Sat Sep 05
This is a followup to my previous two articles, first My Homeserver is dying in slow motion and then the old box got replaced in My homeserver is new again…. One of the decisions I made is going Proxmox as Base instead of a bare metal linux with services. Way easier to maintain. But Proxmox by default isn’t built...
My wife and I spent our summer vacation this year on the Polish Baltic coast. It was a welcome relief from the unbearable heat in Central Europe. As the 8-hour drive seemed a bit too long for us, we stopped off for two days on the way up in Potsdam, the former royal residence of the Prussian kings, foremost among...
Here's how the bike looks folded up. I haven't done too much experimenting to optimize it. To fold the bike: Open the V-brakes Take off the wheels Loosen the hinge bolt Loosen both seat post clamps Remove post Pull rear brake housing segment out of the cable stop Fold rear triangle shift into lower gear to move...
Just finished this book yesterday, and the words I have to describe the book are tragedy, tragedy, and tragedy. This book kept me at the edge from beginning to end. I was anxious while reading every single page, fearing that something bad would happen. So for sure, it is not a book for lighthearted people or for...
This post is entirely inspired by Rachel Maksy’s video she posted yesterday: my complete ineptitude to do a new to me yarn craft: nålebinding. This morning the headline of a triumphant article shouted at me that OpenAI now has created human intelligence or something stupid like that. I didn’t read it as I had...
From a favourite north Cornwall clifftop walk. This is looking south towards Boscastle and Tintagel. Padstow is around 25 miles away on the distant horizon.
The world’s greatest motoring show returns with new presenters - Thomas Holland, James Engelsman and Francis Bourgeois - and its trademark blend of global adventure, incredible vehicles, epic stunts and strong opinions. While the original trio of Clarkson, Hammond and May remains legendary and unbeatable, I feel...
BookmarksBookmarked: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/glm-53-how-chinese-labs-keep-stride
Giving up coffee for a month(?)Starting the day before yesterday, for no particular reason at all, I have decided to do a coffee detox. For a month. I don't know if I will last that long, but that is the plan. Yes, I'm doing okay; this is just a silly idea that had been implanted in my brain some time ago. Now I...
Por fin podré ir a la universidad, pero... Un post un poco deprimente para mi gusto XD
This post is another that I accidentally published before I had time to properly review and revise. I forgot to mark it as a draft. I meant to tone it down a little, but here we are. So, sod it, I guess? As I wrote about before, a person chose to use her economic power and privilege to displace six people from their...
I added a dark-theme toggle to this blog about a month ago. Later, I saw Lea Verou’s post, The best dark mode toggle is probably none: However, my biggest insight from all of this is that while I stand by my original recommendation that in most cases, if you are going to have a dark mode toggle that is visible at...
The second day of school. The fortune of living close by means we do not have to rush, but the misfortune means I often loose track of time. So I rush out the door with the children, dropped the first at the school, and biked on with my second to her daycare. After this, I begin the journey to work, looking forward...
A family member yesterday who is going on an aoroplane vacation said “I know you don’t like that” and I was like… it doesn’t matter what I think. It’s not my opinion that matters. I actually think flying and travel is fun and fascinating. The problem is that millions of people have died from climate change already...
Superstition Wilderness, Arizona (from my photos) I spend a lot of time outdoors. Camping. Fishing. Hiking. Soaking in the goodness of nature. I get irritated when I see people leaving trash (or their imprint) where it doesn't belong. I am concerned about our environment. I am concerned about our access to clean...
The best part of my least favourite season, with the last of the heat now fading and the sense that the transition to Autumn (my favourite season) is not far away.
You know it, that awful moment your coherent self-image shatters and a part of you, shadowy and untended, splits off to cause harm and havoc as the rest of you watches helplessly, wincing. You know the next moment, too — the desperate wish for an undo button you know cannot be had, no matter your protestations and...
Audience capture is a phenomenon common on social media where, over time, a creator loses their authentic voice and instead tailors their content to the desires of their audience as represented by engagement statistics. Audience capture pushes creators toward "average" forms of expression. Average does not always...
2026-09-05Hello!This horseshoe crab (and a few others) was resting on the sand. I'm not sure if it's alive, but the book I was reading happened to tell a story about "kind but ignorant guests" that interrupted the animal's mating behavior by chucking it back into the sea. I left the horseshoe crab alone.This book...
Nicola Losito: During my recent holiday in Spain, I found myself reflecting on the joy and the freedom I enjoyed moving from one State to another: from not having to change currency, from having my documents recognised, from not having to switch my phone plan, from not having to pay artificial surcharges. Moving...
Played on Nintendo Switch Reviews TL;DR Slap Fight (1986) Truxton (1988) Hellfire (1989) Twin Hawk (1989) Zero Wing (1989) Vimana (1991) Truxton II (1992) Grind Stormer (1993) Conclusion Links & References It took me some time to get around to writing this. Volume 1 of this collection is one of the best purchases...
After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram I think I have finally done it. The next version of Anubis will ship with WebAssembly-based proof...
I fell for the hype for a bit and was playing around with Omarchy on my ThinkPad. While I did like some of the opioniated setup (the theming system is very cool), a number of things bothered me. First and foremost, the controversy surrounding DHH is hard to ignore. I wasn't particularly well versed in it, but after...
Yesterday was a frustrating day. On Thursday, I had trouble with the authenticator app that I have to use to get access to my online classes. On Friday, I had the same trouble, so I thought I'd call the help desk early in the morning before everyone else tried to call. So, at 4 a.m., I called, and at 5:20, I was...
I am a deeply sick individual who conflates customizing a text editor over the course of a week so that it is a passable version of a program like Notepad---something that every computer has had out of the box for thirty or forty years---with creating whatever it is that I am ostensibly actually working on. At least...
Hello again! The end of August and beginning of September has been quite busy for us here at Foofaraw HQ. Our Best of Strange Fiction anthology for 2025 is now officially out in the world and available everywhere books are sold online; we launched our special guest-edited and themed September issue (and have a bunch...
Table of Contents In-buffer completion Jump to definition and references Syntax checking Conclusion Language-server-protocol (lsp) is standard to communicate information about a current programming project to an editor integration, powered by a “language server” for the specific programming language. Emacs has two...
The UK government is finally starting to put together advice for households to stock up on food supplies, which should be announced as part of a campaign soon (I’ll add a link here when the official advice is released). According to the environment secretary Angela Eagle earlier this week: We’re about to experience...
Nine weeks ago I returned to work, as planned, after a twelve-month career break. People have been asking how it feels, so this is both a public answer and a note for Future Pete. How do I feel about the career break being over? When asked, the break has been easy to describe as one of the best things I have ever...
Many years ago, I put together a quick proposal of what I called “responsive text” for social proof: I think you get the idea – instead of dumb truncation, the underlying code could prepare a few strings conveying the information with different levels of specificity, and then the UI could choose the longest one that...
I'm not beating the Nongshim bias allegations, am I? I swear this one is because it's what I had as far as instant cups go, and I promise it might happen again, officer. I've been mulling over some particulars about the ontology surrounding my blog. While it's a slight departure from the first "Quick Bites" post, I...
Learn how to push your code to multiple Git servers simultaneously, making it easier to manage your repositories across different platforms.
What is This? I publish a weekly newsletter called The Newsletter Leaf Journal (learn more on our Newsletter Page). The newsletter is hosted with Buttondown. On rare occasions, I syndicate issues of The Newsletter Leaf Journal here. Because I have not published many NLJ articles of late, I decided to syndicate issue...
About a month ago I discovered that the scripts that classify pages as either “text” or “comics” on kwakk.info‘s section for “text pages from comics” (*phew*) didn’t like pages like the above. Which meant that all letters pages that had illustrations and stuff were categorised as comics and left out of the search...
This is a collection of comments to the feedback I received regarding my article titled The lie of socialist feminism (2026-09-05). I group them by topic. Women can decide what to do Indeed. I never made an argument to the contrary. Actually, I wrote about harmony in the family and also talked about solidarity in...
Eu amo jogos da série Ace Combat. Desde que joguei o primeiro jogo eu fiquei apaixonado, era completamente diferente dos jogos de avião que eu tinha experimentado. Não era extremamente lento como Top Gun do NES, mas não era tão frenético como After Burner do Mega-Drive. Era exatamente entre ambos, porém com uma...
WHO – An author you would love to have a ‘one to one’ with? The author who comes to mind is Corey Doctorow. I mostly like his science fiction and I resonate with his essays on modern technology. My main fear is that I would not be able to hold my own, and he would soon be bored. The only well-known author I have...
This article is about a few quick thumb rules I use when writing shell scripts that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. Very opinionated….
The work to add Titan support to Rogallo is going well, and I've been able to test it out fine on bbs, doing additions of "long text" and performing file uploads. In doing so, though, I was reminded that there is a proposed "edit" extension to Titan, which is supported there (and I believe on a couple of other...
Casey’s due to arrive from Florida tomorrow. Spent the day working from home, noticing the sun peeking through trees of a window that needs cleaning, and watched Stephen King’s The Long Walk to close out the day. I’d missed this 2025 film adaptation in theaters, and while very good, it was probably best at home....
Somewhere in the middle of ‘The Passage of the Marshes’, i began to wonder why the Sauron i’d decided to re-read The Lord of the Rings1. I’d forgotten how bleak and sluggish Frodo and Sam’s journey to Mordor was. Even though i wanted nothing more than to wring Gollum’s neck, i decided to plod through, knowing i was...
