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path digital on UnsplashJust the other day, it dawned on me that I’ve allowed an annoying, counterproductive behavior to throw a monkey wrench into my well-being.Damn data, anyway.Even the realization that I’m not alone in feeling swept...
I was reading Jason Gorman’s article “The Wall Confronting Reliable Coding Agent Autonomy” and he says: the journey from 90% to 99% reliability is just as hard as it was to get to 90%. And from 99% to 99.9% is just as hard again. This...
Share a song that changed your perspective on music. First question I have to ask myself is, what is my perspective on music, and has it ever changed? I grew up with music, music playing in the kitchen, the radio or cassettes in the car,...
The year is 2000 or 2001. Argentine comedian Alfredo Casero, known in the country for a quite revolutionary comedy show on TV called “Cha Cha Cha”, which aired in the early 90’s, went to a Japanese restaurant to eat some sushi, a dish...
Learning notes 2026-W26 I missed publishing notes from the last two weeks. I didn’t do much reading during those weeks. How to recover a dropped stash in Git? Though I’m a long-time-novice Git user. At times, I do discard file changes...
While I’m taking a short break from low-level programming, here’s a story by a friend of mine, Sonya, about debugging a seemingly impossible bug in ARM code. This bug hunting saga started several months ago. While developing a bare-metal...
Three images from a couple of hours spent wandering the woods.
New links in the Heap… “There are just so many other things you could be doing” — Daniel Groll wrote something for his students about the role of phones in their lives. (Perhaps it would work better as a TikTok?) “I can now keep walking...
I write this on naff all sleep and I am probably going to put something on my freelance Instagram like I always do a bit later, but it was eight years and one day since I pushed live “If not now, when?“, which I shared to a few friends...
I avoid giving stage time to weird people (in the bad sense) here at the Manual. I’m making an exception to link to a July post by DHH, the Danish co-founder of 37Signals (the company behind Basecamp), creator of Omarchy, and author of a...
I’ve been reading Josh Ellis’ blog for a couple of years maybe, since finding a link there on Dense Discovery once. Ellis has been at it since 2004, so achievement unlocked. In his latest post, he ruminates about writing a book....
Camera Camp Snap Pro Data 20/09/2026 Location Bruxelles, Belgium ✱ Thanks for enjoying the RSS feed and reading! You can leave your comments by emailing me.
Looking in the window of jAdis, a vintage science toy/prop store is always a treat. ヴィンテージの科学玩具・小道具店であるjAdisのショーウィンドウを覗くのは、いつだって楽しみだ。
When Tony Stark’s world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. Great third installment in the series, and n-th movie in the MCU, with great performances all over,...
“All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured,” one of the Moomins observes in Tove Jansson’s masterwork of philosophy disguised as a children’s book. It takes a great spaciousness and sobriety of...
I finally got around to self-hosting Home Assistant on my home server, and one of my early discoveries was that CO2 rapidly spikes into the warning zone when I’m working in my home office. Something to consider if you spend lots of time...
I read Guy Standing's short essay on education in Monocle's Issue #195. I have mixed thoughts about Guy's arguments. I think the introduction explains the whole article well: The acquisition of knowledge is becoming more commodified,...
On this day in 1939, Britain declared war on Germany, and we were launched into the Second World War. In London, sirens blared out, but it turned out to be a false alarm. Elsewhere on the home front, things were quieter...
With this many crisps, it can only be an Album Club. August has been a strange month to work through. The office has been quieter than usual as people have been off for their summer holidays. Unintuitively, the emptier the office is, the...
Kiwi PyCon West Island (Known to some as "PyCon AU"), was on this past weekend. And, because I wanted, and kinda had to, go, I went to Brisbane for a week and a half. Mostly enjoying holiday, and have 3 days of conference in the middle.
Over the past month of August, I’ve collected 13 links for my link journal. 2026-08-01 Cheatsheets for flex, grid, anchor positioning and invoker commands polypane.app CSS For CSS Day this year we created a set of cheatsheets explaining...
66 Million Years BC: the Chicxulub meteor misses Earth. It does not trigger a climate-destabilising dust cloud, and the extremity of subsequent ice ages is therefore blunted. The era’s megafauna migrate, survive and evolve, while new...
I was showing a friend the Pokémon gen1recomp project on my phone the other day, and he wanted it on his. Easy enough. Hand over the APK and the files it needs, walk him through the setup, ten minutes while we’re sat in the same room....
Yeah, I'm stupid—serendipitously stupid. Oh, life's rigged? Okay then, just be so stupid that you come out on top; that's easy enough. People talk about horseshoe theory regarding political radicalization, but I think we've all seen that...
Ursus Hypatos was the third doge of Venice, likely the first chosen locally, but we have almost no sources for him.
♠ Today I learned: mise can remove tool versions no longer referenced by its tracked configuration files. List versions eligible for cleanup (dry-run): % mise ls --prunable % mise prune --tools --dry-run Run the cleanup (without...
Today I spent a little time tutoring high school students in the neighborhood of my former school (where I was a principal for fourteen years). I can’t get over how sensitive and impressionable kids this age can be. The young man I was...
In mijn vorige artikel schreef ik hoeveel de AIVD en MIVD nu al mogen. Inmiddels is het nieuwe wetsvoorstel gepubliceerd, en wat blijkt, men wil nog veel meer bevoegdheden, met veel minder toezicht. Ik heb veel vragen gekregen wat nou...
I actually decided to start this on Thursday afternoon after a wonderful walk, coffee, and some delicious fried rice my wife made. I often sink into some YouTube history documentaries that I find. Sometimes binge on The Ancients on...
I keep forgetting to post this list! Funny too, because I was struggling in the last week of (bl)august to find something to share! So I’ve already read two of the books on my list. Feel accomplished :D The orange coloured ones are in...
Another quick little update to Wasat, bumping the version to v1.8.0. This version is in support of some work I'm about to do on Rogallo: Titan support. This release adds TitanURI and makes a number of changes to handle such URIs...
This post is a part of my word-vomit series. Feel free to skip it.I have not written any long post for almost a month as I felt my writing juices were over. I needed to replenish them to start writing but I guess that will take a long...
A few days ago Ruben wrote a quick post about finding a FIGlet in the Internet Archive's HTML code. What's a FIGlet? "FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text". ASCII-art, in other words. Curiously, I can't find...
From the Compose key Wikipedia page: A compose key (sometimes called multi key) is a key on a computer keyboard that indicates that the following (usually 2 or more) keystrokes trigger the insertion of an alternate character, typically a...
Hayley Cotter, an English professor at U Mass/Amherst, shares the latest gem: Von: Thomas Pynchon <thomaspynchon.author8@gmail.com>Date: Do., 3. Sept. 2026 um 03:17 UhrSubject: Appreciation for Your WorkTo: [email address omitted] Dear...
These are my minimalist themes. They use few colours and will appear mostly monochromatic in many contexts. Styles involve the careful use of typography, such as italics and bold italics. If you want maximalist themes in terms of colour,...
I want to apologize (again) for the dead silence in the blog for the past…almost three months? (Yikes!), and to promise to do better, but things are hard and too much right now, and I really don’t know what will happen in a few hours,...
A mission post by Lieutenant JG Sean Morgan, Lieutenant Weho Lape Sabril, Ensign Miles Archer, NPCs (Z) Mission - Lick Your Fingers Clean The walk to the second room marked on the map went much as the first had. There wasn't anything of...
Málaga MSX Meeting 2026 es el evento de los usuarios de MSX que se celebra en nuestra ciudad todos los años por estas fechas.En esta ocasión se celebra en el Polo Nacional de Contenidos Digital en la Avda Sor Teresa Prat, 15, el antiguo...
cornix This assembled keyboard just arrived through the post. It's called CORNIX LP. To be honest, I have a "corne" keyboard kit to be assembled for many years waiting for me to find time and dedication to tackle it, but, well, I just...
Good evening, friends and others! In a previous post, I mentioned that I’d recently been in a coma. A few readers have contacted me asking for “the tea.” And so, here it is: my very own English Breakfast blend... The tale begins on the...
Another month has passed and my monthly review is a bit late this time. Why? We’ll get to that in a moment. First, let’s take a look back at August. At the beginning of the month, we enjoyed our last day in South Tyrol and then started...
Why do so many calendar apps offer Sunday as the first day of the week? It's not the first day of the week, it's the last. Why is that even an option FFS? Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply...
The best thing that happened this week Since I made CalAction free to use the number of daily downloads has tripled which just goes to show that 1. there's demand for an app like this and 2. that people actively despise the in-app...
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This is to mainly answer the questions, how to syndicate my work and to answer some questions surrounding the respectability of syndication. Let’s first answer the question, may you syndicate my work. Yes. You may syndicate my work. You...
I don’t know much about Empire of the Sun besides their biggest hit (so far) and unique visual style. So I went into seeing them live with an open mind and appetite for spectacle. What I didn’t expect was being the oldest person at the...
I love the Souls-games by From Software, not only for the satisfying gameplay, but also for the incredible worldbuilding that I’ve never experienced the likes of in any other game series. There are some things in Demon’s Souls (the first...