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Title: Zen & the Art of Synthesiser Maintenance Website: zasm.earth RSS Feed: zasm.earth/feed.xml A mildly personal blog from Scotland, with a very loose focus on musical technology. And stuff. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate...
In 2022 I traded in my Mazda3 for a Nissan LEAF, which cost me about $1000 all-in. The LEAF was a pretty great car that I liked a lot, but it had a couple of critical features, namely that the lack of active battery thermal management...
I have now added Ko-fi support to my blog. I am still unsure about this, but I would like to experiment. I aimed to place it in the least intrusive place possible: at the end of the post. I don't know how it will conflict with the two...
The best part about learning a new skill is that the bar to success is very low. I know nothing about home improvement, so when I managed to release air from the radiators and insulated a few places (both are pretty trivial tasks), I...
November 2025. Lewes. Back from Newhaven to Lewes for a fourth new GBG tick by 3pm. Four in the bag so early in the week used to set me up for those 20 pub weeks that BRAPA knocks off on the way to Beer Guide glory, but in 2025 I don’t...
Some games give you a lot to talk about, and some others are pretty straight-forward mindless fun! I don’t have a huge history with the Streets of Rage series, but I am quite familiar with multiplayer games, and this just happened to be...
Went downtown and wandered while a fog hung over the city.Currently Listening: The Soft Pink Truth “Mere Survival Is Not Enough”Reply via email
The denote-merge package is an optional extension to denote. I am providing it in response to requests for functionality that streamlines the work of merging contents from one file into another. Thanks to Sia Piperea for reminding me...
Dear reader,This is the second article of the two-part series, where I challenge the popular argument asserting that people shouldn’t put all their eggs in one basket. The first part dealt with the question of 2FA, which you can find...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 327 mm focal length – 1/480″ at f/8 – ISO 800 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla,...
¿Abandonar Instagram? Es lo único que me queda para seguir teniendo contacto con mis amigos «reales»
Imagen por Peter Suthinu / Unsplash No sé si les pasa a ustedes, amigos que forman parte del fediverso y/o del indieweb, que no pueden abandonar las redes sociales donde siguen estando sus amigos que no forman parte de esta minúscula...
For the first half of November, I’ve been in Peru to do some hikes close to Cusco with friends: First, we did a 5 day trek to the Inca site of Choquequirao and back. After a day and a half of rest back in Cusco, we then did the 4-day...
Bangalore has suddenly turned very cold, apparently due to a cold wave. It’s been at least 4 to 5 degrees colder in the early mornings. I had a bit of a temperature, a cold, and a sore throat most of the week, thanks to the weather and...
Mustafa SuleymanCEO da Microsoft AI Mustafa Suleyman’s outburst is a reaction to Windows 11 users’ criticism of another Microsoft exec, Pavan Davuluri, who said Windows is evolving into an “agentic” operating system. “Agentic” is a...
Tell us about something that would make a great gift, and in exchange you get a chance of winning it or any of the other gifts people suggest. That’s right, it’s time for the Daily Nous Holiday Gift Guide Giveaway. Yes, I could give you...
The Holy Bible is a collection of books. So I have split them up. I will read it in 1 year, every day ~15 minutes of reading. Why read it? The Book of John, written around 90 AD by the disciple John, shows Jesus as the Son of God. It...
Recently I had the opportunity to test the new Google AI-Video generator powered by Veo 3(.1). The demo was truley impressive and scary at the same time! And then we were able to test it ourselves … While others created cool videos, I...
A silly problem to have, but it's mine I've got this mug that was a present from my family. I love it. It makes me really happy because I drink a lot of coffee and I make a lot of music on gameboys and it was a really thoughtful...
Esta es una curiosidad que noté tras intentar aprender como se hace un bucle for each en otros lenguajes aparte de los que conozco. Es interesante notar que hay lenguajes que tardaron décadas en implementarlo y otros que lo hicieron...
Longtime readers of this blog know I’m a sucker for calendrical calculations. So I couldn’t stop myself from doing some after reading this article by Jennifer Ouellette at Ars Technica. The article covers a recent paper on the Dresden...
When I’m trying to decide whether I want to watch a movie, my first step is to ask this question: Do I want to watch a movie that looks like that? I know from long experience that I have strong responses to the visual Gestalt of a film,...
How are these alternative smartphone firmwares similar and different?
Long ago, we traded the trees for tools, trying to bend the world to our will. We rose to our feet, ambling under the weight of an oversized brain that grew the opposable thumb we call thinking and made with it more tools — language to...
Per qualche motivo, quando si parla di Square Enix diventa sempre tutto molto complicato. Qui per dire abbiamo il porting Steam di uno dei vari remake di Final Fantasy IV
读《悉达多》 一首印度的诗 图1 《悉达多》封面 《悉达多》 这本书的篇幅不长，坐在高铁上，两三个小时就看完了。我觉得它和 《小王子》 有点像，差不多的篇幅，都是讲述主角一开始对某些事情感到困惑，在经历了许多之后，变得释然。 之前还看过黑塞的另一本书 《荒原狼》，某种程度上，我觉得和《悉达多》的主题也是类似的，都是主角在寻找自我，接纳自我，寻找内心的安宁的过程。 《悉达多》的副标题是「一首印度的诗」，黑塞的文笔、姜乙的翻译让整本书阅读起来确实有种诗歌的美感。...
Everytime I believe I'm understanding, something happens and I realize I have no idea what is going on. Right now it's starting to feel like a paint of insanity note than a story.
Added a new just recipe to open the latest (=most recent) blog post in $EDITOR. Very handy to make quick edits! % GIT_PAGER=cat git show HEAD commit 9fac587c257da57a9abb37e4ea1d7b2502ba51d2 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)...
The Basic Problem When two people or groups have different needs, there are two ways to handle it: Merge the resources and divide them based on who needs what Keep resources separate and let each side handle their own needs The second...
As much as I love playing DnD or other ttrpgs I have neither the time nor the friend pool to play them. In college we would play with friends on a whim with spiral notebooks. Nothing fancy. Now we have the printed manuals and all that...
[Everything between November 12 and the day of publishing this] Ha Noi, Vietnam DataNoodle bowls intake: 9 Coffees consumed: 23 Books read: 1 Bangalore, my never homeBefore heading to Vietnam I spent a few days in Bangalore in two...
Life can be challenging. Stressful. Hectic. Busy. Overwhelming. Our capacity to deal with the world around us varies and is finite. When we reach our limit, we have to accept it. Don't give up. Reduce the load, or do something...
Ever since I quit (popular) social media, the impulse to write sprang up from me. This impulse isn't understated -- I am perpetually in hot pursuit of ideas, jotting down things I've read or connecting observations. Countless times I...
Roshan: [[File:FRB Dallas - Income Increases to 2022.png|thumb]] The incomes of the poor have increased faster since COVID-19 than any other group. This frequently leads to laments that everything has changed and gotten more expensive...
SPONSORED This week’s ad slot was purchased by friend of Foofaraw, Evan Passero, in support of Elevated Access—a non-profit organization that enables people to access healthcare by providing flights on private planes at no cost, whose...
It’s been a busy two weeks and more. I wish every day, to write a little on my blog but there has been much on my mind, while at home and at work. Sleep has been sketchy. I am taking my folks on a overseas trip and I’ve been preparing to...
John Gruber, writing at Daring Fireball: Uni Watch, to me, epitomized a certain mindset from the early web. To wit, that there ought to be a blog (or two or three) dedicated to every esoteric interest under the sun. You want to obsess...
Quando a gente é criança o ato de fazer amigos é parte da progressão natural do desenvolvimento infantil. Você aprende a dividir, colaborar, pedir desculpas e interagir com pessoas fora do seu círculo familiar. Esse desenvolvimento se...
Am Mittwoch bei "Wicked" im Kino gewesen, habe die ganze Zeit an das Wenige gedacht, was ich über Girard (und Peter Thiel, der ja großer Fan ist) weiß. Soundtrack für diese Folge: Dancing through life. Ich habe Girard nicht gelesen (das...
I'm confronted with a direct reality: I don't have anything particular on my mind I want to write about. I've done what I can to cultivate habits and routines to get the spark of writing something every day, but even when I make all my...
Video: https://youtu.be/Ugr024DMMeQ?si=2svpbBavB003C1tzInstalling Gentoo on an Old ThinkPad by Bad AcronymI had more fun watching this than I should have.
I've gone from weekly updates to bi-monthly to monthly. That is not a good trend line. I need to work on that. My birthday was on Tuesday, celebrating my 58th trip around the sun. I always say I don't feel my age, and physically that is...
I could scarcely believe my eyes when I saw the headline – 'Lockdown could have been avoided entirely'! Had the farcical Covid 'inquiry' at last, having expended just shy of £200 million of our money, managed to produce a glimmer of...
Sometimes the internet scares me. And I'm not talking about dark webs, cyber crimes and gruesome humans behind keyboards. No, I'm talking about human interaction mediated by bits and bytes and how, when one decides to write something in...
记工作一年多后第一次和同事一起吃饭...
The soldier with the green whiskers led them through the streets of the Emerald City until they reached the room where the Guardian of the Gates lived. This officer unlocked their spectacles to put them back in his great box, and then he...
I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner, but I am now blocking ads and trackers system-wide on my iPhone via AdGuard's public DNS. And anyone can set this up for free on their phones, PCs, or even their home routers. There are...
Hey there! Quick rabbit update: Rex is doing well, pretty much back to his normal self after about two weeks. It’s good to see. The daughter is home from college for Thanksgiving break. Excited to have her here! Saturday is an annual...
Thanks to the little energy-related facts I get in communications from my electricity supplier, I learned the Kentucky Coal Mining museum has been solar powered since 2017 in what seems like the Scooby Doo double-take of the century. "It...
Tomorrow is 11/22; on my calendar this brings up a set of two deeply discordant anniversaries and the birthday of an admirable colleague and friend. And this year 11/22 is the date of Stanford’s preeminent sporting event, to add a note...