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I made a commander deck this week. About 20 of the cards are on order because I didn't have them, 18 of which are specialty lands. My husband and son both upgraded their precons to the point that my Tidus deck won't last long so I...
Response to: Yang, Y. Tony. “China’s Beautiful Biotech Chaos vs West’s Elegant Paralysis.” Asia Times, December 28, 2025. https://asiatimes.com/2025/12/chinas-beautiful-biotech-chaos-vs-wests-elegant-paralysis/. Here’s a statistic that...
Two days ago, Rails added a new feature that makes working with bearer tokens easier. Before, you had to parse the Authorization header to extract them. Now, there's a dedicated bearer_token method on the request object that handles this...
A quick post to celebrate 11 years of jeddacp.me. This year, I set out to share 100 photos in 365 days. Even though I didn’t hit the full goal, the 67 posts I did publish (with this one making 68) still feel like something worth...
Quería terminar el año con un posteo mitad reflexión, mitad metas y esas huevadas, pero no sería yo si lo hicese. Por ende, voy a escribir sobre una frase que me dijeron el otro día, y me quedé pensando. Le pido disculpasUna persona se...
I just read Influence Without Authority: How to Get People to Listen Without Being the Boss from Bri Chapman. Most people think influence comes from a title. From being the person who approves budgets, signs off on decisions, or sits at...
Some say it is dull. Drab. Dreary. Sterile. I see a palette of muted colors. Gold. Bronze. Ruddy. Amber. Shades of blue mottled by white and ivory. Glowingly beautiful. Accentuated by silence. Winter warmth.
Hoy da comienzo la primera semana del año 2026. ¿Sabéis lo que eso significa? ¡Que hoy es día de estrenar agenda! Este año me hice con una agenda super cuqui, china, de tapas duras y papel más que decente (aquí en AliExpress). Tiene...
Eduardo Mendieta, professor of philosophy at Penn State University, has died. Professor Mendieta, described by some as a “giant” in Latin American and Latinx philosophy, wrote on various topics in ethics, social and political philosophy,...
After a couple months of CLI fervor, I’ve reached a state of relative calm. Despite my heavy reinvestment in Neovim and several other CLI tools, during which I tried to use them for damn near everything, I now find myself not really...
Diarmaid MacCulloch: The particular appeal of Orthodoxy for a certain sort of young man comes from the fragility of so much of young American masculinity: disoriented by assertions of female equality and the new self-confidence of many...
There is an ache in my fingertips that does not go away. It’s a light sting, right at the pads, and I know it’s from the cold air outside. I go out in the mornings to care for the chickens, and I find my insulated winter gloves get in...
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December 2025. Ashford. Kent. The journey from Sheffield (Home 1) to Rye (Home 3) ticked into an 8th hour as we pulled into Ashford International, which I’ve seen far too much of these last two months. 36 minutes between trains, too long...
Me again, taking photos of gum packs. I seem to do this every few decades. I blame nostalgia that ramps up with the holidays.Currently Listening: Amor Fati “Washed Out”Reply via email
🗓️//2025 Year in Review A breakdown of all the auditions and jobs from 2025 Published by AHE. on 30th December 2025 As 2025 comes to a close, I'm left with a lot of mixed emotions. It was a year of wonderful surprises and painful...
As previously announced, this coming month I’m hosting the IndieWeb Hackathon. The project for this month is Omnibear, a browser extension for posting to your site via Micropub. As a Micropub client, the extension works with the same...
剑道 今年年初我在 Notion 上列了很多年度目标，其中最显眼的一条就是达成全年 100 次稽古。 次数统计 地点 次数 备注 MK 剑 36 所属剑友会 KS 剑 26 连携剑友会 KT 剑 23 同好会 试合 4 市级比赛、地区比赛、社会人大赛、友谊赛各一次 稽古会 3 地区讲习会、女子稽古会、八段老师稽古会各一次 体大 3 寒稽古 观战 2 京都大会、地区比赛 出稽古 1 祝日特别合练 合计 98 加上两次第二道场就算我达成年间 100 次稽古吧（不...
I have been looking forward to evenings to savor this. It is incredibly interesting in a very Spirited Away way. I love it! The world, though complex, is so so detailed and alive I want to read more. I can't really think of it as Fantasy...
go to chat surgery for crimes against web design. a more detailed explanation on it is on the grizzly gazette written by kami.
I went back and forth on posting this list, mostly because not much has changed from last year. I removed a few apps and added a couple, but overall, my go-to setup stayed pretty consistent. I also added a few more categories of apps...
Christina found us another addition to our family. Introducing Pixel! 🎧 Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Faded In The Morning (Acoustic Version) via Folk Fordward on SomaFM ✉️ Reply by Email
Sydney based Australian journalist and speech writer Brigid Delaney, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): Arriving, a friend asked me how I was. I was OK, I replied, but still disorientated from my time on X. “I...
We have a popular end-of-year music list in the Netherlands, called the Top 2000. It's a user-driven list of the best two thousands songs ever made, at least if it was up to the average of the users who listen to the radio station that...
Over the last few days, I've been dealing with remarkable amounts of fatigue. It's something that I deal with frequently, but is frustrating. I wake up some mornings and the only thing I can manage is to fall back asleep. I'll have these...
disclaimer: part of this post contains an off the cuff conversation about gen AI, and its effects on bear's discovery page. It's been slightly less than a year since I started reading blogs including the ones on bear as part of my...
A great paradox of being alive in this civilization is that we have come to dread and devalue the triumph of having lived, forgetting that to grow old is not a punishment but a privilege — that of having survived the loneliness of...
"Ignorance is bliss" usually has a negative connotation, a way to refer to someone who is ignorant on some topic that someone else has deemed very important (sometimes meant as an insult). In my view, ignorance can be a positive thing...
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer...
I saw the following New York Post headline in my Miniflux feed reader this morning: NYC snow pile carved into ‘crazy’ Snow King sculpture — now it’s a tourist attraction. I was almost certain I knew what the Snow King sculpture,...
This is one of the most shocking surprises I've had in recent memories. I picked The Metaphor Detox Centre from our local little library because the blurb sounded interesting, and I have very little contact with Asian literature. Now...
Pitchfork's 2003 review of MP3 blogger favorite, The Rapture. Season 4 of Cybercultural has been focused on the rise of digital culture from 1994 through to 2003, a period that encompasses the beginning of the web, moves through the...
Here’s some stuff I’ve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases)...
Do you remember the days of watching cool and weird music videos on MTV, with the quirky commercials in-between? Would you like to have some of that again? Or maybe you don’t have any idea what that was all about, and you want to check...
I feel very peaceful whenever I write on paper, especially using a fountain pen. The smooth flow of ink from the pen nib to the paper, while it moves against the roughness of the paper, is so stress-relieving that I can hardly express it...
When I first got started with Magic I only had one deck, a huge pile of I dunno 120 cards or something (Revised and Fallen Empires), I’m not sure. There were enough lands in there to cover everything too. So my neighbor and I played the...
For Christmas, my boyfriend got me the "Bjork archives," a collection of writings on Bjork published for the MoMA Bjork exhibition.
TThis week’s note is shorter than usual since it was a holiday week and everything ran on “short week” mode. The vibe Last week was steady in the best way. I only worked through Wednesday, and work stayed mostly quiet outside of the...
In the spirit of avoidance, I came across the trailer for this movie on YouTube, and look, PERIOD COSTUMES. No one really expected me not to watch it, right? So, this movie started with a young adult book (When You Were Mine, by Rebecca...
You know the drill!! One subject, three lenses I think all told I photographed the moon less than 12 times this year; that's bonkers compared to 2024 which was more than double that easily. I know life's been weird but there's something...
The last week was a blur. We drove some 1500 miles round-trip, saw some beautiful scenery, visited with family and friends, ate way too much food that's bad for us, and spent some quality time together as a family. The occasion was...