Laziness takes a back seat when you start to see the work that you are called to do as your vocation, your calling, and your way of praising The Almighty. For much of my adult life, I took no solace in the work that I was doing, no pride in that work - it was simply a way to make ends meet. But - when your work...

The canonical name of a Go module is its path. For third party modules, that means an URI. It is no secret that GitHub is currently the dominant code hosting platform, hence the fact that most Go modules are named github.com/<account>/<repository>. While I currently use GitHub for most of my repositories, I also...

This week I may tinker with both mataroa and bear to see which will meet my needs best, before taking the plunge to upgrade to a paid account. Bear gives you multiple sites, but that might encourage me to multiply. Mataroa has a much lower price, but both are exceptional, since Bear offers a heavy discount for...

Text processing on the command line - sharing my tools Introduction I'm quite fond of the command-line and spend a larger chunk of my life in a terminal emulator than I dare admit. I try to embrace the unix philosophy of using tools that "do one thing only, and do it well" and "interconnect largely via plain text...

Hace unos meses escribí que había dejado de usar un reloj inteligente, y que me compré un modelo de Casio. Pero el caso es que no me terminé de acostumbrar a la pantalla en negativo y a que la aplicación no enviara los datos de pasos a Apple Health (algo que era absurdo, porque ya se conectaba periódicamente y...

Post Contents Introduction Goals Anti-Goals First Things First Retrieval-Augmented Generation What The Hell is a RAG? What does this mean? Case Study: The Dumbest Possible Person in the Room Getting the Data A Eulogy for wget Enter Playwright Our Playwright Script Cleaning Up the Data Install Unstructured Processing...

First weeknotes under a Labour government

Recently, we were talking with a few friends about what we would do if we won the Euro Jackpot. With the same friends, we also talked about defining retirement, and in there, we tried to be specific with defining the goal for retirement to find out how much money would be needed. All we wanted to find out was how we...

Er is recent veel discussie over digitale autonomie, en Europa’s “positie in de cloud”. Also available in English. Maandag 8 juli vanaf 14:00 is er een event “Digitale soevereiniteit: zin of onzin” bij Instituut Clingendael. Dit is (na inschrijving) ook online bij te wonen. Corinne Cath (TU Delft), Martijn Lucassen...

My gardening watch, the Casio G-Shock G-3157 I thought I was unique, one of a kind, till I discovered the hashtag #Wristcheck on Mastodon, and there are no less than eight participants already. Fuck, so I’m not alone. I’m not the only one who enjoys this kind of ‘wristography’, or watch porn. I’m an eager...

Continued from Sussex Stories 4 The dream is over The interdisciplinary structures had gone. But more was to come. The university motto 'Be Still and Know' became rarely seen in any public face of the university. There was very little 'Be Still' in the post-2007 period. 'Knowing' also went on the back burner....