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Ever notice how cute craft beer cans are these days? Me too.
open for a surprise, etc
I like to test AI image and video generation tools with this prompt. It's very effective.
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Did you know that I once had ambitions of being a tech blogger? Before I came to be a Linux content creator, I had several blogs that “covered” technology and gadgets. I even started a podcast about Tech and such with my friends. We...
On day 4 in the Schwarzwald, we skipped hiking to explore the Landesgartenschau, a vast regional garden show spreading 8 kilometers between Freudenstadt and Baiersbronn. Despite a brief rain shower and many visitors, the themed gardens...
"I don't think I'm going to make it" I said to Casey at the top of the Ferris wheel, my eyes wide and pallor drained. The speed of the spin caused our gondola to rock back and forth at the apex. (I survived and took a bunch of photos at...
Back in July I tried a service called NINA that aimed to bring back ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, AOL and a few other internet services from the 90s and 2000s. I registered an ICQ number and chatted with a few people and it was fun. Now it's...
So far, this morning has been relatively normal. I have done my morning routine, had some caffeine, and overall don't feel horrible. But one thing that's been messing with me: nicotine cravings. It has been almost three months since my...
This is a caricature of how I feel mechanical keyboard switches are being marketed these days. I do not mean to judge anybody and I am having a good time learning about all the options out there, while typing on my boring Cherry Black...
Title: Matthew Brunelle's Blog Website: blog.matthewbrunelle.com RSS Feed: blog.matthewbrunelle.com/feed A technical personal blog about, frequently, about self-hosting. Mostly just the projects I happen to be working on. RSS users are...
I'm enjoying the religion vs science pieces though!
Notes Introduction Page 23 @ 04 October 2025 10:47:30 PM Yes, home they went, and all things beautiful, All things high they took with them, All colours, all the sounds of life, And for us remained only the de-souled Word. Torn out of...
We are in Thrissur and will be here for some time. The drive from Bengaluru was comfortable and good. We left at 2:10 AM and reached our destination at 10:25 AM, covering approximately 500 km in 8 hours, including brief stops. I think...
September 2025. Sale. My new GBG pub in Sale was unexpectedly closed (“hope to be open by 4”, they said), so an hour to get to the soul of Sale. If there was a local TIC, they could have that for a pint of Holt. We decided to loiter for...
How to use piracy to your advantage.
I was hanging out with some acquaintances when I brought up that I had a birthday recently. The woman I was talking to asked how old I was. I told her I was 40 and then braced myself for the inevitable “Dayum, I didn't know you were that...
Some meta-commentary on reading: I’ve been trying to read through my enormous queue of articles saved on Instapaper. In general I love reading stuff from the internet but refuse to do it with a computer or a phone: I don’t want all my...
Seen in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, in 2025: A Christmas countdown clock counting down from 86 days.
Weeknote #13, I’mma pluck ‘em, yay. This had to be his most, unlucky lucky day. Life Notes This was one of those weeks that felt two months long. But, hey, we made it! Some Links Worth Sharing How to Be a Good Literary Citizen (in Seven...
Ein kurzer Gedanke: Meine Website gehört mir. Sie ist ja für Leser*innen, aber sie ist auch für mich! Ich kann irgendeine Information sammeln und benutze meine Website als ein Platform... Es sollte gibt mir glückliche Fühlen! Deshalb...
Apparently the way I treat my butter means that society labels me! Let's roll back to last weekend — we had the out-laws staying with us. (My Other Half's sisters, niece, and great-nephew). It turned out to be a lovely weekend, although...
It’s been a punchy week. We saw a genuine crypto breakthrough from Signal, a flurry of high-severity patches across browsers and Cisco, and a policy change in Washington that could chill threat-intel sharing. Extortion crews are probing...
Phew, barely made Bandcamp Friday. Thanks, time zones! The title translates to “Everybody knows that it’s gonna be fucking cold in winter” and comes from Pascow’s song Gottes Werk und Teufels Beitrag. Observing how both temperature and...
Find me somewhere between the ocean and the sunset.
I originally heard of zizmor at FOSDEM 2025: zizmor is a static analysis tool for GitHub Actions. It can find and fix many common security issues in typical GitHub Actions CI/CD setups. One month later, I adopted it in the most important...
At Evangelical Colleges, A Revival of Repentance – The New York Times (1995): Students at evangelical colleges are embracing a revival calling them to repent. “We haven’t seen a student revival since the Jesus movement days of the late...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux "Rolling Release" o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades.
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I don't believe in the supernatural, but I can't explain what happened to me today.
This blog really isn't just for beating up on Apple for the way it harms users, the web, standards, and society to maintain power and profits. So here's some fun stuff I've been doing in my 11ty setup to improve page performance....
Paul McCartney’s aging voice should matter when deciding to see him live, the experience of witnessing a living legend outweighs it.
Diving into the weird world of Psikyo shmups
The term "squidgy portamento" appears in this week's run down of new music.
Nexcloud ha recibido una actualización muy bonita, pero de nuevo no es el protagonista. Hoy voy a hablar de Unison, una herramienta de sincronización bilateral similar a Syncthing. XD Introducción De esta herramienta se habla menos que...
“Mistake” is another word for a working draft we are unable or unwilling to revise, a draft that stands at odds with the story we wish to tell about who we are and what we want. It is a judgment one part of us lashes on another. To...
I recently appeared on my friend's podcast "The Nerd and the Scientist". Find the podcast here or watch it on youtube below: Find more from Science Actually here and Kovi's research on Google Schoolar
Rambling thoughts and memories of my first two eReaders, the Kindle Keyboard and Kindle Voyage
7:53 am oct 3 2025 hmmmm . . yeah. life. its been tuff n unfluffed round here lately, meaning well yeah, my life. gonna pass on the details n really . . thinkn the best thing to do is put los feelings...
The second round of how to jailbreak Microsoft Surface RT or 2 (Tegra ARM 32 processor) and install Linux, with Raspberry Pi OS based on Bookworm and upgrading to Trixie. Using Yahallo, Golden Keys and Open Surface RT.