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Above is Ben Nicholson's Auberge de la Sole Dieppoise, one of my favourites among his paintings, many of which leave me fairly cool. Ben, born on this day in 1894, took off in a...
A NEW MANCHESTER BEER BOOK. LET TICKERS REJOICE
April 2026. Manchester. A day in central Manchester, the modern bit between St Peters and the Irwell, with a diversion through Spinninfields (no ta), and a quick look at the...
…by bots, scrapers and arseholes, what’s the point of stats? To be clear, I don’t usually have stats on my site. But as I just changes to a new system I wanted to have stats for...
XTEInk X4 Minimaist e-Reader Review + DIY Case
This little simplistic device has been making the rounds on the smallweb lately, and I have fallen prey to the hype. That said, I have no regrets and have been enjoying my time...
#openSUSE Tumbleweed revisión de las semanas 14 y 15 de 2026
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...
When I said these would be occasional, I meant it! Spring has sprung here in RVA. The pollination is upon us and everything is covered in a gold-colored dust. Ugh. However, now...
I am currently working on my review for Resident Evil, but I need to take some pictures and finish it up a little more! So far I tend to separate everything into the basics,...
Me: Walks away from the house, wearing my Airpods ProSiri (In my Airpods): Would you like me to run automation “last to leave home”?Me: YesSiri: Sorry, I didn’t understand...
I is for interesting This article: https://nikola-breznjak.com/blog/devthink/productivity-paper-pomodoro-kanban-tracking-and-actually-showing-up/ which was a summary of the...
Salon de la Fama del Spam 12: Un mensaje de la ICANN
Este seria el intento de phishing que casi me hizo bajar la guardia, pero por olvidarlo por algunos días lo pude analizar con mas calma después Hoy les traigo un chisme de...
Movies: Lila dit ça // Lila Says (2004)
Two inner-city teenagers engage in an obsessive, innocent flirtation fueled by Lila’s sexually explicit overtures. Great coming-of-age movie, based on a story published under a...
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️...
The dog’s name is Biscuit, and he has his own Instagram account. Mara discovers this the first weekend after moving into the rental on Telford Close—a Saturday garden party...
Catppuccin Complete UI for Mastodon 2.0
When I first shared my Catppuccin Mastodon theme, it was a pretty personal project. I wanted Mastodon’s web UI to feel more comfortable for me, more intentional, and more in...
J’ai hésité un peu avant de publier cette note de la semaine, un peu vide à mon goût. Puis je me suis rappelée ma première note : sans se prendre la tête ni sur la forme ni sur...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a small landowner with a half-dozen projects already underway is in want of more projects. It's garden start season, which means my...
pocket full of … kryptonite? sunshine?
Long-time readers know of my love for and commitment to the open web: sites with no intervening platform, no paywall, just sitting there on the World Wide Web in plain HTML...
Ever since (re-)starting the blog, I've found so many interesting websites and online resources by reading other blogs. This is a really fun and rewarding aspect of exploring...
Hiked part 7/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.1 kilometres from Garderen to Putten centrum. The Speulder and Sprielderbos still partly consists of the old, communally managed...
Instagram now lets you edit your own comments
theverge.comAn easier way to fix comment mistakes.I get that I'm only perpetuating things, but seriously folks, what are we doing here? This isn't news. Allow editing, don't...
deRosset from Vermont to Notre Dame
Louis deRosset, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Vermont, will be moving to the University of Notre Dame. Professor deRosset works in metaphysics,...
Never underestimate time alone. It's a weird thing when I'm alone. Sometimes I think I might actually have autism because when I am actually alone, I can really let the wiggles...
No one owes you supply-chain security
In case you’re unaware, I’m not a developer. I’m actually an autistic catgirl annoyed by suboptimal use of computing power, and fixing that happens to involve programming....
E-mail from Ellen Kaisse this morning: I don’t know how I failed to learn this for 60 years or so but Purcell’s cataloguer is a Z person, Franklin Zimmerman. You probably have...
Day 63: Buttercup With Studio Lighting
2026-04-10Back at the university garden...Hello!It looks like I've sent up to one hundred emails out to each newsletter subscriber (one each day with the regular photo, as...
I am back in Bengaluru. Slept and rested a bit. I watched One Battle After Another on the way to Sydney and Naked Gun 2 on the way back. I really liked how One Battle After...
Session are 90 de zile să supraviețuiască
Pe 9 aprilie 2026, ultimul angajat plătit al Session Technology Foundation (STF) și-a încheiat ultima zi de muncă. De atunci, una dintre cele mai serioase alternative private la...
New and new-to-me music 2026-W15
I managed to return my wife's favour after she introduced me to Kill Karl a couple of weeks back by introducing her to The Scratch. A dark indie band from Ireland that blends...
Hi, do you still remember me?I know it’s been a while. 225 days or so, if anyone is counting. Around the time I got laid off, my writing here began to slow down. It wasn’t right...
Being able to quickly write replies to email, real actual email, was very valuable. That was the core of what drew me to Delta Chat. There are plenty of proprietary email apps...
You can clean those "scratches" off ceramic dinnerware
I can't believe I didn't know this earlier! Do you have ceramic mugs and stuff that look kind of like this, with streaks caused by silverware and whatnot? I assumed the ceramic...
From a Github Gist by Andrej Karpathy (local copy for posterity): A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs. […] Most people’s experience with LLMs and...
It’s now been five days since Naida moved in with us. While not everything has been sunshine and rainbows, I was still surprised about how well everything went and how well she...
This is an entry from my journal. The church bells were ringing in the distance. The first explosions echo in the valley. It is almost Easter in this part of the world. In about...
The Hostage Negotiation of the Front-Facing Camera
There is a comforting, tactile safety in the old fashioned way of using a phone. You press the phone to your ear, the device emitting a heat signature that's instantly...
The last of the cherry blossoms, the lush, "multi-layered cherry blossoms" (yaezakura) in bloom at Ryoanji temple. 最後の桜、龍安寺に咲いた分厚い八重桜。
“… All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity—it is to destroy it. Leave that to the moralists, my boy. History is made by...
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-10-26
My Pook-Emu Bee links are a bit late today. I had to deal with an issue related to my wireless access point this morning and then some work assignments. Unfortunately, I did not...
Today, I would like to invite you to join me on a calming adventure through winding streets, quiet little towns and magical forests. Make yourself a drink, get comfortable and...
Three months back I released obs2nlm, a tool that takes an Obsidian vault and turns it into a single Markdown file so it can be used as a source for NotebookLM. Since then I've...
This post is in response to On AI-enhanced Writing. Pablo goes into a point by point critique of Arun Venkatesan's post, Ai-enhanced writing process [sic]. I know I have a...
Carmen Maturell SenonEs jueves y los preparativos están casi listos. Es jueves y los adolescentes ya han comenzado a bailar su vals.No todos siguen el mismo compás. Hay quien se...
Edie has returned to hanging on the top tier of the cat tree and onto the desk for attention (treats). In all the commotion of the last few days I hadn’t noticed her front legs...
Not exactly sure what it is exactly, but I've never been one to watch too much television. I can't sit still long enough, typically to make it through a movie. Which is...
At 0107 WAT it took me quite an effort to keep my eyes open. It’s been a while that I’ve stayed up late to watch something. But what a sensation of joy was it to see the capsule...
Go Diego Go: Great Dinosaur Rescue & Safari Rescue
The download is a hybrid ISO image created using ImgBurn 2.5.8.0 on Windows 10. Sourced from a garage sale. Game file: Go_Diego_Go.zip System requirements System: Mac OS X...
Some things will forever disturb me living in Southeast Asia. I am not close to or friends with many expats. There are a few that I keep track of mostly by meeting them every so...
Read George's story, The Bug, now!What does The Bug mean to you?It means a lot of things to me—imposter syndrome, social malaise, suppression of anxiety—but more than anything...
Ens. Archer - "Please Mr. Postman"
A mission post by Ensign Miles Archer Mission - Let's Do The Timeloop Again Location - Main mess Ensign Miles Archer sat in the mess after his shift, enjoying a vanilla soda and...
“Understanding and loving are inseparable. If they are separate, it is a cerebral process and the door to essential understanding remains closed.” “An experience makes its...
I've Completed 100 Days To Offload (Again)
I just published my motorbike servicing rant and went over to my Pure Blog Dashboard to take a look at some stats, when I noticed this: 101 posts in the last year; which means...
Was able to take advantage of my Safari Park membership and visit with visiting family members. Got some great looks at very cool animals. I also had a lot of fun birding the...
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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.