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Don't worry. The evidence is indisputable. I have a long history of worrying and I can tell you off the top of my head how many times it has helped. Uh, zero. What I can't tell you is the number of hours I have spent worrying about...
Creative Goals for 2026 I have never been one for new years resolutions, being of the opinion that if you want to make a change in your life do it when you think of it, not waiting for some arbitary date to re-assess. That said, I am now...
Often when I see someone doing something unique or impressive I'd think "Wow, we evolved into this, how did humans end up here?", In retrospective, it's just crazy how we make some things possible. At some point it feels weird thinking...
As with last year’s Top Lists Top List List, these are pools, not ranked lists. NEVERTHELESS, read on with the knowledge that they are definitive, binding, and can be used to settle disputes at family holiday gatherings, prove precedent...
It’s not that i don’t have enough tools to write how i want when i want it, it’s that i have too many. I have at least one computer from each of the last five decades, enough fountain pens to open a nice store and twelve – twelve! –...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 377 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/9 – ISO 1000 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla,...
The sky was getting ready to storm as I took this. The tide rushing out, sand swirling in the deep-blue fast-running water. We are taking a Christmas break in my old home, Sawtell. I went for a walk along Boambee creek to Trapdoors, what...
🎵 Christmas time is here. Happiness and cheer. Fun for all… that children call… their favorite time of year. School’s out. The work laptop’s closed. Now is a good time to recount the vibes. I wanted to get out this vibecheck before...
These aren’t genuine proposals to fix social media sites, but thought experiments that I wonder about in terms of how it would affect online discussion culture. Wouldn’t mind seeing it on alternative platforms that want to try out...
December 21, 2025 I’m tired of these leagues sprinkling their games across a million different outlets so I have to have a million different subscriptions to watch them all. jcarucci It's not just the NFL; it's true for all sports. I...
Vá Você Mesmo Reader, un-numbered one-shot on newsprint. Panel 1-300, Sketchy un-inked pencils of the same character in mid close-up saying the identical statement: I'll live out my life in the twilig...
December 2025. Faversham. Part 2 of Mrs RM’s eve of birthday bash, though a drier “bash” you’ll never see. A dozen “must sees” marked on our Faversham map, the most exciting of which was “warm sausage roll from Tommy Butcher the...
Following yesterday’s post I decided that I should also mention a my favourite discoveries of the year that didn’t make it to my most-listened-to charts, as well as some other amazing releases that deserve attention. Gent1e $oul Gent1e...
There are so many - but when you spin the wheel you'll only get one. What will your selection mean for 2026? It's that time of year again! We've reached the winter solstice (here in the northern hemisphere anyway - and if I've timed this...
I've been writing here for about a year and this is my 100th post. It's been quite a year for all of us, that much is certain.I went to IrelandI have been at my current employer for longer than I've been at any startup (though a fraction...
A few weeks ago a copy of Unix V4 which was thought to be lost was discovered on a storage tape at the University of Utah. It was then sent to the Home Computer Museum in California, and well, they managed to read it out and put its...
This was a week of a lot of travel and not much sleep. I was in Köln and had a great dinner with da boys (sans Dino-Dominik, sadly) and just now I had a phở on a little plastic chair next to a busy intersection in the middle of Saigon....
In his book Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis explains the Christian perspective on the relationship of human individuals to one another, and two errors we are tempted to fall into. Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere...
I've been thinking a bit this morning about power. Power is an odd thing because to those who don't have it, there's a great sense of disparity. Yet for those who are powerful, they still have to contend with their humanity. Thus, the...
This year, I’ve reported more issues via bug bounties than perhaps the past 10 years combined. The issues were all in completely random places, and the only reason they were reported via bug bounty programs is because it is generally...
From a post on the Firefox for Web Developers Mastodon account: Something that hasn’t been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features. We’ve been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I’m sure it’ll...
"Christmas in Hollis" by Run-DMC Another unmistakable riff; that funky brass, mixed with sleigh bells and scratching, supports a hilarious tale of finding Santa's lost wallet. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your...
Today has felt like a deep, deep exhalation, an enormous, slow, long sigh of relief and releasing. Fitting, perhaps, that it is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. I don’t have any rituals to mark it except for this one, what...
404 MediaUsers voted to restrict Anthropic’s Claude to its own channel, but Jason Clinton, Anthropic’s Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and a moderator in the Discord, overrode them.The word of the year might be Slop, but...
Pre-Christmas season is my time to retrospect, reflect, and reminisce. I didn’t plan on letting my mind wander back as far as November 2012, but I guess that’s what you get for browsing through old hard drives. Back then, I seem to have...
Ho ho hooooo! Buon Natale! Prima di giungere a te, questo regalo ha fatto mezzo Winterrail 2025/2026 insieme a me, dunque ha percorso centinaia di chilometri in treno nel mio zaino. Ti prego di perdonare se non è in ottimo stato 😬 Questi...
An Ethiopian washed heirloom that finally came out smooth after a week of dialing in—used ChatGPT for help and cracked the Ethiopian code.
(This posting devolves fairly fast into oral sex between men, so it is, alas, entirely unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest.) Musical overture: the chorus and verse 2 of the 1960s song “Chapel of Love”: [chorus] Goin’ to the...
Sebelumnya, saya mau berterima kasih untuk teman-teman yang sudah mampir ke blog ini, membaca cerita keseharian saya, mengirim pesan di buku tamu (sayang sepertinya sekarang sedang error), dan mengirim email. Terlebih yang sesama blogger...
Happy holidays everyone. Consider this as your holiday card from me. I will be taking short break from KDE stuff for now, though I will be around. (I tagged KDE so that readers of planet have to see these, mwahaha.) And happy new year...
MKBHD gave the “Burst of the Year” award to the iPhone 16e, Apple’s entry-level phone released in the first half of 2025 to replace the tired (but beloved) iPhone SE. The Basic Apple Guy, in his annual Apple product releases tier list,...
As I write this very post, this is what my git repository status looks like: % git st ## master...origin/master ?? content/posts/2025-12-22-git-stash-untracked.md % git stash No local changes to save % git st ## master...origin/master ??...
The Apocalypse of Herschel Schoen by nostalgebraist. A revelation (ἀποκάλυψις = “unveiling”) told through the eyes of a developmentally-disabled teenager. You will never guess where it goes. This came across my desk because I really...
Aproveitei a semana tranquila no meu emprego para assistir à série documental sobre o P. Diddy que estreou este mês na Netflix. Os fatos narrados já eram conhecidos por conta das notícias, mas a obra expôs muito mais do que isso,...
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 Third Letter of John is a very short personal note from the apostle John, written around 85–95...
This mostly-forgotten device was the very first commercially-available all-digital music synthesizer. It was also a lot of fun.
Alright, I finally did it. I pumped all my Obsidian journal entries into Day One. Here’s the post (or one of them, anyway) that spurred me into action. Obsidian is ideal on paper. Everything's in one place and stored as local, plain text...
While going through recently merged PRs in Rails, I came across a new feature from DHH, that handles a common concern in app configuration: managing credentials across different configuration backends in a single, consistent manner....
It’s Blogvent, day 22 where I blog daily in December! I write my blog posts in markdown, and I write quotes like so: > I miscounted the men! > > - Gavin Volure This results in the following: I miscounted the men! Gavin Volure It always...
Sakamoto Days es un anime que puede verse en Netflix y adapta el manga del mismo nombre. Estamos ante una disparatada historia que nos trasladará al mundo de los sicarios y matones japoneses. Lo que empieza como una graciosa historia de...
El tiempo se está acabando. -Se acabó . Este 21 de diciembre será el día más corto del año en México y en el hemisferio norte conociéndose como el solsticio de invierno esté sucede porque la Tierra se encuentra inclinada 23.5 grados...
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Miss Shuttle-cock. Public domain image via British Museum and Wikimedia Commons. Try staying calm and sanguine about humanity after going through an hour lying prone and exposed while a radiographer conducts an...
My lack of blogging recently has bothered me. Part of it was that I was a little burnt out. I just had very little to talk about. But there was something else. Around that same time Umami decided to go to version 3.0. For those of you...
A step back to the 90s
Atlantis: The Lost Tales is a 1997 point & click adventure game in FPP. It's a bit like Myst, but while Myst is generally considered a milestone game and a bag of fun, Atlantis is much more divisive. There are folks who swear by it, and...
Just a little announcement today regarding Peregrine Lake and the update schedule for the next two weeks. Last year, we did a flashback story called The Move where we saw a brief little tale of how Lynn and Megan moved from Eau De...