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General happeningsVery art-heavy week. I've been consistently doing more than my self-mandated daily sketch, which is good! I also gave myself some hand / wrist pain from drawing too much (or maybe too long with awkward hand placement /...
If I go running a couple of times a week am I a runner? I’ve started running again. It fell away to zero when we moved into our new house. I would run 5km once a week for a bit, then it would fade for a while then I’d come back to it....
Puppy wrote a post, the appeal of lowercase text. There are several comments on Bubbles disagreeing, saying that lowercase posts are hard to read. I won’t agree or disagree with the commenters. I believe they are being honest about their...
James asked: "How have you changed since you started your website?" Ever since I built my personal realmlets on Nekoweb and Bear Blog, I became more intentional and unconstrained with my online activities than before. Because of the...
Still sitting at coffee this morning. Now the place kinda fills up. I have this couch now which makes old retired butt thankful. Last night it rained and I heard those drops beating a pattern in our aluminum patio. It did this staccato...
Eurovision was on yesterday. I’ve never been interested much in the musical side but the weird political dynamics of Eurovision voting have always fascinated me; I tune in each year just for them and somewhat snarky commentary of Graham...
Julia Evans compartía el otro día una lista de paletas de colores preparadas para CSS, así como otras herramientas para generarlas. Creo entrada para futura referencia, y aprovecho a añadir otras tantas paletas que tengo por ahí...
I didn't realize it, but people actually missed me and my family a lot when we were away from the tennis courts. While I was taking a walk a few weeks ago, and we walked by the courts, one of the coaches recognized me when I waved hello....
J.-B. Madou, Le bon conseil (Good Advice), 1871. Public domain image courtesy loki 11 and Wikimedia Commons. If the title of a book a friend recently gave me was intended to be provocative, that intention surely succeeded for yours...
I hadn’t worn perfume in a long time. I purchased maybe too many perfume samples last year, determined to indulge in one thing that brought me delight. I’d gone through all but two of them, and inexplicably fell into monotony. Everything...
Phoronix a relatat ieri că Adobe Lightroom CC funcționează acum pe Linux prin Wine, ceea ce în sine ar fi deja destul de interesant. Dar ce mi s-a părut mie mai fascinant este că toată treaba asta a fost pusă la punct nu de un...
This 20 minute video, I found today, illustrates impressively why AI and above all Generative AI is nothing more than worthless. The original (and best version) is in German, but the translation in English (YT AI?) does the job… Für Euch...
I've been noticing my 200 responses increasing a lot. Perhaps is my blocking, perhaps just increased traffic form Bubbles.Town, but otherwise, I just went nuclear with China IP's. So let's see how that changes next month. #website...
Why read the book? R.C. Sproul wrote Who Is Jesus? It is a short and clear book from his Crucial Questions series. Sproul looks at what the Bible says about the person and work of Christ. He explains the claims Jesus made, his miracles,...
Epigraph This ephemeral collection of epiphanies was directly inspired by the week I spent in Loro Piceno for Sapere, Fare, Diventare, in the context of La Scuola Open Source’s XYZ. The pictures that follow come from there. Indirectly,...
Esta semana que parece que ha vuelto el buen tiempo ha habido más actividades outdoor. Paseé un poco, el viernes vi el estreno de un documental sobre la trashumancia, el sábado estuve viendo pasar un rebaño de ovejas que se va a hacer la...
Mythos kernel exploit on Apple M5, Firefox hardening, curl vulnerability, AI maintenance costs, flow state lament, Claude for Legal, Signal Foundation.
Dzisiaj wpis z kategorii kalendarzowych. Stylowe zmiany Pożegnałem się w końcu z zewnętrznym stylowaniem strony za pomocą SimpleCSS i napisałem styl samodzielnie od podstaw. Główny powód był taki, że moja strona dostawała Grade F za styl...
Why did the Lombards decide to invade Byzantine Italy in 568? A popular story was the Byzantine general Narses, who had just retaken Italy for the empire, invited them. Was Narses a traitor to the empire?
It's been a while Keeping a fair amount of my blogging bandwidth (a personal metric, not a data one) taken up by drawing pokemon every day and then getting incredibly sick, I've noticed that some of my more prominent "post archetypes" if...
Personal websites are living things and are never really finished. There is always something to tweak, to optimize, or to experiment with. Over the last several months on ersatz.website I've made some changes to the site's stylesheet to...
May 2026. Whitby. Whitby was busy enough for a Goth-free Wednesday in May, enough to keep the cake shops, and the pubs ticking over, though of course Sam Smiths pubs close for reasons unrelated to trade. “Still seeking a management...
Yes, I’m writing again about my ongoing experiment with blocking JavaScript on a per-site basis. This time, I’m not here to explain how I operate in detail, but to complain about the work needed to maintain this web browsing hygiene. In...
AI models are very capable and get more capable each year. So naturally people feel they’re underusing them. There’s a tweet that goes like: your laptop has a 100M USD startup in it, you just have to figure the right sequence of words to...
“Shame on you!” Those are the last words my father said to me. Shouted across 3,600 miles, as the crow flees, a few months before Barbenheimer.He's not dead, mind you, though he may be by the time you read this. Take that,...
A quick reflection on Mother's Day when your mom isn't around anymore.Currently Listening: Various Artists “For Mom”Reply via email
“Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world.” We are each born with a wilderness of possibility within us. Who we become depends on how we tend to our inner...
Julie Evans recently re-wrote her website’s Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and took the fight to the stylesheet language as it were: So I decided years ago that I wanted to react to “CSS is hard” by getting better at CSS and taking it...
And here, by way of counterweight to the International Day of Light, is a poem by Edward Thomas. As with the Donald Justice, it is one of his last and most beautiful (and untitled), written on his last Christmas at home with his family....
(image courtesy of an unknown artist) since when does such a quietly beautiful autumn afternoon bring with it so much existential anxiety and dread? surrounded by family, loved ones, laughing, chatting, trading anecdotes and sharing...
Some New York City buildings become more than buildings—they transform into symbols. Christodora House, a 16-story fortress completed in 1928 on Avenue B in the East Village, become a symbol of gentrification in the late 1980s—when a new...
Back to it 18 May, 2026 The more days I go without writing, the less likely I am to write in the future. Last summer was rough, and I broke my writing streak. After that, I started managing the construction of my house. One thing led to...
I can ride a bike just fine. As a kid I had the little red tricycle and moved up to a pink Huffy with tassels and training wheels sometime around kindergarten. We lived on a narrow unmarked road as a kid so watching for cars was...
The shouts were getting louder. Footsteps crunching on gravel between trailers. They would find Gerty soon. She was in the back of General Stores, where a couch had been surplussed for coffee breaks. The building was otherwise empty....
(by the time I’m just a bit of the way into revealing the themes of this posting, certainly once Jake Mathews appears, it should become entirely clear why this posting is not for kids or the sexually modest) A follow-up to my posting...
You don't know what you have unless you can give it away. I've felt a wave of inspiration recently, and I'm watching it go away in real time. It's such a sad and beautiful thing, these ephemeral impulses. I think you felt it too, and...
This is the fourth part of six of my blogging “wisdom” project, which I am undertaking as part of The New Leaf Journal’s sixth birthday. Today is May 17, 2026. Back on May 16, 2020, I published what I recently described as my personal...
A week with a public holiday is a pretty good week. I got talked into going for an indoor miniature golf outing with my nieces and nephews which went about as well as expected.I’ve been watching the Nürburgring 24h race and all the...
The first company I worked for full-time had two offices. One in the south of England, another in the north. Despite being a northern lad, I'd somehow found myself working in the southern office. While the company used a few languages,...
I love using Reddit, it hosts niche communities, certain subreddits give great answers and support. Many people still agree that Reddit is a generally great platform. But am I the only one who notice the contrast between users beliefs...
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Hoy he acudido a votar más tarde de lo históricamente lo he hecho. Normalmente siempre he ido a primera hora de la mañana. Hoy, por diversas circunstancias, porque este año vivo más cansado o porque me lo he tomado como un domingo casi...
For the last 2 weeks, I have received 2FA codes for my UberEats account that I did not request roughly every couple days. The account was only created a year ago and used twice, then never again. The email address and password were...
Eu ia escrever um post sobre como era um dia na minha vida de criança nos anos 90 e como tudo era incrível. Mas durante o processo de escrever o post mentalmente eu comecei a me questionar se tudo era assim tão incrível como eu...
Your daily reminder that capitalism is not an inevitability. We have existed as a society before it came to be, and will exist after it is over.
Nobody in their right mind should own a professional espresso machine at home. Which is exactly why, for years, i owned a professional espresso machine at home. I sold it after getting increasingly frustrated with having to wait for the...
The Galileo-type shuttlecraft makes its first appearance in 1989’s Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. The plot required—and the budget allowed—the folks making the movie to build full-scale models of the shuttle as well as Enterprise’s...
My first contact with a computer was the Children’s Club, back in like 3rd grade. We had some Romanian-made Spectrum clones, manufactured at the now-defunct company ICE Felix, and they were named HC. There we used both the HC85 and we...
Are these weeknotes? Yes they are! Will I do them again next week? Who knows! Sunday 10 May: Got home from hospital shift around 7:30pm. Exhausted, hangry. Walked into a clean tidy home, flowers and cards, and the kids cooking dinner...
AI is taking over world of software development, but it sure ain’t going to take over my computer! I’ve been waist deep in coding with AI, testing out different models, agents, and workflows, but the one constant has been the ability to...
Last weekend brought a spontaneous *rail & cycle* adventure, trading car logistics for a scenic loop through forests and villages. Sunday, a solo hike up a mountain revealed alpine vistas, heather-lined trails, and a summit shared with...
11th May - 17th May It was one of those days that Spring does so well; rounding out a week of sunshine with biblical rains to remind you it's not summer yet, and I managed to get caught in no less than three of the random downpours. On...
How cmd/go's script tests led me to testscript, and how to use it for CLI tests that exercise argv, stdout, stderr, exit codes, and scratch files.
This post is not about electric vehicle hesitations like range anxiety and more complicated trip planning. No, this post is just me complaining about the digital experiences that come with owning a modern vehicle, but especially with an...
When I was off on vacation in Spain a few weeks ago (I’m still in denial that I’m back), I went to La Pedra (“The Stone” in Catalan), which is the oldest Go club in Barcelona! La Pedra started way back in 1979, and the club has been...
Last Friday, for whatever reason (most likely because we never learn), we decided to watch Gladiator II. Familiar with the masterpieces Ridley Scott has been foisting on us for the last two decades, our expectations were low.