Tue Sep 08
Yesterday was Labor Day in the United States. Traditionally I’ve attended a cycling event called the “Ox Roast Ride” out of a small town called West Jefferson. It’s a great event that ends in a festival featuring pit-cooked ox roast sandwiches and live music. This event was where I did my first century (100-mile...
Considero esta una razón más (de otras tantas) de porque uno pierde la constancia de publicación y posterior abandono de un blog. Desde siempre se dijo que antes de abrirte un blog tenés que elegir una temática. Eso es un error. Si, eso quizás funcionaba hace 15 años atrás o mas en donde los blogs lo eran todo, ya...
Sun shines through the Hermosa Beach Pier, creating stripes on the sand. 砂の縞模様 ハモサ・ビーチの桟橋の隙間から差し込む夕日の光が、砂の上に縞模様を映し出している。
Well… this linkdump hasn’t got so many stuff. Infrastructure FreedomNames: This project has been recently started by Melroy, an active member of BCH community, to make domain names without central authority. Let’s see how it’ll go. Software/Programs rc23: Yet another shell for UNIX based on Plan 9 rc. I am always...
Two Kinds of Wanting mtift Tue, 09/08/2026 - 07:05 Last week I wrote about the wanting that comes with a promise attached, the kind that says “just this one more thing and I’ll be set.” In class last week, a woman asked me whether there’s a good kind of wanting. Good question, and the answer I gave is “yes.”When I...
Title: darsh's life Website: life.drsh.io RSS Feed: life.drsh.io/rss a snippet of my life: i write about the weight of life, my changing place in the world, my love of live music and community, nature and birds, my friends, poetry, and a way to feel less alone by confessing my inner world with strangers. RSS users...
It’s almost enough to entice me back onto social media. But not quite. The Australian government is proposing to give local social media users the choice to opt out the algorithms that determine the content they see. If the laws eventuate, social media companies will be obliged to allow their members to only see...
The Big Sleep - Bogart & Bacall. Cinema Poster by Vincent Cristellys.No. 42 in 100 films you need to see.(Before you die, obviously).A curious list of recommended films.Curated by me.But sadly incomplete.All work in progress.**...**Cat power: I'd be further on with this but I spent most of yesterday morning (or was...
On September 5, The Telegraph released the article “How having a disability became cool” by Poppy Coburn. The by-line is: “Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity” Quite venomous words already jumping out here....
September 2026. End of the Road Festival. Dorset. 2025 saw a biblical deluge at End of the Road; this year we had the last heatwave of the year and a campervan turned into a sauna as I returned for my daily snooze mid-afternoon. Still, it gets cold on Cranborne Chase overnight. Mrs RM had packed 3 extra layers for...
Después de 25 años, ha llegado el momento de pasar el relevo del proyecto Packman. Si no se encuentra a nadie que desee continuar con Packman, se suspenderá el proyecto el 31/12/2026. El pasado 27 de agosto de 2027 en un correo en alemán e inglés a la lista de correo del proyecto, se anunciaba que los actuales...
After several beta and RC versions, Jellyfin 12 was released this Monday (7th). This is the server application, which other devices access to display stored videos, music, and other digital media. It also comes with a client accessible via the web. The versioning scheme has changed, and this new release comes with a...
I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thing." And this should be all you need to know. I don’t care if you call it AI, LLM, chatbot, or whateverGPT. I simply don’t want to interact with it in any form. If you interact with me, make sure to...
This time I’ve been gathering links for at least six weeks. It’s been the summer holidays and I have a young child so my time has been very occupied. Here are some of the things I found in spare moments or just before the holidays started and then didn’t get round to posting sooner. Beautiful Pictures Breaking waves...
Dear reader, My list of potential replacements wasn’t long when I decided to leave Pagecord, my previous blogging platform. But reaching the final decision took time. In the absence of perfect alternatives, I had to pick a platform whose compromises I could live with. I settled on Bear, but Pika and Mataroa were...
A few weeks ago, I lost access to my email account. That experience opened my eyes to just how much I depended on it and how expensive a “free” service can become when things go wrong. This is a post-mortem of what happened and what I learned. 1 The MFA trap: losing access to everything Few weeks ago changed my...
El verano siempre ha sido uno de los grandes momentos para el mercado de los videojuegos. Las vacaciones escolares, cuando estaban enfocados a un público más infantil y juvenil, además de los anuncios para el final de año, marcaban la actividad. Personalmente, coincidía con mi cumpleaños, así que era el momento de...
As per ushe my reviews can get pretty spoileriffic because they are meant for writers who like to think about books they have already read rather than for readers who are deciding what book to read. But if you’re wondering whether or not to read Momo, do it, it’s great. It feels weird that I never read Michael...
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Today I learned about The Sunday Letter Project. Started in September 2025 by owners of a stationery shop, it invites us to pledge to write one handwritten letter every Sunday to friends, loved ones, strangers, or ourself. The purposes of this project are: to foster human connection, promote personal balance, and...
Channel 5, the YouTube channel hosted by Andrew Callaghan, said it gave a list of its email subscribers to Hunter Biden, the former president’s son, who went on to promote his new memecoin, a move that a data privacy expert told 404 Media is likely illegal in some jurisdictions.Callaghan and Channel 5 have...
I have spent the past few days using OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra across the kind of work I normally do: research, code, troubleshooting, and security analysis. What stands out is not one clever answer, but how long Astra can stay with a problem.It can inspect the work in front of it, use tools, test an idea, notice that...
OpenBSD VPS for $5 a Year 2026-09-08 I believe I have found the cheapest VPS provider on the internet. It costs just ~$5 per year! You read that right. Not $5 per month or even quarterly. That is the total annual cost. Best of all, OpenBSD is natively supported as one of the default image selections. (They also...
A Bedtime StoryThe beginning of the end starts when an infant Saurolophus squishes some nameless prehistoric fish, and for the first time, a dinosaur cries.Worse, the crying turns the Saurolophus into a Kaiju, and each time a Triceratops blinks the Saurolophus is larger, and larger, and larger, until the...
The other week I made a calendrical display for the eink thing I have. The problem is that I don’t really use a calendar — I guess the main reason is because I hate planning, but the other reason is because I really dislike all the calendar entry interfaces I’ve used. I haven’t used all that many, though, so I may...
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What was your favorite song in high school? Why did it resonate? The radio crackles to life. It is full of heavily produced sounds. Bon Jovi, Madonna, Wham!, Phil Collins —artists I would spend my life with— dominated. Pet Shop Boys were ploughing a different path, New Order were living their Blue Monday ‘88...
Quién me iba a decir cuando empecé a programar con un libro de Perl, allá por el 2000, que me vería en la situación de intentar sacar unas oposiciones con nada referente a la informática. Ya hablé hace tiempo de que me estaba dejando de gustar mi trabajo gracias a la IA. Ya no se programa, ya no se resuelven los...
Not too long ago, I switched from two Hetzner Cloud VPS to one netcup VPS, with integrating my mailserver setup into my hosting setup. It works fine so far. To keep things simple and because I’m back on Ubuntu on my laptop, I decided to just go with Ubuntu on the VPS as well. But stumbling over bootc, I can’t stop...
“There is no description of a life without an account of the changes that are possible within it.” When answering the Orion questionnaire, a question stopped me up short by contracting an incomprehensible expanse of complexity into a binary: Are you the same person you were as a child? It is fundamentally a question...
I watched Pale Flower 乾いた花 almost by accident. It had been sitting on a study list when I was watching Japanese films, and one day I noticed it was only about ninety minutes long. The title sounded nice. Two minutes into the film, the protagonist, Muraki, tells you immediately what kind of man he is. He just got out...
Back on March 30, 2021, I published an article titled On Oscar De La Hoya’s Comeback From Retirement. At the time, Oscar De La Hoya, one of the best boxers of the 1990s and 2000s, was planning to make a comeback at age 48, more than 12 years after he had retired after suffering a one-sided loss to Manny Pacquiao,...
Camera Camp Snap Pro Data 21/08/2026 Location Bruxelles, Belgium ✱ Thanks for enjoying the RSS feed and reading! You can leave your comments by emailing me.
I read a few glowing race reports from this race, all of which raved about the course, how well-organized the race was, and how welcoming Redding was, which made me regret not racing it. Next year it’s moving from its mid-August date to May 23, which would make it not blazing-hot. I’m tempted to add it to my...
Getting back to running after a short breakI ran 3.5 miles today after a short break. My last run was more than a week ago: on Sunday, 30 August. I had run 6.29 miles (just over 10K) that day; my longest run ever. It was raining, and I had been sick for a day or two—a very annoying cold, with violent coughing fits....
The following is an excerpt from a private exchange. It builds on what I published before: Re: how do you manage your curiosity? (2026-09-05). It can stand on its own, which is why I am publishing it separately. Again, I am doing it without disclosing the identity of my correspondent. The quotes that are two levels...
It has been an intense few weeks, book-ended by Quilt Camp on one end and Crafts for Christmas on the other end. I made a quick trip to Columbia, SC for an overnight last Wednesday; I am trying to go once a month to see my grad school friend who had the catastrophic stroke 2 years ago.I've had tech woes with the...
2026-09-08Hello! There's still a few weeks left until autumn begins, but I am so ready. Cozy colors and pretty hoodies. My (limited) wardrobe is already prepared.For now, I'm at my backyard garden realizing that I didn't put enough care into this project as I hoped. In fact, I left it to fend for itself for weeks at...
It was the fox that broke the dream. I suppose I had been quiet, seated there by the hedge for so long, and my scent carried downwind of him, he came stepping boldly from the covert, unsuspecting. He was almost a caricature of a fox – shock-red coat, creamy bib and black stockings. Unusual to see them about in the...
When you want to use Linux, you do so in two ways. You either use the command-line interface and type out every single command, or you use the graphical user interface, which is much more user-friendly (on average). However, there is a third way, and it's not talked about as much because it never had enough time to...
Roshan: /* Most Plagiarism Is Fine */ I really dislike the modern era of intellectual property maximization where all text or imagery has provenance traced back to the source of where it could possibly have entered someone's mind. I honestly couldn't care less in most cases. == Most Plagiarism Is Fine == I really...
Here is the solution I strongly believe Google and Apple should follow: United States: “Lake America (Lake Ontario)” and “Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)” Everywhere else in the world: “Lake Ontario” and “Gulf of Mexico” There is no reason to show these new Trump-dictated names anywhere outside the U.S., even...
An ad showed me a tool I'd never seen or searched for, but I instantly wanted. A small reminder that They know my interests disturbingly well.
已读 2026 CN 『心是孤独的猎手』 『黑客与画家』 『刻意练习』 『异乡人』 JP 『走れメロス』 『コンビニ人間』 『地球星人』 『檸檬』 『羅生門』 『カモフラージュ』 EN Holes Matilda Because of Winn-Dixie Predictably Irrational Wonder
Which areas of specialization have been correlated with higher placement into “permanent” (typically tenure-track or tenured) positions over the past few years? Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec Dear Data: Week 24 – Doors’ Patterns / A Week of Doors-Spaces (detail) “The broad finding is that those in Value Theory and...
I won't spoil it, go watch it and then come back Ok, we good? This has everything I want from classic Godzilla; human focus on solving or investigating the problem (the problem being giant fucking monsters), threat or commentary on nuclear weapons, and then juuuust enough of something slightly otherworldly (other...
Why true self-guidance won’t be found in sessions or in books, but in the hearth of your heart.Burn what you should keep; keep what you should burnDon’t listen to what society says is good for you. Your ability to live a more intentional, calmer life relies on your ability to make the right choices for...
Karen Nisenbaum (Kant, German Idealism, Jewish philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University, has accepted appointment at the University of California at Berkeley, effective January 1, 2027, as an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Eda Pell and Moses David Kuflik...
Marcin Wichary has a lovely article titled “Photoshop’s challenges with focus, pt. 2”. If you’re into the minutiae of interface design, this is a good ‘un. It perfectly illustrates how impossible it is to try and compare two interfaces side by side as static images. What matters in an interface is how it works, i.e....
When HTML was first created, a document could be very simple indeed. A valid document could look like this: <TITLE>HTML document</TITLE> <H1>Heading</H1> <P>This is a paragraph with a <A HREF="https://example.com/">link</A>. It wasn’t until HTML 2.0 – the first formalised standard – that a proper document structure...
September WritingThis is how my lunch breaks look this month with four post deadline. Loving this! #writingThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
Some time back I dropped the MacBook Air M1 on the floor in our bedroom and it stopped charging. Instantly gripped with fear that by a stupid act of wanting to have the laptop on my lap I had doomed it. To tell the truth, I love this MacBook. I bought it in Hanoi in 2021. I had gifted an iPad to my friend Paul so...
I came across a catalogue of antiquated HTML snippets and artefacts, the kind of markup we just accepted as necessary in the <head> of every site. It got me thinking about the CSS side of that same period, the stylesheets rather than the markup. My first job in 2009 was building marketing campaign pages for an...
This past weekend I took a hiking trip to the mountains in the neighboring state of Chihuahua. Beautiful forest scenery, streams, rivers with actual flowing water, and no internet signal. Not a single bar. It didn’t catch me off guard. I brought my iPod Classic in preparation for it, but I will admit it was weird at...
Yesterday I finally made it to London for a much postponed lunch with an old friend and a visit to the Whistler exhibition at Tate Britain ('the Tate', as it will always be to me). Arriving in London from Lichfield is always a shock: the noise – and the people! Not to mention the traffic fumes. En route to lunch I...
Thinking about my birthdays, past and present. (A brain dump.) My birthday is in three weeks.I turn 39 this year. I've been dreading this birthday for some reason. One year closer to 40. Joh and I had planned to travel around Thailand and Taiwan for our 40th, but I'm feeling apprehensive because of my financial...
I have been using Inoreader ever since Google Reader shut down and used Google Reader from 2008 to 2013. I read a lot of webcomics, and before I subscribed to their feeds, I memorized the publishing schedules for each one and checked each website from a long list of bookmarks I had saved on my browser. I switched...