Wed Sep 16
Previously...https://wobblybear.uk/post/i-m-inside-again Things can move quickly in the health service sometimes. The fastest it moves is when they've decided they need the bed you are taking up when they have someone much more ill to put in it instead. Yesterday I found myself just finishing my breakfast cereal...
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] This video Matt Parker posted a couple of days ago really pissed me off: It’s cheating to say that a result arrived at through classical mechanics—in this case, that 12mv2 is...
We are creatures fragmentary but indivisible, each of us a whole that is always simpler than its parts, but complicated by the struggle for a living unison between them. Nothing betrays our partitions more plainly than our promises. False promises — those people make not intending to keep — are easier to comprehend,...
♠ Claude Tag: Claude Tag is a new way for teams to work with Claude. We’re starting on Slack, which Claude can join as a team member. Grant Claude access to selected channels, and connect it to whichever tools, data—and even codebases—you choose. Then, anyone in the channel can tag @Claude in, and delegate tasks to...
Villains. Love ‘em or hate ‘em? Love them, obviously. Way more than any hero. And if you know me at all, that’s not breaking news. I wrote essays about my fondness for both Loki and Deadpool back in 2014, proving this isn’t a phase I’m going to grow out of. I am a grown adult with a deeply consistent, slightly...
Remember bookmarklets? I remember getting online as a young person and being really amazed by the power of these. I hardly even knew what Javascript was back around the year 2000, but I knew these things were cool. As I got older and started to work on the web I remember using some very powerful bookmarklets like...
La vida de Chuck es una película de ciencia ficción con elementos de drama y cine fantástico. Bastante original, con un final curioso y con grandes nombres, sobre todo en su concepción. Porque La vida de Chuck está basada en el libro del mismo título de Stephen King, con guion y dirección de Mike Flanagan....
How we politicize technology in service of a better world is an open and contested question. A few days ago I shared a piece on historicising enshittification. In it, Arvind L. U. explores the limits of how Doctorow’s framing around that term is both ahistorical, in that it limits itself to a view that ignores the...
In the middle of this week I got some clarity at work about the process we are following for a significant upcoming change. It put my mind at ease to hear that we’re doing all the right things. It’s still going to take some time, but I’m happy to know what we’re planning to do. This was a week in which I: Learned...
Es ist noch zu früh, um sicher zu sein, was dieser Tag möchte. Die Antwort auf die Frage nach systemstabilisierenden Prozessen in “Küche sauber machen, Bad sauber machen” gefunden, wenigstens anteilig. Denn: Küche und Bad sind nie so sauber, wie in den Zeiten, in denen etwas Dringendes und Wichtiges weggeschoben...
Reports of agentic hacking continue, in this case it happened back in May and it seems OpenAI did not disclose that they were responsible. Simon Willison sees two options: After the Hugging Face and Wiki attacks OpenAI were still unable to review their previous logs and determine that they had previously attacked...
用 Tamper-monkey 集成 Kagi Translate (2) 結合 Zen 瀏覧器的分屏功能 之前分享了 用 Tamper-monkey 集成 Kagi Translate，誰能想到還有續集 :P 上次分享後，我又基於我的使用習慣做了一些調整，例如將字典和翻譯用不同窗口呈現，不再複用同一個窗口，這樣在翻譯的同時也能查字典；通過檢測原始頁面關閉，自動關閉臨時窗口，减少一些手動操作。 自動關閉窗口是用 visibilitychange event 實現的，也試過 beforeunload event 和 pagehide event，但都不如 visibilitychange 穩定。visibilitychange...
Wow, what a ride the last few years have been. 😬 The Amish aside (straw hat tip), it feels like almost nobody on the planet can escape hearing about AI multiple times a day at this point, for better or worse. Mostly worse.
Stream-of-conscious ramblings about how I'm going to get my finances in order. Finances are not my strong suit. I didn't learn it in school. When I asked my mother for advice, her response was, "Nobody taught me, so why should I teach you." I think she saw it as tough parenting. But if your kids aren't being taught...
With the reveal of the new iPhone Duo1, I was delighted to see how iOS was adapted to accommodate the strange, shifting nature of a folding display. How do we communicate the weird turns and tumbles of the hardware not just to the system, but to the user, to prepare them for what their big cumbersome motion will do...
These days, while I’m having more and more difficulties appreciating software in general, I’m getting a lot more joy and delight from tiny apps and little utility programs that offer very few features. In the past couple of days alone, I’ve discovered — or rediscovered in some cases — a few of these that I thought...
So I’ve been back for a few days from a trip to Ponza. Which is an island off the coast of Italy. A hidden little island off the coast of Naples, which has a three hour ferry to get there. It was a holiday where we both needed some much needed R&R, and Ponza provided it in spades. A quiet, sleepy fishing village on...
This year, unlike 2025, I updated my computer as soon as macOS 27 Golden Gate was released. The positive feedback during the testing period was encouraging, and deep down I figured that the original Liquid Glass, from macOS 26 Tahoe, was so bad that it couldn’t get any worse. No surprise: macOS 27 looks better....
Tim Hårek really sent me down a rabbit hole with all the self-hosted services he lists on his latest blog post. There are some interesting links I put on my reading list. The first one I actually looked into, though, was Pocket ID. It’s a nice little OpenID Connect provider. A great homelab alternative to Keycloak,...
2026-09-16Hello!I waited for a decent amount of time for something interesting to happen at this location. I had convinced myself that if I could get a good photo out of a dull store on the corner of a block, I would buy myself a bubble tea drink.I waited for interesting cars to drive by, or interesting people to...
2026-09-17: Big site update, including a new theme! Check out the blog post for details.
The doges Deusdedit (742-755), Galla (755–756), Domenico Monegario (756–764), Maurizio Galbaio (764–787) and his son Giovanni (787–804), from the "Istoria Veneticorum" by John the Deacon.
Recent discourse from major AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic has increasingly centered on the existential threat posed by super-intelligent AI. These organizations are grappling with the daunting task of ensuring that a super-intelligence - an entity with cognitive capabilities far exceeding our own - remains...
beframe enables a frame-oriented Emacs workflow where each frame has access only to the list of buffers visited therein. In the interest of brevity, we call buffers that belong to frames “beframed”. Package name (GNU ELPA): beframe Official manual: https://protesilaos.com/emacs/beframe Change log:...
Did you know that it only takes one vote to send a post from New to the front page? Now you do. If you (like me) are tired of the same, multiple day old posts that you've already read staying on the frontpage, you should look through a page or two of New. But what about all those uninteresting, hard to read, low...
Originally published on my Substack: Can you argue your way into believing in God? The new generation of online Catholic apologists In a 2021 paper, Fr. Philippe Dalleur argues that this photograph, taken of some of the tens of thousands of witnesses in 1917 in Fátima, Portugal, shows a pattern of "infrared shadows"...
I am a better person without my phone. In fact, I would go so far as saying there is a negative correlation between the amount of time I spend on my phone and the likelihood you would want to be around me. Last Saturday it was hot outside. I was bored and in a state of malaise. So, I picked up my phone. I used my...
Stars! is a 1995 4X game (explore, expand, exploit, exterminate) for 16-bit Windows 3.1 that I first played ~28 years ago. While Windows is famously backwards compatible, it’s notoriously difficult to play Stars! today. Windows x64 cannot run 16-bit applications, and playing requires either retro hardware or...
September 2026. Limehouse. East London. A gorgeous hour* in east London, even if the new pub in Stepney deserted me. “Walking round London is one of the greatest things on earth. And it’s free” I wrote when I was last here eight years ago, when the Clement Atlee was called Craft Beer Co (which confused me reading...
Intent ⬇ Preparation ⬇ Execution ⬇ Post-processing ⬇ Result The smartphone killed the idea of intentional devices. It is every device that you need and more. A phone, an iPod, an internet device. A phone, an iPod, an internet device. A phone, an iPod… you get the point. Having everything at the tip of your...
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Laurie Voss, who was one of the founder of NPM, the Javascript package repository that is now run by Microsoft, has written a longer post about an idea about how to fund Free Software that I found interesting. It’s worth reading if you have some time and makes good points even though I will critique it a bit. But...
Here’s something I only discovered recently: someone can still be homeless, even if they are not sleeping rough, or on the street. Couch surfing, living in temporary or emergency accommodation, and boarding houses or caravan parks, are also considered forms of homelessness in Australia. This even though a person has...
The star that leads the way is your star Cheaper planetary nebula: success! #rasdFastwalkerLeague View on Bluesky
First: Apple Passwords works really nicely. As it should, of course. I’m required to use Chrome at work, and the Apple Passwords integration is fine, but definitely clunky by comparison. Second: reader mode. And one of the cool things about reader mode, which I only just realized, is that it lets me impose dark mode...
A big screen carries with it different UI expectations, and how that manifests itself in Apple TV’s Settings app, is that there’s always room for an additional hint about the thing you’ve just selected. So yes, I have been exploring Apple TV’s Settings after the recent update like any normal person would, and I have...
A month ago, my old Gopher client for J2ME received renewed attention thanks to a referral. Doesn't happen often since development ceased. Yesterday, I finally got around to refreshing the page a little, in particular some links towards the end. I'm not quite done yet and it's a good feeling.
In late 2022 and early 2023, I first heard about ChatGPT and the current incarnation(s?) of artificial intelligence, I heard a lot of experts telling us that machines/programs/AI can't learn the way humans can learn. Then they'd explain the creation process of these technologies and how humans programmed them to...
I've written before about the case for ephemeral workstations, and more recently about how I use Ubuntu Server, Herdr, Mosh and Tailscale. The whole setup is basically what is called a Thin client. In computer networking, a thin client is a simple, low-performance computer that has been optimized for remote desktop...
I started Noodlist in January to try my hand at affiliate marketing. I am not good at affiliate marketing. But I did have fun making the little cooking videos of each of the ramen that I posted on youtube. The whole aspect of the video is that it shows you how to prepare the noodles based exactly on the instructions...
Read The Bones of Doubt now!So are dinosaur bones a complete sham?Just for the record, I do not believe the Earth is 6,000 years old. Some of the people I grew up with do. They believe Satan put dinosaur bones on the Earth to tempt us into believing in things like evolution and science.While I like to respect...
Share a song that makes you want to dance every time. Smashing across the pop, funk, soul genres, with some smooth disco beats, I love this track. Over played? Yes. Over hyped? Possibly. Catchy as all get out? ABSOLUTELY. “Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)” by Mark Ronson Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not...
AutoDescriptor: Added categories via AutoDescriptor bot [taxonomy v3] I used to use [[wikipedia:Bay Area Rapid Transit|BART]] quite a lot back in the day and despite the fact that often trains would be cancelled or whatever, transit enthusiasts and BART itself would frequently publish an on-time percentage that...
I was bemoaning a jigsaw puzzle I’m doing, earlier today. It’s really cute and when it’s done it will be perfect but the pattern is way too busy for me to handle and I keep staring at pieces, thinking they could go anywhere and then set them aside, frustrated. I briefly considered putting the puzzle back in the box,...