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📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 502 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 2000 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla...
The day before it was cloudy and I couldn't see the mountain from the Shinkansen at all. But last night I had a clear view as I zipped past Mt. Fuji, illuminated by the last rays of the sun. 前日は新幹線から山がまったく見えなかった。しかし昨夜は、夕日に照らされた富士山がはっきりと見えた。
I suddenly felt the need to self-host my git repositories after spotting cgit on Valhalla’s blog. The ghost of covetousness appeared and I wanted one. Unfortunately, as I’m on a shared-host, it is not possible to have much fun with the...
Este mes, está siendo un mes de cambios y eso ha hecho que esté intentando adaptarme a una nueva rutina. Sin dudarlo, lo más difícil ha sido dejar de ir a la oficina y socializar con mis compañeros de trabajo. Las primeras semanas aún...
———————————————————————— Texto: Javier Aparicio Maydeu 1.- La obra entera de Enrique Vila-Matas se diría un homenaje a sí mismo, cuando es un homenaje a la mejor literatura. Su complicidad con las formas de autoficción no alcanza a la...
Owning to the lack of interesting to me pictures in (meagre in number) local cinemas, happened to be that this week marks the first time in a couple of years of my visiting cinema: when earlier this week I was told that Yorgos Lanthimos'...
Welcome to the 87th issue of De Programmatica Ipsum, about Considered Harmful. In this edition: We weigh the historical and philosophical implications of the phrase “Considered Harmful”. In our Vidéothèque section, we watch Phil Nash...
I’ve been wanting to write for a long time but keep shutting myself down for many reasons, one of which is not acting on momentum. There are times when I can get really excited about something, particularly when I’m hit by a new insight....
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Since I decided in 2019 to use the static site generator (SSG) Hexo as the foundation for my blog, I have been struggling with the fact that it works with the CSS preprocessor Stylus via a pre-installed plugin. I thought I just needed...
"Giuoco del Calzo" from the "Habiti d’huomeni et donne venetiane", published by Giacomo Franco, c. 1610.
I recently read Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, and I was blown away. This book came out in 1993, and I know that makes me really late to the party, as I’ve seen this recommended quite a few times, but I’ve never stopped to read....
If you can't run an alternative, privacy-sparing firmware on your Android device, you can still assert a measure of control by disabling certain packages. You don't need to root the device to do this, and Canta is an app that sets out to...
November 2025. Rye. The usual routine. 2 days in Waterbeach, leave a bag of washing in the garage for pick up later, pack light for trip to Rye via London. I cannot believe how much luggage folk drag around the capital. 22 minutes...
I have seen the famous 1939 The Wizard of Oz movie. But was that the first theatrical adaptation of L. Frank Braum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? Had you asked me before November 17, 2025, I may have tentatively guessed it was. But I now...
Dave Winer, an American software developer and blogger, is working on a blog discourse system. In short, this is a blog commenting system, allowing you to comment on someone’s else blog post, potentially this one you’re reading right...
I sometimes wonder if we have too uncritically accepted the marketing narrative of social media companies about how connectivity is always good and preferable, and that they as the mediators always need to be the ones facilitating it in...
Erkki Voutilainen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons This is the second time I’ve taken this effing hat apart, unraveling hours’ worth of work and starting again from almost the very beginning. I’m not a bad knitter, but when things...
This'll be the last Recently in 2025. It's been a decent year for me, a pretty rough year for the rest of the world. I hope, for everyone, that 2026 sees the reversal of some of the current trends. Watching This video from Daniel Yang,...
And that’s four weeknotes in a row. Let’s hope i’ll get back to regular blogging soon. Books Le comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. At almost 1,500 pages, this was an ambitious way to reacquaint myself with bigger books. The gamble...
As much as I enjoy using my ergonomic keyboards, sometimes I still need to use the built in keyboard on my laptop. Transitioning between the two drastically different layouts is no longer an issue, but I find myself having an itch of...
The story line of this movie is set in 60-70s on some other Earth. Fantastic four are celebrated superheroes and people love them. Then one day, on this happy planet, Silver-Surfer arrives, which means Galactus is coming. The rest of the...
I love this time of year for the satisfying blocks of website tinkering. There are big mornings and long afternoons spent with a new CSS feature. Or a whole weekend rewriting the about page, fixing dark mode, poking, prodding. Every...
A new year, a new advent of code. My Pythonista self is always happy. AoC 2025 Day 1: Secret Entrance: Part One python Copy #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys def main(): with open(sys.argv[1]) as input: lines = input.read().splitlines()...
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 Romans is a letter from Paul to the church in Rome, written around 57 AD. It explains...
Yesterday we were having lunch at my parents’ house. At the end of lunch, my daughter, driven by some unknown motivation, asked her mother if Santa Claus really exists. She’s getting on in years, and we expected the question sooner or...
The Magic of Sleep Thinking is a book by Eric Maisel and Natalya Maisel. It gives practical advice for problem-solving during slow wave sleep and describes the experiences of some of the authors’ coaching clients. Notes The discussion of...
24th November - 30th November It's mid week. The temperature is skirting zero and the skies are clear and bright. Everything has a slightly ethereal tinge of frost and that wintery haze from evaporating ground frost. I've done the school...
I didn’t realize I never posted my October Microthoughts, so here’s a very late update. I also didn’t realize I posted this much in October... though most of it lived on an isolated status page where no one really pays attention to them...
Walmart sold a whole bunch of different Christmas decorations with two male cardinals, perhaps unknowingly? This made me laugh heartily because I am a child on the inside who immediately drove to see if they had any of these cardinal...
I am back after a brief hiatus. I was getting burned out on writing every single day and decided to use the holiday as an excuse to take a break. I feel that I had lost some momentum because I wanted to get started again earlier, but...
So, I use Hugo for this site. And I used 11ty for TLC for a long while before moving that to Hugo as well. I’m pretty good with Hugo but I will admit that they can be complicated to set up. But in his response to the article that Jan...
Before you read any further, it's important that you see the EPOCH video to get the required context. I've been working on ATLAS, the systems programming club I founded with Nikhil in my college and setting up something ambitious. The...
I bought a cheap push-button combination lock and fell down a rabbit hole when I realized it didn't matter what order you entered the code in. I ended up doing a teardown of the entire mechanism and designing some 3D models to explain...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. In which I briefly comment on the books I read each month, so a few years from now when I’m trying to remember one of them, I’ll be able to find it here. Since I’m a media omnivore, it also...
Rating: 🟧 Type: Non-Fiction I probably need to stop reading books with theses which I already agree with from the beginning. Turns out that economic protectionism and isolationism is bad for your economy. Who knew?
I just discovered a new way to tell if a blogpost is AI slop or at least if someone blindly copied and pasted commands from Claude Code: the first line of a group of commands isn't indented but the rest are, like this: sudo apt update...
Another of these liminal weeks. There’s a lot of stuff I’d usually get pretty excited about and yet, what I mostly notice is the fall weather. Oh well.At least I went to the Christmas Markets in Basel already. Cleverly enough I had so...
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I checked out Practical Approximate Analysis of Beams and Frames from the University of Illinois library a couple of weeks ago. I haven’t dug into it deeply yet, but I smiled in recognition of some of the early material. Here, for...
I have owned netwert.com since 1997. That’s a long time! I have a few dozen email aliases that route through this domain, for everything from work to shopping to family management. I have had Gmail since shortly after it went public in...
How the hell is it already December? It was Thanksgiving weekend here in the US. So a lot of us had 4 days off. All my other long weekends this year have involved travel, so although they were often fun, I typically came back tired. This...
It’s not the most pressing thing in the backlog, but it’s time again for the monthly post of what has struck me as interesting from around the internet. Since we’re not starting off in the middle of the month like last time, this month...
Ladies and gentlemen, we are here! Advent of Code 2025 has begun! Let's take a look at day 1. Check out my full solution to day 1 at GitHub. Today's problem features a safe, protected by a dial with numbers from 0 to 99. At the start,...
We had the pleasure of speaking with Kinmoku about their incredibly nostalgic visual novel VIDEOVERSE, which recently got a Japanese translation! We spoke about the nostalgia of 90s and early 2000s Internet culture and how the...
The ebike arrived yesterday and I was able to assemble it super quickly. The Lectric XPress 750 ships almost fully-assembled, and all you have to do is unbox it, attach the front wheel, and connect whatever addons it came with. I wasn’t...
Que vaya por delante que no soy un experto en Arduino pero cuando decidí empezar con ello tenía claro que quería programarlo en C puro y duro, y que de entrada compraría algo compatible en lugar que el original para ver si me iba a...
tiger tiger tiger for the outgoing month of November; and for the first Sunday in Advent, so the beginning of the religious Christmas season — focused on the Christ child — that ends on Epiphany, January 6th; and St. Andrew’s Day, 11/30,...
Recently I wrote about Richard Wilbur's precept: 'In poetry, all the revolutions are palace revolutions' – in other words, all true revolutions take place within the living tradition, the poetic heritage; nothing is overthrown, the...