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If you're one of the millions of ass-busting Americans who have found yourself somewhat fed up with the diminishing qualities of some of the most prized workwear: Carhartt and...
I was interviewed for Over/Under
Hyde from lazybea.rs runs a blog interview series called Over/Under, where bloggers rate a mix of topics as overrated or underrated, then pass a question along to the next...
Today is day four of my fast. I'm officially under 300 pounds. This is basically a water fast. I'm allowing myself to drink water, coffee, and diet soda; I'm also letting myself...
Thyroid doc visit tomorrow. I haven't been checking on my emails or anything outside of phone messages for about a week now. Friend showed me a 20 yr old photo from college and...
From the Visit Pittsburgh site, for 4/12’s occasion, “How to Celebrate 412 Day in Pittsburgh”: We love celebrating Pittsburgh every day, but 412 Day is an extra excuse to honor...
One of the hardest things to learn in life is that the heart is a clock too fast not to break. We lurch into loving, only to discover again and again that it takes a long time...
Cara Migrasi Rails Storage dari Local VPS ke Cloudflare R2
Secara default, storage service yang digunakan oleh sebuah aplikasi Rails adalah local service. Ini berarti, file-file yang di-upload via aplikasi Rails akan disimpan di folder...
Adding a Book Editor to My Pure Blog Site
Regular readers will know that I've been on quite the CMS journey over the years. WordPress, Grav, Jekyll, Kirby, my own little Hyde thing, and now Pure Blog. I won't bore you...
TBR Challenge 2025: not completed
I just realized–well into 2026–that I never posted my sad TBR Challenge performance for 2025; I barely managed to write reviews for half the themes in the challenge, and mostly...
The Professor had turned into a street to the left, and walked along, with his head carried rigidly erect, in a crowd whose every individual almost overtopped his stunted...
Antes de mais nada eu achei engraçado estar escrevendo um post sobre como ficar longe da internet em um dia, mas estando na mesma internet enquanto escrevo sobre isso....
I finally finished my albatross project: replicating all our Postgres shards to Databricks. This is great news.In broad strokes, we export our Postgres databases daily from the...
The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few metres; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least...
The appearance of Mythos – a private LLM allegedly capable of finding a multitude of 0-days – has made people concerned about being denied powerful tools. This seems to be a...
I asked my son if he could learn to build anything, what would he want to build. He is twelve years old and autistic and he does not elaborate unless you ask him to. He said, "I...
今年的第一次跑步 上个月在女朋友出差的一周里，我整理了衣柜，整理出来了一些很久没穿的衣服打算卖二手。但是一直没有抽出时间，那一袋子旧衣服就一直摆在墙边，有一些碍事。 上周末天气很好，于是带上那一大袋旧衣服和女朋友「一起」去了离家两公里的 2nd STREET。她骑我的原付小摩托，我在后面跑步。一路上红灯不少，最后我们几乎同时到达了。...
The Insider (El dilema en español) es una de las últimas películas que he visto. Aunque ya tiene sus años, es de 1999, refleja como la industria tabaquera buscó artimañas...
Install AnkiConnect: AnkiConnect enables external applications such as Yomichan to communicate with Anki over a simple HTTP API. Its capabilities include executing queries...
Making Arlo geofencing behave again
I run an Arlo-based home security setup, and most of the time it behaves as expected. A few months ago, Arlo shipped a major app update that broke the automations we depended...
Reclamando la tasa de residuos de Madrid
El Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid (TSJ-M) ha estimado los recursos interpuestos por varias instituciones y organizaciones contra la Ordenanza Fiscal 8/2024 del...
Trip Report: Saturday biking around Richmond, VA
Today was such a beautiful day in Richmond, and I decided to enjoy it by taking a tour around the city on my ebike. Since I'm in the market for a new bike shop, I rode out to...
Sometimes I Don't Use AI At All
Some clients don't allow AI in their codebase. Here's what working without it looks like in 2026, and why I think the trade-off is worth it.
General happeningsBetter weather this week, I general felt better since some health problems cleared up. I tried shifting towards an early-sleep-early-wakeup schedule this week,...
Beyond the Square and Under the Rug
Hu Yaobang was a pro-reform member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Joining in the 1930s, he was promoted to General Secretary of the Secretariat in 1980 and proceeded to...
Connecting the Logitech MX Creative Console to Elgato Lights
I’ve been using an Elgato Stream Deck to control my lights in my office for the past several years. The one I have (with 15 buttons) has worked great for me, but I noticed that...
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Saddle Creek: Add Out-of-Band Metadata to PE Executables
Top Matter: Codeberg for the library, doc for the library. I took the one part of the suttered Omaha open source project by Google and i’m making it a library I can consume...
6th April - 12th April This week has gone so quickly! Forget-me-nots are carpeting the wood and the desire paths are lined with yellow tulips and daffodils. An angry blackbird...
EJ & I took the California Cable Car today to meet up with Eryn at her Iaido dojo, and from there the three of us walked to Japantown together for the annual Northern California...
Weekly Creative Code Challenge "Pattern" 🍥
The Weekly Creative Code Challenge is a friendly jam for generative artists and creative coders run by Raphaël de Courville who reviews the submissions every Sunday starting at...
The experiment with building an MCP server continues, with some hacking on it happening over a couple of hours while killing time in an Edinburgh coffee shop. It is, of course,...
Yesterday, with the Lichfield grandchildren (who, like the Canadian grandchildren, have pleasingly retro tastes), we watched Lassie Come Home – the 1943 feature film that...
Unleashing blogs via RSS and aggregators
I read a great post by Kev and replied via email. In that email I wrote a few lines I thought would be great to share with you… Love that fact that the real internet lovers are...
I might have mentioned once or twice that I use Obsidian. One of the fantastic things about it, is the plethora of Community Plugins you can install to get your productivity...
Kathryn's parents are in town so we popped over for a visit. ⊕Currently Listening: Future Islands “Sail”Reply via email
To stay on top of the various comings and goings in the ol' tech industry (and always stay diversified/never put all eggs in one basket), I run a number of independent projects,...
Aritana and the Harpy's Feather
A powerful Spirit of the Forest took over Tabata's body and Raoni is preparing a ritual to save him, but one ingredient is missing: a feather of a rare harpy named Uiruueté....
Quoted Nothing to Carp About by Dan Lewis (nowiknow.com) As the Los Angeles Times reported early that year, there’s no reason why Asian carp can’t be farmed and served to...
Movies: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo // Män som hatar kvinnor (2009)
Influential industrialist Vanger’s niece Harriet disappeared under mysterious circumstances 40 years ago. As a last attempt at solving the case, he hires investigative...
Poem: When you forget to speak
Who would have thought that when you don't speak for a day you suddenly forget how to, voice interference like a lost radio signal can't fully puzzle sentences. Unused vocal...
Unfolder - Create papercraft easily
unfolder.app via maya.land Unfolder is a 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft.I haven’t given it a spin yet, but this looks incredibly cool.
April 2026. Barkisland. West Yorkshire. As you’ll observe, I don’t tend to suffer from writer’s block, unless I stupidly follow pints of Old Peculier with pints of Wobbly Bob...
2000-01 Bucks vs Second Three-Peat Bulls
On April 6, 2024, Jon Jefferson Tan reported on an interview of former NBA player Jason Caffey by Scoop Jackson. Mr. Caffey had enjoyed a solid eight-year NBA career from...
I quipped on BlueSky: It’s interesting how AI proponents are often like "skill issue" when the LLM doesn't work like someone expects. Whereas when human-centered UX people see...
Emacs: new modus-themes-exporter package live today @ 15:00 Europe/Athens
[ The stream will be recorded. You can watch it later. ] Today, the 13th of April 2026, at 15:00 Europe/Athens I will do a live stream in which I will develop the new...
A 16-year-old with no credentials and no capital could just do things. The world of bits offered the freedom to build without being drowned in arbitrary constraints, in a way...
Quarto appuntamento della Sagra, con il tema Sovranità Digitale scelto da Gilberto
The Titanic Story of Evelyn, a biography by Lisa Wilkinson
Evelyn Marsden, a steward and nurse on the Titanic’s doomed 1912 maiden voyage, became known as the only Australian woman to survive the tragic sinking of the ocean liner....
A short and rather quiet week. Helping out my coworkers in their project was a very welcome change of pace at work. The allergies came back with a vengeance after I ran around...
📷 Snippet!: WIP : On the greener side
WIP : On the greener sideFinally back to working on this with sunny days and a toddler who finally sleeps! Managed only 2 figures today since the sun is not long yet. Once I...
A game originally released in 1996, the first to ever use the term “survival horror” to refer to itself. This is was the entryway for a whole generation into a genre that has...
Gathering notes on metrics and monitoring for Linux (servers). Current data Following advice gathered from this post on the YunoHost forum, I found btop++ to be the best tool...
2026-04-12Back among the starry night sky...Hello! Every so often, I cycle through a regular process of building a high ego over something stupid and having it crash down. I...
reMarkable really is Remarkable
It took me a long time to make the jump, but I finally did, and my god is the reMarkable tablet a joyful product. My long time colleague and friend have used the devices since...
I feel like my translation quality has been poor lately, but I kind of don't care. So now there are myths for the Death of Lemminkäinen, the Song of Lemminkäinen (+...
Increasing mental energy: reflections at the end of week 2
Reflections on the week I’m definitely noticing improvements from making my sleep schedule more regular. But I need to continue with this – in the past, I’ve found that I get...
Why read the book? C.S. Lewis wrote Miracles. He takes on the difficult question of whether miracles can actually happen. Lewis argues that a purely natural world cannot explain...
Khmer New Years is upon us. This is the third new year we get to celebrate. This one with water and stuff and a lot going on downtown we will not end up doing. It mostly is a...
Maps, Territories, And Monstros Each Upon
I have a bad habit, left over from when I had a website1 and aspirations to I don’t even know what kind of position in the media and writing landscape; I always think...
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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.