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A few days ago, Forking Mad wrote this post about the location where they get their finest ideas. For them, it’s in the shower. The prompt for this post, I believe, was not supposed to be the location, but instead something along the...
On ReadingI recently read a few unsettling statistics about reading in America and it has prompted me to make some changes.
I’m experiencing a little writing crisis. I don’t publish much nowadays, other than keeping the “Top Picks” series on a prompt schedule and some occasional short-form articles to release some infrequent bursts of creativity. It is not...
Strategy, hierarchy, chance, and control from social games to geopolitics. Essays in this edition: Smiling Assassins Entangled: The New Geopolitik Backgammon's Ancient Dice, Modern Lessons i. Smiling Assassins In fragile hierarchies, the...
Gorgeous animation and a slow pace coupled with a level of gentle peril
Someone hold my glass of wine for a moment! I need to make a public statement. I love, and will continue to use, the Em Dash. I can't imagine life without them — they are part of the fabric of my writing style. If you are not familiar...
links a very cool game: The Evolution of Trust mapping OpenFreeMap: a nifty way to for getting OpenStreetMap tiles Mapterhorn: public terrain tiles webmap viz. Will inc. High-res of Europe. Chronotrains: everyone loves trains. And who...
January has always seemed to be the worst month to stop drinking alcohol. Cold weather, short days and the excitement of Christmas a distant memory. I have tried to do it a few times, the longest I lasted was 4 days, we do dry September...
I've released a video with an overview of artwork on the NEC PC-98 and NEC PC-88 systems, with some observations by myself as an artist. You can view it on PeerTube or read the blog post which doubles as a descriptive transcript.
Learn how to benchmark Docker registry performance using the Hyperfine CLI tool. A simple way to compare image pull speeds between registries like Artifactory, Harbor, Docker Hub, and Quay.
A quick tip of the hat that grew into its own post because the internet sucks.
One of the most common problems encountered when building decentralized applications is the disconnect between the smart contract and the client. A normal flow might look something like this: solidity -> byte code & abi -> EVM <- byte...
Eerder schreef ik in de Volkskrant dat het niet makkelijk is om als kamerlid iets te bereiken: Het inhoudelijk gemotiveerde Kamerlid loopt grote kans om geknipt en geschoren te worden door het kabinet. Als Kamerleden in een debat...
Have you ever joined a new project and then spend an entire day setting up your developer-environment? Worked on a large project where one of the many tech-debts are that nobody updated the runtime for 10 years, and now nobody dares...
We all know the current US President is one hell of an orator and often assures us that he has “the best words”: I went to an Ivy League school. I’m very highly educated. I know words. I have the best words. The man knows words. Says so...
1 How to take notes I've seen way too many people ask how do you use Obsidian, how do you take notes, it all seems so daunting. To be completely honest, it seems really obvious to me. So I figured I would just write down what I do. The...
My learnings after five years of writing the newsletter.
Today I write about the deeper meaning behind my hiking photography, inspired by the #FotoVorschlag theme "What makes my heart beat faster." I write about how the hiking experience fuels my passion beyond just capturing beautiful images,...
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I'm finally getting into TTRPGs!
This post was originally published on Blogger. I have migrated to another instance in Mastodon. This time, I am looking forward to start my Fediverse adventures over at sunny.garden (which is aimed for indepedent creatives of any kind)....
One thing I am unnecessarily proud of is my writing on this blog. This is a tale of undoing that pride. Claude Code is marketed as an AI tool that can help you write code, fix bugs, and supercharge productivity as a programmer. It works...
In this short video I report on some of the construction work I keep doing in and around the hut. Today, I spent about four hours to install a second-hand balcony door I acquired. I placed it on a side of the wall that was unfinished and...
I am going to a wedding tomorrow. This is the first time I am going to a wedding. Moreover, I will be a groomsman at the wedding. The presumptive groom decided that we would all wear tuxedos from The Black Tux. I went to Williamsburg for...
Well, August went by in a flash, didn’t it? Time flew by. My two weeks of holiday lasted what felt like five days, including a very relaxing week in the Austrian Alps, where I managed to rest both body and mind, to return to my working...
One thing I always have wished that my reMarkable 2 had was web browser. It wouldn't need to be very efficient nor the best browser out there. Just something simple I can use to read definitions for words or other small knowledge when...
I'd like to be better at book reviews I love reading books. Books that transport you to different worlds, let you have different experiences or even completely change your life. I also love reading book reviews: if someone has lyrically...