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March 2026: What I’m doing now

Realised I’ve not updated my “now” status in a long, long while. Right now, geographically, I’m in Penang, the island where I was born. My ancestors have been here for more than...

GUID reuse in WordPress

figure { padding-left: 3em; } blockquote { border-left: 0.2em solid grey; padding: 0.2em 1em 0.2em; margin: 2em; } I’ve recently started building a WordPress plugin, which is my...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-28-26

There was no Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday because it was newsletter day. But I am back early this Sunday morning (before I go to bed) with the first edition of the Pook-Emu Bee...

Reticulum workshop

tommi.space · 4w

IP addresses are assigned by ICANN (from above). In Reticulum, you can announce yourself to the network, only if you want. You can arbitrarily decide if you agree to be a...

Weekend Edition Vol.092

foofaraw · 4w

It’s been a busy month so we are going to pretend like nothing has been missed over these last couple weeks because we’ve published some amazing stories for our special month of...

Hace rato que no tenía un fin de semana de relax puro

Así que voy a aprovechar para recurrir a una de mis cozy movies. 🍿😋 Gracias por leer mi blog y ser un suscriptor.Si disfrutas mi contenido, puedes comprarme un café, que aunque...

A Man on the Inside

Scott Hill · 4w

★★★☆☆As I mentioned in my last post, we’ve been watching A Man on the Inside. The first season was very good: touching and well crafted, ★★★★☆. The second season is not nearly...

Playing with FreeBSD

Playing with FreeBSD What’s all the fuss about FreeBSD? What is it, anyway?, I remember these thoughts going through my head, sometime last year. There were quite a few people...

Why Cheap Solar Power Makes Some Electricity More Expensive

Cafe Bedouin · 4w

Here’s the paradox: As Australia adds more solar and wind power, wholesale electricity prices are falling dramatically. But many consumers and businesses are paying more, not...

Shorts: Movieless Me

Forking Mad+ · 4w

I was having a conversation with somebody last night. We were thinking about the last movie we went to see in the cinema. My last cinema visit was 10 years and three months ago....

Emulating old OS X versions with QEMU

82MHz · 4w

I enjoy installing and playing around with old operating systems. Granted, I don't do much with them once I got them installed, but I like having a look around, checking out the...

Notes hebdomadaires #9

Astrid · 4w

Une semaine passée surtout sur mon projet Illiterate (un outil pour la programmation littérale, aucun des outils existant me convient). Avec beaucoup de travail sur faire un...

embracing the amateur (thoughts on art)

PINEWIND · 4w

Note: This post is inspired by ava's art feelings and Vaudeville Ghosts make bad art, found on the discovery feed. Around two years ago, I found a funny radio play called...

Sunday Comes

Probably a rather meandering and purposeless blogpost. Like most of the ones I write these days. Lately around the house has been stress and change. Both are necessary...

Emerson on Talent vs. Character, Our Resistance to Change, and the Key to True Personal Growth

“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.” “Cut short of the floundering and you’ve cut short the possible creative outcomes,”...

Haiku for Murdered Chickens

the coop is haunted raccoons ate two of the hens faint ghostly bawk bawks Send me an email Latest 3 posts 29 Mar, 2026 Haiku for Murdered Chickens 16 Mar, 2026 The Colbert...

The Kupferhut. A proper Cologne kneipe.

March 2026. Mulheim. Cologne. Our last night of three in Cologne, time for a gig out in the slightly edgier suburb of Mülheim, the only place we’d see much “diversity” (most of...

(78) holding hands in the dark

(image courtesy of an unknown artist) i don't believe there exists a world without light but the eyes of the mind can be blinded by it. the sun's golden ochre, shimmers at the...

Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial

Sigmarootpi · 4w

Chilling, heart wrenching, as well as disturbing. I recommend it but only if you can handle this. 4 stars

“The Spectacle” and My Hunt for the Perfect Photo

Stephan Max · 4w

This morning, I watched The Spectacle (via Johannes Kuhn), a 20-minute documentary and debut by Yasmin van Dorp. The New Yorker is presenting the film and asks Has taking the...

Looking at Moji, an Emoji-only Chat App

On February 4, 2025, I published Emojam and Emoji Story-Telling Memories. The article was prompted by the Emojam, a Japanese “pager” for kids which only allows for messages made...

Week 13, 2026 (23 March 2026 – 29 March 2026)

ArticlesBuilding NewsDiff: Tracking How News Changes After PublicationNotesso painful to watch @evan@cosocial.ca patiently explain over and over tags.push and the way hashtags...

Record: DJ NASA - Mercur

andrei.xyz · 4w

2022 (2026 Re-Issue) • LP, Limited Edition, 22/100, 33/100, CD To see all 9 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at:...

Blue Osaka・ブルー大阪

Looking east at dusk along Osaka's Okawa river, from above Nakanoshima island. Among the bridges in this photo are the Tenjinbashi and Tenmabashi. The cherry blossoms along the...

Níl aon rí i Meiriceá!

Yours truly, holding the sign I made for the No Kings protest today. It reads “Níl aon rí i Meiriceá,” which means “There are no kings in America” in the Irish language.

On “Personality Type” and “Personality Hacker”

Personality Type: An Owner’s Manual (by Lenore Thomson) and Personality Hacker (by Joel Mark Witt and Antonia Dodge) are two books that use the concept of “cognitive functions”...

Website changes: new section, music widget, and upvotes

“On This Week” section I wanted to add an “On This Day” kind of thing to my website for a while, but even though I have made almost 600 posts as of the time of writing, I still...

Dopo i dati, i pensieri.

C’è un paradosso silenzioso al centro dell’era dell’intelligenza artificiale. I modelli linguistici hanno divorato tutto tra libri, articoli, blog, social, recensioni di...

The Bay Area, in photos

ANHVN · 4w

I visited the San Francisco Bay Area twice last year, and meant to write about my trips but never got around to it. I figure I’ll never write that post at this point, but I...

Mood shifters

Related to yesterday’s post, I want to list a couple of quick and easy ways to get “a small win”. Simple things we can do to shift our mood. Most of the things on the list are...

On leaving consultancy

I’ve decided: I’m never returning to software consultancy again. After nearly a decade in consultancy, I recently took my first in-house software engineering position. How do...

The routine tasks of a vengeful God

From the latest New Yorker issue, of 3/30/26, this cartoon by Daniel Kanhai: The energetic angelic figure of Moses, with his rather dubious angelic assistant (his brother Aaron?...

Day 50: Sunlight Through a Mall

dpanphoto · 4w

2026-03-28Hello!No, I don't know what's at the end of the tunnel. Probably more light.How different public spaces (especially shops) are designed tells you a lot about their...

using AI to inflate your ego

ava's blog · 4w

Personally, I’m open to retrying AI use cases every now and then. I’ve written about it before, and I freely share the fails and wins in chats I am part of. In my case, it’s no...

Little Boys Making Explosion Noises

BEEW · 4w

Download PDF In 1953, Samuel Beckett wrote a play where two men wait for someone who does not come. They insist he will, they reorganize their entire day around his imminent...

The Quiet Room at DrupalCon

The Quiet Room at DrupalCon mtift Sat, 03/28/2026 - 10:05 At DrupalCon Chicago this past week, Dries (the founder of Drupal) borrowed an idea from Fred Rogers. When Rogers...

A Single Pixel in an 8K Universe

Where is everybody? We are here on earth, where life started approximately four billion years ago. Single-celled beings. Living things. We evolved further, into two cells. Four....

Take up one idea

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that...
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