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Here are my weeknotes from October 7 to 13, 2025!
I am collaborating with my friend Victor V. Gurbo (NLJ profile, official website) on a New Leaf Journal article which will go live tomorrow (October 14, 2025, if you are reading this after). I converted my markdown draft to LibreOffice...
One of the “25 lessons” I presented at LoopConf this year was “Software can be finished”. I tried to remove this lesson from the talk to make room for something else. But it kinda took on a life of its own and wanted to be in the talk....
How to use fwupd to update device's firmware on Linux.
This moment on Kirby Avenue feels like somewhere else which I attribute to the tall firs. + link to recipe for Baked Feta & Butternut Squash Pasta with Sage & Garlic
When the whole fidget spinner was was going around a few years ago, I laughed at it just like everyone else did. After all, this thing was a toy, and usually an expensive one. Those going on about the benefits were probably easily...
Living intentionally in a world of distraction.
Or how humanities made me more comfortable with science. This post is part of the Bear Blog Carnival Read about the Carnival and how to participate here. The October Bear Blog Carnival's theme is Early Web memories. I wrote this draft a...
Problem statement: get a random word via shell scripting. Assume a typical Unix / POSIX environment is available. There are various ways to do so. Dictionary shuffle Pick a random word from the system dictionary: % shuf -n 1...
Read on the website: Not all environments have Lisp-aware structural editing. Some are only line-oriented. How does one go about editing Lisp line-by-line?
本篇从牙周病治疗经历出发，详细记录了洗牙、龈下刮治的流程、费用和感受，强调了规范刷牙和使用牙线的重要性。文章还分享了在海量信息中查找特定信息（如音乐来源）的经验教训，提醒读者在行动前规划方法的重要性，避免盲目尝试。文章旨在提醒读者关注口腔健康，并分享高效信息检索策略。
My Jarmusch (re)watch continues with a movie I have not seen before. So far, I am on track to finish this by the end of the year, and I am sure enjoying the ride. What about Mystery Train? Jarmush, how the hell do you do this? You were...
One unsung feature in the web components space that I don’t think gets enough attention is the Custom Elements Manifest initiative. I think it’s the killer feature of web components. Known as “CEM” to its friends, a CEM is a community...
Background There's a classic structure often found representing business data in enterprise software, and that's the "document". Purchase requisition, sales order, goods receipt, and so on. Header and items. Most of the time the items...
Don't Give Up On Your First Draft by The Second Story This video is a revelation. I never considered writing like an art sketch! #writing #video #sharingThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
Should you self-host? The answer is complicated, and I'll walk you through the questions I ask myself before deciding to self-host something. Hope it helps!
La justesse au lieu de l’exactitude Où je parle de hockey sous-marin, d’avions militaires et du pourrissement des oranges punks. L’arbitraire de l’arbitrage C’est un fait historique peu connu, mais j’ai, brièvement, été arbitre sportif....
Questions to ask when you think you need to finish something Cassidy nos comparte estas ideas a algo que nos pasa muy seguido, ¿empiezas muchos proyectos y terminas pocos? Pregúntate: ¿Esto aún se alinea con mis objetivos actuales? ¿Lo...
Life is an ongoing expedition into the brambled tendrilled wilderness of ourselves, continually stymied by all we mistake for a final destination — success, superhuman strength, the love of another. Along the way, we keep confusing...
A few weeks ago, I teamed up with Hanspeter Mair, the DAV Wegewarte organizer, to create a video for the Bavarian State Government’s volunteer office. It was my first time shooting a focused video with an interview. The day was a...
Onze overheid heeft regels opgesteld voor hun gebruik van de cloud, AI en andere algoritmes. En ze houden zich er bijna nooit aan. Dit wordt keer op keer vastgesteld, zoals door de Algemene Rekenkamer, waar men constateerde dat voor...
I live by the ocean and during the night — Björk Let’s sail all the way out to the sea to a tiny speck of an island where we can explicate and externalize and incarnate our hitherto unspoken grawing worries and fears, Liminalize the...
Algunas veces resulta difícil entender los mensajes que nos hablan de la salud del planeta que compartimos: Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, límites planetarios, puntos de inflexión climática… suenan parecido pero no son lo mismo. Y...
An interview of sorts with by good friend and New Leaf Journal colleague Victor V. Gurbo on his new album, Outrun the Invisible Man.
I come before you again, asking not for alms or recognition, but presence and grace. It's been a good time so far, but today I feel rather tired and somewhat, uh, loopy I would say. Something that's been pissing me off: I type on my...
October 2025. Bucharest. The Young Boys of Bern had told us that Bucharest’s Ironic Taproom was an essential visit, and as Mrs RM wanted a blog post called “four essential craft bars” it was easy to drag her from the seedier part of the...
In Asia, the real conversations and developments around AI are focused on practical applications for industry. They are quiet, hardly talked about and are not trendy.
Logos are everywhere. So much so it has become meaningless.
Recently, I have been testing how well the newest generations of large language models (such as GPT-5 or Claude 4.5) handle natural language, specifically counting characters, manipulating characters in a sentences, or solving encoding...
Things that happened the week of October 4-11, 2025
Even though the weather is still pretty mild for the time of the year, it's not as much fun to bike to NUE and spend time there, waiting for airplanes. It's not cold, but no matter how much clothes you wear, when you stand still for a...
Last week was a fairly normal week. I worked on a few articles, did some reading, and spent time with my family. Here are some highlights from the week: 😎 Personal This week there was no F1 race which made the weekend a bit slow. I...
Il protocollo non scritto della comunicazione digitale
Steve Jobs introducing the 'digital hub' concept, Macworld SF, January 2001; via Stefano Paris. When Steve Jobs opened Macworld on January 9, 2001, he boasted that in addition to the live audience in San Francisco, “we're streaming all...
Aunque con cierto retraso, pues fue el pasado 2 de septiembre, el navegador web de Google, Chrome, ha cumplido ya 17 años. Personalmente y dedicándome profesionalmente al desarrollo web, su aparición supuso un punto de inflexión. Nos...
Michael Sandel, professor of government at Harvard University, is the 2025 winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture. The Berggruen Institute hailed Sandel as “one of the world’s leading thinkers and public...
Last month, when I was suffering from a vertigo and unable to read for more than a few seconds at a time, my constant companion was the incomparable Ella Fitzgerald, and especially her four great Songbooks: Gershwin, Ellington, Cole...
Why we ditched Facebook Messenger for Signal: A personal reflection on privacy, AI overreach and why data security matters to everyone.
A local supercomputer between the size of a Mac mini and a Mac mini.
On macOS 26 Tahoe, run this command to disable Liquid Glass: defaults write -g com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES Kinda shocked this is possible. Is Liquid Glass just a skin layered on top of macOS’s now‑classic UI? That would...