with more engagement. For nearly a year and a half, I’ve communicated very little through the account, and only with a couple of...
It has begun. After couple months of work, I have now finally managed to cobble together the QtWidgets side of Union. This means that your QtWidgets apps, such as Dolphin, KMail, Kate etc. can now use the Union CSS files as the source of their styling. However, temper your expectations, as this is the first initial...
The built-in completion-preview-mode lets us expand what we type in a minimalist, distraction-free way. It can also be combined with the default Completions buffer to show all the available options. The Completions buffer has several nice features, starting with Emacs 31, which make this an excellent combination...
Making hyperlinks pop againIf you're reading this on your RSS reader, you may want to leave the relative calm of it and step into the chaos that is my website for this one. I had a basic underline effect for hyperlinks on this website. That changed this morning. I changed the colour of linked text from the accent...
I don't like to boast, but yesterday Lichfield, according to the Met Office, was the wettest place in the country, with 52.8mm of rain – that's two inches in the old money – falling in a four-hour period in the morning. I can't say I'm surprised: the weather was spectacular, with fierce vertical rain, lurid sheet...
I see people in my life, both online and offline, constantly tell me about their workflows; the applications they use, the methodologies they adopt, and more. I look at the sheer complexity in their flow, look at their pleading eyes, and then tell them, "That's really complicated". If you're a fan of that...
A week down the California coast in an electric van that made us stop every couple hundred miles — and the places we found because of it.
As I am near the end of my summer holiday and paternal leave (for a total of five weeks nonetheless), I find it very difficult to take the time to… well… to do anything really. Having a soon-to-be four-month-old in the house feels like a full-time job, with long hours and short nights, pure bliss, laughs, and...
The best thing that happened this week It's been a while since I wrote these. I went away for vacation, celebrated my birthday and then I had to get back to work. In the meantime though, and that's by far the best thing that's happened lately, I've been digging into running again. I've been battling this injury and...
“Ultimately there are people who want to live, not in a world of reconciliation, but in a world without repercussions… ,,, It takes a lot to “cut a parent (or a sibling) off.” Usually it’s a question of safety, whether psychological or physical. And even then (and here I’ll speak from personal experience) we keep...
Am tot citit articole și mulți bloggeri își țin siturile pe un Raspberry Pi într-un colț al casei și le merge foarte bine, nu au probleme. Și dacă tot am un Raspberry Pi 4 de 8 GB RAM, mă tot gândesc să experimentez acest lucru, mai am și un Intel NUC cu care am vrut să fac altceva și m-am gândit de multe ori să mut...
topgrade — a command-line tool that upgrades everything you have installed on your macOS machine with a single command. System updates, Node, Rust, and Homebrew are all upgraded in one fell swoop by running topgrade. How very convenient!
Hey. Hope y’all are doing well out there in blog/rss/email land. Some stuff broke with my Occasional Weeknote mailing list when I moved to Netlify, but I think it’s all fixed now. If you’re one of the few that got these emails before, this one should be the first one in the last couple of months that was sent. We...
Neon Sign and mural for The Kettle, a casual restaurant in Manhattan Beach. Mural by Wylie West. 「ザ・ケトル」 マンハッタンビーチにあるカジュアルレストラン「ザ・ケトル」のネオンサインと壁画。壁画はワイリー・ウェストによる。
We awoke to a glittering kaleidoscope of dew, spiderwebs, and the intermittent crow of a rooster that simply did not understand the concept no time constraint of 'sunrise'. Camp teardown went smoothly, we enjoyed a quick cereal bar snack, brushed our teeth, refilled our water, and headed South towards our real...
Sorry to those I sent multiple webmentions to. But in related news, my webmention sender now (theoretically) knows how to tell how many new posts there were since the last build. Will hopefully publish stable versions of the libraries soon.
Starting Over With the PiSince Oct of last year, I haven’t had time to reinstate my self-hosted apps like Calibre, Miniflux, Navidrome, etc on my little Pi homelab. During this time, I missed using Navidrome the most (I resorted to listening only on my Mac); with the only thing running on it being Indiekit with...
I am currently on exchange in Amsterdam: The bike capital of the world. Being the bike capital of the world, however, comes with increased demands on parking infrastructure, and Amsterdam delivers! I don’t think I have seen this many parking garages for bikes before. But just like building more lanes to fix traffic,...
Just a quick note to say that you are allowed to overnight chicks and ducklings through the mail in order to ship them from hatcheries to buyers, but when your “overnight” turns into “four days later,” you end up with a box of dead chicks and dead ducklings. Anyway, happy Friday, I guess. Send me an email Latest 3...
I found more stuff in a drawer! This is, I think, my very first compact digital camera. Looks like it was released in 2003? So I probably bought it shortly after that. It’s very scuffed, and I think I remember carrying around in my pants pocket while going around on holidays and stuff. I charged the battery, and:...
I’m bored. And I don’t really know what to do about it. I’ve been writing software for about thirty-five years. I’ve been getting paid for writing software for almost thirty years. In February I realised that what I did had fundamentally changed. That’s right, I’m talking about coding agents. I’m still working as...
I am sitting here eating a vaguely Mexican-inspired bowl of assorted sauteed vegetables, beans, and spices that looks weird but tastes amazing. While cooking, I was listening to the recent Better Offline episode with Cal Newport:...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
Meet SadBot :) The crappiest chatbot you'll talk to in 2026, but the most authentic one. I built him in 2020 when I was 10 years old, back when AI chatbots were even crappier than the automated ones on government websites.
Rachelle and I are really good at watching TV and we have opinions about what we watch. Here are our favorite TV and movies from 2026 so far. You can see my rating scale here. The ratings are mostly about how much we enjoyed it and have less to do with the quality. Shows # A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 1 -...
Just discovered HTML5 canvas and I am going down a rabbit hole and I know my brain will not let me sleep with all the ideas... I miss learning something to code and this just woke up the monster.#coding #website #ideasThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
Peixoto Coffee Roasters - Chandler, Arizona This Friday, I am back in a familiar (and happy space). Sitting at a window bar at my favorite coffee shop, enjoying an espresso tonic. I used to hang out here nearly every Saturday morning, writing about public education. That was when blogging was popular, X was Twitter,...
Sophia kicked off her birthday celebrations with a candle making class and I won't bury the lede, it was delightful.Currently Listening: Harry Styles “Sunflower, Vol. 6”Reply via email
Setting up a new phone always takes longer than it should, usually with at least one app or account causing grief along the way. This one didn’t, which felt almost suspicious. I’d been using a Pixel 7a for the past couple of years and picked up a Pixel 11 as my next daily driver. The 7a is still a solid phone. No...
“A small programme with a large international reach has bucked the trend of closures across the arts and humanities.” Over the summer, administration of the University of Dundee announced a plan to cut costs by, among other things, no longer offering students the option of majoring in philosophy. A campaign was...
If you’re a fan of the web, you probably want to know that voting is now open for that lovely initiative that is the Tiny Awards, running for the 4th consecutive year. I got asked to be a judge this time around, and my votes helped shape the shortlist of candidate that is currently up on the site and I was pleased...
I've updated TinyFeeds (my minimal RSS reader) with a fancy new feed management screen (no more editing a .txt file) and the ability to clear out read stories for the day. Download release: https://github.com/devalexwhite/TinyFeeds/releases/tag/0.1.1 View source: https://github.com/devalexwhite/TinyFeeds
Es gibt wenig was mir so schlechte Laune macht wie Pedanterie, und aus irgendeinem mir unbekannten Grund fällt mir in den letzten Tagen sehr viel auf, was ich als pedantisch empfinde. Mit Pedanterie meine ich nicht, etwas Genau zu nehmen. In vielen Fällen ist Genauigkeit, Präzession usw. sehr wichtig. Niemand möchte...
2026-08-28Hello!Sichuan being a region from China that I know because of its pepper, and Flushing being a neighborhood in New York City, US, that was near the US Open tennis matches.My spice tolerance isn't great, but there are so many different types of hot spice that make the world of spicy food worth exploring....
This mornings lunar eclipse about 04:30. It took me until about 14:30 to try and process the blown out highlights, and recover an absolute turd of an image. It's not too bad. Though I'm not going to look at anybody else's or I'll end up deleting it.
Favorited To the Moon creator explains why he still makes games with RPG Maker. The “just right” simplicity that lets you focus on the creative sides of development. by AUTOMATON WEST (automaton-media.com) Interview with To the Moon developer Kan Gao about making games in RPG Maker. Kan Gao is the creator of the...
Today was a busy day. It was spent running a 10K, getting a Thai & Swedish couple's massage1 with LC, eating at a mediocre Cajun boil restaurant, and grabbing ice cream at one of my new favorite spots. We ended the day with a little bit of shopping. Overall, it was a great, yet exhausting, way to spend our day off....
August 2026. Sheffield. Mrs RM’s had to take a pair of shoes back, and walked a new pair in on the mile down into central Sheffield, where the first Christmas decorations were spotted on 23rd August. You’ll be thrilled to know we’ve already completed our Christmas shopping. Sadly, these exhertions caused flare-up of...
In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946–2026, Our Goddess of Kindness, by Rebecca Solnit. See also Remembering Dolly Parton: 7 Times the Icon Was a True LGBTQ+ Ally, by Rachel Shatto. I’m sorry to hear that we also lost trans and intersex activist 小山エミ(Koyama Emi) back in June, which came to my attention because of this...
By: Clare Wood, Karen Littleton, Kieron Sheehy | Rating: 2/5Reread this old study book from the wife to see if there was anything interesting in it. But it's kind of dated, and these books focus a little bit too much on who researched what, and not so much the full story of how we diagnose certain things or why we...
I often link to John Gruber’s Daring Fireball posts with a nod, but this time around I want to offer an opposing point of view. About a month ago, Gruber linked to a Markdown editor written by Sean Malseed in 2026 for the early 1980s Macs, and commented: I absolutely love that this exists. I don’t like the actual...
This is the fourth post in my series called Hitting the Digital Brakes, where I explore my journey into my use of technology to ditching some aspects of it now. The first post in the series was about the joys of imperfection and in the second post I asked if we really need the latest tech. The third post was on how...