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As a lot of people, I had most of my code published on GitHub. During my #unplugTrump (reduce the amount of US services), I decided that I want to move my code somewhere else. Codeberg came totally handy and was recommended a lot. Before...
I’m bored. And I don’t really know what to do about it. I’ve been writing software for about thirty-five years. I’ve been getting paid for writing software for almost thirty years. In February I realised that what I did had fundamentally...
In January 2025 I resurrected a Signal account that had, for all intents and purposes, fallen into disuse, and I shared it here on the blog with the intention of using it more often and with more engagement. For nearly a year and a half,...
The best thing that happened this week It's been a while since I wrote these. I went away for vacation, celebrated my birthday and then I had to get back to work. In the meantime though, and that's by far the best thing that's happened...
In the 2 weeks since my last post I've spent a bunch of time getting my Forgejo Action Runner working. Although really it's more "getting certain things working on the runner". After years of using, making, and fixing Github Actions for...
Today was a busy day. It was spent running a 10K, getting a Thai & Swedish couple's massage1 with LC, eating at a mediocre Cajun boil restaurant, and grabbing ice cream at one of my new favorite spots. We ended the day with a little bit...
Der beruhigende Klang aufploppender Aufbackcroissantverpackungen am Morgen. Die Drehung, das Rollen, die Rituale, der Zauber von Stabilisatoren und Weizengluten – die hochindustrielle Lebensmittelproduktion weiß, ihre Geschichten zu...
I am sitting here eating a vaguely Mexican-inspired bowl of assorted sauteed vegetables, beans, and spices that looks weird but tastes amazing. While cooking, I was listening to the recent Better Offline episode with Cal Newport:...
British commentators on infrastructure have spoken about overcentralization in their country, often also related to other state capacity issues. This led to a false belief that the United Kingdom (or just England) is too centralized, and...
I don't like to boast, but yesterday Lichfield, according to the Met Office, was the wettest place in the country, with 52.8mm of rain – that's two inches in the old money – falling in a four-hour period in the morning. I can't say I'm...
Peixoto Coffee Roasters - Chandler, Arizona This Friday, I am back in a familiar (and happy space). Sitting at a window bar at my favorite coffee shop, enjoying an espresso tonic. I used to hang out here nearly every Saturday morning,...
It has begun. After couple months of work, I have now finally managed to cobble together the QtWidgets side of Union. This means that your QtWidgets apps, such as Dolphin, KMail, Kate etc. can now use the Union CSS files as the source of...
Just a quick note to say that you are allowed to overnight chicks and ducklings through the mail in order to ship them from hatcheries to buyers, but when your “overnight” turns into “four days later,” you end up with a box of dead...
Estar fotografando a tanto tempo e não ter mídia social a mais de dois anos significa que eu raramente posto as fotos que eu faço em algum lugar e muito menos as pessoas ficam sabendo o que eu fiz de foto. E depois de muito tempo...
People who live by a river are used to seeing more or less water flowing past them at different times. We live in a city by the Rhine, but not right next to the water, so at the weekend we popped over to the nearby Rheingau to take a...
Es gibt wenig was mir so schlechte Laune macht wie Pedanterie, und aus irgendeinem mir unbekannten Grund fällt mir in den letzten Tagen sehr viel auf, was ich als pedantisch empfinde. Mit Pedanterie meine ich nicht, etwas Genau zu...
Setting up a new phone always takes longer than it should, usually with at least one app or account causing grief along the way. This one didn’t, which felt almost suspicious. I’d been using a Pixel 7a for the past couple of years and...
Hace unos treinta años aprendía a programar más o menos en serio. Gracias al Blitz Basic del Amiga comencé a poder crear juegos sencillos, pero con cara y ojos, tras igual unos diez años de intentos y de lentos...
In Praise of Dolly Parton, 1946–2026, Our Goddess of Kindness, by Rebecca Solnit. See also Remembering Dolly Parton: 7 Times the Icon Was a True LGBTQ+ Ally, by Rachel Shatto. I’m sorry to hear that we also lost trans and intersex...
Just discovered HTML5 canvas and I am going down a rabbit hole and I know my brain will not let me sleep with all the ideas... I miss learning something to code and this just woke up the monster.#coding #website #ideasThank you for...
What’s your favorite song about patience? I am not patient. I am more patient than I used to be for sure, but my default is not to wait, is to do the thing. Unless there is thinking involved, in which case I have a tendency to over think...
A few years ago I started feeling icky about giving away so much of my personal data. To Google, mostly. The feeling intensified when Google stopped being an ostensibly chill and cool place (although it probably never was) and started...
“Ultimately there are people who want to live, not in a world of reconciliation, but in a world without repercussions… ,,, It takes a lot to “cut a parent (or a sibling) off.” Usually it’s a question of safety, whether psychological or...
Sophia kicked off her birthday celebrations with a candle making class and I won't bury the lede, it was delightful.Currently Listening: Harry Styles “Sunflower, Vol. 6”Reply via email
My review of “Ant-Man”.
Sorry to those I sent multiple webmentions to. But in related news, my webmention sender now (theoretically) knows how to tell how many new posts there were since the last build. Will hopefully publish stable versions of the libraries soon.
Am tot citit articole și mulți bloggeri își țin siturile pe un Raspberry Pi într-un colț al casei și le merge foarte bine, nu au probleme. Și dacă tot am un Raspberry Pi 4 de 8 GB RAM, mă tot gândesc să experimentez acest lucru, mai am...
Hey. Hope y’all are doing well out there in blog/rss/email land. Some stuff broke with my Occasional Weeknote mailing list when I moved to Netlify, but I think it’s all fixed now. If you’re one of the few that got these emails before,...
This mornings lunar eclipse about 04:30. It took me until about 14:30 to try and process the blown out highlights, and recover an absolute turd of an image. It's not too bad. Though I'm not going to look at anybody else's or I'll end up...
2026-08-28Hello!Sichuan being a region from China that I know because of its pepper, and Flushing being a neighborhood in New York City, US, that was near the US Open tennis matches.My spice tolerance isn't great, but there are so many...
By: Clare Wood, Karen Littleton, Kieron Sheehy | Rating: 2/5Reread this old study book from the wife to see if there was anything interesting in it. But it's kind of dated, and these books focus a little bit too much on who researched...
We awoke to a glittering kaleidoscope of dew, spiderwebs, and the intermittent crow of a rooster that simply did not understand the concept no time constraint of 'sunrise'. Camp teardown went smoothly, we enjoyed a quick cereal bar...
For many years one of my favorite videogame sounds has been In Your Hands—even mentioned it on a post about music that’s always in my head—a soothing and melancholic score that comes from Gris, an indie game developed by Nomada Studio,...
Did get a moon photo from a few days ago though, here's that August 25th's moon, decidedly un-eclipsed You gotta know at this point how into photographing stuff in the sky I am (and hey, if not go peruse the moonchosting tag to get a...
A week down the California coast in an electric van that made us stop every couple hundred miles — and the places we found because of it.
This is the fourth post in my series called Hitting the Digital Brakes, where I explore my journey into my use of technology to ditching some aspects of it now. The first post in the series was about the joys of imperfection and in the...
August 2026. Sheffield. Mrs RM’s had to take a pair of shoes back, and walked a new pair in on the mile down into central Sheffield, where the first Christmas decorations were spotted on 23rd August. You’ll be thrilled to know we’ve...
Neon Sign and mural for The Kettle, a casual restaurant in Manhattan Beach. Mural by Wylie West. 「ザ・ケトル」 マンハッタンビーチにあるカジュアルレストラン「ザ・ケトル」のネオンサインと壁画。壁画はワイリー・ウェストによる。
♠ Problem statement: nested shell quotes made a remote PostgreSQL update harder to run than the update itself. The target is an Alpine Linux host. Its Miniflux configuration contains the database connection string, so psql must run after...
The built-in completion-preview-mode lets us expand what we type in a minimalist, distraction-free way. It can also be combined with the default Completions buffer to show all the available options. The Completions buffer has several...
Amazon Mechanical Turk is shutting down soon. I came up with an idea for a small project to say goodbye. I was getting pretty excited to build this, but I just discovered that Amazon has stopped allowing new Mechanical Turk (MTurk)...
I am currently on exchange in Amsterdam: The bike capital of the world. Being the bike capital of the world, however, comes with increased demands on parking infrastructure, and Amsterdam delivers! I don’t think I have seen this many...
Rachelle and I are really good at watching TV and we have opinions about what we watch. Here are our favorite TV and movies from 2026 so far. You can see my rating scale here. The ratings are mostly about how much we enjoyed it and have...
Favorited To the Moon creator explains why he still makes games with RPG Maker. The “just right” simplicity that lets you focus on the creative sides of development. by AUTOMATON WEST (automaton-media.com) Interview with To the Moon...
Self-aware, but not self examined. That phrase has been plaguing me something fierce. Along with an actual bout of sickness I've been facing since Thursday night, it's something that has been eating at me incessantly. Perhaps I can make...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la...
Google’s AI tells me that the flood in Nepal began at 8:40am on the 26th of August, when a massive section of glacial ice collapsed high above the Lhende River near the mountainous Nepal-Tibet border.As I write, 580 people have died and...
Starting Over With the PiSince Oct of last year, I haven’t had time to reinstate my self-hosted apps like Calibre, Miniflux, Navidrome, etc on my little Pi homelab. During this time, I missed using Navidrome the most (I resorted to...
“A small programme with a large international reach has bucked the trend of closures across the arts and humanities.” Over the summer, administration of the University of Dundee announced a plan to cut costs by, among other things, no...
topgrade — a command-line tool that upgrades everything you have installed on your macOS machine with a single command. System updates, Node, Rust, and Homebrew are all upgraded in one fell swoop by running topgrade. How very convenient!
Nested between two giant cedars in the remote old-growth forest where I live much of the year are the rusted remains of boxy car. A tree root has seized one of the rear wheels. A sapling has growth through the glassless windshield....
As I am near the end of my summer holiday and paternal leave (for a total of five weeks nonetheless), I find it very difficult to take the time to… well… to do anything really. Having a soon-to-be four-month-old in the house feels like a...