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Why read the book? Nick Needham wrote 2000 Years of Christ's Power Volume 4: The Age of Religious Conflict. It is the fourth book in his clear and readable church history series. This volume covers the years from the late sixteenth...
Băi, da' cât de împărțită poate să fie lumea și cât se poate urî unii pe alții. Așa a fost cu COVID, așa a fost cu războiul din Ucraina, Palestina sau Iran, așa a fost cu alegerile prezidențiale cu Călin Georgescu și pe urmă cu Nicușor...
Para quien no lo haya conocido, el Hitz (o Hitz-Musik.net), fue un sitio web y una promotora de bandas que nació en Chihuahua a inicios de los 2000. Organizábamos tocadas y cubríamos la escena musical local como medio. Hacíamos...
2026-08-04Hello!This must be obvious to any long-time reader, but I think that I've found a cohesive style surrounding most of the photos I publish on this website. They're spontaneous moments that I capture on photowalks, showing the...
Quoted What is a Visual Novel? (Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction) A Visual Novel (VN) is a digital narrative focused game that requires interactions where the player must be able to impact the story world or the...
Mood: Wanting to throw a $30,000 prototype into a lake. There is a feel-good genre of viral video that I call "The Inspiration Porn Industrial Complex." You know the one. It usually features a college engineering team, a dramatic piano...
From my master's thesis to a full video pipeline, AI is my everyday sidekick — 201 million tokens for $1.66.
Arkady Martine es la escritora atrás de la serie de Teixcalaan (A Memory Called Empire, A Desolation Called Peace). A Memory Called Empire es un libro que me gustó pila, la verdad. A Desolation Called Peace no tanto, pero igual me gustó...
I wanted to earn enough to buy the sun, but here on earth I started hyperventilating and ran out of air. I didn’t breath again until I gasped at the sight of a cream and midnight striped tent. I stopped everything to watch the circus....
I joined the Fediverse, or more specifically Mastodon, I think some time in 2021. I was drawn in because of the promise of a decentralized social network, a social network not controlled by a single company, but rather governed from the...
“You’re just nostalgic!” They will say when you point out the fact that everything today is crumbling around us. Where every McDonalds has transformed into a grey box without a playplace - because the playplace would mean people stay...
Lighthizer, N., Chen, J., Niyazmand, H., Patel, K., Janzen, J., Xu, P., … Alam, K. (2026). Patient experiences of laser and surgical lid procedures performed by optometrists. Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 1–9....
I cannot understand Mozilla. We took time off of X, but we’re back. The internet is changing again, so we’re here as an independent voice for our users and the open internet. @firefox · Jul 20, 2026 They either do not know who their user...
Looking out over the valley towards Lucca. We spent this week on holiday in Tuscany, Italy, with eight of our friends. Our summer break was planned to be early this year as our eldest son heads back to university next week. This holiday...
Leo Katz (Penn) and Michael Moore (Illinois, formerly Penn) shared this announcement: This year’s iteration of the annual Zoom-only Illinois/Penn Legal Theory Seminar taught by Leo Katz and Michael Moore will be devoted to a...
📝 2026-08-04 15:43: Thinking about selling the 64GB RAM from my laptop and paying off my mortgage...
Thinking about selling the 64GB RAM from my laptop and paying off my mortgage... Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
Buying new devices for a hobby or entertainment purposes is exciting. I enjoy researching, watching reviews, and digging into forums to determine if my purchase will be worth it. I imagine myself using my new toy. Often, this thought...
In this video I demonstrate the built-in ‘speedbar’ command. This is the file explorer that Emacs ships with. Starting with Emacs 31, the ‘speedbar’ can be configured to appear on the side of the frame. Whereas the default is to show up...
Yesterday I moved my blog to Hugo and, despite my rigorous testing locally and in a staging deployment, I broke my RSS feed in production. Perfect. 🤦♂️ The issue was that the Hugo baseURL setting wasn’t being applied properly, so all...
Why good innovations mint new elites — and how to tell the dangerous cases from the merely disruptive Every year something like forty thousand Americans die on the roads. The strongest large-scale data we have — from driverless fleets...
More or Less If anything, he looks as surprised as I am at the notion of being awake. Or surprised at the notion that I haven't done a true "Snowapple says good morning" post since December. He's been in other posts but the format itself...
This weekend is prerelease for the Hobbit Set. It costs $50 to enter. You get six packs of play boosters, a random foil card, and a spin down d20. (They removed stamped promos.) From that you create a 40ish card deck of the random stuff...
📌 Yesterday, Cocoa's (kitchen) water bowl has officially dried up. We haven't emptied it since the last day she took a sip from it 13 days ago. It's hitting me pretty hard. The grief I feel comes in waves. At the same time, it also feels...
What have I been upto? I’ve been to Scotland! I had a week off to go some travelling, surrounding a wedding which was last Wednesday, so we went from Dundee (where we saw the Lemmings Statue) to Inverary. I’ve eaten well (blog post to...
July 2026. Newcastle. Not even lunchtime as I leave the Free Trade for the walk through Ouseburn back into Toon. Actually, a rare walk along a dried up river (I never knew that watercourse was actually called the Ouseburn till today), my...
New links… To say that something is indescribable is to describe it. What should we think about this “paradox of ineffability”? — best to dissolve it, argues Peter van Elswyk “Moving through time also means moving through space” — this...
Bookmarks related to tech and web development My Opinionated CSS Reset by Declan Chidlow. How the same content always has multiple different versions by Diana Khalipina. Blogs are back. Email address obfuscation: What works in 2026? by...
Actually, I just posted this on Mastodon, but I so agree to all those points that I want to reference them here on the blog as recommended reads as well. Generative AI is reshaping software engineering—but the narrative has gotten ahead...
Put another way, the ads give brands like Ally and the non-profit professional organization Project Management Institute another lever to pull on how they show up in generative search. LLMs can pick up a brand’s information from the ad...
Last edited 9 minutes ago. This is my 37th month of August on this earth as a human being. The past year of my life has been... eventful. Unfortunately. One might even say it's been a series of unfortunate events, but I've heard this is...
Andreas posted some interesting thoughts, wondering if maybe we are too paranoid when it comes to AI slop. Please, go read his words first, I only intend to add to the conversation here, not to put him in an uncomfortable position or...
… I think about how, when I was four years old, my mother put me in a Catholic daycare so that she could return to the workforce (we were not Catholic) only to pull me out in short order because with my long hair and delicate features...
Every time I leave the US, I’m always struck by how happy other people seem to be. I’ve been to six continents, dozens of countries. Nowhere else have I experienced such deeply internalized bitterness, entitlement, and misanthropy as I...
I see that my old university has given a professorship to a fantasist and plagiarist (both 'alleged', m'lud), for reasons that are all too painfully obvious. The story is still unfolding, in jaw-dropping detail, and will surely do real...
What’s with thinking inside hollow grams. Home to hem lock, twine and token.
“Top of the World” by Carpenters Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song makes you feel like you’re in love with the world? The first song that my Mum heard on the radio after I was born. She...
I recently repaired the Micro USB socket of an old Raspberry Pi; the one through which the Pi receives it's power. It was a bit of a fiddly soldering job because the connections for the USB port are tiny. Because of this, I briefly...
Benteay Srei temple lately We have had some beautiful days. Then some rainy ones. Lately it’s been both. But this day excelled at one of our favorite Angkor temples. We spent hours there wandering around.
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Guten Tag! Guten Tag! 👋 Have you heard of BEMoji? Do you know what a CloseWatcher is for? And how confidently do you use aria-label? Turn on the Web Weekly tune and find some answers below. Enjoy! Do you want to share your favorite song...
Jorijn Schrijvershof’s decision to close the Mastodon instance toot.community, which he established in late 2024, highlights many of the difficulties facing instance administrators on the decentralised social media platform: Every day, I...
A Los Angeles detective chases a murder suspect in a remote Alaskan town. A sleep-deprived Al Pacino yelling his way left and right, Robin Williams with a decent performance, Hilary Swank as the young blood, they all add up to a decent...
Constant quiet may not be a good idea, just like constant busyness. It’s the latter that makes the former more meaningful. Still, I have to make sure I find stillness during my personal hours, too, and not just on the weekends. I should...
A mission post by Lieutenant JG Veda Dragomirov, Commander Nadiv Sharir Mission - Lick Your Fingers Clean Veda was still a little exhausted from the looping the artifact Morgan had accidentally gotten stuck in caused; not physically...
Two Things Instead of a List mtift Tue, 08/04/2026 - 08:03 During the summers in Minnesota, just about everyone I know gets busy. We have a few glorious months to go outside in shorts and sandals, and we use them. For my family, with...
Alan: Let’s establish some guidelines and guardrails, shall we? I understand that most users of Claude enjoy the fiction that Claude is a human, or very human-like, personal assistant, and in that context it seems natural for Claude to...
PrefaceAfter reading a few posts from fellow bloggers about how much it costs them to run their site, I am intrigued as to how much I am actually paying for this passion project of mine! Check out the last section for more examples. Note...
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En la entrada anterior , que lleva el mismo nombre que la presente redacción, conocimos cómo la historia del impresionismo es tan apasionante como observar un cuadro de sus representantes. No fue un estilo que surgiera de forma...
Like many projects, this one was abandonned for a while. But it’s (mostly) done now. solarigraphy Solarigraphy is the photographic practice of using a pinhole camera to capture an image of the sun’s path over days-weeks-months-years....
My review of “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”.
Cheerful fumbling It’s a damp early morning, the house clearly recalls the past hot day better than the cooler night. I’m playing a four chord song on my piano: my voice leading is clunky, the rhythm is uneven, and I couldn’t be more...
Last year, it was comments. This year it’s AI. Now, I think if you’re going to blog, you should do it yourself. Using AI for inspiration, I suppose, is okay, but the actual writing? Why bother having a blog if you’re not going to do the...
Part 3 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series begins where a scanner export usually ends: deciding which results represent reachable risk, who owns the affected systems, and how a fix will be...
I know, it’s not fair to call a note “banana cake- rant” and not mention “banana cake” once. Might I remind you, “Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” — Oscar Wilde. I almost quoted Princess...
Disclaimer: This is a guide for Amrita Bangalore students. I made a huge mistake, and lost my first and second semester gradesheets. I wanted to document what I had to do to request a duplicate gradesheet from the university becaues I...
After just a wee bit too long without news of any kind about it, I’m really excited to announce that initial drafting on the third Arcane Revolution Trilogy book is finally done, having been completed late last week! The Premise The...