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March 31, 2026 I'm a fan of the Pivot podcast with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway. In today's episode from 17:42 to 27:21 Kara and Scott discuss a mind-boggling possibility:...
The Proper Place For Articles and Blog Posts
On March 22, 2026, Andreas at 82MHz published a blog post titled Mastodon (Bluesky/X/Instagram) is not the right platform for posting long-form content (a blog is). As a...
Brace yourselves and hold on to your hats — the future is here!
Dear readers, we have some exciting news to share! Starting right now, this blog will be written exclusively by AI. Yes, you read that right — AI is the author and the future...
If you haven't worked with AWS before, or at least not to that extend, you might first want to know what Service Control Policies (SCPs) are. SCPs are a type of policy that you...
2026-03-31Hello! Tomorrow marks April Fools, but I'm busy; I don't have the time to set up something fun. Sorry in advance.Today, after weeks of seeing bloody adverbs in my...
Comfort Journalism: Butter Chicken & Party Balloons
I read The New York Times, The Morning, almost every morning. On March 30, 2026, the main content of the newsletter was readers’ questions. It begins as follows: Your questions...
Quoted The Old Internet is Still Here by Tyler Gaw (tylergaw.com) There’s a frequent lament of missing the “old” Internet. It’s different for every person that thinks it, but...
This post is my contribution to the April 2026 IndieWeb Carnival on the topic of “Adventure”. Thank you for hosting, Pablo!The Seven Hills of Edinburgh challenge invites...
Why your coding-agent should be writing Go
Go (or Golang for some) may not be the best-in-class language for everything, but I think it's ideally suited for LLM coding. The community is special in a way that is a bit...
This is the 50th anniversary of Apple Computer, and the sites you’d expect are publishing their love letters to Apple’s early products, including the Apple ][.As I was reading...
i know this is a really late entry to the carnival but it wouldn't be on brand of me without a last minute submission. now i present you this awesome meme graph: this little...
Claude Code won April Fools Day this year
April Fools Day is somewhat of a legendary day among nerds. Historically it's been when the nerds at GMail introduced GMail Custom Time, where you could interrupt causality by...
I have a bunch that I want to write about this month, but that'll all be in different posts. Just got back from Atmosphere Conf in Vancouver and settling into a false Brooklyn...
I Believe in Human Websites. I Still Care About Polish
The tension I keep coming back to I recently read Joel’s post, “Unpolished human websites”, and it hit on something I think a lot of us who care about the independent web have...
I was listening to Ye's newest album Bully earlier this morning, and it was good. The standout track for me was "Mama's Favorite." Ye had a wonderful relationship with his mom,...
Eventually I got the an image of our Japanese flowering Crabapple in focus, but this particular photo pairs so well with my attempt to capture the chunky robin that eyes me with...
I know I'm not supposed to get too excited about space launches. I know things could be delayed or postponed up to the last second (almost literally). I know that today's...
This is ultimate March: tiger tiger tiger, as the inaugural rabbits of April mass for April Fool’s Day, Leonard Bloomfield’s birthday, and this year at sundown tomorrow, the...
First of all, I added more to Louhi's page: a little bit of info on her in Tavastian (Häme, Pirkanmaa) runosongs. In deities, I made a page for Kuohutar/Kosketar. In myths, I...
(image courtesy of unknown artist) "so, what now?" the question of how i feel about my "final day", one that has found its way to almost everyone's lips, and tumbles from it...
Here’s the thing with ATproto: It’s very impressive from a technical perspective. If you begin to grasp what this protocol enables, you’ll inevitably become a fan (at least you...
FunnyThanks for this, Kottke. ZedZed continues to be great. I’m still using it to remotely edit my notes. And I’m still flopping back and forth on Vim mode. The latest flop is...
Desde que descubrí Discord (hace ya más de 10 años yo creo) siempre fui muy fan de la plataforma y de lo que te permite hacer. Es el lugar donde decidí crear la comunidad de...
Optimizing Portfolio Images for Web
I discuss some methods of reducing image size using Linux command line utilities like optipng and Image Magick. This includes reducing colour depth and applying dithering.
Why is the sky blue? It’s not as simple as Rayleigh scattering since Mars has a red daytime sky but blue sunsets, the inverse of Earth. Are two heads better than one? A neat...
Looksmaxxing is all the rage nowadays, but what about your blog? Look no further! I am easily one of the bloggers ever, and I have compiled everything I have learned in the...
Count Releases 0 Commits 26 Contributors 1 Pull requests merged 0 Issues closed 0 At a Glance Jumpy Alien Community Site Jumpy Alien I spent some time this month and finished...
When knowing it all does not matter
This is an excerpt from my journal. I express the connection with my surroundings and how I do not need all the answers. Minutes to eleven. Another rainy day comes to a close. I...
Last night on the vintage music quiz Face the Music – an awful smugfest, really, but strangely compelling – the guest was Gerald Moore, who had recently celebrated his 80th...
I’m not very happy about it, but I ate the oatmeal.I got the job through my father, who was a high-falutin’ military muckity-muck with too much pull, brass balls to match his...
Books of March 2026 Below are the two books I finished reading this month. Fiction The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954) 423 pages 5 stars This is a re-read, I...
COVER DESIGN FOR NEXT GOOD BEER GUIDE REVEALED
April brings the joy of the annual CAMRA conference, this year from St Albans (aka Greater Luton), a chance to assess whether the Fighting Cocks really does have the oldest beer...
John Davidson: diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome at a young age which alienated him from his peers, he struggled with a condition few people had witnessed. Excellent little...
I thought of something that I could get other bloggers to do too, and then I was doodling and this idea came up!So here are five silly things about me. I have a shelf full of...
Christina and I had the opportunity to go to our first game of the year. We sat as close as either of us have ever been to the field in our lives. I love being at the stadium so...
📚 Books: LOG: Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge
I will need to reread the whole ending before the book club.... my mind is not into this.
A couple of weeks ago we took a little break. The first adults-only break since my daughter was born. For that reason, we decided to do something that was quite close to home. I...
Radzik from Texas A&M to Binghamton
Linda Radzik, professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University, will be moving to Binghamton University (SUNY). Radzik works mainly in ethics and philosophy of law, writing about...
“Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning...
Uma turned three today. She walks and talks a lot now. We are in Sydney for a short trip to meet her cousin and celebrate. Today we went to Koala Park Sanctuary, Sydney. She has...
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. A supply chain attack affects the...
I opened my news app this morning. By the fourth headline my mind stopped reading and started mapping. The map it made was one of contagion, a fire spreading without any formal...
A cherry tree branch overlooking the Oigawa River in Arashiyama. Shot on Kodak Ektar 100 film. 嵐山の大堰川を見下ろす桜の枝。Kodak Ektar 100フィルムにて撮影。
Reading of The Staff Engineer's Path
I recently completed my second reading of The Staff Engineer's Path by Tanya Reilly. This is my attempt to linger on my reading, as I posted earlier. It's not a review but a...
Transgender Day of Visibility 2026
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility (TDoV) and TBQH this year “visibility” just sounds threatening to me. The more visible we are, the more they come for us,...
Relojes radiocontrolados y el cambio de hora
Cada uno de los dos cambios de hora me acuerdo mucho de que tengo varios relojes radiocontrolados en casa. Y me acuerdo mucho de que vivo demasiado lejos de Alemania y en una...
Fears the Artemis II heat shield may not be safe
On the eve of the launch of NASA‘s Artemis II ten-day Moon flyby mission, Maciej Cegłowski warns that the heat shield of the Orion spacecraft and command module, which the crew...
Note: This is a list of things that I thought of / noticed while blogging. It's a "garden post" that will be continuously updated. I was originally planning to make a long-form...
Daily Dex - Shelmet and Noibat
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Man, the covid still going strong. I'm back at work partially (I'm remote, not exposing anyone) and it's...
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