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Volví a publicar una entrada (con fecha original de publicación) sobre las llamadas «Páginas Matutinas» que tenía en un blog anterior, a mi actual. Por si quieres leerla esta acá. Ahí escribí sobre el problema con ellas y la forma en que...
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 Year’s Eve, since her fifteen-year-old son, Charlie, ran away....
Hago mucho eso de asociar objetos a personas (creo que algo común para todos ¿no?), siempre que veo tal objeto que pertenece o pertenecía a alguien, inmediatamente me acuerdo de él. Estuve pensando hoy cuales objetos son estos y ahí me...
Can someone explain TikTok algo-crafting to me? Seriously, I think it might just be an insanely massive cope for screen addiction, but at the same time it's such an easy way to stay Tapped In—so I don't know exactly how I feel about it....
Una cosa que sé que tengo pendiente en general es mejorar mi hidratación. En general bebo poca agua; como no suelo hacer esfuerzos físicos durante el día ni estoy en exterior no paso calor y, al final, no tengo sed. Pero sé que necesito...
Cómo hacer que Amarok reproduzca archivos de música en formato .wma en openSUSE Tenía un par de discos en mi colección de música en formato .wma que el reproductor Amarok no me reproducía en mi sistema openSUSE Tumbleweed. Te cuento cómo...
“What we’d hope for on the planet is creativity and sanity, conviviality, the real work of our hands and minds.” “The universe is made of stories, not atoms,” Muriel Rukeyser wrote in her poem “The Speed of Darkness” not long after James...
Afternoon tea at the Hyatt Hotel, Canberra.
Difficulty: Impossible.Let’s 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 “fashion line cook career” in my...
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...
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...
Dear Ciara, The garden beds are built, the seedlings are growing, but they’re still not large enough to be transplanted. I’m hoping another next week is all that is needed, provided the weather behaves itself and I keep on top of...
Sorry for the radio silence, for I’ve experienced a lot of first world problems. I’ve had some ups and downs the last few weeks, it’s fair to say. I think I shared the majority of them on the Now page, but the main one was that my laptop...
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...
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)...
Hoy tuve una hermosa sensación cuando llevé a mi hija al colegio. Salimos bien temprano así que no había necesidad de ir rápido, es más, es el momento que la vida nos da para pasar 20 minutos juntos, hablar un poco de algo, cansarla con...
The Psychology of this is so amazing!! So well done!
I met with Amin Bandali to talk about Emacs, specifically Amin’s 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...
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...
I use a Makefile to move my emacs configuration from its git repo in my home directory to the emacs config directory. There are a variety of better ways a person could move files from one place to another and a Makefile probably wouldn't...
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...
Excerpts related to "Venetia" and the "Veneti" from the "Naturalis Historia" by Pliny the Elder (1st century)
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 I’m not looking at them. I could only come up with a few things — all simple, some...
Totul a pornit de la clip pe care l-am văzut pe YouTube: Is Firefox a Pig?. Nu era ceva la care mă așteptam să petrec mai mult de câteva minute, dar m-a prins pentru că punea degetul exact pe problema cu care mă luptam și cu care se...
Lately, there’s 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....
Speaking of Daredevil, don’t bother with the podcast that is advertised at the beginning of the season 2 episodes. I’ve found nothing insightful at all in them—they are nothing but the actors swooning over each other.
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."...
Eu estava a tempos querendo escrever um texto sobre como era incrível poder viver nos anos 90 e como era um dia naquela época, como tudo era simples e fácil. Ou pelo menos é o que as memórias alteradas daquela época pareciam ser. A...
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...
Since I’m 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...
In this blog I’ve 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...
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...
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...
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...
Let me start by saying this: I do not like transmigration dramas. It’s one genre I avoid like the plague. Alongside youth dramas, they sit firmly on my personal “I can’t watch this” list. That said, I did give another transmigration...
In the modern era of age verification, I’m 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...
The problem is not that Google wants more AI inside Chrome. The problem is that Chrome appears willing to treat users’ computers like rollout infrastructure. There is a version of this story that is too simple. It goes something like...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nic Tringali, whose blog I've linked to many times here in the past, just released a new videogame!! Amberspire is a very tense, quite difficult citybuilder where resources are generated by dice rolls. Each building can roll its own die...
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...
Learning notes 2026-W01 Karri presents the value of designing the problem and solutions in stages. Our interfaces have lost their senses I agree to Amelia’s message. The human computer interfaces are devolving in modalities and...
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...
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....
worldofreel.com Aster once quipped that he couldn’t believe A24 was “stupid enough” to give him $35M to make “Beau Is Afraid.” They shelled out another $30M for “Eddington,” which also failed to ignite. Maybe that’s the end of that...
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There’s a debate that’s been running on the internet for nearly two decades: when someone gets harassed or hurt online, whose fault is it? The platform’s? The creator who posted the content? The person who chose to read it? This essay...
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...
Uno de los temas a los que vuelvo cada tanto es la escritura. En esta entrada comento qué y cómo escribo a mano. En el ámbito personal He llegado a un punto en el que lo que escribo y las herramientas que uso para escribir a mano son de...
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...
Right now there’s a cruise ship parked outside Cabo Verde because of an outbreak of Andes virus. Yep, another cruise ship. I don’t get the appeal. It’s like a big open-air serial passage experiment: you get a bunch of old people with...
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...
Últimamente tengo ideas sobre que escribir pero no me decido exactamente que idea elegir y desarrollar, además, el hecho de estar sin electricidad e internet 6-8 horas diarias hacen que mi mente se concentre en otras cosas y las ideas se...
K recently joked that were I to appear on Mastermind, my specialist subject would be Iron Maiden. She may be right. They’re certainly the band I have paid the most attention to over the years. Throughout the 90s they were the band I...
Some time ago I met the coffee shop day manager here when I came. She has wonderful English skills from her time working in Oman. Now we just chat about life here, how much we both enjoy Siem Reap, what the day to day brings. I also just...
我不再在通勤路上刷 Instagram了。我卸载了 app，但是因为有一些朋友习惯用它来代替 LINE，所以我在浏览器上登录了我的账号，不定期上去 check 一下，令人欣慰（？）的是目前为止我每次打开都能看到有朋友联系我。 我不再订阅 Spotify。虽然可以用女朋友的学生认证一个月没有多少钱，但是发现最近的新歌越来越无聊了，而且总是听着东西感觉有些信息过载。目前在用本地音乐播放器听下载下来的自己喜欢的歌。 我不再在睡前看手机了。我把 kindle...
