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The indispensable Michael Tsai has an interesting post up today about Apple Park and whether its design isolates the people who work there, despite its having been designed—in part, at least—to encourage collaboration. As usual, Michael...
Watching the sun set behind tall palm trees at the Manhattan Beach Pier. パーム・サンセット マンハッタン・ビーチ・ピアで、背の高いヤシの木々の向こうに沈む夕日を見ている。
July 21, 2026 I've been thinking about this a lot lately: security and privacy are often discussed as if they're the same thing, or at least on the same team. They're not. They represent two distinct concerns, and I've come to believe...
Weird technology mistakes: on Saturday I just wanted to add one of our family gatherings to my calendar on the iPhone. I typed “Family gathering” and the phone helpfully used all the information from an old family gathering, (2019!)...
Ya lo sé, varias personas me lo dijeron. Me acuerdo de Itan, de Joselito y de algún otro referente a no comprar nada proveniente de Amazon, y lo hice; pues Seguir leyendo Me compré un Echo Dot 5 de Amazon y ahora lo tengo de pisapapeles...
Part 5 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series turns the accounts, devices, and self-hosted services from the earlier guides into a small monitoring routine.The fastest way to make home security...
Pues sí, desde que más o menos empezó esta dichosa ola de calor llevo durmiendo en el salón. ¿Por qué? pues porque Chancla es donde mejor pasa la noche con el aire acondicionado. A sus 13 años ya, se nota que cada año gestiona peor el...
When you act, strange things happen. Yesterday I wrote Religion and theology in light of the Greek gods and now I have the chance to meet relevant people. This Sunday I will join a group of Greek polytheists (ethnic Greek religion) from...
I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era, by עֹמֶר בַּרְטוֹב, via Kottke. Confessions of an emigrant, by Elia Scotto. In Poland, for the first time, a majority of citizens opposed accepting Ukrainian refugees –...
While I'm having a moment of calling code stable, I've bumped Wasat to v1.0.0 as well. There's no actual difference here when compared to the last release, other than the development status classifier in the PyPI metadata and the version...
For those who didn’t have time to read Appiah’s report, this is a balanced overview and assessment. An excerpt: The most trenchant of the report’s methodological critiques is on “identity as a basis for criticism.” Appiah prosecutes an...
A year ago I published an article about GoToSocial, a fediverse microblogging software (think of it as an alternative to Mastodon or Sharkey) that I had been using and loving. That is still very much the case, a year and a half after I...
Some of the things I most love doing now, I loved doing as a child. Here is a list of five of them, what are yours?1. Writing poetryI don’t know why I started. I also don’t have those poems anymore, thanks to the awkward almost adult...
it’s writing the weather. Sentences, little vials of style and language, are here to hold a record of the internet’s contact with our body, our attention—its energy, pitch, vibe, vocabulary, tone, and how these qualities inform our own...
I came across orchids’ post sharing their conflicted feelings on whether or not “No AI” statements are genuinely necessary, helpful and/or useful. In their post, orchids argues that the onus is on the viewer/reader to distinguish...
Title: Ishan Sharma Website: ishan.co RSS Feed: ishan.co/index.xml Personal blog of Ishan Sharma. I am an Engineer writing about technology, games, art and sometimes just random opinions. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what...
Como comenté anteriormente volveré a la presencialidad en el trabajo. Mucho del tiempo que tenía para escribir va a verse afectado. No tendré el espacio que tengo ahora para escribir sin que nadie venga a interrumpirme con la historia...
The air is thick with dust and the smell of decaying wood pulp. Shelving units like fossilised bones stretch beyond the limits of sight. Waterproof dust jackets protect ancient volumes from the desultory clouds which form among the upper...
Image by Junior Peres Junior from Pixabay I'm going to do a few articles on dark fantasy, grimdark and otherwise. My Cambion Chronicles series is heading in that direction, and what better way to explore dark fantasy that doing some...
Born within the slipstream of our father’s andmother’s lives, we follow involuntarily in their wake. True dat! It's a sentence from early in My Father's Wake, how the Irish teach us to live, love and die (2017) by Kevin Toolis. Toolis...
Bring back the silly.The quick and easy.The nonsense.Make procrastination a reason. Note: this post is for me, it will bore you, it’s about this blog, which is really only of any interest to me as a whole. Perhaps you are interested in a...
Perception of color, a fascinating idea — evident by last year’s IndieWeb blog carnival theme I hosted. This fascination is seeded by personal need to understand my own perception. I am often questioned about color choice in my art. Most...
The kitchen light was the only one on in the house, and Cole was already under it when Russ came down. Six birds on the counter, out of the plastic now, pale and sweating in the trays. Their mother had made this every year for the church...
If a>b>1 and x>1, you can prove that logax<logbx. (As a reminder, logax denotes the value t such that x=at.) This is very intuitive if you think about it: for “normal” numbers, the greater a, the smaller t you will need to get the...
Many things in life can seem cruel or indifferent, but that's just because we can't always recognize the greater things that lie ahead. Today I read about the life of Saint Markella, martyr of Chios. I don't know why I haven't been...
This is the companion to I own my books, where I made the case for stripping DRM and actually owning what I buy. This post is the machinery overview: how I store, serve, and read all of it from my own homelab. My books workflow # When I...
Pe un grup de Linux de pe Facebook am întrebat ce tutoriale în Românește ar vrea să citească / să vadă. Majoritatea au dat răspunsuri de genul: mai bine învățăm engleza sunt destule in engleza Toate națiile își fac tutoriale și articole...
When I finished my last exam in December 2024 with my Electrical, Computer Engineering Degree I started work at AMEC in January 2005 in the building that used to be right here. It was short lived, the office moved less than a year later...
We were made for something greater Than the greatness for which we’re grasping, Than puny powers for which we’re reaching, Than weak lights to which we’re aspiring. God created man for knowing, Walking in his blessed presence, Living in...
I don’t know about you, but I read more novels during the summer than any other time of year. I probably can fit in a few more novels before the school year begins. What have you read lately that you like? As for me, two recent fiction...
Alternative Title: How to break up the responsibilities and power of your phone Phones are amazing tools. They are an extension of our brains (which basically makes us cyborgs) and provide us with many tools all packed into a small...
July 2026. Sheffield. Foiled in my search for a can of tomato gose (though the Neptune Black Cherry Oatmeal Stout at Hop Hideout was superb), I took the tram back towards RM Towers, wondering if I should make a rare stop at the Welly. At...
Roshan: Wikipen Today, [https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ a GPT-5.x prototype escaped containment on HuggingFace's servers using a 0-day it came up with] which is both phenomenally cool and a...
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Honestly, I truly thought crazy exes only existed in Hollywood and sad breakup songs, well, as a part of amy tries life, Amy Tries Exes!I like peace a lot. Really, I try and hang out with peace as much as I can. But no matter how much I...
A week in Franconian Switzerland—castles, caves, and quiet trails far from the crowds. No alpine climbs, just long, green hikes through lush forests and moss-lined valleys. Underrated, peaceful, and full of surprises. Here’s our trip in...
Update 1: Awesome. Already four new pen pals. I love the direction this thing is heading 🫶 When was the last time I wrote a postcard, let alone a letter? I honestly can’t remember. Our very good friend M. from Chicago and my wife...
2026-07-21Hello! This is another favorite image of mine.Experimenting with different perspectives, I thought that this wooden trunk could look amazing if only I framed it right.I walked by this row of trees several times, and I couldn't...
Celebrated Meredith's second youth making Strawberry Gin & Tonic Ice Cream from scratch.Currently Listening: Washed Out “Feel It All Around”Reply via email
Taking Stock as a Skill mtift Tue, 07/21/2026 - 18:36 Marnie and I have been taking stock now that we’re empty nesters. With one kid in college and another in grad school, life is different. We’ve been talking about how to spend our...
Het is inmiddels duidelijk dat zelfs maar deels Amerikaanse bedrijven met allerhande middelen gedwongen kunnen worden om onze data te overhandigen aan de Amerikaanse overheid. Ook kan de dienstverlening gestaakt worden na een enkel...
Sid Meier’s Memoir! A life in Computer Games By the Creator of Civilization! con ese título se presenta el libro autobiográfico de Sid Meier, uno de los creadores de videojuegos más reconocidos. Sid Meier’s Civilization es una de las...
Let’s get to the point. These are the reasons why I was irritated by Chris Nolan’s Odyssey: It’s a cheap attempt at diversity. Hollywood has been giving me the impression that it’s not confident stories from other cultures would be...
An intellectually disabled man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family. Bit melodramatic, but it works so well. Sean Penn acts masterfully, and...
Principal Software Engineer · Durham, NC I'm a dad in perpetual training, a curious software engineer, a Marine Corps veteran, and a consummate bro. I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Clever, where I work on systems that handle...
DRY Principle: Hugo Layout TemplatesDRY stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself. Although what I did last night doesn’t affect the frontend / look-and-feel of my site, I am pleased to have done something I have been meaning to do for a long...
About three weeks ago, a neighbor down the street posted to a local group that she found an orange cat laying on her porch. She’d brought him in for the night, but was looking for his person. The next day, I was outside chatting with my...
Estos días he estado pensando mucho en esto. Cada vez que le dedico tiempo a mi sitio personal, me pregunto si esto es algo que dentro de unos años seguirá teniendo sentido o si simplemente me gana la nostalgia y me estoy aferrando a una...
I was studying, like, last night and noticed that I was tired as fuck during the process of writing a few queries while watching a video explanation on how to use the best parameters in a database. Yeah, after a day of more than 8 hours...
