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F is for Frames Just some css fun collected from gists and adapted, feel free to grab and share. Resize your images though and don’t use the width property, lol Le Classic Frame...
Mood: Melted. There is no other word for it. There is a practiced but familiar rhythm to my life that usually only I can hear. It is the rapid-fire thwip-thwip-click of a screen...
Inverted themes with light-dark()
We rolled out adaptive light-dark() support on our design system themes and it’s been a delightful upgrade. Creating light and dark variable sets isn’t difficult, but delivery...
‘The Drama’ Is Now A24’s Third-Best Box-Office Opening
vulture.comAudiences said ‘I do’ to the rage-bait-y rom-com, making it A24’s third-highest-grossing opening to date.I honestly did not see this coming, even with the high...
Every now and then, I have these moments where, for some reason, I suddenly start to marvel at really banal things. I don't know what causes it, but it feels like my threshold...
fluffy rambles: The secular Serenity Prayer
I grant myself the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one...
Storing Photos on Someone Else’s Computer
Replied to Why your files are slowly dying by Wojtek Powiertowski (behindtheviewfinder.com) But even if you have copies everywhere there's a quieter problem that nobody warns...
¿Merece la pena cambiar la pantalla de tu Kindle?
Hace más tiempo del que puedo recordar, quizá unos 15 años, me hice con un Kindle reacondicionado. Mi yo reaccionario se resistía a leer algo que no fuese en papel. Bueno, mi yo...
I, like many Christians, have been having a tough time loving my enemies. I mean this not just in relation to my car crash earlier this week, but in most facets of life. The...
Using Marginalia Search’s Backlink Search
Marginalia Search Introduction Marginalia Search is a free and open source search engine developed and operated by Viktor Lofgren. It uses its own web crawler to build its index...
Application file: A_WINDOW_ON_KOREA.sit Korea is one of the fastest changing countries in the fastest growing region of the world, but is, nevertheless, rooted in traditions...
“Take the Quarry Park Public Recreation Survey”
If you use Quarry Park, please take a moment to complete the survey.San Mateo County Parks is working with Avid Trails to develop Single-track Mountain Bike Trail Standards that...
When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an...
How a game made of light taught me that the most meaningful connections happen in the most unexpected places.
Thomas Bernhard on Walking, Thinking, and the Paradox of Self-Reflection
“There is nothing more revealing than to see a thinking person walking, just as there is nothing more revealing than to see a walking person thinking… Walking and thinking are...
Forget artificial intelligence, aliens may usurp humanity instead
Jehan Azad: When people are in competition, they work harder if the game seems winnable, and decrease effort if they think they’ll lose. It’s implied that because humans are so...
Il est arrivé à Lisbonne ce soir !
I mentioned in my last post that I’ve been experimenting with different ways of digital drawing, leaning towards a more opaque painting style for colour than I usually would....
A primeira provocação ele agüentou calado. Na verdade, gritou e esperneou. Mas todos os bebês fazem assim, mesmo os que nascem em maternidade, ajudados por especialistas. E não...
How, I wonder, do you form a whole life? What I mean is, how do you knit your individual bits and pieces into a coherent person? For years I worked in public education (14 as a...
I am sitting on my wooden fire-escape deck in 2017 looking East watching the sunset shine againt some distant clouds. I am on the third floor of an aging walk up in a...
TAKE THE FIRST GUIDED BUS TO TYLDESLEY
April (finally !) 2026. Manchester to Tyldesley. You learn a lot about the UK transport networks as a pub ticker. Some towns stand out as tough to tick, particularly the string...
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. LinkedIn hidden code secretly searches...
(Nota bene, each entry has a review using Seth’s proprietary three-point Good-OK-Bad scale, with emojis representative of something that stood out to me about the work1; please...
I Built an Eleventy Plugin for Sharing Posts to Mastodon
I am happy to share a new open source project I have been working on: @kylereddoch/eleventy-plugin-mastodon-share. You can browse the source on GitHub and try the live demo. It...
I Love Reading on the XTEINK X4
You might’ve already heard a lot about it by now since it’s gotten quite popular the past few months, but I have some things to say about the XTEINK X4 and how it’s become one...
I've released an update to BlogMore, with another little straightforward addition. This time I'm revisiting the statistics page and adding a streak tracker, of sorts. Modelled...
Trial Starts Today for Philosophy Lecturer Who Tossed Away Tear Gas Canister Thrown by ICE
The trial of Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, begins today. The trial concerns his actions at a protest during a...
The Book Trap: Why Exploratory Web-Native Creators Should Reconsider Writing Books
Tim Urban published 15 Wait But Why posts in 2014, reaching millions of readers with long-form explorations of AI, procrastination, and human psychology. Then he started a book....
I got to meet some pagans irl, I'm pretty excited so I'm telling you *heart*. Anyways, first of all in deities, we now have a page for Hyytämöinen and Lievetyinen (winter and...
Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is in truth no past, only a memory of...
I stumbled across this great post by Spencer Mortensen yesterday, which tested different email obfuscation techniques against real spambots to see which ones actually work. It's...
(image courtesy of titsay) gosh, what else do i have apart from the spiralling recesses of the depths of my own mind, and these scattered words on a page? i've felt a growing...
things I might dump in 2026 - april update
In late 2025 I put together a list of things I would dump in 2026. Three months of the year are done, so how have I been getting on? A mixed bag: ‘social’ media - down to one...
Thanks for the tip. A week off work, dominated by having a streaming cold for a few days and a catastrophic failure of my home network drive, resulting in multiple days of...
I was inspired by, of all things, a video monologue by a Scottish surfer [1] who said that the future for them was challenging themselves in new ways. My guitar was close by and...
Implementing Interaction Minutiae
I’ve been putting together a small app, and trying to make it very very good. I’m coding the whole thing1 myself because I enjoy the challenges that come with logic coding, and...
It’s been 10 days since the last one of these link dumps, so this one is particularly long. Sorry! Hello, World, taken on April 3rd by Artemis Ⅱ mission commander Reid Wiseman....
I was watching the Artemis II flyby last night. So of course I am rather tired today. I really like dashboards – I’ve been looking at the one for Artemis II by Canadian Space...
Puesta de Tierra el día de ayer
Crédito: NASA Se me sigue haciendo increíble que se puedan tomar este tipo de fotos y todavía más increíble que apenas fue tomada ayer. Vía: NASA Gracias por leer mi blog y ser...
I was on my analytics page the other day, one of my quiet routines. Not for numbers, not really. More for the referrals. It's one of the last honest ways to discover corners of...
A cloudy sunset into the Sea of Japan, in the Kyotango area at the north end of Kyoto Prefecture. 京都府の北端、京丹後地方の日本海に沈む曇天の夕日。
The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote The Abolition of Man. It began as three lectures in 1943. Lewis looks at a school textbook that teaches children to dismiss emotions as mere...
2026-04-07Hello! My homepage is getting boring, with all the landscape-oriented photos with the exact same aspect ratio. I oughta add a portrait of someone.This photo is near...
Life is hard. Today, when opening Anki on macOS: DbError { info: "SqliteFailure(Error { code: DatabaseCorrupt, extended_code: 11 }, Some(\"database disk image is malformed\"))",...
Edie's been through a bevy of tests and now we wait for results to figure out the best path forward. ⊕Currently Listening: Harlan Silverman “Music for Stillness”Reply via email
Con dos días de retraso en esta ocasión. No sé si os pasará igual a vosotros, pero a mí los periodos “festivos” como la semana santa me trastocan por completo. Además siempre...
Richard MacManus wrote a piece last year titled “Replanting Articles: Bring Legacy Posts to Your Website” and it resonated with me before I even got to the text. It’s exactly...
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Dave Gauer
Howdy, I’m Dave Gauer. I’ve worked in web technologies since the late 1990s. Some interests: computer programming of all kinds, Linux/BSD/Unix, art, books (genre fiction, computing, history, biographies, art monographs), film, music (metal!), boardgames, and watching small creatures in the back yard.
David Pan
This is dpanphoto, my photography website where I share daily photos and human art. sometimes nonsense :-)
Akseli Lahtinen
Hi, I'm Aks (Akseli Lahtinen) from Finland! I'm KDE dev by day and a hobbyist gamedev/FOSS-dev by night. I like metal, industrial and EBM music, and I love FPS, RPG and spacesim games. I also love tinkering with Linux systems.
Noahie Valk
Welcome! This is where you can find my most up-to-date writings. Divided into two sections. 1) Cogito: a diary and 2) IOKTIKN: a collection of standalone essays and short stories.
Strubbl
From time to time I blog about things I find interesting or which I do not want to forget about.