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Today I scanned some photos taken by my grandfather, possibly during the late 1920s/early 1930s in California (at a period in his young life where he ran away from home and travelled across the country on the rails as a self-described...
“I’m very fond of the take-home essay, as there’s something irreplaceable about the experience of articulating a theory over the course of multiple weeks—doing background research, letting the ideas marinate in one’s subconsciousness,...
Our bodies do not have a maintenance mode. Every system that keeps us functional — muscle mass, bone density, mitochondrial capacity, neuronal connectivity, immune calibration — is maintained only in response to demand. Remove the demand...
A throwback from 2007: a local Bay Area a cappella group called The Richter Scales made a Webby Award-winning viral video about how that bubble felt. Hat tip: Toni.
We spent a week exploring Franconian Switzerland, starting with a Lego exhibition and a visit to Nuremberg Zoo.
"Garden" never means the same thing to any two people. I don't usually list "gardening" as one of my hobbies. I don't usually tell people "I'm a gardener." Because everyone has varying ideas of what that means, and because even other...
My home audio system goes through a Denon AVR-X1700H as the primary receiver. My house has three pairs of ceiling speakers: one in the living room, one in the dining room, and one in the kitchen. When listening to music I want them all...
In the last week I've found myself in two situations where I had to explain that despite all the crap I've been through, I wouldn't change a thing. That I love who I am, and I'm the product of everything I've lived, hence, I shall love...
10 years ago I woke up in a tent in Glastonbury and realised that the utterly unthinkable had happened. We spent the morning, we festival goers, wandering around in a daze. It can be true?! Can’t it? It was. The magical otherworldliness...
Hoy hace 30 años del lanzamiento del Nintendo 64 en Japón. También se celebran 10 años desde que celebré sus 20 años en este blog. Aprovecho la ocasión para volver a festejar esta consola que todavía me sigue dando entretenimiento. Mi...
← Back to home Simple bare metal zero downtime deployments with Docker and Traefik I feel as though a lot of systems are overcomplicating things with the could. For a small SaaS to run, you only really need a few things done right: A lot...
Lately I've been feeling like some part of me is trapped in ice, or stuck at the bottom of a lake. Unreachable, like crossing into the part of my hometown where there's never any phone service. It makes me feel like I don't have all of...
期望韩炳哲在《爱欲之死》里提到：如果说有一样东西需要对当今社会日益频繁发生的「失望」负责，那么它不是不断升华的想象力，而是不断提高的期望值。 过去，人们先经历，再留下记忆和图像。现在，我们还没有真正进入一个地方，就已经在观看它最漂亮的样子：最好的光线，最干净的构图，最适合发布的角度。 经验反过来变成照片的生产过程。 现实现实从来不是这样。...
Grade10 Trading Card ShowI spoke about Pokémon cards a few weeks ago. Last weekend, I attended Grade10, Hong Kong’s largest card show at Hopewell Centre, Wan Chai. The building is quite unique as it is a round column, plus it has one of...
Redesigning as a method of interrogation. Okay, okay, okay. I did it again. Sometimes you design a thing, or redesign it, or evolve it, and you think you're there. But this unsettling feeling sinks in, and you think: “I’m not happy with...
This blog is moving to another domain Please update your feeds. Its a story of a warrior—born Saxon but adducted and raised by Danes—and his struggle for survival during the reign of King Alfred the great around year 850. From the first...
Les habitudes nous permettons à être efficace et à agir sans considérant les détailles chaque fois. Néanmoins, les habitudes doivent changer marginalement ou profondément pour notre développement vertueuse continuel. En ce sujet là, j’ai...
I'm BackA former colleague once told me, "When you see a swimming pool, you don't dip your toe in. You do a cannonball." When I rediscovered blogging a few years ago, I started accumulating domains like bad habits. I went five hundred...
This week’s Decoder is probably my favorite episode so far. It is a really thoughtful conversation with Patreon CEO Jack Conte, discussing what’s changed for that company in the past five years. One of the really interesting bits is...
Me dí cuenta después de varios meses que no podía recibir dinero en Ko-Fi, el sistema directamente no tenía botón para dejar propina. Y eso es debido a que Paypal (que raro) me estaba solicitando algunos documentos adicionales para...
Anthropic va introduce verificările de vârstă cu data de 8 iulie. Sigur o să renunț la Claude, problema este că nu știu ce o să folosesc. Mulțumesc că urmărești ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.
It's been more than a month on Bear for me now, and I've been having a very good time actually. As many people do here, I want to reflect on my first month here, since it's my first time ever blogging. When I was younger, I always wanted...
Create one of those Uses pages. Still a work in progress, but there's a good chunk of the stuff I use on there now. https://kevquirk.com/uses Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post...
Why spend 80 € on a simple cap? Because it fits my big head perfectly, is very comfortable, offers good sun protection, is high-quality, and also keeps me from being blinded by the sun. With this cap and my hat, my collection of summer...
GIMP has always had an interface problem. I’m not blaming the GIMP team (they’ve built something powerful on a shoestring). They’ve been clear they’re not interested in copying Photoshop wholesale; their FAQ argues that designing around...
Roshan: Wikipen A common sentiment expressed in coastal American cities is that it's awful that the government is able to ticket people for improperly curbed wheels and parking meters not paid while simultaneously unable to punish those...
Release presentation At 09:00 UTC (11:00 CEST) today I will do a traditional live-streamed release presentation of this release over on my Twitch channel. Numbers the 275th release6 changes56 days (total: 10,817)276 bugfixes (total:...
Franz Schneider Brakel GmbH + Co KG: Forty years after the Brakel door handle workshop, FSB is bringing back an unmistakable design by Dieter Rams. […] Revised and future-oriented, the entire lever handle is now manufactured locally in...
A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the District Attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family. Oh wow, this is probably the best movie based on a book by John Grisham I’ve...
The vibeThis was one of those weeks that had some fun tech stuff, some meaningful spiritual time, and one really hard life update right in the middle of it all. I am trying to focus on the good things where I can, but honestly, the job...
I have a keen sense of smell. I smell things that other people apparently can’t. If I had a dollar for every time I asked someone, “What is that smell?”, I would have a hundred dollars. Last weekend I was making my way towards a hotel...
The last thread had fewer entries than earlier ones, but several months have past, perhaps readers can supply some new links. The instructions, as before: In light of the growing number of these volumes, I am going to run a thread...
A nearly severe thunderstorm approaching Swindon, UK yesterday. I say nearly as I didn't see any hail, notice any strong wind gusts or read any reports to suggest otherwise. For a 'homegrown' UK storm it had a brief but somewhat...
This book is simply incredible — epic in its scale; a scale matched only by the darkness of the veil, the brief glimpses you get of its vastness. Like soft wan milky starlight illuminating the corners and edges of a building so enormous...
This is like the best time for me to get down some things. The mornings here seem quieter. I rarely eat breakfast so this morning I asked my wife to please cook some eggs and toast for me. They don’t want me loose in the kitchen. My...
June 2026. Gyumri. Armenia. Unexpectedly, the two carriage “commuter” train left Yerevan bang on time, and arrived in Gyumri bang on time, 3:05 hours later. With that sort of reliability Armenian Rail should take over Northern Rail; it’d...
I am starting to learn about Linux firewalls because directly exposing Bocia to the Internet, without a VPN, makes it crucial to secure the machine as much as possible. The first concepts I got familiar with are the ones explored in the...
The colors of this theme were entirely too hard to decide on, therefore a default greyscale has been chosen and the theme has been named STONE. Re-typesetting this blogThe serif setup here follows Maggie Appleton's garden thematically....
It has been five days since the last edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. While I ordinarily publish links in the morning and it is now the evening, I submit some late links today to keep the backlog under control. Today (June 23, 2026) was...
She may well be correct, but let's have some context. I live on the outskirts of a small village, which has one road in. There's no out unless you want to drive into the sea, so you turn around and come back the way you came to leave the...
(image courtesy of avogado) i know that change is the easiest way out, deep down, too. i just feel absolutely powerless at the behest of my mind, especially right now, and wish that i was strong enough to enact such change. but when...
TL;DR: AI slop is bad; human slop is worse
I'm in need for some lighthearted stuff. I finally finished a painting from a few months ago, and did a quick gouache doodle in my notebook using the Google captcha look (but slightly wrong). Gonna redo that on proper paper some time...
Si me hubieras preguntado hace unos años qué era una de las cosas que más disfrutaba, habría respondido sin pensarlo dos veces que los videojuegos. Y creo que si exploras un poco más mi blog, lo podrías notar. Siempre han sido parte de...
In 1651, in the aftermath of a century of religious war, Thomas Hobbes set out to end the age of faith. Leviathan proposed to replace the quarrelsome authority of priests and prophets with a single secular sovereign, and it did so by...
From Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky (my daughter) on 6/20, completely out of the blue: Re: Assessment Thursday 10:30: The assessment visit is at the Avant [“a WellQuest Living Community”, offering independent living for seniors in Palo...
Rishabh asked some questions about bloggers' AI usage, or not-usage.
I've just made public, and published to PyPI, v0.1.0 of Rogallo. As mentioned a couple of times recently, it's a terminal-based client for the Gemini Protocol. This is a very early release, with lots of things still to be added. Right...
Just something I experience more and more these days. When it comes to reviewing code, the descriptions, commits and such can be massive blast of information: Full of extraneous details depicting what was changed. The main point is why...
Talking to people, friends and strangers alike, has always been its own kind of nightmare. My heart races if I even think about having to talk to someone. I lose confidence before I’ve even started. Wait, is it possible to lose something...
Glitter Blessings: Practicing Seva at Pride mtift Tue, 06/23/2026 - 11:31 Last summer, Marnie and I spent a day volunteering at the Twin Cities Pride Festival. We worked the booth for the Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice...
Limiting myself to 9 because that's what the format was, but I could prolly go WAY harder Last week, the 9 Steam Games I Want to Spread page was going around all over socials and I wanted to do one, but instead of "make an image with it...
Historias Corrientes es una de las series que llevaba teniendo pendiente desde, bueno, desde su época. Entre 2010 y 2017, es una de las series de la última “era de oro” de Cartoon Network, y de todas ellas quizá sea la más adulta. Entre...
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-55200 for the project libssh2, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix an out-of-bounds write in...
War ein bisschen überrascht, wie gut ich mich gestern nach den 1000 Wörtern gefühlt habe. Hatte direkt im Anschluss auch ganz viele Ideen, die ich am liebsten gleich noch mit aufgeschrieben hätte – natürlich habe ich das alles wieder...
There really is no light at the end of the tunnel, right? Come on, that's not so bad. The tunnel's pretty nice, you know? Maybe we can pitch a tent here, have some coffee, and chat about tunnel life. That doesn't seem so bad, does it?...
Someone on Tildes pointed out a contradiction at the end of my “I almost got hit by a car” story, where I say that, since the incident, I started using the Loop Engage, which reduces 16 dB — far less than the noise cancellation on...
This week was wild, one of the most hectic days at work, watching the World Cup at church, getting some late birthday presents for myself, taking pictures, maybe a date? I don’t know what’s going onnn. Alas, here’s some notes on it all,...
Biked in Hollandse Duinen National Park with a distance of 37.40 kilometres. Hollandse Duinen National Park runs along the South Holland coast from Hook of Holland to Katwijk, wrapping around The Hague. Its dunes, beaches, and dune lakes...
Parece que foi ontem que eu comecei esse blog. Não tinha muito motivo para iniciar o blog, e eu estava querendo voltar a escrever a bom tempo mas não queria usar nenhuma outra plataforma que eu tinha abandonado. E depois de procurar e...
I didn't play Street Fighter (or any fighting games for that matter... too many button combos), but every time I see a Lexus of this era I can't not see Ryu next to it.Currently Listening: Yoko Shimomura “Street Fighter II Ryu...