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Wed Sep 24
After a decade away, I’m back co-organizing PechaKucha Night Kyoto. Volume 50 is this Saturday, Sep 27 from 8pm at UrBANGUILD.I’ll be presenting about why people in 2025 still care about vinyl records. It's a topic I have some bias...
I’m coming up on five years of blogging in one form or another, after which you’d think I’d have the hang of it, right? Not really. I’m still confronted with crippling doubts every time I sit down to write, wondering: Is it good enough?...
Press Gazette: The biggest year-on-year declines were at Forbes (down 53% to 85.5 million visits — the steepest decline year on year for the second month in a row), Huffington Post (down 45% to 41.3 million), Business Insider (down 44%...
Evil: Between Circumstance and Disposition The claim that “evil does not exist” offers seductive comfort in our contemporary moment. It suggests that all human harm can be explained away through trauma, ideology, or circumstance—that...
Introducción Los feeds RSS son una herramienta muy útil para seguir las actualizaciones de blogs y otras plataformas que publiquen de forma regular, porque permiten obtener los artículos de forma organizada y también permiten utilizar...
“Back to the office” and the push for “AI into everything” have the same underlying cause. Collusion regarding Return on Investment. You see, what happened during/after Covid when companies realized a large part of their workforce...
I've recently updated the splash page of ersatz.website after I read a blog post by Amy Goodchild called "Early Computer Art In The 50's and 60's". In the article, Goodchild catalogues some early uses of the computer as an artistic...
I apologize for my absence in the blogging world as of late - as my last post showed, I have been going down the Nix/NixOS rabbit hole and working on some personal business projects that will be out in the coming months. There has been...
It is God who deserves all praise and thanksgiving: for his protection and care; for good food, friends, life, love, and all the enjoyable things of this world; for the most pleasant time last night spent with a few saints talking about...
In a recent, real world problem I needed to load a heterogeneous sequence of records from a buffer. Record layout is defined in a header before the sequence. Each field is numeric, with a unique name composed of non-empty alphanumeric...
Hey! How’s it going? I think things are fairly okay on my end.
Cleaning up my room led me to finding quite a bit of old things from previous years of my life, so I wrote about it.
Oh dear. I felt so beautiful. My heart melted when Lizzy’s mind changed completely for Mr. Darcy. Ofcourse, I felt that money is a key factor but neither Mr. Darcy nor Lizzie give priority to money. The peak of beauty was the ending...
Listen to The Gift Horse's Mouth is Full of Terrible Braille There is a special kind of terror reserved for the moment a well-meaning, sighted friend says, with a voice beaming with pride, “I got you something! I saw it and thought of...
Our first day in the Black Forest unfolded in serene beauty, unfolding a six-hour hike through sun-dappled ridges and mossy streams. Beginning with quiet observation to awaken the photographic eye, we captured unique perspectives of the...
This blog is on Pika. Part of having a Pika blog is having (if you want it) a guestbook. I have it, I want it, I fucking love it. I...
Decisions decisions.. I have been using both my Omarchy machine and my MacOS (now Tahoe) the last weeks. In the beginning I really enjoyed Omarchy, and I only reluctantly used my Mac when nescessary. However after the honeymoon phase...
This is the 8th post on My Top 100 Tracks I had an oud. It's a Middle-Eastern lute-like instrument. Roundabout 2000 or so I was given one as a gift. There are various types and mine was an Arabic oud from Egypt. I meant to learn how to...
Turns out someone else has the exact 2 wheeled olive colored luggage that I do! + 3 photos
Back to sketching Summer is noticeably giving way to Autumn here in the Netherlands. I’m all for it — not only do I love the fall colours, the cooler temperatures leave me feeling a tad less worn out. The autumn breeze clears my head. I...
I’ve been listening to the audiobook of Sarah Beth Durst’s The Spellshop–a delightful cozy fantasy about a librarian who returns to her home island after being away since childhood and stars a, well, spellshop–and brainstorming ideas for...
Roshan: [[File:Screenshot - Chrome iOS Algo Feed.jpg|thumb|left|Some random insufferable nonsense]] [[File:Screenshot - Brave iOS - News Feed Opt-In.jpg|thumb|right|Well, at least you asked]] At some point of time, Chrome started...
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...
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Tigris has launched a new Storage SDK for JavaScript/TypeScript that simplifies object storage interactions with a more straightforward API than AWS S3 SDK. The SDK uses environment variables for configuration, reduces cognitive...
I recently went on holiday without a DSLR and managed a photo series with a smartphone
One of my chefs mentioned that if they could cook the steak on the grill they could get it right the first time. This is not an acceptable attitude in the microwave era. Chefs have fragile egos and they all seem to enjoy cooking (???) so...
Do we really understand AI safety? While it is tempting to focus on existential risks, there are more pressing concerns… Continue reading →
SPONSORED This week’s ad slot was purchased by friend of Foofaraw, Evan Passero, in support of DIFFA Dallas—providing critical financial support to North Texas AIDS service organizations that offer direct care to adults, families, and...
Nothing says "back to school" like an inflatable gnome, dressed as a pencil, offering you an apple.
ContentsLies by Any Other NameGreat Artists StealDear Tech Reporters: Access Is Not A Beat This blog is failing on several levels. First, September 2025 is putting the “frequent” in “infrequently”, much to my chagrin. Second, my...
Day 30, What is something you are passionate about and why? Im passionate about writing. Throughout my life, its been the one thing I could turn to that has helped me with speaking, programming and learning to be a better human. Its kind...
Since the last time I wrote about my updates to the blog, a lot has changed, even if it doesn’t look like it. The menu above has undergone some work. Now it is responsive, has a nice drop down menu that also works well on mobile, and...
I think this is my fourth visit to Jaipur. I have been here on a train, car, and motorcycle. However, this is my first time here for work. Since we spent most of our time at work, I didn’t get to do much other than take an external view...
LLMs speed us up, but they don’t replace the basics. Always open a PR and review your own code, even if the bulk of it came from an agent.
The next BIG thing in tech just might be fixing the mess created by the current BIG thing in tech. -Ted Gioia from a recent piece From Rubble to Reckoning When World War II ended, the guns and tanks fell silent but the devastation was...
Yung-Kang Chen, Chien-Hsiung Lai, Wei-Chi Wu, Chi-Hua Wang, Ko-Ming Lin, Nan-Ni Chen, Jen-Tsung Yang, Pei-Lun Wu; Electroconductivity of Saliva as a Diagnostic Tool for Dry Eye Disease: A Case-Control Study. Trans. Vis. Sci. Tech....
"Malamocco, Matemauco, Metemaucum" from the Lessico Veneto (1851) by Fabio Mutinelli, translated by René Seindal.
The ef-themes are a collection of light and dark themes for GNU Emacs that provide colourful (“pretty”) yet legible options for users who want something with a bit more flair than the modus-themes (also designed by me). Package name (GNU...