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§ Vida Mais um ano se acaba, etc e tal. Ano passado, mais do que qualquer outro, foi extremamente importante para a minha construção enquanto ser humano. Espero poder dizer o mesmo desse ano, e de todos os próximos que vierem. Para falar...
A couple of weeks ago, Scientific American published this puzzle. There are nine overlapping rectangles, A through I. They overlap one another in a specific pattern using a notation I hadn’t seen before: A\(D, F) F\(A, B, I) B\(F, G)...
The Core Problem Research teams stall on questions no one can answer internally. Policy discussions circle endlessly around undefined terms. AI systems exhaust their context window mid-analysis. Arguments persist because participants use...
You know the drill: instead of inventing your own versions of core model building blocks over and over again, use common types and aspects for reuse, like this: using { managed, cuid, Currency } from '@sap/cds/common'; namespace qmacro;...
:root { /*--color-dark: #241623;*/ --color-dark: #391a36; --color-light: #d6cbd2; --color-primary: #6e263f; } @media (prefers-color-scheme: light) { .light { display: none; } } @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { .dark { display: none;...
Album#19 New Year's Eve 图1 《New Year's Eve》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称：New Year's Eve 歌手：MØ 年份：2016-02-05 风格：独立流行、另类流行 时长：约 7 分钟 最早知道这首歌，是看了 你最美的样子都定格在了电影里，是一些电影女演员的片段剪辑，用 New Year's Eve 作为配乐，剪得蛮好的，也让我记住了这首歌。 New Year's Eve...
European Starlings enjoying the view of French public art. Yes, this is a year-in-review post about 2023 posted in 2026. I considered skipping straight to 2025, but the completionist in me wants to capture the years I’ve missed. Plus I...
Parece que 2025 va a acabar con más optimismo que otros años. Tal vez sea porque me he quedado sin trabajo, así que el pesimismo, imagino que llegará en 2026. Por eso, creo que 2025 habrá que cogerlo con pinzas, antes de decir que ha...
Chapter 1... is safe to say that I understood 50% of this... I hope that improves the more I read.
"One of my rituals at the end the year is asking myself these forty questions." — Steph Ango I don't be trying to get all fancy with these. This does not evolve into an essay. But now that I have a small stack of them, I am delighted...
And now it’s time for my traditional annual wrap-up post, and my hopes for next year. 2025 checkupHow did I do with my stated aspirations for this year? Music I indeed did a bunch of music for Strawberry Jam 9, and got a job as a result...
JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC JAN We fit in a quick trip to Houston. Getting there and back was quite eventful! Hiked La Malinche with the ESC boys and had a good taste of frostbite. Work took me...
Here are my favorite albums of this year, in alphabetical order. (See my list on Album Whale for a more visual take with all the same commentary.) Nothing high-level to share about the year other than “there was a lotta good stuff.”...
Back From HiatusI am back from my holiday hiatus and plan to start writing again; however, I have made some changes to the site as well.
Great engineering managers have strong debugging skills and know how to apply them to non-technical problems. They pursue 'the why' of the problem before jumping to conclusions. They seek the underlying issue and don't stop at half-baked...
What have been the most popular articles on History Walks Venice in 2025?
New Techos, Moons, A sick as hell photo of a cat named Possum, and musings on celebrating your accomplishments at the end of the year Finally, some good fucking snow Leading up to December, I thought a lot about doing a year end round-up...
I just finished bingeing both seasons of the TV series Andor again before my Disney+ subscription lapses. Along with Rogue One – the film it was based on – it remains my favorite Star Wars story to date. They've made that universe more...
It'll be a while until I can be able to find any meaningful words to describe my 2025 Christmas. I’ve been living away from my hometown since 1996, which is when I started deluding myself with a now pointless certainty: the idea that...
The IKEA Kapplake accent light works really well as a backlight. Compared with the picture above, it looks a bit softer and warmer in person. The entire light is a toggle button, so I’ve put them toward the top and right side so they’re...
The final update in the folding boat saga
I became President of Ecma International today. I’m very grateful to the General Assembly for entrusting me with this responsibility. I look forward to collaborating with my fellow officers, the Executive Committee, and the Secretariat...
Terence Eden: A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative. I like the idea! Using Hugo it’s quite straightforward...
This is an entry from my journal. It is a commentary on how people and societies are, as well as some relevant words of introspection. It is minutes past midnight. I woke up to the sound of fireworks and the barking of my dogs. Now I...
Test matches in cricket are generally meant to last the best part of five days. Fans of the game expect to see individual batters clock up scores of one-hundred plus runs. Maybe two-hundred plus, if they get on a roll. Brian Lara, a West...
December 22nd 2025. Hastings. A solid if unspectacular birthday ends with a last look at Rock-A-Nore, and a half in the Hastings pub I’d meant to have birthday fish pie in. But I’d have needed to book for lunch in the Dolphin, and I...
Guten Rutsch, NUE! Thank you for all good moments, nice surprises, iced coffee, and delicious Brezen!
I hated my very conservative school. At age 16 the other pupils all went on to the sixth form except, I think, one other person who left education altogether and me who left to do my A levels elsewhere. I went to the local further...
Okay, this month went by in a flash, I feel like I scrolled away through it completely and I feel kind of weird about it! The year is over now, and many things happened which you can see on my weeknotes. But well, let’s go through the...
I introduced the concept of seasonal themes for The New Leaf Journal in my October 10, 2025 post titled Inflatable Fall Crow in Cobble Hill. As I noted in that post, I borrowed the idea from Richard MacManus’ post on his Cybercultural...
"This is Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. I regret to report that both our Jedi Order and the Republic have fallen, with the dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place. This message is a warning and a reminder for any surviving Jedi:...
I ‘ve found 2025 to be a particularly difficult and challenging year, quite apart from the political madness that is unfolding in so many parts of the world and which cannot leave a political person like me unaffected. No, even on a...
Happy New Year. I hope this blog post finds you well, or at least not hungover. I went to bed at 10:40 PM last night, and turned off the lights around 11:30 PM. I was woken up at midnight by the commercial quality fireworks show somebody...
2025 has been the year of handheld gaming for me. I haven't touched my Xbox Series X for a full year now and I can't say I miss it. The portability and convenience of the Steam Deck has completely won me over. Being able to play games...
📌 A backdated post because I didn't get a chance to get this posted before the end of 2025. Oops. I’ve never quite understood why Year in Review lists show up in November. As someone who loves (and thrives in) data, are we really just...
Happy New Year, everyone! My New Year's Eve turned out well. It was a calm one. On Wednesdays, I typically go to trivia at a bar with my friends and this week, everyone who usually shows up had other plans. It ended up just being me, my...
First movie of the year, and I chose to watch this dystopian movie. This one is a rewatch, and I wanted to watch it from the past few weeks. I have no idea why, as this one is not my favorite movie. So, the only reasons I can think of...
I thought about sending out a personalized "Scour Wrapped"... until I got the 7th Wrapped from some random service. So instead, I'll just say Happy New Year and thanks for your support in 2025! 🥂 2025 By the Numbers Scour scoured...
Posted on January 1, 2026 Remember roundups of links? That was the original web logging, my friends. And I’m feeling old-school. It wasn’t deliberate to hold off until New Year’s Day, it’s just worked out that way. Please enjoy this...
I've never written an annual review before. Mainly because I have zero memory and everything passes by in a blur. But this year I'm going to give it a go. Mainly because I have zero memory and everything passes by in a blur. Let's start...
Viaggiare fa bene, viaggiare ti arricchisce. Da questo viaggio, in particolare, io torno a casa molto più ricco, complice l’abbondanza della cucina del villaggio: chi l’avrebbe mai detto che un semplicissimo all-inclusive avrebbe...
This year I left my home country (the Netherlands), and travelled to Germany and Belgium. I hiked the full length or parts of two long distance trails. Those trails are the Westerbork trail and the Marskramer trail. I also hiked parts of...
I do not believe that any browser today is capable of allowing users to work on multiple profiles in one window or across multiple tabs. Instead, we have ‘containers’ in Firefox but this is not complete profile isolation. We also have...
Linked lists are a data structure basic building block, with especially flexible allocation behavior. They’re not just a useful starting point, but sometimes a sound foundation for future growth. I’m going to start with the beginner...
Table of Contents Introduction Fonts Microtypograhy Improving the footnotes Embellishments Initials Ornaments Colours Paper format Conclusion Introduction As a political science student, writing is a daily activity. And like any serious...
I want to wish all of you a Happy 2026! I thought about writing a recap of 2025 but … naah :-D There are so many ideas waiting. I wish you all the best.
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: I decided to put this newsletter together a day early to coincide with the end of 2025, hoping for as clean a start as possible in 2026. _ONE Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks | Jim...
This is my copy of Jandy Mac Comes Back, the 1952 Collins edition.Jandy Mac Comes Back is a grand reunion in book form. I imagine that a devoted Elsie J. Oxenham reader devouring it when it was first published in 1941 would have revelled...
Best of the Gutenberg books I read in 2025 Project Gutenberg is a fantastic treasure trove filled to the brim with over 75,000 books. In 2025 I read several books and short stories that are now in the public domain. Here are the most...
I just finished reading A website to destroy all websites (if you haven’t already you really should), and I’m inspired to put a breath of fresh air into this website which I call home. I’ve always believed in the importance of having a...
A few bright spots from 2025. Last summer I posted a short piece called There’s A Crack In Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In. It came out of a period of cultural vertigo, blaring headlines, dissolving norms—and my stubborn refusal...
Vibe coding! AI is not necessarily bad. People just make it out to be way worse than it needs to be. And they’re kind of right on the front that reliance on AI can lead to misunderstanding of the concepts that it provides, as well as...
Before I moved to the city (a long time ago)… Raking leaves was work Shearing Christmas trees was work Small towns were boring Preparing for the Christmas season was work Solitude seemed inconvenient Now…it’s all therapy. comment by...
Forgive my tinfoil hat, but…As Apple leans more and more into reflective surfaces, 3D illusions and bouncy visuals, perfectly concentric menus and device bezels and a haptic, tactile sensory experience, Google and Android have refined...
Appleseed used to be very popular, and Masamune Shirow call it his finest creation. Bold, since he also created Ghost in The Shell! Well, I now watched the a-bit-older adaptation and the results are mixed. The 1998 OAV movie doesn't tell...
—but that's not really true, is it? It's New Year's Eve and I'm sitting in the house I grew up in, and despite being an early twenty-something, this is the first time I've really felt like an adult who's home for the holidays. It's...
People tend to file “AI” into one of two buckets: magic oracle or job-stealing robot. Both are wrong in the same way. They treat AI like an independent actor instead of what it actually is in a SOC: a capability you wire into your...
[Several things from 2025] Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam I write this from my short term rental, a one bedroom flat in district 2. It is seven minutes past midnight. There are fireworks in the sky of Ho Chi Minh City, 4 different songs in my...
I’m not calling these resolutions. Resolutions never work, they never stick. These are goals. They say that to reach towards the stars, you must first extend your hand. This is me doing just that. Lose 150 Pounds - Ambitious, for sure,...