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April 16, 2026 After getting back from my daily walk with Trix this morning, I got to thinking about how having a dog is a great way to meet people. We walk the same route every...
I’ve written about privacy a few times on my little blog. Two of the most shared and visited posts I’ve written are The Privacy-Security Rabbit Hole and the very outdated and...
It's All Just Trees With Web Origami
This site, along with many other sites I’ve built since becoming familiar with the project in late 2024, is built with Web Origami. It has quickly become my favourite way to...
The Thing Itself: C.S. Lewis on What We Long for in Our Existential Longing
“…only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited.” Nothing kidnaps our capacity for presence more...
Ode to the Sound of Distant Cars like Susurrous Ocean Waves
Quiet evening. Middle of spring. Temperature mild. Winter is gone. All windows open. No sound inside. Cars in the distance. Once in a while. Susurration of waves. No ocean in...
Yellow-Capped Passover Coca Cola
Quoted Here’s Why Some Coca-Cola Bottles Have Yellow Caps in the Spring by Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner (foodandwine.com) So, to satisfy millions of soda-loving Jewish people during...
Album#35 The Gift 图1 《The Gift (Day Version)》专辑封面 专辑信息 专辑名称： The Gift (Day Version) 歌手： Joyce Cheung 年份： 2026-04-06 风格： 钢琴曲、纯音乐 时长： 约 45 分钟 Joyce Cheung 这张 The Gift...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: I just had a much-needed family vacation in Spain, where I also had to prepare for the biggest meeting of my career three days...
Spring Season 2026 at The New Leaf Journal
I am a few weeks late in announcing my theme for spring season 2026 at The New Leaf Journal. In fact, we are now closer to the sixth birthday of The New Leaf Journal than to the...
Well someone forgot to renew a certificate at #Bluesky
Well someone forgot to renew a certificate at #Bluesky
Application file: ThoughtPatterntm_v1.3.img The final, I believe, commercial release of ThoughtPattern. From 1991. An excellent organizer for unstructured data. Allows multiple...
I made a webring: wordy webring
whenever I browse a webring it feels like 90% of the sites are no more than a home and an about page. it's ok if people are more interested in web design than writing but it's...
Featured in “Cloudflare made a WordPress for AI agents” on The Verge
So this is interesting, I was on The Verge last week, as part of the wider discussion on EmDash, I posted a blog post on my thoughts on EmDash, which was cited a bit. I should...
I thought I'd been to all 50 states. Now I'm not so sure. But I can check off Minnesota! + 18 photosCurrently Listening: Hüsker Dü “These Important Years”Reply via email
“Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury finds”
No shit. Ticketmaster has to be one of the most-loathed middlemen ever to exist. Let’s see what kind of accountability they come up with.“A jury found what we have long known to...
More confessions from a FOSS enthusiast
Well, it’s been about a year since my last round of confessions as a FOSS enthusiast and I do have a few more things that I thought I’d share! This was in part tangentially...
La UE lanza una aplicación para verificar la edad
Ayer, la presidenta de la Comisión Europea anunció que la UE ya tiene preparada una aplicación para verificar la edad de los usuarios en Internet. Desde hace varios años, la UE...
Now that I have video game mania, books are piling up at an even faster rate than normal. Therefore it’s time for some “Compulsive Vowing”: It’s gonna be five-out-one-in until I...
Today's post is a submission to the IndieWeb Carnival, a monthly event where folks on the IndieWeb write a blog post dedicated to a theme hosted by one of the members. This...
I May Have Killed My Framework 13
I was in the office today, working away, and I often have my personal laptop, a Framework 13 next to me so I do things like check notes and emails, listen to music, etc. I...
I bought a new printer for printing pictures
I bought a Canon PIXMA G620 photo printer to start printing family pictures at home and getting them up on the walls where they belong.
When Magistrate Lu Jianglai is assigned to solve a controversial case, he is targeted; he escapes but ends up falling off a cliff, his life hanging by a thread. Fortunately, he...
Old newspaper like blog design
It's been a long time—more than a month, I think—since I posted a long post. The reason was the guilt of breaking my own promise to myself. Almost every day I thought about...
For a good while now I've been pretty happy with the PageSpeed measurements of this blog, which in turn means I've been happy with the state of what's generated by BlogMore. I...
You Don't Need a Tech Stack. You Just Need a Text Editor.
You Don't Need a Tech Stack. You Just Need a Text Editor.Plain text files built the internet before technology stacks were a thing. Honestly, there is no reason why your web...
Mr. Verloc returning from the Continent at the end of ten days, brought back a mind evidently unrefreshed by the wonders of foreign travel and a countenance unlighted by the...
Secure Browsers Push Zero Trust Past the Login Screen
A lot of zero trust talk still feels stuck at the login screen. Did the user pass MFA? Did the device check in? Did the identity platform approve the session? Good. All of that...
April 2026. Stirchley. Birmingham. With Attic ticked I could/should have caught the next train to New Street for my second Brum pub, but something was drawing me to Stirchley...
Learning A New Programming Language per Year in the Age of AI
People don’t really learn new programming languages every year anymore thanks to AI, so why do I stick with this activity? Call me old fashioned, but I still like to dive into a...
Galen walked from the fog of dry ice and on to the stage like he always did, owning it, until there was only the mic stand between him and his people. But there was no roar this...
Tom Rothman calls on cinemas to screen films, not trailers and ads
That’s the upshot of what Rothman, CEO of Sony’s Motion Picture Group, said at CinemaCon, held in Las Vegas, in the United States, this week, says Brent Lang, writing for...
I've been reading mostly blogs lately, and it kind of shines through in these link dumps. Most of the links I've been collecting recently are blog posts, and only occasionally...
Dale Dorsey, professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, has died. Aaron Garrett writes: It is with great shock and sadness that I report the sudden passing of Dale...
You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you. I'm just about a week in at my new position. Despite how excited I have been, I was hesitant to...
YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts
theverge.com Limit your Shorts scrolling to zero minutes per day.And to think, I just cancelled my YouTube Premium Family subscription… maybe I should keep it after all…
Hiked part 13/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 15.9 kilometres from Hoog Soeren to Kootwijk. You walk on wide paths through gently sloping forests and along the Asselsche Heide....
Interpretation of “The world that changes” by Alkinoos Ioannidis
For this entry in the series, I have picked The world that changes by renowned songmaker Alkinoos Ioannidis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddiCJ76fPbs. What I discern in the...
The Trap That Looks Like a Safety Net
Why Millions of American Dads Stopped Working — and Can’t Start Again In 1954, 98 out of every 100 American men between 25 and 54 were either working or looking for work. Today,...
O is for Opencode Recently picked up opencode go, which is a low cost subscription to try out some models like kimi k2. Its been a solid plan, as subscriptions go. At least it...
When I started this blog in 2011, I built it using Jekyll. Jekyll served me well for fifteen years. It was fast enough, and though it would take me an hour or two to get the...
In two parts. First, an appreciation of a piece of intellectual history written by Geoff Pullum: Geoffrey K. Pullum, The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to...
I fell in love with a camera Leica discontinued. Four years later, it's still in my bag — and nothing has come close to replacing it.
Bon une semaine compliquée, j’ai été malade quasi toute la semaine donc j’ai pas réussi à faire grand chose de plus que de la veille tech et cleanup pour sortir une première...
This is an experiment in rewarding people who subscribe to open web feeds, Inspired by Dave Rupert’s RSS Club. If you are reading this, thank you for choosing RSS or Atom...
2026-04-16Limited permission was granted to use photos taken for these events on this site.Hello!My school hosted a Greek Night, a cultural festival with circle dances, egg...
my most and least favorite people: examples
most A student invited me to their improv class "final exam," which is a show at a downtown venue known for student/avant-garde work. Of course I said yes. I asked two kids if...
#190: me gustan estas cuerdas de guitarra
Hace unos años me compré en AliExpress unas cuantas unidades de este juego de cuerdas de guitarra: las D’Addario rojas para guitarra clásica. Suelen costar unos 12€ pero una vez...
Update Woocommerce Product Download Metadata Programmatically
I had to work these days on a Woocommerce store that had change its hosting provider and I noticed that some downloadable products kept failing after being moved to the new...
I found this quote below in a copy of Ver Sacrum (the official magazine of the Vienna Secession), displayed at an exhibition I went to recently. I wouldn't call myself a...
Last night I spent some time talking to folks about books. I have several half finished stories that need to get wrapped up and I wanted to plan how I published them to get max...
Say what you want about agentic coding, but thanks to the Zed editor paired with the MiniMax M2.5 model, I was finally able to build an application I've been dreaming about for...
I've been struggling with setting up an AI Agent for a client. I mentioned it in my recent weeknotes and suggested it's because I'm used to a specific type of computer and LLMs...
I recently read the following text in the book Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick. "You are not only a human, but also a cyborg. You are a cyborg because you use machines to...
If you have not discovered Bubbles yet, then I suggest you go and have a look. In the Bubbles Team's very own words: Somewhere out there, someone wrote a really good blog post...
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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.