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I've been thinking about how we find meaning in life after reading "The Happiness Of Dogs" by Mark Rowlands. I also finally played Disco Elysium, and I think I have thoughts on applying Rowlands' thoughts to the game. A note on spoilers:...
(image courtesy of pabloxan) we meet under the cover of darkness at the brink of a dawn-before-dawn, where bodies are helpless, fragile puppets within the relentless eye of her mind. two breathing corpses, lying in wake, awaiting this...
The first part of a new calendar year marks the moment my software development students go on their internships. It's the last semester of their education and the first time they're fully exposed to the real, professional world, outside...
Music, lyrically isn’t the same as it was [late 90s to early 2000s]. Now, between mumble rap-pop-rock and new-sub-cores every year, It’s hard to keep up with what artists are trying to pass along. Everything is muddled like a terrible,...
Born on this day in 1593, in the Duchy of Lorraine, was the painter Georges De La Tour, a somewhat mysterious figure of whom little is known, and who was quite forgotten until his work was rediscovered in the early 20th century. He's...
Why the etcd codebase is my go-to reference for building gRPC services in Go.
Now that my TERMINAL-1090 station and 5G router sit in the attic, I don't have them in line of sight. Not a problem per se, but I wouldn't mind checking up on them every now and then, without taking an arduous trip from the living room...
Amo el cine. No soy cineasta, ni crítico, me encanta consumir películas de autores que aportarán algún mensaje a mi vida, pero también me encanta comerme una película bien pochoclera nivel “son como niños”, como mínimo. Nada de medias...
"La cazza del toro" (Running with bulls) from the "Habiti delle Donne Venetiane", published by Giacomo Franco, c. 1610.
Blessed rising of the sun Blessed day to greet and live Blessed prayer of thanks to God Blessed power to serve and love tzag goodmorning greeting
Should academics be more conservative? [Allan D’Arcangelo, “Side View Mirror” (detail)]One way to characterize conservatism is as an appreciation of enduring institutions and widespread social practices, flawed as they may be—and which...
Before I begin, let me first state this is NOT about the movie. I haven't seen it. Based on some chatter I'm hearing regarding the movie, I'm not sure I want to - and if that wasn't enough, re-reading this book REALLY makes me not want...
Scientific American has a fun little article today about the frequency of Friday the 13ths. It ends with this table, and this true but overstated conclusion: In other words, the 13th of a month will be a Friday more times than any other...
This week has been marked particularly by fatigue. While not out of the ordinary for me, it's always frustrating to run into my own limitations. I was only able to hit the gym twice this week, on Thursday and Friday. I'm still feeling...
I've released a speed paint video and transcript. It shows the process of doing the colours for the pc98 style room pixel art I made in 2024.
It’s about time I finally write a timeline of how frustrating HRT has been over the years, because I’m tired of re-explaining it and just want something to point folks to whenever it comes up.Short version: I have historically been done...
I’ve got a problem. It a modern problem. I have too much time on my hands, and I’m wasting it using my hands to scroll. My eyes are in a perpetual state of strain and fatigue. My wrist aches and I have a sore neck and shoulder. I’m...
About as good a summation on the state of social media as I’ve read anywhere, there’s a lot that stuck with me from Technically Good’s post. But the bit that I’ve been turning over in my head was the explanation of network effects and...
It’s been a hectic week. Most of the things I had planned have been done, but there are always things left to do! Visas are here. All of us got 3-year multiple-entry travel visas. Maybe we can make another visit to Australia and spend...
I feel like a spent fuel rod from a nuclear reactor. Still technically full of energy, but unstable, overheating, and slowly running out of stamina and sanity. Ever since Atomoxetine stabilised my brain chemistry, I can just do shit now....
I have an Obsidian note titled "Copypasta" where I copy/paste random shit I stumble across that I think is weird/funny/interesting and don't want to forget. The other day I was looking at it and found a weird Amazon review I had saved...
I was about ready to leave. I'd spent a frustrating couple of hours without being able to capture anything, not even so much as a Robin. I was having one final attempt at a couple of Great Tits when I caught a glimpse of some hind legs...
I’ve been sick for half of this past week, so not much drivel to share this Friday. The core of my love for reading grew through affordable mass market paperbacks. While it’s not new news, it’s a little sad to see them leaving. Still, I...
Une semaine avec de belles galères pour ajouter le support de Tera (utilisé par Zola, mon générateur de site statique) dans web-mode. D’abord en essayant via un minor-mode (impossible de le faire fonctionner), puis via un major-mode...
Old network edge devices often stay in place far longer than they should, creating technical debt and unnecessary security risk I keep coming back to the same thought lately: a lot of cybersecurity risk is not hiding in some mysterious...
Hi everyone! Firstly I'm so glad the first post of the Pagan Experiences series reached so many people, I hope I got you invested for the future installments hahaha. I am actively working on the next Terminology part, but it turned out...
JNDThis already did the rounds, but it was fun to give it a go myself. I got a 0.0040 on it.
When I was a kid I always wanted to be a creative type. I loved writing, I loved drawing, I loved music. I decided I was going to be a musician (and I was pretty good, a very long time ago). But if I was to have to get a "proper" job,...
Hardly ever do I get truly embarrassed to the point that thinking about it makes me want to die. I put myself out there a lot, so I'm confident in my social ability, and I'm a thinker so I don't generally say the wrong thing or mess up...
The best thing that happened this week I haven't shared this yet, but I'm creating an iPhone app as a side project, and this week I've been making some pretty good progress. I'm not yet ready to share what the app is about since I'm very...
If you’ve been building web for a while, you probably remember the mess of six million files in your head element just to have a well-supported favicon. This is all over now, and a handful of files should be more than enough. Alleluia!...
Sign-ups for Issue Two of the Internet Phone Book are now open. I received Issue One last year and a lot of ya’ll emailed me about not seeing the sign-up form go out, so here ya go. Let’s be neighbors!Reply via email
Thanks to everyone who came. This group is so much fun to chat with. I get smarter every time.Here are the links. AI stuffPrompt Foo"MCP is dead. Long live the CLI.""Don't build agents. Build skills instead."Context ArenaCLI tools that...
While walking down Mission in La Lengua yesterday I encountered a man who… certainly had a lot to say to me. I got the gist, despite not speaking Spanish. I’m pretty sure he hoped for quite a bit more from the encounter, but he had to...
Allora: 'sta cosa dei videogiochi come argomento della sagra indieweb mi ha colto per qualche motivo in contropiede. Non perché non sia un argomento valido, anzi, proprio perché mi ha fatto pensare e ragionare ben più di quanto volessi...
“This is a place for prayers to be heard” is an absolutely insane sentence considering that Neytiri was taught the English word ‘prayer’ by people who have only a theoretical, internal relationship with deity at best, while the Na’vi are...
The most common picture of God goes something like this: before the universe existed, there was nothing. Then God, existing somehow outside of nothing, decided to make something. The universe is his handiwork. He is the potter. We are...
“Human being, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to an invisible tune, intoned in the distance by a mysterious player.” We are accidents of biochemistry and chance, moving through the world waging wars and writing poems, spellbound...
Snail Mail Sign-Ups 2026-03-13 I recently came across Adrian’s post on HackerNews titled The dead Internet is not a theory anymore. It was a good read with similarly good discussions in the associated HN comments (rare, I know!). An...
Nick Heer on Instagram Direct Messages losing its privacy opt-in: Of course not many people opted into end-to-end encryption – that is the whole point of the power of defaults, and something users should not have to think about. He adds:...
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. This morning it was Entre Dos Tierras by Héroes del Silencio Reply by email
De belastingdienst is van plan om de BTW uit te besteden aan een Amerikaans bedrijf, wat echt waanzinnig is. Op 19 maart is er een commissievergadering in de Tweede Kamer hierover, en ik hoop van harte dat men bij zinnen komt. In de...
I’ve vibe coded.Challenging one’s own convictions can sometimes be difficult, but necessary. I’ve used generative AI sporadically for some tasks for a while, and I haven’t been all that impressed. However, people I’ve known for many...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Thurs 03/12/2026 - Cubchoo Hit RNG for Thursday and got Cubchoo; (take a drink) I'd never seen this one before and it's both adorable and gross at the same time, and as...
I. The archive office smells of lamp oil and wet ink and the particular sourness of paper that has absorbed ten thousand nervous hands. Nara presses her palm flat against the edge of the stone counter and waits. She is good at waiting....
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la...
It’s been almost two years since launching this blog. Back then, I used to write very frequently on here1. But since then, that habit of writing daily has faded quite a bit. And especially lately, my brain felt very scattered across...
Llevo rato viendo esto de los Blog Roll y no me parece una mala idea. Inauguremos este articulo con mi pagina propia de /blogroll y una herramienta que hice para facilitar la tarea: OPML to Blog Roll Esta es una herramienta sencilla,...
displayplacer: macOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements. Essentially XRandR for macOS. Install it via homebrew: shell % brew install displayplacer The typical workflow is: configure displays...
strugglesInitially, I did the detox because I felt some old tech habits creeping back in (phone in bed and turning off site blockers in particular). I ended up making good on my promises. Counting the days without siteblockers (20 day...
A philosophical discussion arc is a curve displaying how frequently a term appears in philosophical journal abstracts, titles, and keywords (compared to a representative universe of common philosophy words). A couple of weeks ago, I...
March 2026. Sheffield and the Peak. Last weekend we “hosted” (ugh) Meighan and Dave from Chicago during their whirlwind tour of Europe. I have never seen Mrs RM go into such a cleaning frenzy, which sadly extended to getting me to mow...
As you’ve probably guessed, this is not a “Here’s my system, you should use it for yourself too” blog post. It's more of a “Here’s my organized mess and pretty pictures with helpful links” post.
Twelve titles have been included on the longlist for this year’s Stella Prize, the Australian literary award recognising the work of women and non-binary writers. 58 Facets: On violence and the law, by Marika Sosnowski Ankami, by Debra...
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Welp, it finally happened. I was called for Jury Duty. I think I must be a weirdo because I was curious and, honestly, looking forward to the opportunity to experience it. TL;DR # If I could send past me an email, this is what I'd want...