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The faculty of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program at the University at Buffalo were awarded a $4 million grant from the US Department of Education for an initiative on “civil discourse”. [Adam Pendleton, untitled (We...
For this entry in the series I pick a banger of a hit from the Blé (Μπλε) band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx33Ef57iJc. This is the best version of the song I have found online. The audio quality is top notch and the performance is...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 600 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 200 📍 National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla,...
TIL: RTFM or rather RTFC – if you’re using DDEV for your WordPress project and you don’t want it to overwrite the wp-config.php every time it starts, just delete the whole comment block on the top. You know, the one where it tells you to...
本文仅供个人学习参考，未经许可严禁转载。 关于升段审查 升段审查并不要求你拿到 100 分，只要获得 2/3 的分数就可以合格。 在 6 名审查员中，只要有 4 人给「〇（合格）」就算通过。换句话说，有 1/3 得到「✕（不合格）」也没问题。那么，只要搞清楚什么是那 1/3，什么是那 2/3，我们集中精力练习那 2/3 就可以了。 在「攻」、「打突」、「残心」这三个要素中，打击占那 1/3，而「攻」与「残心」合占更重要的 2/3。我们真正应该磨炼的，正是攻与残心。...
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[Café Perec / El País / 3 Febrero / Fleur Jaeggy corrige mucho en su mente: “Empiezo a escribir suprimiendo en mi cabeza el texto desde el primer minuto. Comienzo ya quitando cosas. Quedan muchas eliminadas, muchas que ni siquiera he...
January 2026. Radcliffe on Trent. When I came to Radcliffe to tick the micropub (temporarily closed so no return) in 2019 I’d asked a local; “What about the other pubs in Radcliffe ?” I asked. “Any good ?” “Nah. Too cliquey”. Well,...
The final book in Cooper's epic The Dark is Rising Sequence ties all of the loose ends up neatly in a quite satisfying way that doesn't feel forced. There's a lovely twist towards the end that plucks a heartstring or two but I won't...
TIMBRE¿CÓMO ESCRIBIMOS AHORA? [Martes, 27 de enero 2026]Sabíamos ya que estábamos en la era de la posverdad—esa en la que para convencer a la opinión pública valen más las emociones intensas y las creencias personales que los hechos y...
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. The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K, Ars Technica. The realization...
Conversa com o programa de aceleração de carreira: MPA 2026 O post Ciclo de Discovery de produto: reduzindo incertezas e maximizando valor apareceu primeiro em Wagner Beethoven.
Dear Ciara, We bought a house! After a good 12—18 months of searching, numerous offers, a couple of auctions, and even tears, we have finally scored our own place. This is the news I’ve been dying to tell you. While I am nervous for the...
There was never anything so gallant, so spruce, so brilliant, and so well disposed as the two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, and cannon made music such as Hell itself had never heard. The cannons first of all laid flat about...
Hace poco terminé de leer este libro y me fascinó, yo creo que se ha convertido en uno de mis libros favoritos. Fue muy único para mi porque nunca había leído algo así, desde el género hasta el formato en pequeños cuentos. Me inspiró...
Last week, I saw my boss use the Nespresso Inissia she kindly brought to the office to share, and let’s just say that before I even had a chance to feel stunned, she already had her steamy espresso in a cup. 30 seconds—that was how long...
In days of old, link shortening tools were all the range. They addressed a specific issue with early social media services; especially Twitter, which had a character limit of 140 (remember those days). If you included a long link to a...
Here are a lists of blog posts I've enjoyed reading recently on the web 🕸️: Doing the thing is doing the thing by zerosleeps What I actually want to say in tech interviews by Nelson Qt Widgets to Qt Quick, An Application Journey Part 1...
I often say that I hate GenAI, but I am not sincere when I do that. It's not that I, as a developer, want to write each if or case statement; I couldn't care less about this. While I'd love to be able to write in machine code, I work in...
Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare, splendid poem “blessing the boats.” We had met at a poetry workshop and shared a resolution to write more poetry in the coming year, so we...
In the loo at @realeustontap #craftbeer #london #fuckfarage
Recopilación y traducción del boletín mensual de noticias relacionadas con el software libre publicado por la Free Software Foundation. ¡El boletín de noticias de la FSF está aquí! La Free Software Foundation (FSF) es una organización...
A buddy in infosec recently asked a question that hits the painful truth about containers: they feel disposable right up until you need evidence. “What logs need to be collected and what’s the best way to snapshot for further digging?”...
CHECK OUT MY LINK LOG I couldn't write yesterday, which was horrible. The problem was that over the last two days, I've been trying to fix an issue with the blog's codebase. Well, it wasn't so much an issue as it was an attempt to...
We’ve recently been looking into optimizing rendering performance of the Perfetto UI on large traces. We discovered that there was some inefficiency in our data fetching logic, especially when you’re very zoomed out. In this case, there...
LinkGood list/resource for things you can do around various giant conglomerates who have influence over the administration and/or are enablers of ICE. I think my Apple One subscription is the only place I’m still subscribed—and I had a...
Llevo tiempo probando de vez en cuando alternativas vegetarianas a determinados alimentos, particularmente lácteos. La leche (nótense la cursiva) todavía no la consigo manejar bien en casa, aunque fuera se ve que la saben preparar y la...
For the past few months, my friend Dave has been working on his own TTRPG, documenting his misadventures on his personal blog. Time and time again, a game mentioned as inspiration has been Land of Eem, a whimsical and family friendly...
Just got a note in my work inbox: There's a spread of Chick-fil-A in the break room, courtesy of the franchise that just opened its doors next to our district admin building. I cannot eat Chick-fil-A. I have celiac disease, and those...
Hover for more info, click to enlarge. I ordered a dated planner for 2026 from a bookbinder friend of mine, who hand-sews notebooks and planners and rebinds books for ppl. I gave her my old one by Todavia as inspiration because I love...
I don't have the heart to let this wax pickle back go, so it's going to become a bookmark.Currently Listening: aniis “Dreamer Too”Reply via email
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tues 02/03/2026 - Glalie It's still ice types which means there's still more than 2 feet of snow outside here. Scientific weather measuring going on. Sorry to the...
Trump says US is 'going to do something on AMERICA, whether they like it or not'by Le AMERICAN Monde and Agence France-AMERICA-Pressecorrected by Nicholas De AMERICAUS President Donald Trump on Friday, January 9, again suggested the use...
I recently posted a couple of Venetian-themed poems by Robin Saikia which had impressed me. Seeking to find out more about this little-known but clearly talented poet, I discovered that he had published, in 2020, a dramatic monologue...
Books of January 2026 I started this year with re-reading "Pattern Recognition". This is the first book that I re-read within a year. Because I really enjoyed this book, I followed it with the other two books of the Blue Ant trilogy. Non...
I really wanted to like Regency Buck. Although I've enjoyed all of my Georgette Heyer reading so far, I was particularly excited to arrive at one with "Regency" in the title. She's most famous for fiction set in this period and now,...
Lucide icons is a superset of Feather icons. It has some really wonderful icons for interface design and is one of the most popular icon sets today. In the past, for my Elm projects, I've used Feather icons. In new Elm projects, I wanted...
日常#11 香港赤柱、胶片 🎵 追太阳 - 施鑫文月 上周去香港打算买镜头，但很可惜都没货，倒是又买了些拍立得相纸和一次性胶片机，剩下的时间就去 赤柱 逛了逛。 从金钟站的 C1 口出来后，就会看到去往赤柱的公交站牌，从这里乘坐 6X 双层巴士，一路坐到赤柱广场就到了，车程四十分钟左右。建议坐在双层巴士的上层靠右的座位，沿途可以看到海，戴上耳机，挑选一张喜欢的专辑，会是一段蛮悠闲的时光，前提是不晕车(つω`｡)。...
Trying to determine what it is that prevents a person, and by that I mean me, from having a series of good days back-to-back has been taking up more of my attention than usual as of late. I believe for myself it has a lot to do with...
I don't think 'useless' websites and apps are the problem for me, it's more so using them in moderation.That ties in with improving time management so that I can do my hobbies. Main problems: Turning off site-blockers to do stuff Not...
I’ve been part of boy-scouts for only three days in my life. I always admired them, but wasn’t able to keep up the discipline of regularly joining when I was a little boy. As much as I enjoyed nature, I preferred active sports. In my...
I was and still am obsessed with words. They can sting and brighten, soothe and choke in the same instance. The same word said in a different tone can feel like the world is crushing under someone’s feet, at sea; A parting that divides...
Title: The Works of Egan Website: theworksofegan.net RSS Feed: theworksofegan.net/feed.xml Personal website of Mike Egan, professional motion designer and video editor, and amateur writer, photographer, web designer, etc. Blogging about...
I don't know how to properly raise this, but I've gotten at least 100 emails from various Zendesk customers (no discernible pattern, everything from Soundcloud to GitLab Support to the Furbo Pet Camera). Is Zendesk being hacked? I'll...
These three essays orbit Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” from successive distances. The first attacks the narrator, the second attacks the attack, the third removes the hope of a clean vantage point. Each piece eats the previous...
The result of modifying existing queries can be a little unexpected at first. For example, you might have a query object where you want to replace the WHERE clause before you execute it. Here's how not to do it, and then how to do it....
I’ve had a OnePlus 7 Pro sitting in a drawer for a couple of years. I used it from 2019, found it too big, got a Pixel 5a, and now I’m on the Pixel 7a. The usual thing, fiddling with an old gadget that’s been kicking about doing nothing....
The title of my ending keynote at FOSDEM February 1, 2026. As the last talk of the conference, at 17:00 on the Sunday lots of people had already left, and presumably a lot of the remaining people were quite tired and ready to call it a...
Just a test.
Looking thru the Shimmon Gate at Kurmazaki Jinja shrine, as daylight fades. 日が暮れゆく中、車折神社の神門越しに眺める。