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These boats travel up and down the river, offering food and drinks to passengers cruising the river in flat bottomed yakatabune boats. I've photographed them many times before, but the stark contrast of bright early morning sunlight...
This package provides a global minor mode to increase the spacing/padding of Emacs windows and frames. The idea is to make editing and reading feel more comfortable. Enable the mode with M-x spacious-padding-mode. Adjust the exact...
Why This Exists If you’re reading this, you’ve probably encountered something created using MCK and wondered why it looks different from typical AI output. Or you want AI to help you think better instead of just producing smooth-sounding...
It’s Blogvent, day 13, where I blog daily in December! I don’t mean to make this a hardcore hot take, but… vibe coding is boring. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been trying it out, and it can be fairly effective. It’s innovative. I started my...
Joan Westenberg wrote a thought-provoking article talking about how they believe that connoisseurship makes one "worse off". I think Westenberg has identified a valid critique of connoisseurship but broadened it's application beyond what...
After seeing this news, I have spent an unusual amount of my week thinking and reading about Times New Roman. 1 In an ocean of opinions, mine probably won’t register, but I think the Times New Roman typeface is, by itself, fine. It looks...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot Every now and then I set up a new Mac and I forget all the things I do. This is a list so that setup is fast. == Initial Environment == # [https://www.google.com/chrome/...
The ebike has been working great!But it’s gotten super rainy, and it’s not always great to ride in this weather.Also having an empty carport has turned my house into a theft target, and I’ve been locked in a battle with a dude who is...
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 Second Letter to Timothy is Paul’s last known letter, written from a Roman prison around 66–67...
Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman I have a four-year old nephew that I watch from time to time. One of my duties is to pick him up from preschool. Until recently, he had been...
An American startup called Operation Bluebird is hoping to take ownership of the defunct Twitter name, the term “tweet”, and famous blue bird logo, and relaunch Twitter anew. Operation Bluebird’s backers believe the old micro-blogging...
We've made it! The North Pole has been decorated and Advent of Code 2025 is finished. But not before telling you something about what feels like the most dirty solution for a puzzle ever. Check out my full solution for day 12 at GitHub....
Once again repurposing the corporate webs ideas as my own. Here is MY 2025 wrapped, according to my opinion. Minor editorial note, these are the things I liked this year, not neccessarily the best things which came out this year. Okay to...
The title is enough explanation, what game would I bring with me if I had to stay in a deserted island? All of this under the assumption that all the hardware and peripherals required, magically work for the indefinite amount of time...
This Christmas I just got from my partner a brand new, still sealed, Sun Ray 2. Basically the best gift I ever got. Period. The Ray is a thin client that connects to a remote Sun server. I already ordered a Sun Fire, but until it...
One of my birthday presents, and a very welcome one, was Richard Holmes's The Boundless Deep, the first of a projected two-volume biography of Tennyson. I've just started reading it, and am enjoying it hugely. I've long been fascinated...
For a lot of different reasons, I love the internet. I love it because it connects me to people I wouldn't otherwise get to know, because it gives me access to all kinds of information, because it lets me share my thoughts and creations...
My predictions! With a little humor. Take it with a grain of salt, only did this for fun as a little creative exercise, but maybe you agree or wanna write your own? in: Textures and color becoming big after our years-long focus on very...
Master shadow testing for large-scale system migrations. Learn to safely rewrite services by comparing outputs between old and new implementations.
December 2025. Rye Harbour. Back in Rye from Waterbeach last Sunday, stunned at the news that Peter had died, I spent the next day writing about Mudgie and reading tributes to the man. Mrs RM had enjoyed his company on his last Proper...
I want the ability to easily share tagged links to this website, inspired by the blogrolls of yore (shoutout to sethmlarson). This is a static hugo site, though. I have no interest in creating a commit just to make new links appear....
How I’m spending my time these days and other things I’m thinking about I’ve been excitedly using my 2026 planner (a Hobonichi Weeks, which technically starts in December 2025). My desire to use a physical planner ebbs and flows...
“She’s standing right behind me, isn’t she?” 📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 420 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/9 – ISO 640 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern...
It’s been a good week. I got lots of work done. I am still lagging on some tasks due to dependencies, but I am almost there. I should be on track before Christmas. Also, I have been able to do two workouts at Stairs (P.T.), one generic...
For the past five years or so, my home server has been a Dell office PC I found at a thrift store for $5 during my student days. It’s served me incredibly well over the years. Between hosting Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and (at one point)...
I read a Basketball Network report in Arkansas college basketball coach John Calipari complaining about the new Name, Image, and Likenesses (“NIL”) rules in college sports leading to a trend in older college basketball players. Mr....
I had another night of horrible sleep last night. This time around, I had several nightmares throughout the course of the night. Unfortunately, this is a rather common occurrence these days. Usually the nightmares consist of demonic...
When did analytic philosophy begin? Many who ask that question answer: 1879, the year Gottlob Frege’s Begriffsschrift was published. But how did Frege, a math professor whose studies originally focused on geometry, do it? Is it true that...
Thoughts on Technological Purity 2025-12-12 “Everything should be running on OpenBSD. My desktop, router, web server, and even minor local services should all be built on top of the great Pufferfish BSD.” I told myself this “mantra” not...
This is a post for this month Bearblog Carnaval hosted by Xaya :) Thinking about what to write for this post I released I haven't watched much lavender media. I do want to find good queer media of course, so I'm interested to check out...
Yesterday on Facebook, Aric Olnes embarked on “14 days / Countdown [to Christmas] with Godzilla” with this especially arresting image: Godzilla, defender of Santa’s workshop A search on this image got me to a reference to: A Daikaiju...
To tell the story of your life would take another life of equal length. There is no such thing as a true story because every story, to be told, must leave out something. And every something left out matters. It’s all the somethings that...
I'm a grateful recipient of these classic crayons and think the best way to appreciate them is to use them.Currently Listening: GOON “Pink and Orange”Reply via email
Down to the big box store we go. Not planning on buying, just browsiiiiiinnn… What’s this? What’s this? There in the bargain bin What’s this? It’s 30% off What’s this? I can’t believe my eyes I must be dreaming, wake up, Bob, this price...
El motivo principal de la visita a Barcelona y la asistencia al 31 Salón del Manga fue el concierto que dio la banda de jazz The Seatbelts el pasado viernes. En principio iba a ser el único concierto, pero ampliaron a otros días. Hay que...
What do you remember being a big deal to adults during your childhood or teenaged years? This is a tough prompt. I think as kids we are so in our own world, that understanding what is a ‘big deal’ can be a little hard to comprehend. I...
I just left an online community I've been participating in for the last five years. It started out on Slack at the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic in late 2020 and later moved to Discord. I've been considering leaving for quite some...
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"Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl Not a Christmas song. Sorry, not sorry. Absolute belter of a track though. Mighty. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email:...
Back in 2017 I wrote about a technique for creating closures in C using JIT-compiled wrapper. It’s neat, though rarely necessary in real programs, so I don’t think about it often. I applied it to qsort, which sadly accepts no context...
La verdad, es medio complicado que en redes domesticas se necesite esta función, puesto que ya es bastante complicado que hayan redes cableadas, pero aprovechando que tengo una red así, me puse a intentar encender mi computadora según...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la...
The Dispossessed is the biggest volume of the Hainish Cycle and follows a genuine disappointment. Quite a significant risk on ending on a downer (I don't have access to the last 2 volumes... yet.) But, somehow, the ever present praises...