Mon Aug 31
When I see a hummingbird I feel like is gonna be a good day, or at least is gonna be a better day. Today I saw one when I got outside of the house and it made me feel like I was ready for the day. The weather was unexpectedly not hot today, well, not as hot as always. There was a tiny cool breeze! Perhaps the summer...
That sounds like a bold claim. But such vehicles are already transporting passengers in Chongqing and Wuhan in China, and a number of cities in the United States. Australian entrepreneur Tim Kentley Klay, who several years ago designed a self-driving car that didn’t have a steering wheel, nor foot pedals, says...
Above: A prized piece of art adopted many moons ago at a craft con in Columbus, Ohio. This little critter was handmade by a wife and husband team from Cleveland that fly under the moniker Horrible Adorables. They’ve since expanded beyond these fantastical sculptures and recently launched a board game. — Site notes:...
Lots of clouds in the sky for tonight's sunset by the 2nd St. Lifeguard Tower. タワーの夕日 今夜は2nd St.のライフガードタワー付近、夕日の空に雲がたくさん
I came across a blog post today that hit me harder than expected. It’s nominally about one specific action and person—companies and people giving money to David Heinemeier Hansson’s “Omacom Foundation,” despite DHH’s well-publicized turn toward fascist ideology—but it’s also about, well, everything. Brennan Kenneth...
August is over, and that means Blaugust 2026 has ended. This was my first time participating, and I set myself the goal of writing 15 posts this month (the silver tier), which I'm happy to say I managed! Two of them ("tech sucks" and "I used to be excited about tech", links below) went kind of viral and made the...
So here we are, at the end of August, and the end of Blaugust as well, and so as not to bury the lede: I have learned from participating this year that I really am not designed to crank out a daily post unless I have something I want to say. Look, I’ve done 30 of 31 posts this month, and most of those I feel are...
After two more serious posts in this series, I wanted to stop somewhere a bit more lighthearted and inconsequential. “Here’a a fun thing you can try,” begins this 13-minute video from Retro Game Mechanics Explained: The premise of the parlor trick the video describes is a bit convoluted: Get your Nintendo...
Últimamente estoy recibiendo bastantes blogs para sumarse al directorio de blogs personales en español ¡Blog!¡Blog!. De verdad lo aprecio mucho, la acogida que tuvo hasta ahora el proyecto. Pero quiero hablar de ellos al respecto. Todo el proceso de carga del blogs se hace de forma manual, soy la única persona que...
Count Releases 0 Commits 2 Contributors 1 Pull requests merged 1 Issues closed 0 At a Glance My Mental Health v2 Life is still difficult Taylor v0.5.0 Progress Where the new release is at My Mental Health v2 Life is still difficult right now so I’ve had very little energy to spend on programming. This is actually...
Eric Bailey has a fun little post about how we need more than a few icons to express the nuance of our shared human experience. For example, he suggests Netflix provide some feedback buttons to indicate the kinds of experiences we all share consuming and rating media: “Just because I expressed interest in this show...
The earliest written source related to the inhabitants of the Venetian lagoons, is a letter from Cassiodorus, written in 537.
Despite the persistent nags to accept or decline tracking cookies on websites, the online surveillance industry already has more advanced techniques for monitoring your wanderings across the web. Collectively, this is called “fingerprinting”. This site shows everything a website can extract from you without needing...
Lo dije hace dos semanas. Ya no estoy en verano. Pronto termina la jornada intensiva y entro en septiembre, que es un mes que tradicionalmente en mi caso tiene muchos compromisos con muchas cosas a la vez. La vida me ha atropellado en muchos sentidos pero por suerte ninguno de ellos es triste. Solo siento que tengo...
August 2026. Cambridge. I drove down to Waterbeach yesterday to see Dad. The back pain is worse than the pain from lack of recognition now, and I at least got to watch “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”. Having sold Sunnyside I’ve got to find somewhere cheap to stay overnight to break the journey, and Whittlesford opposite...
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Having flirted (if that is the right term) with bullet journalling before I’m going to give it another go. September seemed to be a good month to try it, everyone is getting back into a routine after the summer break and I’m trying to reduce the amount of time I spend staring at a screen. My previous attempts at...
♠ Problem statement: an External Secrets Operator upgrade left different clusters in different states, and a normal ArgoCD retry could not repair them. The upgrade moved from ESO 0.9.20 to 2.9.0. Two CRDs rendered at about 707 KB. Client-side apply tried to store each complete manifest in an annotation capped at...
Well, the month is over, and with that, Blaugust is gone as well! This is the second time I have participated on this challenge, and it has also lead to quite a lot of interesting interactions and a decent amount of posts. To be honest, I was unable to reach the goal of 31 posts for the whole month. I wanted to give...
I can’t believe it, it’s the end of August and I’ve posted every day this month! I’m so bloody grateful. I finally have a routine in my blogging again, after years of struggling. Forcing myself to post something every day also made me look outside of the usual things I post, made me experiment, made me feel such joy...
Music I’ve bought in August. I saw Σtella at a festival a couple weeks ago — I had just intended to check it out while walking past, but I found myself watching the entire show, so I bought her album. And… it’s very nice? It reminds me of British early 80s indie bands — some of them had a think where they were...
Companion to “The Book Nobody Can Recommend.” That essay argues fiction’s distinctive offer is an occupiable position — a stance you can sit inside long enough to meet its costs. This one is the working table that follows from it, kept separate because it is a tool rather than an argument. Genre labels sort by...
I was a voracious reader as a kid, and I noticed a funny phenomenon: whatever writer I had most recently read, my next paper for English class would sound like them. If I read a bunch of Stephen King, I’d sound like Stephen King. If I read the Narnia series, I’d sound like C.S. Lewis (complete with British spellings...
It’s always 1993 at this 4 train stop on Jerome Avenue in the Bronx. That’s where an above-ground station still sports a pay phone on the mezzanine level. Surprisingly, the phone is in decent condition. The cord hasn’t been ripped from the wall, the coin slot was free of debris, and the area surrounding the phone...
Books and some interesting stuff I read in August 2026 Fiction Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011) 374 pages 5 stars Dystopian science fiction story about a virtual reality world, called OASIS. In his will, the creator has left the ownership of OASIS as well as his fortune to the winner of a conquest. This power...
You can change your future1 No, it's cool Possum. Make yourself at home up there. We did it, friends and foes! Another year of Blaugust behind us and I'm kinda thrilled to say that this year felt even more natural than last. 2025 was not only my first Blaugust, but effectively the first anniversary of blogging...
Dans le monde digital, avec l’index, on choisit ce que l’on veut montrer. Magnifiques manifestes Lien vers “Magnifiques manifestes” # Ce projet s’appuie sur la publication en français par B42, sous la direction de Loup Cellard, de Promesses et utopies ; une anthologie des manifestes du web[1], qui fait suite au...
What’s your favorite song about moving forward? What’s Next? The refrain commonly heard in The West Wing has always sat well with me, always seemed like a good way to focus on what’s ahead. Of course that’s not always the best thing, ignoring your past means you don’t learn from mistakes, don’t find ways to grow,...
I wonder when "people" will realise that taking videos (and photos) on your mobile device should be done in wide mode, rather than tall. So many News websites now utilise crowd-sourced video content when reporting stories, but the content can be so awkward on the eye. Taking a video in portrait (tall/vertical)...
We went to a nice Italian place we had never been to before. Food was good, didn't get sick after eating. They make their own tiramisu which was great, most of the places closer to us use Sysco premade stuff and still charge five bucks for it. The kids were bummed the kids menu was actual Italian food in kids...
Now, August 2026: Wrapping up Blaugust and other titbits These days, I’m unsure of how to reply to simple questions like How are you?. My default response is now something along the lines of, health issues aside, I’m okay. Recently, an acquaintance replied to my feeble attempt at an answer with the unexpected Well,...
My sites had a few TLS problems during the last few days. It was due to some Actalis certificates being revoked and OCSP failing for them. I don’t really know why Caddy wasn’t able to renew all of them correctly, but it should be fixed now. While I like Actalis for being the only real European free TLS certificate...
Here we are on the last day of August. As always, the month has zoomed by, and I feel a looming despair that I didn't get any writing done. But let me do a more honest record keeping of my poetry writing:-- 5 rough drafts of varying degrees of completeness.-- 2 rough drafts revised to intermediate status.-- One of...
En una amplia entrevista, el fundador del Movimiento del Software Libre analiza GNU, Linux, la división dentro del código abierto, los grandes modelos de lenguaje, SaaSS, vigilancia digital y por qué la libertad del software sigue siendo una cuestión moral. El 30 de agosto de 2026 Christine Hall, publicaba en la web...
I skipped August's Recently because this summer has been relentless, mostly in the positive sense. July and August were filled with bike rides, 5K races, friends in town, life changes and logistics.For a friend's birthday, we rode the rickety Coney Island Cyclone, which was faster and more intense than I remembered...
Asha Leena Bhandary, recently professor of philosophy at University of Iowa, has moved to Stony Brook University. Professor Bhandary works in social and political philosophy, ethics, feminist theory, and philosophy of race. She is the author of Freedom to Care: Liberalism, Dependency Care, and Culture (2020) and...
I love it here on the small web. The simplicity and minimalist nature keeps me focused on creating and frees me from the cumbersome clutter found on large sites and blogs. Because of the nature of the small web, people (including me) have the latitude to write about what they want, without concern for likes or...
AI text is clogging our minds, and clogging the internet's series of tubes. With tools like Pangram, it is easier than ever to confirm my suspicion that a lot of the text that I encounter online is, unfortunately, AI generated. I want to distinguish between two attitudes towards AI writing. The first is an absolute...
Ok, I did it. I wrote and posted a blog post every day for the month of August. At first, it was pretty easy because I had many partial posts just sitting in my drafts folder so I just needed to finish those. As the month continued, it got harder and harder and whew boy, I'm glad Blaugust is over. This was a fun...
I spent most of this weekend moving, so Friday’s edition slipped past me. I am publishing it late rather than pretending the week was quiet.OverviewPaperCut and NetScaler both moved into active-exploitation territory, Next.js shipped fixes for two critical remote-code-execution flaws, and another trusted npm...
]media guideTrying something new this month and shifting the media guide to monthly. We will still cover all the releases for the month, but the format will be a bit different, and more of it will be exclusive to our paying subscribers including a new TV Guide that you can download and print out to follow along all...
Quoted Fujinokawa Gives Kyoto 1st Sekiwake in 2 Centuries by The Yomiuri Shimbun (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp) According to the JSA, Fujinokawa becomes the first wrestler from Kyoto Prefecture to reach sekiwake in 198 years, following in the footsteps of Hiodoshi, who made it for the October tournament in 1828. The 2026...
La série Dark Matter, dont la première saison avait été diffusée en 2024 par AppleTV, vient d’entamer sa deuxième saison. Elle met en scène le personnage de Jason Dessen, professeur de physique dans une université moins prestigieuse que ce qu’il voudrait, qui est enlevé par son double venu d’un univers parallèle...
Hello and happy last day of August! I've got a quick question to ask my readers...
There is a lot of doom and gloom about the current rampocolypse, coming just after the GPU craze of the crypto hype train. However, not all is bad in the current tech landscape - yet... There is alot of things that are undeniably better and cheaper than before. Let's go hope (cope?) posting. Cases Cases used to be...
Heute Morgen berichtete mir eine enge Freundin, die selbst Mutter einer jüngeren Tochter ist, von ihrem kräftezehrenden Besuch einer Minigolfanlage am Wochenende. Geplant war Spaß, heraus kam Frustration. Sie war dort gemeinsam mit ihrem Vater und ihrer Tochter, die im Verlauf des Spiels ab einem gewissen Punkt wohl...
“We cannot deeply love anything without becoming vulnerable to loss,” Judith Viorst wrote in her defense of life’s necessary losses, “and we cannot become separate people, responsible people, connected people, reflective people without some losing and leaving and letting go.” We know that loving anything or anyone...
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Thundermail is finally here! Got the invite to join today, so I did and moved my personal email from Hostinger to Thundermail. Now if we could get Thunderbird for iOS released right away, please, Mozilla. Spark has been great generally but the recent AI-bloat is just too much.
Blaugust 2026: Final WordJames, a fellow blogger and friend, kindly offered me a chance to guest post on his blog: with words, wonder, so that I could tick off one more task in the Community Builder award list. This means I achieved the goal! I will try to contribute more to the Blaugust community next year for...
I had a moment yesterday. A touch of the OhFuckingHellItsAllGettingABitTooMuchNow's. I was taking the dog for her longer walk of the day at a local woods. The forecast was saying the day would be punctuated with very heavy showers, so we were prepared for a wet walk. Recently my walking has not been good. Coupled...
On the last day of their visit, I spent the day with my niece. She liked yogurt as a beverage and watching AI-generated memes on YouTube. At eight years of age, she was more solemn than she had been the year before. She used to tell me, “I missed you. Did you miss me?” Now, she was absent of love declarations, shy...
My house has the following features: Solar panels on the roof. These were heavily subsidized and on a 10-year lease, so excess electricity is taken by the power company for the first 10 years. After that, I can export it for profit (although I expect prices to keep falling). An ENE-FARM, a fuel cell that uses...
One of the hardest problems in distributed systems is conflict resolution, or the same basic problem as merge conflicts in Git. Git merge conflicts happen when your branch differs from upstream in a way that Git can’t easily work its way around so it exposes both sides of the changes to humans and has the human (or...
2026-08-31Hello!This long row of buildings was one of the the only structures on this flat, green field. This one, with its front porch crumbling, was not safe to enter.I don't know which building this was; they're all identical, set apart only by their decay.The National Park Service manages it, claiming these...
“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” According to Wikipedia, it’s an adage that goes back to 1512 in Germany. People have known for hundreds of years that you should be careful not to throw out a good and vital thing in your zeal to get rid of a minor annoyance. I think about this when I see people dumping...
Udenstue is a Danish term for a sunroom. The word itself has fairly simple origin in Danish language and comes from: ude (outside, outdoors) and stue (room) and is typically a glazed room built onto a house, with walls roof largely of glass used as an extension of the living space. It makes perfect sense since...
Earlier today I saw a comment on a post on BBS that was really quite disappointing. The post itself was announcing a new Gemini client, in this case a fully-native macOS one called MajorTom. It's early days for the project, but it looks fun. It also looks like the author is having a ton of fun building it. I can...
Participating in Blaugust this year got me out of my cave. I haven’t really written in quite some time, for a variety of reasons, but I wanted to push myself to start again this month. I din’t have a goal, at least not one that I said (or wrote) out loud. Knowing myself, deep down I wanted to write 31 posts, but I...
A couple of weeks ago, I went to the “Spiders of Paradise” exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. This is a small collection of photographs and video by the artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso. The exhibition is about the Maratus (Wikipedia link) genus of spiders. They are commonly known as “peacock spiders”,...
The wife and I left our 10- and 12-year-old kids at home last night and set off walking to a nearby restaurant. Our dinner instructions: “Can you guys just figure it out?” Their response: “Yep.” And they did and were fine. We’ve come a long way. 😅