Today, I was reminded once again of how great the early hours of a day can feel. As I’m currently preparing for my last two (but unfortunately hardest) exams of the semester, I got up early to be at the university library as soon as it opened. Apart from the “getting out of bed” part of said plan, this always turns...

My Tangara arrived! A bit over a year ago, I stumbled upon this music player you wish you had in the early 2000s by Cool Tech Zone. Two months later, I decided to pre-order, and—oh my—have I been eagerly swallowing each and every project update since. You might despise the idea of carrying around a dedicated device...

It's an old scam, but it's recently resurfaced in a slicker, more convincing form

Apple recently added transcripts to their Podcasts app, quickly becoming one of my favorite new features. I wanted to copy a paragraph out of the transcript though, and ran into the 200 word cap on their selection screen. Luckily the MacOS Podcasts app locally caches the transcripts, and so I built a simple web app...

tl;dr When the stars stylesheets align just right, it’s possible to escalate a harmless content injection issue to a marginally less harmless one by using certain Unicode characters to stand in for pixels in a QR code. (For fun, not profit.) Read on for details. In this article I’ll be showing you how I was able to...

Es innegable que el número de usuarios de Gnu/Linux en el sector de escritorio está aumentando, sin embargo, estos nuevos usuarios vienen con conocimientos y malos hábitos que pueden ser difíciles de dejar atrás. Para ilustrar mi punto, consideremos la tarea de crear un documento para impresión. En Windows, por dar...

Testing a different film stock on the wintery vistas of Macclesfield

Rating: 🟥 Type: Non-Fiction I found this to be less interesting than I hoped. Yep, if you work too hard you will burn out, and there are physiological signs. Idk, maybe some people need a book to tell them this, but I found it obvious and tedious

research residency, Jan-Mar 2025, The Maltings, Berwick, UK; University College Dublin; Newcastle University I was selected to be the Irish artist in residence for the international collaborative research project FIRECULT, led by Newcastle University. Working with UCD and The Maltings Berwick, I will develop...

Learn how I transitioned my Eleventy website from CommonJS to ESM.

For years, researching alternative social media has been a bit lonely. But not anymore!

History is required learning from elementary to high school. Once you hit college age, it’s […] The post What History Will Tell Us appeared first on April the Dreamer.

When your Git commits are not in the right order, never fear, rebase is here!