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22nd October 2025. Sheffield. “What’s new in Sheffield ?” ask folk heading over for one of the UK’s top pub crawls. Well, lots of new buildings, mainly food courts and flats, but not a lot of new pubs, outside the odd sports bar and a...
The October meetup is scheduled for Thursday the 30th. If you're curious about the kind of stuff we talked about at the first one, I posted some links.It's a light, agenda-free meetup to help you meet people and chat tech before work....
In November 2022, after I had been keeping track and adding names to this slide for a few years already, we could boast about curl having run on 89 different operating systems and only one year later we celebrated having reached 100...
Review of two platformers, Yoku's Island Express and Pepper Grinder
Coffee is prime polymorphism example. Depending on the context it does different things. The different things are list worthy, therefore have been listed as under. This is a live list, maybe coffee does more things? Exploration...
Matt Novak, writing at Gizmodo on October 22: President Donald Trump is currently demolishing the East Wing of the White House in one of the more shocking acts of his second term. Trump plans to build an enormous $250 million ballroom in...
I've been working remotely (or living at my office) since lockdowns first started in March 2020. That's 5.5 years of remote work, and I'm thriving. I can stim, pet my cats, sit weirdly, or fart without worrying what anyone will think. It'
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Reading Federico Viticci’s fantastic iOS & iPadOS 26 review, I had a tiny quibble about one thing, and it’s something many other people who discuss the new iPad multitasking system said recently: the notion that “Apple added Mac...
Viñuela JR, Wolffsohn JS, Consejo A, van der Worp E, Piñero DP. Ocular surface characteristics and its association with soft contact lens fitting. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt. 2025; 00: 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/opo.13559 It’s common...
A boatman, piloting his flat-bottomed boat with a long bamboo rod, returns downstream after dropping off his passengers. A couple enjoy the river from the shore. 長い竹竿で屋形船を操る船頭が下流へ向かう。岸辺から川遊びを楽しむカップル。
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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa Several years ago, I participated in a community circle with twelve teenage boys and their teacher. The students had selected the topic...
Dear reader,I have grown tired of websites blocking my access just because I use a VPN. Streaming sites are notorious for this, but this year, sites like Reddit and YouTube have joined in, which has made browsing feel miserable. You can...
i can't afford a what? a geochron[1] what am i going to do about it? get a high paying job[2] make one myself[3] get a raspberry pi & a small screen and make a little digital version[4] write some wobbly code to change my desktop...
I spent this morning digging out some of my earliest memories. It was for a feature I wanted to make for today's Weird Web October where the theme…
On the joy of making arbitrary small rules for yourself which you can break at will but which also might help you steer your own obstinate behavior a bit more...
Over the last several years, I have come to dislike and distrust most film media. New or old, hot or trash, so much of it is garbage to me. My experience with this has come mostly as a trauma response from psychotic episodes. It's hard...
a webcomic from Matthew Burbridge
The weather is gradually getting less conducive to airplane photography, so I'm spending more and more time working on Sky scraper.
From an October 14, 2025 report in Brussels Signal: “A group of protesters gathered outside Microsoft’s EU office to complain about the company’s decision to end security updates for its older devices running the Windows 10 operating...
sebelum mencoba aplikasi-aplikasi aneh di luar sana, mungkin kita harus coba dari aplikasi bawaan lebih dulu.
A simple but highly effective DIY that will take your voice recordings to the next level. Published by AHE. on 23rd October 2025 In pursuit of my goal to get a voiceover agent this year, I've worked my way through dozens of potential...
Tender is the Flesh, TBR???Had a dream where we were kept inside a labyrinth building. It was dark. Grey walls. Lots of doors. Then a restaurant where the elite were eating human flesh to replace animals. Now I believe is the right...
Ahamkara: the ego machine This is my contribution to the Indieweb Carnival of October 2025, hosted by Bix Frankonis. The theme for this month is “ego”. As shocking and unpleasant as they are, major disruptions to life can sometimes serve...
The geometrician teaches me how I may avoid losing any fraction of my estates, but what I really want to learn is how to lose the lot and still keep smiling.
I was looking at the NFC standings yesterday, particularly the NFC North, the Chicago Bears’ division. The hated Packers are at the top of the division with a 4-1-1 record and a winning percentage of .750.
Just some things that happened recently that aren't long enough to be a post by themselves. Getting FLAC music, taking care of my dog, and playing word puzzle games.
I am gradually importing my posts from my old blogs and making small changes to some of them. While I have a lot of poems and prose written there, I prefer to share those pieces on my future website instead. Thankfully, I can backdate my...
As I write, it is the late evening. I am getting ready to go to bed. The room is illuminated by fairy lights. I have been trying to go to bed at more reasonable hours of late, but I just saw the ten pointless facts about me blogging...
Zine#43 桌面变形记 🎶 Voodoo - D'Angelo 最近把闲置的显示器1拿出来用，把桌面整理了一下，顺便分享一下我的桌面变化吧。 图1 自己租房子住时的桌面。 房子是一个单间，桌子刚好卡进了床尾多余的空间里，有时就躺在床上看视频，还挺舒服的。 电脑用支架立在了音箱后面，CD 机、音箱、显示器、折叠桌、台灯一直跟着我。 风铃是女朋友送的礼物，也一直跟着我，但在房间里没啥风，唯一能让它响的就是风扇了。 图2...
Jenn took us around town today. We checked out Downtown Lynchburg, visited Shep's office (where I did some identity work decades ago) and ended the night at the high school orchestra performance. +
Another hot Fall in Texas. No notable rain since June. Air-conditioning humming. Water bill up. Backyard is a dust bowl from the dogs tearing up all the grass. My schedule is a constant loop of kid activities; school, cheer, baseball,...
With the terrible Windows 11, and with the fiasco of EOLing Windows 10, we should remind ourselves that Microsoft was always a shady, nepo-baby company. Some of us know this story well, some not. But it's always nice to tell the abridged...
I recently made a post titled second person birds. It was a bit of an experiment, focusing a lot more on photography than I had on my blog in some time. I enjoyed it so much that I took some of the photos there, added some more and made...
The NYT asked a number of people to share their favorite moments from Thomas Pynchon’s fiction. Yikes. I have so many. The problem is that not one of the greatest passages in his glorious body of work makes complete sense to out of its...
Anoche arrancó otra nueva temporada de la NBA. Según el correo del comisionado, Adam Silver, la temporada 80 de esta competición de baloncesto. De nuevo con el balón en sus manos los Curry, LeBron, Jokic, Doncic, Durant, Shai,...
American actor Ethan Hawke discusses forty years of work, from Explorers in 1985, through to Blue Moon this year, as part of the Vanity Fair Career Timeline series of videos. There’s not a lot what of Hawke does that feels like a...
The Trump administration has issued an update to the president’s recent proclamation about new visa fees, with implications for current international students and faculty. Last month, the Trump administration announced that new...
With my VPS expiring in December, I needed to find a new home for my Jellyfin server. I no longer need my VPS — the price to renew it has doubled and I can no longer justify the cost. It has to go. I used to run all sorts on there but...