Sun Sep 13
Tonight, I made pizza for dinner. It was almost homemade. Except the dough. And the sauce. Both were purchased at Trader Joe's. So, in actuality, I "assembled" a pizza for dinner. But, it didn't come from a box. Why should you care? Well, I can't cook. But, lately, I've been making an effort to fix dinner. In spite...
I spent a great chunk of last week at SmashingConf Freiburg and it was lovely as usual. It was great to meet some people I've only ever seen online and see old friends. And I am not going to lie - it was pretty flattering to have people come over to me and challenge me to admit I was the mystery speaker...
Por: Carlos M.Publicado el 14 de septiembre de 2026Un pequeño resumen de aventura subiendo algunos de los puertos más míticos del Pirineo francés.Continuar leyendo →#Ciclismo #NotasFuente: El blog de Lázaro
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For most of my life, I just wasn’t a watch person. Sometime after college, when whatever cheap watch I had at the time broke, I just stopped bothering. The advent of smartphones—my first was the T-Mobile Sidekick, which deserves its own post at some point (people either forget or just never knew that the Sidekick...
Sexta-feira, sete e meia da tarde, fazia muito calor. Eu andava pela Barra-Funda. A esmo, apreciando o que sobrou de antigo no bairro, despreocupado com o resto do mundo. Empapado de suor, pelo resplandecente sol do horário de verão, entrei num boteco de esquina, o primeiro que encontrei e pedi uma cerveja no...
Un martedì mattina come tanti altri al ventitreesimo piano di 2001 Hamilton Street. Colazione, doccia, la TV accesa in sottofondo su ABC, Diane Sawyer che parla in lontananza, mentre mi rado. Fuori il solito inizio di giornata, il traffico di chi si muove verso gli uffici, i nasi all’insù dei turisti in zona Museuf...
There is a lot in med school that I think is boring. Now, don't get me wrong. I do want to be in this field. There's literally no other job I could see myself actually having a career in. It's just that I think it's high time I accepted that there's a lot of stuff I find boring, and that I should deal with the fact...
The Lombard attack on Ravenna, and the Venetian intervention to restore the Exarchate, excerpt from the "Chronica per extensum descripta" (1340s) by Andrea Dandolo.
[This post is for RSS Club members only.] There are four sites I occasionally check to catch up on what’s happening in the indieweb world: Bubbles, Bear Discover, Pika Pulse and Pagecord. In two of them you find posts about people’s hobbies, things that interest them, updates on their lives. And that’s about it....
A weekly recap of the articles and posts I’ve read that I think are worth your time. A 450-year History of Blogging · brennan.day — Not sure how I missed this one —I follow Brennan’s wonderful blog— but an interesting take on ‘logging’ for sure. On the Difference Between Rest and Idleness | The Idle Gazette — “To be...
El verano se acaba y ha sido largo para todos. No sé si habrá sido el calor o ver como, a pesar de los excelentes indicadores económicos, la situación para el ciudadano normal español, es cada vez peor. Por supuesto, aquellos exentos de sentido común o la más mínima capacidad crítica, me dirán que soy un facha y que...
(image courtesy of unknown artist) it's been a long time since i've danced with, wrestled with, wondered with, wandered amongst... words, of any real weight. for any purpose other than explaining myself to someone. than for writing something that barely anyone will read nor care about, to a client who will never...
Been there, done that. If there were a Fediverse meetup in your city or region, would you go? #EvanPoll #poll #fediverse #meetup #FediverseMeetup Yes Yes, but… No, but… No Poll: cosocial.ca — Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸
Yesterday was an overscheduled Saturday, full of rewarding activities, but almost too full. I had Zoom calls, one after another, along with a conference call with the church council which was meeting in Bristol, and a phone call to catch up with my sister. I volunteered at the Lutheridge Camp Store, a frustrating...
7th September - 13th September I spent the bulk of the week struggling through a TJ Klune novel. There's nothing wrong with it — it's well-written with an interesting premise — it's just not clicking with me at the moment. So I made the difficult decision to just stop reading it. I don't often DNF books, but there...
Viimeisen puolen vuoden aikana olen oppinut kuinka vaikeaksi kuolema on tehty Suomessa. Eläville. Omaisen heräämisestä tuonpuoleiseen on tehty valtava taakka sureville, vaikka kyseessä on kaunis tapahtuma. Vainaja saa vihdoin maistaa koko elämänsä hedelmää. Kuoleman seuraaminen on todella pysäyttävä tapahtuma....
Heya! So, it's pretty late right now, but I've kind of been meaning to talk about a sort of habit I've picked up a while back, that i think might be useful to other people as well. So, for context, you gotta know that I'm actually a pretty indecisive person when it comes to very inconsequential stuff. Mostly that...
Recent books - September 2026 edition Over the Edge of the World by Laurence Bergreen Rating: *** This is the story of Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, sourced mostly from several first hand accounts that survive from the 1500s. Working on a ship back then was never a great job, but the 80-90% fatality rate...
2026-09-13Hello!I used editing software in post processing to modify the colors of red, green, and blue hues in this image. Instead of blue skies, the image has a gradient of red. Instead of green grass and trees, the image shows blots of teal(?). Instead of red railroads, the image has blue tracks.Infrared...
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I'm gonna affectionately call this bowl "The Fishing Harbour". You'll see why. Finally we get something more interesting looking out of the backlog, this is one of many oddball packets I bought a while ago to fuel my blog with. I've never heard of the brand and I've never had such wide and flat looking noodles...
Oh boy, running your own website(s) is tedious, isn’t it? I’m in the middle of moving stuff away from Digital Ocean. (We all know why.) I wanted to do that anyway but well, procrastination.Object storage is especially annoying – of course there’s rclone and it does what it should but it doesn’t clone the visibility...
Just yesterday I published a very long post about the economics of open source. As part of that argument, I mentioned that the cost of writing software has collapsed, and that meant the variables in the equation had changed for the first time in thirty years. That led me off on a tangent that grew into this equally...
September 2026. Mirfield. Your thoughts and prayers requested as I face three (3) nights of post-surgical support at the in-laws in Kent, with zero new GBG entries to entertain me in Tonbridge. Even shorter posts than usual to follow. I’m sure I’ll be looking at some creative rail trips to tick those new Guide pubs,...
I never get done. Even when I say "done". Lately writing into my little void teamed up with 11ty, GitHub, and netlify has made me happy. There's a sense of a closer relationship with the words somehow. Like when I write in this little markdown editor I find more ways to see how the things I say and want to say move...
I write this with a sense of responsibility towards my blog. Having deadlines does force me to write more, meaning these reflections are a way to keep my writing muscle working and not lose momentum; it is not a lack of subject matter, but a lack of motivation, which I can only conquer by forcing myself to write....
Presque deux semaines sont passées depuis mon retour à Paris et j'ai l'impression qu'à la fois deux mois et deux jours sont passés. Entre mon déménagement, l'arrivée à un environnement radicalement différent de tout ce que j'ai pu connaître depuis mon arrivée en France, et des side quests telles que la Braderie de...
I've been running Night Tripper recently. It's fun, you should do the same. Broad strokes, it's a space opera/pulp game in the style of Classic Traveller with the explicit intent of modelling the sort of game described in the classic blog series Classic Traveller: Out of the Box by Tales to Astound. If you haven't...
Having spent too long reading little but non-fiction (much of it for review), I turned back to fiction recently, reading A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor, recommended and lent to me by my cousin. I had read a few Taylors, including what is surely her masterpiece, Angel, and was happy to discover more. Published...
Ange Lavoipierre, writing for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), quoting Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram (IG): “If you go to a chronological feed, it ends up getting overwhelmed with content from companies, brands, and publishers. Creators get drowned out, and then your friends get drowned out even...
Soyez humains, communiquez ! Pourquoi le moindre humain écrira toujours mieux que le chatbot le plus perfectionné. Dans ma vie, j’ai écrit plusieurs millions de mots, sur des myriades de sujets et pour des dizaines ou des centaines d’audiences différentes. Rien que ce blog en fait 250.000. J’estime également en lire...
I’ve got Netlify Analytics turned on for a few of my websites. I use it send myself a little daily digest that alerts me when folks link to my writing, be it an individual sending me a few referrals, a newsletter sending me a few hundred, or Hacker News sending me thousands. But sometimes I want to know more than,...
September 13, 2026 I have times when I'm just not motivated to do much. This morning is one of those times. It's raining out, which makes me want to lie down and take a nap, even though it's still morning. I'm in my office at my computer, looking out the window to our backyard. Mouse the cat is out there getting a...
In a previous post of mine from before WWDC25, I discussed1 how Siri is too easy to dismiss, its responses too fragile and how I longed for a more complete “destination” for Siri chats.My wish will be granted as of tomorrow, the day iOS 27 will release with the new Siri app, to which one arrives by pulling down on...
The past two weeks I've developed a problem. Almost every other day I've been switching between two tech extremes, my MacBook + iPad Pro + iPhone + Apple Watch setup and my Ubuntu ThinkPad + GrapheneOS Pixel + Supernote Nomad + Fitbit/Pixel Watch setup. It's gotten to the point that I imagine someone at Google Fi...
I can’t say I was cock-a-hoop when the jury summons dropped through the letter box. But when you’re called you have to go, so I’m just back from a couple of weeks at the Crown Courts. Six years of retirement leads you into some bad habits, like winding down and lying abed until mid morning. But suddenly you’re up...
My medication makes me feel constantly fatigued. It’s super annoying and something that I fight to counteract. The fatigue makes me want to lay in bed all day and do nothing, especially on days when my asthma is triggered. Yesterday I was DONE with that. We went thrifting, something I always love to do. It was a...
Com o lançamento do GTA6 se aproximando e todas as pessoas quer queiram ou não vão comentar sobre daqui pra frente. E isso me faz perguntar o tanto de pressão que a indústria dos jogos não deve estar passando, no sentido de todos devem estar de olho em qual será o resultado. Não imagino que o jogo irá falhar ou algo...
This is an excerpt from my journal. By “beauty”, I am not referring to my Apollonian looks and disarming modesty. No full body naked selfie for you today. Sorry! The Middle East is a place where cultures meet. Milieux which can be understood as distinct may also be seen as blending into each other. In Cyprus where I...
(with the omnipresent caveat that there is nowhere capitalism does not piss me off) There is nowhere capitalism is not pissing me off more right now than in food. July-September is my annual season of Personal Projects, in which I pick something in my life that needs an overhaul and overhaul it. Past seasons of...
Modern browsers are among the most complex pieces of software in the world and they are basically operating systems disguised as applications. They are so complex that writing one from scratch is not feasible even for a company like Microsoft. Browser vendors have to keep adding new features in order to keep up with...
A lot has been written about the 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, but it was just as much a lifestyle product as the iPod (“1,000 songs in your pocket”) or the iPhone (“this changes everything”) had been. Of course, it was Jony Ive and his billionaire friends’ lifestyle, but apart from that… The trio of ads that...
Late on last week I was doing a PR review at work and noticed that, for some odd reason, the author of the PR seemed to have absolutely nuked all of the indentation in the code. While not a problem given the nature of the files I was reviewing, I wasn't happy with their apparent disregard for style and good...
PrefaceI wrote a note about an issue I was facing when trying to host my Quartz site on Bunny.net Storage and CDN (affiliate link). I reached out to Bunny support and asked for possible suggestions and went to bed that night. To recap, my problem is: Quartz emits two different HTML file structures depending on page...
Nelly the pup absolutely loving life in the field! 🤣 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.
Born in Brooklyn in 1918, Arthur Leipzig traveled the world with his camera to document people and tell their stories, from Yiddish theater actors in Communist Romania to Sudanese fishermen battered by a storm. “Chalk Games,” 1950 But it was his sensitive, evocative images of children at play on New York City...
I worked at a hibachi/sushi restaurant in college. It was great because I could go to class in the mornings and work dinner shift till midnight. The plates averaged 25 bucks each and sushi bills were higher so our tips were amazing for anyone working in 2005. You can figure out where this is, they are still in...
Antecedently: SUDDENLY SEMOR (has a new way to bug people); the Man With The Golden Nose sticks it into our damn business; Dani takes a level in Ron Swanson while examining a Resident Evil-ass woodén box Pregame miscellany: I regale the gang with the tale of my mother-in-law’s robot vacuum, Roberto the Roomba, and...
On taking comfort in communal musical experiencesThis post is one in a series of my entries for the September 2026 Bear Blog Carnival themed Music Memories. Almost to the day four years ago, having packed our life into a few bags and moved across continents, we landed in a new country. We didn't know anyone in...
This movie is impressive due to two reasons: first one is the storytelling in a nostalgic manner with a balanced approach to magic realism. The second one is a strong star cast, especially Tom Hanks. His acting is always fascinating due to his ability to deal with complex scenes, with hard emotions. I have seen a...
Happy would have been 15th birthday, Cocoa. Taken in September 2025 Today marks us celebrating your first birthday without you. We're extremely broken about it, but determined to do all of the things that you loved to honor you, including eating all of the chicken dishes. I wish you were here to celebrate with us. I...
Setapp is incredible value, but the alternatives are pretty good, too My Setapp subscription ran out last week; I am officially a former Setapp subscriber. After 6 years of happily paying one fee for access to more than 200 apps, it’s time for a break. Not because I’m unhappy with the value (what you get is insanely...
A quieter, more scattered week over on social.omgmog.net between 7 and 13 September. A roguelike’s biggest update in a while, a video digging into who’s behind unlicensed game discs, and a diagnostics lab that turns server telemetry into a Doom level, among a few other bits and pieces.
“Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.” “Friendship is unnecessary,” C.S. Lewis wrote, “like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… it has no survival value; rather it is one of...
Reusing the basic sphere drone stuff as inner exotic ice layer near the core of gas giants. #rasdFastwalkerLeague View on Bluesky
Space pewpew continues! Been a while. Since I got my Akademy trip coming and it's making me super nervous, I wanted to play a "comfort food" game, which for me happens to be EVE Online. Not much to report, except that I lost two Kestrels to some mistakes. I think some of the matchups were impossible either way, but...