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Eagle-eyes visitors of this blog might have noticed that I have different colors here every year. I might or might not have used colors that a certain company deems to be the color of the year.Alas, that color of the year for 2026 is...
This is my 2025 report.
Fernando Borretti: I will often find a blog post on Hacker News that really resonates. And when I go to check the rest of the site there’s three other posts. And I think: I wish you’d write more! When I find someone whose writing I...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weds 12/31/2025 - Blacephalon Happy new year - I looked up "the firework pokemon" and I'm not sure what I was expecting but this wasn't it. Weird clown-like ultrabeast?...
Me he acordado hace poco de un post que vi en un blog via powRSS, y me gustaría hacer lo propio. Hay demasiada negatividad en el mundo y me gustaría acabar el año por aquí haciendo una recopilación rápida de cosas que he hecho o conocido...
Aquí sigue una lista de los libros que leí el pasado año 2025: Termush, Sven Holm Tren nocturno, Martin Amis El caso Alaska Sanders, Joël Dickers Orbital, Samantha Harvey The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C....
December 2025. Cambridge. I may have been happy to spend 25th December back in Sheffield reheating Chinese takeaways and eating crisps in the Blake with Will, but “society” insists I follow certain protocols. More to the point, our two...
If I'm drawing or making something I can easily put on music with words in it. I can throw on a movie or tv show in the background and get to work. When I'm driving I'll have podcasts going without issue. But if I'm writing... The words...
During my holiday break, I built a Stratum 1 NTP server in my home lab. Ordinarily, we get our time from internet-based NTP servers which usually Stratum 2 or 3. With Stratum 1, I can get significantly more accurate time directly from...
2025 was… a year. And I made it to the end of that year. If you’re reading this, I imagine you did too and let’s celebrate that. But also not one without loss; of loved ones, of health, of relationships, of jobs, of liberties, of...
This is my first post of 2026, the 300th post since I added this blog to my website back in August 2008, and we have just entered the 30th year of existence for this website (which was originally launched back in 1996). As a consequence...
The drawing for Brazil’s largest lottery prize ever — BRL 1 billion (USD 180 million) — was postponed due to the volume of bets, which reached 125,000 per second, 120,000 of them via digital channels. The draw, originally scheduled for...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. In which I briefly comment on the books I read each month, so a few years from now when I’m trying to remember one of them, I’ll be able to find it here. Since I’m a media omnivore, it also...
Two people. Eighteen accounts spanning checking, savings, credit cards, investments. Three currencies. Twenty minutes of work every week. One net worth number I actually trust. The payoff: A single, trustworthy net worth number growing...
Yes, it’s been less than a week since I wrote about LLM proofreading and showed you the “final” version of the Keyboard Maestro macro I’d been using. And that wasn’t a lie because it is the final version of that macro. It’s just that I’m...
Close up on a torii gate against the blue sky, at Kamigamo Jinja shrine this morning. 今朝の上賀茂神社の鳥居のクローズアップ。
FIRST BIRB OF THE YEAR, Y’ALL BIG WIGGLY ZOODLES. Yes, ‘Meowgaritaville’ is the discussion-board username my wife came up with in college while in the effervescent grip of pain-relievers, and yes, I use it to designate our home and tell...
Não acredito que vou escrever isso. Eu fui correr hoje. Exatamente no primeiro dia do ano. Na qual só existem pessoas de ressaca, fazendo continuando festas, soltando fogos ou indo pra casa de amigos e parentes. Eu realmente sai pra...
Over the last few days I read a lot of end-of-year blog posts around the small web, and I noticed that by reading personal blogs you get the full range of human experiences. Some people are doing really well and are in a good place, and...
To help encourage and facilitate intentional use of technology, I've declared my bedroom a technology-free space. None of my devices with screens will “live” in that room anymore. I had a 720p flat screen TV in there with a Roku, blu-ray...
I'm writing this short post so I can refer to it when I want to explain my use of services.cds when creating sample CDS models. I've found myself explaining multiple times across various blog posts1 so I thought it was time to fix that...
I feel well today. Yesterday, I ended up taking a long afternoon nap. I was fine with doing that because my body was still a bit sore from drinking the night before. This morning, though, I feel better. I think I'll have to stop drinking...
It is now January 2026. That means it is time for our review of the months that were in The New Leaf Journal in September and October 2025. Wait what? I put off my September and October reviews for two reasons. Firstly, I have been busy....
As I already posted, I bought a camera . I enjoy the process of consciously composing pictures and my NEX-5R is lots of fun. I recently discovered that there is a market for lens converters . I bought a Canon 50mm lens from a lovely chap...
Happy New Year! 🎆
When using Amp Code (a CLI coding agent), sending two messages in a row results in the second message interrupting the first. Most other agents (e.g. Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini) support message queueing by default, wherein...
I have published the list of shows and movies I watched or re-watched in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Here is the list of 2025. I do not recommend them all; some of it was great, some was utterly forgettable. The Outstanding Anora Before...
This is the third installment in a series of curated quote collections I've gathered while reading Darwin's famous travel book. You can also read episode 1 and episode 2. If you've read the previous two posts, you might have formed the...
If you’re reading this, you may have noticed that the math typesetting sometimes looks a bit weird. Slightly off. Not the perfect MathJax (or KaTeX) typesetting that we are used to.11.TLDR: The math is rendered natively by your browser...
It's 1 a.m. and I can't sleep. I'm not even trying to sleep. I'm supposed to be revising my thesis proposal right now, but I'm in the completely wrong headspace for it (still fretting over my med school applications), so I'm writing this...
a black cat saying i've tasted 9-5 and i've tasted unemployment, i recommend not being born
Well, Happy New Year and stuff. Hope none of you stayed up too late last night, doing that celebratory thing that results in hangovers and regrets the next morning. You know who are you if you did. No judgment from me, promise. It’s...
2025: what a year! So much happened, it's hard to keep track of. So here's a big collection of photos from my year. Our year began in Littleton, New Hampshire. Well, actually no -- our year began around the pellet stove at Meg's parents'...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 558 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/9 – ISO 250 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla,...
Starting with this year, I have decided to discontinue all of my open source projects. Most notably this affects my VS Code extensions for Swift. I archieved the repositories and requested to deprecate the extensions in the Visual Studio...
Watching as condensation drips from the window panes – the inside being so warm, and the outdoors being almost freezing – I notice the pink sky which signals that, soon, the sun will set. My first instinct when seeing the pink sky – the...
I shouted to the void once more in December by utilizing omg.lol's statuslog without pushing it to Mastodon. It's been a good way for me to keep track of fleeting thoughts and emotional crash outs (for the most part). I have no idea who...
I’ve spent countless hours playing Balatro, and I’ve always wanted to create my own game with similar mechanics. When TrinketOS announced a game jam, it was the perfect excuse to make it happen. TrinketOS is an Android launcher with...
Today, we had a visit from an animal that is quite rare in a city, a Gray Heron, which probably needed to inspect our neighbour’s little fish pond with the Kois. What a beauty …
It has been nine days since the seventh alignment of the current star cycle. Alignment Day in the core is a much bigger deal, but it felt more special here in the outer concentric. I experienced cultures mashing their own celebratory...
“If the body is not the soul, what is the soul?” wrote Walt Whitman in his heroic revolt against the lasting tyranny of Descartes, whose dismissal of the body and disdain for the soul may be the single most damaging ideological misstep...
TL;DR: 2026 is going to be The Year of The Linux Desktop for me. I haven't booted into Windows in over 3 months on my tower and I'm starting to realize that it's not worth wasting the space for. I plan to unify my three SSDs and turn...
Just in time for the IndieWeb Hackathon, you can now install Omnibear from the Firefox Add-on store! It’s also available for Edge and we’re working on Chrome. Please try it out if your site supports Micropub and consider contributing!...
This was a brilliant Christmas present from my husband. It's partly a non-fiction exploration of the history of British sheep and wool, partly a directory of all the different breeds with notes on their suitability for knitting/spinning,...
New Year's resolutions are such a weird thing, aren't they? I think the majority of people who set them are doing so purely out of guilt and not an actual desire to improve or change something about themselves. Personally, I never set...
El anonimato para mi algo sumamente útil, a mi me da la comodidad de escribir y mostrarlo a los demás sin sentirme abrumad@, así que puedo entender como puede ayudar a otras personas también. Lo vemos mucho en internet, la mayoría de las...
Following on shortly after the events of "Greenwitch", the fourth book in Cooper's "Sequence" sees our mate, Will Stanton, ushered off to distant family in Wales to convalesce as was the style at the time. But –horror of horrors!– he has...
This year I have 3 goals: Lose weight, 30kg would be ideal Start dating again Start a business with friends Some side challenges: Write blog posts on 100 different days (100DaysToOffload) Read at least 52 books Hike at least 52 times...
Commencer l’année par vérifier comment s’écrit 2026 en lettres permet de réapprendre quelques règles sur l’écriture des nombres… D’abord, que mille est invariable (sauf quand il désigne le mille terrestre ou nautique). Ensuite, que...
Software above some complexity level tends to sport an extension language, becoming a kind of software platform itself. Lua fills this role well, and of course there’s JavaScript for web technologies. WebAssembly generalizes this, and...
There are many mysteries that baffle you stupid humans, from the building of the pyramids to the meaning of life. But nothing bakes your noodles quite as much as wondering what goes on at the far end of a bowling lane. Where do the pins...
Source: Buisness Insider Channelling the legacy of Franklin D Roosevelt, the first 100 years of Trumps presidency was seen as an important benchmark to the success at his presidency. He promised to end wars, lower cost of living, fix...
Most of the incidents have mitigation actions and follow-up fixes applied to the system. They focus on addressing the root cause. Do these actions mean the organization/team/systems had learned from the issue? No. If the root cause is...
Happy New Year to all who browse here (and no, I've no idea what's going on in this image – something deeply French, no doubt). I managed to see 2026 in, despite relapsing into prostration more than once during the day. My first wish of...
Prologue We usually treat mathematical structures as things we look at—diagrams on a page, symbols in a line, objects to be manipulated by the intellect. But they are not objects. They are environments. They are the invisible...
For my entire 20s, I hustled non-stop. Six years of that was studying full-time while working as an audio engineer and being in a metal band. Then, I freelanced full-time as an audio engineer—not only working with bands but also teaching...