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Is Fahrenheit 451 becoming relevant again?
What goes around comes around. Could we be facing a new dystopia where retro-computers are proscribed by the state?
One of the cafés I really like recently started using those li’l “beepers”. Customers get one when ordering their food and when they start beeping you’re supposed to bring it to...
I was recently listening to an episode of The Idea Roastery about personal life gamechangers and toward the end of the episode, Herman asked Jason: What is the best purchase...
Una telefonata… allunga la fibra?
Il recente ritorno della mitica campagna Telecom degli anni ’90, “Una telefonata allunga la vita“, ha risvegliato ricordi sopiti, strappando persino qualche lacrimuccia. Sì,...
Since refactoring my site back in 2023, authoring posts is pretty simple. But to make it even easier, I wrote a little helper script. When I run node tools/new from my project...
Krugman, Taylor, and Maclaurin
[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] In this morning’s blog/newsletter,1...
The kitchen was scattered with rainbows as the sun shone through the frosted glass. Maybe the glass was put there to make rainbows; what was the architect thinking when they...
Spotify partners with Bookshop.org to sell paper books
Spotify members in the United States and United Kingdom will soon be able to buy paper, or physical books, through the music streaming app, by way of a partnership with...
I have “released” my first Mac application, Meshmaker, on GitHub as a public repository, so anyone can download the project and run/install it using Xcode. I’m proud of this...
A STRENUOUS WALK FROM MONSAL HEAD
April 2026. Monsal Head. The Peak District. Mrs RM had been reminding me how little of the Peak District we’d actually done since moving to Sheffield (hardly any new GBG pubs),...
End of an era: Tim Cook Will Step Down as Apple C.E.O., by Kalley Huang and Tripp Mickle. Community Letter from Tim, by Tim Cook. Also with big “end of an era” energy: Tick, by...
Double Con Crunch: UWEC Baron County GEEKCon and No Brand Con
So I'm in the middle of prepping for two events: UWEC Baron County GEEKCon on April 25th and No Brand Con the weekend after from May 1-3. And yeah, it's as exhausting as it...
The enormous iron padlock on the doors of the wall cupboard was the only object in the room on which the eye could rest without becoming afflicted by the miserable unloveliness...
SwiftBar: Powerful macOS menu bar customization tool It is comparable to i3bar and i3status, but on macOS. My current setup: This screenshot is from a few months ago (January)....
I have had a difficult time stringing together words to make sentences lately, and my mind is all mixed up. What makes this sensation different from times in the past, is that...
Hiked part 17/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 8.2 kilometres from Dieren to Rheden. At Dieren, the enormous game park is a former hunting area of the House of Orange. At De Steeg...
Des gouvernements incapables de réguler une économie financière de plus en plus...
Des gouvernements incapables de réguler une économie financière de plus en plus détachée du réel, c’est le symptôme d’une époque où les délires mégalomanes d’une poignée...
Last night I learned that there is a workshop this Friday I'd like to attend that I would need to bring a laptop for. So today I got the old Thinkpad out to check if it'll even...
Blog/2026-04-20/Drops of Water
Roshan: [[File:Dall-E 3 reimagining - A couple walking down 4th street cleaning.png|thumb|The good samaritans as depicted from my memory. They looked younger and in better shape...
It seems that we've been bitten by a certain bug, one that takes any sense of meaning and truth and tries to reject it for the sake of something different. With our ability to...
#30DaysOfDXing is where I am trying to receive various radio wave transmissions and listen to them using either my Radio, SDR, etc. I am currently using ShortwaveSchedule,...
I haven't done the math, but these are pretty cheap to make. I got the bristol board for a dollar, and only a third of it made five covers so far! When I finish standardizing my...
April 20, 2026 I use the free version of ChatGPT occasionally, and a week or two ago I started seeing ads. I knew they were coming, but it was still irritating to have one show...
Every day I carry a little creature with me. It sits near my right ear, perhaps perched on the intertragal notch (that little divot at the bottom of the external ear), where it...
The amazing mail sent to a video game publisher
Stephen Totilo writes about what happened when Panic started prompting players who finished the games they published to send them a SASE #
Development of the Anglerfish Lure
Quoted Research traces evolution of anglerfishes’ famed fishing-rod lures by Brendan M. Lynch (KU News) The researchers determined the original anglerfish lure developed in the...
Staying the Course in Writing in the LLM Moment
In March 2024, I published an essay titled Humane Content in World of Language Models. While I have since taken a stronger stance about describing meaningful writing and media...
Bike Baron is an exhilarating motorcycle racing game that combines tricky obstacles with precise physics mechanics, catering perfectly to adrenaline junkies and casual players...
Interpretation of “Do not ask me” by Manos Loizos
For this entry in the series I have picked a song from the collection of composer and songmaker Manos Loizos. Manos was among the most influential artists of his era. Do not ask...
I am not a people person. Despite being a YouTuber and now a “professor”, I would much rather be away from people as much as possible. Of course, that’s not very healthy, so I...
Mediados de mes y apenas he publicado cinco notas, de las que tres son de estas retros. No quiero dejar de escribir, me gusta, me hace sentir bien, pero cierto es que cuando...
14 Takeaways from the Virtual Pacific APA (guest post)
As reported in January, the American Philosophical Association (APA) recently began—and halted—an experiment with making one of its three divisional meetings each year a...
S is for Smoke Thought a little 4-20 subject would be fun. I was trying to think, back in college and earlier what I used to get up to on this day and honestly, I can’t...
What have I been upto? I’ve had a couple of quiet weeks with work, so been using this time to catch up. This week is largely the same – I’ve only got one contracted day in the...
Ironically, the home-brewed application I use most is also the most neglected one. I’m talking about Tinble, the tiny blog engine that powers this very blog. At long last, I got...
¿De quién es el problema de Cuba?
Carol Proner y Larissa Ramina*Si, hipotéticamente, se la considerara un problema, Cuba es un problema para el pueblo cubano. De hecho, este es el punto de partida para cualquier...
This morning I was reading and writing. Listening to this mix on Spotify of acoustic morning easy listening. It offers a wonderful cornucopia of what I like sometimes. Coffee...
An old project and a lot of new ideas
A stack of paper, folded, with the words to the project I’m discussing in the post This cobbled together document (printed on one of those A4 thermal printers because who wants...
AI makes particle board. As a child, woodworking was part of my school’s curriculum. One of our projects was making a simple sailboat, with the kind of shape and blockiness of...
Read David's story, Out of the Band, now!Are you a musician yourself? Absolutely not. No talent, not enough patience. But I am a life-long music obsessive, record buyer and...
The number one thing that keeps getting hammered home to me, by experience and the folks at work I'm responsible to, is that the point of data/analytics engineering is to...
Capitalisme, LLMs et création : Bilan d'une première semaine d'écriture à plein temps
Ce que quitter mon travail salarié pour me consacrer à l'écriture m'a appris pour le moment
Thought it would be fun to do a simple everyday carry post! Here's what I typically have in my backpack. Pictured SnowSky Echo This is a very recent addition and replaced the...
Movies: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
When Eric Cartman and his friends go see an R-rated movie, they start cursing and their parents think that Canada is to blame. I think I’ve seen this movie billions of times on...
The cart’s handles fit Tan Ah Kow’s palms the way his father’s tools had—worn smooth where hands pressed. He’d oiled them last night while his eldest son swept the workshop...
Heya! So, I got a new phone a couple weeks ago! After, what, like 3 years, I've upgraded to an Honor Magic8 Lite. Mainly because the battery on my old one was slowly dying, and...
Quinceañera, Metal Gear Solid, Book shopping! - W16
Welcome, to my week notes! Can you believe that we are almost done with April already? There have been a lot of things going on lately, but hey, at the very least I keep reading...
NASA released a gallery of “posters”, and there are some great ones in there. For instance:
Fellas, is it wrong to just wanna sit on a guy's face? Sigh. Hormones have been going crazy lately, idk if it's medication or what. All I know is that in the past I never had...
If you read this via your RSS reader, you won’t notice the tiny design refresh of the site: nothing major, just a new header, a new icon/logo, an improved HTML structure, and an...
For the record: the TBR Challenges 2012 through 2022
I mentioned a few days ago that I should put together a list of all the TBR Challenge reviews I’ve posted over the years, with the month and themes they were for, just for the...
Start of my series "Aks Plays EVE" where I just post some things I did in the online spaceship game. I do these small posts on fedi every now and then, but began to feel like I...
Outlaws Of Alkenstar Session 5 Report: APORCHCALYPSE NOW
Antecedently: Operation Let’s Steal A Guy; a new green homie appears; Snake? SNAKE? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE! We are outside the home of threatened weirdo Vashon Gattlebee, whom we are...
Christina (left), founder of Fuerza Collective, and her niece, Jahnee (right) -- rockstars of the day. Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending Fuerza Collective’s friends &...
A tiny reflection of Minneapolis
Bullet points of our last 36 hours in Minnesota. Want to go back!Currently Listening: HEALTH “ORDINARY LOSS”Reply via email
some Bear Blog titles I recently enjoyed
Perusing the Bear Blog Discovery Feed has become a part of my daily routine (usually during my commute / on the train). Semi-intentionally, I've established a mini-practice that...
Got some really cool mail today
Surprise vinyl is kinda the best type of vinyl (Go listen to Dogcatcher) Why that's the very game boy I used!! I got a pretty rad surprise package in the mail this morning. I'd...
I'm sat on the sofa, MacBook perched on my lap, going over some photos and generally feeling pretty tired in a really satisfying way. We've just had a brief weekend run to one...
🪴 So I bought a Venus flytrap...
Talking about my balcony garden and this year's newest addition, a little Venus flytrap.
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