Fri Sep 04
During my last trip I used Uber. I use it now and then, when I need to and (above all) when I’m abroad. I redownloaded the app on my iPhone and logged in. All good. Good service, just as I remembered it. Maybe even better than I remembered it. A few days ago their newsletter arrived1. At the bottom of the email it...
The other day I was saying I was bored and confused with the role of software developer. But I think I may have a bit of clarity now. Maybe I’m not bored and confused. Maybe I just hate it all. I received an email from Ruby Central the other day. I can’t remember what it said. But I did remember the shit-show over...
Uma das coisas que me impedia de escrever mais por aqui era o processo após ter o texto pronto. A primeira versão do blog era em HTML puro e eu precisava montar a página com o novo post, atualizar o índice e o feed manualmente e depois subir ao servidor. Desde que eu migrei meu blogue para Jekyll, as páginas são...
Read Small Creatures Among Great Beasts now!Were you a big dinosaur kid growing up?I was a dinosaur maniac from about two years old: I guzzled picture books about them. Tricaretops were my favourite and still are: I mean, three horns and a built-in shield—that’s evolutionary perfection. My family encouraged me in...
I was sorry to hear of the death of that gifted comic actor Chris Langham, whose career ended too soon and all too ignominiously. There's an excellent obit in the Telegraph, but it's likely paywalled. Here's something I wrote about Langham a while back...
Throwback updates. I updated some links, and provided more context about rates. I also changed Sprint to T-Mobile, to reflect the merging of Sprint and T-Mobile. Since this is a throwback article, it probably will not receive updates beyond this point. Original article. For most Americans, the process of using the...
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📚 Book 19 of 2026 - Finished (8/19): The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (4/5⭐) I've been really careful about the books I choose to read lately since I'm still not in the right mental space to read anything too heavy. I'm not quite sure how I came upon this book, but I was wary that it might be another one...
Don’t worry, I can connect to Wi-Fi networks, I just lost mobile data access and phone calls with my current SIM chip. You see, the silly government of my beautiful country decided that the best way to stop scam, blackmail and other crimes via phone calls would be to force everyone into registering their phone...
Today is Bandcamp Friday, a day where Bandcamp waives their revenue share so artists & labels get the full amount. It's pretty cool. I pay for Spotify but even in this streaming age I like to buy the albums that I think are really good. I like owning the music, even though I do mainly listen via Spotify. I also like...
I’ve been vaguely reading the Bubbles RSS feed for the past month or so. Bubbles aggregates a bunch of “small web”/”indie web” blogs, which sounds like it should give you a variety of diverse, interesting things to read: Original, different approaches to writing and design and etc etc etc, right? I don’t want to be...
What song do you wish you had written? Happy Birthday? Bohemian Rhapsody? Lyrics is where my brain focuses, which takes me to Cohen, Garvey, McCartney, Swift, Bush… But meaning matters and this song is such a gentle exploration of how beautiful life is if we pause and look around, literally stop and smell the...
Last year, TrainerRoad launched its integration with Zwift, and that’s how I’ve been doing all of my indoor structured cycling workouts ever since. As I wrote at the time, TrainerRoad has been my favorite training app since I got into cycling and triathlons—I love its data-science-based approach to training plans,...
futurefonts.com Gimme is the kid in class who has everything, from the latest toy as seen on TV to a tricked out BMX bike. It's the only person you knew with the complete Playmobil Mansion or USS Flagg. This time however, it can be you! Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of multi-chromatic and variable...
The primary reason I bought this watch was the ability to display and navigate using proper offline maps. Garmin doesn’t have maps for India. But the OpenStreetMaps community has maps that can be loaded into Garmin. There are many community-built web services, such as Thukke’s OSM Downloads and Userbeam, that...
Moving from the only home we'd known in our married life this spring required us to downsize in ways that once would have caused me oceans of anxiety. Certain material goods were so intertwined with my self-identity. As avid, life-long readers, our bookshelves were overflowing, although our reading has mostly been...
Last week I finished my third Emily St. John Mandel novel in a row, The Glass Hotel, and it has been a fascinating journey. Mandel has built a marvelous multiverse across Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, and Sea of Tranquility: each book has its own preoccupations and protagonists, but characters recur from one...
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...
For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob. Bob and his wife were a kind, reserved older couple who decorated their home mostly with crucifixes and talked about Jesus a lot. Bob helped my mom with a lot of common household tasks after my dad died. When she woke up to a small fire on...
用 Tamper-monkey 集成 Kagi Translate 以及用 Docker Sandbox 使用 OpenCode 和 DeepSeek 我現在主要用 Kagi Translate 閱讀外文， Kagi Translate 提供了 瀏覧器插件，有三個我常用的功能： 1) 網頁全文翻譯 2) 選擇內容翻譯 3) 字典定義。但插件很久沒更新了，最近用下來也有兩個很影响使用的地方：...
I am not what one would call the greatest player of Halo to ever grace this planet. If you can believe it, I am rather mediocre. I have moments of greatness, but I’m also very much a casual player. Halo is a game I can pick up and play for leisure without too much effort or consideration. That said, I love data. I...
The bravest thing I’ve ever done when no one was watching was order food over the phone. I know. Some of you are probably sitting there thinking, Really? Yes. Really. And before you start comparing this to things like running into burning buildings or skydiving or giving birth without an epidural, let me remind you...
OverviewThis week put exposed edge systems, trusted login paths, and internet-facing business software back at the front of the queue. SonicWall and Sangoma confirmed exploitation against remote-access and phone-system products, Google patched another Chrome zero-day, and CISA added seven flaws spanning appliances,...
Well the year turns on, and that means, of course, that I have conventions coming up. I mean sure, I have a birthday too, but that's somehow less important. Or at least, like, from your point of view. Anyhow, on Saturday September 12th I'm going to be at Eau Claire Comic Con from 10:00AM to 5:00PM. It's being held...
The following is an excerpt from a private exchange. I am sharing it with permission from my correspondent, without disclosing their identity. My point is how to make best use of one’s curiosity. Now, I would like to ask how you manage your curiosity. I have questions about almost every subject I encounter, which I...
2026-09-04Hello! This is a technical article, and even I think I went a bit overboard with this one.I read one Wikipedia article on Ansel Adams's photographic Zone System and I think I know everything. The arrogance! In my defense, it was the clearest article online I could find on the zone system; the rest were so...
“The emotional universes we inhabit are so distinct, and in deepest ways opposed, that nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us.” “To approach someone else convincingly you must do so with open arms and head held high, and your arms can’t be open unless your head is high,” the...
Is the world morally ordered? Do good things come to those who act well and bad things to those who act badly? Do the virtuous thrive and the wicked suffer? I will not -- you'll be disappointed to hear -- actually answer this question in this post. Instead, I'll discuss the structure of several possible answers, so...
By: Thomas M. Nichols | Rating: 5/5This is a re-read (Total reads: 2).Tom Nichols wrote this in 2017, and all he describes only got worse. We're stuck in a spiral of education standards dropping, people embracing ignorance and experts talking about things outside their area. We are asked our opinions on things we...
Today I mowed the soccer field at the "community center" where I volunteer. With a push mower. 🥵 As a kid, I spent a lot of time mowing on our family Christmas tree farm. I enjoy it (although a riding mower is better than a push mower). You can see your progress. And, it requires limited focus so there is plenty of...
A few months back, Pi’s creator Mario Zechner gave a talk on developing Pi and slowing things down. It resonated with me so much that I wanted to try out the harness. I’m also getting increasingly wary of how bloated Claude Code and Codex have gotten over time. I have no idea what these harnesses are putting into...
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This is the second installment of Internet Adventures. In the previous episode I highlighted a few fantastic blogs. An internet astronaut such as yourself (my reader) knows that blogs aren't the only cool things happening on the internet. For the this episode of internet adventures, I wanted to highlight some...
Why cant I like things a normal amount? Why so they have to be this all-consuming thing? Why am I back at maladaptive daydreaming? Why this yt channel is hurting me so much? Why can't I live a life, why do I just keep thinking about living it, about doing stuff that's impossible and out of my reach? And even thw...
Una lista de cosas que me dan una felicidad infinita. Tortillas de maíz recién hechas (esta es la razón por la que empecé a escribir esta lista). Escuchar alguna canción favorita en la radio. Encontrar inesperadamente un gran libro en la biblioteca. Cocinar unas palomitas perfectas. Descubrir un músico o banda nueva...
Growing up we’d gather round the TV to watch The Grand Ole Opry, Hee-Haw on the regular, and any countrified special that aired. Every character on those stages were larger than life, though sequins likely added to this magnification. Minnie Pearl had that tag hanging off her hats and a wide grin like my Aunt...
Giving the living room a fall makeover. This is why I don't want to do any cleaning/home stuff on Friday. I just don't have the motivation! Skipping the gym today since I had said that I'll be going once a week anyway while I adjust to the new work schedule. Otherwise, Fridays would have been a good day. (I'm now...
I saw Disclosure Day a few weeks (months?) ago with friends. As we were leaving I noticed one of my friends looked sad (the movie wasn't that bad), so I went over to see what was wrong. She was talking to another friend about something she read online about the movie being offensive to Christians. As soon as I heard...
Tendenzialmente sono sempre stato un bastian contrario, quindi per certi versi è naturale buttar giù un post come questo in un momento storico dove gli USA hanno probabilmente il livello di popolarità più basso di sempre nella loro storia.
A nice moment in iOS – even if you delete an app, you might still be on the hook for its subscription, so the operating system shows this right after deletion: (Context for the screenshot: I’m only uninstalling Quiche Browser to reinstall it and get back to the pristine onboarding for the previous post.)#got your...
I decided I was bored with the previous design, but wanted something that was in keeping with the previous design (brutalist and using a monospace font) yet different. I abandoned the yellow accent and went back to blue, my favourite colour. I also changed the font to Victor Mono. I like how the new design draws...
Hace poco instale spamassasin para entender su funcionamiento y me sorprende lo poco que necesita de atención humana, pero eso sí, hay cosillas que es mejor echarle un ojo para entender como funciona. Lo que vamos a analizar a continuación, usualmente está resuelto de manera transparente al usuario o incluso al...
“But is this actually philosophy?” Ethan Landes (Eindhoven University of Technology) is tired of experimental philosophers being asked The Question. And he’s tired of experimental philosophers “appeasing” those who ask it by “dressing up experimental scholarship up as relevant to armchair analytic philosophy.” Part...