Tue Oct 06
There is this lesson every programmer learns when building or debugging something, and it’s “reduce your blast radius.” Let’s say I want to draw some stylized text showing current time in some code I haven’t touched in a while. Instead of doing all that in one fell swoop, I should: use a non-changing test string,...
06 Ogre | INDEX | 08 Stinky What’s the answer to life, the universe, and everything? If you can’t answer that question confidently (and numerically), you won’t be able to put a Dent in the meaning behind today’s drawing. Good luck! Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to...
Quoted Trackback Spam on Iroha Isshiki Hair Color Study · The New Leaf Journal by Nicholas A. Ferrell (thenewleafjournal.com) As you can see, a spam website linked to my February 12, 2021 article Iroha Isshiki’s Hair is Brown, as Expected?, and my site received the trackback on September 28, 2026. How do I know this...
There’s a new web platform feature flighting in Chromium called Declarative Partial Updates. This proposal adds a new <?marker> element which enables out-of-order streaming of content. Rather than the traditional way of building the HTML you need on the server, or sending JSON down to a JavaScript framework, you can...
The third part of a series about bare-metal programming for x86 PC-type computers, using Linux for development.
Louie Mantia has a great post about how app icons are converging towards the squircle on iOS and macOS. His post reads like a history. If you’re wondering, “How did we get to a place where all app icons are becoming squircles?” Mantia’s post answers that question by starting at the beginning. It’s hard to walk away...
We are hunter-gatherers with a capacity for amazement, wired to search for an organizing principle by which to contain the chaos of reality. We organize what we find into categories and hierarchies, hovering over which is one of the strangest things about being human: preference. How odd to have a strong feeling...
Or rather, I started crying, because I didn’t have the courage to let myself cry all the way. These past few months in therapy have been some of the hardest I’ve ever had to face, because for the first time, I’m talking in depth about how much my brother’s illness has affected me since he was diagnosed almost eight...
Rhett Allain, physics professor and blogger, published a nice article today about the Moon’s orbit. It follows largely the same line of reasoning as my post on the same topic (and the various write-ups I linked to in that post) from a few years ago. I nodded my head as I read through it, until I got to a plot at the...
If you could give beginning philosophy graduate students just one piece of advice, what would it be? I know that some readers will want to jump in to say “don’t”—either as a wisecrack or as sincere guidance. But as humor it’s clichéd, and as advice it’s not helpful. All graduate students nowadays have heard some...
Hi friends, In September, Scour scoured 1.2 million articles (up from ~880,000 in August) from 28,568 feeds. Also, welcome to the 116 new users who signed up since my last product update email! Here's what's new in the product: 📚 Library and Article TabsYou can now find all of your saved, loved, and liked posts, as...
Yesterday was an afternoon of purchases and vaccinations. My witch hat (with a veil!) was the most fun:My school will have a week of various Halloween activities in late October, and I had been thinking about a witch hat, the easiest costume. I thought about making one--after all, I have a lot of fabric. But after...
October 2026.Morley. West Yorkshire. There’s currently a lot of discussion on CAMRA’s Discourse about choosing Beer Guide entries. As usual Will Larter and Paul Mudge have a lot of sense to say on these weighty matters. I always reckon the GBG gets it right the vast majority of the time, and on the few occasions a...
Weekly cleaning and home improvement series, with some thoughts in between. Yesterday's trip to the doctor's and then some has caused me to have severe lower back pain. One hour using the EMS didn't do anything. This morning, I applied supposed pain-reliever creams and a heating pad. It barely helps. The only thing...
The vibePretty busy, with a lot of my attention wrapped up in Trayage.Between the launch and trying to get it into Apple’s review process, it felt like there was always something else to get ready or follow up on. I got quite a bit done this week, but there was plenty still on my mind when I moved on to the next...
I just read Anil Dash’s post about some internet jargon. And, I first thought “yeah well, that’s the algorithm game”. But then, it became — once more — apparent to me, what it actually means. And Anil nails it quite well with this: “One of the things that’s most concerning to me is that an […]
Door: Julie de Graaf | Oordeel: 4/5Een erg leuk boek dat ik samen met m'n zoon heb gelezen. Het is een goed begin in de wereld van informatiemanipulatie, en het niveau is net genoeg dat zelfs bestuurders het zouden kunnen begrijpen. Marketeers waarschijnlijk niet maar die waren toch al verloren.
A new playtest for your consideration: chipchirp.digital/rfl #rasdFastwalkerLeague (animations are stupid rough, the initial load is slow, interiors are WIP and hopefully correctly stripped out, and idk if multiplayer even works in the browser version, but anyway) View on Bluesky
My first watch was a Swiss analog watch from an unknown brand1. It was given to me by my parents and had a Hilti logo on it. They most likely got it for free when they bought something. By the time it finally broke, smartphones were gaining popularity. I was using an LG Cookie (and later an iPhone 3G) at that time....
There's a place in Skyrim, right outside the capital city, Solitude, where if you cast Magelight at the top of a mountain, you get tons of XP in Alteration — enough to level you from 15 to 25 in just one cast. But why?
We take our kid to some concert, like the Wiggles but it isn’t the Wiggles. That band does their thing and leaves, and then They Might Be Giants comes on! My wife and I are very excited. The kid is nonplussed. (It’s funny because my wife actually doesn’t super care about TMBG, but anyway.) TMBG play a few songs, and...
On Mastodon I try to write a list of 3 good things every day. It’s such a great habit to have and I decided that, instead of attempting to update my now page, I’d make this post, wildly inspired by this post by cygnoir! I’ve finished a headband in nålebinding and I love it so much! Just look at the beautiful pattern...
The entrance to the main hall of Yushima Seidō, a Confucian temple and, with its adjoining academy, one of the most important educational institutions of the late Edo period in Japan. 湯島聖堂の大成殿入口。儒教の聖堂であり、隣接する昌平坂学問所とともに、江戸時代後期の最も重要な教育機関のひとつであった。
The cost of car insurance is making me regret wanting to drive. One local company quoted me £5,400 for the year! (It hasn't all been that bad, but we will have to make some serious adjustments to the monthly budget to make this work).
straddling the crunchof ice cube buoysadrift in his frozen milkshake,I can’t help but wonder,how did we get so small?✱she assumes every head nodsin solidarityas she reads her scifaiku—but I’ve never seeneven a single episodeof star trek✱orbital traffic’s nonexistentrubbery whine —no airborne atmosphericsto...
This is an experimental IME that lets you type a mix of English and Japanese without switching between the two. It should be smart enough to identify the language of substrings. kyouhagoogledekensaku → 今日はgoogleで検索 Unfortunately I haven’t been able to test it because it’s developed primarily for Windows and the Mac...
I skimmed through the article “We are going to kill “unalive””, which talks about self-censorship, censorship, people, and algorithms. The article was posted on the 32bit forum. Until recently, I was in favor of censoring certain words. After skimming through the article and the comments on the forum, I thought more...
I was a big girl this week and I finally read and closed all the tabs I had open. Here's my picks from that selection. Fresh browser start - here I go. Bookmarks related to tech and web development Native HTML and CSS Features That Replaced JavaScript by Ronalds Vilciņš. What happens to our blogs when we die? by...
What’s a song that grew on you over time? I’m sitting here in my Paul’s Boutique t-shirt trying to figure out what changed in the three years between 1986 and 1989. In ‘86 my 13 year old self was, musically, driven by Radio 1, The Top 20 and, of course, Top of the Pops. It was a diverse time for music, rock was...
Clicks, a US startup about to launch its first phone, told Mobile Time [pt_BR] that it is working to expand its presence in Latin America. The message was delivered to the Brazilian publication by Clicks co-founder and CMO Jeff Gadway, who also said that “[we’ll have] more news to share in early 2027.” The Clicks...
Today I'm finding I'm working Markdown even more, and the delta is mostly in read-mode, rather than write-mode. Reading agent and skill files, intent summaries, product requirement descriptions and more, especially in the context of Joule Studio. I use the terminal file manager lf which is very configurable. The...
Been trying a new email client, Hylki, after reading about it on OMG! Ubuntu! Really enjoying it. It's modern and has a tonne of features. https://hylki.app/ Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] This is a spontaneous live stream. I am working on a new feature for my ‘denote’ Emacs package. The idea is to implement an optional in-memory cache that can help speed up certain operations.
What to Do with a Number mtift Tue, 10/06/2026 - 05:25 I started going deep into yoga and meditation after my wife Marnie’s cancer diagnosis, and these practices have felt uniquely empowering for me. For almost a decade now, she has had tests every six months. In the last round, one number changed from 0.2 to 0.3....
The internet, smartphones, and artificial intelligence (AI), are among the three most significant “epoch-defining shifts in technology” in about the last fifty years. In the late 1990’s I embraced the internet with relish. Within weeks of hooking up my cumbersome, multi component, desktop computer to a dial-up...
I recently published an article about rescuing a ladybug and katydid in my home nine days apart in September 2026. That was not my first foray in publishing bug rescue stories. I previously shared my heroic rescue of an ailanthus webworm moth from my building’s lobby and a ladybug from my TV. While I did not share...
I learned a couple years back that I have ADHD. Insert a half-serious joke about RFK Jr. throwing me into the camps. Since then, I've explored fidget toys as a way to focus better during meetings or when spending some time thinking, and they've really helped.A few months ago, I stumbled on something even better. I...
This morning I’m sitting with the windows open, listening to distant city sounds of traffic and construction, mixed with bird calls and the wind in the treetops. It’s October 5, and Austin has just now begun to cool down after yet another unbearable summer. The sounds coming in have been a literal wakeup call for...