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Oh primo post del 2026, buon anno! In realtà questa è una bloggata di risposta a quanto scriveva il buon Ed...
A Bridge Essay I. The Pattern in Ten Stories If you’ve just read The Axiom Engine, you’ve experienced something unusual: mathematical theorems as lived constraints. The Oracle tried to predict and failed. The Arbiter tried to satisfy all...
“I am not made for this,” Rivi says to me. “It’s winter,” I say. “Complaining about it won’t do any good.” “This isn’t winter,” she says. “It’s the return of the Ice Age.” I can’t argue with her about the cold. The thermometer in my car...
For the new year, a resolution How small that is, with which we wrestle,what wrestles with us, how immense;were we to let ourselves, the way things do,be conquered thus by the great storm,—we would become far-reaching and nameless. What...
Learn how to set up GitHub Actions with a self-hosted runner to automatically deploy your .NET website to a Windows IIS server when code is pushed to main.
Traversal (FSG) broadens and deepens the questions raised in Figuring, the questions we live with: the relationship between chance and choice in becoming who we are, between chemistry and consciousness in being what we are, the tension...
Three simple questions to collect feedback when you don't know what to ask: What should X (I, he/she/they) start doing? Why? What should X (I, he/she/they) stop doing? Why? What should X (I, he/she/they) continue doing? Why? Be aware...
“Unproductive” in this context refers to my many creative projects I wanted to tackle over the holidays. Instead of working on them, I spent a lot of time hanging out with people. As someone who is unpleasantly introverted, I usually do...
Running is way easier after the first five minutes. Writing only really gets started after the first few sentences have found their way onto the paper. Cooking a meal becomes a meditative pastime when you allow it. You’ll only wake up...
December 26th 2025. Tonbridge. Our boys were keen to get the grandparent visits done early on Boxing Day and head back North, and with no Christmas night entertainment in Waterbeach (they play charades and whist in Histon) we found...
When it comes to gaming, this year was pretty wild. I went through lots of different phases which can be seen throughout the year, a look at the cadence of videogame reviews on this blog will give you an idea. Earlier in the year I...
Promising not to do something ever again is a tall order, but at least I'm going to give it a try. So here's what I'll avoid buying in the future:
Dia 2 do ano. Segunda corrida do ano. O título do post poderia ser muito triste dependendo de como eu iria escrever sobre. Mas ele é no sentido positivo. No último dia do ano a minha única promessa foi de voltar a me sentir bem comigo...
A 100 year old post card of Arashiyama, including the Togetsukyo bridge. Notice all the logs. Logging was big business for years, until the 1960s. 渡月橋を含む嵐山の100年前の絵葉書。川に浮かぶたくさんの丸太に注目。1960年代まで、林業は重要な産業だった。
My mental, emotional, and spiritual health have been pretty terrible since about mid-2025. But earlier in the year, when I decided to observe Lent for the first time leading up to Easter, it was the best I had felt in a long time. One of...
Book reviews in 2025 Happy New Year to you! What better way is there to remember what you’ve read, than by writing book reviews? This was my thinking when I wrote I’d like to be better at book reviews (23-08-2025). As a follow-up and...
Well, here's a little Christmas mystery. Looking out of the window this frosty morning, I saw a scatter of white feathers on the lawn, and an avian corpse of some kind – a pigeon, I assumed, fallen victim to one of Lichfield's ubiquitous...
Understandably different from both Arch Enemy and The Agonist, the new single from Alicia White-Gluz, "The Room Where She Died" is more hard rock than heavy metal. Nice to hear her clean vocals though — a talent squandered by Arch Enemy!...
Hemos llegado a enero del 2026 con un total de 45 entradas publicadas en el año 2025, marcando un nuevo record para el blog, contra las 23 del año 2024. ¡Un montón! A decir verdad, este blog debería ser solo el reflejo de lo que voy...
It's the end of they year and I thought it would be interesting to take a look back at my Indieweb journey for the year. I had some steady posting spurts on the site this year and while I would have liked more, I'm happy with what I did...
Photo by BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash I can’t believe it’s already 2026. Looking back, 2025 was a real mix of highs and lows, wins and frustrations, and the usual chaos that comes with juggling work, school, and trying to build things...
Welcome to the new year. I didn’t do much on New Year’s Eve or Day, other than maybe sleeping a bit. However, I took some time to write and publish the year-end post. This is the 18th year of publishing year-end posts. At Kochi-Muziris...
Happy New Year to you all! I hope the year is off to a good start for you. While I won’t be asking you about your new year’s resolutions, I thought it would be a good idea to hear from you about what you’d like to see covered and...
I recently went on vacation to Costa Rica. It was an experience that was not without technical difficulties. The very first time I attempted to take a picture with my iPhone, I received a message that my storage was completely used up...
Read on the website: Boredom and idleness are a necessary part of life and censoring and ennervating over them is not fine. Embrace boredom!
Most all of my photos today are of this pup.Currently Listening: Los Coast “Simplify”Reply via email
I'm awake, and so far my morning has been peaceful and routine. It always feels nice when things go the way we expect them to. I'm a bit upset though because I've still been dealing with more sleepiness and fatigue lately. Yesterday I...
TL;DR: put postcards near where you often sit
Title: Grizzlypear Website: grizzlypear.com RSS Feed: grizzlypear.com/feed Personal blog site for Justus Pang. Currently obsessed with calligraphy but that can change. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing consider...
I am still watching the recordings of talks given on the #39C3 Chaos Communications Congress (see the talks here). Katharina Nocun gave a talk titled Doomsday-Porn, Schäferhunde und die „niedliche Abschiebung“ von nebenan where she shows...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 435 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/9 – ISO 200 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla,...
I wrote some time ago about the benefits of wired headphones, including the fairly obvious fact that they are harder to lose.Well, I bought some AirPods 4 NC and had been getting along fine until I was on holiday over the Christmas...
There’s been a sharp uptick in the number of children diagnosed with autism and/or ADHD since a few decades back. Some try to find a cause in various conspiracy theories, but the general consensus is that this is an artifact from us...
I discuss some artwork from 2025 and about some art studies I've been doing.
I haven't read anything by Stephen King in ages, and, when I found Dolores Clairborn at our office library, I thought to myself: after all this time? Why not? Then The Wife tried it before me and dropped oud a few dozen pages in, so why...
I look at reviews before buying things, and I prefer personal websites and youtube channels over large publications because I can get a feel for the person behind the opinions, and their preferences. I’ve noticed though that reviews...
Like many (most?) Mac users, I keep my frequently-used applications arranged in my Dock in a logical and easily-remembered order; but a few months ago, my Mac stopped remembering that order and began to display those apps randomly. At...
Setting up Obsidian for the first time. One of my buddies in my writing group said he uses it for taking notes all year and managing his poetry and writing projects so I figured I'd give it a try. It reminds me of Evernote and a few...
The following is an excerpt from a private exchange. The quoted/indented parts belong to my correspondent. I comment on how we can frame our thinking so as not to feel lost in the modern era. Keeping a sense of perspective is important...
As an alternative to the Writing Tools proofreading macro I showed in yesterday’s post, I built another one, called Proofread With Claude, which gets the edited text through a call to Anthropic’s Claude API. I make the call in Python...
So I don't make a lot of code nerd posts on this blog, but it's mostly because I am, frankly, not that great a programmer. I like to describe myself as "experienced enough to only break things in weird ways no one expected." But a lot of...
Listenin’ (Musics) Black Dog (Not the Zeppelin one) Book of Saturday Boom! Shake The Room Dawn of Revelation I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ Laredo Listening Wind Still The Same Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Original Broadway...
We humans place a lot of importance on the time it takes for Earth to revolve around the sun. It takes one year, and we wind up in more or less the same place — relative to the sun — each time. A time for celebration! But since the sun...
This year I listened to a lot more music than normal. This is a good thing for me, because it means I’m doing pretty good emotionally. In short, I use my music listening habits to track my depression, and more means it’s not been a big...
Read Ben’s story, Alette in lane six is a self-righteous bitch, on Foofaraw now!How often do you go bowling?My forty-something wrists, unfortunately, don’t enjoy hurling heavy stuff down the lane as much as they used to, so only once a...
A couple of months after I started the Kyoto Tech Meetup in September last year, we already had some disparate homes and content on the web. We moved quickly from just having a Meetup.com page to also having a Discord server, a GitHub...
Today I had a fight with my partner. We don't fight constantly, but when we do, it's always about the same things. Today we had one of these never-ending disagreements we always get into and... he said something that I'm not sure how I...