Thu Sep 10
A few days back, I hacked up a little minor mode for Emacs to use an LLM for spell checking. (Before you get a heart attack — I did not say “editing”, “getting ideas” or “research”: Just spell checking. Using an LLM for actual writing isn’t just a bad idea — it leads to abhorrent results.) I’ve been running a random...
I entered adolescence in the disco era. I gotta admit, out of all the songs that they could play at the roller skating rink, you could do a lot worse. It was still the post-Woodstock decade and many attitudes weren't far removed from the ones that people ordinarily associate with the 60s. Cocaine was consumed openly...
Bonus: It has great effects on automated spam emails. Published 10 Sep, 2026
The house my father grew up in is also the house that I grew up in, through age 12. For a while after they married my father and mother lived in their own (rented) house, but soon after I was born they moved back in with his parents. I don’t know the reason, but I assume that, since both my parents worked full-time...
Read Smash Burgers now!The title obviously makes sense once you’ve read the story, but I’m curious how you came up with it because it still is a bit cheeky, in a way.It was actually the last line of the story that helped me find the title. It was one of those lines that came to me immediately after I conceived of...
I wanted it on the record that I started writing this piece on September 3rd, and boy has a lot happened since then lmfao How my distaste of Rebirth helped me realize that this series (beyond the original, that is) is just not for me and that's probably for the best In 1997, Final Fantasy VII launched...on a console...
When I was a kid, while my mom worked in downtown Buenos Aires, my grandmother Herta would greet me every day at her appartment in the 8th floor above Vicente López after school (back in those days I only had classes in the mornings) and prepare my lunch; she would then go for a nap or to watch some telenovela,...
At the end of August, I had the chance to fiddle with a Galaxy Z Fold8, Samsung’s passport-style foldable phone. It’s smaller than I expected. I found it somewhat curious. My time with the device was brief and I think I saw enough. It’s not for me. This Wednesday (9th), Apple made its debut in the foldable phone...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: We’re still digging out from our big move last month, so trying to maintain a consistent routine has been impossible. I’ve started a KISS bullet journal, which has helped a lot, and I somehow managed to pull together this newsletter on schedule in a cozy corner of our...
You may be familiar with the phrase "The purpose of a system is what it does". It is a useful way to re-evaluate things that exist. To quote Wikipedia: [It] is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can or should be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it....
People posting AI slop to the internet is annoying, but not as much as people complaining non-stop about AI. I get it, AI companies are shitty, and their reach is menacing. Anyone that knows how technology influence legislation and society can easily understand that. I'm worried about it too. But lately, almost...
It's burnout. I'm sorry, but I can't handle this tempo anymore. This is what I said to myself a few weeks ago, and I pushed harder than ever, but on a break. It's a confession of sorts, a true state of my feelings toward writing because I do that professionally, creatively, and as a hobby. And I didn't stop, ever,...
[!NOTE](This is my first submission to a the IndieWeb Fiction Carnival, hosted this month by James. The process for this story was a true humbling and learning journey. I will post this process soon, and link it here as well.) a kind of lunacy Sound of voices wake Mani from his slumber. Traces of silver strings...
Cohen will portray the title character. "The Popinjay Cavalier" is set to premiere in London's West End in spring 2027. It's being described as a "swashbuckling comedy" set in 1830s Europe — a British-style farce filled with slapstick chaos, awkward mishaps and characters constantly being mistaken for someone...
a local chromo-dynamically-balanced-already occasion implies heteronomous determinacy of the whole by its autonomous Self (radical Hyle is without Other, thus as the One, only self-determination)local symmetry breaking implies change from a necessity, as necessity, thus if it happens, it would need to happen, but if...
In an opinion piece for The Guardian titled How Sweden lost its soul – and stopped being Sweden Martin Gelin comments on Sweden’s shift away from egalitarianism. […] many previously unthinkable far-right ideas are now comfortably embedded in the mainstream of Swedish politics. The past four years have been...
It's been a good week, but I feel behind, in the way that I often do once the semester gets underway. I was shocked yesterday when I wrote in my bullet journal: "Teaching Plans, Week 5." Let me capture a few notes from the week:Writing:--This week's short story writing made me think of earlier writing I've done....
I will be performing at Song Fight! Live!, which is in Seattle again this year, on Saturday, and I am also looking forward to seeing those who are coming from out of town this year. (And the in-town folks, who I seem to only actually see at Song Fight! Live! anyway.) I am woefully out of shape and in so much chronic...
Read on the website: Browsers don’t have to be huge, but they have to be usable. This is my list of vital browser features one cannot live without.
Kristian, aka z428, veröffentlicht eine schädeldeckensprengende Anzahl schöner Statusmeldungen auf seinem Blog, auf Bluesky und auf Mastodon. Sie laden mich immer wieder ein, mich gedanklich mitreißen zu lassen. Wie diese hier, vom 09.09.2026 um 12:41 Uhr. Am besten liest man sie aber direkt auf seinem Blog,...
A URL is a technical thing: a hostname, a path, a port, an origin, some query parameters, etc. But a link is a cultural thing: an invitation, a citation, a gift, a shortcut, a connection. All from a simple idea: here’s a thing that points to another thing, off you go! We’ve built an entire culture around links. Just...
Damn. My chronic sleepiness turning into insomnia caught off guard. It shouldn't have, but it did. It's not like I'm unfamiliar with it, but--wow. Truly wasn't expecting this turn of events. As I lay awake, waiting to feel any tug of the eyelids, I can't help but think think think. It's what I do best. So many...
This just popped into my RSS reader: Alfred 6: Unlimited Possibilities. 🥹 I’m a Legendary Supporter, so I’ll get this upgrade for free, but I’m going to find some way to pay for it anyway. Even if it’s exactly the same as Alfred 5. I don’t care. I flippin’ love Alfred. I’ve been using it for at least a decade. I...
The ebbs and flows of the web have gotten us to where we stand today. We simply wouldn’t have the web we do without the journey it has taken us to get here. However, some of the steps it has taken to get here have been interesting to say the least. CSS is how we style things on the web, but since its inception it...
We went just over one week without daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Sickness (probably mostly allergies) and work intervened. But today I have a window for links. Back and better than ever? 1 | NCAA declares it cannot overturn outcome of game following Western Michigan’s appeal (Daniel Hager for ON3. Sep. 9, 2026.) I...
În ultimii ani am dat de IndieWeb, Small Web, Old Web. Am dat de protocoale ca Gemini, Gopher și multe alte lucruri interesante. Mulți oameni vor ca internetul să revină la WEB 1.0, acel internet unde siturile erau doar text și câte un GIF, dar cred că animațiile au apărut o dată cu WEB 2.0 și personal nu cred că...
The productivity suite, which includes a word processor and spreadsheet, similar to Office 365 (though I understand it is now called Microsoft 365), was downloaded about one-million times the other week. One-million downloads. Amazeballs. LibreOffice’s surge in popularity has been attributed to the absence of AI...
An update; a rant; a vent. Here's a short timeline of what occurred: August 24, 2026Trial day at the restaurant ↗ August 27, 2026I got a job offer ↗ September 3, 2026My first work week and "looking ahead" ↗ September 6, 2026A collection of notes, in which some friction occurs (FYI, some notes will be deleted next...
Two things that have been working well for me: using parental controls to brick my phone at night. collaborative phone time with my sister. The second one has been really great. my sister and will sit huddled around her phone, or my phone, and we'll look through social media. Getting heated about influencers doing...
Today ended up being simply beautiful after some days of rain. Cooler temps. Humidity down. Sitting in the house did not seem right. My wife left to go fishing out in a rice field somewhere. I'm not into that after doing it a few times. I need some barang thing to do. So first it was meaningless meandering in my...
Sometimes I’m like I wanna write a blog post but idk what to write about; then I’m like, I should do a weeknotes post but idk aren’t they getting kind of boring and bland (for me to write) and I should try something different; today I guess I wanna write something and weeknotes are the tried and true structure. I...
I recently wrote a post about quitting Twitch. I still think my reasons are valid, but after taking more time to think through things, I realize that my reaction was knee-jerk and the situation is more complicated than I want it to be. I think a case can be made for staying on Twitch while being aware of its faults...
My best response to the “horde of agents colonizing our brains” is: Be as weird as possible. One way to do this: take the Venn diagram of your lived experiences and what’s been talked about in the world. Now focus on the part of your life that doesn’t overlap. Out pops: pizza toast. As Kevin Kelly says: “Your life’s...
2026-09-10Hello!I had an incoherent rant to do with statistics and over-optimization, but I realized no one but myself would actually give a crap. Also, I'm not going to become one of those self-help gurus who think they have the answer to life's common problems.Instead, I'd like to talk about the many books on my...
What makes life so disorienting is that its greatest revelations and greatest transformations are inarticulable. William James knew this when he listed ineffability as the first of the four features of transcendent experiences. Everything beautiful and meaningful, from the grand elations to the small gladnesses that...
The constant outrage on #Mastodon (and maybe other social sites?) for [bad thing of the day] is so tiring. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
I’m currently on a 60-week reading streak. I might not read every day, but at least once a week before going to bed. I can tell you that in the past year and two months, I have not felt as hooked by a book as I have by Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. For the first time, I’m looking forward to finding time to...
Describe a concert that changed your perspective on music or life. Pick a song from that artist or band. I have a photo from the gig. The lights from the stage are pointing at the crowd, dazzling, the silhouette of hands raised in unison, in joy, form a sea before me. I’d been to many gigs but this one, this moment,...
Vi la pregunta del título por Mastodon y me hizo pensar. Al final he escrito este post. No recuerdo qué hice la primera vez que estuve conectado a internet ni cuándo fue exactamente. Quizá fue en el colegio, en casa... Sí recuerdo aquello de que al inicio de todo cuando te conectabas a internet se [Fuente: pedrolr blog
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.
Progress! #rasdFastwalkerLeague Thanks @lorenschmidt.bsky.social for the brilliant talk covering this in her talk: youtu.be/FaLUhh_Vfmk View on Bluesky
Saved you a clickAfter a lot of effort I've managed to get full content RSS feeds implemented across this website. The feed for this blog (the one you're reading right now), my gigs, design updates, and desk updates now contain the full content for each post by default, without having to set your feed reader to...
A wave rolls into the shore at sunset. Surfers wait for one more ride. 太陽と波 夕暮れ時、波が岸へと押し寄せる。サーファーたちは、あとひと波を待っている。
Ahora que estoy empezando a estudiar otra vez estoy trabajando con muchos archivos PDF. Normalmente los autores no se preocupan por crear el archivo con sus metadata reales y utilizando conversores, puede ser muy diferente el título del archivo al título del documento (metadata). Me pasa con el Pocketbook, le he...
In this “beautiful” era of spelunking, booping, and flibbertigibbeting, I often procrastinate by playing these little fun games.
I appreciate Anne Lamott. As an author she is genuine. Her candor — her willingness to be true to who she is (embracing successes and failures) and what she believes. The last few days, I have been revisiting a phrase she has used in her writing and interviews: Lunch money faith: a “just enough” kind of faith to get...
Title: To Baldly Go... Website: blog.kirt.me.uk RSS Feed: feeds.feedburner.com/captlog To Baldly Go is an independent, non-commercial blog featuring personal essays, daily observations, cycling adventures, and creative updates—written with grounded British humor and zero algorithmic fluff. RSS users are my people 🫶...
The iPhone Duo seems interesting to me but mainly because of the “laptop mode” and being able to read content like Safari in landscape without needing an iPad. Still it’s iOS and so many little things are buggy and need a laptop.
25 years ago today was the first day of my 13th and final year in school. I don't remember the school day at all; maybe I went there by bus, maybe I drove myself in my dad's old Ford Fiesta. What I remember is being back home after school, having lunch with my family and then, instead of sitting down to do...
Dear Creative Soul, I have a shelf in my library that contains all the books that inspire me to be creative. I can consult it every time I need inspiration, every time I’m stuck, every time I feel like I have nothing to create. It never fails to inspire me. If you created such a shelf, what books would be in it?...
« Vous êtes des PUTAINS d’artisans du web ! Vous maintenez un petit bout d’Internet, soyez-en fiers. » Voici ce qu’avait dit une fois Stephan, ancien PDG de Gandi lors d’une réunion générale devant toute la boite en 2019. Pour lui, peu importe que l’on était un dev, un ops, une personne de la compta, du légal ou...
I've made a little book out of old bits of internet. Here's the Official Blurb: Talking dogs. Sarcastic cats. Strange sports. Bizarre rituals. Dumb jokes. Stupid advice. Weird ideas. Old hat. I think that sums it up fairly well.
EventPuffin is an event-planning platform that makes it easy to coordinate with multiple people and invite guests. Problem domain Occasionally, I have to plan birthdays, trips or other social events with friends, family and sometimes work. The current landscape of planning events involves horrible platforms that...
Following up on this, philosopher Dan Kaufman, who taught for a quarter-century at Missouri State University, shares a draft of his provocative remarks being presented today at Florida Gulf Coast University. Some of this seems to me right, some debatable, all interesting. Comments are open, and signed comments will...
“Do philosophers really think differently than non-philosophers?” That’s the question taken up by a team of researchers in a recent study published in Philosophical Psychology. Focusing on differences between philosophers and non-philosophers in regard to neurodivergent traits and responses to thought experiments,...
