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Shortwave signals from nowhere. Encrypted messages that have haunted the airwaves for decades. Cold War ghosts, spy tradecraft, and transmissions that still broadcast today, for someone. This is Number Station 44. At the end of the dial,...
My coworkers really like AI-powered code review tools and it seems that every time I make a pull request in one of their repos I learn about yet another AI code review SaaS product. Given that there are so many of them, I decided to see...
I've been trying to put my feelings into words about the events of the last week. In theory, I'm a writer. That's a thing I should be able to do easily. I've sat here with a blank document for the last hour though, and mostly just given...
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Europe is experiencing a crisis of digital autonomy. Our dependence on US big tech has been growing for decades and is now nearly total, at a time when worries about our former ally are no longer theoretical. Might we, like the...
I’m currently reading Marion Nestle’s What to Eat Now and Shoshanna Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism at the same time (the former for enjoyment and the latter for research). The juxtaposition is convincing me of one thing: We live in a...
Elena Rossini habla en este post de su blog de por qué evita tecnología de big tech, de cuáles son sus opciones y de su motivación para hacerlo.
“Whatcha doing?” Rivi asks, looking over my shoulder at my phone. “Well, I was enjoying my personal space,” I say. “That ship has sailed, hit an iceberg, and sunk,” she says. She reaches over and taps my phone with her finger....
As a January birthday boy, the calendar year is almost congruent with year of age, so I allow myself a couple more weeks for retrospection and good resolutions. But the world doesn’t wait! 2026 got off to a tumultuous start, and now that...
In my last post I discussed how I was moving my micro blogging practice to my personal website. I was previously using Bear Blog (highly recommend btw) for small life updates that didn’t fit into full blog posts. I decided to use ATProto...
Problem statement: watch -- git diff / watch -- git status should emit colors. Yet it doesn’t. watch(1): NAME watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen SYNOPSIS watch [option ...] command DESCRIPTION watch runs...
I just finished my first week going into office for three days due to my employer’s RTO (return-to-office) mandate, and it was as pointless and absurd as I had expected. You can read my opinion piece on why RTO is terrible for diversity...
A few days ago I submitted my biography of Dorothy L. Sayers to my editors at Oxford University Press. I always find this stage of the book-writing process emotionally complicated. At the moment, while I feel gratified that I have told...
Title: How soon is now? Website: howsoonisnow.org RSS Feed: howsoonisnow.org/rss.xml My personal site for blogging, scrapbooking, musings, and keepsakes. I built this site out of nostalgia for the old web and as a creative outlet. RSS...
I. The Fundamental Inversion Traditional metaphysics asks: “What exists?” Then derives constraints from the nature of existing things. Deferential Realism inverts this: “What constrains?” Then understands entities as positions within...
È ufficialmente iniziata, almeno per me, la grande invasione dei guru del benessere personale. I miei feed social ne sono ormai colonizzati: orde di santoni digitali pronti a spiegarmi come dimagrire senza fatica, dare un’aggiustatina al...
I often suffer from world-weariness. That aching, inescapable feeling that the world is somehow going wrong and there's nothing that I can personally do about it, and the general sense of emotional and cognitive fatigue that comes with...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop GDQ Week is coming to a close! Make sure to watch tonight at roughly 9:20pm Eastern for adef's run of Pokemon Emerald for the Gameboy Advance; he's going to beat the...
Overtourism in Kyoto. 京都のオーバーツーリズム
I just read Walking Skeletons, Delivery Pipelines & DevOps Drills and came to the paragraph about “throwing s.th over the wall: DevOps – the marriage of software development and operations – means that the team writing the solution code...
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An incomplete list of pharmacies, or speziali, which have at some time existed in Venice. Some are still around.
L'Arpeggiata's CD of improvisations on Purcell, Music for a While, ends with a bonus track – not another Purcell, but, rather surprisingly, Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah', given a very distinctive treatment by alto Vincenzo Capezzuto and...
Album#25 Live At The Jazz Cafe 图1 《Live At The Jazz Cafe》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称：Live At The Jazz Cafe 歌手：Olivia Dean 年份：2021-10-22 风格：R&B、Neo-Soul、live、流行 时长：约 35 分钟 本来打算听 Olivia Dean 2025 年的专辑 《The Art of Loving》，在第一首的「The Art of Loving...
January 2026. Hastings. The end of Dryanuary for me as we hit Day 3 of 2026, but Mrs RM has ambitions to “go low” and seek out all these exciting non-alcoholic alternatives we keep reading about. Let’s focus on one street, All Saints in...
I'm currently employed full-time working with pharmaceutical databases, but I'm looking to shift into job roles centered around Data Protection Law, like Compliance and Privacy, or Data Governance, preferably in the...
La descripción de este post es un poco engañosa … en realidad aún no llevo un año en Linux, pero falta muy poco, 2025 fue mi primer año usando Linux y ya ha terminado. Es gracioso que al segundo o tercer mes haya escrito algo llamado:...
After writing this morning’s post, I went down to Channahon for a walk along the I&M Canal towpath. On the drive there and back, I thought about redoing the project in Python instead of Mathematica. It seemed like a fairly easy problem,...
YES HELLO I CANNOT STOP FUCKING SNEEZING LONG ENOUGH TO DO A PROPER BLOG TODAY. Okay uh, here’s a thing: I was invited to hang out with some pals of one of my pals! They have a loose, drop-in-drop-out board game night most Saturdays, and...
Let God be thanked today for the first day set aside for Christians to remember that Jesus died for our sins and arose from the dead on the first day of the week; his providence which takes our smallest and often unconsidered actions to...
Hay varios aspectos del invierno que no conozco: los árboles secos, la nieve, el vestirse con muchas capas y lo más destacado, el frío. Conozco un tipo de frio tímido, no sale mucho ni todos los días, es casi una sorpresa para mi cuando...