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I've seen a number of posts recently lamenting the nature or quality of posts showing up on Bear Blog's trending-posts feed. There are concerns about AI posts, Hacker News slop, etc. Here's a fix to try: use the most-recent feed instead....
The text in the excerpt has been slightly modified for style. Back when I published on WriteFreely, I shared five creative goals on 2025. These were focused on my creative project backlog and my plans as a carefree adventurer on the...
Onward to 2026
I've been having a bunch of fun learning n8n during the holiday vacation. I've hooked it up so that when I write a blog post in my site, it's published to RSS and... Checks if the URL is already processed, abort if it is Content is...
Snowhawk (n): The ridge of snow in the middle of the roof of the vehicle that the driver couldn't reach and is driving around with. Source: Nauga Clown
Book review: Indian Philosophy by Sue Hamilton I’ve read the book Indian Philosophy, A Very Short Introduction by Sue Hamilton. I was looking for a good reference book on the various traditions of Indian Philosophy. Unfortunately, I’ll...
It's 11:30 PM on the last day of 2025. I went to bed twenty minutes ago, but after checking out Lars latest post of winding up the year, I realized I wanted to write a similar post for this whole month, but due to one reason or another,...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Sun 12/28/2025 - Fennekin Inspired by my trip to Lumiose for Z-A, I started a fresh save of Pokemon X to play through casually as time allows and started with a...
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...
Happy New Year's Eve, everyone! It's been a great year with Cogito, even though I only started publishing in August. I am proud of myself with maintaining a consistent practice here despite the ups and downs of life. Writing these...
As is increasingly our tradition around here, I wanted to take one final opportunity this year to round up the fun and interesting things I found this month and share them with you! But first, a more important message: If you’re on the...
Read on the website: This was a hard year, filled with Lisp hacking, ed(1) editing and meta-programming, escapist writing, and heavy feeling. A good K-pop soundtrack tho.
It's time to put on every winter coat you've owned since '98 and tot up The Quantified Self™ — Buckle in! This year's top ten artists The Cure (92 plays) Orla Gartland (71 plays) Chloe Slater (67 plays) Placebo (52 plays) Arch Enemy (51...
I enjoy media without actively participating in fandom. I prefer that over witnessing fandom drama or being influenced by the current consensus these spaces hold. Fandom is not without its use or effect on me, but I enjoy the more...
The 39C3: Power Cycles, the 39th Congress of the Chaos Computer Club has finished. I followed the congress via the #39C3 Hashtag on Mastodon which was quite interesting. I’ve never been there myself but at least I got some impressions...
Since the previous Wait Wait Stats Update in November, there have been several key updates to the Wait Wait Stats Project.
Wow. 2025 is done. It’s been… a lot? A lot. It’s been a lot. Similar to my 2024 recap, I’ve got a lot to write before midnight strikes, so let’s get into it. Work things! I’m still working at GitHub! This year my team was a content...
December 31, 2025 | 🧑💻 The birthday prank that resulted from sniping my friend's personal website domain and porting his game from 🐍 Python to 🦀 Rust [!topics] Topics: Coding The Mega Man 2 Puzzle Attack - 🦀 Carcinized Title Screen To...
Many of the newsletters I read are publishing “best of 2025” wrap-ups where they rattle off the posts that either got the most attention or made their authors most proud. Which is nice and all, but I saw that content already. I guess the...
This is my annual pulse post, which is data heavy and contains visualisations and interactive elements. The experience of viewing it in a feed reader might be compromised, so I advise viewing it directly on the web at Vale.Rocks. As is...
30 years of blogging. I don't even know what to do with that. The word blog had not been invented in 1995 when I launched this site, but from the early days I recognized the utility of giving people a reason to come back. So I was...
Previously. I’ve been in love with watchexec: Recursively monitors the current directory for changes, executing the command when a filesystem change is detected (among other event sources). By default, watchexec uses efficient...
My brother stopped by with a tin full of cookies and a bag of hard candies. My nostalgia alarm went off again, and we were back in the grocery trying to fill up a bag at the Brach's Pick-A-Mix stand.Currently Listening: Dolly Parton...
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied...
The year 2025 has been a decent year personally. I got to focus on and spend time with family, friends, and on personal growth. The work has been decent. I am still able to explore, learn, and apply new things. It helped that I am mostly...
I browse the discovery feed on Bear daily, both as part of my role as a moderator, and because it's a space I love, populated by a diverse group of interesting people. I've read the posts regarding AI-related content on the discovery...
The One-Inch Frame Two friends argue heatedly about whether a hot dog is a sandwich. One insists it is—bread on both sides, filling in the middle. The other insists it isn’t—ask any deli. After twenty minutes, neither has moved an inch....
I just published the latest stable release of the Modus themes. The change log entry is reproduced further below. For any questions, you are welcome to contact me. I will now work to apply these same changes to emacs.git, so please wait...
I’m an avid reader—it’s the hobby I spend the most time on. As my hobby developed, I started keeping two lists: a to-read list and a read list. The former to track books I want to read, the latter to record what I have read. Both sound...
Whenever I design things, I try to be mindful of accessibility. For web, I include anchor descriptions, use semantic HTML, ensure headings follow a logical order, and use ARIA tags when needed. I am not perfect, I’m sure that you will...
I almost missed the deadline with this one, didn’t I? At least it gives me a chance to wish every one of you a happy New Year’s Eve, and new year. In 2026, I’ll write less about CSS, fonts, HTML, and text editors, and more about… well,...
Swift Concurrency can feel like a lot of concepts: async/await, Task, actors, MainActor, Sendable, isolation domains. But there's really just one idea at the center of it all: isolation is inherited by default. With Approachable...
Howdy folks, can you believe that the year is over? Shocking! I spent December travelling around Sri Lanka with my family, and it was incredible! I published a few pics from our trip. I managed to catch up on a long reading list and, as...
People are quick to offer gen AI and religion as a solution to anything, and it pisses me off. Attempts to do so reject the tentative vulnerability and curiosity that comes with being human. I understand that you believe your higher...
last semester, I took a class on baroque art, though it was never an art movement I liked.
Wired to Create, by Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire, is a book that identifies some characteristics and habits of highly creative people. Notes Introduction studies of creative people have found some apparently contradictory...
The Hubert L. Dreyfus Foundation, a nonprofit, public benefit corporation founded by Hubert Dreyfus’s family following the philosopher’s death in 2017, is raising funds to establish an audio archive. Hubert Dreyfus B. Scot Rouse, a...
Added a blogroll like in the old days In the heyday of blogs, many blogs published a blogroll, often is a side bar. This was a list with which showed a selection of links other blogs. It showed the blogs that had recently been updated. I...
Year's end, and I'm still coughing and still prostrated by this wretched 'cold' or whatever it is.I thought I might post a poem – last year it was Richard Wilbur's wonderful Year's End – but this year it's going to be, of all the...
Monks at Chion-in temple ring the Grand Bell 108 times for the new year. Happy New Year everyone! 知恩院の僧侶が新年を迎えるため除夜の鐘を108回つく。皆さん、良いお年を！
The nth attempt of the first season is when Curb Your Enthusiam clicked. It was not perfect, but it was funny. The second? The second is where it won me over. Let's start with the biggest improvement: it's much less chaotic. I think...
To było tak: jest sobie jakaś losowa strona drogerii: https://www.dm.pl/wlosy/pielegnacja-wlosow/szampon. Ta strona - jak dosłownie każda jedna strona każdego jednego serwisu sprzedażowego w całym internecie - ma, (delikatnie mówiąc)...
As the year comes to an end yet again, I've ended up reflecting a lot not just on the last twelve months, but my past in general. Who I am, where I've been, and who I've brought with me. When we were down in Milwaukee for Christmas,...
As usual, I haven’t been able to watch everything I’d like, but here are my top movie, TV and podcast picks this year...
Bless hindsight for how it clarifies the confusions of time, for how precisely it plots the true highs and lows on the terrain map of life once the quakes of the moment have died down, for how dispassionately it reveals what was a...
If I had to choose one direction, that I could push the IndieWeb towards for the next couple of years, it would be the social route. Just having a personal website, which already makes you part of the movement, can be incredibly lonely...
As it always does, Christmas week came and went so quickly. We started it with everyone in the house under the weather in one form or another, recovering from either illness or injury. I was feeling a profound tiredness in my bones. I...
For a short time this blog was part of the IndieWeb that vast sprawling network of websites that considers itself as separate from the corporate web. They publish on their own site first then, optionally, elsewhere. In that way they...
My reading appetite has been weak again this year, which I blame on two things: 1) Slay the Spire being way too good of a video game, and 2) starting a new job, and thus having more of my mental energy focused on that. But I did manage...
En 2025, j'ai shooté 697 photos argentiques dont : 445 en couleur 252 en noir et blanc 653 en film 135 44 en film 110 464 avec des films expirés Le tout avec 10 appareils : Retrouvez mon travail sur root.photo
This is going to be a fairly niche post, so I will make it clear right away: If you are not using Hyprland on Fedora 43, you can close this post and move on with your day. Now, those of you who are using Hyprland on Fedora 43 are likely...
December 22nd 2025. Hastings. Well, I think it’s Hastings, where the eponymous pier stands, though the video is less conclusive, and you folks will know how much invisible and pointless boundaries matter to some people. Mrs RM decided...
Around the time of the death of David Lynch last year, my rewatching of all his films was interrupted by my stepdad, who made me watch Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) when I came to visit on a Tuesday evening of the last January....
Just added a handful of blogs to that little list. There are one or two blogs that only talk about "how to blog" and junk, this isn't Substack lol. I'm working on Noodlist stuff. I've got a huge update coming out for it and I need to get...
Fixing Git Clone SSH Agent on Windows Last days I run Git on Windows for a quick upload of something, tried cloning the private repo over SSH, and it bombed out with a permission denied error. Even though a plain SSH test to GitHub...