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Sharing my first impressions of the new Affinity app.
Apply SOLID's Interface Segregation Principle in Go with consumer-defined contracts. Learn why small interfaces and implicit implementation matter.
Special Edition — Ego TL;DR:What's the difference between my ego in the real world and my ego online? This blog post has approximately 335 words and may take 2 minutes to read. This post was submitted as part of the Indieweb Carnival for...
“Let me not seem to have lived in vain,” the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe whispered on his deathbed, not realizing that the astronomical tables he was leaving behind would become the portal through which Kepler arrives at the laws of...
I’ve been writing about notes, note-taking, and notebooks a lot lately. Beyond the fact that I have a crappy memory and writing everything down helps with that, I also feel the need to create a record of my own personal history. As I get...
We build a local AI chatbot with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and carry out simple tests… Continue reading →
It's Halloween, the last day of October. I feel like I should post something, just so that I could say I posted one entry more this month than I did…
Why Wisdom Requires Scaffold, Not Just Transmission EPISTEMIC STATUS: This document is Tier 1 (propositional knowledge) about Tier 2/3 phenomena. Reading it will not grant you substrate authenticity understanding – it provides a map, not...
Posting this late because of course. I've been blogging consistently on this platform for a year now. My first post here was on October 14th, 2024. I know it's not an impressive number for people looking from the outside, but for me, a...
I just published the latest stable release of the Modus themes. The change log entry is reproduced further below. For any questions, you are welcome to contact me. I will now work to apply these same changes to emacs.git, so please wait...
Another typical month of dashing between home and care home, with odd diversions from the route to tick a few Midlands and London pubs. Thirty-seven different pubs in October sounds pathetic, but there were also a bakers dozen in Romania...
When editing complex documents that warrant multiple revisions (iterations) and peer reviews, it is often helpful to make prominent distinctions within sentences, in order to track authorship and readiness. I enjoy making such...
As I looked through the more than 1,600 photos from our Sweden vacation and edited the best ones in Lightroom, I noticed how fitting the colors of the Swedish flag are. Blue and Yellow. The colors of the sky on a beautiful sunny day, and...
by Nicholas De Marino
Notes on a chapter about the Default Mode Network and how it may influence creativity
Halloween's a good a day as any to post more fall colors
Brian Eno, interviewed by Ezra Klein, recalled a moment some years ago when he was talking with the engineers at Yamaha about one of their synthesizers. Like most synthesizers, this one came with a series of preset tones but was also...
Tout Knowledge Worker se retrouve régulièrement face à des tableurs et des tableaux. Pourtant on rencontre très, trop fréquemment des tableaux qui rendent l’information encore plus complexe à appréhender que dans sa forme initiale....
In June of ‘25 I shut off most of my social media accounts: Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. I kept reddit under the happy delusion that I could learn to use it responsibly (lol) but I’ve made strides to curtail that as well. Since...
I just attended an event where Casey West also demoed some stuff. Just now I found his blog at https://caseywest.com as well. And scrolling through, I saw his post A Call for More Tech Leadership from 2015 where he writes: Don’t promote...
Halloween, Schmalloween – here at Nigeness, 31st October is always Keats's birthday (born 1795, in Moorgate, London, where his father was ostler at the Swan and Hoop inn). On this day in 1818, Keats signed off on his long letter to his...
Este es el proceso manual para crear una bandeja de entrada en postfix. La verdad, es poco probable que lo necesites puesto que es un proceso automatizado en la mayoría de los casos, pero podría interesarte. La entrada Tutorial: Creación...
I think I'm done with pretending Halloween is going to happen where I live
Random photographs from my phone's camera roll.
Because the journey was a long and eventful one, I'm going to write about this experience in parts and tell you how I felt. I'll be honest about my observations, emotions, and what I've learned through it all. At first, I must admit I...
A response to the IndieWeb Carnival for the month of November 2025. The theme of this short post is "Cycles and Fluctuations."
Quand éclatera la bulle IA… Comme le souligne Ed Zitron, toute la bulle actuelle est basée sur 7 ou 8 entreprises qui s’échangent des promesses de s’échanger des milliards d’euros lorsque tous les habitants de la planète dépenseront en...
The weather was nice so we picked a close trail that we haven't been to before, and chose The Old Coach Road in Bedford.
Here’s some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases)...
Roshan: [[File:{{#setmainimage:Roshan and Julie at City Hall just before getting wed.webp}}|thumb|Sari all the way from India, my shirt from Chinatown]] [[Julie Yu Kang]] and I did what many people do: we had a quick wedding at City Hall...
Man, yesterday was such a long day. After dealing with the long delayed flight, taking the delayed bus to the hotel, and having the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner all after doing an all-nighter the night before, I crashed into bed at...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux "Rolling Release" o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades.
I've never participated in a book club so I don't know if I am doing this right. I don't know how the conversation would go in a group setting and I normally lean to sharing my experiences as a way to connect. I've recently learned it...
4:49 am oct 31 2025 dreams are lawless or unfold, maneuver, wriggle around through their own string of unique laws, which seem boundless boundaryless borderless shapeless at times, or moving, er rathe...
I don't normally photograph weddings, but when my dear friend's youngest is getting hitched, I'll don the cap.Currently Listening: Larry Fleet “Different Shade of Red”Reply via email
Rating: 🟩 Type: Non-Fiction It is embarrassing for me to admit that I work in the "Space Industry" but I barely know anything about space history, so I picked up this one.It was one of the most compelling non-fiction books I have ever...
Es war eine neue Welt. Ein neue Welt mit Bergen, Planzen und Lebenwesenen. Die Berge sind so hoch als man imaginieren kann. Die merkwürdige Planze bevölkern jeden moglichen Platz und gibt diesen Land einen vollen Ausblick. Schichten auf...
I’ve been using only Apple devices for a few years now. I don’t have a Windows PC or an Android smartphone. I don’t even have headphones or accessories from other brands. I subscribe to iCloud+ and use various Apple services, such as...
Are we making progress in philosophy? Or at least in philosophy-themed costumes? Here’s one way to find out. Ten years ago, I put up a post asking which philosophy ideas make for good Halloween costumes. I included some suggestions: Yes,...
I got an interesting attempt at phishing just now. It was a text message, modeled on the Google 2FA texts. The first sentence was identical to a Google text: "G-[number] is your Google verification code." The next two sentences, however,...
Have you ever played Duck Duck Goose1 and the person who’s it keeps walking and walking and walking and walking around and never picks the goose? It’s really boring. There...
"I thought Mexico was a country where I could be happy and it wouldn't be a tawdry happiness. I could be miserable and I could as- sume a noble misery. The tragic is elevated in a way it isn't over here, and happiness must necessarily...
It was a hectic week, with short trips and numerous meetings to kick-start the work. There are many things slated to go live in the new year, so the year-end seems hectic.
A raven I photographed (on Halloween) while walking the dog. It has nothing to do with my post, except that I now have time to take the picture and post it. As previously mentioned, I retired at the end of the last school year after 25+...
This morning, I ended up on chsmc.org’s “Applying Pixar’s rules of storytelling to writing” post. At the bottom, he quotes: No work is ever wasted. If it’s not working, let go and move on – it’ll come back around to be useful later. I...
I recently pulled out my old Helly Hansen all-weather coat. My wife bought it for me on a trip to Norway back in 2007. It developed a small tear in the nylon on the chest, so I moved onto other jackets, including two more Helly Hansens....
It's been a long year. Here's another update to my .plan file. The usual warnings apply.
Remember back in the day when I talked about SailNavSim? For some reason I started playing it again last week and lo and behold, the guy who runs the game has opened an around-the-world race starting next Sunday. Luckily without the...
Sony NEX-5R A few months ago I bought myself a 12 year old camera. The Sony NEX-5R was surprisingly cheap until I realised the menus were locked into Japanese only. A compact camera with a large-sensor. One of the early Sony E-Mount...