Mon Sep 28
Another Akademy attended, here's some photos! Hello hello! It was that time of the year where I go to KDE Akademy, talk to fellow nerds, almost lose my voice due to socializing and eat a lot of nice food. This time Akademy was in Graz, Austria. I had never been in Austria before. This time I also had to travel alone...
Looping around Codure, at its true scale! It takes just under four and and a half minutes for me to get from sunset to to sunrise, which over 10 million kilometers is 133 million kph, or 12% the speed of light. #rasdFastWalkerLeague Need to work out mach cone and hypersonic effects soon! View on Bluesky
Hello all, here is what I think about the current drama going around the indieweb. 2026/09/hidden_blogs2.png And this has been my thoughts about the drama. Until next time!
Manifestes utopiques, textes programmatiques, déclarations tonitruantes ou pronunciamientos souterrains… Le web regorge de textes sur ce qu’il est ou devrait être. Depuis quelques années, le terme de web revival [ on y revient plus loin ] rassemble des approches variées visant à réactiver les principes...
Over the past few years, I spent way more time than I probably should have thinking about my life. And the way I usually look at it is by asking two fundamental questions. The first question is “do I want to have a life?”. You might think this is a silly question to even ask, but since I was a teen I’ve always had a...
I recently reverse-engineered the formula behind the pickpocket success rate in Skyrim. One of the Pickpocket perks in the game is called "Keymaster", which makes pickpocketing keys "almost always works", and which which I described as "maybe the most worthless perk in the game". Now that we have the formula, we can...
The vibeA satisfying week of making things, with some much-needed rain to close it out.Highlights🎨 I did some design work on the website this week. It was nice to spend time on how the site feels and looks, alongside the writing.💻 I kept working on my next app, including time with the iPhone Duo in mind. I am not...
Three years ago I got a DJI Mini 3 Pro for my birthday. Flying it around and getting aerial pictures is great fun. Lately, though, it mostly stays in its bag. This is about why.The droneIt's tiny. The camera is decent: a 1/1.3-inch sensor behind an f/1.7 lens, which is a big sensor for something this size. It has 48...
El otro día que estaba viendo Breaking Bad y recordé que en la secundaria nos hicieron aprender la tabla periódica, en ese entonces me pareció ridículo y ahora también me parece algo exagerado. En vez de enseñarnos cosas más útiles sobre química, solo memorizamos todos los elementos (creo que en el examen final...
Since diving back into [Neo]vim, I’ve been working with my Obsidian vault from the terminal. One feature I’ve been missing from the Obsidian app is text highlighting: text surrounded by two equals signs, ==like this==, gets a highlighter effect. Turns out this is super easy to add to Neovim (and probably Vim too,...
Taken 15 minutes before the previous photo, this image shows the dissipating clouds just before sunset, at 2nd St. in Hermosa Beach. 前の写真より15分前に撮影されたこの写真は、日没直前のハーモサビーチの2nd St.で、雲が散りつつある様子を捉えている。
Self-hosting is something I’ve been playing around with for a while, and I think I’ve finally got everything laid out the way I like it. This post will detail what I’m hosting and how I’ve got it set up, as always, on the cheap. My self-hosting set up is centered around streaming, because we like to watch things at...
My feet might be wrecked this morning (I do not recommend Skechers footwear) but here is a collection of 16 images (out of the 4000 I took!) from the GT & GB3 Racing from Brands Hatch, UK. Sunday 27th September. All images shot on my OM1-II and 40-150 f/2.8 Pro.
Eu raramente me fotografo. Deixa eu refazer a frase acima. Eu nunca me fotografo. Agora sim ficou melhor! Isso nunca acontece, eu nunca achei motivo para fazer autorretrato. Não me acho feio (o poder da autoestima é imenso!!!), mas não estou acostumado a aparecer em foto. Anos atrás das lentes fazem com que você só...
Für einen Kreativ-Kurs, von dem ich zu gegebener Zeit berichten werde, arbeite ich mich gerade durch ein Buch, das schon in der Einleitung mit zwei kurzen Passagen mein Herz gewonnen hat. Echter Dilettantismus darf nicht verachtet werden, denn jede Äusserung wirklicher Lebendigkeit muss in dürren Zeiten, wie den...
♠ Previously. Problem statement: how can I reuse a Typst slide layout without rebuilding its section navigation every time? Here is the complete Polylux template. Put these three files in one directory. theme.typ owns the Metropolis-inspired layout and Frankfurt-style navigation: section names above one dot per...
Feather Wiki UpdatesToday I updated my Feather Wiki personal brain dump tool (which I have written about here) to the latest version (Goldfinch v1.9.1). During this process I checked if there was anything new in the extensions, and noticed a nice upgrade to the editor called SunEditor. It claims to be “A...
La Sierra de Gredos fue nuestro destino vacacional este verano. Cada vez más al norte porque, la verdad, es que el calor ha apretado bastante. Nuestra base de operaciones fue la localidad de Candeleda, situada en el Valle del Tiétar, al sur de la provincia de Ávila. Es curioso porque se encuentra en el triángulo...
“A star is the glowing light inside the other person, distantly seen, brave soul’s tiny flame, too bright to approach without great courage and integrity.” We move among surfaces. If we are lucky enough, if we are courageous enough, every once in a while we dive into the depths with another. It is not easy, because...
Dan Sinker: I’m not sure what keeps me there, what keeps any of us there, beyond inertia. We’re in the Looney Tunes stage of the end of social, where we’ve glided well past the edge of the cliff and it’s slowing dawning on us that the only way left is down. Fast. I would like to believe we’re living in the...
I wanted to create an account on a new Mastodon instance, but somehow I just didn't feel at home. I looked for an instance hosted in Europe, and most of them require manual approval, and all of them ask for your date of birth (you can enter any date you like there). The problem is that I didn't feel like I belonged,...
2026-09-28Hello!I hate to say it, but I think I've exhausted the interesting compositions from my local area. If I'm going to drive out anyway, I might as well head to the city and do some work there.The changing of seasons might serve to give me some inspiration, but an unfortunate amount of plans I've made as of...
I still have yet to watch the trailer for this. I saw a few mentions of it in the feeds last Thursday, and five minutes later I had three tickets at Alamo Drafthouse. I just got back from seeing it with friends and I will never look at concrete the same again, just as I have never looked at scaffolding the same...
Long time no see, eh? Over 4 months of no new content, which means I'm 4-5 blog posts in debt, LOL. Truth be told, many things happened, but I wasn't feeling particularly good about them. Let's first address the biggest elephant in the room. Yes, the website looks different... again. This time though, I hope it will...
I've been whinging about wanting to move away from Firefox for nearly a year now. It started with Mozilla's announcement about their AI strategy and my initial thoughts. Then they doubled-down and it raised my heckles even more. Then I had a long old whinge about how fucked they seem to be. I took Vivaldi for a...
Yesterday, we had worship in the picnic pavilion at Faith Lutheran in Bristol, Tennessee. It was a bit chilly, but we continued on with worship as planned. For more on worship, I wrote this blog post, or you can go straight to the recording of the sermon.We had a potluck lunch with ice cream sundaes (Sundaes on...
I have been participating with the #3GoodThings hashtag for quite a little while now! I’ve tried to be consistent with it and I’ve been dutiful documenting at least three interesting things that happened that way. Basically, they are a bit of a shorter version of these weeknotes! In case you wanna follow what I’m up...
Hace unas semanas comentaba que me planteé reducir la cantidad de apps que usaba para la productividad abrumado por la cantidad de apps de productividad que utilizaba en el día a día. Eliminé TickTick, Minimalist y Folio (app de tipo guardar para leer más tarde), concentrando toda la información que tenía disgregada...
This is my Filofax Clipbook personal size. I thought it would be fun to show you what’s in it, mostly because I love to share how I use this for both planning and creativity. This is a special kind of filofax with the rings sticking through the cover and a wide spine, which means you can fold over this Filofax to...
Das Bemerkenswerte an der bayerischen Sprache ist, wie sehr man damit besoffen klingen kann, ohne einen einzigen Tropfen getrunken zu haben, und das meine ich nicht abschätzig. Per E-Mail antworten
Jeppe (aka winther blog) is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “Parenting”. Thanks, Jeppe, for hosting! It took me a while to find inspiration to write about this subject, as being a parent hasn’t been on my bucket list for a while now, due to personal reasons, so I felt I didn’t have anything...
“The key question is not whether AI is used, but how it is used.” That’s from Springer Nature’s policy on using AI when peer reviewing for its journals. Wiley tells its journal referees: “Use AI responsibly: Apply best practices and properly disclose AI use in manuscripts and peer review.” That’s right: two of the...
I’m pausing my project to write this post, as I am not going to write the Weekly Reflections. I reached the count of ten, and since then, I feel I need to dedicate more posts to one particular subject at a time; especially considering I tend to ramble on about anything given the chance. This week my reading time has...
Roshan: Wikipen [[The Whispering Earring]] is a device described in Scott Alexander's short story titled ''Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism''. One paragraph from the story describes it well: {{Quote |text=The earring begins by only offering advice on major life decisions. However, as it gets to know a...
As someone who’s been a keyboard shortcut tzar at a few companies, I developed a certain kinship with the unknown and unnamed others who have the same job elsewhere. It’s a fun but weird challenge, rewarding and unrewarding at the same time, a job of maneuvering a little dinghy between the winds of Motor Memory, the...
Weekly cleaning and home improvement series, with some thoughts in between. I'm starting later and later each week. But at the same time, it's not like I have anywhere to be. I get out of bed around 10:00 now. I used to get up at 9:30. I also have my language exchange today, so that will take up an hour of the...
Alle freuen sich, dass ich mich doch dazu durchgerungen habe. Vor allem L., natürlich, weil sie nicht selbst fahren will. H. gratuliert und sagt sie hätte da keine Lust drauf. Mich interessiert vor allem wie es ist etwas mit Mitte zwanzig zu machen, was viele mit 16, 17, 18 tun und ob ich diese Autofahrer-Ideologie...
Yes, exactly — it’s “Green Birds”! Ordering this fabric sample has really helped me with my decision as to whether to buy this fabric to use as curtains here, Svenskt tenn. Thanks! A lot! (This is what the fabric looks like if you’re not only interested in the birds’ legs. Perhaps they assumed that I was a bird leg...
Milagroso Arcángel Metatrón, escriba celestial y guardián de los registros del universo. Hoy recurro a ti para pedirte guía y sabiduría en mi manejo del tiempo. Ayúdate a ordenar mis días, a aquietar mi prisa y a encontrar la paz en cada momento presente. Elimina mi desasosiego, mis tropiezos y mis temores ante el...
Cory Dransfeldt published a list of inspirations for what to do to become worthless to tech companies. A lot probably sounds easier than it actually is nowadays, but anything is better than nothing, right? One of my ways to handle subscriptions is also to check if there’s some regional pricing available or tricks to...
openSUSE Micro, la inmutable de openSUSE dejará de existir y openSUSE 16.1 tendrá un modo inmutable La nueva openSUSE Leap 16.1 ha entrado en modo de Release Candidate y se irán publicando versiones de prueba desde ahora hasta su publicación a inicios del próximo mes de noviembre de 2016 para poder probar en...
In the Grizzly Gazette book club, we've voted on reading Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig next, suggested by Psycheoma. We kinda lost sight of the book club and posting it in time :p I've struggled with reading fiction for a while now; I manage to squeeze some in here and there, like when I read The...
First there were four houses in this pretty colonnade row, with matching dentilled cornices, long slender windows, and thick columns in front of the facades that suggested grandeur—though the columns were made of wood, not marble. They were likely built in the 1840s when Greek Revival, colonnade-style houses were in...
Here are five personally meaningful and impactful code samples I wrote or encountered from grade school into college, each thanks to an involved teacher, parent or peer. Tip of the hat I was inspired to write this after enjoying Ten Lines Of Code That Changed My World by Roel Nieskens, who encouraged me to share my...
I gathered a group of folks and did the BOF session at IndiaFOSS/2026. The idea behind the BoF session wasn’t to present anything, but to solicit ideas and provocations to improve the micro-granting scene in India. There is a real need of microgrants in India. i.e., we do have big-scale grant givers and receivers,...
J'ai ri, j'ai un peu pleuré (mais je suis sensible en ce moment, en vrai le film ne fait pas pleurer). Le docu est vraiment bien, je trouve ça génial qu'ils aient fait des entretiens auprès des aaaanciens. Ils sont très drôles et charismatiques et l'accent cubain est excellent. Je disais à Edgar que c'est dommage...
Eldara is an odd game. I tried to play Melvor Idle at one point ( still on my Idle game kick ) and I just didn't get it. Eldara is a better game with a better skin, but still the same underpinnings and I like it a bunch. I don't know what this says about me. One of the my favorite comments ever about a game is this...
(Bonus hot librarian content you crave: I made the assistant principal crack up when he realized that my bulletin board had changed. He did a double take: "Wait, did it look like that this morning?!" and then about died laughing when I said "no, I changed it during second hour." I don't know why this was funny, but...
September 2026. Salford. Two quick ticks by two in Flixton and Urmston, and I’m safely back from Trafford at Oxford Road station, where I decide this odd staircase is the highlight. I’d hoped to minimise the walking last Tuesday, but decide you can walk off a broken leg, so head through majestic Manchester to my...
A few days ago I announced that I am working on denote-data. The goal is to provide an opt-in, in-memory cache for Denote. It can be used to speed up certain computationally expensive operations. It must be opt-in because there are many users, myself included, who do not need such functionality (I program because...
In high school, a well-liked acquaintance and I traded CDs. We'd meet at our news club, he'd give me a CD from his jacket, drug-dealer style. Stevie Ray Vaughn's Soul to Soul and the Alabama Shakes' Sound and Color are the ones that stand out to me. Especially Sound and Color, because I ripped the corner of the case...
Ik heb een lange geschiedenis met digitale autonomie. Ik werkte ooit bij de AIVD. Ik werd later toezichthouder van de AIVD. En zoals gezegd draait de helft van het Nederlandse internet nog op mijn software. Ik zeg wel eens voor de grap, het halve internet draait op mijn software. Maar dat is in Nederland wel waar....