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The Psychology of this is so amazing!! So well done!
Skipped Weeknote and Mac Disk CorruptionIâm feeling poorly myself for the past week (have an appointment tomorrow with the doctor), so unfortunately my weeknote for 2026-W18 will be cancelled. Not only am I not feeling well, my Mac Mini is also acting up, reporting that the primary data volume is corrupt and needs...
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a half-assed review"> From the award-winning creators behind Journey (2013 Game of The Year) and the highly-acclaimed Flower, comes a ground-breaking social adventure that is set to warm your hearts. Welcome to the enchanting world of Sky, a beautifully-animated kingdom waiting to be explored by you and your loved...
A quiet week at work. There were two public holidays in South Africa on Monday and Friday, so quite a few of our SA-based colleagues took the other three days as leave. I had some nice gaps in my diary to allow me to get things done. I took Friday off to relax ahead of an early start on Saturday, but ended up...
While staying at an AirBnB during our visit to the Netherlands, I wrote some code to import all of my AirBnB stays from over the years, as a part of my ongoing attempt to import all the things! There havenât been all that many of them, but each of them is a nice memory, and whatâs a personal website if not a place...
Since Iâm still in the process of developing my own, I currently have to rely on other RSS readers. And from time to time, I switch them. Today was such a day. Normally, what I do is export an OPML file from my old reader and import it into the new one. But in my current reader, I couldnât find that export option....
Check out As in guillotine... for more. Earlier this year, LibraryPass (my full-time passion for nearly six years) was acquired, and I decided it was a good time to figure out my next adventure while helping the new owners through the initial transition. That transition is in its final phase now, so for the first...
Excerpts related to "Venetia" and the "Veneti" from the "Naturalis Historia" by Pliny the Elder (1st century)
K recently joked that were I to appear on Mastermind, my specialist subject would be Iron Maiden. She may be right. Theyâre certainly the band I have paid the most attention to over the years. Throughout the 90s they were the band I listened to the most, and this led to me discovering more bands. As a teenager my...
Mandy hated New Year. It left her feeling desolate, in spite of the whisky and sleeping pills that helped her to function on less harrowing days. It was two years ago, on New Yearâs Eve, since her fifteen-year-old son, Charlie, ran away. After a thorough search, full media coverage, and all the usual legal...
âWhat weâd hope for on the planet is creativity and sanity, conviviality, the real work of our hands and minds.â âThe universe is made of stories, not atoms,â Muriel Rukeyser wrote in her poem âThe Speed of Darknessâ not long after James Baldwin told an audience of writers that âwe made the world weâre living in and...
Let me start by saying this: I do not like transmigration dramas. Itâs one genre I avoid like the plague. Alongside youth dramas, they sit firmly on my personal âI canât watch thisâ list. That said, I did give another transmigration drama by Wang Yilu a try once: Yummy, Yummy, Yummy. It had potential because the...
I have a Yamaha P-115 digital piano, itâs been propped up in the corner for about three years. Today I took 20 mins to shuffle some things around in my office (our spare room), and itâs set up. And my son is currently sitting bashing away at the keys. I need to try and remember [âŠ]Thanks for reading and keeping RSS...
A decent startI just returned from the first run of the 3rd week of my Couch to 5k programme, and I'm feeling surprisingly good. Here's what today's run looked like: Start with a pre-run stretch (I've found this quick 5 minute stretch to be quite effective) A brisk 5-minute walk to warm up A 90-second running...
I'm out and about, MacBook Air in tow, with a couple of hours to kill. So I dip into a coffee shop and decide to tinker with stuff. I open up Codeberg and... Okay, guess I'll be using something else at the moment then. So far I'm not having a lot of success. PS: That . after the : though...
In the modern era of age verification, Iâm seeing more parents expose themselves for who they are and what they let their kids do. Parenting used to be giving children toys and then watching them play or even playing with them. Then it turned into sitting in front of TVs, and then it turned into giving them The...
Recently I've been struggling to find things to write in the intro of these posts, or finding things to write on the blog in general. I'm kind of in a creative slump it seems... and I don't really know what to do about it except wait it out and see when the creativity comes back. Don't worry, the linkdumps aren't...
Totul a pornit de la clip pe care l-am vÄzut pe YouTube: Is Firefox a Pig?. Nu era ceva la care mÄ aÈteptam sÄ petrec mai mult de cĂąteva minute, dar m-a prins pentru cÄ punea degetul exact pe problema cu care mÄ luptam Èi cu care se luptÄ aproape fiecare utilizator de Firefox. Folosesc Waterfox - un navigator bazat...
We're in the process of moving and it's eye-opening just how much stuff we've accumulated over the span of just two and a half years. During that time, my in-laws from Viet Nam stayed with us for several months, and we welcomed our son into the world. As a result, we made a lot of purchases and learned a few things....
The problem is not that Google wants more AI inside Chrome. The problem is that Chrome appears willing to treat usersâ computers like rollout infrastructure. There is a version of this story that is too simple. It goes something like this: Google is shoving AI onto everyoneâs machine, therefore everything about it...
My backup strategy follows the 3-2-1 backup rule: Three copies of your data On two different media One copy off-site Some people argue that your production data (the copy stored on your laptop, for example) counts as one of those copies. I disagree. While it may be a copy of your current data, it's not a copy of...
Sorry for the radio silence, for Iâve experienced a lot of first world problems. Iâve had some ups and downs the last few weeks, itâs fair to say. I think I shared the majority of them on the Now page, but the main one was that my laptop had experienced a battery failure, meaning I had to transfer over to my Windows...
An update to this. All this time, I either tried to find a good time to do it and delayed it, or told myself I could make it work for the rest of her life. It could get better, we have good times sometimes, and I could deal with seeing her once or twice a year, right? I thought everyone wins in this scenario: I...
After successfully finding my way back to my blog I have so far failed to do any blogging. I found that I had committed myself to doing so many other things that the time and energy for self-indulgence (i.e. writing for my own amusement) was lacking. We spent over a year sorting out my late motherâs belongings and...
Managers Returning to "Coding" with AI We have been talking with other engineering leaders around me about the impact of AI in our profession. Although nobody knows what will happen, I kept thinking about where I'm standing and what others are doing today. There is certainly a trend among managers to go back to...
The only research I have done for this post is observing finches in two very distinct geographic locations. This is a true, plausibleâeven spuriousâfact. Finches have a sinusoidal flight pattern. Meaning they flap their wings up to the top of the wave and then tuck their wings in and let gravity take them, then...
Right now thereâs a cruise ship parked outside Cabo Verde because of an outbreak of Andes virus. Yep, another cruise ship. I donât get the appeal. Itâs like a big open-air serial passage experiment: you get a bunch of old people with failing immune systems in close contact and race a pathogen through them. How much...
VolvĂ a publicar una entrada (con fecha original de publicaciĂłn) sobre las llamadas «PĂĄginas Matutinas» que tenĂa en un blog anterior, a mi actual. Por si quieres leerla esta acĂĄ. AhĂ escribĂ sobre el problema con ellas y la forma en que lo resolvĂ. Puede que te ayude si lo has intentado hacerlo varias veces sin Ă©xito.
A few months ago, during a therapy session, I mentioned the possibility that I might be addicted to screens. The psychologist asked what I do when Iâm not looking at them. I could only come up with a few things â all simple, some pathetic, like âwashing dishes.â She said itâs common for addicts, upon recognizing...
Our internet bill was too high. It had gone beyond the promotional contract period and the triple-play bundle for 300/300 net, medium-level TV package, and home phone (yes, a landline!) was just too much considering that we almost never watched live TV/DVR anymore. My goal was simple: Increase our net to gigabit,...
In this blog Iâve often mentioned the name of my late friend Bertrand Dufresne, who passed away 10 years ago this year. Despite all the good memories I have with him, I wanted to remember him through an object he offered me once. The eiPott was this short-lived thingy made by Koziol in 2010: a small, colorful...
Hago mucho eso de asociar objetos a personas (creo que algo comĂșn para todos Âżno?), siempre que veo tal objeto que pertenece o pertenecĂa a alguien, inmediatamente me acuerdo de Ă©l. Estuve pensando hoy cuales objetos son estos y ahĂ me di cuenta que desde la primaria tengo esta costumbre. Identificaba a mis...
The Pixar animated short Lifted was released in front of Ratatouille in 2006: Iâve always been amused by this imaginary interface, which is so clearly not how any sort of computer would work. Or so I thought. These are photos I took in Melbourne in 2024 of CSIRAC, Australiaâs first digital computer from about 1949:...
In January my corner of the social web was abuzz with the surprising announcement at Davos of a new social network: W Social, which aspires to be an alternative to X, based in Europe, with "identity verification to fight disinformation." Its goal? To foster social sovereignty for European citizens, away from the...
Hoy tuve una hermosa sensaciĂłn cuando llevĂ© a mi hija al colegio. Salimos bien temprano asĂ que no habĂa necesidad de ir rĂĄpido, es mĂĄs, es el momento que la vida nos da para pasar 20 minutos juntos, hablar un poco de algo, cansarla con algĂșn consejo y reĂr. Hoy fui mĂĄs despacio que de lo normal. Si bien la...
April 2026. Royal Tunbridge Wells. A gorgeous Tuesday night in Royal Tunbridge Wells, as blogging royalty headed out to see the state of pubs in commuterville. Mrs RM was racing down to the Pantiles, the picture postcard quarter, where Iâd asked her to meet me in the Ragged Trousers, a long-term favourite from her...
Thereâs a debate thatâs been running on the internet for nearly two decades: when someone gets harassed or hurt online, whose fault is it? The platformâs? The creator who posted the content? The person who chose to read it? This essay argues that the debate itself is the problem â and that keeping it going actually...
CĂłmo hacer que Amarok reproduzca archivos de mĂșsica en formato .wma en openSUSE TenĂa un par de discos en mi colecciĂłn de mĂșsica en formato .wma que el reproductor Amarok no me reproducĂa en mi sistema openSUSE Tumbleweed. Te cuento cĂłmo lo solucionĂ©. Un sencillo tutorial para mi yo del futuro o para ti que andas...
Credit Feed is the name I chose for my posts on video games. It is a term used by players of arcade games, particularly shmups, in reference to the act of using continues to finish a game. Most players have encountered shmups (shoot'em ups), and many are aware that arcade games are supposed to be challenging. I love...
Metal Gear Solid is a very cool franchise, that is apparently a bit of a mess when it comes to its story and the connection between each game and all of that. I am not as attached on it as I am on Resident Evil. I did not spend countless hours watching video essays about Metal Gear, or Hideo Kojima or the history of...
worldofreel.com Aster once quipped that he couldnât believe A24 was âstupid enoughâ to give him $35M to make âBeau Is Afraid.â They shelled out another $30M for âEddington,â which also failed to ignite. Maybe thatâs the end of that partnership. Bless their twisted hearts, they are back again for another dip into...
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Eu estava a tempos querendo escrever um texto sobre como era incrĂvel poder viver nos anos 90 e como era um dia naquela Ă©poca, como tudo era simples e fĂĄcil. Ou pelo menos Ă© o que as memĂłrias alteradas daquela Ă©poca pareciam ser. A grande verdade Ă© que conforme ficamos mais velhos nĂłs vamos romantizando certas...
The purpose of a design file is to gain consensus not tell developers what to build. A design file should be included with a functional specification as supporting information to help a developer visualise the output of the code they are writing. Because, no matter how much you use Auto-Layout or variables, a design...
TIMBRE [La Jornada, Martes 5 de mayo 2026]PRESIDENTA CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM. PRESENTE. PARTE II. Uno de los triunfos de los feminismos mexicanos de inicio de siglo XXI ha sido, sin lugar a duda, la tipificación del delito de feminicidio, que se incorporó poco a poco en los códigos penales a lo largo de una década,...
Human beings matter morally. We have moral standing. Our interests deserve consideration -- for our own sakes, and not just as means to ends. Good ethical decision-making requires valuing human lives. Most philosophers hold that humans have the highest moral standing. No entity matters more, and many matter less....
Quoted Strawberries were on sale by Chris Glass (Chris Glass) I try my best to stick to the grocery list but this was a really good deal for strawberries. I did that thing mixing 1 part white vinegar and 3 parts water, soak for 10 minutes and dry thoroughly to extend their freshness....
Difficulty: Impossible.Letâs set the scene. I am a line cook by profession but my passion is in fashion. I am on the job hunt and I figure the best way to find my Ikigai is the internet, so I look up âfashion line cook careerâ in my favorite search engine. I am moderately tech savvy so I skip past the first few...
On my Mac, I use Alfred for quick searches across specific engines. The setup is: custom URL patterns with keyword triggers gs in the Alfred bar launches a Google search, ds launches DuckDuckGo. The problem is Alfred doesn't exist on iPhone and iPad. That's where xSearch comes in. xSearch is a Safari extension for...
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Dear Ciara, The garden beds are built, the seedlings are growing, but theyâre still not large enough to be transplanted. Iâm hoping another next week is all that is needed, provided the weather behaves itself and I keep on top of watering them consistently. Transplanting seeds in the tropics is a challenging...
Una cosa que sĂ© que tengo pendiente en general es mejorar mi hidrataciĂłn. En general bebo poca agua; como no suelo hacer esfuerzos fĂsicos durante el dĂa ni estoy en exterior no paso calor y, al final, no tengo sed. Pero sĂ© que necesito beber mĂĄs agua de la que habitualmente bebo. No hace falta cumplir a raja tabla...
I met with Amin Bandali to talk about Emacs, specifically Aminâs upcoming ffs package. Amin informed me about changes to ffs in light of a discussion we had during a previous session. Amin asked me to record the meeting and then publish it, which I happily agreed to. You can watch it on Aminâs website:...
Hey, dipshit. You know what compiles in two seconds, deploys as a single binary, and doesn't shit itself when a transitive dependency gets yanked from npm at 3am? Go. The same way HTML has been sitting there since the dawn of the goddamn internet waiting for you to stop overcomplicating the frontend, Go has been...
Now I am 26 + 1 years old. My better half made me this delicious cake and gave me these beautiful flowers and some cool presents!
Nobody really talks about radio anymore. And by "nobody", I mean people my age. Speaking of people my age, I've been noticing this uptick in content about curation. Its the mechanic behind online aesthetics and microtrends1, which is in part engineered by human enagagement and curated by algorithms. We're given a...
2026-05-07Hello!This is a close-up photograph of the glamorous louvers of the science laboratory from before. These things are about forty feet tall, and have held up for a few years now. They're installed outside â you can see the clouds through these structures â and I wonder how the architects and builders tested...
Lately, thereâs been a lot of buzz in my tech bubble about good old RSS/Atom feeds. Not only are people rediscovering them and making them available on their blogs, but new services are also popping up around this 30-year-old technology. Itâs just so wonderfully independent and fits the trend of moving away from...
Went to yoga again today, a different teacher, and it was so transformative. Instead of talking constantly, he got us to pause between each asana, in tailor seat, eyes close. I teared up several times because I could feel what each asana did to my body. I could feel the strain in my muscles, the breath, first high,...