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哀 喪 衷 畏 next to each other in a grid Four Chinese characters that I regularly confuse have a 衣 radical at the bottom (ja: したごろも). The radical 衣 on its own signifies something related to clothing. The four characters have nothing to do...
From Derek Sivers’ Useful But Not True, you can always choose your next thought or reaction. But yesterday, I failed to choose my next reaction after a frustrating purchase over the phone. Then I hit a roadblock with a coding task. I...
I just spent a lovely, hectic summer week chasing fulltime after my kids. They have grown so much, and I wanted to share a small part of their arc, the one where my partner and I introduced them to one of our joys—reading books. We both...
A difficult story to film, but major film artists keep trying for some reason: Bela Tarr, Joel Coen, Polanski, Kurosawa. Welles turns in one of the crazier versions, the actors having a great time with their Scottish accents then...
constantly building, with no result Diary:Most of the time, we have to admit that the road to get good is uncertain. Nobody knows how long it takes. Maybe in a few months, a few year or the whole lifetime. I read about Billie Holiday,...
For use with MTB's excellent mechs for Classic Traveller. Surgeon's FriendWeapons - 4 x Gimballed Combat Shotguns Armor - as Cloth Modules - 2 x IR and Anti-Laser Smoke Dispersal Charges (Block sensors and reduce laser damage by 2d) Arm...
When we made our Meringue Snackers a couple of months ago, I piped some of the meringue into disks so I could assemble a couple of Little Marvels, a recipe I’d skipped when it came around last June. Little Marvels, aka Merveilleux, are...
The easiest way to make an interface harder to maintain is to rebuild the browser badly. A div can look like a button. It can be given a click handler, a pressed style, a hover state, a focus ring, an ARIA role, a keydown listener for...
🕰️ Ten Minute Focus Someone designed this -- Why bad UX is often a business decision, not a design failure. There’s a screen most people have seen at least once. You’re trying to cancel a subscription. You’ve made up your mind. You click...
This morning I wrote a post that included the central Delannoy numbers. The nth central Delannoy number Dn counts the number of ways a king can move from one corner of a chessboard to the diagonally opposite corner without backtracking....
Last week, Frenkie left X. He joined Bluesky. He wrote an essay about it. Kept the account "just in case." Frenkie is now free. He can write about climate change. His first manifesto from his new MacBook. The temperature in the room is...
Last night, the storm hit. Not as bad as in other areas. Especially to the north and south of us. It was also quite brief but, for the time in where here, it hit hard. The first sign of things was losing our internet. Thankfully, we did...
I’m still traveling, so no huge update today (although I am fine! Everything is fine!), but I want to post this shot of the Ferris Wheel at Chicago’s Navy Pier the other night. It feels very June to me. Onward to July. — JS
It’s time. All my hosts are on 15.0 and on pkgbase. Next, let’s move a jail to pkgbase. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 the jail is named empty I’m following instructions based on the official docs and copying from a previous post: Running...
Today’s prompt asks, “What’s the best way to deal with negative thoughts?” Well. You’ve certainly come to the right person. If I know anything, I know negative thoughts. I may have mentioned it, but I have anxiety. Not just one anxiety,...