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Wed Feb 11

There but for the grace of Time go I

“Yesterday’s Enterprise” is an alternate-timeline episode of ST:TNG, and if someone had told me that before I watched it, I might have skipped to the next episode. I don’t have...

A random list of silly (or not?) things I hate

Slice of pi · 2mo

I love a good and simple bandwagon to jump on now and then. After seeing Manu and Kev do this, I’m game. Summer (and by definition, climate change).Because sweating from every...

Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté

Peter's Path · 2mo

Why read the book? Gabor Maté wrote Scattered Minds. He lives with ADD himself and worked as a doctor with children and adults who have it. Maté says ADD is not an inherited...

Why I inlined my CSS in 11ty

February 11, 2026 I recently made a small change to this 11ty site: I moved from external CSS to inlining my stylesheet directly in the HTML. The result? Faster page loads and a...

Do you need a driving licence?

The other day, I asked Cher, my OpenClaw instance if it could read my email and notify me if something important came in. It said it would be easy; then I mentioned I used...

Using emoji to bypass FRP on a decade-old tablet

Max Glenister · 2mo

I recently picked up two Pixel C tablets from a seller on eBay, along with the magnetic keyboard. One tablet had a cracked screen but worked fine and wasn’t locked. The other...

Placement, Program Ratings, Student Comments, and Keywords: an APDA Update (guest post)

Daily Nous · 2mo

What’s the latest data about philosophy graduate programs? In the following guest post, Carolyn Dicey Jennings, professor of philosophy at UC Merced and co-director of Academic...

It’s not DNS; it was DNS

Logging in to a VPN shouldn’t cause DNS to stop working, right? Well, you’d like to think that, wouldn’t ya? And the problem wasn’t PEBKAC this time, either. Finding the right...

Informed Delivery

Kyle Bavis · 2mo

Most folks in my social circles have known about Informed Delivery for years. I recently discovered that USPS added a feature, apparently with little fanfare, where they will...

XI: History of the Old Woman

lettrss.com · 2mo

“I had not always bleared eyes and red eyelids; neither did my nose always touch my chin; nor was I always a servant. I am the daughter of Pope Urban X and of the Princess of...

jan-feb doodles

Once in a while I wonder about the artists on bear blog. They have a dedicated art page like me, but I never end up opening that page most times unless they make a post. So I'm...

Why You

A self is a story of why you are you — a selective retelling of the myriad chance events between the birth of the universe and this moment: atoms bonding one way and not...

my little filou,

ava's blog · 2mo

It’s already been over 2 years since you have left us. You still leave an incredible hole in our home and our hearts. Only toward the end of last year, I finally got rid of your...

My keyboard is not working

For some days my laptop's keyboard is been acting weird, suddenly some keys won't work or the letter I press would appear twice in a row. Every time I'd pray to the keyboard...

Look ma, I can cook

Let no one say I lack in culinary capabilities, For I can cook, and so you see here. .bear-gallery { display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(150px, 1fr));...

Steve Yegge's Platform Rant

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot {{HistoricalArchive |message=This was accidentally posted publicly and then archived since...

Buat Post Baru di Jekyll dengan Bash Script

Setiap kali mau buat post baru di Jekyll, yang saya lakukan itu begini:Buka NeoVimBuat file markdown baru di folder _postsCopy frontmatter dari post sebelumnya dan sesuaikan...

we're both talking english but we're not speaking the same language

The title is a quote from a Calvin and Hobbes strip. I read it as a kid, and I've found many, many situations in which it applies. Today, for instance. I'm skimming through...

Meticulously Crafted

Bobby's Blog · 2mo

Bleary eyes, but well rested, my slumber comes to an end. The Lexon Flip next to my bed sings its merry melody. A gentle caress from yours truly cuts its song short. Fingers...

Creative Coding in 3 Steps: Squares

Stephan Max · 2mo

The square; four straight lines of equal length and four equal angles. What sounds like the most boring of the quadrilaterals has an almost magical aura. Think about the sides...

Permission to delete posts

This is your sign to delete that post that, for one reason or another, makes you uncomfortable just knowing it exists. Even if it’s old and the chances of anyone ever seeing it...

The Sandwich Questionnaire

Thomas Rigby · 2mo

This is a fun "challenge" from Alex on Wry Writer, who got it from David over at Forking Mad who got it from Zachary Kai (at which point we stop with the Tom Lehrer nonsense!)...

43-end case is over

end case is over. it's been like 5 days? i can't remember. i couldn't bear to look at my blog with that enabled oh god. that was like my worst creation, good riddance.

Nie chcę, ale muszę używać poczty elektronicznej

mtsz.pl · 2mo

Niecały rok temu nieco bardziej niż wcześniej zabolało mnie to, że moje podstawowe konto poczty elektronicznej znajduje się na serwerach firmy Google - chodzi o Gmail. Właśnie...

The Myth of “The Myth of Complementary Protein”

In the seventies Frappé popularized an idea that vegetarians should combine protein sources, i.e. eating grains with beans, just like traditional food cultures have done for...

Pine Club Homage

Chris Glass · 2mo

Been awhile since I've done a t-shirt post, and trust, it was the more interesting option. All other snapshots today were of a thick layer of ice that formed on our back steps....

Links of the day

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. Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.3,...

The Discourse has been Automated

Xe Iaso · 2mo

I thought that 2025 was weird and didn't think it could get much weirder. 2026 is really delivering in the weirdness department. An AI agent opened a PR to matplotlib with a...

Emacs: Lin version 2.0.0

Protesilaos · 2mo

Lin is a stylistic enhancement for Emacs’ built-in hl-line-mode. It remaps the hl-line face (or equivalent) buffer-locally to a style that is optimal for major modes where line...

Mascara — Mask — Grevembroch 3-90

"Mascara" (Mask) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.

República Bananera de España: infraestructuras

Siguiendo al hilo de la actualidad en España, aunque siempre con el tiempo de por medio, llega el capítulo de las infraestructuras. No voy a retomar la falta de mantenimiento (y...

Um dia sem celular

Eu estou escrevendo esse post depois de 24h sem ter acesso ao meu celular. Foi um experimento que eu resolvi fazer de última hora e eu admito que foi uma das experiências mais...

Goodbye, Ring. I'm Not Buying Into Your Mass Surveillance.

CybersecKyle · 2mo

(Image generated using ChatGPT) I have spent years doing the boring, unsexy work of keeping systems safe: least privilege, logging, MFA, segmentation, the whole “trust nothing”...

ONE OF THE BEER GUIDES IS MISSING….

retiredmartin · 2mo

February 2026. Genoa. Last Genoa post, I promise, but I know many of you share my evangelical zeal to see hand pumps in developing nations, so I welcome the cask in Scurerria...

The inverted index pattern

In “Build a search index in Python”, I walked through how to create a search index using the “inverted index” structure. This structure is commonly used in document search.This...

Man’s best friend

Dogs are called man’s best friend for their loyalty, emotional support, and obedience. My dog Loki is none of those. But what he might lack in those areas, he makes up for in...

Album#33 - Patch

Taxodium · 2mo

Album#33 Patch 图1 《Patch》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称:Patch 歌手:Fayzz 年份:2025-08-5 风格:数字摇滚 时长:46:17 一张还不错的数字摇滚(Math Rock)专辑,喜欢专辑里的鼓点,比较喜欢其中的「隐藏」、「Hollow」、「Forlorn...

Claude Code SDK is pretty wild

Brandon Davis · 2mo

I’ve been using claude code on and off since it launched a year ago. Since the Christmas holiday, it seems a ton of folks outside the software industry have discovered it as...

Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings

Aether Mug · 2mo

1 If you descend onto the Marunouchi Line platform in Ikebukuro Station on any weekday morning, you will witness an unusual train-boarding ritual. Like in any other Japanese...

The Doldums

Matt's Blog · 2mo

I’ve had a few days where I’ve been super productive. I’ve gotten up earlier, gone to bed earlier, and accomplished a lot of stuff. I even finally cleaned my desk and computer,...

Lista random de cosas que no me gustan

Estos últimos días he tenido algo descuidado mi blog, una disculpa 😓, pero intentemos corregir esto. Hoy quiero unirme a este cotorreo que he visto ya algunas personas hacer…...

There's no King in No Kings

fromjason.xyz · 2mo

There's no King in No Kings When did we get so fucking polite? Today, I find myself reading Letter From a Birmingham Jail in the hope of finding some familiarity. The essay by...

Things I Learned: Berlin’s Road Salt Ban

I am used to seeing road salt in New York City before and after it snows. A couple of years ago (definitely during the Eric Adams administration), I recall having noted...

Mangan-ji・満願寺

The sanmon (entrance gate) of this Buddhist temple in Okazaki, with its elegant tiled roof and traditional wooden plaque. Through the gateway, the temple grounds and buildings...

Friend?

LostFocus · 2mo

More and more I’m aware of people who talk to AI chat bots like they would with friends – about this and that, their life, just chatting. And while I begrudgingly while...

The Problem With Trying To Make Something New Look "Old"

The most popular link last time was this one to Sabrina Bockler's paintings, with the minute cryptic game second. The "looking back on myself in 2016" trend of recent weeks has...

SRS Shenanigans

I was today years old when I learned, that my approach to dropping blocks is super naive. Hell, there is even an official Tetris guide on how blocks have to behave under certain...

A post from Andrew Doran

Andrew Doran · 2mo

Adding email links to the bottom of each blog post is paying off. Someone emailed me with information about a problem with my indoor cycling trainer. With permission, I’ve...

The Art of Not Living in Fear Revisited

The power structure in America has a deep investment in keeping people afraid and begging for protection. We accept that roughly half our federal budget disappears into...

Just poking away at videogames

Life is way to short to focus on playing a single game from start to finish, or at least that’s how I often act, from time to time. 1 Last year, I shared a list of ongoing games...

🫠 Ai Weiwei on China, the West and shrinking space for dissent

ReutersIn China, censorship relates to red lines. You cannot cross some red lines. It’s about state policy and discussions (about) state power. It’s also related to what they...

[status] digital detox day 1/30

Days without turning off site blockers: 1 Slow day today. Moving work spots helped but wow, it was hard. Didn't feel much of a desire for 'fun tech time', other than listening...

The Diagnostic Value of Perspectival Gaps

Cafe Bedouin · 2mo

What Kind of System Produces Better Decisions by Preserving Disagreement? A command-line coding agent runs a diagnostic on a constraint classification engine and flags an...
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