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Wed Dec 17
I'm reading back through my journal entries and blog posts for the past year, and two things stand out above all. 1. I really thought that switching to Linux/yeeting oligarch tech/etc. would protect my privacy and data security and...
I’m frustrated, and I’m angry at the state of accessibility on the web. I’m usually not much one for profanity, but I’m fucking pissed off. I’ve been worn down slowly by thing after thing – death by a thousand cuts. I feel powerless and...
It’s Blogvent, day 18, where I blog daily in December! This week was so busy that my brain has just slowed to a halt. Tons of work, babies not cooperating, travel, pre-holiday jitters, family moving… it’s been a lot. When I’m...
Stats time! Last year I crafted a script to generate basic plots from Git commit data. This year, we take that a little further by automating the image generation part using VHS. Lo and behold, now via a little ./yearly.sh we get this...
We have all been there. You are in a comment section or a group chat. Someone says something that isn’t just wrong—it’s fundamentally confused. Maybe they think an AI chatbot is a conscious person because it said “I’m sad.” Maybe they...
I built a simple color palette tool inspired by Flexoki by Steph Ango It's available at coloki.vasser.no I kept reaching for the Flexoki playground but wanted something simpler. In it you basically just define a primary color, and it...
Over the years, I have written quite a bit about the plague and how the Republic of Venice tried to manage it. This is a complete list of all the plague related articles, podcast episodes, newsletters, chronologies, and sources, both in...
Today is the last office day of the year for me and I can’t wait until log-off time. It will be nice to have a break from the commute, the wasted two hours of my day. I was thinking this through recently: how come I didn’t mind the...
We just finished our last Homebrew Website Club Europe event of the year. We spent the time chatting about the last year on our websites – what we made, what we are proud of, what we learned – and looked ahead to what we may be...
Persépolis es una novela gráfica escrita e ilustrada por la iraní Marjane Satrapi. Estamos ante una obra autobiográfica que nos situa en el país persa en la década de los años 80. Me picó la curiosidad por leer esta obra ya que mi suegra...
Sweden disastrously had the biggest year-over-year CO₂E emissions increase since 1990 as a direct and immediate consequence of our elected government’s policies—it’s proven that their diesel pricing was the culprit. When people tell me...
On this day in 1770, the newborn Ludwig van Beethoven was baptised. I imagine he bawled lustily. Beethoven was the musical hero of my boyhood and adolescence. Right up until pop and rock claimed me – it was the golden age, after all,...
Last weekend I was building a mini RSS reader (you know how I do), and in the process I was going through some of the blog posts in my feed. One of them stood out: Lost Media: Konpeito Tapes This grabbed me particularly because I’ve been...
I was doodling late at night, under some very warm light. In fact, I legitimately wasnt sure if the marker I was using was purple or black. (Glad it was purple) .art-piece { margin: 1.5rem auto; max-width: 75%; } .art-piece img {...
Yes, this is late. It has been a busy few days. Work Wait. Work? Yeah, kinda. I got a call back a few days ago, and now have an interview scheduled for January. I received another call back today, but no interview with that one yet, they...
As the world continues to go to hell, I keep reaching for comfort reads that are also generally undemanding. (It doesn’t help that I’m struggling to write my TBR Challenge review for this month.) Beware: drinking and getting drunk; a bit...
With today’s released Patch 4.5, Star Citizen switched to using the Vulkan renderer by default. This is a big step forward. But unfortunately, for some players, the game simply does not start anymore. You run the launcher, and then the...
Shiny red maple leaves on a path of small stones at Ryoanji Temple, moist from the overnight rain and illuminated by the brilliant morning sun. 龍安寺の小石の道に散らばった紅葉、一晩の雨に濡れ、燦々と降り注ぐ朝日に照らされている。
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Here's the most recent batch - Monday through today. Mon 12/15/2025 - Diglett 50 came up in random number generation. I thought about doing the Alolan variant but I'd...
I recently added domain exclusion lists and paywalled content filtering to Scour. This blog post describes a small but useful SQL(ite) query optimization I came across between the first and final drafts of these features: using an...
“When Medicine Becomes Torture: Burn Patient Dax Cowart and His Involuntary Treatment for 232 Days”, “Bomber, Pass By: How the Abortion-Clinic Bomber almost Killed Me”, and “The Biggest Loser Wasn’t Just Unhealthy—It Was Unethical” are...
The most popular link last time was the pixelated fireplace, with this piece about the age (44) at which millennial women begin to feel old second. Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy? Yes she did! And there's a whole section in my...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/9 – ISO 400 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla,...
I started without thinking much on how I'll save my writings or about the make of an archive. At the time I'd just write directly in Bearblog's editor, but the longer the post list got, the more I got attached to my writings. Then, I...
2026 reading planJust organised this and I'm looking forward to it very much! #reading #books #rereading Thank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
Back in my high school days, my best friend swore for Masterton. Last year I've read his The Pariah and quite enjoyed it. It was a nice, easy read. So, when I saw The House of Hundred Whispers in the work's library (yes, we have one), I...
Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the time before him was his own, to make amends in! “I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!” Scrooge repeated as he...
Here’s an interview with the CEO of Birmingham/Homewood-based bookstore chain Books-A-Million, Terry Finley. Finley (Instagram) has been in bookselling for 50 years. Schmidt’s Publishing Confidential newsletter is book and publishing...
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Pfft. That proverb is garbage. Our words matter. Said aloud, face to face, online…they matter. For our own health, as well as the well-being of others. Out of the...
I recently read a book with the nicely vintage title of Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, describing their Examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and the Beagle's...
Why read the book? John Mark Comer’s The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry tackles the problem of constant rush in modern life and how it damages the soul. Comer, a pastor who faced burnout himself, looks at Jesus’ calm way of living as the...
Fifteen years ago today I wrote a blog post title "We're Living in a Cyberpunk Novel," and it was when I had the dawning realization that so much of our world felt like it was ripped straight out of a William Gibson novel. At the time I...
Aric Olnes’s Godzilla countdown to Christmas on Facebook, #5 (10 days to go) on 12/15: Fighting to extract himself from the lights? Showing off his Christmas style? Swatting at the lights like those airplanes that sometimes bedevil him?...
Album#11 错误 图1 《错误》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称：错误 歌手：李泰祥 年份：1985-09-25 风格：流行、民谣 时长：约 35 分钟 因为 《告别》 这首歌，找来听的专辑。唐晓诗的已经在 Album#10 - 唐晓诗专辑 分享过了，再分享一张 李泰祥 的专辑。 为什么选这张，一方面是歌曲相对经典，另一方面我想找点封面有特色的，放到 Album Wall 中。 关于专辑：...
I decided today that I am going to increase my daily timer for writing these entries from 20-minute sprints to 25-minute sprints. Honestly, I go over the 20-minute window most days anyway. Realistically, most days I spend about 30-40...
Ya puedes consultar en español el capítulo 2 de vimtutor, la guía propia que incluye el editor Vim Allá por 2022 me dediqué a la traducción y actualización del idioma español del editor Vim y entre esas tareas también la actualización de...
December 2025. Folkestone. Kent. Lots of pubs in Folkestone to revisit, but the two Harbour taps that interest me (Floc and Iron Pier) don’t open till later in the week, and they’re certainly not on the itinerary for the CAMRA Defenders...
This Way Madness Lies na Steam Provavelmente (acho) o último jogo que terminarei esse ano. E pelo menos posso dizer que terminei o jogo de maneira excelente! Esse jogo é da mesma galera que fez Cosmic Star Heroine que foi um dos jogos...
Now that we are doing the coffee meetups weekly, I was going to stop writing these wrap-up posts. But it turns out people were getting some use out of them! So I'll try and keep them going.This one is going to be a mish-mash of last week...
Micro: Amarante's Winter Wonderland