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Today is the day of the Lichfield Bower, a curiously named celebration dating back to the reign of Henry II. Originally it was a muster or array, a way of finding out how many men could be called upon to fight if needed. All those...
Well starting this to have a place to write through today really. I enjoy the idea of just going at a thing and seeing where it will end. Mornings here inevitably start early. It means as close as everyone lives to everyone else my...
Las criticas pueden ser fuertes. Dejar que nos afecten es una decisión.
Celebrating 10 years of "It's ok"…
Still here! Just busy. For the past few months I've only posted once a month, and it's honestly weird to not be blogging as much. I didn't plan on being practically gone for so long, but I've been finishing up college, and dealing with...
The Vatican has just released Leo XIV’s Encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and I figured I would read through and give my commentary on such a pivotal document in the era of “AI” and the continual lockstep toward dehumanizing all of...
Another cool scientist profile dropped on Nature earlier, and I wanted to share it here. Billie Goolsby uses robots built by Tony Chen to eavesdrop on the conversations between Frogs and Tadpoles. How cool is that! Essentially, it turns...
Russian Philosopher Svetlana Mesyats is under house arrest and the offices and homes of several other employees of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences were searched, according to social media postings from a...
Looking to buy fresh flowers, plants, or other greenery in the New York City of 1880? Various flower markets existed across the city, and one small market sat at the foot of Canal Street and the Hudson River. Here, flower and plant...
I love the Windows 98 era of computing and gaming, but until now I didn't really have a good Windows 98 computer. Old Pentium systems are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, especially if you also want to have a period correct...
Your browser does not support the video tag. I'm writing this entry in the evening because I had to take a nap after receiving some more shitty news about my car. They want like $9,000 for an engine, so that means I basically just have...
Finally got too name the design I wanted for my website but fixing all the paths and changing all little by little is a pain ???? let's see how long it takes me. #website #codingThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
As I wrote, I had planned a bikepacking trip covering a total of 224 km. Well, things didn’t quite go as planned. Shortly after my post, I changed the route due to a lack of good camping options along the way. I read some bad reviews...
In the spirit of RSS Club by Dave Rupert: Congratulations on joining a secret society! RSS Club is a collection of blogs (personal and otherwise) committed to providing RSS-only content. It’s like a newsletter delivered to your feed...
Our trip to Italy made me once again wonder with a tinge of frustration why the U.S. doesn’t use the metric system. Well, I finally got around to looking this up, and it turns out things could have been different! As NPR reports, Thomas...
Parents have been raising children since the beginning of time. They learned from watching their parents and grandparents, from friends and neighbors and the accumulated wisdom of a trusted whisper network that had already figured out...
I've finished reading the Draft Guidelines for transparency requirement under the AI Act that are out for comment until the 3rd of June, and a variety of exemptions for law enforcement and similar actors greatly concern me. I haven't...
When I was a kid, my dad brought me to a friend's house up north. It was a nice place, with lots of trees and wildflowers. Before we left, she let me take a book from her library. I chose a book about identifying local wildflowers and...
This building in Shinsaibashi caught my eye. 心斎橋にあるこの建物が目に留まった。
Apenas los ambidiestros no habrán experimentado esto, pero la mayoría de las personas no puede escribir bien con la mano contraria (¿su mano no dominante se dice?), se puede escribir, sí, pero con una letra fea y desprolija, a eso me...
I don’t mean to compare myself in any serious way with a major thinker like Rowan Williams, but in his new book, Solidarity: The Work of Recognition, he is working on exactly the same problem that I have been working on in recent years:...
May 2026. Alba Iulia. Romania. Seven days in Romania, five (5) different cities overnight, with the alarm going off at 6am far too frequently for one of us. An hour in Cluj before heading to the station, reminiscent of one of those...
Reposted The Art and Science of Kashmir’s Pink Tea by Sribala Subramanian (atlasobscura.com) The first step, a prolonged boiling of green tea leaves with baking soda, involves a bit of chemistry. Certain fermented teas, when boiled with...
I have been tinkering with Helix editor lately since I quite like it. It's a fun little editor. Can recommend for those who like modal editing. I do not know if it'll ever replace Kate editor for me, but I'm challenging myself to try new...
(a dip into the rhetorical organization of texts and into figurative language, but getting its raw material from gay porn and so it’s going to be entirely unsuitable for kids and the sexually modest) In the opening of Raging Stallion’s...
Awkiawki with slowcgi with NGINX on FreeBSD How to run awkiawki using slogcgi and NGNINX Awkiawki is a wiki written in awk. slowcgi is a server which implements the FastCGI Protocol to execute CGI scripts. slowcgi is a simple server that...
I. Got A Dang Haircut I know—I am aware—that this is not the most exciting news, but gang you do not understand, I have been trying and failing to get my fucking top cropped every weekend AND SOME WEEK-DAYS for the past month, shit was...
Two national surveys, sixteen years apart, bracket a shift sharp enough to demand explanation rather than description. Physicians who left clinical practice in a 2008 cohort did so at a mean age of 57.1. In a comparable 2024 cohort, the...
Gorogoa is a puzzle game where the player must arrange tiles on a grid to progress the story (spoilers below!, plus philosophy). The game’s mechanics are simple: click to zoom in or out of interactive elements in a picture, and drag a...
Aún no había tenido tiempo para comentar la salida de Angels Barceló de la Cadena SER para la temporada que viene. La propia emisora publicó el viernes una breve nota donde anunciaba la salida de la catalana, parece que por no haber...
Something has changed with Antigravity since I first tried it out the other day. While looking at adding a related posts feature to BlogMore, I thought I'd give it another try out (having gone back to using Gemini CLI while I still...
I just discovered that I had a >120 GB VHDX file in “%LOCALAPPDATA%\Docker\wsl\disk\docker_data.vhdx“). According to the description of Ahmed Moussa on dev.to (and some other articles), this is the virtual hard disk when using Docker for...
we’ve experienced a bit of a heatwave across the uk. it’s been absolutely gorgeous weather, everyone wants to be outside and enjoy it while it lasts. i certainly did, i started reading the first half of cannery row by john steinbeck....
Why read the book? Homer wrote The Iliad around 800 BC. It is one of the oldest and greatest works in Western literature. The poem tells the story of the final weeks of the Trojan War. It focuses on the anger of Achilles, the greatest...
Behold, another week goes by, and here I am writing the introduction after being done with all of it. This time I’ll actually publish it in Monday, which is always the intention but not often what happens. Not a lot of videogames, not a...
I’m doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on the table and...
Back in my early teens, I was a big fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Season 1 of the show had just finished airing in my home country, and in the US, Season 2 was about to start. Wanting to get more info about the new season was what...
I AM A CREATOR! The less you fight that word, the more you… create! Setting up a Patreon account, and looking around to see what’s possible. Looks pretty good. Will use the platform to paywall some contents (exclusives, previews etc.)...
Piccolo, by Australian app developer Josh McKinnon, tells you what time you can enjoy your last coffee each day, based on your nominated bedtime. Sounds like the coffee drinker’s friend to me. Most apps just add up milligrams. Piccolo...
I had the pleasure to do a few podcasts and interviews, e.g. talking about Debezium, change data capture, stream processing, my career, and software engineering in general. Interview with InfoQ: Chasing Efficient Java Development: From...
¿Querés tener un blog pero no sabes por donde empezar o simplemente quieres ver que otras opciones hay en el mercado para alojar el que ya tenés? En esta entrada, que pretende actualizar periódicamente, voy a listar algunas plataformas...
net/http/httptrace has been in the standard library since Go 1.7 and most Go developers I talk to have never used it. It exposes hooks for the points in an outgoing HTTP request that you usually cannot see from outside the transport: DNS...
Cald și vânt destul de puternic dar cald. Nu se simte nici un pic de răcoare. Nu a mai fost vânt așa se cald de multă vreme. IMG_4779 Mulțumesc că urmărești ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.
Bootstrap Icons as CSS variables Posted on Mar 26, 2026 Using icon fonts in HTML markup is still very popular, despite their many drawbacks. Using them means even if you only use a single icon, you still need to load the font file and...
Caught this wild view on my last flight home from the east coast. I’ve never seen the last glows of sunset from above. Was even more wild in motion with a slight parallax effect.
Esta va a ser rápida. Grosso modo, estoy cansado, y aunque hace calor en cierto modo estoy agradeciéndolo. La pena es que mucho de mi día se ha adelantado a horas bastante tempranas de la mañana (para mis horarios habituales), por lo que...
Folks keep texting me, asking how I'm doing, why have I not texted back in so long, if I'm ok... I guess I should be grateful there are people in this world that care for me enough to insist in keeping in touch when I clearly am just a...
The morning sun had barely begun to burn the dew from the lavender when the visitor arrived. He was a fuzzy, golden-belted bumblebee. From my vantage point at my table in the garden, I watched him navigate the stalks, his wings vibrating...
Racing in May can be strange. One week you're running 10 kilometres in 12 degrees, a week later you don't know what hit you when you're lining up late at night in 26 degrees for a 5k. No acclimatising, it just flips from one extreme to...
I've had this holiday in my calendar for decades and rarely ever mention it but, today is the day! I'm not only celebrating, but living it as always! In celebration, I'm getting to work on one of my infinite self-hosting/indieweb...
Esse talvez tenha sido um dos meses mais diversificados que eu pude descobrir certas bandas que geralmente estão fora do meu radar de músicas que eu procuro. Mas como sempre é bom estar de olho em músicas novas, eu tentei dar uma chance...
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But the thing is, LLMs are very flexible. And...