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In a post yesterday I finished off by saying: At least I have, as of the time of writing, 1,380 tests to check that I've not broken anything when I do hand-clean the code. But, hmm, there's a question: can I actually trust those tests?...
Simon had always considered himself a creature of habit, finding comfort in the predictable rhythm of his days. But today, that rhythm had been disrupted by an unsettling undercurrent; a feeling that something was amiss. From the moment...
Just over three years ago, I wrote a post about blogging. In hindsight, that was a pretty “OK” post. Blogging, and blogging about blogging, has continued to thrive since then. Blogging has strengthened its legitimacy as both a hobby and...
It’s been a busy week, both at work and at home. I think the heat also made the week much more tiring, but thankfully, it rained a bit yesterday. Hopefully we will get more rains. Uma at South United Football Club. It’s summer camp. I...
A few days ago, I wrote a reply to an email by my friend Cris, keeping each other updated about our lives after a few months of not hearing from another. Writing it really helped me realize some good changes and upcoming things to look...
Antecedently: Shootin’ dudes twice and puttin’ ‘em on ice; Murine Gear Solid; you can get surprisingly decent nachos at the Frightened Pirate We decide to kind of pre-introduce our characters to the table, then work them in organically...
A man with a three line tattoo on his forehead: Do it messy.Do it scared.Do it unprepared. He walked into every room already apologizing with his face, which is to say he walked in honest. The tattoo wasn’t a manifesto. It was a scar...
I found out about human.json so I added it to my page. I thought it was rather interesting idea, and might as well participate to it. I do not plan to use "AI" tools for the ethical reasons alone, so it seemed fitting to have that. Now...
It is the first of May which means it is May Day, or Day of Work/Labor Day here in Germany, a day where you, ironically don’t work. I just learned yesterday that in the UK May Day isn’t on May 1st, but the first Monday of May, which,...
I wanted to fix my sleep and morning routine, which had been inconsistent for a while, and my Dog's routine was the perfect one to go after. Snoopy wakes up at 4AM, gets her morning light, plays, eats, and is napping by 9. April, with...
Folosesc platforma Pure Blog pentru acest jurnal, care este una foarte bună, simplă de folosit și ușor de instalat. Totuși, are câteva lucruri mici care nu-mi plac, dar nici nu mă deranjează prea mult – pur și simplu îmi stau în minte....
We just published a blog post about Symphony – an agent orchestrator I built for my team at OpenAI. Here I wanted to share a few behind-the-scenes bits that didn’t make the cut. Earlier this year I joined a team that had gone all-in on...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the...
Habe dieses Essay schon letztes Jahr geschrieben für ein Seminar über Tod und sexuelle Bildung. Grade habe ich das wiederentdeckt, und weil "Zeug posten, das ich für die Uni schreibe" anscheinend etwas ist, was ich jetzt mache, darf das...
Heya! So, the Gazette chose "The Dispossessed" by Ursula Le Guin for this months book club (well, last months technically, but the deadline is the 8th of this month). Anyways, as is tradition, I'm gonna review it here. So, first and...
¡Este mayo de 2026 es el mes de LibreLocal! La Free Software Foundation (FSF) invita a partidarios del software libre como tú a organizar un meetup para reunir a la gente y intercambiar ideas, aprender unos de otros y celebrar el...
Llevo bastantes años que me he convertido un poco en búho: me cunden las noches para hacer diferentes cosas, desde escribir, leer o trabajar. Lo que no sé es si por madrugar se aprovecha más el día porque luego, durante el día día...
Happy May Day, Beltane, and Calan Mai! Here are a few photos from my phone from the last month with neither rhyme nor reason to the theme. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email:...
My first thought was the field of pink petals. Day by day, petals fall from the tree as green leaves grow from the blossom. I wonder for how long the petals will keep falling. There seem to be a million dots of pink in spring, from which...
Brian hovered near the surface of his bowl, watching the world above the water ripple with distorted shapes and colours. For weeks, he had been still — too still — drifting listlessly as a faint pink tinge coloured his watery world. The...
In this short video I demonstrate my new package for Emacs. It is called buffer-to-pdf. The idea is to save your current buffer to a PDF, while preserving how it looks. This means that your font size, theme, and other visual effects are...
It was unbearably hot out and the air conditioning was broken on the champagne colored 1999 Volvo that I purchased with the money from my first record deal. My thighs stuck to the cracked leather seats as hot air blew out of the tan...
County Roads, Take Me Home My phone served up a cover version of this John Denver classic as I was chauffeuring my wife around yesterday. Something about the lyric hit me in a way that I'd never noticed before. Almost Heaven, West...
I did it! In April, I did one month of daily blogging, one new post per day. Usually I put all my blogging thoughts into the thought-log, but I think a milestone like this warrants its own entry. I wasn't really planning on doing this...
My Bear Notes experiment is moving along nicely, though I was tempted to pull Drafts back into the mix this morning. The only thing still rattling around in my head is the app-vs-database question whether I want my notes living in a...
I consider myself a decisive person, though I do have my weaknesses. Major purchases, like electronic devices, are always a soap opera. The Apple Watch one lasted a few years. At the end of 2025, a special episode aired with a major plot...
I keep coming back to the same thought with theMacBook Neo: this might be the first Apple laptop in a long time that actually makes sense for normal school life. Not fantasy school life. Not “my parents bought me a fully loaded MacBook...
I recently reviewed my library of posts and it gave me an idea. What began here as a random series of posts about photography turned into something different as I went through them: an argument about the last two centuries of human...
I will be the first to admit that I'm sometimes bad at responding to texts — but I'm not 113-unread-messages bad, as the notification badge on my Mac makes me out to be. It sits there mocking me, over a hundred messages that despite my...
I had a wonderful visit ay Court Street Books in Florence, AL this week. These folks know books and love book people.
Don't forget to take regular backups of your blog. You've put a lot of effort into writing your content. Don't rely on your blog provider to take backups for you. If you self-host, the backups should be part of your regular backup...
Life has been busy and I missed the past 2 days, but thankfully I remembered to bring the camera with me today! I snuck out in the brief calm between rain storms, don't particularly want to test how waterproof my camera is. ↑ This is the...
I have seen a blog post asking Who knows that you blog? making the rounds lately and for me the answer is pretty easy: probably everyone who knows me but not many people are even remotely interested. (Some are and: thank you! I really...
Interesting stuff elsewhere… “There are lots of decisions that, in an ideal world, would be made in a flexible, holistic, discretionary way, but which cannot be made that way by institutions that have lost the public’s trust” — Daniel...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. In which I briefly comment on the books I read each month, so a few years from now when I’m trying to remember one of them, I’ll be able to find it here. Since I’m a media omnivore, it also...
Hello! One of my long term projects on here is figuring out how to write frontend Javascript without using Node or any other server JS runtime. One issue I run into a lot in my frontend JS projects is that I don’t know how to write tests...
I’ve been listening to the regular Apple-related podcasts, and man, am I tired of all of the talk about the Cook/Ternus transition, to the point where I’ve just been stopping episodes midway through. I mean, of course it’s important...
I just found this blog post from Rob Bowley in my RSS feed and one paragraph just so resonated with what I read and hear so much: For CEOs and founders hoping to benefit, the answer isn’t as simple as handing out Claude licences […]....
Good evening, worms and germs! Please hold your applause until the end. We have 8 wonderful categories to run through, covering 40 different finalists recognizing some of the best short fiction that was published in the year 2025.Our aim...
We welcome May with a new edition of the daily Pook-Emu Bee links (after a spotty week). It looks nice outside my window… 1. Stripe introduces Link, a digital wallet that autonomous AI agents can use, too (Sarah Perez for TechCrunch....
I opened an article by Zoe Skyforest for Hackaday titled GameCube Bot Records Your Play in a Weird Way. The article opened: If you wanted to record yourself playing on a GameCube, you could use a VCR to capture the video output on tape....
Because there’s more than the Orange Man that spills over the Atlantic! Agitpop by The Iron Roses. I had the pleasure to see them live at the Reconstruction Tour last year. Ben by Macklemore whom I have dreadfully neglected since the...
Recovering the “forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence” alive in the back of our modernity-deadened minds. There is a myth we live with, the myth of finding the meaning of life — as if meaning were an undiscovered...
There's a telenovela I started watching called Las hijas de la señora García. My Spanish still isn't that great yet, so I mainly enjoy it because it's a show I can actually understand. The storylines are rather simplistic and...
Ross Barkan: The culture … does get stuck. We are too backward-facing already. The Metropolitan Review has run its fair share of retrospectives, but I’ve been in the mood, of late, to crack down on them. There is always going to be...
Four of the five steps in every unary RPC handler are wire plumbing. Pin the service function signature and they fit in one generic adapter per transport.
Si, continuamos con la serie de tutoriales basadas en el hecho de que ya tenemos una red privada virtual (VPN) desde la que podremos acceder a la autenticación de servicios a los que solo nosotros accedemos. Introducción Hasta el momento...
I've been a customer of One Medical for many years. I was devastated when Amazon bought them in 2023. Despite my chagrin at this acquisition, quality of care did not change when Amazon took over, so I have stayed using the service.1...
Birdchosting to the max, my friends This morning while I was taking out my AM litter haul (living with this many cats you do multiple empties per day) I heard more birdsong than usual, and it sounded a little distressed. Upon closer...
Una nueva entrega de publicaciones interesantes que leí y son interesantes para compartir. El fracaso del email seguro: privacidad, metadatos y la ilusión Suiza en 2026 | El Gato Oscuro Una excelente entrada donde el autor analiza la...
My choice of paid AI is probably strange to most … besides Gemini, which is assigned to me at work (meaning, work pays for it), I’m personally paying for … Mistral. Mistral is seen as Europe’s leading AI service alternative to US...
2026-05-01Hello! It's May now!Last night, I performed at a school concert with a jazz band, where everyone gets to watch me struggle with my cheap old electric guitar. Seriously — the thing's nearly a decade old at this point and the...
My favourite season is springFlowers burst from the earth in joyTrees dress in the brightest greenBirds sing the days awakeChildren play in the street outsideTheir laughter brightens my dayMy heart slowly exhales, releasesThe darkness of...
If you haven’t seen it yet, one of my open source projects that I’ve been “maintaining” for a while is called todometer. It’s a glorified to-do app with a progress bar, in a desktop app. It’s built with Electron and React, and I first...
There’s this time in the house before the neighborhood becomes that. Before voices rise in a myriad of talks, yells, kids playing. I guess truth be told I don’t mind the kids. Khmer kids are completely different than their adult...
Resting yesterday alongside 819 Ramona St. on an afternoon walk, my helper Isaac and I noted once again that the building started life as Palo Alto’s first Black church. Black meaning African American, one of a number of uses for the...
April is over, there were many birthdays and celebration parties from friends and family, there were also unexpected losses to mourn. My siblings visited for a while and we went out quite a lot. We returned to the moon and landed safely...
Half the web might know about your blog, but how many of your in-person acquaintances, people in your household, community, or workplace, know you blog? Do you even tell them? Do you want to? The question came up at Forking Mad this...
April 2026. Wigan. Another weekend, another trip to Manchester, but this time for a rare Saturday gig. Not that the lack of football means Piccadilly is any quieter, Platform 14 showcasing the nation’s favourite train beers. Perhaps. A...
evet başlık şu anda türkçe kullandığımı düşündüğümde biraz ironik ama anlatmaya çalıştığım şeyin açık olduğunu düşünüyorum. türkçe benim ana dilim ama ben neden bu blogda hiç türkçe bir şeyler yazmıyorum? bunu sorgulamaya biraz arkadaşım...
Canva pidió perdón cuando su herramienta que utiliza IA generativa cambió la palabra Palestine a Ucrania. En términos simples, la herramienta convierte un archivo de trabajo de pixeles, en capas. Pero ya sabemos que no convierte un...
Quelques petits changements apportés ces dernières semaines sur le Carnet. Le plus visible, c’est que j’ai finalement cédé à réutiliser une police avec empattement pour le contenu. Les performances sont légèrement impactées, mais...
I've read a few posts about people leaving GitHub recently, and following my short note to the Fediverse a number of people have piped up saying they're not fans of GitHub, either. From the reading I've done, these frustrations are...
This morning I was one of the 283 finishers at Coburg parkrun event #517, and K was one of the 14 volunteers. From last weekend’s post and the previous weekend’s post, it may seem that I only go to parkrun to participate in challenges,...
My library shelves are organized by genre. There about 14 subdivisions. Within each subdivision, books are arranged alphabetically by author's last name. Each shelf has a tag indicating its range (which authors, alphabetically, are on...
Defining the problem, curiosity tours, intellectual rigidity, choosing boredom over optimization and valuing time more than money. This random indieblog.page link was picked on Friday, May 1st 2026. It was originally published on Sunday,...