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I went swimming. I am reminded that I don’t like swimming, being in the water, the smell of chlorine, the damp floor, seeing strands of other people’s hair in the drain, and the feeling of a cold swimsuit afterwards. The whole...
Today, on Holy Saturday, Christians are in the between times of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, and for those so inclined a time such as this can be a good time to wonder, just what is this all about and where is it that we are...
Motivation I struggled enough with the matter that I figured maybe it was worth typing a bit about it. I have a lot of notes in \(\LaTeX\), so I figure that sooner or later I would need to add to the site dependencies (ugh) to support...
Scratch, scratch, scratch… Dig, dig, dig… Breathe in…and blow the lid off… Sometimes, it is right under your nose. You can practically smell it. The top note is soft and sweet, maybe refreshing. It draws you in, lingers for a moment, and...
They believed the stories, not just that "this is the future," but that future meant something better for everyone. “Access” signaled equality. But as the tech billionaires have embraced authoritarianism and inequality, and as their...
EJ and I caught some of San Francisco’s Carnaval parade this Sunday. It’s a wonderful annual celebration of the vibrant Latin American, Carribean, and African communities in the Mission District, in San Francisco, and in the rest of the...
The latest version of WordPress (WP), seven, which shipped a few days ago, comes with, according to the accompanying release notes/marketing copy, a number of AI features. I’m yet to see even one of these, despite installing version...
I guess we all have a favourite part of the day. A moment in time that you look forward to, perhaps for a specific reason. For me, I have one standout point in the day that I always enjoy. You may well scoff, but it's a moment where I...
When you’re not as rich as you’d like and not as powerful as you’d think, you plaster gold trinkets all over your Oval Office. When you’re as rich as millions of people combined and as powerful as most democratically elected heads of...
There have been many times where I have faced a situation and didn't act. I'll have that gut feeling, and it'll tell me that I need to say this or do that, but I decided not to. It's tough to put that up against times where I've acted...
Claude'u sıfırdan öğrenmek için hazırladığım ücretsiz, interaktif başlangıç kılavuzu. Kod bilgisi gerektirmez — açıp adınızı yazarak başlayabilirsiniz. El kitabı yüklenmezse bu bağlantıdan tam ekran açabilirsiniz.
Memorial Day Staycation We should have been camping this weekend. The weather had other ideas. All of Virginia is in a moderate to severe drought, but of course Memorial Day weekend was a washout. I cancelled camping plans last week, and...
The rising sun illuminates the Togetsukyo bridge and the red torii gate of Ichitani-Munakata shrine. 昇る太陽が、渡月橋と櫟谷宗像神社の赤い鳥居を照らし出している。
May 2026. Blyth. Nottinghamshire. Off on our latest trip south to see Dad and source blog material from Transylvania. Sis gave me a book of lunch stops off the motorways a while ago, most of them at garden centres and alpaca farms. I...
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Didn't they used to say that we have two ears and one mouth so our listening ought to be in proportion, or something like that? I have 10 fingers to type with ... ¶ This is not merely another morning, but a unique one. One I will never...
One of my earliest and most vivid childhood memories is of swimming in a cool pool bounded by boulders in the middle of a river in the mountains of Bulgaria, the late-afternoon sun casting komorebi on the water through the rustling...
Aggrade. There's a word we're all familiar with, I'm sure... No? Me neither.It means to build up or raise the level of a land surface by depositing sediment, and I mention it because it was the word that knocked my 11-year-old grandson...
Maternal Uncle's Funeral Permalink to section 'Maternal Uncle's Funeral' # On 21 May 2026, we received the news that my maternal uncle, who had cancer, passed away on May 20th evening. While I was not very close to my maternal uncle...
A simple trick I picked up from the Runna app: If you want to increase your cadence, drive your arms faster. You don’t even have to think about your legs, because they will speed up automatically. Getting out of sync with your...
Now, May 2026: a letter from Scotland! I’ve received a letter all the way from Scotland this week! Let me explain. Some time ago, I was browsing James’ Coffee Blog, as I do quite often. As I was reading Noticing, I noticed (sorry) an...
A time, a place, and humans. Let’s take a moment to consider the font, Instrument Serif. Created by the Portland-based design agency Instrument for their own use — along with Instrument Sans — they open-sourced it on GitHub, where it...
Album#40 大城•小事 图1 《大城•小事》専輯封面 专辑信息 专辑名称： 大城•小事 歌手： 都市零件派对 年份： 2024-12-20 风格： 流行 时长： 約 22 分鍾 从 我的聲音旅程 || 構成自己的 42 張專輯 翻到的一張専輯，喜歡主唱的聲音、歌曲的旋律，和聲也好聴。編曲聴着比较簡单，主要就是木吉他，但不会覚得单調，还蠻好聴的。専輯里就 5 首歌，我都喜歡，有的旋律活泼一些，有的則更抒情些，最喜歡的是「梦奇地」。 關於都市零件派對： 「...
I’ve noticed that travel has become, of late, an act of collecting places. I’ve literally heard people referring to visiting a place as doing that place, as in “Have you done Japan?”, assuming that one can do an entire country, and once...
As an old school programmer, I thought I'd write down my journey into agentic AI and reflect on it. Why I love programming I've been programming for as long as I remember. My parents bought an Amstrad CPC 128k (yes, that's the RAM size)...
What if electric computers and the internet existed before the nazi regime and the second world war? This book begins with a glimpse what surveillance and exessive data collection can be used for in a totalitarian regime, effectively...
Eu quase todo dia penso antes de ir dormir em que tipos de posts seriam interessantes escrever aqui. Não que eu queira ter um blog famoso ou queira fazer posts complexos com mais de 10 mil palavras. Até porque do jeito que minha cabeça...
This blog post covers journal pictures, the question of indexing and my personal journaling history and thoughts.
Finally had a Gundam film showing at a theater close to where I live after like 30 years of watching this franchise Thursday night I saw Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nypmh Circe in theaters. It's a weird experience seeing...
Sharing a pretty cool resource about how the web took shape.
It’s hot, sunny, and I’m melting. The sofa is a good place to be right now at the hottest time of the day. I should really be outside somewhere, doing something, being somewhere, doing something active or laying in the shade somewhere,...
On 14th May 2026, I logged onto my server to clear some disk space, only to find out that my mail server was under attack: an attacker got access to a mail account with weak credentials and sent spam from my domain. My mail server was...
I have refused to read The Bell Jar if not in its original English. Back at home, a copy of it was already a bit costly; not insanely so, but enough that it was out of budget to ask for it as a birthday gift (I'd look too greedy), and it...
Association between inflammatory biomarkers and depressive symptoms among diabetes mellitus and diabetic retinopathy: A cross-sectional study Tang S, Li H, Wang Z, Wang B, Li Y, Dai C. Association between inflammatory biomarkers and...
This morning like usual I wake up and leave the bedroom dark. I love the mornings spent writing. Always a thing in my journal that leads to another. Since I don’t adhere to any kind of method either I just do whatever. Never have done...
Hiked part 6/20 of the Marskramer Path, 17.3 kilometres from Holten to Lettele. From the Holterberg you descend to a more open area to Espelo, popularly called Splo. There are about 150 scattered farms where the residents have close...
I wrote up a dump of all Venmo deeplinks back in 2017. I was recently looking through backlinks to the blog and saw this StackOverflow post trying to open a user's account based on their username. Figured I'd do a quick update and point...
Short email today because I have some amazing news! My podcast tip jar is finally fixed! My podcast tip jar is where people can listen to my audiobooks in the podcast app of their choice. For a while, there were some account issues I did...
"Wrestling is fake!" Well, no. It's not fake, it's choreographed, practiced, and performed by athletes who spend hours in the gym to safely do their part. That's like saying a play isn't real. Is it a MMA fight or boxing match? No, but...
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I've just released BlogMore v2.28.0. This release has some small improvements to the JSON-LD structured data that was added in the last release, and also adds support for actually showing author names on posts. On the latter point first:...
I have a new section on my website dedicated to video games: https://protesilaos.com/games. My website has many such blogs, covering Emacs, politics, life issues, poetry, mechanical keyboards, and more. This new section contains my...
I’ve been reading a lot about this race to prepare for it, including this race report from Ray Maker, this course preview from two-time winner Eric Lagerstrom, and this race review by Kelly O'Mara, and suffice to say, I’m more than a...
Banding was an incredibly powerful and underrated creature keyword in Magic that ended up a bit dysergic together with evasion abilities on cards like Mesa Pegasus. If Mesa Pegasus and Benalish Hero attack in a band, the flying becomes...
Pagans and their idols of Goddesses appeared juvenile to those that discovered the One.
From Stephen Colbert
It used to be when you wanted to send an email to Newsonaut, you’d go through gmail.com. I recently switched to a newsonaut.com address, but it didn't take long for bots to scrape it and start spamming me. My solution was to convert all...
A sunny Sunday, a few clouds in the sky, windows wide open, iced coffee, Italo disco on moderate volume, this is a good early summer morning. My “cleaning out my personal side-projects”-project is moving very slowly. Mostly because I’m...
Are these weeknotes again? Yes they are! Is this a fluke or is it a trend? Who knows! Who cares! Let’s do iiiiiittttttt. Current situation: Not pictured: Raspberry hibiscus iced tea. There is always a beverage. Monday 18 May: Went for a...
I have previously written about what resources I subscribe to (newsletter, RSS, manual checking) to keep on top of data protection law news, cases, new reports, recommendations by authorities, papers of notable personalities in the...
The internet is on the horizon. It is happening. This internet is a technology that is going to change the world, alongside the World Wide Web. It is going to be huge. Knowledge beyond measure. The world will be not as we know. A...
In November of last year, I wrote about what I did and didn’t want to do in Emacs. It’s great for anything that involves text editing/processing, good for certain kinds of management tasks (it’s a great Git client, and even has...
New York is a city that tries hard not to forget its fallen soldiers, especially those who died in global wars with many casualties. All over Gotham are Great War doughboys in bronze, solemn World War II-era plaques with the names of...
General happeningsAn unremarkable week. I really got into Pokemon for some reason, especially Fakemon design. Many YouTube videos following the "[number] artists design Pokemon [insert stipulation here]" format were watched. I also found...
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Si usas Arch Linux, CachyOS o cualquier distribución derivada, seguramente te hayas encontrado con dos herramientas muy populares para gestionar la paqueteria AUR: Yay y Paru. Muchos usuarios terminan teniendo ambos instalados,...
I was recently handed down a D-Link DNS-323 NAS which I thought would be great for my brother to use. Although the stock D-Link firmware functions okay, it's officially EOL and there hasn't been an official update for it since 2013, and...