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En general, cuando uso software en cualquiera de mis dispositivos, intento buscar siempre alternativas nativas, o que al menos se sientan como si fueran nativas. No es que tenga gran cosa en contra de las aplicaciones Web, que conste,...
Read on the website: Markdown seems to have taken root. But it’s not really a good choice of markup language, because it’s incomplete, non-semantic, and tool-specific.
A review of soup and a movie. ⊕Currently Listening: Bobbie Gentry “Courtyard”Reply via email
Dear Ciara, Most days, whether I am at work or just wandering around my community, my vision is inundated with birds: peaceful doves, Torresian pigeons, sparrows, finches and munias, red-tailed black cockatoos, cuckooshrikes, lorikeets...
The Problem: Most people pick an AI model the same way they pick a search engine—they find one that works and stick with it forever. You’re a “Claude person” or a “ChatGPT person” or you use Copilot because that’s what your company...
Hello from Maine, where the low in two days is predicted to be -9 degrees. That's an improvement over the forecast from a few days back, when they were saying -11. Let's don't talk about wind chill. If you don't talk about it, maybe it...
This is a response to Thomas Rigby's post about the list of old things in his lifetime. Throughout my life, I have collected a fair share of assorted stuff (such as charms, fashion dolls, notebooks, and optical discs). While I have...
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️I used a Logitech K800 “Wireless Illuminated” keyboard for...
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. 30 years of ReactOS (in English). The project aims (since 1996!) to create a FOSS alternative that...
Contents: Open source software changes the game. Not Just for "Hackers" Anymore Closing thoughts In today's world everything you do online can be tracked, stored and monetized. Free apps, smart devices, AI assistants - they all come with...
Pintura de Kiefer. [Texto perfecto de Julien Gracq encontrado en el blog La Calle del Orco / de Kim Nguyen Baraldi] Hay un elemento esencial que corre siempre el riesgo de faltarle a la crítica, y en particular a las monografías, muy...
The dismal weather of this interminable January – grey days, relentless rain, damp cold (the worst sort) – is only to be expected, I suppose, but it does depress the spirits and eat into the soul. It's time for a cheering poem,...
Cuando vi en la biblioteca el libro Presentes de Paco Cerdà no dude en acercarme a él y tomarlo prestado. En tres días lo había leído. En Presentes, el escritor valenciano nos traslada a esos 11 días que duró el traslado del cuerpo del...
I've noticed that by about 10 AM most days I am done with the news. I'm deleting unread email newsletters and skipping over blog posts or Mastodon posts that have anything to do with current events. I just can't take it anymore. Then I...
Let’s go from Argentina to Mexico this time. That’s 7'500 Km from Buenos Aires to Ciudad de México, a very long distance that shows the massive size of the Spanish Empire five centuries ago (let’s not forget that California and Patagonia...
While I was working on mailing the 262nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, I noticed for the first time that our newsletter host, Buttondown, provides a QR code for our newsletter. I decided to add that QR code to the new version...
Digital Self-Reliance: Audio EditionAs we continue to move into 2026, I want to talk about my continued journey towards digital self-reliance. This time, I am focusing on my audio needs.
There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little...
January 2026. Widnes. A confession. I intended to make that post on Mudgie’s funeral a long read including the post-wake pubs, but Mrs RM had finished her pint/wine/Amaretto Disaronno in St Annes Spoons and I had to press “PUBLISH” in...
Blog rolls are important. I have one. If you consider yourself a part of the “IndieWeb,” you should have one too. Because the IndieWeb dies without people spreading the word. The thing is, Google sucks donkey balls, and not the good...
I’ve experienced one-too-many sendmail failures over the years, usually for no apparent reason. Maybe this happens after a server reboot, who knows? Rather than spending hours/days trying to figure this out (as I have done before, many...
Man, following the news this week was exhausting. Everything has kind of this ugly orange tint... I think it might be time for another news diet. There are still interesting things happening though, they just kind of disappear under all...
This is the final episode in the series of curated quote collections "Darwin in His Own Words". Darwin the Fun-Loving Young Fellow Darwin the Voyager Darwin the Man of His Times Darwin the Witness Darwin El Naturalista At last, it's time...
Abelujo es la única aplicación de software libre existente para la gestión de una librería, tanto negocios como librerías de asociaciones y ya dispone de su documentación en español Imagen: Heather McKeen Abelujo es un software libre que...
After reading Thomas's post, it inspired me to do a reply post with my own list. I then started to wonder about the parameters: is it something I have bought, or something I have been given? Or something within my lifetime? Let's exclude...
In his excessively long speech to the World Economic Forum yesterday in Davos, Donald Trump did some surprising backtracking. Not the stuff about Iceland Greenland, but on his method of calculating price reductions. For weeks—maybe...
January 22, 2026 While I was laying down to take a nap today (yes I take a nap every afternoon) I started thinking about what a fucking shit show social media is and how in my opinion it is destroying society. Social media as we know it...
Aleem Shaun has recently posted his answers to Ellane’s Eight Questions about Plain Text, and they’re a good quick read, as are Ellane’s. I’ve written about plain text before, and even made a zine about it, so I decided to throw my...
Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business has revamped its MBA curriculum and has made ethics a focal point of its first-year curriculum. The McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University A press release about the...
The evening sky reflects in the Takano River. 高野川に映る夕空。
i wrote this whilst responding to one of my dearest friends on signal; an activity that, with the state i've found myself in, is one that i struggle sometimes to even muster up the strength to do. to claw my way up the walls of...
We went to the mall during the weekend, and if there’s one thing that malls have, is phone case kiosks. Small shops selling peripherals and cases for popular Apple and Samsung devices,and not much else—at least that’s what I always...
“Susie… come home… and be my own again, and kiss me as you used to… I hope for you so much, and feel so eager for you… that the expectation… makes me feel hot and feverish, and my heart beats so fast.” Four months before her twentieth...
It's an adorable collectible trinket in its own right, but camera it ain't.
I learned that Ebay updated its terms of service to explicitly prohibit the use of “buy-for-me agents, LLM-driven bots, or any end-to-end flow that attempts to place orders without human review” on site (Liz Morton for Value Added...
Rain pattered on the window. It had been coming down all day and was showing no signs of letting up. If anything, it was getting heavier by the minute. The extraterrestrial wandered outside, holding its appendages out, as if feeling it...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Weds 01/21/2026 - Meowstic Meowtic was specifically requested yesterday but the gender was left up to me so I decided with a coin toss. Thurs 01/22/2026 - Hisuian...
I’ve spent the last five years reading picture books with my kids at bedtime. Hundreds of them - and I’m still going, even as my eldest moves on to chapter books. One thing has consistently driven me mad: I often can’t read the words....
This morning, I've been meditating on new beginnings. I remember a few years ago, before my first psychiatric hospitalization, learning the actual etymology of the word "apocalypse." Culturally, people conflate "apocalypse" and...
A busy switch full of connections, every lit port is a service path you should inventory, control, and monitor. (Photo by Scott Rodgerson on Unsplash) Ports are the “doors” your services listen on. Some doors should be inside the...
Practical patterns for mocking in Go without external libraries. Learn to mock functions, methods, interfaces, HTTP calls, and time using only the standard library