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💡Rusty Epstein
The latest heatwave has weighed heavily on everyone here. It is just too hot. All of my time seems to be spent working, watching World Cup football, or lying on my bed without any covering, hoping that I will be able to sleep. On...
When Andrés, my oldest son, was 9, we were watching a video about Logo, the programming language. He got especially excited with Turtle Graphics, where you have a "pen" on screen that you can draw with using commands to move it. That...
So as shared by somebody on the Amiga Addict Discord, today is the day that – if you play Championship Manager 97/98 for 30 seasons, on the 15th July 2026, you get an endgame screen, and encouragement to sign up as a play tester and a...
If you missed it. I already described day one. Caffeinated and ready, we all gathered in the same spacious room as yesterday, but seated in new places as “suggested” by our captain. Some of us even remembered to move over the name tags...
Can you find food for us?” she asked, rather vaguely and timidly. “Hunting takes time, and weapons.” “I meant, with, you know, spells.” “I can call a rabbit,” he said, poking the fire with a twisted stick of juniper. “The rabbits are...
In I started a "dirt notebook", BearBlogger kwist describes his reluctance to take messy notes in his regular notebooks: "I start cherishing every notebook that I start. I can't seem to keep my notes messy. Eventually, I start...
The term "digital native" is so funny to me. I was born in 1998, and while I know nothing of life before the internet, I definitely don't feel "native" to it in the way those stupid sociologists like to describe. Honestly, I feel like...
It’s official, we’re married! 💍 Part 1 is finished, second part on Saturday. 👰♀️🤵♂️ Interactions & Comments
A day exploring Franconian Switzerland’s Rabenstein Castle, Sophien Cave, and Neideck Ruins—complete with a medieval festival, a guided cave tour, and surprising history lessons. From debunking myths about the Middle Ages to holding a...
When I was building this site, I was keeping it lean but perhaps a bit messy. It’s not a big complex site and I didn’t need to write CSS to maintain a big complex site. As such, I even wondered if I’d stick to any kind of naming...
I have been working on two new themes for my minimalist doric-themes package. The original plan was to publish them together as part of the version 1.2.0 from a few days ago (the version that also brought doric-tiger and doric-lion), but...
Re: What is the oldest thing you own? In reply to: What is the oldest thing you own? — Thomas Rigby From time to time, I get the urge to just unplug everything and become a full-on Luddite, you know? The latest episode of this was...
Bookmarked “From coder to curator” by André Staltz I don’t claim to know what the future holds for AI software. But I this post aligns most with where I see the industry going in the short term. As a senior engineer I spend a lot of my...
Today is the first big smoke day of 2026. The past five years we've had some brutal streaks of smoke days from all the smoke coming south from Canada and northern Minnesota but this one is extra bad.
aphera.co I played around with the beta of this and got a little confused, but finally watched the quick two minute demo and it instantly clicked for me. I highly recommend checking Aphera out. It's fast and a delight to use--plus you...
Heads-up: This post is a bit of a bummer so stay away if you’re looking for something positive. When I went to open the bedroom curtains this morning, I did not expect the outside to look like it was lit by a giant night lamp. This is a...
Let’s hope it happens, but this will require the prudent wing of the ruling class, i.e., the Democrats, to ‘betray’ the (short-term) interests of their class, much as FDR did. (As some readers will know, FDR was regularly accused of...
There is little doubt in my mind that AI coding models have fundamentally changed the nature of software development in 2026. But is the SaaS-pocalypse real? I think it kinda is, for some businesses. A history lesson from an elder...
Me gustan los relojes de toda la vida. Muchos dejaron de usarlo pero aparecieron los smartwatch y se volvió a ver relojes en las muñecas. Sin embargo, algunos cansado de las notificaciones volvieron al reloj tradicional. ¿Vos cual usas?...
The Boxcar Children #12 Houseboat Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner, 1967. Mr. Alden takes his grandchildren on a houseboat trip. It’s a peaceful trip at first, but they keep having encounters with someone driving a black car...
After 15 years of training by the mysterious Yun Tai sect, Yun Xiang leaves to seek revenge for his massacred family. What he lacks in martial arts skills, he compensates by his huge intellect and ability to manipulate people to fulfill...
Few things in our culture are more wounding than the concept of healing — as if the pains and losses that we suffer are an illness, a malfunction of the psyche to be cut out like a tumor, rather than a natural function of being alive, of...
I guess today is our take two on going. We have a tuktuk lined up to take us. A few temples will hopefully be seen. Lately have felt us going anywhere here is a challenge so going to bayon temple will be very nice. I’ll just write here...
Gedonder op kantoor, de WC blijft maar lopen. En erger nog, hij trekt niet meer door. Strontvervelend! In een beetje grote organisatie gaat er nu druk gebeld worden, maar met wat pech loopt dat niet soepel. Facilitair beheer meent dat...
El 15 de julio de 2006 estaba en Berlín con mi amigo David dispuesto a disfrutar de una de las mayores fiestas que se celebraban en esos momentos, el Love Parade. Era el primer viaje fuera de España que hacía porque durante mis años de...
Humans are evolving rapidly and our spirit and instincts are changing. There's no such thing as a perfect animal in this world, so a flawless instinct doesn't exist either. We're all animals in the process of evolving. Sa whether or not...
Notes from my new life at the Avant independent living community. Still coping with piles of stuff moved from my old house and distributed more or less randomly over a completely different arrangement of rooms and built-in furnishings...
El robo de arte más caro de la historia cumple 35 años sin resolverse» Estamos de vuelta con un nuevo episodio del Sueño del Artista Podcast . Después de un modesto éxito de nuestra serie Afrofuturismo: Imaginarios del Porvenir con Keren...
Heute komme ich mir besonders wirr vor, ich weiß nicht ob das an zu viel Sonne liegt oder an dem unten Erwähnten gespräch mit H. und K. – wohlmöglich an beidem. Wie immer sind alle Angaben ohne Gewehr und ohne Gewähr. [16/1000] Ich habe...
At Homebrew Website Club this week, Thomas mentioned the term “tag healing” during a discussion about tags. The definition I caught was that tag healing is related to reviewing and, if necessary, consolidating, tags used for blog posts...
Conținutul tău este al tău Când postezi ceva pe internet, ar trebui să-ți aparțină ție, nu unei corporații. Prea multe companii au dat faliment și au pierdut toate datele utilizatorilor lor. Ești mai bine conectat Articolele și mesajele...
2026-07-15Hello! This is an open letter to M, my only (so far) imaginary guest. By the way, I've since learned about the word "epistolary". Reading into it, I kinda hate that trope... so this might be the last one I do in this style.For...
背景在 macOS 上用 CrossOver 玩一些 Steam 游戏，比如激战2（Guild Wars 2 ），界面能够正常显示中文，但输入聊天框里输入中文，只能显示问号。 网上相关教程都是装中文字体文件或改注册表，但这些解决的是字形问题，容器缺少中文字体。 中文显示为问号的真正原因是：容器（Bottle）的系统区域设置不是中文，而默认是西欧编码（1252），中文字符根本编不进去，转换失败的字符就统一被替换成了问号。 解决方法CrossOver...
Clare Armstrong, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC): Australia will seek to harness the benefits of artificial intelligence without losing control of it by tackling challenges such as data centres, copyright, and...
July 2026. Rotherham. Visiting Dad yesterday a long-term aquaintance said to me “You must enjoy sitting around relaxing at home“. I was speechless. I’m aware some folk do like spending time at home, but 4 years after completing the Beer...
I’ve been feeling sheepish about that last Emacs post. I wrote it when I was frustrated and used language I regret (“TRAMP sucks,” etc.). My apologies. I toned it down.
We spend roughly one-third of our life asleep as a biological imperative. My relationship with sleep kind of tells my life story, not in dreams but in the pure mechanics of when I went to bed and when I got up. Oddly, sleep has seldom...
Replied to AIM-ing For a More Open Platform Than Discord by Tyler August (hackaday.com) Do you remember AIM? It may [surprise] you to hear that AOL’s instant [messenger] was actually supported all the way up to 2017... Hackaday published...
Hell would rather freeze over before I use FL as my main DAW — Me, apparently While I agree that FL definitely needs some MAJOR improvements, all that’s left to overhaul is the optimization of the graphics stack and the MIDI subsystem....
Olivia Diaz, writing at The New York Times:The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to make daylight saving time permanent, but the measure to spare Americans the semiannual clock-changing that shortens winter days faces an uncertain...
PSA: A New IndieWeb Virtual Event for Southeast Asia / Pacific Time ZonesI have some exciting news to share—I am starting a new edition of the regular Homebrew Website Club event, catering to those living in Asian time zones! It will...
The most popular link last time was this invitation to a barbecue, with the 100 Jumps browser game second. Speaking of: these tips for neurodivergent people on how to cope with a heatwave make a lot of sense.Grim! The Seedy Sexual...
My son bought me these polished hematite balls. We're both hematite fans. They're quite magnetic. If you get the rotations right they're happy enough to sit in this arrangement. At the beginning of this year I began a Diploma in Science,...
Rogallo v0.8.0 is now available. This release includes a small bug fix, a big change to how external links and unhandled MIME types are dealt with, and a further improvement to link navigation. First the big change: hand-off of unhandled...
No tengo PC de la empresa en este momento, pero la tuve y también sobreviví al ambente "Corpo" y de todas las estupideces que hace una gran empresa a sus empleados una de las más curiosas es cuando los de RRHH se...
I’m blaming the heat, but I have lost all motivation for writing. I’ve mentioned in the past that I’m writing a novel, and I’m at the stage of saying the rough draft is complete. So what I need to do know is read through a chapter, make...
Got a scrapbooking stamp punch to save tidbits of things so I can recycle the bulk.Currently Listening: Django Django “Default”Reply via email
