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It's currently Blaugust, and so I'm counting all my blog posts this month as Blaugust posts, including the Linkdumps. I told a friend about it and she laughed, because "blau" in German means "blue", like the colour, but it can also mean...
The recently opened transit line between Redmond, Bellevue, and Seattle, at Bellevue Downtown station. リンク・ライトレール 最近開通した、レドモンド、ベルビュー、シアトルを結ぶ交通路線。ベルビュー・ダウンタウン駅にて。
Pointed Claude Cowork at two Japanese lease applications in Excel. It asked me a few questions, then filled both perfectly. (Better than I could—when I did the same via Excel for macOS, I broke the lookup formulas.) Welcome to the...
Well, I can't really let Tennyson's birthday go unmarked (he was born on this day in 1809, at the vicarage of Somersby in the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds). With all the talk of this Ulysses film (which I have no intention of seeing),...
Movie on Faust IndieWeb Movie Club August 2026 Man is good: His spirit strives for truth!Erzengel Let’s strive this August by watching Faust (1926), directed by F.W. Murnau. It is a silent black-and-white supernatural horror. If you’ve...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: In a nod to a Prince reference below, I was stressed out when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray. August has been a crazy month (IYKYK) and it’s just getting started, so let’s just...
There’s a game called Mass Effect, which I haven’t played, but I’m told in the game there’s this species of sentient robots, the Geth, whose creators try to exterminate them, and the trigger for this Butlerian jihad was a domestic...
As I mentioned, I accidentally published all my draft posts. You know, the ones I cheekily listed at the bottom of my ripgrep post. All public and in my RSS feed. Dangit. What happened I can’t know for sure, but here’s what I suspect...
CybersecKyle Security How-To Series: Blue Team Fundamentals, Part 4 - Threat Modeling a Small Target
Part 4 of the Blue Team Fundamentals track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series uses one small system to connect architecture, abuse paths, controls, and tests before the design becomes expensive to change.Threat modeling often...
This is a truly fantastic album cover: Is the guy on the left aiming to block the shot of the guy on the right? Or is he also aiming for the red ball, but has poor vision? What is the guy in the white suit (Isao, I assume) hoping is the...
For less than the price of a coffee I acquired a digital copy of a remake of a game from 1982. On the surface, it is just another Unity game with a nice colour palette and some geometric shapes. Once you get into, though, it is an...
“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Live)” by U2 Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Share a song that feels like a prayer. That isn’t by Madonna? Hmmm (I mean like a prayer sure does feel...
Lynn Roberts on covertracklistBelina - An Jenem Tag (Those Were The Days).mp3 Brenda Burns I'll Come Running.mp3 Joyce Harris - Baby, Baby, Baby.mp3 Judy Stone - Be My Baby.mp3 Lynn Roberts - Beatnicks.mp3 Madame X - Ain't Worth The...
My glaze of “Iron Man”.
You can now mute words on powRSS. It’s only available on the desktop version. Click on the settings dropdown and add the words you don’t want to see on the home feed.
♠ Today I learned: Atuin ships hooks that capture commands executed by AI LLM coding agents into the same shell history as mine. As of today there are hooks for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and Pi. % atuin hook --help Manage AI-agent shell...
Even though I use my Bambu Lab A1 mini printer regularly, and I occasionally design my own parts, I still haven't progressed beyond Tinkercad. And why would I? It's simple, and it gets the job done, so I see no reason to complicate my...
I watched two impressive videos over the past few days. I believe they effectively sum up a great deal of what have been impacting the UK and beyond, over the last decade or so. Firstly, Patrick Boyle provides a clear explanation of the...
Am refăcut designe-ul la Muzeu și acum trebuie să mă apuc de făcut poze și să adaug informația pe sit. Mulțumesc că urmărești ThinkRoot prin RSS. Poți folosi și Atom sau JSON Feed.
TLDR: This is not an impassionate rant. I’m simply not fond of vulgarity and I think that we could have come up with any other neologism to describe the phenomenon that acquired this unfortunate name. You may get more out of this essay...
2026-08-06Hello!Don't do this. Don't scratch the bark off trees to write names and notes. It's as bad as throwing keys into a river after attaching a lock to a photogenic bridge in the name of love.It injures the tree's health, and while...
August 2026. Sawtry. Near Huntingdon. This was the view from our motel window last Saturday, near the lowest pub in the country*. Redwings Lodge, on the B1043 (Ermine Street) alongside the A1(M) at Sawtry, was the only place (well) under...
Seguimos incrementando versiones, pasando los días, meses y años. En este caso, repetimos un poco el patrón del año pasado. Estoy en tierras manchegas, disfrutando de la familia y teletrabajando. Hemos dejado atrás la saturación de la...
Photos of parched ground. A note to my future self.
Album#46 High Violet 图1 《High Violet》專輯封面 专辑信息 专辑名称： High Violet 歌手： The National 年份： 2010-05-10 时长： 47:40 要說這張專輯什麼最吸引我，無疑是主唱 Matt Beringer 的嗓音，低沉而温暖，在專輯裡你能聴到他的中音和低音，都很好聴。 Matt Beringer 的個子很高大，有時他戴著眼鏡，看著像是一個教授。 The National...
Reposted Shueisha Makes Global Push With MANGA MILLION, A Manga Platform Available in 100 Languages by SHUEISHA Inc. (Cision PR Newswire) Shueisha Inc., one of the world's leading manga publishers, has launched MANGA MILLION, a new...
We are shaped by all we have suffered — by what harrows us — and in turn shape our lives by how we hold our harrowing. Harrow shares its Middle English root with harvest. It is by suffering, and by what we make of our suffering, that our...
Read Deer Xing now!Do you live near any deer?There are deer all over Long Island, but I’m in a residential neighborhood without any woods in the development—there is a sump across the street though. A couple years ago, a neighbor told...
I have a small bugbear: the trope that old people aren't tech savvy. A guy at work brought it up this week — a joke about how if you want to do some exploratory testing, just give the app to his mum and she'll find a way to break it....
We chatted about chicken tenders, Madonna's new album, short shorts, and municipal water systems before going through his stack of sketchbooks...Currently Listening: Madonna & Lola Leon “The Test”Reply via email
Hey, it’s the inaugural post for the RSS Club on Snook.ca! I was working away on my site, adding content that I thought might be relevant to some, like an AI statement and a privacy policy. Most people probably don’t care but for those...
(which in hindsight will be replacing "elephant in the room" as a phrase moving forward) If you've been reading my blog for a while or following me anywhere I'm still active on social media, a thing that's come up multiple times and...
Hello, RSS reader! 👋 This post has some bespoke art direction you’ll only see if you view it directly. No hard feelings if you prefer to read here, I just wanted you to know! ✌️Historically, applying an outer stroke to text via CSS has...
Writing this, I have arrived at the island of Formosa, the adopted home of the Republic of China (中華民國) as well as that of the people of Taiwan. I intent to stay here during the fall term, as I complete part of my studies abroad. Last...
It's not a new bike, its from 1993 but it's in flawless shape. My birthday is at the end of the month but I didn't want to get outbid on the ebay listing for it lol. It came with different handlebars and tires which I swapped on to my...
Roshan: Wikipen Most people have a variety of objectives, proximate and ultimate, and a variety of virtues. The virtues are how one represents themselves to be predictable and trustworthy to others, which are how they are able to form...
If Emily Dickinson had written her poems on her Wordpress blog, her host would have deleted them outright when the bill came due. Instead, her sister found 1,800 poems written on paper and stored in a drawer. Words written on paper take...
Man, taking that kpin yesterday really helped. Although last night, I made the mistake of drinking too much caffeine in the evening. It's a common mistake for me, especially when I am feeling waves of exhaustion and need to push through...
I had a lunch of takeout sushi in my car and managed not to drip any soy on my shirt. If you knew me, you’d know that this is definitely a win for me. You may now send applause my way. Send me an email Latest 3 posts 06 Aug, 2026 Today...
We missed the sadly short-lived stage adaptation of the 1985 time-travel escapade movie Back to the Future (BTTF), during its brief Australian run, in late 2025. I did however catch A Future on Stage, trailer, a documentary about...
I’ve added the possibility of generating Asciidoctor-style admonitions to this website, not only in the final HTML generated for this website, but also in the PDF and EPUB outputs, and you might have seen them in action in previous...
A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Good crime mystery movie starring Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes and Sanaa Lathan. Was a treat to see John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox in Star...
In the autumn of 1998, a hedge fund called Long-Term Capital Management lost roughly $4.6 billion in about four months and had to be unwound by a consortium of banks assembled at the Federal Reserve’s request, for fear its collapse would...
This is now, it appears to transpire, a blog about karate. I’VE BEEN TRYING A LOT OF NEW HOBBIES AND SIMILAR LATELY. As a 37-year-old white American male (even one who exercises regularly and has largely given up red meat), statistically...
I was on auto-pilot in July. It's probably my worst month this year, or in quite some time. I'm still wondering how I survived, but here I am anyways. I didn't shout into the void that much, at least in digital form. I did plenty of...
Charlie Kurth, currently Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University, will be moving to the University of Georgia. Professor Kurth is known for his work in ethics, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of mind. He is the author of...
I have long now enjoyed listening to singer Eleonora Zouganeli, though I had not discovered a song of hers that would seamlessly fit these philosophical interpretations I do. That was until I listened again to The red river (Το κόκκινο...
Early in 2026, a Chinese app that alerts trusted contacts if the user is still alive made some noise. The premise, somewhat morbid, is useful for certain groups, like activists, journalists covering high-risk areas, and people who live...
I’ve written before about being between two communities with very different attitudes toward our current generative AI moment: Artists, writers, and other (non-tech) creators mostly loathe it with every fiber of their being, to the point...
¡Blog!¡Blog! nació como una necesidad propia: descubrir la mayor cantidad de blogs personales en español, y hoy aquella idea esta cumpliendo su primer año de vida. Lo que empezó como un directorio en donde listar blogs en español,...
…from Ato Quayson, an English professor at Stanford who taught previously at Cambridge.
I have documented free things seen around Brooklyn, New York City, in these humble pages. For example, I have reported on five free desks across three articles – one on Hamilton Avenue, three in Carroll Gardens and Columbia Street...
Fuente: quiroptero.blog
Something I noticed as a consequence of online culture and platform design, especially on social media: It is very common online to follow an account not for the person behind it, but the way they present and discuss a topic or niche,...
I'm editing blog posts to add to my digital garden, and just found these doodles in a post from 2014. Why did I ever stop making them? They are so joyful!Here is the story about them: back then, I was on bed rest for a while because I...
This will be the first time (so many firsts this month!) I’m attending HTML Day, which is in its 4th year. This is worldwide in-person event, where participants hand code HTML (CSS optional) websites/pages. I’ve written raw HTML in high...
Lately we have had more beautiful days here. Mornings cool off just a bit. Always seems there’s the blue skies with clouds that gather at the edges. By mid day they seem more insistent. By evening we get rain. Our rainy season here is...