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John Gruber writes about those annoying popups every website seems to have now and while he does a great job tearing into these ubiquitous, user-hostile patterns, one of the things that stood out to me about his piece was this meta...
Ayer se completó la segunda fecha de la fase de grupos del mundial de fútbol que se está disputando en Canadá, Estados Unidos y México. Las 6 selecciones sudamericanas enfrentaron a 2 rivales de Europa, 2 de la Concacaf y 2 de África....
IT and cybersecurity hiring has a gatekeeping problem.I do not mean that every requirement is unfair. Some jobs really do need someone who has touched the system before. If a company needs a senior identity engineer, a cloud security...
My first memories of World Cup football are Mexico ’86. After Jock Stein died at the end of the qualifying match against Wales the previous year, some bloke called Alex Ferguson took over as manager. Not sure what happened to him after...
J’écris pour pratiquer ma Français. Il y a plein des fautes en ces notes ci. Collectivement ces sont la réflection de ma qualité en présent. Je crois que tous que je publies est corrigible. Pas seulement les textes Françaises, dont je...
How did we get here? I think it's safe to say that pretty much everyone who got his education in India knows what I'm talking about. In a vast majority of Indian educational institutes, there's a pathological focus on rote memorization....
Xavier de Maistre in an armchair, displaying his “book of discoveries” (Veyssier, 1860) Every so often I like to include a public domain image in a blog post. I’m fond of the woodblock and lithographic illustrations of the late 1800s. I...
We're sharing a car while the other is in the shop. An unexpected benefit is that sometimes I'll drive Casey to work and experience the city in the morning.Currently Listening: Masakatsu Takagi “Marginalia #48”Reply via email
And it doesn’t mince words. In this case, the task was assigned to EJ Spode, “who assembled the following crack team of elite scholars to work as a totally independent group to address the issues raised in the charge: Somerset Maugham,...
This week’s episode of Upgrade (which I listened to on a longish drive yesterday) has a preview of Jason Snell and Myke Hurley’s upcoming Designed in California podcast. No, not the “Road to the Apple II” series they’ve been squeezing...
June 24, 2026 Earlier this month, I wrote a post titled "Someone convince me to use Chrome". Since then, I've been using Chrome as my primary browser. As a result, I've become more mindful of my site's browser analytics. Looking at my...
Gladiator II llegó rodeada de polémica y críticas. Está claro que Gladiator es una de las mejores películas dirigidas por Ridley Scott y su secuela tenía que estar a la altura. Como ya pasa en la primera parte nos encontramos una...
Some of my favorite movies have been produced by A24 - Saint Maud, The Florida Project, I Saw the TV Glow, Everything Everywhere All at Once, The VVitch, so on and so forth. They produce plenty of films by female directors, and those...
It’s weird when this happens but some months are just full of things that feel like tasks rather than something I wanted to do. All of June has been full of nothing but talking about things that happened, physical objects, events, notes,...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Wild few days but I'm nothing if not determined to see this project through till at least Wind and Waves come out. Anyway, in today's post we don't have a lot of icons....
Es ist fast ein bisschen bedenklich, wie viel Spaß mir das hier macht. Ich habe – natürlich – noch mehr Gedanken zu diesem Projekt, und weil mir niemand verbieten kann, einfach noch mehr über das Wie und Warum des Ganzen nachzudenken,...
Rogallo v0.2.0 is now available. This version fixes some issues with links, makes gemtext parsing better conform with the specification, and also makes it easier to see where a link will take you. The first issue is a fix to how...
In this piece on why he blogs, Noah Smith says that blogging has allowed me to inject ideas into the discourse with unparalleled speed, breadth, and access. A researcher goes deep into a few topics; a blogger can quickly hit the main...
On this day ten years ago – the day the result of the Brexit referendum was announced – I was walking in Surrey, where I took this picture. This is what politicians used to look like (take note, Andy...
Seguramente necesitas esta cama para que tu esponja de lavado descanse plácidamente. ¡Cómpralo ahora! En Argentina las llamamos “bolucompras”, que sería “compras boludas”. Boludo es algo así como estúpido, aunque si lo buscas en la RAE...
So, this whole "to buy Coffee, or not to buy Coffee, that is the question"-thing got me thinking a bit more: In my original post on the topic I made a call to "normalize giving" and I've been thinking: are there more ways of doing that,...
Francisco Trujillo at The Conversation: We have developed what we call an ultrasonic espresso: a room-temperature brewing process that uses high-frequency sound waves to extract the flavour, oils, aroma and caffeine from coffee grounds....
A few years years ago the curl project signed up and became a CNA. This means that we are masters of and can allocate our own CVE identifiers. For any security problems within our territory, it is we who decides if the issue should get a...
In 2014 I decided to try my hand at writing a book. I did, and it was terrible. Then in 2018 I tried again and wrote something not terrible but not great. Neither of these books had anything in common. In art school you are told you need...
Is this for real?! It’s 16:09. I’m lying on the couch. There’s a fan trained on me, circulating at full tilt. The temperature is 26 °C (79 F) inside, 33 °C (92 F) outside, humidity is high. Come again?! I live in the fucking Netherlands....
A walkstreet in Hermosa Beach, the last block before the sand. So much more pleasant without cars. ハーモサビーチにあるウォークストリート。砂浜の手前、最後のブロックだ。車がいないと、ずいぶん気持ちがいい。
Accendo l’auto, stamattina, distratto come al solito. Sul display da 85 pollici, modestia a parte, compare un messaggio a tutto schermo: anomalia. Suggerisce di cambiare la batteria. Clicco ok. Il messaggio sparisce. “La farò controllare...
Here is what happened. Over a few hours, a conversation with an AI model produced a biologically grounded framework connecting protein metabolism, mitochondrial function, connective tissue loading, circadian biology, gut-brain signaling,...
June 2026. Gyumri. Armenia. Well, over the border in Armenia, actually, but we need to recognise the genius of Tony Joe White at every opportunity. Mrs RM had really wanted to take that midnight train to Georgia from Yerevan, but on...
I have linked to videos from OTR a few times on my link blog but this one deserves a post on here. It’s a feature-length documentary about the “Golden Triangle” within Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, the history how it became the center of...
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Woman with Hand in Hair, Lee Miller, 1931. I woke up at 6am so here’s a quick link dump before I head out to work. On existential cringe / reading another Ben Lerner book and one of the characters talks about milieu therapy / Slavenka...
An incomplete list of the Byzantine exarchs (vice-emperors) of the Exarchate of Ravenna.
背包可能是除了电脑之外，我最看重的通勤装备。过去用的是 Bellroy，起了换包的念头，是因为几次大雨把包淋透之后，开始有点担心里面的电子产品。英国的雨来的太不讲道理。 新背包现在用了 10 个月，非常满意，是 21L 的 Able Carry Daily Plus。这个容量很适合通勤，不会显得臃肿，也足够放下日常所需。 它的外观比较内敛，但又与常规电脑包不同，没那么中规中矩，保留了一些辨识度。 我比较喜欢它的几个地方：...
The things I write the most are thoughts, ideas, introspections, because for me is hard to write about my life. It doesn't have to do with the fact of if I publish it or not, generally I can't write about my life even in my private...
Educate yourself, welcome life’s messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs. Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922–April 11, 2007) endures as one of modern history’s most beloved authors, a wiseman of storytelling and a...
James Stark is back in town, and he's pissed. Eleven years ago, Stark’s magician ‘friends’ turned against him and sent him to Hell, where Stark spent all of that time battling demons in an arena. Oddly, each time he got torn apart or...
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Long Claude Code sessions eat a lot of context, fast. Each response injects tokens into the context window: prose-heavy replies burn through it faster than terse ones ($$). caveman is a Claude Code plugin that switches the model into a...
The first trailer for the Taika Waititi directed adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel, Klara and the Sun has landed. I’m not one to complain about differences between the book and its movie counterpart — mainly because adapting a...
From Toni Borowsky (in Australia) on Facebook on 6/24: Jesus PYJAMAS! Ffs I am seeing ads for Jesus pyjamas. (AuE / BrE spelling PYJAMAS, AmE PAJAMAS) In response: — AZ > TB: Links! Pix! We need stuff to see, Toni! But I add that,...
As yet unknown since I am just starting something. I always feel in the mornings that Pika needs some attention. Like a few sentences about what it is that came to me this morning. This sense of enlightenment or desire or just wanting to...
Last night I received an email from one of the large supermarkets. It was a product recall. I've never had such an email before, but it was quite clear that I had bought the product. I wondered how they knew, but quickly realised they...
As a special snowflake, one tends to want to make modification to tool configuration without messing with colleagues or make those changes a part of the project. For example, let’s say you have a pyrightconfig.json file in your project,...
The name of this post comes from a swap I made with Zachary Kai, a thoughtful writer and blogger who kindly explained how his Title Traders directory works and agreed to help me try it out. (This is such a great idea, and it originated...
Blowing bubbles: This is an S-tier coping skill honestly. My hands are occupied. Breathing in and out has a purpose. I watch the bubbles float away and pop! Going "Louis Theroux mode": Louis' awkwardness, curiosity, and dry wit is his...
TIMBRE NOVELAS WIKIPÉDICAS[La Jornada, Martes 16 de junio, 2026]Hace no mucho Olga Tokarczuk dijo, o entiendo que dijo, que ha utilizado los recursos de la Inteligencia Artificial para llevar a cabo investigaciones preliminares para su...
My phone will ring some time in the next hour. It will be my Dad. He will be having a problem with his television. He will probably be pretty cross about it. He won't ask me to fix the problem. He will just blurt out "It's not doing...
A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger. Continuing the John Grisham streak, this ie one of the few movies I knew about, but never seen. Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in their prime do a great job...
I have to publish this now, we’re already halfway through W26. Current situation: JUST KIDDING I am actually inside staring at a computer instead of lying on my back in a meadow staring up at the sky. But I did see these nice clouds...