Tue Sep 15
It's exactly one year since my first post, ArmA Appreciation Post. I feel it's both suprising and obvious that I've made it this far. On one hand, most blogs usually die around this age, on the other hand, blogging is really fulfilling. It's quite fun to just write about whatever shows up in my mind, and making...
I think about how alone I will feel forever if not with you. When I do, it blurs the edges of my sight. Of all the words I have uttered… especially those I reach for often, arms outstretched like the Vitruvian Man. “Between” is the word, teetering between realms. Leonardo da Vinci – Recto: The proportions of the...
I think in the next 5 years, most jobs in my field – data analysis and visualization – will be replaced by AI. So I've been thinking about different careers I could jump to that would be better “insulated” from AI replacement. It's possible that my current job will morph from designing and building interactive data...
Poor bottlenecks. Always seen as problematic, antithetical to efficiency. But bottlenecks aren’t universally bad. Think about it: a bottle’s neck is designed to constrain the amount of liquid that can flow out. A decrease in bandwidth is its entire purpose! Otherwise an overwhelming amount of liquid flows out and...
Enshittification, the idea that online platforms, particularly social networks and social media, degrade once they become popular, is a fiction, according to Ruby Thelot, Professor of Design, AI and Media Theory, at New York University. Because, rather than turning away from from the likes of Facebook, Instagram,...
Having an exclamation mark in an article title is bad style in my book, but I don't know how else to express my puppy-level excitement after a weekend spent at Danish Air Show 2026. It was indeed the very first time I attended an air show, and it has been a success through and through, starting with the registration...
Learning new things every day! (We're ok btw) Around 7:20pm Sunday night there was an incredibly loud sound in our yard and my youngest kid shouted from upstairs "UHH HEY A TREE JUST FELL ON THE GARAGE" (Great way to start a wind down Sunday evening, fwiw) We went out (with many neighbors who'd also heard the sound)...
In the U.S., we have allowed the courts (particularly the Supereme Court) to legislate matters that should be decided by Congress. A recent one is the question of whether "prediction markets" are financial things regulated federally by the SEC or if they are gambling, which is regulated by each state individually....
As a teacher, I have had students do peer editing a variety of ways: in pairs, in groups of 4-5, as a big group passing papers to the left every ___ minutes, online as a discussion thread, and so on. My new approach with peer editing in my two different creative writing classes has gone better than any other...
Here are the 'always excellent Dick Davis' and the 'right decent geezer' Samuel Johnson back already. Davis is writing (to fellow poet R.L. Barth) about Johnson's Lives of the Poets – and about Johnson the man...With Johnson's Lives of the PoetsHe wrote these quick biographiesTo be instructive and to please; In them...
I realised something when I woke up in a panic last night about my hospital visit today (update: the results were perfect): fear only works in absolutes. You either die right away of the disease or you live. Fear doesn’t do in between, and boy, it’s good at doom scenarios. Every time I walk out of the hospital after...
I recently wrote about Digital Ocean deciding to donate $3 million dollars to a racist's pet linux project. In that post, I said that I would be migrating off of Digital Ocean as soon as possible, because I did not want to support a company that chose to prop up a racist. I completed the migration to a Hetzner VPS...
2026-09-15Hello!Stepping back from the window made for an interesting composition through the camera. I wonder what I could have fit in the left third of the image, but as it stands, it remains dark for the middle window to bounce sunlight onto the right wall.It took me way too long to find each stop on my planned...
I recorded a video demonstrating how to use the Pagecord CLI and Claude to generate a new theme for your blog. Full details on the Pagecord blog.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZhBPhl89IFirst time I've used Omarchy Linux to do a screencast and edit video. It was surprisingly good, but the Mac is still my daily...
In 1964, Pantheon Books invited J.R.R. Tolkien (January 3, 1892–September 2, 1973) to write an introduction to George MacDonald’s The Golden Key, which he had praised in Tree and Leaf — the small, splendid essay collection that gave us his uncommonly insightful meditation on fairy tales, the language of fantasy, and...
I. This is a love story. I passed him a pencil in English class. When the bell rang, he chased me down the hallway to return it. A few months later, we walked to class hand-in-hand. We were happy. Weren’t we? I looked at the smooth slide of his smile and wondered if this was love. I folded myself into the shape he...
Dario Amodei, CEO di Anthropic, ha di recente pubblicato un lungo articolo dal titolo We Must Pace the Frontier (https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier), dove suggerisce -quasi intima- la necessità di dover rallentare lo sviluppo dei modelli di intelligenza artificiale, perché il ritmo attuale...
Con este script en Bash puedes descargar y volver a ver en tu equipo cualquiera de las 1144 tiras que su creador Danigm ha publicado desde 2004 hasta 2026 El pasado 10 de septiembre de 2026. La tira de Linux Hispano llegaba a su fin. Su creador, Danigm, cerraba así un círculo que empezó en 2004 y le llevó a publicar...
What Am I Adding to This? mtift Tue, 09/15/2026 - 08:12 On Saturday, twelve people joined me at Lake Fellowship for Take a Load Off, a daylong retreat about setting down some of what we carry.We practiced gentle yoga, sat, walked, talked, shared a potluck meal, and spent time outside in the woods. We couldn’t have...
Browse and organize your physical media collection on this website. The standout feature is the display: a three-dimensional shelf. “Take down” (click on) a movie and examine the box from every angle. For free.
Sumeet Gayathri Moghe finds many folks building presentations get tangled in building slides without a coherent narrative. He advises distilling the big idea, visualizing the audience, and building a structured storyline. more…
Motivation One time the original Marain Dictionary went down. I wanted to do my part in preserving that effort, but I also wanted to post something about I’ve been working on restoring and expanding the Marain dictionary, and wanted to get a bit further than looking up words individually. I want to put a short...
I’ve been away so missed this until today. I’ve read a few posts from this blog in the past few months. Originally I thought they were just being written to deliberately provoke. A low level trolling kinda thing. The consistency of it all has me thinking though, and I think their kind of constant criticism is less...
Last weekend my wife called me over to show me something on her phone. She was going through her old emails and came across some emails we had passed back and forth, from when we first met. She and I met in a club and went on a couple of dates, but then I deployed to Afghanistan with the Army. We continued to...
September 15, 2026 Lately, I've fucking around with different ways to organize my writing. I've bounced between editors, moved folders around, written scripts and automations, and tried to come up with the perfect file-based setup. Every time I thought I had it figured out, I found myself changing something again....
An analyst finds a serious problem. They can explain what happened, how it happened, and why the activity is technically dangerous.Then someone asks whether the affected system can be shut down.Does it support a revenue-generating service? Who owns it? Which customers will lose access? Does the incident need to...
Recent conversations with friends and peers who have been proactively using AI have surfaced their fears of not really knowing or understanding what they have up to with work. They seem to have the results but with litle understanding of how and why. One of them, a younger newer entrant to the workforce, said that...
For the many early years of its existence, Chrome sported a pretty distinctive – perhaps even iconic? – look to its tabs… …with even the “new tab” button looking like a tab embryo waiting to be brought into existence. At some point, however, during one of the redesigns, the tabs have been flattened to look like many...
I recently completed a logo design project for an animal welfare organisation, BluePerch. You can see different versions of the logo and page previews of the HTML style guide that came with it in the Portfolio entry for BluePerch.
My posting out-put has been subpar of late, but today the Pook-Emu Bee links return for the first time since September 10. 1 | 25 Years Since the Worst Day in My Lifetime (Andrew R. Arthur for Center for Immigration Studies. Sep. 11, 2026.) Memories of 9/11 and border/visa security in the ensuing quarter-century. 2...
AlbumsComfort classics Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino - Arctic Monkeys El Silencio - Caifanes De todas las flores - Natalia Lafourcade Summer nostalgia in bossa nova (dare I say psychedelic funk bossa novafusion ?) Curió Curió - Curió Curió TracksSerena Joy - Olivia Rodrigo Canciones de Amor - Julieta Venegas Por...
Tracing my musical journey. Months ago, Jason Dettbarn, creator of music community Crucial Tracks, kindly asked if I would be up to participate in the Crucial Interview series. There are some great people in there, some I'm familiar with from the indie web, but most notably, my first exposure to it was reading Zach...
This post is part of a series about my invisible tools: the hardware and software I use so much that I don't have to think about using them. During 2024 and 2025, I traveled a lot, and I decided to work only on my laptop, with no peripherals, whether I was at home or on the go. I wanted my setup to stay the same so...
In 2012 I was still doing screenprinting at the house. I had a manual one color press that I used for shirts and stuff but was able to easily use it for paper as well. I designed and printed some Halloween prints with it and it went well enough I figured I could do Christmas cards that way as well. I used a nice...
September 2026. Stepney. East London. A long trip down south for a dear friend’s funeral and some hospital trips at the in-laws, broken up with a night just shy of the Dartford Tunnel. Can you really say you’ve lived if you’ve never been to Lakeside Thurrock shopping centre ? It’s half an hour walk to Chafford...
The following are comments I made in a recent private talk. I am writing a summary here since the topic is of interest to a wider audience. The technology case versus the business case Machine learning, large language models, and agentic computing have reached a point where the technology case has strongly been made...
Toată lumea spune că în democrație și capitalism este foarte bine și că ești liber să îți exprimi părerile personale despre orice, dar asta doar până când ajungi să îți spui părerea despre LGBTQIA+, negri, evrei, politică, Rusia și multe alte subiecte. De exemplu, dacă spui că nu ești de acord cu războiul din...
Am Sonntag, 20. September, 13:00–18:00, findet im Bürgerhaus Kalk der Kalker Kunstmarkt statt—und ich darf einer der 20 Künstler*innen sein, die dort ausstellen und verkaufen 🎉 Ich werde die Originale von KalkKunst 2025 dabei haben, verschiedene Pen Plottings im A4-Format, eine kleine Postkarten-Serie zu den Kölner...
Scrolling through the timeline, these are only a few of the things I’ve seen today, people on different perspectives and paths, perhaps someone… That finally managed to fix their printer after a system update Talking about seeing someone else make a funny typo Sharing their progress on a software project Letting...
Today, your mom showed me your bedroom water bowl. It has officially dried up. We last filled it for you on July 20th, right before we started sleeping on the couch because you were in so much pain and needed to be held. We haven’t slept in the bedroom since. It’s not the same without you. I’m afraid to go back to...
Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs are challenged when they’re introduced to electronics, a new threat to playtime. Just as any other Toy Story movie, it’s all about the feelings, growing up and playing, in a world that’s becoming faster and more disconnected from each other. Six popcoorns because...
0:1 I’m a little ticked off. We had a terrible start to the new season over the first four matchdays; we’re in last place with only two points, and on Sunday we had the chance not only to play a good game at home against Mannheim but also to win, since Waldhof was only in 15th place with just 4 points at that time....
Plumeria in bloom along the Strand in Manhattan Beach. ストランドの植物 マンハッタンビーチのストランド沿いで咲くプルメリア。
The sentences in a book must quiver like the leaves in a forest, all dissimilar in their similarity. The Labor of Style (Letter to Louise Colet, April 7, 1854) by Gustave Flaubert, in The Art of the Short Story (2006) ; page 286. #quote #writingThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.