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Die gute Lisa—die du vielleicht schon von ihren Kurzvideos zum Thema Tierschutz kennst—hat ein Workbook für Kinder mit dem Namen Fühl mal, wie es den Tieren geht geschrieben und jetzt in einer Auflage von 1000 Stück drucken lassen. Eine...
Share your website at events, by James. Some Thoughts on the Open Web, by Mark. The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland, by Brent Molnar, via Faisal. Le pouvoir des moins puissants commence par l’honnêteté. — Premier...
I recently rebuilt my site, and this gave me an opportunity to rethink how to organize its contents. Vertical architecture Most websites have what I consider to be a “vertical” architecture. This is probably based on early websites being...
Over the Christmas break, a time of consumption for the sake of commerce, I found myself thinking of all the brand spanking new tat destined for landfill after, at best, one use. I buy decent quality stuff secondhand whenever possible...
Last October, I took the time to share some updates about PETI, which at that point was more a project-in-concept than something I was hands-on-keyboard “working on”. That’s not really true anymore; over the last couple weeks, I’ve been...
This eclectic collection is a cabinet of curiosities from the world’s languages, literatures, philosophies, and subcultures—a mosaic of forgotten words, sharp idioms, and poignant phrases that capture the human condition in all its...
One of the hardest realizations in life, and one of the most liberating, is that our mothers are neither saints nor saviors — they are just people who, however messy or painful our childhood may have been, and however complicated the...
All the translated watercolours in the four volumes of "Gli Abiti de Veneziani" by Grevembroch, as galleries for easy browsing.
I've taken photos of glasses in various states of fullness before, but never mined this trope before today. But there was light this morning and the glass was just sitting there on the counter.Currently Listening: Surfbort “Jessica's...
Our family in Minnesota knows we worry about them, and so yesterday they sent a family-wide email. This is surely one of many thousands like it. Maybe you’ve written one of these. Maybe you will write one of these. Below is the email...
Yesterday I attended a Code Jam event organised by the EdinburghJS community. During the event, I met many wonderful people. At one point, someone asked me to share my LinkedIn, to which I responded that I’ll share my website instead. I...
This morning Radio 3 noted the 65th anniversary of the first performance of Francis Poulenc's Gloria, in Boston, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The ever chirpy Tom McKinney marked the occasion by playing the first two movements of the...
Currently I use as my productivity working device a Tuxedo Laptop, the Infinity book pro 14". It is about 1.5yrs old and started acting up in december when it comes to battery. The Battery sometimes was overnight discharging to 0% even...
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. MBCompass. Modern compass and navigation app for Android. FOSS and free, available on F-Droid and...
I just finished my last pocket notebook ... :( one day, I'll create a tutorial zine including how much it costs
Tuesday nights are always busy at our house. I took my son to his volleyball practice and then to a local card shop where he plays the One Piece Trading Card Game every week. These mini-tournaments can last anywhere from an hour (when he...
Reeds along the Katsura River on a sunny afternoon. 晴れた日の午後、桂川沿いのヨシ。
branches, a road outdoor air colour, colour asphalt fade into the edges asphalt, pitch telephone po no rewindtap eyes no yes seestraight tapplay wunssagin
Dio ovosvjetskih pravila je u skladu sa univerzalnim moralnim zakonima, dio je tu samo da postigne neki cilj za ljude koji su dovoljno moćni da utiču na zakone jedne organizacije / grada / kantona / države. Kršiti pravila ima smisla ako...
January 21, 2026 I have a folder of quotes I've collected over the years. This morning, while reading through a few, one stopped me: Instead of constantly hunting for blog topics and maintaining a never-ending list of ideas, I'm trying a...
Bastiaan “Bas” van Fraassen, professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, has been awarded the 2026 Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy. The Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy is bestowed by the Royal Swedish Academy...
I received a comment on my guestbook saying I complain too much. At first, I tried justifying it to myself. I tried telling myself, "Well, you know, I do a Chicken Noodle Soup for the Soul—type thing and find silver linings," but then I...
The Midwest is expected to have very cold temperatures this weekend, which got me thinking about burst water pipes. Water expands about 9% as it freezes, and a lot of people think it’s pressure from the outward expansion of ice that...
We have it good now. M-series Apple chips, amazing AM5-based Ryzen CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs that can power a program that you can talk with that can pass the turing test. We have it good. But back when we had hardware limitations that were...
I often find something that still doesn’t feel 100% right. These days, it has been the cold start and the choke. After the bike came out of restoration, it had a cold-start problem. The usual solution was to use the choke without...
I read a few posts around personal websites and how to make it easier to make one, and a common theme emerged: the existing tools to create one’s own site (mainly referring to static site generators and self-hosting) are too...
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused alternative generalist search engine which relies on Bing for its traditional search results, offers an alternative “no AI” version of DuckDuckGo at https://noai.duckduckgo.com/. I turn to the About...
This may seem like a clickbait title, but I really wonder if this is a trend because I saw a book blogger ranting that she’s fed up with books being released today and she’s going back to read classic fiction and finding more...
United States of America, A.D. 2026. In addition to Jonathon Ross murdering Renee Good, the very same day they went to a high school and attempted to arrest students and staff. One day after this, 6 men with guns kicked in the door of...
Title: Notes by Philipp D. Dubach Website: notes.philippdubach.com RSS Feed: notes.philippdubach.com/feed Short reflections and observations on Economics, Finance and Technology RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing...
Myrlyn vino a sustituir a YaST a la hora de tener una interfaz gráfica para la gestión de paquetes de software (borrado, búsqueda, instalación) y de repositorios Logotipo del proyecto A finales de 2024, YQPkg vino a sustituir a YaST como...
I made an abstract artwork for the January Inkscape Challenge.
As disappointingly forecast in my previous post, the missing AirPod has reappeared.It reappeared from the back of my bedside table on the 15th Jan, nine days after my £76 replacement had arrived, very efficiently, from Apple.I now have a...
One of the trickier things in software is gradual degradation. Development that happens in the wrong direction slowly over time which never triggers any alarms or upset users. Then one day you suddenly take a closer look at it and you...
The most popular link last time was this handy printable calendar, with with Lena Dunham on her mum's style second. There have been many Heated Rivalry takes. This one — The Truth About Yearning – is the best one I have read. I haven't...
Field Notes #3
This is an excerpt from my journal. I comment on how exposure to nature helps me understand my place in the world. Winter is the most quiet time of the year here in my mountains. The ever-busy swallows left us a few months ago. I enjoy...
I already bought propane and shelf stable food a few days ago. I started washing all the laundry today and will get all the dishes and stuff cleaned by Friday. That's when the temps are supposed to tank and we get 2+ inches of ice on...
For those who follow along with my ramblings, you may recall my relationship with the Kagi search engine. On testing it, I loved the idea but was on the fence about paying for my search results. After the trial I returned to my more...
MTV VJ Adam Curry in 1993, the year he took to the Web with MTV.com. Photo via WikiMedia. Any history of web design has to begin with the first graphical web browser to go mainstream: Mosaic, later to be renamed Netscape Navigator. At...
Dinsdag 27 januari om 18:30 is er in Den Haag in de Tweede Kamer een rondetafeloverleg over de consequenties van de (beoogde) overname van Solvinity voor DigiD. Er komen diverse sprekers, onder andere namens Bits of Freedom, de Dutch...
The world is complicated. I like the #DID campaign – regaining your digital independence step by step. Like changing from X to Mastodon or from Chrome to another browser. For me, the next logical step was reconsidering my browser choice....
This most likely the last Aviationtag I bought while in Germany. It's also the nicest one in my collection. It's a GLARE edition, so it's a thick little sandwich. The color is more like mustard rather than gold, which I actually prefer.
Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! With some adjustments, this post is mostly a translation of a post I published in French three years ago. In light of the European Commission’s "call for evidence on Open...
I have been reading Dead Souls by Gogol and I noticed his very liberal use of metaphors.
A lot of unspoken assumptions underlie the whole "AI thing" right now. But I think the biggest is that LLMs think like we do. We jump to this conclusion almost immediately, because LLMs generate plausible-reading text. The LLM sounds...
As years have stretched on, browser user-agent styles have grown somewhat estranged from how many developers use the web platform. I am no exception to this rule and find my own needs at odds with the predefined user-agent stylesheets of...
Khaire! It's Helios'es morning His chariot up soaring. I send my thanks to spirits of home, For keeping us under protective dome. Artemis, my dearest Mother, hear my pray, I thank you for this sweet winter day. Lastly I send my deepest...
January 2026. Widnes. From a morning in Liverpool to mourning in Widnes, as Peter is laid to rest with his parents. “Anyone for Widnes needs to move to the front carriages” says the nice guard in his guttural Mersey accent, confirming...