Sun Oct 11
5th October - 11th October Not claiming to be wholly responsible but, shortly after I mentioned it on my website, the water board were back looking at the leak at the junction. It was clearly a quick fix because now there's a square of fresh tarmac and, sadly, no midnight mountain stream. Today's soundtrack has been...
A games-leaning week of links from 5 to 11 October, pulled from what I shared over on social.omgmog.net. Thereās been a lot of effort going into decomp and recomp projects lately. Iāve been spending a lot of time playing the gen1recomps, and now Halo is in the mix. I couldnāt have dreamed of this 25 years ago, and...
[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] This evening I will do a live stream where I will continue developing the new denote-data feature for denote: it is an opt-in, in-memory cache with no dependencies that speeds up all sorts of operations. I have made lots of improvements to it and it is already...
Thatās pretty much the best text published following the election of the German far-right party to the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt a few weeks ago. (Best in the original German version) FCK AFD ā¦
Recently, James Hoffmann conducted a coffee fermentation project, along similar lines to his previous decaf project. Since this project was based entirely around caffeinated coffee, and I am quite caffeine-sensitive, I opted to just do this as a risky ādrink one cup every few daysā thing rather than a formal...
Our language betrays our self-betrayals: We speak of finding love, as if it were an undiscovered eighth continent or a habitable world in another solar system, as if it got lost like the Little Red Riding Hood or the names of the women who painted the caves. Like the paradoxical notion of finding yourself, the...
Well, another week. This one completely without any trains, so thereās that. Messed up sleep schedule, again. All my life I heard that with age people go to bed earlier and get up earlier. I cannot confirm. While my natural sleep rhythm was midnight to eight for almost all my adult life, lately it seems very much...
Until I started reading (mostly for research, but I'm enjoying it) Apocalypse: A History of the End of Time by John Michael Greer, I had forgotten that the world was supposed to end in a mighty cosmic collision on the 21st of December, 2012. This could apparently be inferred from the ever reliable Mayan calendar (or...
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I canāt lie. Iāve been focussing a lot on the vast piles of negative stuff that surround us more than I should. Iāve been thinking about politics and wars and climate change and heatwaves and El NiƱo and energy security. Iāve been thinking about friends and family who are different levels of ill and elderly, and who...
Here we are back at a favored spot for some coffee and some thinking. I donāt know which came first. This place always gives me respite from whatever came before. Iāve been thinking on the blog lately. Like what would I want to add that would be fun or challenging. Iāve had both things making the thing become my...
It feels like a major life turn after 35, even though I thought 35 was like half-life. I havenāt crossed the second half-life yet. I think there are a couple more years until the second half-life, but it still feels like a big turn after 35. I didnāt think much about 45, but this one feels big. I am making some...
ā¦are a soldering iron and a hot glue gun. Seriously, nothing beats the feeling of handing your kid a previously broken toy that you fixed yourself. Tonightās surgery involved a light up fan thing that had fallen, breaking the plastic shaft and pulling the wires out. Came out good as new after some glue and solder!
A weekly recap of the articles and posts Iāve read that I think are worth your time. GitHub ā Myraas/BetterGreenButton: A tiny macOS menu-bar utility that makes the green window button maximize instead of fullscreen Ā· GitHub ā A tiny macOS menu-bar utility that makes the green window button maximize instead of...
Readeck is a great tool Readeck is a self-hosted open source read-it-later webapplication. Readeck calls itself "Your Own Content Hub". Save the story, cut the clutter Readeck helps you keep all that web content youāll want to revisit in an hour, tomorrow, or in 20 years. Readeck uses the slogan "Save the story, cut...
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One dang time, we played For The Queen! THIS dang time, we invited Amy! ENOUGH PREAMBLE. Phase I: Constitutional Monarchy Weāre offered three options for Queens by choose-a-number draw, and because Amy is the newest player and she uh, has a type, we have chosen the BATTLE QUEEN (Q19): Phase II: The Reading Of The...
How another go at keeping a plain text calendar is helping me clarify what goes where Making and using calendars is viscerally satisfying to me. I love the sense of stability and preparedness I get from seeing dates laid out in neat rows! Along with that comes the irresistible idea of writing notes to my future...
My favourite piece of writing Iāve done about motor memory remains āShift + Shiftā from 2018. I have linked to it over the years, but if you havenāt checked it out yet, you might find it interesting. Just this week, I have had another similar moment, and amazing in a slightly new way. How many of you tap ā1, ā2, ā3...
Looking out from my balcony at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Cairo, Egypt These weeknotes are over a week late. Itās been a busy time. After finishing up with work on Friday evening, I leapt straight for the ironing board to get a new set of work shirts ready for the following week. On Saturday morning, just after 6am, a...
I am sitting at a desk in the Drury Hotel in Carmel, Indiana, on the northern edge of Indianapolis. I'm here for an onground intensive for the TEEM program, my current route to ordination. If you've been following along all week, you know that I'm here a day early.It's a long trip, which I make by car. I like being...
Born into wealth and privilege on a New Jersey estate in 1864, Louis Eilshemius wasnāt your typical New York City painter. The income his father made from an importing business gave him the means to travel through Europe, study at the Art Students League, and ultimately settle down and spend the bulk of his...
Spider-noir es la serie de Prime Video donde vemos a un Spider-man diferente. Ambientado en los aƱos 30 en pleno auge de los gĆ”nsteres de la ciudad de Nueva York. Protagonizada por el incombustible Nicolas Cage que hace una gran interpretaciĆ³n en el papel de un hĆ©roe acabado y cansado de la vida. Como curiosidad la...
Last week I started a new way of doing weeknotes and I love it. I also still updated my now page, which is a bonus good thing for this past week š Here are my 5 good things for week 41. š¬ my husband and I watched John Wick 1 and 2, and what I loved the most is us alternating exclamations of āwhat???ā āHow???ā and...
Over the past few months, the release of popular consumer/prosumer agents like Muse and Grok Bot has me truly impressed. I've used both, and I'm convinced that this paradigm shift from a simple chat interface ā persistent AI agent whose knowledge about you grows will be the default way each of us interfaces with AI...
A student in Vienna, Austria has recently made the news because he has refused to stop using his Meta smart glasses at school, causing a legal dispute, and - to the surprise and outrage of many - actually preventing his expulsion. For now, he is allowed to keep wearing them and attend school until a solution is...
John Gruber, āX Once Again Marks the Spotā: If you have stayed away, or even just mostly away, from X for years and then come back, people just say things like āHey, glad youāre back!ā On the other networks, especially Mastodon, they tell you youāre āfeeding Nazisā ā by going to the platform where Tim Cook posts...
After a nine-day work/NLJ/newsletter-induced lull in the Pook-Emu Bee, I return with my sometimes-regularly-scheduled daily links. Speech 1 | Foul Call: New York Times Calls for Canceling Sophie Cunningham in The Athletic (Jonathan Turley. Oct. 11, 2026.) I largely agree with Mr. Turley. But more material to Ms....
Iāve been a fan of RSS for a couple years now. What I like most is that feed reader software gives agency to the user. This can feel like unwanted friction at the beginning: your feed may start out blank and the burden is on you to fill it. But agency is what most modern social media sites lack. You deserve to read...
vfmaddrnd231pd is a unique instruction from the FMA instruction set. Most instructions in that set have mnemonics like vfmadd231pd, but here rnd means something very specific. The Intel Software Development Manual documents it as: VFMADDRND231PD ā Fused Multiply-Add of Packed Double-Precision Floating-Point Values...
There has been a lot of talk about website comments on Bubbles. I think it started with a post by Forking Mad, and a bunch of replies are linked at the bottom of that page. My blog posts have had a "Reply by e-mail" button for years. Some of them also link to other places where you can comment. This has been a nice...
Jeremy Stern introduces his fifteen-thousand word essay, published in Colossus, about Meta CEO, and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, with a lede so succinct it must be the envy of any writer: There they are. The Zuckerbergs. Ledes, also called hooks, are a brief sentence that entices someone to read a newspaper...
Pete Millspaugh has a lovely article over on WIRED that peers into the world of domains. (If youāre as interested in the esoteric details of domains as I am, follow Peteās writing at Dot Com Press.) You should just read the article, but here are a few things that stood out to me. The .com Registry Did you know who...
u/SnooSongs6758 asked on r/golang: Iām creating a REST API using Golang v1.25, Gin v1.10.0, and Validator v10.20.0. I have a PATCH endpoint where, when the address attribute is: undefined -> keep the original data null -> delete the original data contains something -> replace the original data with the new Right now...
Mama would never let me down, right? I wasn't feeling like anything spicy this weekend, so I had to dig into my box of science subjects a little deeper. Turns out I collect a lot more flavours that are inherently or outwardly spicy than I thought. I usually really like Mama noodles, in fact as of this writing their...
October 11, 2026 After using macOS 27's window tiling to put two windows side by side, Drafts stopped remembering its window size and position. Every time I opened it, the window appeared in the left half of the screen. Turning off window tiling in System Settings didn't help. With some help from ChatGPT, I tracked...
I am aware of the very real problems with Apple as a company. Nevertheless, I find their products and services extremely helpful when used intentionally and synergistically. This is not a paid advertisement, haha. Just sharing a few thoughts about how these tools are helping me. I am working on many things all at...