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Added the page for Väinämöinen which was a lot of workkkkkk so I'm sure I'm missing something and will need to add later! Also added new images for Päivätär, Kuutar, and Vellamo and Ahti.
As far as I can tell*, Justin Faircloth (just.not.fair) was the first person to refer to vomitous slime mold Donald Trump as Il Duce Arancione. #america #authoritarianism #fascism #il-duce-arancione #politics #trump ∎
I made a Tzatziki Chickpea Salad recipe that Casey's mom sent over and I'm not gonna lie, it made me feel better about my life choices. ⊕Currently Listening: Bonnie Raitt “Thank You”Reply via email
A banned Switch sitting on a shelf is prime hardware for Android. Turns out the Tegra X1 that powered Breath of the Wild runs a full Android OS surprisingly well. My Switch got banned after I ran homebrew on it to backup game saves, so I...
Welcome to the ninth edition of the NMG grant. I am grateful to friends (Nemo, Gangadhar, Shweta, Divya, Miss.Y, Mr.S) and other anonymous folks who have joined me on this journey with additional grant support. We do have some of them...
NY TimesIt’s laughable it took this long.The FBI and and anyone who has had their image created or depicted in an explicit manner should be going after Elon Musk, X, and use everything within their legal power to identify the people...
Boats moored in a small lake adjacent to the much larger Lake Biwa. In the background are the snow-capped peaks of the Hira Mountains between Shiga and Kyoto Prefectures. This is a multi-shot panorama image....
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 179 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/5.6 – ISO 125 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla...
Llevamos un buen tiempo con noticias horrorosas e interconectadas, en unos tiempos que distan mucho del tipo de futuro que yo imaginaba cuando era adolescente. No estaba en mi cartón del bingo tener que preocuparme por cosas que pensaba...
It's been a while since the pandemic has brought masks to the awareness of anyone that wasn't required to wear them before. It's also been a while since the general public was mandated to wear them. I still wear masks, though. I wear...
This post is part of a series on Active Storage internals. See also: Understanding the Active Storage Domain Model and Understanding has_one_attached.Disclaimer: I used Claude Code to trace through the Rails codebase and explain how...
Now: January 2026 Personal life After nearly two months of intermittent illness in November and December, I’m finally starting to feel a bit better again.1 We had a lot of snow a few weeks ago—which is not that common anymore here, due...
The first version of digg, something many people called the front page of the internet, arrived in 2004, and was a little like what Hacker News is today. A social bookmarking news aggregator, if you want to be technical. People could...
I. Foundation: Why Constraint-Logic? Traditional logic asks: Is proposition P true? Deferential Realism asks: What constraint-type is C, and what does that imply? This requires different logical machinery: Not truth-preservation →...
My apologies to those of you hoping for another pulse-pounding post on the mechanics of belaying, but I’m going to talk about Apple again. The belaying follow-up should come out this weekend. What prompted this post was being chastised...
A mission post by Captain Amelia Waterhouse, Lieutenant Commander Cecilia Abbott, Lieutenant Zola, Lieutenant JG Sean Morgan, Chief Petty Officer Ludwig Ryan, Petty Officer 2nd Class Kennet Ek, Lieutenant Weho Lape Sabril, Lieutenant JG...
年初写运动计划的时候，我回看去年的稽古记录发现自己全年只有六周没有打剑。而今年一开年就状况频出，一月已经过半了，我却只去了一次剑道场，这让我除了有一些因为疏于练习而导致的不安之外，还产生了记录一下这一周的念头。 上周四 这一星期我也并没有完全离开剑道，至少这一天我在阳台挥剑 100 支，完成了当日素振日课。 上周五...
Short aphorisms on AI-assisted (and sometimes AI-driven) software engineering. 1. AI-ludditism is futile AI-skepticism is fair, AI-ludditism is futile. AI-assisted programming is here to stay (unless the bubble bursts and leads to...
Today I learnt about the NS_ERROR_INVALID_CONTENT_ENCODING error (or “Content Encoding Error”) in Firefox, which started popping up in my Network tab while trying to access ChatGPT. Indeed, while having access to ChatGPT has allowed me...
This week I was a guest over on Hyde's blog. He has a series called "Over/Under" where he gives his guests a handful of topics and lets them riff on whether they think the topic is over- or underrated. The topics he picked for me were...
The second week of the year was filled with many disasters and fun moments, nothing to worry about. 🩺 My dog needed to get his wound cleaned up daily and at first I couldn’t do it, so I had to take him to the vet, except that I was home...
You know how some of your most vivid memories go back to moments when you were scared or you tackled a difficult thing for the first time? Well, I still remember the fear and trepidation I felt when I was about to install and set up my...
What a fucking miserable day today’s been. Came home this evening to the Main breaker panel being down again. Called FAC. While we were figuring out the issue with the power, we heard OP was electrocuted while playing in his yard and...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: Is it too soon to pull out the “It’s been a long year…” meme? O_o _ONE 40% Of Americans Did Not Read a Single Book in 2025: The Latest Survey of American Reading Habits | Kelly Jensen What...
A lot of people seem not to know this, specially those in charge of these decisions, but those "dyslexia" special fonts, DO NOT WORK. Dyslexia is NOT a vision problem, but a language processing one. We need line spacing, and styling...
This is an entry from my journal. I comment on how I interact with dogs and what I have learnt from them for life in general. I laugh at the thought that my dogs are polyglots. They communicate in the dog language, which consists of a...
January 2026. Tulse Hill. London. Leaving Streatham Spoons I became aware of something big happening in the FA Cup. Macclesfield (no longer Robbie Savage’s Macc) of the 6th division had just taken a 2-nil lead against the Cup holders,...
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has been experimenting with holding one of its three major conferences entirely online. The organization has now announced that, after the second of these online-only events—the Pacific...
Hey everyone. I've been seeing a chunk of posts about folks going back to physical and offline media these days so I thought I'd write up a few helpful posts on the matter. When I was in kindergarten I had one of those Fisher Price...
This is a practical how-to on moving email from Gmail to another provider. The main challenge is Gmail’s label system: one email can have multiple labels and all mails also appear in “All Mail”. Most other providers use folders instead,...
After the list of books and movies of 2025, here’s the playlist of the songs I’ve enjoyed the most in 2025, aka the playlist of my life last year, including what Spotify had to say about it. Enjoy! (By the way, here are the playlists of...
I wrote ILsee, an Interlisp source file viewer. It is the first of the ILtools collection of tools for viewing and accessing Interlisp data. I developed ILsee in Common Lisp on Linux with SBCL and the McCLIM implementation of the CLIM...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:Play Pen to Fence - Block Model.webm|right]] My wife, [[Julie Yu Kang|Julie]], and I both use our Bambu P1S for stuff around the house. Today she was telling me about a...
Although I don't miss NYC, the one thing I do miss is not having a car. I prefer walking. I like trains and buses. I like reading and napping during my commutes. What I don't like is being stuck in a car, sitting in traffic. Or wondering...
Slop is Everywhere For Those With Eyes to See The size of your plate can influence how much food you eat. The absence of a clock on a casino wall can keep you gambling through the early morning. On social media, our For You Pages give us...
Previously. Problem statement Given Alpine Linux 3.23 running PostgreSQL 17, upgrade to PostgreSQL 18. For this specific example, consider a miniflux database. The previous post still applies, with only one exception: PostgreSQL 18...
I've always thought about that to myself, but lately, after so many decisions (some good and others not) and changes in my daily life, this has been floating in my head with a bit more weight. Well, to make things clearer here, when I...
Musings and ramblings on programming and things
In December I was fortunate enough to have a LOT of PTO banked up, and I spent almost all of it on 3 weeks in mainland China and Taiwan. I hit 3 cities in the mainland - Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhangjiajie - as well as Taipei in Taiwan....
The Pixel Art and Anime and Manga galleries have had their descriptive text hidden behind toggle buttons to save space.
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thurs 01/15/0226 - Slakoth One of our cats' names is Sloth; he's a good cat. While petting him, had the thought "I wonder if there is a Sloth pokemon" - Slakoth is what...
[ABC, 13.01.2025] V-M y Elena Ramírez, en ceremonia premio Zenda. —La fuga y la desaparición han marcado su literatura. Sin embargo, ¿existe algo más duradero y firme que su estilo? —Pero es que el estilo no es un simple adorno, sino la...
I wanted to start this blog post with a quote. I started flicking through Walden, which I have just finished reading, for one that would be appropriate. But then I realised any choice would be arbitrary, for the wisdom is so deep within...
I'm joining the C1rew!
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here in daily posts. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. 25 years of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is one of the most inspiring projects of our generation. Imagine...
Another solid year for Silvestar. Long-term clients, challenging projects, and a few wins along the way.
IN MY DEFENSE, how else was I going to get his number?Picture this: Thursday evening, 5:00 PM, LA traffic, the intersection of Pico and La Cienega. You see the most beautiful man you have ever seen in your life driving in front of you....
I came across "pip o" one way or another out of an interest in children's art.
January 15, 2026 Andre Franca, Why do you run a blog? Is it to make a living, or is it a hobby? If you write from your small corner of the internet for pleasure, to meet new people, or simply for engagement, then you probably shouldn’t...
Esperé en el lago a que pasara algo que me llevara con él, tal vez un objeto perdido, tal vez una persona aventurera o tal vez un pez que me invite a nadar. Esperé ahí parado hasta que ya no pude ver mi reflejo y las ondas resplandecían...
In case you missed it, I have a little AI Manifesto here on this blog. I do use AI for work, and often shill AI for work, and use it often on side projects. That being said, I really care about using AI as a tool, rather than a...