Thu Apr 30
matcha latte Fore biasa aja, tapi kue cempedaknya juara. Cepet banget bulan Aprilnya! Selain karena ada event besar di tengah bulan (yang seperti biasa menyedot waktu dan perhatian), juga karena ada tekanan tak terduga dan hal besar yang akhirnya saya beranikan untuk lakukan setelah sekian lama. Belum bisa cerita...
For the second day of Golden Week, I went to see "A New Dawn" at Cinemalice in Jinbocho. This is an animated movie directed by Yoshitoshi Shinomiya. Shinomiya is a nihonga artist1 and worked under Makoto Shinkai; A New Dawn is his directional debut for a feature-length film. *This is a spoiler-free review. I won't...
Youâre in a conversation that has stalled. The other person said something flat, or slightly off, or just boring. Your brain quietly assembles an exit â check the time, find a graceful pivot, invent a reason to leave. You tell yourself youâre tired. You might even be tired. But pause here: if the conversation had...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot One of the little fun things I like to do is ask ChatGPT for an infographic on something I want to know. Past image creators would struggle, so I wouldn't ask for an infographic. But Images 2.0 is really something! The infographics it produces are...
Hi friends, In April, Scour scoured 778,059 posts from 25,790 feeds. This month, my focus was on ranking improvements and adding a number of new features: đ Ranking ImprovementsScour is designed to find hidden gems that interest you, while trying to avoid using popularity signals or pigeonholing you into a narrow...
The keyboard and mouse settings in macOS are kind of boring these days⊠âŠbut somewhere deep in the underbelly of Settings lives a little nod to the original 1984 Macintosh⊠âŠin form of the tortoise/âhare icons: #easter eggs #history #mac os
The state, you, and I decide what we think, and there is no choice on the matter. We do not recognize the gravity of irregularities, whilst on a steep hill, ignorant of the nearing underside of a snowball. Conditioned. Open wide another spoonful of mediocrity; The same but different, yet the same. panem et circenses
My first computer was a Commodore 128D, a successor to the Commodore 64. It had different modes you could boot into, but I almost exclusively used the C64 mode, so basically I had a C64 in a much less iconic form factor. The âDâ stands for desktop - it was basically just one of those typical grey 80s/90s computer...
Count Releases 0 Commits 9 Contributors 1 Pull requests merged 0 Issues closed 0 At a Glance Taylor's Five Year Anniversary It's been five whole years since I started Taylor Refactored Taylor's Config handling Noticed this area was really bad and cleaned it up Taylor Export Woes Found an issue with my exports Taylor...
Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2026 second quarter ended March 28, 2026. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $111.2 billion, up 17 percent year over year. Diluted earnings per share was $2.01, up 22 percent year over year. For comparison, Q1 2026 (last quarter) and Q2 2025 (this quarter...
2026-04-30Hello!The title comes from my high school English project, where we made a "short film" in the style of La JetĂ©e â still pictures, mostly black and white, with one section of motion picture. We could have made our own original story, but I got lazy and copied the story from Ray Bradbury's There Will Come...
En general podrĂa decir que me ha gustado la pelĂcula, pero quizĂĄ me resulte demasiado surrealista como para haberla terminado de entender (dentro de lo que hay que entender una pelĂcula de este corte). Ha habido momentos mĂĄs de vergĂŒenza ajena que de carcajada y creo que algunos detalles han envejecido regular....
with me writing this in the last days of april i am really consistent when it comes to procrastination with carnival posts. anyhow for this month's bearblog carnival hosted by sage, i present you the wackiest animal of all time: the pumpkin toadlet. picture of a pumpkin toadlet on a leaf by Ariovaldo Giaretta /CC...
Adding Features to Open Source ProjectsEver since setting up Indiekit for adding Micropub capabilities to my Hugo blog, I have only used its web UI to post notes, photos, and likes (havenât tried other clients yet). The interface is not bad, but one thing that that bugs me is how links are handled in the text field....
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: The idea that everything youâve written can be digested and repackaged by an AI tool to generate âinsightsâ âfromâ your âperspectiveâ for someone else was disturbing until I also realized that output has limited use without the unique experience that informed that...
nytimes.com An inmate said he discovered the note after Mr. Epstein was found injured in his jail cell, weeks before his death. Itâs now locked in a courthouse.Iâm just waiting for Dr. Oz to come out as the DoJâs handwriting expert to say âthis letter that says âI, Jeffrey Epstein, was the sole trafficker of...
Give me simple, give me plain -- Help me avoid the geeky pain. The simpler the better, none too soon, Will send this simpleton over the moon.
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LEGOÂź prepara el lanzamiento del Caza Estelar N-1 del Mandaloriano para este prĂłximo cuatro de mayo (DĂa de Star Wars) Es otra de las acciones promocionales de cara al estreno de la pelĂcula The Mandalorian and Grogu a finales de mayo. Esta versiĂłn del Caza Estelar N-1 se va a lanzar dentro de la colecciĂłn UCS, el...
A special team, including prosecutors Lin Zhi Tao and Bai En Yu, works to protect children through the legal system. They come across crimes that test their emotional strength, but despite the horrifying cases, they have to fight for justice for one of societyâs most vulnerable: the children. Characters Lin Zhi Tao...
It's time somebody invented beaming. And it doesn't have to be beaming a person at first, though that would be ideal... but maybe we could start with small objects. For example, I usually write these posts at my favourite café downtown. But I haven't been feeling too well the last couple of days, so I have to stay...
I read an April 18, 2026 report in the New York Post titled After holding its nose for decades, NJ finally bans stinky Bradford pear tree: Under a new law, the Bradford pear tree and 29 other non-native plants that have been leafing chaos on local ecosystems, posing public safety risks, crowding out native plants...
No me considero una persona que pasa mucho tiempo en las redes aunque hay dĂas que hago la excepciĂłn. Nunca me sentĂ atraĂdo por el furor de TikTok, nunca twiteĂ© demasiado, ni publiquĂ© muchas fotos en Facebook. Tampoco tuve un Fotolog en los tiempos en que todos tenĂan. Para mĂ las redes sociales nunca la sentĂ...
As mentioned in the previous post, I've been having a play around with Copilot/Claude vs Gemini when it comes to getting the agents to seek out "bad" code and improve it. In that first post on the subject, I highlighted how both tools noticed some real duplication of effort, both addressed it in more or less the...
I think I have made it to Linux. It's now my desktop of choice 99.9% of the time. I've experimented in Linux for centuries! In the early days there was always something major holding me back from getting serious with our penguin friend. It was often a driver problem -- unable to recognise my display, sound card,...
On the six month anniversary of the day I quit drinking, I marked the occasion by attending a meeting. It seemed appropriate, plus I wanted to get my coin. Getting the coin for six months was important to me; it signified that this was actually happening and that the subsequent ongoing attempt was real. I hadn't...
Dali in Yunnan may be the best place I've ever visited â better than the Mediterranean or Southeast Asia. Here's why almost no one in the Western world knows it exists.
We place lifeâs bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall of the wildest reaches of the possible, which always includes but exceeds the probable. It helps to remember that we ourselves are children of improbability, that everything we...
Last week, I got the job offer I actually wanted, and I went on an office tour yesterday! I'm pretty sure I'm the youngest person working there.
April 2026. Saltburn-by-the-Sea. I visited the Cleveland coast in last weekendâs heatwave, or at least thatâs what it felt like with the radiant heat stronger than the air temperature. My irritating 3pm GBG opener (go on, guess what it is) meant half a day to kill by the seaside, admiring Saltburnâs floral displays,...
Last year I discovered Proust. It's really one of those things: everyone tells you you have to read Proust, but you don't, until one day you do and when you do you ask "why did no one ever tell me?". This month I finished In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, translated into English by James Grieve. It reminded me...
I've seen three blog posts about this in my feeds today, and it's notable that so far everybody avoids openly sharing that they blog. I do share it when it's relevant, but thinking about this made me realize that I feel silly saying the word "blog" out loud. And it is a silly word after all, or at least I've always...
Hereâs some stuff Iâve experienced lately (and not necessarily only new releases)...
CĂąnd am Ăźnceput cu blogul, Ăźn jurul anului 2005, le-am spus multor oameni cÄ scriu pe un blog Èi l-am promovat peste tot unde am putut. MulÈi ani am fÄcut asta cu mai multe domenii pe care am avut bloguri. Acum, Ăźn viaÈa realÄ, nu mai spun nimÄnui, ci doar online mai menÈionez cÄ am un blog. De obicei, ofer un link...
The joy of exploring a city with friends â of getting lost and finding your sense of place again, of laughing under the moon and discussing the rainbows we see when we look at light; of discussing the cuisine of Germany in a warmly lit bakery, a treat as the day came to an end; of looking forward to the next day â...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tues 04/28/2026 - Ninjask Man, I love a bug in a sentai mask. I get that a lot of sentai masks are like, bug adjacent anyway but it's just cool. Never had one of these in a game but I'll def be on the lookout in titles where they're present. Weds...
I am currently backdating some of these posts so if you see these come across your RSS feed, I'm sorry. â ïž Want to learn what these Micro Thoughts are? Read the explanation here April 26, 2026 @ 1:51 PMđžïž Spidey season means making time to de-web the house. My arachnophobia cannot deal and I'm slowly dying inside....
One of my personal rules for social media is that I only use the web version of sites. The web version is better for privacy, far less addictive, and makes my phone less bloated. In the last few days, Reddit added a great new feature to the the mobile web version of their site. Now, when you try to browse their site...
Went to IKEA to buy a mix of real and fake plants and wondered, what kind of dining set defines me as a person? + 2 photosCurrently Listening: Beastie Boys âThat's It That's AllâReply via email
Iâve been working on transitioning this site over to a static generator and Iâve also been working on a new site design. What I decided to do is sort of a cross between the two: my current site will be converted into a static version of what stands today, design and all. Itâll be an archive of what was essentially...
I didn't quit my job per se â we moved to another country with higher living costs, and the company was unable (or unwilling, depending on how you look at it) to give me the required salary increase. It was a relief, really, because pretty much everything in this article resonates with me.
Tan uniform. A body that would have fit it comfortably two years ago. The optimistic hubris of the day's test subject. Carl---a middle-manager that Gerty hoped to never see again. His last name already forgotten, even though it was at the top of the form she was prompting him to sign. Even James, her supervisor,...
Here is a collection of things I liked and bookmarked during April 2026:Smolwebifying my siteGeek TragedyHow to Ditch Digital Distraction in 2026Do I belong in tech anymore?Beware Software Brainthe slopphoneMayhem's Legacy: Why MetaBrainz Matters More Than Ever, and Why We're Looking for Someone to Lead ItSayonara...
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. Linux on PlayStation 5. The ps5-linux project enables the installation of a Linux distribution on the original PlayStation 5 (the physically larger model). The installation isnât...
There are two options. One is that AI makes the pie bigger and everyone gets richer. That is, firms pay AI service providers $2 trillion/year because AI makes them more productive and therefore more profitable. Unfortunately, as far as anyone can tell, that's just not happening. The second is that the pie doesn't...
In this era of powerful tools to find software bugs, we now see tools find a lot of problems at a high speed. This causes problems for developers, as dealing with the growing list of issues is hard. It may take a longer time to address the problems than to find them â not to mention to put them into releases and...
I have never come across a book so hard to classify before. Firstly, this book is beautifully written; a triumph for a first person point of view. Piranesi (the character) is kooky enough that effulgent and flowery prose is not incongruous. Framed as their journals, we open in media res with our narrator explaining...
Consciousness. I know I have it, but have no idea what it is or where it comes from (nor does anyone else, whatever they may say). I am equally sure that I have a soul, but again have no idea what it is or where it comes from. Are consciousness and soul the same thing, or aspects of the same thing? Is soul perhaps a...
img { display: inline-block; } rose Went on vacation with friends :) Had a fun time in some museum exhibitions! I've been putting effort into getting ready for working from home a similar way to how I get ready when I go to the office, and it has helped me feeling more ready and energized for the day. I've noticed...
This is another rather personal post that doesnât really bring any tips or solutions or whatever, just rambling about myself yet again. I often call myself an introvert, and due to yesterdayâs post, I got some helpful feedback, advice and opinions about it, which I appreciate a bunch! Some got me thinking about how...
A whole lot of things have been happening in the past month, between Wait Wait-related and personal updates. Instead of spreading it out into multiple blog posts, I decided to kind of do a Lightning round/omnibus blog post briefly touching on each item.
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On March 14, 2021, I photographed a âbanana benchâ outside a townhouse stoop in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Not long after, on April 2, 2021, I documented that banana bench in Brooklyn Banana Bench Photo, wherein I erroneously attributed the bench to Gowanus, Brooklyn (It is actually in Boerum Hill). I did not think back...
This year I decided to treat myself with a new keyboard, and Iâve chosen the Keychron Q3 Max; this post is a short summary of my impressions after a few weeks of use. To begin with, the mandatory TL;DR: I love it. There is no way to put it; this is by far the best keyboard I have ever owned, and I cannot believe I...
En el documental Scratch (2001), DJ Shadow aparecĂa buscando vinilos raros en el sĂłtano de una vieja tienda de discos. Recuerdo que le decĂa al cĂĄmara: «Cuidado, una vez encontrĂ© un murciĂ©lago momificado entre unos discos». En ese momento descubrĂ la literalidad del tĂ©rmino Dusty (polvoriento) que se usa en el mundo...