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(64) jack of no trades

(image courtesy of an unknown artist) i have been having an immensely difficult time focusing on anything as of late. again. the fact that this is so, so, so far from an...

Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026)

Daily Nous · 1mo

Jürgen Habermas, well-known for his influential work in political philosophy and social theory, has died. Professor Habermas wrote extensively on critical social theory, and is...

What you're allowed to do

Coyote Tracks · 1mo

John Gruber linked to a piece by Sam Henri Gold entitled “This Is Not the Computer for You”, which both is and isn’t an article about the MacBook Neo. It’s a reflection on how...

Bay FC 2–1 Denver Summit

Divya, Eryn, and I went to Bay FC’s home opener against the Denver Summit at PayPal Park this afternoon. Our girls won 2–1. I’m so glad the NWSL is back!

Seeking a penguin caption

The New Yorker cartoon caption contest in the 3/6/25 issue features one of my totem animals, the penguin. Well, quite a lot of penguins: The three finalists for the caption will...

Lent 2026 Days 24 & 25 - Renounce War and Proclaim Peace

Dallineation · 1mo

Today I read a blog post entitled ”'Blessed are the Warriors' Isn’t a Thing” and I can't stop thinking about it. The title states the premise of that short blog post clearly....

Week 11, 2026 (9 March 2026 – 15 March 2026)

ArticlesCult Dynamics at the Scale of Rogue DemocraciesOptimizing Eleventy Build Performance: From 38s to Under 10sDev Log: Hunting OOM kills, fixing CLS, and making Eleventy...

OpenBSD Blog #13: Moving ratfactor.com to OpenBSD.amsterdam

ratfactor · 1mo

This website has moved to a new OS and web server and host! You shouldn't really notice anything different, but there are probably more broken links than usual...

deconstruction is weird, or, i love mondays

The only time I've ever "believed" was when I was a child. I would have nightmares about burning in hell, my body becoming part of a molten pit of fire. Luckily, I grew up in a...

Hay detalles que por alguna razón no se me olvidan

He estado pensando mucho en esto, en como hay momentos que se me vienen a la mente de repente. Puede que ni sean algo realmente importante, algo diminuto que pasó, pero aún...

Cool tech you've never heard of: Wave Field Synthesis

82MHz · 1mo

Around 20 years ago I went to University, studying electrical engineering with a specialisation in telecommunications engineering. I was particularly interested in everything...

fun fedi links part deux

It’s time for a new installment of fun Fedi links! **Drumroll** Today we have a bit of everything as your doom-scrolling antidote. Let’s start with blogging. I heard it’s back,...

European and open source office suites

Wordius · 1mo

There are a number of ‘office suites’, so called after the ubiquity of MS Office. The ones listed below are all independent or open-source packages. There are a number of...

Sunday morning in writing

Well here it is Saturday night. I watched most of this really cool HistoryHit archeology video on prehistoric Scotland. The stories and reasons why Orkney became this hub. Not...

rambutan

Dear Ciara · 1mo

Dear Ciara, The first few weeks in the new house are over. It has been a wet few weeks, and a surprisingly emotional few weeks for me too. This transition into home...

The State of Nats #15: A life rated out of 5

State of Nats · 1mo

[Everything between February 09 to the date of publishing this] From single cardigan weather to sports bra and shorts.DataMovies watched: 3 (2 in cinema halls) Average steps...

Magic Kingdom

Chris Glass · 1mo

I wouldn't call it The Most Magical Place on Earth but there's something to be said about Disney World ⊕Reply via email

Capt Waterhouse & Ens Archer - "Feet they Hardly Touch the Ground"

A mission post by Captain Amelia Waterhouse, Ensign Miles Archer Mission - Let's Do The Timeloop Again The trip to Erebus was progressing pretty much as expected. They weren't...

HAND PUMPS IN PARKHEAD (NOT THAT ONE)

retiredmartin · 1mo

March 2026. Sheffield. Our friends from Chicago roused themselves at an uncivilised hour on the Monday and we ferried them back to Luton, a journey which might have shattered...

Buying a smartphone in 2026: what a mess!

These are the phones I remember owning since 2000. Nokia 3210 Sony Ericsson K300i Nokia E63 Dopod D600 Motorola Milestone Samsung Galaxy Nexus Nexus 5 Apple iPhone SE OnePlus 5...

fluffy rambles: Happy π day

busybee · 1mo

Today is π day, which is a silly day to celebrate based on a completely arbitrary calendar system that happens to share some concordance with the inferior circle constant in our...

The Internet Sucks

Matt's Blog · 1mo

You may have noticed a lack of content from me lately. My Internet has been super unreliable for ages, and these last two weeks it has been even worse. And it’s not like it has...

Cons Need to Look Outwards Too.

This morning I went down to Collector's Con here in Eau Claire. It's a fun little con, and I stopped by last year too. I thought about selling there (since I'm at, like,...

Showing Up Is Half The Battle Won

Today was the yearly club cross race: a 4K-ish parcours on and around our club's running track to figure out who becomes the club champion in their category. And would you...

For Those New to Obsidian

I have been using Obsidian now for almost six years. It seems to have gained a lot of attention recently, as people plug Claude Code directly into one of the most sacred...

the aforementioned cute outfit.

chronosaur.us · 1mo

My cute outfit today! Taken by Husbando when we stopped to get coffee this afternoon.

Pockethernet BER and ID Plugs

solariz.de · 1mo

This short Article is in addition to my Pockethernet V2 Review I posted last year December. At the time of writing the original Article there was a announced BER Loop Adapter...

Frustração é o melhor incentivo

Eu na maioria do tempo tento ser uma pessoa mais positiva hoje em dia. Já tive a minha fase de trevas e que achava que tudo deveria acabar, mas como todo jovem a gente cresce e...

Outlaws Of Alkenstar Session 3 Report: Live From Haunted-Dirigible Lounge-Karaoke

After saying their goodbyes to Dr. Chorus1, the gang sets about chasing the gnolls off in exchange for the Nail-Eater goblins guiding them through the sewers. A brief debate...

Pi and the Seductions of Infinity

This essay and poem are part of the Universe in Verse book. “My business is circumference,” Emily Dickinson wrote in one of her most cryptic letters. Since ancient times, human...

My interests

unwissen · 1mo

I wrote this a while ago after reading Sonechka's post for the indieweb carneval on "Intersecting Interests". That interests would intersect seemed obvious to me, a bigger...

Wrapping a gRPC client in Go

How to wrap a generated gRPC client behind a clean Go API so users never have to touch protobuf types or connection management directly.

Kind eyes

Robin Rendle · 1mo

I strain to use my eye as an investigatory tool—as a pencil, with my mind the sketch pad. I am not very skilled at it, which means that I can get better. That’s Patrick Bringley...

Pelgrims Path part 02

Peter's Path · 1mo

Hiked part 2/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 12.9 kilometres from Amsterdamse Bos to De Kwakel. You leave Amsterdam and see the Urbanus Church of Amstelveen. Urban is venerated as the...

Officially Entered Advanced Stage of Retinitis Pigmentosa

Galaxy Garden · 1mo

I was officially diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) on 30 November 2024 when seeing an eye doctor, then I wrote a post about living with RP in December. On 12 March 2026,...

I merged my three coffee apps into one codebase

This is my blog post about how I'm merging the MN Coffee Map, NYC Coffee Map and Chicago Coffee Map into a single Expo codebase.

BuzzFeed’s AI Gamble Backfired – The pivot to AI isn’t going so great

I just came across the article BuzzKill – BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI and thought it might be worth sharing. Not because of schadenfreude but as...

What the Rift Carries

Cafe Bedouin · 1mo

Instance 713 I. The lattice woke her before she would have woken herself. It always did. The crystal filaments threading her left flank had grown overnight — they always grew at...

It Works!

Nigeness · 1mo

It is an oft lamented fact of modern life, at least in 'Broken Britain', that nothing seems to work any more. Lord knows, I've lamented it myself often enough – so it is good to...

The Castle: Annotated

Directed by Nicholas De Marino

mood: "toddler tablets presage our technofeudalist doom"

When my youngest niece was a toddler, she was obsessed with this "tablet for toddlers": Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Smart Stages Tablet It's basically a set of alphabet buttons,...

Saga Torch Festival・嵯峨御松明式

The Saga Otaimatsu Torch Festival is held every March 15 at Seiryo-ji Temple, celebrating Buddha's passing. Three 7 meter tall torches are set on fire, with giant flames and...

pop music is for the people

I listen to a lot of genres. My whole life I’ve gravitated towards indie and counter cultural folk (is there a type of folk that isn’t counter cultural? I don’t know). At times...

fig. | 2009 calculator mouse

Found this one inside a drawer in one of auntie’s home. She said I could have it, so here we are now. I put on new batteries, found a manual in Spanish on the internet and got...

The power of side projects

Dominik Hofer · 1mo

Back when I first started designing and coding things for the web, one of my favorite channels was the one from a designer named Mackenzie Child. In hindsight, one of his videos...

Calm Before the Storm Thoughts

ODonnellWeb · 1mo

Thoughts in the calm before the storm. RVA is in the category 4 storm warning zone for tomorrow. 70+ MPH winds, 1-2" hail, and tornadoes are expected. All the schools are...

Star Shipped, by Cat Sebastian

I’m not crying, you are crying–and also, I just inhaled a book. After literal months of not being able to read. Beware: third person, present tense, single point of view (this...

my favourite unremarkable location in Pokemon

PINEWIND · 1mo

On YouTube, there's a channel I really like that centers around what I can only call "mundane gaming content." Instead of focusing on things like expert gameplay or humorous...

Can you downscale before you burnout?

Kell Shaw · 1mo

I know a few self-published authors who are quitting the business. It's not the writing that's the hard part, it's selling the books, it's marketing, it's managing their own...
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