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... até que não quis mais. fin Deixa eu explicar melhor. Eu achei que na minha infinita busca em como me afastar mais do celular e ter uma vida menos preocupada com notificações fantasmas e achar que, se eu ficar olhando o celular aquela...
A fragment of the first drawing from the session I managed to get my first 2026 session of life-drawing done this past weekend. I was trying to find a particular style of pencil work that achieved the result I wanted, which I didn’t...
Is there a German word for a feeling that combines admiration, weariness, and a touch of disgust? That word would be handy as we continue to catalog attempts to teach in a world of artificial intelligence, such as this one from professor...
I use Umami for this site’s statistics, but I rarely read them. Well, now, to improve my visitors’ privacy, I’ve set up the service on my local server, bypassing the provider’s cloud. ✱ Thanks for enjoying the RSS feed and reading! You...
¿Necesitas configurar un temporizador para recordarte una tarea? ¿Necesitas una alarma diaria? ¿Necesitas saber la hora local y de otras localizaciones? Con Plasma de KDE estás cubierto Estaba cocinando mientras estaba con el portátil,...
The vet said she's doing pretty darn good for a gal of her indeterminate age. ⊕Currently Listening: XTC “Hold Me My Daddy”Reply via email
Linux has been in the air lately. For example: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too I replaced Windows with Linux and everything’s going great Four More Tech Bloggers Are Switching to Linux Linux Market Share Remains Above...
Hannah Story, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): Authors including Miles Franklin winners Michelle de Kretser and Melissa Lucashenko will boycott Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) to protest the cancellation of an...
Deferential Realism commits the one sin contemporary philosophy cannot forgive: it measures power instead of defining it away. Philosophy has spent twenty-five centuries refining methods for talking about oppression while ensuring the...
Tech. Geopolitics. 2026 is terrifying. 2026 is exciting. Both can be simultaneously true. You can both like and dislike the current state of affairs (yes, this includes LLMs), but your individual stance won’t change the pace in which the...
A 1700s recipe for the miracle medicine Theriac, with most of the ingredients identified.
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in weekly posts. Hope you enjoy! See more of them. Apple and Google formalize partnership to use Gemini in the new Siri, @NewsFromGoogle/xcancel. The only good...
January 2026. Tenterden. I remembered it’s 2026 this time, after labelling the last one December ’25. Good job we don’t write cheques anymore. Mrs RM is busy “refining” her blog, but I did get her out from Rye (we’re attending to in-laws...
Matt Birchler, on vibe coding small tools: And you know what? It worked. The UI wasn't perfect, but it was damn close. And I already had a product that achieved the goal I set out to achieve. All in all, I'd say it was about 10 minutes...
🎟️ Fluidifier l’accueil et sécuriser nos événements officiels Lors de nos événements officiels, nous avions 3 objectifs : ➡️ faciliter le processus d’inscription, ➡️ renforcer la sécurité, ➡️ fluidifier l’accueil des invités. Nous...
I strained my right thigh and hip this fall doing something, but I don’t know what it was. Eventually, after several weeks of thinking it would work itself out, I decided it wouldn’t and started going to physical therapy. Several of the...
April 1, 2005, to John Gruber: John, I just wanted to write to thank you for Markdown, which is one of the coolest and most useful tools I’ve come across in a long time. I’m an English professor who does a lot of writing, and one of my...
Been reading a lot lately. My spirits might be in the dumps, but my mind is high in the clouds. Thing is, so far I haven't read anything truly... good. At least nothing that satisfy my literary predilections. Ever since finishing The...
Today I set up the butane stove outside and cooked a pot of ramen noodles for the Noodl.ist social media stuff. I'm just waiting on the videos to migrate from my phone to icloud so I can pull them up on my laptop to edit into shorts and...
Practicing Contentment on Hard Days mtift Mon, 01/12/2026 - 08:05 I try and live the yamas and niyamas, yoga’s ethical principles. It’s not the only framework I turn to, but it’s often the place I start.Lately, my attention keeps...
Day 49: Do you have a set of rules or guidelines for your life? Did you write them? Why do you use them? I don’t usually bring up my belief system, but since that’s the point of this prompt, I’ll share. I identify as a Humanist because...
And wintery days Following on from my last post I took my camera with me when I popped into town at the weekend to top up our supply of decaf Yorkshire Tea from Malmö's British shop (a vitaly important thing to have around the house)....
La ligne de commande communiste, le code Baudot et le comte ChatGPT Il y a quelques mois, un lecteur m’a fait découvrir un incroyable jeu historico-politique entièrement réalisé en AsciiArt: « Le comte et la communiste », de Tristan Pun....
Why read the book? Scott Manson wrote End-to-End. He rode trains from Vila Real de Santo Antonio in Portugal to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The trip covered 18,295 kilometres and took 35 days. He changed trains many times across Europe,...
I just saw a post on Simon Willison’s blog where he linked to “Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype”. And I pretty much agree on what antirez writes there: Whatever you believe about what the Right Thing should be, you can't control it by...
BirchtreeI got into the irony of 2nd Amendment fanatics saying they needed gun for if the government sent masked men into their streets yelling, “papers please”, only to then cheer for those masked men when they did take to the...
While I was writing “Publishing my citation preferences”, I consciously decided that the blog post should include a screenshot of the website feature described in the post – the new “Reference this post” section on my blog pages. I knew...
This is a list of things I want to prioritize when choosing and customizing whatever static-site generator I use for building this site. Currently using: Jekyll, but not enthusiastically Next contender: Hugo 1. Just let me write my words...
In 1995, I built my first website. It was a Metallica fan page. Black background, red text, animated GIFs of pixelated flames, a MIDI file that autoplayed "Enter Sandman" whether you wanted it to or not. I thought it was the coolest...
Ratz Instagib is a fast-paced first-person shooter. As the name suggests, each hit is an instant kill. Be not disillusioned by my writing of this article, for this is not a game I am good at. In honesty, one shouldn’t even venture as far...
A seemingly psychologically ill man with his friend try to save humans from an alien species from Andromeda galaxy. I went to watch this movie on Sunday without having any prior knowledge about the storyline. I did not even check the...
Replied to In The Beginning There Was Slop by Jim Nielsen (blog.jim-nielsen.com) You don’t need AI to produce slop because slop isn’t made by AI. It’s made by humans — AI is just the popular tool of choice for making it right now....
So, who wrote this? 'O that we might, for one brief hour,Forget that we are bound apart,And lie within each other's arms,Mouth pressed on mouth, and heart on heart.For just one hour, from all our life,To sink unchained through passion's...
Recap: A mostly quiet back-to-routine week: school kicked off again, early tennis mornings returned, I binged some solid TV, and work was the usual security grind with one real troubleshooting headache. The vibe Back-to-routine whiplash....
I use LLMs to help edit my writing. For a long time, I had a ChatGPT Plus subscription. I stuck with ChatGPT because I was a fan of the memory feature, which kept coherence across threads. It was nice not only for working on writing...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Mon 01/12/2026 - Mega Abomasnow I know, I know I said I was gonna focus on primary evolutions and not mega or gigantimax etc, but I got a request for Abomasnow from...
Finally, after my hard drive failure became a thing of the past, I am able to return to my Jarmusho-tron. And this time we're jumping into the glorious 90s, also known as "the golden age of independent cinema" As Jarmush entered the new...
This is the 1956 Pan paperback edition of These Old Shades. The novel was originally published by Heinemann in 1926.I finished Georgette Heyer's debut novel, The Black Moth, wishing that I could read more about the intriguing, unusual...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/11 – ISO 500 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla,...
I went to a couple thrift stores last week looking for any book by Terryl Givens or Tad R. Callister. I didn't find what I was looking for, but came home with a stack of books, anyway. Among them was a book called “Radical Integrity: The...
On my /stats page, I used the wonderful web component activity-graph to implement an Activity Graph that displays my posts over the entire lifetime of my blog. Now, as is common in Western cultures, the graph starts on the left side and...
I came to work this morning to learn that a coworker—almost a decade younger than I am—had lost her father over the weekend out of nowhere; combine that with ICE murdering and kidnapping people amidst the fascist overthrow of my country,...