Thu Sep 17
This week I learned the term "meat proxy". What's a meat proxy? "A person who forwards AI-generated text, code, or other output without reading, understanding, or validating it. The person acts only as a relay between the AI system and the intended recipient." I had the misfortune of talking to someone like this a...
I'd rather be a Professional Idiot than an idiot professional. But that's just me. I had a dream last night I can't shake this morning—hate it when they're so vivid. It was a close friend's wedding, and it was one of those anxiety-inducing dreams where the wedding was a bit of a dumpster fire. I kept losing track of...
When was the last time you were standing somewhere public, took the phone out of your pocket, scrolled on some app for a while, and then left it, and moved on? When was the last time you did that while still walking? perhaps almost crashing on someone in front of you? Even if you haven’t done that yourself—I’m very...
Last spring I gave myself a spring writing challenge, and now I think it’s high time for an autumn challenge! Feel free to join me! For this challenge I’ve created the following prompts: leaves clouds rain storm cardigan pumpkin coffee You can use these words as prompts for short stories, short memoir pieces,...
Last year, I wrote an article called “Seriously, Markdown” in which I gently dismantled the “nobody can do serious writing in Markdown” arguments that come up every so often. I got some pushback, none of which I confess I found particularly convincing because they invariably rehashed points I addressed in the...
Your phone is not the problem Jeff says that he is a better person without his phone. Widdershins says they’re the same with or without their phone. I think they’re both right because when Jeff gets on his phone, he doomscrolls. When Widdershins uses his phone, he contacts his family, uses it as a digital planner,...
I keep seeing people talk about herdr, so against my better judgment, I searched up tmux vs. herdr. Search hit: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all (herdr.dev) on Hacker News. I wanted to mention that zmx is a beautiful piece of minimal software that basically has gotten rid of my tmux and zellij use. 🤨 Now...
There are many, many reasons to be angry at the AI crowd. One of mine is that they took the term vibe coding – how else am I going to describe the flow state when I have some repetitive music running in the background and am just breezing through some programming work? (And don’t get me started on the sparkles...
This random indieblog.page link was picked on Friday, September 18th 2026. It was originally published on Tuesday, March 31st 2026 at HomeHack. If you'd like to report any problems with this post or the blog, please include the following ID with your report: 89bbabbf129913108af9c428e1a8e262-691673
Like a skeleton supporting the skin of a text, the page disappears in its very function, and in that unprepossessing nature lies its strength. A Brief History of the Page by Alberto Manguel in A Reader on Reading ; YALE 2010. As bloggers (and writers) we gaze at a blank page; pencil dancing clumsy steps through our...
I have an Interrail ticket that I bought during Black Friday discounts of December 2025, and I did not have the chance to use it, but I must before it expires in November 2026. Therefore, I am taking advantage of it for a series of trips I am doing in October 2026. 16 October: Rotterdam → Paris 19 October: Paris →...
You’re driving along the information superhighway when suddenly you hear a siren, so you pull over. It’s the internet police. The officer gets out and comes over to your window. “What seems to be the problem, officer?” “I had to pull you over because I noticed you used the word ‘lay’ incorrectly in one of your blog...
In July, I began circulating a draft of my next book, Humanlike: A Defense of AI Rights. I set it aside for a couple of months to get some distance on it while it accumulated comments. I'll soon dive back in for a fresh round of revisions. Comments are still very welcome! As a teaser, here's the current draft of...
Undiscovered chocolate found in the fridge behind the tomtato puree. I quickly moved it to the fruit basket, as you do. A morning without slipping into tiresome rant mode. A verbal shopping list of things and issues that probably don't bother me that much but I feel like they should. So I bite. At my time of life I...
This is a simple package to automatically preview in a window the file at point in Dired buffers. Preview windows are closed when they are no longer relevant, while preview buffers are killed if they have not been used for other purposes beside previewing. The package provides several customisation options to...
Sometimes, I want to ghost all of my friends and soak in blissful solitude; I don't have to worry about how the people close to me perceive me, pick up on my flaws, or if I upset them. I can only worry about what I think about myself.(But then again, that has its own cons.) Recently, my friend has been calling me a...
I finally built something I wanted to build for ages - I build me a VS Code theme based on my website colors called Cita Theme.
I recently replatformed the site from the Digital Ocean app engine to a Hetzner VPS. I wrote about why I migrated off of Digital Ocean here. I decided to use Caddy as the web server because it made getting up and running with TLS nice and easy. During the migration, my domain's A and AAAA records were still pointed...
Hate staying awake all the night Hate being unable to fight Hate that I am all lost These, these I hate most –Farooq, Master Patata I think it should get a rating of 3 of 5.
I am tired this morning--it's a good tired because of a more intense week of good stuff, but a good tired is still tired. Let me collect some fragments before they float away:--One of my colleagues at Spartanburg Methodist College has been bringing in watermelon from her garden, which seems miraculous to me. I've...
A Piece of Red Cloth, written by Leonie Norrington, Djawundil Maymuru, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, and Djawa Burarrwanga, has been named winner of the fiction category in the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for 2026. Australian works of literature are recognised annually across six categories:...
Mr. Kremlev also has direct ties to President Vladimir V. Putin. In April, Mr. Putin honored Mr. Kremlev with a high-level state award, the Order of Friendship. And just days before Mr. Trump’s wedding in May, Mr. Putin and Mr. Kremlev were seen together in China.Nothing to see here, I'm sure. Just another Russia...
A series of hardware tests that run directly from the web browser. It has for keyboard, mouse, screen, video game controls… For free.
Un hombre no ha muerto mientras se siga leyendo sus libros.Fuente: quiroptero.blog
Speaking of OIDC, I searched in my drawer and found all three security keys I own again. A YubiKey 5C NFC with firmware 5.4.3 (apparently not so secure anymore and not upgradable) and two SoloKeys Solo 2 (one USB-A and one USB-C, both with NFC) I funded via Indiegogo many years ago. Those have upgradable firmware,...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. NOTE: I’m not making this a weekly thing, but my schedule continues to be completely out of whack, and this is one of the few routines I can still (somewhat) control right now! “Kick that style, wicked, wild…” _ONE If Marketing Reports to Sales, Who Owns the Future Market? |...
More publication news! This month I’ve actually had 3 co-authored publications come out and hot on the heels of the mélange paper, a rather different piece of work I’ve contributed to has just come out: the latest assessment from the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise known as IMBIE to its friends, has...
Buggy planet in night side. It’s probably the city light thing not working in web assembly (I am working on a mobile/web version in parallel, portability is strong with C!) On the upside: it looks like each side is illuminated by a different body #rasdFastwalkerLeague View on Bluesky
Radio 3 this morning was getting very excited about Radio 6 Music's T-Shirt Day (not to be confused with International T-Shirt Day or National T-Shirt Day – heaven knows what thrills await us on those dates). This is the kind of thing that tends to happen on the once sedate Radio 3 (what would Piers Burton-Page...
Read When To? now!Do you have any “Tim’s” in your life who maybe get hyperfixated on something, ignoring the things that need to get done around them?Myself. I’ve had to set aside a day each week for laundry, dishes, and other household chores and then hold myself accountable to following through. Fictional worlds...
September 2026. Godstone. Surrey. Three nights in Royal Tunbridge Wells looking after the in-laws, with only a tiny bit of exploration. A rare visit to mysterious Tandridge district; north of Gatwick, south of the Croydon suburbs, west of Churchill’s home and the National Trust parkland. Oh, and very close to...
Every now and then, I find myself fascinated by the concept of game glitches. For example, yesterday, I watched a video showing some unused content from the 2nd gen Pokemon games that. In this specific case, the unused content was a house with a woman (and a Pokemon in it). It still exists in the game's code, you...
…on the 25th anniversary of the attacks. Right-wing garbage media go crazy, and UCLA Chancellor issues statement condemning the event at his own law school! UCLA law faculty issue their own statement in response. The Chancellor should resign, he has no business leading a serious research university.
Video: https://youtu.be/fBfJMNS0MnQ?si=mxBOzq0wXYGfLFsGThis is the best video I've ever watchedSimply amazing.
No me gusta para nada ese regusto amargo que te deja al final de tomarlo, no importa cuanta azúcar le añada, eso no cambia. Me desilusiona, porque lo que sí me gusta es su olor, con ese aroma yo pienso que va a saber delicioso y luego al probarlo me llevo una gran decepción. No me pasa eso con el té por ejemplo,...
Last night, the sliding door (in front of my shelves of shortboxes of comics) popped off when I was sliding it open. I had noticed that it had gotten a bit “sticky” lately, but hadn’t really investigated. And… this turned out to be the problem: Those “rails” at the bottom slid out. Like WTF. And it turns out that...
What song always makes you feel better? I’ve always loved a song that builds, that layers in the instruments. I’ve always loved a great drum track. I’ve always loved interesting harmonies. I’ve always loved rock music. I’ve always loved a hint of tongue-in-cheek silliness. I’ve always loved Queen. And yeah, I’ll...
When I first set foot on Japanese land, in October 2011, it felt strange in an unexpected way. The country itself is of course "different" by Western standards, but I already knew that. The truly strange part for me was that it didn't feel nearly as strange as I thought it would: there were no major surprises or...
A few months ago I wrote an article on De Programmatica Ipsum about Keza MacDonald’s awesome book “Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play”, and as I was reading the book I took some notes; here they go, in their entirety, and without any editing, and with the page numbers appended...
Note to first-time readers. This is one posting in a series that has run for three and a half months. It is a mature conversation about how to practice in the twenty-first century. The physics is used for pointing. It does not explain Buddhism, and Buddhism does not explain it. They are not interchangeable. Terms...
For the past few years, the tech industry has kept pushing passkeys as the ultimate solution to logging in. Many Big Tech companies "helpfully" inform you every time you sign in how much easier and effortless passkeys are. The only way to make them stop is either to concede and set up a passkey or dig into the...
Wandered down to my local coffee spot this morning. Five minutes and there. There’s the one table where I can watch the busy street. Yet I feel far enough away to ignore it sometimes. The family that owns it are nice people. Both like to stop and talk. Their son is very gifted I think. Enjoys just talking about life...
I love my mother, and also her most consistent skill is to disappoint me on my birthday. This year is no exception. This year, she disappointed me because I was today years old when I discovered the Integrated Taxonomic Information System exists: https://www.itis.gov/ I learned this from refdesk.com. Not from my...
We spend our lives mastering the art of losing. Our necessary losses shape us; the unnecessary, senseless, devastating losses bend our shape to test our breaking point. We can lose people to life — to conflict, to confusion, to the consequences of their trauma — losses painful precisely because it could be...
España partida en dos en su versión de novela gráfica es la adaptación de la versión ampliada y actualizada del libro que el historiador Julián Casanova presentó en el año 2022. El texto original se adapta por parte de Miguel Casanova (hijo de Julián) con las imágenes dibujadas por Carles Esquembre. No he leído el...
The call comes in completely unexpectedly, as, I'm sure, all great things do. It’s Ray. He knows I wanted to come over to his house today, but he asks me if I want to have him come over here to my apartment complex, today. Usually, I don't like for people to come here because my apartment isn't exactly the best...