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Fri May 08
One of the other librarians emailed this morning asking if the rest of us had gotten an email from an outfit called Librar Labs. We hadn't, but I looked them up. And yeah, this whole webpage can fuck off: Librar Labs How can it fuck off...
🎵 Listening to the Bird Songs playlist by Anthony Ciccarello. I’m all set for my birdathon fundraiser tomorrow. I’ve even got my bird playlist lined up!
Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM 2026-05-08 My micro site, zero.btxx.org, is being served to the public internet from a Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 running Alpine Linux. The best part? It’s diskless and running...
I. Tide Sleeping, breath rolls in waves,surf on the shore of dreams.Moon hauls the dreamer’s water, phase by phase;kelp-dark thought uncoils, opens like a palm. Thought-flotsam the shore collects,wrack from teeming verdant life.The...
You know, a guy like me is prone to rumination, obviously. But over the last 24 hours or so, there hasn't been way too much of that, so I don't have a super awesome thing I want to write about off the top of my head. I never like it when...
I a movie that I recently watched, the weather (a typhoon, to be precise) plays a key role for the progression of the plot. To foreshadow this, weather reports are used as background noise during establishing shots throughout the movie....
See for yourself This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/quickies/digg-is-back-and-it-s-ai-slop-shit/
this post is in response to this post by lwgrs and this post by donthave2sting. I am also not going to talk about shortwave radio in this post as it's outside the scope of these two but historically speaking it predates FM radio and was...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la...
The default slog API is loose enough that a careless line ships broken JSON to production. Pin it down with Attr constructors, LogAttrs, a context-borne logger, and sloglint.
Dear reader,As a person with a weird interest in browsers, I sometimes go through different subreddits to see what's going on in that space. I often encounter people sharing the browser extensions they use while asking for more...
Não acredito que mais um post sobre anime. Até eu estou surpreso comigo mesmo. Mas esse foi um filme que passou completamente despercebido por mim, não sei se eu só ignorei ele ou se não vi ninguém comentando sobre, e eu só descobri ele...
Everyone in my life (including myself) has experienced one "big death" in their life, the kind that changes everything. Something I've noticed is that, whenever the dead person's name comes up, people start asking these hypothetical...
As part of my birthday present earlier this year, Fern got me a half day cooking course for Outdoor Dirty Cooking and smoking workshop from Howl Bushcraft, which took place a couple of Sundays ago. As part of the workshop, we learned to...
Back in 2018, the American Sign Museum saved the old Cincinnati Gardens sign and installed it on their exterior wall facing the street. Over time they put up scaffolding and have been filling it up with local signs to preserve and share...
Thought I would try something different for this entry! Each of these photos were taken with my Gameboy Camera attached to an Analogue Pocket (since it allows easy exporting). I've had this cartridge since I was a kid (I included 2...
Read Maureen's story, Jigsaw, now!Are you a big fan of jigsaw puzzles? I don’t have enough time in the day to do them now but I used to enjoy them very much. I found them a relaxing escape from the stress and anxieties of today’s...
My first, full-fledged in-class course at APU ended this week. The final round of assessments is yet to be done. I am in the process of it. Most students have done well. I have done physical workshops, special classes, a bunch of...
Hoy te cuento cómo el azar me llevó a reencontrar un disco duro con 10 años de entrevistas sobre un documental de VIH que creía perdido. Con la ayuda de la IA, por fin podré estructurar este relato. Además,...
Last night one of my students sent me this screenshot with the message “You were right, Dr. Jacobs!” I’ve never used Canvas, because I despise it even when it’s working as designed. Some of my students tell me that I’m the only professor...
I had previously learned a lot from this book review by George Orwell, which is actually a lot more than a book review. Recently I had cause to look it up again and found it had vanished from the searchable internet. With some sleuthing...
Provoked by my blog move, I decided to give it a new design as well. The old design always felt a little bleh. As I’ve probably mentioned, I suck at design. I know when I like something, but I’m terrible at coming up with something cool...
With No Brand Con 2026 in the rearview, I think it's time to talk about the business of running a small, nonprofit convention. This year was genuinely really good for us, and kind of a miracle. Events like ours usually don't come back...
Queriendo arriesgarme un poco para obtener mas calidad, he decidido conseguir nuevos auriculares. Especialmente teniendo en cuenta que los Xiaomi buds 4 lite están en constante riesgo de muerte debido a la batería inflada de su cajita de...
It’s been a very parkrunny week, which involved me presenting at a Volunteering Australia webinar about Community-Led Volunteering and my parkrun experiences. Some people have said nice things about the presentation and the recording...
I have made slow adjustments to my feed reader every other day now to exclude some empty negativity from my online space, and also to no longer click on some YouTube frontpage stuff. Don't get me wrong: There is still plenty of...
这篇文章受到博文《别让爱只剩下「早知道」》的启发，原文很好，我只想补充一个角度。...
Saturday always comes in slowly for me. Maybe our neighborhood takes an additional breath and the kids are not out so early. Most Khmer work 6 or 7 days a week so it’s not that. Feels like a moment of more quiet and less of the usual...
Japan's power grid has a fracture running through it that no one has ever fully repaired. East and west run on different frequencies.
I have a theory that's based on a simple observation: two and a half decades since the birth of the internet—a full generation of perpetually connected, (social) media-trained technophiles has transformed society by structuring life on...
Heya! So, when i made the post announcing that i was hosting the bearblog carnival for this month a couple days back, i said I was gonna talk about my favorite PHP function names. So, here's that post! Now, before we get started, I want...
Les dejo un par de lecturas para el fin de semana, con entradas de blogs que me gustaron. Si quedan con ganas de más recuerden que siempre esta ¡Blog!¡Blog! El fin de los piratas | jInversor Eran los piratas… “tomaban el software que...
It is the sunset of the 1600s. Milton has just pioneered the use of the word space to connote outer space. Kepler has just pioneered science fiction by imagining space travel, but going only as far as the Moon. Gravity is a brand new...
AI, Slot Machines, and Other Kinds of Happiness mtift Fri, 05/08/2026 - 08:54 A lot of AI products, when you strip away the hype, are happiness machines. Feed them your mood and they give you something back, such as a great playlist, a...
My company’s new health plan covers an online personal trainer, so for the first time, I’m giving it a shot. For all the running I’ve done over the last bunch of years, I’ve neglected any strength training and done only very little...
[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.] Earlier this week, I saw this article in Apple News. It’s from the San Francisco Chronicle and...
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Carrying on with the theme of being lazy while editing posts, I've released blogmore.el v4.5.0. This version adds blogmore-set-as-cover. With this, if you place point on a line that is an image and run the command, it is set as the cover...
I love this design study of a “developer terminal”, called the c100 by Caligra. I’m not sure I need literal tool storage in my portable/mini computer, but I like that they’re experimenting with the form of the computer.The keyboard has...
We have bought a house recently. Our fist one, yay! But a house isn't really a home, until hit has all the necessities! WiFi, coffee, games.
So there’s a hole in time with pretty clearr rules, right? You can only go back to a specific date and time. A specific September day at 11:58 AM, 1958. From a dark late night in 2011. That’s the portal. No freely controllable...
You’re playing a game with your lying friends Alice and Bob. Bob flips a coin and shows it to Alice. Alice tells you what she saw - but she lies 20% of the time. Then you take your best guess on whether the coin is heads or tails. Your...
The steam of the espresso machine — of focusing in the milk to make sure it is just right, of tapping to remove the bubbles, of preparing. Soft instrumental music plays in the background, more upbeat than the music to which I was...
Spurred by Max Vasilatos’s show-n-tell at the most recent (5/3) soc.motss get-together on Zoom, some material on the S&M graphic artist REX, assembled from material in his Wikipedia entry; the summary paragraph: REX (1943 – March 2024)...
Well, there's no escaping the Attenborough centenary – it's everywhere, and will be all day, with a special concert from the Royal Albert Hall on TV this evening. It was 100 years ago today that the Great Man, our most assured National...
I keep a monthly journal in Markdown; one file per month, each entry stamped with the date and time. For a while I was creating those files by hand. That got old fast. So I wrote a Python script to handle it and want to share it with...
A brief update about a photo show
Despite what "small net" enthusiasts might claim, HTTP is a pretty good protocol for document retrieval. Can we develop a new protocol with all the same advantages, and none of the disadvantages?
If you open up a philosophy article or chapter on your computer, the software you’re using, now updated with various AI features, may present you with something like the following message: “This looks like a long article. Would you like...
Ya es noticia vieja, pero la NASA compartió aún más fotos del pasado viaje de la tripulación del Artemis II a la Luna. Verlas sigue dejándome boquiabierto. Hay algo inexplicable que me provoca ver estas fotos, nuestro pequeño planeta...
I don’t do politics much, but I woke up yesterday, fully intending to cast my vote in the UK Local Elections. The day, however, had other plans for me and voting was not factored in. I had a crazy day at work and by the time I finally...
This blog is moving to another domain Please update your feeds. I have seen so many documentaries on Einstein‘s genius, his amazing research work, and his Eureka moments, but this one was unique because it covers the emotional side of...
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When fires go raging, tornados tear, Hold loved ones closer to your breast; Of failings, fears and wounds beware: Together you may pass the test.
April 2026. Royal Tunbridge Wells. An evening in a sunny Pantiles, mainly spent in the subterranean bar of the Mad Dog, and again we’d forgot to eat. I’m sure the Pantiles has many dining options, most outside our budget, so we headed...