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Wed Jul 08
July 2026. Sawley. Derbyshire. A fair few pubs for the 6,629 good folk of Sawley, most of them in the Good Beer this century. I’d started at the smart allrounder and GBG perennial White Lion, by which time the breakaway group had already...
I worked with a guy for twenty years. I knew his three daughters by sight and watched them progress and graduate from the school system that employed their father and me. I knew this guy's wife, his father, his mom's health history. I...
Since the coding part is now done, I decided to solder the Arduino and IR sensor on a bit of perfboard, and then put it in a case. I don't have a case though; but what I do have is a 3D printer, so I'm going to try my hands at designing...
I’m not a typewriter geek in the least, but having grown up using my mom’s typewriter and, later, in middle school, an electric typewriter, I can certainly understand how people enjoy typewriters as a hobby to obsess over. And like any...
An interesting initiative from moral, political and legal philosophers at the University of Warwick: “The Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs (CELPA) at the University of Warwick is pleased to announce the CELPA Mentoring Scheme....
This Sunday I am meeting again with Christian Arzu from the @linkarzu YouTube channel. We will look into the basics of Org mode. How to use it to write documents and organise your life. Our previous meeting about getting started with...
Voy a empezar diciendo que no me gusta el café. Tuve mi época de más joven donde tomaba café, pero era más por la cafeína que por el gusto, y siempre era con toneladas de azúcar. Pero la realidad es que no me gusta. Hace un tiempo leí...
Have you heard? AI companies are hiring philosophers! Sort of. News about jobs for philosophers is the kind of thing you might expect to read about at Daily Nous—for example, here is a post about which philosophers are working for which...
tw: discussions of eating disorders, depression, starvation and hospitalisation i've... been in a bad place lately. for a little while now, actually.. it's been an overall fairly shitty first half of my 2026, opening with a series of...
Since JanerationX started a new blog on Pika a couple months ago, I have been enamoured by it. She is not afraid to express her thoughts and is refreshing to see. I’ve been meaning to add her to my blogroll because of how cool she is,...
June has flown by it seems, and that means Junited-2026 has come to an end. This initiative by Robert has got me reading a lot more blogs this month (and I actually missed two weeknotes…) I’d thoroughly enjoyed discovering new bloggers...
Finished reading Tsunami Kids by Paul Forkan and Rob Forkan. An incredible story of their unconventional upbringing, the tragic events of Boxing Day 2004, and their subsequent business success. For me, the book is let down a little by...
Yes. Again. More AI. Sorry, this stuff just won't go away on its own, so clearly, we need to help it along into its grave a little.
“We asked 100 people: What are the top three companies on earth best positioned to make a world-class Mac-assed Mac app?” Buzz! “Apple!” Survey says: Yes! Apple at the number one spot. Makes sense. Who better to make the very definition...
Uncovered.ink: Judge a book by its writing Read an endless stream of free book samples. Reveal and save the ones you like.
Conoce y ponte en contacto con los autores de los blogs que forman parte de directorio de blogs personales en español ¡Blog!¡Blog!. Muchos de quienes escribimos blogs estamos en la red social Mastodon (así de marginales somos) y...
“To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice.” Yes, we spend our lives trying to discern where we end and the rest of the world begins. The boundary is...
The setting sun reflects on the wet sand, through the Hermosa Beach Pier. 夕映え ハーモサ・ビーチ・ピア越しに、沈む夕日が濡れた砂浜に映り込んでいる。
Socrates’ method curiosity humility truth what input matches what output? is that the only matching pair?
I only take photos occasionally, even though it’s one of my great passions. Vacations are, of course, the perfect opportunity for this, although I have to make some compromises here too, because no woman who isn’t keen on photography...
TIMBRE ESCRIBIR MAL [La Jornada, Junio 30, 2026]Dijo el periodista y editor argentino Diego Fonseca en un tweet (todavía les llamó así) que leí el 26 de mayo del 2026: Tengo un problema con IA: usa la “—“, “no es X sino Y”, y tríadas...
Ye Li, the granddaughter of the venerable Lingshan academy’s headmaster, descends from the mountain. The mountain has been sealed off by the order of the Dowager Empress, and she has only been allowed to leave after almost a decade...
The name Venice is from the ancient tribe of the Veneti, whose lands became a Roman province, with the name of "Venetia et Histria"
La mejor manera de mejorar Thunderbird es escuchando a las personas que lo utilizan y desarrollar el cliente de correo intentando condensar todas las opiniones para mejorar este gran cliente de correo electrónico Hace unas semanas, el...
Una de mis opiniones en cuanto a productos tecnológicos es que, al menos en mi caso, los AirPods Pro son a la vez el mejor y el peor producto de Apple. La cantidad de magias que incluyen hace que, en cuanto te acostumbras a ellas, sean...
With the thermostat tapping out at 80° it was time to take additional action to cool the house.Currently Listening: Tycho, Sea Lemon “Anotherwave”Reply via email
Algumas semanas atrás, encontrei essa postagem “How to manage this Hugo based page from my Android phone in 2026 - foosel.net, que entra em detalhes sobre como gerenciar um blog diretamente do celular. O setup do blog é bem similar ao...
Why? I dunno. It just seemed like a thing to do. I last visited in 2019. Lived there before for a year or so. Had many fine moments and tall tiger beers and some good food in food courts. This time I played tourist. 2019 Singapore My...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop There was a period of time earlier in this project where I was worried my blog posts would be too much pokemon all the time, and thankfully that's no longer the case as...
Previously I opined that Valve was about to win the console generation. I couldn't have possibly predicted that both Microsoft and Sony would just self-sabotage so hard that they're both going to lose. Between Microsoft's decimation of...
Fade-in animated text adds nothing. Just let text be text.
Zilele astea am dat peste o veste care m-a făcut să mă opresc din citit și să recitesc paragraful de vreo două ori, pentru că nu m-am așteptat s-o văd așa curând. Nvidia, compania pe care o știam până acum aproape exclusiv pentru plăcile...
EDDIE MANNIX: It’s a swell story – a story told before, yes, but we like to flatter ourselves that it’s never been told with this kind of distinction and panache. EASTERN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH: Perhaps, sir, you forget its telling in the...
I think I finally understand blogging
Most salesmen are thieves who steal with their tongues. It doesn't matter if you're a billionaire or some homeless schizophrenic; everyone lives hand-to-mouth. The true act of discernment lies in understanding what hand is feeding you,...
In exchange I will finally start updating my Presently page again. I just got the Recordkeeper’s Fatigue for a while, you know how it is. ANYWAY SO NORMALLY I can only get two treadmill-miles done on my lunch break; each one is in the...
What should we tell people whose commitment to de-Googling is wavering?
Our suburb’s community center has a rooftop patio with a great view!
With how busy I have been with the new job lately, and my increasing push to focus on projects and uses of time that remove annoyance, unfortunately today’s announcement is not a shiny new project (of which there are a few in the...
Ashur has a lovely website and a brilliant eye for detail (look at the URL!). I have been replying to folks' blog posts every now and then over the years, notably in #JulyReply season so I jumped at this nice bit of design work....
A life organized around a to-do list takes the joy out of living. There's always stuff to do, obviously: somebody has to wash the dishes, sweep, go grocery shopping, get that cabinet door fixed. The problem is not the to-do list itself....
Man, I've been circling on this idea for some weeks now and couldn't quite figure out the best way to open, but I think this is a great one: About a month ago, Flathub announced a ban on slopcoded applications. Evangelos “GeopJr”...
My blogging mojo comes in fits and starts. I’ve been enjoying having a little more freedom in approach since switching to, essentially, two streams of posts; these shorter (or at least less considered) Notes, and the longer Musings...
I’m currently towards the tail end of my leave after a medical procedure. I cannot believe time has flown so quickly. When I first got the leave chit, I thought to myself: So many weeks! What in the world am I going do during this time?...
Last year, I published an article titled “It’s hard to build an oscillator”:The title alluded to the fact that there’s no shortage of oscillator circuits on the internet, but many of them use unusual parts, need weird supply voltages, or...
For reasons I hope to get around to writing about soon, I’m once again toying with VSCode to edit my notes and blog over SSH over a proxy host. 🕺 In fact, I’m writing this very blog post that way. Isn’t that amazing?? See this post for...
Note to self. I've had the joy of bringing a few sites live the last days, and in one case it was a multi-site with 7 different domains. During the process I needed a simple overview of the DNS propagation status. Before I've used online...
Sometimes I firmly believe if I wasn’t deaf that I would listen to many podcasts. I still remember years ago when the first podcasts started popping up and I was already deaf by then, how frustrated I was when blogs I liked to read...
A simple act of kindness always sparks another, even in a frozen, faraway place. When Smeerensburg’s new postman, Jesper, befriends toymaker Klaus, their gifts melt an age-old feud and deliver a sleigh full of holiday traditions. I have...
When I was in middle school and high school, my parents didn’t allow me to drink soda. But they had a secret stash of Coca-Cola in the garage fridge. I still don’t know why it was there. My parents didn’t drink soda. Maybe it was for...
After seeing Andy Bell talk about it on his site, I’ve gone ahead and added the ATMosphere plugin to the site to try and publish the site over the ATProtocol (which integrates with Bluesky) using standard.site. If this works well,...
Ich lasse mich nicht von meiner Müdigkeit abhalten … [12/1000] Ich habe schlechte Laune aktuell, nicht nur weil ich gerade zwei Stunden lang Youtube-Videos darüber geschaut habe, wie kaputt alles ist (was man eben so macht), sondern...
While looking for something else, I found this poem I wrote once as an encouragement to myself. I needed it today, maybe you do too.When you are thinking about thingsThat make you feel sad and lostGet out of your head, loveWhen you think...