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Life Drawing - 22nd February 2026

In my last post at the end of January about the life-drawing aspect of my artistic practice I wrote about using the second of the two drawings as a starting point for February’s...

Portable monitors are good

Xe Iaso · 2mo

My job has me travel a lot. When I'm in my office I normally have a seven monitor battlestation like this: [image or embed]— Xe (@xeiaso.net) January 26, 2026 at 11:34 PM So as...

The Program

noahie.xyz · 2mo

I still feel gross from my flu, but I'm about 90% recovered. It's been tough getting up in the mornings, but that's nothing new. The best strategy I've found that consistently...

Ríe el momento

Gabo Scribe · 2mo

Hoy es día 24 del mes y las necesidades me sorprendieron con algunos faltantes que en mi casa, o en cualquier casa del mundo civilizado, no pueden faltar. Sabemos cuales son,...

My self-hosted Git workflow with GitGen

Cybrkyd · 2mo

Here is my workflow for self-hosting Git repositories on a shared hosting service with GitGen. The assumption is that I already have a Git repository on my local machine. My...

Which are worth a lifetime

mzll · 2mo

When my daughter gets a haircut, she comes home sad and angry because she doesn’t like it, that haircut, and then her mom washes it again and fixes it, and she looks at herself...

What canceled my Go context?

How Go 1.20's WithCancelCause and Go 1.21's WithTimeoutCause let you attach a reason to context cancellation, plus a gotcha with manual cancel and the stdlib pattern that covers...

It's times like these that make me glad I have this blog.

It's times like these that make me glad I have this blog. Published by AHE. on 24th February 2026 Life took a sharp left turn, and I'm just about hanging on. The idea that it's...

Nobile in Maschera — Nobleman in Mask — Grevembroch 1-90

"Nobile in Maschera" (Nobleman in Mask) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.

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. Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today,...

Trophy

vknabel · 2mo

This book captivates from the very first minute. At its core are the moral beliefs of a hunter and where they can lead. There is no judgment—just the story told from his...

Wrapping Up the 2025 pr05 Grant “Building Bridges”

Stephan Max · 2mo

Processing Community Lead Raphaël de Courville just posted Building Bridges. Wrapping-Up the 2025 pr05 Developer Grant Program, which is a great write-up of one of my...

Private Health Records in Org-Mode

(car nil) · 2mo

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E2EE Backend part 2: Private Information Retrieval

Peter's Path · 2mo

This is the second post in a series that explores a truly privacy-preserving, end-to-end encrypted backend and client. The goal of this part: a demo that can look up data in an...

Chapter XXIII: Candide and Martin Touched Upon the Coast of England, and What They Saw There

lettrss.com · 2mo

“Ah, Pangloss! Pangloss! Ah, Martin! Martin! Ah, my dear Cunégonde, what sort of a world is this?” said Candide on board the Dutch ship. “Something very foolish and abominable,”...

IndieWeb events, cleaning up and speedcubing - W08

These weeknotes are being written earlier than usual, started on Thursday and will continue to be filled up throughout the weekend. I often forget some things going on in one...

Antiguo pero fiable

Manu Mateos · 2mo

Veo en Microsiervos1 que Alvy estuvo en un programa de RNE defendiendo que los aparatos antiguos, al menos, siempre funcionaban… o siempre fallaban de maneras predecibles y, por...

Talking of Short Poems...

Nigeness · 2mo

I spent the weekend over the border in Derbyshire, visiting my cousin, and on Saturday we found ourselves dodging the rain in Belper. Where better to shelter awhile than in a...

LETCHWORTH’S FIRST PUB

retiredmartin · 2mo

February 2026. Letchworth Garden City. Not a great day to explore Letchworth on foot, and apart from pubs and “Marty Supreme” at the cinema there’s not a lot to do apart from...

Rad Tech Things - x86 CSS

quailblog · 2mo

Rad Tech Things I'm often down on the modern state of technology (mostly because it's almost all capital-driven and pivoting to "AI" nonsense) but I want to start highlighting...

Artemis and Current: Bringing calmness into RSS

moonwriting · 2mo

Dear reader,I recently read Terry Godier's thought-provoking essay about RSS readers. It challenges the concept of an unread count that for most of us appears natural and...

Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness

“The key is building fires where you can warm yourself as you wait for the tempest to pass.” UPDATE: Tim has courageously shared the precipitate of his lifelong depression. Most...

Evil Genius Seeks Same for Global Domination, Secret Rituals, and Tasty Snacks

Okay, so here’s the thing: we evil geniuses should be sticking together in times like these. Not that there isn’t a lot of evil in the world. It’s just that there aren’t a lot...

getting sick of my desk

ava's blog · 2mo

I’ve been outgrowing my apartment and its location, but also its furniture and size in general. For some reason, it’s becoming really hard for me to have the same space for...

Reducing commit log noise caused by a GitHub Action

Max Glenister · 2mo

I have a “now playing” widget on my /now page that shows the last track scrobbled to Last.fm. It’s powered by a GitHub Actions workflow that polls the Last.fm API every hour and...

Michelle Beer (1941-2026)

Daily Nous · 2mo

Michelle Beer, professor of philosophy at Florida International University, has died. Professor Beer taught at FIU from 1982 until her retirement in December 2025. A specialist...

I’m internalising my site’s CSS

Will RC · 2mo

I redid my website recently. I wanted quick and simple, so I used Bootstrap as the framework to throw it together. Bootstrap is great, I love it. I’ve used it on countless...

ee: exit all shells

Problem statement: I present this to you the same way I presented it to Amp Code in the context of my ~/.dotfiles: new shell alias: ee quit all shells example: $ bash $ bash $...

Dear Ed

Reprinted on Facebook recently by Jeff Bowles, Charles Schulz’s Peanuts cartoon from 11/3/1988, in which Snoopy the writer upbraids an editor — someone I think of as the...

Blog/2026-02-23/The Internet Makes Us Seem Like Peers

AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[File:{{#setmainimage:Human Networks - Sane and Insane.png}}|thumb|We each think the other insane, so the...

Pockets of Humanity

Herman's blog · 2mo

There's a conspiracy theory that suggests that since around 2016 most web activity is automated. This is called Dead Internet Theory, and while I think they may have jumped the...

More about those blog drafts

Sal's · 2mo

Dear reader Martin emailed me to chat about my hasty blog-drafts post and ask for some more details. So, everybody, if you don’t care for this post, blame Martin. 😁 My prior...

Your AI Can’t Think Like a Normal Person (And That Matters More Than You Think)

Cafe Bedouin · 2mo

You’ve probably asked an AI to help you with a college essay. Maybe you said something like, “Write about gun control from the perspective of an average American family.” Or...

resisting authoritarianism deep dive #4: develop financial independence

(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily...

Reading Georgette Heyer: Powder and Patch

This is the 1959 Pan paperback edition of Powder and Patch. The novel was originally published by Mills & Boon in 1923 and then re-released by Heinemann in 1930.I've gone back...

Lent 2026 Day 6 - Pacing Myself

Dallineation · 2mo

I have been spending much of my free time trying to learn more about my Latter-day Saint faith and about Catholicism – reading, listening to podcasts, watching videos, seeking...

A shipment of mail trucks

Chris Glass · 2mo

If it seems like the mail is extra wonky and slow these days, that's because it is.Currently Listening: Flea “Thinkin Bout You”Reply via email

Growing up… and that

BrittHub · 2mo

We did it, the Paper Jam Comics Collective made another comic! In celebration of the collective turning 18 in 2025 we decided to do an anthology all about growing up. Imagine...

please read this blog post (cry for help)

I spent last night until daybreak whimpering about everything from the state of the world to the bruised part of my back from coughing (I'm sick) to how ugly I am. I told my...

Too offensive for Apple

Loops is a fediverse version of TikTok. Here’s the exact review I posted to the Apple AppStore when it came out of Testflight beta testing:Enshittification resistant short-form...

Brainstorming search engine ranking introspection

Search is one of my favourite disciplines in computing. In 2024 I spent a lot of time working on a NoSQL engine that I called JameSQL. This tool now powers the search engine on...

Watching Avatar One Lunchbreak At A Time: Part 1

Somehow, two sequels and seventeen years later, the consensus is apparently that these movies are good? I saw the first one at the pictures with my now-wife when it came out,...

Mausoleum of Kaimon Chengchao・海門承朝王墓

Kaimon Chengchao was a powerful figure in Kyoto's Zen establishment during the early 15th century. The son of Emperor Chōkei of the historically disputed Southern Court, he is...

The best Breze I've ever had

dmpop · 2mo

Ironically, after almost ten years in Germany and countless Brezen, I had the best one on my very last day in the country.

Wolf & Deer Spirits - Where the remains come from matters

All the way in end of November/start of December last year a very special spirit has came back to my practice and life. I've a familiar Wolf spirit that went away for at least a...

Para ser artista hay que ser valiente

Yo siempre admiro a cualquier persona que se atreve a hacer arte porque siento que requiere de mucha valentía. Se requiere mucha para enfrentar a un público, a personas que...

Último Desejo

Nosso amor que eu não esqueço E que teve o seu começo Numa festa de São João Morre hoje sem foguete Sem retrato e sem bilhete Sem luar, sem violão Perto de você me calo Tudo...

Moonsteel: Chapter One - The Bone Handed Revolver

For Jol, the underworld had always been a vague threat. A leftover from childhood, the hand of discipline raised by his father when obedience failed. He saw now, in the split...

0006-Morning energy and Techno Feudalism

Sigmarootpi · 2mo

The last two word-vomits were hard to finish because I wrote them before going to bed, when I was exhausted. But today I decided to do it among the first few things in the...
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