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Almost all my notebooks come with pages at the front in which I note down basic identification information: name, phone number, email, address, blood group, emergency contact (always my mother). On the first blank page, I write a quote...
Appended to Sassoon's The Old Century is a further memoir, Seven More Years, which carries young Siegfried's story forward into the new century. Towards the end of it comes his memorable encounter with a Camberwell Beauty, which some...
Title: ...time is what you make of it... Website: dreamsworld.it/emanuele RSS Feed: dreamsworld.it/emanuele/feed “…time is what you make of it…” is a personal blog that blends reflections, travel experiences, and a passion for...
But then the temps rose again and it’s felt like another lurch of summer. No mind, I’m still making chili. Been using this chili recipe of late using turkey instead of beef. It’s a solid base — the little bit of maple syrup feels like...
I waste a lot of time on YouTube. I’m not proud of it, but I figure as long as I get my stuff done, I’m okay. I watch some very odd things on the ‘Tube, but lately, I’ve gotten into watching people farm. I’ve never worked on a farm...
There's this fantasy a lot of people have that if they could clear their schedules of work, chores, and the other everyday things they have to do to stay alive, they'll have more time to focus on their creative pursuits. Write the book...
“I’ll let you use it,” was the phrase that knocked Utsab out of his robotic nursing protocol. He was muttering about whether to warm up his car. “What?” he said, and Wemly saw something in his expression dislodge and his conscious brain...
happy equinox [1]To all those who celebrate. A few days ago, in a moment of mild frustration, I listed my works in progress, or projects[2], and roughly organised them into four categories. not yet started / ideas started paused...
We’ve talked previously about some of the various tasks that philosophers might have large language models help them with in their work, mainly focusing on the ethics of doing so. But what about the mechanics of doing so? There are...
15 jours d'exploration à Tokyo Voici un récapitulatif (donc forcément une sélection) de nos deux semaines d'aventure à Tokyo, jour après jour. J'utiliserai le "je" pour le récit. Les photos d'illustration sont des tirages argentiques que...
I’ve always been bad at gym. I don’t know if there are many people reading this that know me from primary or high school, but I am sure they would agree that, as good as I could be in other subjects, I sucked at gym, year after year.
Dear reader,1Password announced last week that they will enter a partnership with Perplexity, an American AI company, by making their browser extension available in Perplexity’s Comet browser. For those of you who may not know, Comet has...
A short piece for this month's IndieWeb blog carnival on Sophia's prompt “second-person birds”
Wist je dat Sherlock Holmes én Jude Law in Riga filmden? Lees mee op onze reis.
Last night I had a tough time sleeping and couldn't get to bed until about 4 AM. I still managed to wake up at 8 AM though and I started my day without feeling tired. I managed to workout and all that as well. Then my afternoon slump...
Actualización – 30 de septiembre, 2025 @ 9:38 pm Me acabo de percatar que el canal de ARTE Concert acaba de tumbar el video. Que conste que les dije que el video tenía fecha de caducidad (aunque habían dicho que iba a estar disponible...
该文章探讨了如何为博客集成 Webmention 功能，以实现跨站点的互动交流。Webmention 允许用户通过链接到其他文章来发表评论或回应，其原理类似于博客评论系统但要求更高。文章介绍了 Webmention 的流程、接入的必要性（如折腾的乐趣）以及如何通过 webmention.io 服务作为接收方进行设置，包括 GitHub 验证和网站链接配置。目标是帮助读者理解 Webmention 的概念并提供简单的接入指南。
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,” E. E. Cummings wrote in his timeless summons for the courage...
I recently learned about smee, which is a tool to forward webhooks (or any other kind of HTTP Post request) to a locally running service. This can come in particularly handy while developing a service locally, which isn’t exposed on your...
El cliente de correo Thunderbird está trabajando para incluir la vista de conversación de manera nativa en su bandeja de entrada
Finding joy in the little things
I had already made my peace with missing out on Andy’s workshop, but “thanks” to Covid he had to postpone and I was back in the game! This was huge for me because Andy’s influence on my perception of and approach to web design and...
I finished my tenth Ironman 70.3 with no regrets.
OK, I admit that I’m sometimes too focused on technology to realise that not everyone is aware of all the different AI services out there. — This week, I mentioned Mistral.ai to a colleague and was surprised that he hadn’t heard of it....
Major redesigns of graphical user interfaces (GUI) always provoke surprise and complaints. With Liquid Glass, Apple’s new visual language, it’s no different. The good news is that beneath the new buttons, unreadable text blocks and...
Once there is a Ruby organization that is accountable to the maintainers, and accountable to the community, with openly and democratically elected board members, I commit to transfer my [Bundler] trademark to that organization. Super...
I was supposed to stop reading and go sleep. But then that proceeding scene against Morton sucked me in. I'm so glad I'm rereading this! I missed so much the first time around. You learn to read, but you still need to learn to Read. Then...
This is an entry from my journal. It is early Autumn now. Average day temperatures in Cyprus still hover above 25 degrees Celsius. The mountains are always cooler, especially at night. Even during the peak Summer days, one needs extra...
A personal reflection on anticipating a new novel and the unexpected lesson learned about patience, hype, and letting things unfold naturally.
A starter guide for the Fediverse: what it is, how to join and its culture
One of my sporadic book reviews
I'm sitting next to a group of teenagers right now, maybe 17 or 18 years old, still in school... and I realise, I'm old. Not only am I 43 and I could literally be their dad, but I also have no damn clue what they're talking about....
An interview with the author of Hex support
Check out As in guillotine... for more. "Knowing how to deconstruct a complex system is a critical first step." Five Things for September 25, 2025 Five Things: September 25, 2025, by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, was originally posted on As in...
White HouseThis “anti-fascist” lie has become the organizing rallying cry used by domestic terrorists to wage a violent assault against democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental American liberties. Common threads...
Discover why traditional motivation techniques can backfire in tech teams and how leaders can foster intrinsic motivation through autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Learn actionable strategies to empower your team and boost engagement,...
I’ve been meaning to create a git repository to host a collection of miscellaneous scripts / binaries that are too big to fit in shell aliases / functions, or text snippets. This started today: https://github.com/thiagowfx/pancake...