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Hi and welcome back to Tiny Sparks! How time flies… We’re already one third into August. Which also means that my first day of uni is getting closer and closer (if you don’t know already, I’m going to study Computer Science as my major and Social Sciences as my minor at the University of Bern). I still have roughly...

YEAR 40 | 2024-08-10 | SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS (SP) BRAZIL Note: Consider this something of a follow-up to the newsletter published earlier in the week. We were saddened by the news of the death of 62 passengers of the Voepass flight which fell yesterday in the city of Vinhedo, here in São Paulo state. It was...

We went on a 9-day trip to Istanbul, and it was great. The only fly in the ointment was the shiny new Istanbul International Airport (IST). That is the most aircraft photography unfriendly airport I've been to. Admittedly, I haven't been to all that many airports, but still.

My Framework 16 laptop arrived earlier this week and I finally had the time to put it together! I bought the DIY edition, and to be honest, I expected more DIY. The installation process was extremely smooth. I’ve setup desktop towers before and installing a PC like that took me way longer than it did for this...

I like riding bicycles. The Tanglefoot Moonshiner is a very, very weird bike. It's also an excellent bike. It might just be the perfect bicycle for Northern New England in 2024. moonSHINin' When we lived in Colorado, I thought mountain biking was ridiculous. A bunch of Lycra-clad crazies riding lifts to the top of...

The other day I was wondering what it would feel like to live my life with the comfort and safety of universal basic income: it would open up so many doors! Opportunities! Space to breathe and think! I likely wouldn’t quit my job, but I would take way more time off for my health, and I might go back to school or...

I’m going back to basics. I love to write and I realize lately that my website was actually a blocker to me actually getting words on the page. I’ve put too much time into site design and images and not enough into just writing. So that’s what I’m going to do. Just write. I’m starting a brand new Hugo design for my...