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The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s. Yeah,...
Amusing piece in The Economist. It would be nice if we had some actual figures on the number of philosophers being hired. Luciano Floridi “describes the scale of departures from philosophy departments as a ‘haemorrhaging,'” which is...
I consider it my lifetime mission to find the optimal desktop setup from both a productivity and aesthetic standpoint. There are two basic requirements: to maximize space utilization (especially vertically) and to minimize visual clutter...
2026-06-25Hello! This is not my camera!Using a compact fixed-lens camera borrowed from a friend, I captured the underside of my blue umbrella at close distance. The black stretchers reflect the green of the grass floor below as the rainy...
Wear a helmet, says Bino Seconded! Before I met her, my wife came off her mountain bike whilst and even WITH a helmet on was in hospital for a few days and now has a metal plate in her head, and no memory of the incident at all. I’ve...
Posted on June 26, 2026 It’s time to bottle this year’s cider. I like my cider, and I think some other people do too. But. Is it good cider? I’ve been thinking about that. It doesn’t taste like much of the high end cider I can buy here....
It's July again! Soon, anyway. And this means two things: Heat waves (hate it) and computer shenanigans thanks to the Old Computer Challenge (love it). This is what I started this blog with three years ago, and I've participated every...
Things like this don’t bother me much; not any more. I’m past the stage where I care. Trolls will always troll, and some people on the Internet will always be as nasty as they can possibly be, safe in the knowledge that their words can...
Your browser does not support the video tag. For the first time in a long time, I have no idea what I want to write about today. Well, my family might be getting a cat soon, but that's a bit too soon to tell at this point. Honestly, it's...
Brains, eyes, environments, and why no trajectory of intelligence we can actually inspect supports the idea of monotonic improvement toward “superintelligence.” Start with an animal that should embarrass us. The mantis shrimp has twelve...
Good lord, I love lists. On our family trip to California in 1988, I obsessed over my Uncle Don’s copy of the original 1977 printing of The Book of Lists by David Wallechinsky, his father Irving Wallace, and sister Amy Wallace. Uncle Don...
The web platform is a wonderful thing. A collection of standards and implementations that power the ever-wondrous World Wide Web – HTML, CSS, ECMAScript, SVG, WebAssembly, HTTP, etc. However, it can always be better. As such, here is my...
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Aunque la juventud sea un tesoro divino y muchos digan que cualquier tiempo pasado fue mejor, estoy muy contento con la etapa vital en la que me encuentro. Siempre he sido una persona introvertida. Me costaba mucho iniciar el contacto...
(image courtesy of eliapelle) "how do you stay connected while practicing digital minimalism, and how did you/do you plan make the switch to more intentional digital interactions?" wow, what a juicy question, past me! i'm so glad you...
One has to be aware that human speech and writing is being influenced by LLMs, and thus they are becoming more similar. This was already evident in 2024, as shown by a study that detected a significant LLM influence in spoken content...
I admired Om Malik and his writing for my entire adult life, then had the fortune of knowing him. A remembrance of a friend, mentor, critic, and guide.
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. handwritten.blog. A handwritten blog. Literally. The guy writes on an e-ink tablet, then does a...
Problem statement: my Claude Code skills lived in my .dotfiles, usable only on the machine that cloned them. I wanted them to be installable anywhere with one command, so that (for example) my teammates could easily adopt them. Claude...
Não acredito que depois de um semestre eu finalmente consegui terminar de ler meu segundo livro do ano. O que é um absurdo comparado com o ano passado que eu li um número inacreditável de livros (pra mim). Não teve um motivo em...
Es ist zu warm heute. Die Wetterapp sagt die Temperatur liegt 13ºC über dem Durchschnitt für 15. Julis. Muss wegen des Wetters morgen nicht auf Arbeit, aber die Uni fällt nicht aus. Das Seminar wurde ins Erdgeschoss verlegt, ich...
J’étais un adolescent quand j’ai appris les Français. Dans cette période là je ne pouvais pas préparer un texte long. En présent c’est facile pour moi de m’exprimer chaque jour, même avec les erreurs, parce que j’ai déjà développé la...
June 25, 2026 MacBook Neo ($100 increase) 256GB: $599 to $699 512GB : $699 to $799 […] 13-inch MacBook Air ($200 to $800 increase) 16GB, 512GB: $1,099 to $1,299 32GB, 4TB: $2,699 to $3,499 15-inch MacBook Air ($200 to $800 increase)...
Listed es una plataforma gratuita para tener tu blog. Este funciona con el bloc de notas gratuito Standard Notes (que pertenece a la compañía Proton). Lo que publicas ahí fácilmente, mediante un botón, lo puedes subir a tu blog en...
Heya! So, James recently made a blogpost opensourcing the python script he used to generate his various personality quizzes! (Blogger Archetype quiz, what microformat are you, etc.) At the end of the post, he says this: And if you feel...
Un petit mot de nos sponsors… Comme pour les stades ou les équipes cyclistes, il est important de nommer les vagues de chaleur et les canicules selon les sponsors qui ont rendu cela possible. C’est après tout la moindre des choses. Ne...
A mission post by Lieutenant JG Sean Morgan, Lieutenant Weho Lape Sabril, Ensign Miles Archer Mission - Lick Your Fingers Clean The ship joined the orbit of the moon Regula 23 was in geosynchronous orbit above maybe a half hour ahead of...
My regular morning view from the hotel gym, looking out across the Rosebank suburb of Johannesburg. When last week’s Sun City-based conference was announced, I decided to extend my stay in South Africa so that I could spend some time...
Looking at South Redondo Beach from Palos Verdes. The large silver building in the distance is Sofi Stadium, one of the venues where the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament is taking place. レドンド・ビュー...
L’ultimo controllo medico, quello che a Milano in zona 1 chiamano check-up, ha confermato le due certezze della mia vita adulta: Un paio di medici, col disincanto e la pazienza di chi lo fa da anni, hanno preso la briga di spiegarmi che...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: I’m attending ALA this weekend with Words & Money, wearing my “occasional journalist” hat, so if you see me around, say hello! Also, my last “newsletter” was linked to and shared by several...
El pasado domingo empezó el verano boreal, disfrutando del día más largo del año. La verdad es que estuve descansando porque ha sido un mes de junio bastante intenso. Lamentablemente, al empezar a trabajar he tenido que aparcar parte de...
Spudwig Wright was a potato, and not a particularly attractive one at that. Rumour had it that there was more than a bit of rutabaga on his father’s side of the family. And even if that wasn’t actually true, he certainly had the looks,...
Last year I announced that I’d been accepted to a fellowship program housed at The Institute for Diversity & Civic Culture where I’d be doing an oral history project featuring the lived experiences of Texas Buddhists. I named it “84000...
I’ve had an email list for years, mostly for my business. But as I’ve consolidated my output it’s time for me to get rid of my old list. So I’ve setup a series of blasts for this/next week. Some have moved over. Many haven’t. But it’s...
June 2026. Gyumri. Armenia. As so often, the demographic chart for Gyumri tells you quite a lot. A five-fold increase in 60 years, followed by a halving of the population after natural disaster and the demise of the Soviet empire in...
When I was doing a lot of Ruby-on-Rails development, I really liked having rbenv to manage which version of Ruby a project was using. I also really liked Scripts to Rule Them All: predictable entrypoints like script/setup and...
Available here. Abstract: Future AI persons might both (1.) deserve moral consideration and rights fully equal with natural human persons, and (2.) have lifeways so radically different from ours as to break familiar patterns of moral...
TALKIN SHIT Most of these I do for me I-guess-this-is-just-gonna-be-a-format-I-use-from-now-on photography
San Francisco’s Pride weekend kicks off every year with the Trans March on Friday. Eryn, EJ, and I got to Dolores Park in mid-afternoon. The march starts there, in the corner of the Mission District closest to The Castro, then heads up...
Someone reminds Yang Zhenghui, who runs an online channel about true crime, about his ex-girlfriend Vivian, so he decides to look her up to see what she’s been doing. To his surprise, he realises that she has disappeared. His amateur...
This blog is moving to another domain Please update your feeds. I remember during my college years (10 years ago) hearing about so called ghost hunter, Gaurav Tiwari. He died in his bathroom after some year in unclear circumstances. This...
I am back with Season 2, Part 4 of the Home Network and Devices track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series. This time we are putting smart devices in their own lane and making a sane DNS choice without turning the house into a...
Spotted this truck on my block in Brooklyn, but I imagined it in a field in the country, doing donuts in a field. It looks like an early 80’s model of the Dodge Ram 150. Since I didn’t get photos of the tailgate, I don’t know the exact...
Graham Priest, currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, will be moving to Tohoku University in Japan. Professor Priest is known for his work in logic, especially non-classical...
I've started reading Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. The book is, to quote The Guardian, 'an endlessly controversial high-wire act' about how a twelve-year-old girl is lusted after by Humbert Humbert, an adult man. People agree that the book...
Trailing dots after hostnames in URLs remain my worst enemies. I wrote about several problems with them in the past that involved those nasty things. They are still painful. When we shipped curl 8.21.0 on June 24 2026 we fixed at least...
I've just made an initial release of a new library related to my ongoing project to build my own Gemini protocol browser. Initially, the code to parse the hypertext format used for Gemini sites, lived in the Rogallo codebase. But despite...
Dear reader,Discussions about private email providers center on two providers:Proton and Tuta. During the last five years that I used Proton Mail, I accepted the premise. However, Proton’s limitations on the free plan, the focus on AI...
Title: Blog of S-Config Website: s-config.com RSS Feed: s-config.com/feed/rss Welcome to this little slice of the net known as S-Config. Here's hoping that you have a wonderful day wherever you are in the crazed yet delicious world we...
As someone who's been to the American Sign Museum more than a handful of times, I always find some new nook, ephemera or acquisition. Currently Listening: Between the Buried and Me “Laser Speed”Reply via email
We often credit Facebook and Twitter for all the harms of the world, but the more I think about it, the less I agree. Those were not the culprit, they only took full advantage of societal changes. The IRC and bulletin board days were...
Regular readers of this blog know that I’ve been quite a happy user of Cursor for the past year, but the recent news of its mother company being purchased by SpaceX has made me reconsider my decision, and cancel my current subscription...
Finally! after a lot of bargaining with myself, I've got back into a zine-making routine. I actually prefer using Photopea over Photoshop or Affinity.
The new social network W Social - which purports to be a healthier alternative to Elon Musk’s X, “made in Europe, for the world” - would be a fascinating case study for future business school seminars. Its debut has been messy, filled...
These are not the dog days – they come in August when the dog star, Sirius, is rising – but, by heaven, they feel like it. It's proper hot, as we say around here, and more to come tomorrow. At least the butterflies are loving it – to the...
Some time ago I posted about my experience blocking one country and some ASNs directly via iptables from my mail server. It seems like there’s an even better source of IPs and networks to block. The Spamhaus “Don’t Route Or Peer Lists...
I have no idea what I’m going to say here and I don’t want to sound like I’m out of touch (but I really am out of touch so forgive me). So there’s this girl I invited to watch a movie, and I do kind of like her, and I do know that my...
If you have’t heard, Om Malik passed away. People are sharing stories of their graceful encounters with him. This one is mine. Back at the beginning of 2021, I set a goal to write 72 blog posts. I was puttering along, publishing whatever...
The leap comes when we realise that non-intentional preparation actually IS preparation, just in another form. Because it's more enjoyable than the forced stuff we have to do for a specific game, we do more of it. And it changes what we...
Sara Polo ante Sophie Calle (Lecturas, suplemento literario de El Mundo, viernes 26 de junio. La mirada indiscreta de Sophie Calle, la artista que convirtió la intimidad en una obra de arte: «La gente cree que me conoce, pero lo que...
NixOS + Drupal Talk: DrupalSouth 2026 abmurrow Fri, 26 Jun 2026 - 13:30
Yesterday was Make A Terrible Comic Day, which I only learned about in the evening, while I was already working on yesterday's post and a different, super secret website, but "if you are aware of the existence of make a terrible comic...