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I made a thing It felt a bit like going back to kindergarten: I made a thing today. A thing that’ll brighten up my home office. This is how it went: first, I spent a lot of time going through old nature and bird magazines, looking for...
One of the two creatures depicted above is Garmegula, a giant monster I made up many years ago because I wanted to write some very short allegories about very tall monsters. Now he is the mascot of this site, in part because he staggers...
I now have bird stats on my website pulled from my ebird profile!
Trying to very slowly work through my Steam backlog (an impossible task) by playing through some shorter games in addition to my favored very long RPGs. First up is Mighty Gunvolt. This 2014 game is an 8-bit shooter akin to the Megaman...
The excellent The social network (2010), which dramatized the founding of Facebook, is getting a “companion piece” this October: The social reckoning. This time, it will depict the events surrounding the release of the “Facebook Papers”...
The moment I bought my Bambu Lab A1 mini 3D printer, I went looking for photography-related designs I could print. I spent a lot of filament on things that looked promising in theory but quickly ended up in a drawer. However, several...
June 2026. Sheffield. From the Park Hill flats we followed the path of the tram toward town, with the UK’s scruffiest tourist sign at the Park Square roundabout. Much of central Sheffield has been modernised beyond recognition in recent...
A sausage I’ll remember for a long long time. I love Krakow. I’ve been there four times in the last 10 years, granted it’s a bit biased as I talked about before – my brother got married there in 2016 and having that knowledge on where to...
Standing over Wilshire Blvd. in the new LA County Museum of Art. The street, newly reconstructed, looks like a perfect LEGO reproduction. The subway being built underneath Wilshire Blvd. opened last month. 新生LACMA...
84 years ago today a thirteen-year-old girl was given an autograph book, bound with red-and-white checked cloth, for her birthday. She decided to use it as a diary and chronicle her life; tragically, only for the next two years. That was...
Andreas blogged about adding the bubbles.town widget to his blog. He used the vote widget provided by bubbles.town, which is just a bit of JavaScript you put on your pages. It's well documented and dead simple, so if you just want this...
My friend and I have a theory that when you rent an apartment, it starts going downhill after two years. Everything usually starts off well (the building is nice and clean, the amenities are good, the maintenance team is responsive, the...
This random indieblog.page link was picked on Friday, June 12th 2026. It was originally published on Saturday, April 11th 2026 at Maudlin Ruminations. If you'd like to report any problems with this post or the blog, please include the...
Brand new Evanescence album! Exciting times! This Arkansas symphonic metal band pioneered the noughties alt-metal boom by blending American stadium rock sensibilities with cherry-picked classical elements to create something that failed...
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I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead! — Lesslie Newbigin To hope radically is to see the new possibilities for human flourishing where none seemed possible before. […] Radical hope, as I have been...
We'll, I've been thinking a lot about photos, as you might have noticed. A few months ago I published Memories, my photo-blog-kinda-thing, and I loved it, but as it was a separate project from this website, I ignored it most of the time....
Cooperative play in the Crosslands is so goddamn satisfying I've spent the last few days playing the Spirit Crossing playtest and man, I gotta put these thoughts down somewhere because it's a TREAT. First, some background When Spry Fox's...
I'll keep this short. It's come to my attention that I'm in my washed-up artist era. Every attempt to get back into my creativity has failed miserably. Y'know why? Because apparently, creativity is not a hobby for me. I can't just put it...
I think that noa makes a great point about the nascent “choose European!” trend going on over there. While moving away from American hegemony is a necessary step (and not only in the tech or services realms), replacing one hegemon for...
When we call dired from Lisp, we can pass it a list of files instead of a directory. This gives us a fully fledged Dired buffer for those files. My most common use-case is to produce flat listing, so that I do not have to go searching in...
No es como que sea tan raro, pero por lo general, los mensajes de spam buscan abusar de la autoridad de plataformas validas para poder ganar relevancia entre los buscadores. No tengo idea de si esto sirve todavía con los motores de...
Diría que me ha vuelto a pasar. Veo cómo una revista científica prima a otros autores sobre mí. En otro post hablé sobre mi mala experiencia con un paper en una revista (post) y ahora me pasa algo relacionado en otra. Desde el 2020...
A busy two days, with an avalanche of fresh things to post about, but all of it overshadowed by the hot news that I have found a place to live in. For complex reasons, it’s not technically an assisted living facility, but an independent...
Liked 9.0.0 — Growing Up by Matthias Pfefferle (ActivityPub for WordPress) One piece was missing, though: other people couldn’t add your WordPress blog to their lists, because your site never told their server who is allowed to do that....
Forty nine people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, were murdered ten years ago today in what was at the time the deadliest mass shooting in American history. It was Latin Night at Pulse; most of the victims were gay Latino men. The...
Every so often I get the urge to change how Emacs looks. Ever since I finally fell to the dark side, my Emacs has stayed looking pretty much the same. I like how it looks, but I do keep having this urge to find a darker theme, and to...
When I open a link, say on Hacker News, and I see a blog post or a GitHub README obviously written by AI, I feel a few things. I feel offended, because it’s like I’ve been tricked, like the author thinks I’m a rube who won’t notice or...
You believe something. The market will turn. The hire won’t last. The institution is rotting. You’ve done the work, the reasoning holds, you’re fairly sure. Before you act, ask one thing: will the world ever grade this belief, or only...
I run a group chat which is a space for in-depth discussions about long-form articles/blogs/books or anything else that fascinates us. Unfortunately, since the group chat is on WhatsApp, new members can’t access old entries, so this post...
Happy Aethelflaed Day, everyone! Aethelflaed (870-918), daughter of Alfred the Great, is remembered as the Lady of the Mercians, and is something of a feminist icon. With her brother, who later became King Edward the Elder, she ruled...
OverviewThis week was a reminder that attackers do not need a clever path when the control plane is exposed. VPN gateways, mobile access infrastructure, ERP systems, browsers, developer platforms, and even operational systems all...
The best thing that happened this week This week we had our quarterly offsite with the entire tech team. Of course we talked a lot about AI, visited the Google offices in Amsterdam, and had a ton of fun. We've got such a good team going...
This is the first time in history when a whole generation is being told or tempted to have a machine write for them. You are one of one, unprecedented in the history of human evolution. There’s only one of you. So to give your voice to a...
Random thoughts of no consequence accompany this photo. Unless you were on the fence about buying a water flosser.Currently Listening: Kevin Morby “Javelin”Reply via email
digiKam MySQL Database Upgrade WoesEver since I left Adobe Lightroom in mid-2025, I’ve been using digiKam from KDE for digital asset management (DAM). I quite like using it to manage my extensive library of photographs (+100k images)....
June 12, 2026 For the last couple of weeks I've been testing Chromium-based browsers on my M4 MacBook Pro, thinking I might switch from Safari or at least find a new backup browser. The truth is, I don't have a good reason to leave...
Roshan: Roshan moved page Blog/2026-06-04/Thou Shalt Not Covet to Blog/2026-06-12/Thou Shalt Not Covet {{Tweet | name = Elizabeth Warren | username = SenWarren | text = Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. The typical...
The Challenge of Finding Backlinks I recently stumbled upon blog posts by Herbert Lui (How to find people who link to your blog) and Maddy Miller (I wish reply articles worked better; see also my reply post) discussing some of the...
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...
My research for my next book, The Age of Content, has been in full swing for at least a year now. That book is going to be a short one (Polity wants me to keep it to 30K words). In order to show my work, I am creating a regular series on...
S-ar putea să dai peste niște siluete mici care se plimbă la sfârșitul articolelor. Este TownSquare, un mic widget pe care l-am adăugat și care îmi place enorm de mult ca idee. Povestea e simplă: am dat peste articolul de lansare al lui...
I am at IITM/Chennai for Paradox. I have been here since 2022, since the first Paradox. The fest and the crowd have grown bigger. I came by car with friends A&S. We took Old Madras Road and stopped at Sriperumbudur for a quick visit to...
💡Read The Devil Went Down to Georgia Auto Mechanics now!If you were to sell your soul for a car, what kind would it be?I am probably superstitious, because I will not say the words, “I would sell my soul for…”And would you do it if it...
A few moments ago I was reviewing and editing the short stories I've written and suddenly noticed that the last one had a part of text missing, it was about 3 paragraphs for what I can remember, it's clear that it was a mistake, I...
Una nueva edición de webs que descubrí y quiero compartir, para su deleite. wplace “Pinta el mundo”. Sitios como este son una locura divertida y muestra como Internet nos une para hacer cosas sin nada a cambio. Creado en 2025 es una...
I’m nearing completion of a desk reorganization. Don’t we all love a good desk reorganization?? My last setup had two complete workstations side by side on my desk: Office station: Apple Studio Display, Apple Magic Keyboard, Apple Magic...
2026-06-12Hello!I'll first address the black circle surrounding the image. This photograph was taken with a three-second exposure time, meaning that the camera sensor was exposed to the light for three seconds, gathering all the photons...
Hyperpole 2 Results"> Hyperpoles came and went, and the biggest surprise was seeing two Ferraris getting knocked out after Hyperpole 1 while both the Genensis Magmas entered Hyperpole 2 and finishing on 6 and 9. Tomorrow it’s time to see...