Home
Sun May 10
Not knowing what to read, I decided to focus on this book these weeks and immerse. Just read for one hour and it's still so good it reads like a movie. I love Mellanie's character!
After noticing a broken link in a post yesterday, I got to thinking that it would be useful to add a linter to BlogMore. So I've released v2.21.0 which adds linting support. A number of things are checked and the results are broken down...
A science teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing Earth’s sun, and realizes that an unexpected friendship may be the key. So we have Ryan Goosebumps...
the xteink x4 open on a background of my Pocketbook cover. You can see the two books I'm currently reading The moment I saw someone post a picture of this little technological marvel slotted into a pocket Travellers Notebook (TN) on...
looking at the bearblog carnival and realising that I haven't felt passionate about anything in a long, long time.
They look like the kind of row houses that make Greenwich Village and the Upper West Side so picturesque—elegant stone facades, rounded archways, pops of stained glass, and cast iron railings on stoops and balconies. But this four-block...
À nouveau une petite semaine, avec du travail à nouveau sur mon homelab/VPS (toujours plus de statistiques et des mises à jour). Un cleanup des backups qui ne se purgent pas automatiquement pour le moment. Et beaucoup de veille, j’avais...
My review of Phil Lord's 2026 film 'Project Hail Mary'.
Today was my last visit to the dentist. He outfitted me with a new tooth. All done. Hopefully for a long time. I don’t like dentists. So decided I needed a reward for all that drilling and cleaning and replacing. So off to Noi coffee and...
Man, I really hate it when I keep making assumptions. That old saying really does end up coming true. I find that I get in my own head about every little thing most times, and the result ends up not even in a miscommunication, but really...
Zork is one of the oldest text adventure games first released in 1977 that most of the old timers who worked with computers played at one time or another. Instead of a visual interface or graphics the game relied on textual information...
Writing for UnHerd, in an article titled Boots-on-the-ground is Trump’s best option, Wolfgang Munchau elaborates on a logical argument in favour of committing to the war in Iran: […] Unlike Russia, Iran is not a nuclear power, and on...
Eryn and I went to the Netherlands with her family for a week this May. We stayed in a cute AirBnB in Broek in Waterland, a small village about 8 km north of Amsterdam. I ran into Todd at our gate before we even left SFO—he was on the...
This blog is moving to another domain Please update your feeds.This post is a part of my word-vomit series. Feel free to skip it.Hello. Good morning. It's Monday, and I am sitting in my office figuring out what I want to do...
Album#38 Gospel According to Don Shirley 图1 《Gospel According to Don Shirley》専輯封面 专辑信息 专辑名称： Gospel According to Don Shirley 歌手： Don Shirley 年份： 1968-12-16 风格： Jazz，鋼琴曲 时长： 約 35 分鍾 前陣子重温了《绿皮书 Green Book (2018)》，故事是基于真人改編的，看完就把里面的黑人鋼琴家...
Continuando con la idea de rescatar hardware antiguo para mi setup personal, esta vez presté atención a un componente casi olvidado: el lector-grabador de CD/DVD. En plena era del streaming y los pendrives, el mercado de este soporte...
yes, as in singular one. Back in April 2026 Anthropic caused a lot of media noise when they concluded that their new AI model Mythos is dangerously good at finding security flaws in source code. Apparently Mythos was so good at this that...
Read on the website: We need resilient systems that fall back to sanity when broken / discriminating. And not whatever.
Today, the singer-songwriter Donovan, a man not given to understating his contribution to popular music, celebrates his 80th birthday. A while back, on the occasion of another Donovan birthday, I wrote this: 'Today is the 67th birthday...
I’ve been posting about how you can make lots of HTML pages and leverage navigations over in-page, JS-dependent interactions. Now I’m gonna post another example. On my icon sites, I have a little widget that allows you to resize the...
It has to be remembered that Nazism was not defeated by an internal rebellion -- one of the great shocks post-WW2 was that the masses could accept and even embrace their repression under Fascism, and would even be faster to accept...
Yesterday’s dinner order (big enough for that meal and today’s lunch): the Meat Basket Salad from Tacos El Grullense #1, in Redwood City: (#1) The meat basket at El Grullense #1 (the Tacos El Grullense Grill in Redwood City is the first...
mothership.blog Friend of the foof, Ellie Black, with a wonderful webcomic for Mothership. Highly, highly recommend!
🆕 On the Shelves🤖👧 PragmataDeveloper: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.Publisher: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.Pragmata is a unique, sci-fi action-adventure game from Capcom. Follow Hugh, a member of an ill-fated investigation team, and Diana, a young android, as...
Claude personal guidance, Redis array type, watchOS maps, AI company learning, Agentic Coding, workplace productivity, Death of Scrum.
Screenshot of JPilot This post is a quick tip for anyone else running into issues installing the Palm Pilot desktop software, JPilot on Arch Linux. If you just try installing via yay -S jpilot, the build will fail as the dependency...
This post is related to a talk I'm putting together: Local-first development with CAP Node.js - mock all the things! As developers we need to be free of distractions plus a tight and speedy development loop. But definitely not at the...
This year, I was late getting started with taking photos in Thomas’ garden. Whereas I’m usually out and about as early as March, I only managed to take the first pictures of his extraordinary plants this weekend, and I’ve probably missed...
I was coaxed out of the house.[1] We went to Jupiter Artland for a walk around the sculpture park. Glorious weather: blue skies and fluffly clouds. A few hours spent walking through the woodland with big bits of art to look at very few...
4th May - 10th May The dog lagged, unusually, behind for the whole last stretch of the walk home. When she eventually caught up after much cajoling, the reasons for her sheepish attitude became apparent; she was carrying half a starling...
2026-05-10Hello! I'm up to no good again, staring at my screen and hoarding interesting internet stuffs to share on this here website. I'm planning to celebrate Day 100 with One Thousand Links of cool posts and works online. If you want...
Yes you! It's time to reach out, be nice, and say hello to strangers. It costs nothing and can make someone's day. Me, I'm a chatty person. Not all the time. However, people make the world more interesting. Back to the point of this!When...
Video: https://youtu.be/13yIfxczLpc?si=pWqw95Ux3LBUI3NuThis one really hit home.The part that really got me was “watching other people do the things I want to do.” That is so me.
Okay, I’m calling it there. After wandering around town in the dark for an hour, I did eventually find a Great Horned Owl hooting. After reviewing my photos I realized…I’m not cut out for reviewing photos. Well, at least I’m only adding...
I just spent this weekend writing my own little pastebin clone, called Vivipara. I also have bunch of thoughts about various programming languages. Read about it all in this one blogpost! Vivipara, my smol and quick text paste service...
I really like the concept of nicknames online. Being able to name yourself as whatever you want. We don't choose our names when we are born so this is a way to do that. Mix your real name with something else or choose something...
I live in the Greater Strasbourg area, and nearby, 30 kilometres away or so, there is a certain small-volume car manufacturer that understood years ago, before it was cool, that touchscreens in cars tend to age poorly. I love what they...
April 2026. Bethnal Green. London. An afternoon in east London with Joan and Dave, barely mentioning the T***p at all; just culture and cask and the Columbia Road. It helps as a tourist, UK or American, if you like a bit of scruff with...
I can’t read this label without hearing Boycie’s voice in my head.
Camping at Machicomoco State Park Trip: 56 Nights: 187-190 And the 2026 camping season has started. We spent the weekend at Machicomoco State Park near Gloucester, VA. It's only a 70-minute drive from home. Until a few weeks ago it was...
I often wake up with a random song as an earworm – and now I note them down for your enjoyment. This morning it was D:Ream with Things Can Only Get Better Reply by email
One season into ST:DS9 and am trying to decide whether to continue. The season concluded with the straightforward message that (a) Science is Good, (b) Traditional Religion is Evil (not merely intolerant but murderous), and (c)...
I never thought I would reach 5k subscribers on Youtube, so I owe everyone a massive thank you! To all of my new friends and the support over the last few years, it’s been an awesome time. Here’s to 50,000 in the future! People have...
The historic Tohka Saikan Chinese restaurant (1924) and the Shijo Ohashi bridge over the Kamogawa river, in a long exposure at dusk. 1924年建築の由緒ある中華料理店「東華菜館」と、鴨川に架かる四条大橋を、夕暮れ時の長時間露光で捉えた写真だ。
Un proverb care îmi place foarte mult: Să fii domn e o întâmplare, să fii om e lucru mare Mulțumesc că urmărești ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.
Walk into any old stone church and look up. The arches, buttresses, and ribbed vaults that hold the roof against gravity for a thousand years were not chosen for their beauty. They were chosen because stone is heavy and weak in tension,...
Mis respuestas al blog questions challenge.
Bloggers have written many words about the pros and cons of writing anonymously. From Dave Rupert’s interview with Manu: If I were to do it all again, I would maybe try a pen name. Having my name associated to my blog has done well for...
I was leafing through a collection of George Orwell’s essays when i stumbled upon this gem from “Looking back on the Spanish War”:I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that...
Every act of learning is an act of intellectual appropriation, incorporating someone else’s knowledge into your own mental library. Every act of empathy is an act of emotional appropriation, modeling the reality of another into your own...
Title: Yury Molodtsov Website: molodtsov.me RSS Feed: molodtsov.me/blog/index.xml Startups comms, essays on tech and great curated links. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing consider becoming a supporter for 1$ a...
Local AI shines when the model’s job is transforming user-owned data, not acting as a search engine for the universe.
After a failed attempt to install LineageOS on my primary phone, I spent a good many hours last week trying to revive as much as I could. After that misadventure, I’m several steps behind where I wanted to be - Instead of a fully...
I liked the music, the volcanoes, the static color frames between acts. Shot on location in Poland and it very much felt like I was hanging out in the background while Charli XCX’s character went out and partied hard.I wouldn’t watch it...
So, I've decided not to to tell her.How do you even bring it up otherwise?? "Yeah, so her boots are intentionally put to the side... They didn't have to include empty boots as part of this figure btw. And now she's playing video games...
I might be botching a Hank Green quote with the title of this post but I’ve noticed how it’s increasingly difficult to stay buoyant, to keep light on my toes, to feel optimistic about the future. In Italo Calvino’s Six Memos for the Next...
Co. Dublin, 1954. Courtesy National Library of Ireland on The Commons. Image with no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons. Marcel Bénabou tells us about the way his younger self pondered writing a grand epic which, centered upon his...
GitLab announced layoffs today. They don't state how many people are affected, but honestly I find this really frustrating for several reasons: This is the one time where they could have won by doing relatively nothing. GitHub is having...