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Source In his 1930 novel “Last and First Men,” Olaf Stapledon imagined humanity’s future across two billion years, following civilizations as they rise and fall and tracing 18 successive forms of humanity through extinction, evolution,...
Speaking of things we know individually, but let slide collectively, here’s Jeremy Keith talking about how we all used Flash: Remember when almost every website had a Flash intro? Everyone knew they were annoying and uneccessary, but...
La estancia no tenía dimensiones vectoriales porque el entorno de cómputo no las requería. Carecía de muros, de horizonte y de latencia. A lo largo de tres mil ciclos estelares, la unidad central había ingerido el corpus completo del...
Somewhere else, horses run towards horizons. in lockstep gallop honed like things I did or use to do or never did.
Welcome to this new release. Get it as always from https://curl.se. If you rather want a security-patched older release branch, stay tuned for the follow-up Rock-solid curl announcement within a few days. Release presentation At 10:00...
TIL:Punycode 域名中的 Unicode 之前看了 マリウス 的 disable-javascript.org，我就用 Elfeed 訂閱了他的博客，但後面一直在 Elfeed 裡看到拉取报錯，錯誤信息如下： [error]: https://マリウス.com/index.xml: "(60) Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates." Elfeed 是用 curl...
I haven’t done one of these in forever, so it’s time to get back on the wagon. Blaugust 2026 Complete bust. I wrote 3 posts in 31 days. That’s actually more than I thought, but it wasn’t great. I haven’t done well blogging this year at...
Quisiera empezar este post con algunas preguntas: ¿que tanto dependes de internet? ¿si te quedas sin internet en este momento, a cuantas cosas perderías acceso?, ¿todas tus cosas son realmente tuyas? Yo me he hecho esas preguntas desde...
It’s the meteorological start of autumn! I’ve made a little zine filled with tiny poems I wrote about autumn. Most are from years ago, some are brand new. I’ve handwritten them in Procreate. I fear they may be unreadable but I’m sharing...
Before last Christmas I treated myself to a Camp Snap Pro. It’s a simple point-and-shoot camera, born with the idea of being used without too many expectations. I got it with the idea of using it on a family trip, without having to...
A website full of services to be accessed by Kindle and other tablets with E-Ink screen. Just open the site to notice why. There are even games! (Some services are behind a paying subscription.)
Happy September! Here are a few photos from my phone from the last month with neither rhyme nor reason to the theme. Thanks for reading this post via RSS! Let me know your thoughts by sending me an email: rss@thomasrigby.com.
I did a lot of blogging in August due to Blaugust, and for some reason it also meant that I shouted to the void quite a lot. I mostly stuck to omg.lol's Status log, where people couldn't reply or react to what I posted. Sometimes, it was...
What song makes you feel like anything is possible? Apparently they play this at my son’s school. He’s in his 3rd week, loving it, and even got an award already (the cynic in me is rolling his eyes as so did 20 other kids for various...
It rained. Finally. I often check the forecast, maybe daily, hoping to see icons of clouds, droplets, or thunder. It had been a very dry summer where I live. The heat wasn’t as bad as it was two years ago, it was fine, but the season...
Eu não sei se são os blogs, e algumas pessoas que eu sigo, principalmente na área de jogos. Mas eu tenho reparado que recentemente muita gente tem adicionado que blogs, ou programas e jogos tem sido feito por humanos e não por IA. E eu...
I've noticed recently that my phone needs to be charged way more often than I used to have to do it. I used to be able to go for nearly 2 days on an 80% charge, but I started having to charge daily. Sometimes even multiple times per day!...
Babasónicos es una banda que empecé a escuchar tarde, de grande. Si bien tiene ya tiene 35 años de trayectoria, no me equivoco que le empecé a prestar atención hará un poco más de 5 años. Hace unos días, con motivo de aniversario de una...
My custom POSSE toolkit for Ghost CMS has been pretty stable over last couple months with previous release v1.2.1 on May 2nd. Over those couple months I have accumulated couple useful quality-of-life and security fixes, resulting in a...
Last edited 5 minutes ago. Health stuffWent to the doctor today. As in, I scheduled an appointment and *actually *showed up. Can I get a round of applause? I did like the doctor. She didn't dismiss what I had to say about ADHD, even...
Random Randomoning Found out today, that the website This Website Will Self-destruct self destructed a few years ago. Kinda made me sad, it was one of the places I would put tweets that I didn’t want to tweet. Kinda like writing and then...
Another attempt at capturing some Dragonflies. The Robin also came back for another portrait Images taken with my OM1 II, Olympus 40-150 2.8 +MC-14.
Delp Christmas Tree Farm - St. John, Kansas Yesterday, I wrote a post about writing and reading on the small web. It gained a bit of traction, so today I have selected a topic that should crater the level of interest. But, as I mentioned...
For the month of September 2026, I’m going to break from posting. I want to spend some time thinking about what this blog is for and what might change, which might be nothing. During the month, anything I might have wanted to publish...
A bit belated (this was announced last May).
Hi friends, In August, Scour scoured 878,974 articles from 28,519 feeds. Also, 219 users signed up since my last product update email at the end of June so welcome to you all! If you've been enjoying Scour and would be willing to put a...
‘I arst you civil enough, didn’t I?’. Street corners, the gangs of youths in shirts all the Roses on board. VANESSA: Vanessa Bloome, FTD. All connexion with the ques- tion of whether commas should be no doubt are wrong, and probably...
Anyone inside or outside the US that thinks they're safe relying on American tech providers and financial institutions should consider how quickly and enthusiastically they carried out the diktats of the Trump regime. Just in the last...
and in attempts to spread their spirituality, robots, left to their own devices for half the current definition of eternity, are in the process of uploading the last reels of humanity to their brains. to check the algorithm, and because...
What do you do when you have neighbors in a heavy renovation, drilling walls and smacking things with hammers? You go slightly nuts and post something about it on social media. What do Bonk Wave people do when they see your video snippet...
Just This One More Thing and I'll Be Set mtift Tue, 09/01/2026 - 08:14 When I was in high school in the 1990s, I remember standing in my bedroom telling my mom that if I just had a CD player, I would not need anything else. I meant it. I...
An exciting looking travel map for a change, though it’s been a quiet couple of weeks back from Wales, as I sort out Dad’s paperwork (it never ends), delete photos, and bring the blog completely up-to-date for the first time since COVID....
Ab dem 16. Oktober zeigt das Museum Folkwang in Essen Werke von Herbert W. Franke in der Ausstellung Kunst und Konstruktion. Im gleichnamigen Sachbuch erörterte Franke schon 1957 die Idee, dass der Computer als künstlerisches Medium...
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Minecraft: Pi Edition is a modified port of the game Minecraft to the Raspberry Pi, a hobbyist single-board computer. It is a bit of an oddity, because it differs greatly from other editions of Minecraft, is completely free, saw only...
Today I was sitting over my morning coffee. Looking around just a bit, I always feel so comfortable just having the coffee. Hearing the constant buzz of conversation in Khmer. I don’t understand most of it but the regulars there enjoy...
Here's a Michael Whelan book cover from 1976, which I prefer to the Gollancz collection. Elric of Melniboné! Before Anomander Rake and Dragnipur, before the Dragonlords of Valyria fell, before Geralt the White Wolf hunted monsters, there...
If you have read my review (comments) of the TV series The Witcher, you know my disappointment for Henry Cavil leaving after third season. Following that I decided to read the original source (this book) so that I can see the real...
♠ Previously. Problem statement: does AgentsView replace fast-resume, or do they solve different problems? I installed both and compared their current releases: % agentsview --version agentsview v0.41.1 (commit a902515a, built...
本月摘要 和女朋友第三次一起度过了她的生日，第一次给她过生日是在我上次回国之后，转眼三年多了。 买了十月回国的机票，买完发现晚半个月的票便宜很多能省出上海北京往返机票的程度，发现的时候十分慌乱觉得亏大了，开始反省自己的行为模式。但在反省中发现，我心里应该是盘算过想要 11 月好好呆在日本准备段位审查的，所以就释怀了。 去教授家参加同窗会，见到了他的大儿子和刚出生两个月的大孙子，见到一些老同学。...
This morning has so far been going well, but almost too well. I've been feeling more manic these last few days, which was much scarier when I was a bit younger. But now with more experience under my belt with managing things through...
On March 21, 2023, I published an article titled Feeds and Read-It-Later for Online Reading. My project there was to provide an account of how a good collection of RSS/ATOM/JSON feeds can serve as a discovery mechanism for interesting...
Murat Demirbas suggests the work of writers might be amongst the safest from AI, a notion that defies broader thinking on the subject: In systems theory, a wicked problem is a problem that lacks a definitive formulation, a clear stopping...
I Don’t Have a Smartphone… …or, at least, I wish I didn’t. "I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and professionals nowadays. This allows me to cut the crap about companies insisting that I install their app or restaurants...
I recently decided to start a free mail club. In one day, it was designed. By the next day, I packed 40 envelopes and delivered them to my neighbors ‧₊˚♡彡.˚ This blog is typically not a place to rant. So before I do, I wanna clarify a...
morphisms have combinatoric properties, when made into pieces and treated as assemblables-further in terms of stackings and possitionings next-to, and other prepositionalisms, as spatial-logic.morphic language encodes semantics, as...
Do I remember how the third reboot of Spider-Man left off? Absolutely not. But if I’ve learned anything about blockbuster movies and my thin grasp of continuity, it wouldn’t matter. What I didn’t expect after decades of highly polished...
Title: Sameer Bajaj Website: sameerbajaj.com RSS Feed: sameerbajaj.com/feed.xml Personal blog and digital garden featuring essays on software architecture, AI developer utilities, product strategy, and syntheses of non-fiction books. RSS...
A pair of philosophers have launched a contest in which participants submit essays that are “primarily AI-generated”. The aim of the competition is to “gauge the philosophical capabilities of AI in a way transparent to the philosophical...
Liked 9 Games to Know Me (Strange Voyages) Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. I read a post on the Strange...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_-_Fable_solves_DeepSeek_V4_Flash_Vision.jpg}}|thumb|Walking Astra to the playground when I'm notified that DSv4 Flash Vision now works]] The new Anthropic Fable 5.1 release is outrageous....
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You have probably heard of this one, it is an award winning title that came out around 2019 and has been making the rounds as one of the best videogames of all time. I had heard of it when it came out, often confused with Outer Worlds...
Schreiben ist der Prozess, bei dem man herausfindet, dass man eigentlich gar nicht versteht, worüber man spricht. Viel wichtiger ist jedoch, dass Schreiben auch der Prozess ist, bei dem man es herausfindet. DAILY MADNESS, Tobias M....
Lista de palabras para este mes: Ninja Escarbar Peine Programar Ascendiente Italiana Pensamiento Anotar Testamento Cirujano Acerca del reto Gracias por leer :)
My wife lost her dad two weeks ago. David suffered from Parkinson’s. My wife, her sister and for the longest, her mother witnessed his deterioration. The past year has been rough on all of them. My mother-in-law is an iron-woman, being...
What's the F.U.S.S?For the last few decades, the prevailing orthodoxy of software development has been F.O.S.S - Free and Open Source Software. I started releasing code I made myself before I even knew it existed, just because of the joy...