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It's Halloween, but today is not about corporate-laden holiday mumbo-jumbo. No, today is a day just like any other, except it isn't. I am currently writing this entry at 4 AM, freshly pulling through an all-nighter because I have to...
This blog post explains how to effectively file abuse reports against cloud providers to stop malicious traffic. Key points: Two IP Types: Residential (ineffective to report) vs. Commercial (targeted reports) Why Cloud Providers: Cloud...
Whether AI makes you more productive really depends on whether you know what the heck you're doing.
Haz un pequeño ejercicio si estás sentado delante de un ordenador, por favor. Abre la calculadora de tu sistema operativo, me da igual si usas una distribución de Linux, macOS o Windows. Tú abre la aplicación que incluya su sistema...
a blog post that chronicles what I've been up to this month: from speaking at a conference in Berlin, to 3 podcast interviews about the Fediverse...
Kroki is a wonderful tool I discovered during the time I worked as DevRel: it’s a small open source containerized application (compatible with OpenShift off-the-box) written in JavaScript, that encapsulates as many textual diagram...
Roshan: I got recently annoyed with iTerm2 encountering random lag and using infinite CPU slowing everything down. It happened at a moment of personal exasperation so I decided to try out [https://ghostty.org/ Ghostty] since I've tried...
Howdy y’all, I hope your October was not as hectic as mine. Mine was ridiculous! It’s been a super hardworking year overall, and I’m looking forward to a trip with my family at the end of the year. We are going to spend December in Sri...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. Resistance is never futile. More importantly, it can be contagious. Understanding what “I am not ‘anti-AI’… I am pro-craft.” means to me, by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, was originally posted on As in...
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I often use music as a motivator, when I don't have energy to do things, no mater what it is, I turn the music on and I gain a sense of strength I can't have with anything else. Somehow I can suddenly keep pushing through the day, so...
A while ago, I reflected on my troubles during my commute with other autistic people I know, and it helped put things into words that are difficult to talk about. It also helped to realize that they experience it too. My commute via tram...
I enjoyed reading this. It helped realize I am not alone, and my defenses are reasonable. I figured I would share my strategy for those wondering what to do. Defending my Digital Home I am a mama bear. I don’t allow anyone to disrupt...
A year in the works to a public launch and it's cooking
Finally, an enemies-to-lovers story that has teeth, and an actress who could embody a deadly female general. That was already fantastic, but Fated Hearts also has a coherent storyline and wonderfully written characters - such a rarity in...
Learn how to run Google’s Gemini CLI in a Docker container to avoid installing Node.js and its dependencies directly on your system. This guide provides a simple setup, a recommended shell function for seamless integration, and usage...
Fishing boats tied up at Son Tra beach, with coastline highrises in the distance. ソンチャー ソンチャー・ビーチに停泊する漁船と、遠くに見える海岸線の高層ビル群。
I am surprised I haven't written this sooner, especially since I have written about How I Write HTTP Clients. It was inevitable this post was going to be written. With that said, I want this post to follow the same format so a lot of...
🗓️//October Audition Round-up A roundup of auditions, recalls, and booked jobs from October 2025 Published by AHE. on 31st October 2025 Auditions - 2 📹 Self Tapes - 2 of those auditions... 🏷️ Adverts - 1 🎭 Plays - 1 Outcomes 🎉 Booked...
There was something about Monday. You could just feel it. I got to the office, checked my diary, and for the first time in months I saw a meeting-free afternoon stretched out before me, full of possibility of all the productive things I...
Life’s too short to be scrolled.
I’m introverted, and asocial. I like spending time on my hobbies. I’m the type to finish off all my work first, then relax. I’m the type who eats all the boring stuff off a plate, before relishing the good stuff. I have a high-speed...
When I first heard of Affinity I thought to myself, “Wow! What a nice competitor to Adobe” The bundle was paid with a perpetual license. Pay once and boom. And I DID pay for the iPad bundle. I don’t want to admit it but here we are. The...
I gave a talk at the 2025 Tracing Summit last month titled “Perfetto: The Swiss Army Knife of Linux Client/Embedded Tracing”. My goal in this talk was to show how Linux kernel, systems and embedded developers can use Perfetto when...
The University at Buffalo is launching a fully online program in applied ontology. Graduates will leave the program with an MS degree. The program, based in Buffalo’s Department of Philosophy, aims to “prepare students from around the...
Minimalism is something I’ve always strove for. I never followed it to the letter - instead just applying the core principals of it. Keep things small, light and utilitarian. Sparse, white and gray were the keys. I wouldn’t say it’s been...
Opinion polling graph for the next United Kingdom general election (post-2024) from Wikipedia licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license In a post here back in 2020—entitled Albion: utopianism...
I saw a docu about a nun who’d spent 25 years in a Carmel cloister. Which for Sweden is unusual. Obv I was fishing for info about digital minimalism but the docu didn’t deliver what I wanted in that regard. She says at one point “We...
I feel this. I’m the type of person who will willingly go on Twitter (even though I hate Twitter) just to find spoilers for whatever show I’m watching. Back when Castle was on, I visited TVLine almost every day looking to see if they had...
This post is part of a collection on UUIDs. Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) are handy tool for a distributed systems architect. The provide a method by which a distributed system can generate IDs without meaningful risk of...
It was this or a blurry picture of a chocolate dessert with candle, a surprise at a local Italian joint we'd been wanting to try for some time.Currently Listening: The 1975 “Fallingforyou”Reply via email
Hey everyone, it's Halloween! Except it's not, because I live in Germany and we don't have Halloween, even though the media has relentlessly and with some success tried to introduce it over here as well in recent years. When I was a kid,...
PumpkinOS is a re-implementation of PalmOS. In a short Halloween-themed post, I built it from source and ran it on Linux.
We often see and hear a lot of hype and – unfortunately – enshittification when it comes to GenAI. Despite knowing that there are indeed some valuable use cases for the application of AI to solve some issues, I rarely read about a...
Las historias más escalofriantes del software privativo acechan en cada época del año. Ese acoso constante es el que las hace todavía más aterradoras
Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another. - Alfred Adler The world seems to be operating on a shortage of empathy these days. Empathy requires a level of...
When a patching platform turns into an initial-access vector, you are looking at failure stacked on failure. That is exactly what CVE-2025-59287 did for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS): an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw...
Day 39, What do you like to read? Books, newsletters, doomscrolling, blogs, paper magazines? I love to read books, YouTube, and blogs. I wish I had a better alternative to YouTube, but it’s still a great place to learn new ideas and...
An interview with the author of Squeeze my nose for a good time
What started as an idle idea I was entertaining while riding my bike from NUE after a day of airplane photography turned into an amusing application that pleases me to no end. I'm talking about RetroPPI. Similar to tar1090, it visualizes...
October 2025. Chaddesden. Derby. Back at Derby station from Tutbury, I reckoned it was worth chancing a dash to the Hoppy Place, Derby’s lone new GBG tick a couple of miles east. Out the station’s back entrance, through the grim light...
Lake Averno is a small volcanic lake in the Phlegraean Fields, near Pozzuoli. It is considered the entrance to the Underworld in Greco-Roman mythology: it was a place of worship and rituals connected to the afterlife. Now it is (not...
For a long time, I have been using Celery to do background tasks. It does work, but has limitations. Limitations become apparent when you teach it to someone or when someone new tries to use it. So I am always looking for simple (not...
If you aren't already a Blue Jay's booster, now is the time.
Previously. Whenever I am submitting forms in the Web, I have the habit (tendency?) to keep hitting Cmd-A Cmd-C every once in a while, with the goal of saving all the text I’ve typed so far in a given text input field to the system...
I feel like one day we all woke up and decided to stop eating gravy (I also feel this way about casseroles). Maybe it's generational, but lately I only see people making sheet pan meals, pastas, or stir-fry. If they're feeling...
As part of my mission to find, discover, and expose cool things, I’ve decided to start sharing the cool stuff I have found on the internet once a month with the rest of you. Unfortunately, in October, I had this idea rather late, so the...