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Wed Aug 13
You heard it here first folks, I'm predicting that Ernesto will impact Nova Scotia in 7-10 days. Immich reminded me of hurricane Ernesto, which missed us last year. My spidey senses start to trigger if I see a hurricane that is tracking...
Writing fiction with AI - most people think it's letting AI generate the text, slapping it together into an e-book and publishing it. In this article I will show you that this is far from the truth, at least for me.
There's a popular idea that cats don't see humans as we see ourselves. Rather, they see us as some kind of big and strange cat. One of many cat-related things I've learned recently is that my cats actually believe I'm out hunting...
Previously [1, 2, 3], I've talked about the effects of what I call the "reinterpretation problem". This effect, known also as the havoc effect, is characterised by a reinterpretation of input segments as a result of a mutation. Think of...
This is a major mode for editing sxhkdrc files. SXHKD is the Simple X Hot Key Daemon which is commonly used in minimalist desktop sessions on Xorg (I use it with bspwm, herbstluftwm, and i3wm). The sxhkdrc file configures key chords,...
I'm really inspired by DHH and the push for Linux and Omarchy. I even installed Omakub last year on an old mac to get a taste of Linux. Omarchy takes everythin a tad further in customization in a way I really enjoy the looks of. I'll...
Listen to The Conversation of a Kiss I have been kissed before. I want to be clear about that. My lips have been met by others. But I am not sure I have ever had a kiss. The kisses I have known were acts of punctuation. They were...
Stay safe out there folks!
I’ve changed my Lyrica dosing schedule to take it all in the evening, which has helped a little with my fatigue but I’m still just so very tired throughout the day and can barely get anything done.
In anthropology there is a notion of high-context and low-context cultures. A high-context culture is a culture or society that communicates dominantly through the use of contextual elements, such as specific forms of body language, the...
I just got back from the most awesome WHY2025, the tenth installment of the four-yearly Dutch hacker festival series. I’ve been attending these things since 1993, so it is a big deal for me. By being among the hacker community for nearly...
Antifragile Systems and TeamsAuthor: Dave Zwieback This is a short read, but it does a solid job of capturing an important idea: that the healthiest systems and teams aren’t just resistant to change, they actually get stronger through...
This post is somewhat an update for my older post: Kate and Python language server There seems to be a lot of different Python language servers.. And I just want one that does all and stays out of the way. So after moaning about that I...
To be "terminally-online" is to be deeply engaged on social media, consuming YouTube creator-driven drama, or spending a significant amount of one's free time doing online activities. Personal interests are focused on some form of...
We just finished our second month of Big Little Cities. As it was successful, we also had some mishaps. This blog post is about what we did wrong along the way.
Saturday before last, we went on a road trip with our friends to the Technik Museum Speyer . Of course, I was looking to see their airplane collection that included an An-22 and a variety of other vintage airplanes.
As noted yesterday, I dug through a box of papers that goes back almost 40 years and found a few gems. Today’s is the second of two crossword puzzles I made in fifth grade using Crossword Magic on our classroom’s Apple II-compatible...
Title: Brokenstar Website: brokenstar.blog RSS Feed: brokenstar.blog/feed A personal blog and digital garden. Content is mostly around books, video games, computers, and nostalgia. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm...
Over the past couple of years, I have been building up a decent collection of handheld consoles that target software emulation of video games (and two that are FPGA-based that are built to virtually replicate/emulate original hardware)....
If you’d asked be six months ago, I’d tell you I’ve been creating things for 20 years. Between being a professional writer and then a YouTuber, I create things all the time. But, lately, I’ve been feeling otherwise. I don’t write anymore...