Wed Sep 09
Hoy quiero hablar del camino que estoy siguiendo para mejorar mis habilidades en programación. Con suerte algo de lo que tengo que decir te puede ayudar.
I recently discovered that Digital Ocean - the platform this website is hosted on - has promised to donate $3 million dollars over the next three years to Omarchy. They have joined the project as a "founding corporate patron" according to Omarchy's press release. I will not be linking to their website here, but this...
Added myths for the Great Ox, the Great Pig, the Golden Maiden, the Birth of Kivutar, and the Origin of Water. Added the incantation for creating swiddens. Added the folktales of Akmeeli and Beautiful Kaija. Added the page for runosong melodies. Added the page for Christo-Paganism or how Catholicism appears in...
When do you listen to the radio? In the car, in the shop, while walking around, while doing other things that require your visual attention. Same goes for audiobooks, music, etc. Looking at a book or watching a show requires twice the time and effort because you can't really do other work while giving all your...
Whenever you have a regular process, you definitely want to have some proper logging. But the very next thought after mentioning “logging” should be “LogRetention”. Especially when the process is executed automatically. No matter how often — as soon as the execution isn’t a one off, log rotation & log retention are...
2026-08-09Hello!One of my favorite jokes is to imagine the opposite of a song's lyrics, meaning, or even melody. It only amuses me, I know, but I keep doing it. In this case, it's Here Comes The Sun by the Beatles, which was the first song where I found the joke. The "negative harmony cover" of that song has been...
Looking back, I’d forgotten that Monday was a bank holiday. It certainly didn’t feel like a four-day week. We’ve known for months that the end of an era is approaching at work, but it still isn’t clear as to what comes next. So while there is plenty to do, and everyone is getting on with their initiatives, there is...
Source Dogs are humanity’s best friend—but how long has it been that way? A 2020 Science study investigated ancient dog genomes, revealing a complicated genetic legacy that reflects a long, shared history with humans. Old news but I may not have referenced it before.
N-able has released four N-central hotfixes in five weeks.The latest, N-central 2026.3 Hotfix 4, fixes CVE-2026-86218: a pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability rated 10.0 under CVSS 4.0. N-able says every version before build 2026.3.1.14 is affected. CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited...
In later years, when I wonder why my blogging fell off a cliff in the past week, let me remember 2 factors. Tech woes kept me offline or otherwise engaged for several days: an internet outage one day, followed by my authenticator app not working and then being glitchy.But I've also been writing a short story! Once...
Le mot «nostalgie» est constituer par les mots d’origine Grec «nostos» (νόστος) et «algos» (άλγος). Nostos est l’aspiration de [re-]trouver notre communauté dans l’espace où notre culture est prévalent. Algos est le douleur ou la maladie. Donc on a le mal de n’être pas avec notre peuple dans notre localité. La...
I've released Rogallo v2.4.0, which contains two new features. The first is the addition of a feature related to the Gemini Protocol, and it's something I've been meaning to add for a wee while: a trusted host browser/manager. It's a simple enough idea: you might want to have a look at all the host/port pairs that...
Eu não me diria um grande fã de dungeon crawlers. Mas ao mesmo tempo não tenho como contestar que os poucos que eu joguei são muito divertidos. Poder ver seu grupo explorar labirintos atrás de finalmente chegar no chefe e sem precisar necessariamente explorando várias cidades ou campos, é uma maneira de você...
September 2026. End of the Road. Dorset. Four days on Cranborne Chase, 1% of my whole year, and again the time flies by, a “festival marking the passing of time“, as James sagely noted last year. I’m here to discover new music, eat too much, and make withering comments about heritage acts (Pulp, Oasis, Sophis...
Via Alex Guerrero on FB, I came across this well-done “welcome” address by Rutgers President William Tate (it’s called “My Hopes for You,” September 8, in case it gets displaced by other “community messages” on the linked page). He even works in Dolly Parton, and in a nice way. Anyone starting college should read it.
Publication day! Our new paper has just come out in The Cryosphere, and after what feels like rather a long gestation, I’m delighted to finally be able to share it – The full paper is open access and available here: Hedetoft, Bang Brinck and Mottram et al. (2026). This is the paper I was working on while I was in...
Hello everyone! I deeply apologize for my absence, but here we are! It's September, July's Lunar League came and went, and so did August's! August was a particularly rough month for me and I, unfortunately, didn't get much of a chance to write. And I decided to combine these two articles, rather than spam email...
Veremos cómo lanzar un script (o cualquier otra tarea) en un equipo remoto mediante SSH y dejarlo ejecutándose en segundo plano con una sesión de tmux, de forma que siga funcionando aunque cerremos la conexión. Este artículo surgió como una búsqueda de una necesidad que tenía. Lo que quería era conectarme a un...
My oldest recently turned five. Her birthday was actually during our recent trip to Europe so we had only small, family oriented celebration with my best friend preparing a delicious strawberry cake for her which we all loved (cooking and baking are his great talents). Now that we are back in PNW it was time to...
idk I really need to work on getting a job, holy shit lol (no for real, my wife is divorcing me if I can't get it together)
John Ternus has been rumored to be Tim Cook’s replacement at Apple for awhile now. Tim Cook can’t leave Apple fast enough in my opinion. As for Ternus, I didn’t really have an opinion about the guy until tonight. I was watching the 50th anniversary Apple Event from the Computer History Museum just now and I noticed...
What I listened to at the record store. I didn't write about last week's record store adventure so I'll cover that first before getting into the record I ended up buying today. Last WednesdayI had worked my first two shifts at the restaurant and woke up incredibly sore. Still, I mustered up the energy to continue...
Este es un momento tan bueno como cualquier otro para echar la vista atrás y contar qué tal me ha ido el verano. Un julio muy atareado Aunque en julio estamos a disposición de la administración, este mes no me han llamado del trabajo y he podido dedicarlo a mí. Aunque el curso estuvo bien […]Fuente: Adrián...
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The Chronicon Altinate contains an apocryphal account of how duke Paulicius was killed in a factional fight between people from Equilo and Heraclia.
Stéphane Pigeon, a signal processing engineer and passionate about sounds, keeps this site alone. He runs the world to record various noises with the highest possible quality. Why? The short answer, according to himself, is because he is crazy.
But Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is funding an aggressive advertising campaign encouraging people in key states to check their registration status at a different website, votesafe.org. That website is run by America PAC, Musk’s super PAC.This feels like something that shouldn't be allowed, but then I...
Speaking of being on the internet and finding things that make you go, “Hey! It’s not just me!” I scrolled across this skeet from Tyler Gaw: I just dug to the bottom of my Big Box of Cables to find two cables that I needed for something. They've been in the bottom for 10+ years. So, "when are you ever gonna use...
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Hi, I've made another little book out of some old bits of internet that I found down the back of the sofa. It's called "Old Hat". It's a dinky pocketable size, with 200 pages of nonsense. A lot of it is talking animals. I'll do a proper note about it in a day or so, but you clever RSS subscribers get to hear about...
Hoy se cumple un nuevo aniversario (27 para ser exacto) del lanzamiento de que en mi opinión es el mejor disco de Andrés Calamaro que vio la luz un 9 de septiembre de 1997, el cual incluye uno de los mejores temas jamás creados del Rock Argentino. Ese tema es Flaca. No es fácil volver a conectar con una canción que...
Last week I happened upon a video about Nålebinding, an ancient Norse way of creating fabric with wool yarn. I immediately felt the pull to create something with this technique. I grabbed some yarn that was 75 percent wool and it obviously wasn’t suitable. You have to felt yarn for it and felting only really works...
Writing Break and WP MigrationI’m still mentally recovering from Blaugust. 😅 During this writing break, instead of writing words, I’m writing HTML, CSS, JS and even some TypeScript/React Components (that’s for Quartz, which is confusing as hell TBH!) Site UpdatesOn this site, last week I fixed: Word count...
Fisherman with his lines out at the lovely sunset at the Redondo Beach Pier, 夕暮れの釣り レドンド・ビーチ・ピアで夕日が沈む中、釣り人が釣り糸を垂らしている。
It's about time we did some actual, proper Ramen Science on this blog, and break the Nongshim curse of the past few posts. Well, mostly. Remember how I said last post about reading Wikipedia about the food I'm eating while I'm eating it? Well, that has put a peculiar picture in my path. Is this normal and I'm just...
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE by Maria Popova Don’t try to wash your tired hands clean from the bloodshed of your private wars. Just unclench the fist that has come to feel like home and let the story slip between your trembling fingers into the river of time, silver and indifferent. You may have to kneel for days or...
My keyboard is the interface to the digital world, the gateway to so much stuff that I enjoy. It is there to impose my will on my computer, to write words and form thoughts, to play video games, which is a big hobby of mine, and to build stuff, which makes me feel creative. I use my keyboard daily, and, like most...
There’s been yet more speculation as to the identity of the Italian author known as Elena Ferrante. The writer of novels including the Neapolitan Quartet, and The Lying Lives of Adults, has always been upfront about their use of a pseudonym. And despite writing novels since 1992, her identity, their identity, has,...
„Guten Morgen. Ich bin betriebsbereit.“ steht auf der LED-Anzeige des Kaffeevollautomaten, von dem ich mich in ein paar Sekunden mit schnaubenden Geräuschen anfauchen lassen werde, und man kann mit Fug und Recht behaupten, dass mir zumindest in dieser Angelegenheit die Maschine haushoch überlegen ist. Per E-Mail...
去年做完 WeGene 的全基因组测序之后，我就一直想自己分析试试。于是就有了这个项目。 整个项目是和 Claude 一起完成的，把分析流程整理成了 Skill 的形式，并开源到了 GitHub：https://github.com/DayuGuo/genome-atlas-skill 目前 WeGene 的原始测序数据体量比较大，我还在后台申请下载权限，暂时没有拿到。因此这一轮分析使用的是大约 15 MB 的基因型数据表，而不是 FASTQ/BAM 这类原始测序文件。 也正因为如此，这套工作流对普通爱好者其实比较友好：不需要很强的计算资源，有类似的消费级基因检测数据就可以自己尝试分析。 整体来看，得到的主要结论和...
I have been baking an idea for a couple of months now, it did not solidify until one odd evening where I thought “wouldn’t it be possible to create a 3D RPG space where people can look around as if it was a real library? Can I turn my blog into a library?” The post idea and work journal is here. This is a project...
Version 1.0.0 Version 1.0.0 Version 1.0.0 Last month, Caz published a review for this trilogy, and I was intrigued enough to grab the first one. I eventually read it, and then the other two in quick succession. And yet… Beware: PTSD for physical injury in the past; recovery from being shot, on page; emotional...
Starting about 45 minutes into today’s Apple Event, during the segment on the new Apple Watch, Ron Huang introduced a couple of features of the Series 12 and Ultra 4 that struck me as both disturbing and possibly illegal. They certainly seem at odds with Apple’s commitment to privacy. First came Live Rewind, a...
A semantic reflection... I have a number of priorities. Is that even possible? Was the word "priority" intended to have a plural form? If you have more than one priority, are those items still a priority? priority: something given or meriting attention before competing alternatives (Merriman-Webster) As I attempt to...
I enjoy the Rivers of London series. I’m not a hardcore fan; instead, I meander through them like a slowly winding stream, often encountering them at the library. This means I read them out of order, with lots of odd discoveries. And so I encountered Tales from the Folly at Parramatta Library (or 'Phive' as the...
I was very excited for Path of the Old Gods to come out, I played the demo and loved it. I actually loved it so much that when it was released, I didn't use my old demo save to forward into the new game. Like most Idle games the beginning stages of the game look staggering; I don't know how I will ever reach that...
I grew up an only child and spent many formative hours alone. I learned to occupy myself by playing with action figures, learning magic tricks, and growing vegetables (in Harvest Moon 64). My mind was a cozy place. There were no siblings to fight with, so I could afford to take my time thinking and speaking. There...
With a patronizing scoff of pity I looked at a tyrannical app in another land. It was a “Super App” called WeChat or KakaoTalk or LINE or Grab or Gojek. Every human being in that land needed the app. You needed it for transportation, for buying things, for identification, everyone had to have it. Why didn’t the...
It’s been a whole year now since Hollow Knight: Silksong finally released, and it has been a delightful journey. I wasn’t there for a lot of the hype around it, I was more than happy playing Hollow Knight in the span of a year or so, and beat it only a few days after Silksong was finally released to the public on...
Rereading the previous list of my default apps, I realized that, in fact, the ones on record are not, really, my default apps anymore. I’m a bit obsessive about this, I’ve probably mentioned it before, and however much more stable I feel about it compared to a few years ago, this list has far too many things that no...
I’ve always been a night owl, so I struggle with waking up early. No matter how early I go to bed, I fall asleep around 11:30 p.m. - 12:00 a.m., so setting an alarm for 6 a.m., knowing I’ll only get 6 hours of sleep, always makes me second-guess birding in the morning. I know it’s mental. Once I wake up, I feel...
Last month, one of my favourite games of all time closed its servers. When I was young, I played a game called Ragnarok Online for more than 5 years, and even produced some YouTube content for it from around 2009 till 2013, I guess, and at that time my videos were posted on some official forums since most of them...
20 years ago, nearly 15% of the undergraduate degrees conferred in the United States were in the humanities. As of 2025, that percentage is down to 8.1%. These figures are from a recent report by Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Here are the numbers: In 2025, the nation’s...
My wife did an Enneagram exercise recently, so I took a look. I’m pretty sure I’m some sort of Type 5. Among the growth recommendations for my type: Notice when you are getting intensely involved in projects that do not necessarily support your self-esteem, confidence, or life situation. It is possible to follow...
Yesterday we buried my mother in Hopewell Cemetery, Hanceville, Alabama. She lies next to her husband, Carl Edwin Jacobs, who died in 2009 on their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary. Next to them are the graves of my father’s parents, Elisha Creel Jacobs (1902-1971) and Margaret Doran Jacobs (1909-1997). But why are...
My wife has this Khmer friend that married an American guy. He’s a millionaire or perhaps a kazilionaire or whatever it could be called. One time when they were talking my wife’s friend told her, If he ever runs out of money I am gone This is after buying a house, gold, jewelry, a car. More things. Lots of bling....
That was a perfect movie for me to watch with the folks of the Cologne Film Club. It has been silently sitting in my collection for years without me procuring the capacity to watch it; too many things surrounding the creation of the film had built up a feeling of complexity and profundity that may be hard to stomach...
That’s what I say, jokingly, every time I discover that English doesn’t have that particular word I’m looking for to distinguish between two natural concepts. And it’s a joke, because of course English is a huge language, what with it swallowing up several other languages wholesale and then just misspelling all the...
For us, humanity was a distant goal toward which all men were moving, whose image no one knew, whose laws were nowhere written down. — Hermann Hesse, Demian Despite having spent most of my life marinating in transhumanist ideas, I never cared about AI. Because I’m a classical transhumanist: I want to use technology...