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In my teens, I spent a lot of time playing an interactive fiction game called Hamlet: The Text Adventure. I enjoyed the snarky little additions the creator, Robin Johnson, made to the Shakespearean story (there's a room where you come...
My first visit of 2026 to NUE was a solid "meh" photography-wise. But the second visit last Friday didn't disappoint. My goal was to catch a rare visitor in our neck of the woods: an Airbus A320-200 operated by FLYONE Armenia (reg. no....
That was such a random yet predictable ending... why is this so popular???
Roshan: /* The Tasting */ [[File:Carbon Steel Sabatier Knife Grape Slice.webp|thumb|Not the best knife work or care but good enough for the point]] I recently took a few of our knives to...
Prayer continues to be a great source of personal fulfillment. More than that, I've come to a deeper understanding of how to use prayer to ward off demons. This video was an important piece of instruction for me. I watched it for the...
Hey all! We've got a Discord so you can chat with us about the wild world of object storage and get any help you need. We've also set up Answer Overflow so that you can browse the Q&A from the web. Today I'm going to discuss how we got...
I am rarely hopeful about politics and culture — in the Milne Typology I am an Eeyore, which is the kind of thing that happens to people who reflect often upon original sin — but even so, much of what’s happening now surprises me. I...
Lately I've been getting into generative coding. Stuff like p5.js and just svg's in general. Super inspired by people like George Francis and Daniel Shiffman. But on completely different arenas I'm also really digging Suno for musical...
This looks like a pretty neat interactive fiction game, by Michael Gentry. Excited to give it a shot. This is a pretty enormous game. There are lots of rooms to explore and lots things to mess with, and they don’t all necessarily...
The new Windows workgroup joins a growing list of Swift workgroups, including the Android workgroup, Build and Packaging workgroup, and Testing workgroup which were all added in the past year. Swift workgroups are community-led efforts,...
More family stuff to deal with. And work has mainly been a mixture of frustration and LLMs. Sporadically For Site Manager I took great care setting up Capybara/Selenium tests. I put in a whole load of timing code and the tests ran...
When I dreamed to write a book I always thought that it would be a novel, not because I love novels (I do enjoy them) but because a novel is the usual. Instantly I'd feel burdensome, novels are long and I haven't be able to write...
My journey of integrating IndieWeb principles into my Hugo blog-from microformats to Brid.gy syndication and building a custom Webmention renderer.
Marnie Vinell, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): Emily Wade, 28, says she is a genuine fan who is finding it personally frustrating to see the influx of influencers take up seats at marquee matches when others...
It's been some time now since I decided to start a web design agency, LM Web Design. Here's an update on what's been happening: Nothing. I did a free project for a guy at work, for his cake baking business. He was happy with the result....
A few days ago, I was poking around in Apple’s Weather app and came across some interesting stuff hiding behind the sunrise/sunset box. First, there’s a plot that shows the movement of the sun throughout the day, followed by sunrise and...
January 2026. Fleetwood. Not really a cut-out-and-keep guide, and I’d struggle to sell you Fleetwood (pop. 26,232, plus a Football League team) as a holiday destination, but it’s better than Clacton, so there’s that. I had half an hour...
如何上手 Emacs TL;DR 上手 Emacs 的建议： 要对 Emacs 感兴趣，愿意花些时间折腾和调试，需要一些耐心 从成熟的配置起步，熟悉 Emacs 的使用 从零开始重新配置 Emacs，了解每一行的配置的作用 我是看 Chen Bin 的教程 一年成为 Emacs 高手 入门的，这篇教程最大的帮助是让我从 purcell 的 Emacs 配置 开始上手 Emacs，这个配置很成熟，让我感受到了 Emacs 的乐趣。 我很快把 Emacs...
Recently I had to opportunity to watch this classic during a flight. It’s such a great movie1. It was the second time I watched it. The first one was during my teenage years, probably around 15-16. Many years later, with a few bits of...
Another good post from Cal Newport: Is the Internet Hijacking Our Ambition? I just preordered the book he discusses, Brad Stulberg's The Way of Excellence: A Guide to True Greatness and Deep Satisfaction in a Chaotic World. Even though I...
Hello! One of my favourite things is starting to learn an Old Boring Technology that I’ve never tried before but that has been around for 20+ years. It feels really good when every problem I’m ever going to have has been solved already...
Since I wrote the last long post, I've had a burst of inspiration for writing about many different ideas, especially involving another important event of my life—last year was already full of these life-changing events. To write a post,...
We introduced curl’s -J option, also known as --remote-header-name back in February 2010. A decent amount of years ago. The option is used in combination with -O (--remote-name) when downloading data from a HTTP(S) server and instructs...
The Journal of the History of Philosophy has announced that Julia Jorati, professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is the winner of its 2025 Book Prize. Professor Jorati was awarded the prize for her book,...
This has not been an easy-ride by a couple thousand miles, but there does seem to be light at the end of the tunnel. Grandma is improving. My Sister, Uncle, Christina and I have broken up the week so the entire shit doesn't land on my...
The ef-themes are a collection of light and dark themes for GNU Emacs that provide colourful (“pretty”) yet legible options for users who want something with a bit more flair than the modus-themes (also designed by me). Package name (GNU...
2026-01-21（水） 時間：19:00 ~ 20:50 地稽古：FM老师・MD老师・SD老师・TG老师 心得：今年一整年我的课题都将是：改掉打击前落剑尖的毛病。本次练习过程中，老师建议我先向上缓慢移动竹剑，最后利用手之内完成打击，尝试几次之后发现自己慢慢来就能有效避免落剑尖，以后要尤其在基本稽古的时候注意调整。...
"Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt—a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying—to jolt people awake.""For example, AI models are trained on vast amounts of literature that include many science-fiction stories...
Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it's pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. This isn't my first time finding out about...
Currently thinking about how using AI will just increasingly become even more of a class/privilege thing than it already is. We've already established that different groups and areas around the world get access to models differently,...
Note: What follows is a falsification matrix for the essay, “A Constraint Story: Why Colombia’s Election Defies Standard Forecasting.” Testing the Constraint Theory Against Observable Data LIVE UPDATE: January 26, 2026 – Prediction...
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. Signal's popularity soars in Europe. In Finland, the app is the most downloaded one in the Play...
Big update here, I changed the link colours and everything so I'd be able to see something. Added a new section for locations and there, Pohjola, and added a page for Lemminkäinen. I also added a new section below that features a...
I swear to you, I’m not into woo-woo stuff. But the oddest thing happened to me today. And this is not the first time such a thing has happened to me. Basically, I’ve had things reappear in my life as mysteriously as they disappeared....
Musings and ramblings on programming and things
Hace año y pico me compré de oferta un mando para la Switch, de terceros. El modelo concreto es el 8Bitdo Ultimate C. No era un mando para uso diario sino para las pocas ocasiones en que nos juntamos cuatro personas en casa para jugar un...
Despite appearances, R.S. Thomas, the crag-faced curmudgeon of Sarn-y-Plas, had a tender side, which showed up quite often in his poetry, as in this love poem to his long-suffering wife of 51 years, the artist Mildred (Elsi) Eldridge...
denote-review Implement a simple review process for denote notes with denote-review How an Emacs package came into existence Systems in use Over time I have grown into using several different note systems next to each other, like taking...
The Oklahoma City Thunder won the 2024-25 NBA Championship. This title, the franchise’s first since 1978-79 when it was the Seattle SuperSonics, prompted me to write an article on NBA franchise championship droughts. The Thunder’s...
pruning my digital garden ﹒₊˚⊹
Born into a World War to live through another, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. Just three years earlier, he had become the...
January 26, 2026 Giles Turnbull Gemini and other tools like it aren’t intended for me - they’re for people who find writing hard. I find it easy. Of course I’m going to be dismissive, of course I’m going to want it to stop pestering me....
This is what I’m focused on right now, in the real world, not the aspirational multiverse where I have unlimited time. Work I’m deep in MSP life, doing the usual blend of cybersecurity, IT admin, and “why is this one thing suddenly on...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Mon 01/26/2026 - Alolan Sandshrew I was thinking more about ice / snow themed pokemon (since our official tally as of this writing is that we got THREE FEET of snow)...
I stumbled upon a January 15, 2011 analytically-inclined defense of Carmelo Anthony by Nate Silver (I also think the 2012-13 Knicks prove it was at least possible to construct a championship-caliber team around Mr. Anthony), written at...
📌 This was meant to be posted yesterday, but as always, I was too exhausted to function afterwards. I hadn’t planned to do another Century ride so soon after my very first one last month. However, while casually perusing the SUMMIIT...
In part 2 of the current Hands-on SAP Dev live stream mini-series on CXL, the core expression language in CDS, Patrice demonstrated how declarative constraints are actually realised, and it made me sit back and wonder. I thought I'd...
The rule of least power on the web incentivised using HTML before reaching for CSS, CSS before JavaScript, and bashing it into the JS script as a last resort. Every time the web ships new features that let us shift the implementation...
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Brendan
Kaijuville is a newsletter that's really more like an oldsletter: a weekly writeup (or occasional comic strip) about interesting things found in digital archives that stand the test of time.
Mitchell Hashimoto
I'm a developer living in Los Angeles, CA. I previously co-founded HashiCorp. Today I spend most of my time working on Ghostty, a new terminal emulator. I was part of the initial engineering team behind most of the HashiCorp products, such as Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Waypoint, and more. I don't work on any of those projects anymore. I was CEO for ~4 years, CTO for ~5 years, an individual contributor for ~2 years, and then left the company in 2023. I fly airplanes. ✈️ I'm an FAA licensed private pilot with an instrument rating (PPL ASEL IR). I currently fly a Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet. I frequently share pictures of my flights.
Yslas Das
Esto es una amalgama de textos relacionados a mis intereses: principalmente videojuegos, diseño, ficciones de bajo presupuesto, pensamientos rancios, o cosas de la vida en terminos generales.
Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza es una escritora mexicana, narradora, poeta y ensayista. Actualmente trabaja como profesora en la Universidad de Houston y es directora del programa de posgrado en escritura creativa en español. Ha sido profesora en instituciones como la UNAM, la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM), la San Diego State University y el ITESM Campus Toluca.
Jason Velazquez
What's up, weirdos. I'm Jason. Welcome to my digital garden. I'm happy you're here. Please make yourself comfortable. By day, I'm a digital freelancer, copywriter, uncle, and cheese danish sommelier. By night, I drink the blood of my enemies in an old Mountain Dew bottle I found in a Buc-ee's bathroom. Kidding. I'm just a guy who likes to blog about technology, design, the web, and anything I'm hyper fixated on at the time.