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Starting Over With the PiSince Oct of last year, I haven’t had time to reinstate my self-hosted apps like Calibre, Miniflux, Navidrome, etc on my little Pi homelab. During this time, I missed using Navidrome the most (I resorted to listening only on my Mac); with the only thing running on it being Indiekit with Docker. Neater InstallsBut that changed yesterday! After chatting with a new sysadmin friend online, I got a huge surge of motivation to fix my home server to at...
Just a quick note to say that you are allowed to overnight chicks and ducklings through the mail in order to ship them from hatcheries to buyers, but when your “overnight” turns into “four days later,” you end up with a box of dead chicks and dead ducklings. Anyway, happy Friday, I guess. Send me an email Latest 3 posts 28 Aug, 2026 Alas, Poor Chicks 27 Aug, 2026 Oh Sure, NOW I Feel Safe 26 Aug, 2026 Happy Birthday and Nightmare Fuel Older Posts I'd Like You to See 05 Nov,...
In Duly Noted, I warned of the allure of meta-work: the work we do to enable “real” work. Writing a paper is work; setting up and maintaining your writing environment is meta-work. Meta-work is important, but fiddling with tools is an occupational hazard. At least it was, until AI agents came along. I’ve wasted countless hours testing new to do apps, distraction-free editors, Obsidian plugins, citation managers, read-it-later apps, etc. Each promises to unlock...
Read this poem,https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_jubal.htmFrom the first lines, you can catch its entire vibe. There are men of song, and men of action. Talkers vs doers. There is Jubal who sings, sings, and sings about stuff, no end. And a real doer, Tubal who is delivering, performing. With an implicit - and yet very clear - message of total Tubal’s superiority over his brother.That is a very common, and an almost universal sentiment in our cultureWhy?Because...
We released Matilda back to her flock today. I managed to remove the remaining threads on Tuesday and there were a lot. It was the most difficult case of string foot I’ve treated as I could see two tiny bits of thread sticking out of her foot but they wouldn’t unwind or come loose. I’ve indicated them in this next photo. I was nearly going to take her to the vet for help but on Wednesday after a brief soak in warm salty water I managed to get one thread free and then...
This mornings lunar eclipse about 04:30. It took me until about 14:30 to try and process the blown out highlights, and recover an absolute turd of an image. It's not too bad. Though I'm not going to look at anybody else's or I'll end up deleting it.
A Friday Hodgepodge1. Fans of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile will be delighted to know that they can track the current and future whereabouts of the fleet via WhereMyDogs@. 2. Alison Green has begun posting lists of past Ask a Manager posts on Fridays. Recently, the title, "Toll Collectors, Fear of Being Set on Fire, and Other Things We Believed About Work When We Were Kids" caught my eye. My favorite from the post was the first, on what someone thought firing was as a...
The Sinkhole Boggarts face off against the Data Kings.Whilst I work out the logistics of getting my Confrontation gangs photographed all on the same table, here are some scenic pictures of the 'official' Games Workshop miniatures (released, limited & unreleased, but excluding conversions & customs).Read more »
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Chapter One: The Glove is FoundLeft Hand Glove Detail, Voytikof, via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.It had been in the drawer for twenty years.She knew this because her mother had been dead for twenty years, and the glove had come with the other things — the brooch with a missing stone, the rosary in the cracked leather case, the photograph of a man no one had been able to name. She had gone through her mother’s belongings in that particular fog that descends when death...
I’m bored. And I don’t really know what to do about it. I’ve been writing software for about thirty-five years. I’ve been getting paid for writing software for almost thirty years. In February I realised that what I did had fundamentally changed. That’s right, I’m talking about coding agents. I’m still working as software developer, I’m still shipping code every week. In fact I’m probably shipping more code than I ever have before. I’ve managed to get my clankers to handle...
So glad the Bossman was at the St. Louis Pen Show cuz he picked up the latest inky releases from Amarillo Stationery for me to review!Inspired by the gorgeous Bird of Paradise blooms, the Amarillo Paradise Vibes set of inks launched a few months ago and come in 30ml glass bottles. I mentioned in my Amarillo Vibes ink review that the bottles do look a lot like some from Birmingham Pen Company, Erick Gama (the guy behind Amarillo Stationery) confirmed that the inks are NOT...
This last quarter saw the slow demise of our HomePods.
Camera: Fujifilm XT-5 | TTArtisan 25mm lens. Shot from the hip without checking any settings. Because, the moment. Framing is totally off kilter, yet somehow it works. I tried to get a second shot, but he was onto me and hit me up with a way too candid smile that has ended up on the cutting room floor.
Tomorrow is John's and my wedding anniversary, so I've been thinking: Remember how the first few years you always celebrate at some fancy-schmancy restaurant? ("Lhappy Ammversary" is totally how I'm saying it from now on.) And you not only remember the day - you even remember how many days it's been. After a while you dial down the festivities, though, and maybe just bring home some take-out and a cake: (The urge to scratch in an "I" at the end there is...
I rarely touch Feedgrab these days. It does what I want and it just works™️. It's been running on a tiny VPS for a couple of years now, quietly grabbing over 6000 feeds every hour. I did push a new feature today though. I tried to subscribe to the Omarchy blog earlier this week but, alas, it has no RSS feed. It's clearly structured like a blog though, so now Feedgrab will create it's own feed if one doesn't exist and if the site is structured kinda like a blog.
🌪️ Peace and quiet is over, (for a long time) I’m afraid. The boys have returned from their week(s) off with the grandparents, and now it’s all sports and school again 🫠 I was actually getting used to peaceful mornings and evenings.
Code Is Cheap. Being Wrong Isn’t. There are four sentences I increasingly hear around software development: “The tests passed.” “Copilot suggested it.” “It looked fine in review.” “The agent handled the implementation.” None of them sounds negligent. In fact, they sound perfectly reasonable. But they are symptoms of a deeper problem. Coding agents have become extremely good at producing software. They can implement features, perform migrations, generate tests, investigate...
Eary this months I´ve been mention what games I´ve been playing this summer. As august s ending I´ve added some new ones to my roster
Cover art for Japanese Rivers by Vlisa Release Information Artist Vlisa Title Japanese Rivers Date March 15, 2013 Download BandCamp, Internet Archive Introduction My original review of Japanese Rivers by Vlisa came a few weeks after its release on the Fuga Discos netlabel. It was a unique addition to the reviews on The Cerebralrift for one reason: it didn’t carry a Creative Commons license. Instead, Fuga Discos stated their releases were “freemusic” releases. This actually...
HTML web components are perfect for this.
Today is very much working around the edges, because I've had to pack everything up for a bit. I did some useful editing yesterday (oh what a difference it makes!), but just now I had a go at adding some contributors' stuff to one of the tracks and I got a big lump in my throat. It's just the spirit: people have not been beaten down by life, I can hear it, and that is fantastically hopeful .The overarching psychopathy of global politics is to make people feel powerless,...
I went out to my local park earlier today. The sun is getting stronger and I am being hurled closer to spring. I have already noticed the Earth around me changing. Most notably the golden wattles, the longing Currawong calls, more Silvereyes, and Jacaranda trees are almost deep green with leaves again. I sat down near a fig tree. The ground was just dry enough. I waited for the sunset and the moonrise. My eyes are heavy and puffy from sleeping poorly the night before. I am...
Olaf Stapledon writing to H G Wells, June 1937: “I can’t help thinking about the universe as a whole, even though philosophically it is futile. So I let it come out as myth, and I find it gives me a sort of emotional stability, much needed in this age of muddles and passions.” The MIT Press Reader https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-man-who-saw-humanity-from-two-billion-years-away/ Yes, exactly. Because, as Stapledon put it in a review of Wells’ Star Begetter: Wells “is...
📷 213/365 - Hand washing in style.