Sun Sep 06
Haven't posted since March. These selected pages range from April to September. Published 06 Sep, 2026
Este verano estoy gestionando especialmente mal los días de calor. No sé si es porque me hago mayor o porque Chancla se hace mayor, pero los dos lo estamos pasando fatal. Ella, como no puede sudar, lo único que puede hacer para disipar el calor es jadear... y no para, solo deja de jadear cuando duerme....
My Dad rang yesterday. And he has obviously just discovered the video calling option on the Signal app. It caught me out at first as it is the first time he's ever used that option. I try not to use it much myself either really. To my kids it's second nature. Call Dad (me) do it on video. Am I being old-fashioned...
Hello there! Welcome to my new home on the internet. Previously located at antoniosantos.io, I've decided to start publishing content on otolock.net moving forward, and I'm still debating if I will be migrating my content to this new domain. The main reason for the change is cost. .io domain renewals went up last...
Camera Camp Snap Pro Data 20/08/2026 Location Bruxelles, Belgium ✱ Thanks for enjoying the RSS feed and reading! You can leave your comments by emailing me.
As a specialty coffee enthusiast, I’m always visiting different local roasteries. There’s something special about this ritual: independent roasters offer amazing coffee experiences and an incredible variety of beans you symple won’t find elsewhere. Last week, I experienced one of those great moments, and bought...
Welcome to the 96th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about Software Factories. In this edition: Graham makes us realize that you cannot get rid of programmers. Adrian is dismayed reviewing the history of Software Factories. In our Vidéothèque section, we listen to Damon Edwards tell us the story of how the DevOps...
De la 27 septembrie 2026, o nouă reglementare intră în vigoare în România, iar dacă faci videoclipuri cu regularitate, ai o audiență serioasă și câștigi ceva din asta, există șanse mari să te privească direct. Decizia CNA nr. 116/2026, publicată în Monitorul Oficial pe 28 august, introduce obligația de notificare la...
A few nice moments that caught my attention in Marek Minor’s case study of designing icons for Cursor. The diagonals for “cancel/wrong” icons are always backslashes, and all the “positive” icons are always slashes: There is a system that provides 1-to-1-and-only-1 mapping between a concept and an icon: The point of...
I’ve seen a number of posts in vaguely recent history admonishing bloggers to do better with meeting accessibility standards and whatnot. Most recently, I saw this one from Unattributed: Guys, we really, really suck at this! To me, this is about: Sense of pride in the IndieWeb. Performance of our sites, especially...
I recently discovered a site called RSS Amplifier which syndicated 19 articles in full from my full-text ATOM feed to its own site and under its own banner without permission. While it did so with attribution and a link back, syndicating, or effectively publicly re-publishing entire articles without my consent is...
By the time I was fully into software programming, git had become the de-facto abstraction to managing codebase changes and collaborate. The days of writing and exchanging "patches" and diffs with others before applying them upstream had long since disappeared (except maybe in some small quarters within the Linux...
Zondag 6 september mocht ik voor het Paradisodebat van Kunsten ‘92 de aftrap geven voor twee uur discussie over AI. Er is een uitstekende video-opname van het hele evenement (link naar mijn bijdrage). Ik ben de organisatie erg dankbaar voor de uitnodiging voor dit publiek te spreken. Voor mij als “nerd” uit de tech...
Después de 25 años dando soporte a servicios activistas. El colectivo Autistici/Inventati (A/I) no ha podido aguantar la presión por parte del gobierno filonazi de EE.UU. El pasado día 2 de septiembre publiqué en el blog un artículo en el que el colectivo A/I comunicaba que intentarían aguantar desde que el pasado...
What is a song that instantly energizes you? Thumping bass, catchy melody, quintessential dance music always gives me energy. It’s why club nights were such a highlight of my youth. These days, energising tracks are for things like exercising which brings a similar endorphin high to those club nights —without the...
The weather forecast was amazing, and I had a good night sleep. I really itched to go out and we did! We went to a museum about an hour’s drive from the house, and it’s famous for its amazing sculpture garden and one of the largest van Gogh collections in the world. It was so so so wonderful. Here are some pictures...
“I’m so unused to being happy that I haven’t really come to terms with what it involves… I feel like a garden that’s finally been watered, so my flowers can bloom.” “All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured,” says Too-ticky, trying to comfort the lost and frightened...
Finished reading Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories by Stefan Zweig. This was perfect to read just before bed to take my brain off to another time and place; undemanding but poignant. I love his writing.
31st August - 6th September There's a cardboard box full of apples by the side of the road with a crudely hand-lettered sign that makes a Mickey of design. It reads "Free Apples" — a gift from a neighbour to the neighbourhood. I briefly feel guilty for having not shared any of my windfalls. They were delicious. A...
Eleven websites have been selected as finalists for this year’s Tiny Awards, and you can vote for your favourite. Polling closes on Friday 25 September 2026. There’s some awesome late-nineties web design vibes to found among the 2026 finalists.
Trying a new thing So I thought I'd take a stab at some weeknotes. It's something I enjoy reading from other people, and I've been meaning to start the habit for ages. It was one of my New Year's resolutions, in fact, so September seems about right to give it a crack. Some ground rules for myself. I will only ever...
I discovered two new bots in my server logs last week: RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot. They come from RSS Amplifier and Brisk News respectively. Bot sites are built by Profullstack, Inc. I discovered that RSS Amplifier, unbeknownst to me, had been crawling New Leaf Journal’s ATOM feed and re-publishing (albeit they...
🇷🇺 Русская версия | ☀️ Main page Inexplicability of miracles is evidence against God There's a discourse on substack about divine miracles these days, in particular about the Fatima miracle, and whether it proves God exists/Catholicism is true. Some try to rebut it on meta grounds, like pointing out comparably...
For a little while I have been using YouTube way more, and even paid for the Lite subscription model, simply to test it out. Honestly, it hasn’t been too bad, and I actually really, really enjoy a lot of the videos I’ve gotten through the algorithm. But of course, YouTube Shorts have caught up with me and continue...
Social media has become another way for the rich and unscrupulous to exploit the vulnerable and the gullible. Social media is for people who don’t have a sex life. — Irvine Welsh
Dresden, 1973. CC BY-SA 3.0 DE image via Deutsche Fotothek and Wikimedia Commons. Friends, I thought I wouldn’t write a post today—that I’d take Labor Day weekend off like everyone else.1 But here I am, albeit briefly, pondering the fact that writing, the thing I do for myself, the activity for which I’ve dismissed...
Manchmal kehrt man in einen Alltag zurück, der einen umarmt, wie dieser eine, aufdringlich laute Verwandte, der einen bei Familienfeiern immer ein bisschen zu fest und ein bisschen zu lange gedrückt hat. Willkommen in der Mühle. Guten Montag, euch allen. Per E-Mail antworten
Rogallo v2.3.0 is now available. The main addition to this release is support for the Titan Protocol. First up, there's a small fix. The other day I discovered Scriptonite. While looking at the examples I noticed none of them worked with Rogallo. This struck me as odd because the whole point of Scriptonite is that...
The antithesis of slop. It's been a few years since I'd attended the SF Zine Fest. Friend Scott Boms had a table with his Matter Editions wares, and it's a 10-minute walk from home, so Jen and I had to go. Held at The Hibernia, it was a treat to actually go into this historic building that I've wondered about for as...
Ever since it officially opened in 1880, Riverside Drive has promised bigness: spacious lots, roomy mansions, and towering prewar apartment houses with expansive views across the Hudson River. So how did this one-story stub of a house end up on the south corner of Riverside Drive and West 107th Street, nestled...
By: Kees Verhoeven | Rating: 3/5I found a pile of these in a cupboard at work and reqd it over the weekend.. I've met Kees a few times and love his passion for government IT. His book is a compendium of all he was involved in in his political years. Sadly the book is already dated; most things are way worse now, and...
I’ve been thinking about this mountain for more than a decade at this point, for reasons I’m gonna explain later. I wanted to hike it a few weeks ago, but there was a raging wildfire not too far from it on a nearby mountain, so I had to wait. Wait for better air conditions, because hiking with ash and dust in the...
After last week’s sleep deprivation I decided that this week I’ll force myself to go to bed at nine every day. That didn’t exactly mean that I’d sleep at nine but I magically managed to read more than usual and still sleep earlier than usual. Who knew.Alas, more sleep just means I’m less sleepy but it does not mean...
Color shapes perception, usability, and accessibility. I share go to resources and tools for understanding color theory, building accessible palettes, helping designers make better, more inclusive color choices.
How two iPhone apps help me harness the difference You are here, your deadline is there. It’s time to cross the space between those two points. How do you visualise that intervening time — as counting down, or counting up? As something that is running out, or something that is being filled? I’d never considered...
Tengo que reconocer que el verano de 2026 está siendo demasiado largo. Necesito volver a una rutina que es rutina, básicamente, necesito que mis hijos empiecen el colegio. No hay nada peor que trabajar en verano, con los niños y con mucho calor. De nada me ha servido estar fuera de casa, bueno, tal vez, generarme el...
The Pactum Lotharii was a treaty between the Duchy of the Venetians and the Holy Roman Empire, or parts thereof, from 840.
got the moka pot my friend shared on his blog. it's really solid and is made out of stainless steel as opposed to aluminium, like most other moka pots. because it's made out of steel, coffee comes out at a slower pace making it easier to control and not get the bitter end that spatters everywhere. it's also easier...
Eyes familiar in many faces Bishop I am in mouflon forest scion of the beheaded priest who led the rebellion Zenon I became in calm waters and travelling merchant to the further places As teenagers we once met on Balkan battlefields with boyhood aggression that no promise of comfort can contain In being George I did...
2026-09-06Hello!For all my comments on urban design, I have to admit that the shopping mall, for all its flaws, is still a place I visit from time to time.Looking at the maps and directories, I found this camera store near me and stopped by to see what they had in stock. While there were a few banners and documents...
A retro-heavy week over on social.omgmog.net between 31 August and 6 September. There’s a 1993 Amiga platformer getting an LLM-assisted port to Godot, HyperCard stacks running in the browser decades after anyone last opened HyperCard, and someone working out what it’d actually be like to live in a Playstation 2...