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Tue Jun 24
Saying yes to ideas and requests is fun, but isn't always strategic.
You finish one piece of work and look what’s next and see there are thousands of things waiting for you. It’s a never-ending story. Features pile up, deadlines look at you, and the pressure to go faster never lets up. Simultaneously, the...
This summer, we decided to do a week-long vacation in Frankfurt am Main. It is after all our favorite city in Germany for obvious and not so obvious reasons. We booked a room at Staycity close to the airport, and my vacation plan was...
In the spirit of posting casually, I wanted to write a few words about coffee. We've had our Lelit Mara X for a few years now. Even though I've gotten fairly okay at making milk-based coffee drinks, 9 times out of 10, my drink of choice...
Following hashtags isn't very intuitive on IceShrimp. Here's how to do it.
Biology was never not cool to be honest, but I stumbled upon another mind melting phenomenon. The Venus' flower basket Credit: Wikimedia Is a deep sea sponge that grows between 500m - 1km underwater (although it can be found as shallow...
It's in the 90s here in Stephen King Country, and sticky outside, so honestly until I must leave the house, I'm staying inside and doing art things today. Here's a little something I put together today, to keep myself pleased. As always,...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the...
One question I have had in my mind that I have been seeking the answer to for some time is this: “How Does one reconcile with the immediate nature of life (we could be gone a moment from now), with the need to work toward a tomorrow that...
Días apocalípticos. Aunque puede que no haya para tanto. Porque ya el ineludible Frank Kermode advirtió en El sentido de un final que ese tipo de días venía en realidad de muy lejos, de la eterna idea de caos y … Sigue leyendo →
So, I’ve been doing this blogging thing for a few months now, and now that I have the transition to Hugo done and the theme sorted out, and comments (see below!) sorted out, it’s time to make the process of blogging easier. The first...
Micro: Dunkin Summer Bucket
Feud pretends hard to be a brainless, cookie cutter xianxia, but like its main characters, it deceives you with a false front, and if you stay long enough to look behind the mask, you'll experience a complex, moving and painful tale.
BowieNet homepage on launch; via Wayback Machine. BowieNet launched as an ISP in North America on September 1, 1998 for $19.95 per month; and if you lived elsewhere, as a “premium content” service for $5.95 per month. If you had visited...
I am feeling energised
[Week of June 18, 2025] DataBooks read: 1 Blinkit orders: 4 Chicken liver servings: 2 Matcha drinks made: 5 We know this was a grim weekThe world is burning and everything is horrible. I did not meet my Hobonichi journals this week. Rh...
Notes on a book summarising cognitive research into creative incubation