Fri Sep 18
I'm a big fan of the Yo-kai Watch video games by LEVEL-5 (slice of life RPG meets monster collecting), so you'd think I'd be thrilled that they announced they're remaking Yo-kai Watch 2. I truly thought the series was dead when LEVEL-5 stopped localising the games in North America and they started to bomb in Japan...
One YouTuber I like does every so often videos on his experiences in Southeast Asia. Not the day to day thing or the cost of living and the forever comparison videos. His quality is his difference I think. It’s interesting he and I lived in Hanoi back during pandemic times kind of together and apart. We actually...
Documenting my mishaps. In my efforts to cook once a week, I started thinking about what to make. Yesterday, I was craving a chicken casserole. The last time I ate this was during my childhood. Our neighbor, Micky, brought it over twice and it was the best thing I'd ever eaten. I still think about it from time to...
This site is my quiet space on the internet. I write about topics I enjoy (see writing non-fiction) and try to avoid controversy. I don't want to overthink things, spend hours editing for perfection, or feel the need to stick to normal writing conventions. I just want to organize what's on my mind and clear some...
Nice post from Watts Martin today: Org Mode, Marked, and Workflows. I’ve been doing more writing in Org Mode lately, partially just as an experiment, and partially because—as I’ve noted more than once—the strength of Org Mode isn’t the markup part, it’s the mode part: properties and tags and dates and other bits and...
When learning new topics, we always ask questions we can’t find answers to. “Why are there two APIs that do seemingly the same thing?” “How do I achieve this goal?” “Why does this code not work even though it looks similar to the example?” As we research and get more familiar with tools, we gain understanding. At...
One day when we were in China we had to spend a few hours in an appliance store with the kids. Asking my 4-year old to sit still and learn the ins and outs of ductless AC units obviously wasn't going to happen. He quickly took to running around the store, whizzing in and out of washers, refrigerators and automatic...
Today is the birthday of Samuel Johnson (born 1709). Over on Anecdotal Evidence, Patrick Kurp marks the occasion with a piece on various translations of one of Johnson's Latin verses, a memory of swimming in the waters of Stowe Pool in Lichfield, a 'meditation on memory, time's bittersweet passing, and lost youth'....
Today I came across a cover of You Are The Reason and that unlocked my memory, I had totally forgot that years ago I used to listened to Calum Scott "Only Human" album a lot. Like I said before, I like to watch music reality shows, and in part was because of Calum. I remember he was one of the singers I stared to...
Doing those CMS updates. Updating Ubuntu on the server. Upgrading your PHP version. Upgrading the database. Getting rid of deprecation notices. Making sure all backups are running as they should. No stuck queues, no stopped daemons or cron jobs. Deployments still running smoothly. Its boring work, but I think it's...
I am cheating; the them for SuperWendy’s TBR Challenge for September is “lush life”. Now, things can be lush in the sense of glorious or blooming or abundant or luxurious, but I first encountered the word (as an adult ESL learner) to mean ‘someone who’s habitually drunk’–which fits Judith Potts to a T. So while the...
A couple weeks ago I got an email from a guy named Oleh, mentioning that they added me to a new website/project called Pixel Area, it is a 100x100 field of pixels, each of which can link to the blog or personal website of whoever claims it first. My spider senses tingled, because the email’s writing felt cold and...
The alert looked ordinary for about five seconds.An endpoint protection product had detected and quarantined an executable named WindowsUpdate.exe. The name was suspicious but not especially creative. The path was what changed the investigation:C:\Users\<user>\Documents\ScreenConnect\Temp\WindowsUpdate.exeThis...
The races are long and overtaking, rare. Formula 1? No, I’m talking about the Snail racing simulator. Choose yours, cheer it, and hope for the best. (The website reports that the slug race is a “genuine sport” popular in Britain.)
In Mason Curry's Substack, he talked about a recent interview with fashion designer Colm Tóibín. In the interview, Tóibín talks about a secret recipe for endless creative energy recommended to him by filmmaker Pedro Almodovar: "Yeah, he told me that this thing really worked. I think he was talking about actors. That...
Back in college I wrote The Mathematics Behind "Ride the Bus", detailing the mathematics behind expected drinking while playing a game of luck skill where someone deals a card off the top of a shuffled deck one at a time, and you have to answer four questions about the next card: get one wrong, and you go back to...
“Lay hold of to-day’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing… is ours, except time.” “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her abiding insistence on choosing presence over productivity. But how...
September 2026. Headcorn. Kent. Only an hour in Headcorn, strategically tucked between Ashford, Maidstone, and Mrs RM (and Shane MacGowan’s) birthplace in Pembury. An hour is enough to visit the White Hart, walk the length of both sides of the High Street, and diligently bring your readers views of the Church Walk...
I added a “copy to clipboard” button to my site’s code blocks back in February. It works as you’d expect, except for one detail. Instead of the usual icon or color change to communicate when the copy succeeds, it mimics those tear-off tabs you sometimes see on paper flyers stuck to telephone poles and bulletin...
There's a cool new site doing the rounds on the IndieWebosphere called Pixel Area. It's a 100x100 pixel grid where everyone can claim one pixel. I also noticed the grid has different neighborhoods like Cache Hollow, Vector Fields, Mosiac Commons, Echo Heights, and more. I find it pretty cool because as the inital...
Tumbleweed es una distribución de GNU/Linux «Rolling Release» o de actualización contínua. Aquí puedes estar al tanto de las últimas novedades. openSUSE Tumbleweed es la versión «rolling release» o de actualización continua de la distribución de GNU/Linux openSUSE. Hagamos un repaso a las novedades que han llegado...
“Artificial” things can get a bad rap next to their counterparts, but they have their place. For example, artificial light (i.e. not from the sun)? Super useful, especially at night. And when it comes to skiing, I’ll take artificial snow if I have to. Beats no snow. Artificial isn’t necessarily inferior in all...
Share a song that tells a great story. So many to choose from. Tribute by Tenacious D? Hotel California by The Eagles? Jolene by Dolly Parton? Last Kiss by Pearl Jam? Disco 2000 by Pulp? But no, let’s keep it simple. Never trust a snake. “The Snake” by Al Wilson Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support...
I am Rupert Foggo McKay. I live and work in the Netherlands. I work at Odido.nl as a Principal Software Engineer. I write blog posts on esoteric topics from time to time. The Hidden Complexity of Barcodes # What is a barcode encoding? The black and white stripes are an optical encoding of a decimal number. A scanner...
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Una recopilación de 10 webs interesantes que descubrí perdiéndome un rato por la web. The Easter Egg Archive Una web con más de 1400 huevos de pascuas recopilados. No sé si se sigue actualizando, pero ahí esta. Just delete me Un directorio de enlaces directos para eliminar cuentas de servicios en la web,...
Got an email today that I was added into a cool looking project, pxlarea. Very pretty and creative way to discover some new blogs and websites in the indie/personal web! 10k pixels are available, it says, and 189 are taken at the time of writing this. You can add yourself, or be added :) My this is my pixel. You can...
A day is short, a life is longby Kevin WammerKevin talks about some of the stuff he's figured out in his life now that he's turned 35.Read post ➡ Really enjoyed this post because it's honest, level headed, and real. Since stepping down in work myself, I too have realised that good enough is...good enough. Funny,...
A little while ago, my son turned one, and we had a party. During the party, we took a big group shot of the extended family. One family member, for various reasons, did not want to be in the group photo. However, some weeks later, they apparently regretted this. No matter, they thought, and uploading that group...
What can a single musical note teach us about attention? Beginning with the sound of a gong in a Peace Stupa, this is a personal meditation on listening, silence, creativity – and the worlds that can open when we pay attention to seemingly insignificant things. The post Meditations on a Single Note appeared first on...
SEMANA 12Alimentar la vida, no el sistemaJusticia social en el campo: comer sin explotar a nadieLa mayoría de la comida barata no es barata: alguien más paga el precio. Esta frase, que puede sonar a eslogan, es en realidad una descripción bastante exacta de cómo funciona el sistema agroalimentario dominante. Cuando...
The work-first principle (“arbetslinjen”) was instituted for pretty good reason: a welfare state requires a high rate of employment to fund itself. But in the name of the work-first principle and “austerity”, that higher goal is constantly being undermined both on a primary and secondary level. On a primary level...
It's getting on for six years now since I got my first VR headset, and it's the best part of five years since I sorted myself with a PCVR setup. Between then and now I've played a lot of VR games and spent a lot of time in VR. This last year, though, aside from a quick dabble with the PS5 version of Zero Caliber,...
Would you believe this humble blog has gotten enough eyes on it now to receive guest posts? Me neither! Today's special is brought to us by wildweasel of Golfshrine fame. I've had a long history of improvisational lunches; the kind of meals one makes out of whatever's in the fridge on a quiet weekday afternoon, plus...
Depois de descobrir a banda RAY, no mesmo dia eu conheci o airattic. Graças a mesma loja e a mesma recomendação do vendedor quando eu perguntei sobre bandas de idol mas com a pegada de rock/shoegaze. O mais engraçado é que quando ele me mostrou o álbum eu achei que era um bootleg absurdo, já que mal dá pra ler o...
Some of my more interesting teaching ideas come when I get towards the end of what I have planned, and there's still a lot of class time left. Some days, I just finish. Some days I come up with something else because I've already let the class go early in the last week or two, and I don't want students to start to...
I’m talking in the context of industrial programming. A few statements I believe to be true: If you aren’t doing it hands-on, your opinion about it is very likely to be completely wrong. Being influential doesn’t automatically make you right. Talking about coding and delivering software under real constraints are...
The doges Deusdedit (742-755), Galla (755–756), Domenico Monegario (756–764), Maurizio Galbaio (764–787) and his son Giovanni (787–804), from the "Chronica per extensum descripta" (1340s) by Andrea Dandolo.
Eu adoro nobonoko, de verdade. Quando dou por mim, o YouTube já está aberto e tocando um dos seus mais variados álbuns. Sempre combina com aquelas tarefas onde você facilmente entra em estado de flow sabe? Pra quem não conhece, nobonoko (é tudo em minúsculo mesmo) é um músico, produtor e artista visual (que a uns...
I accidentally posted my IndieWeb Carnival prompt for October when changing my blog tags; only realized a couple of hours later from my RSS feed. Sorry if you get a 404 now ???? That was not the intention. I'll hit publish on September 30th.#oops Thank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
Opening with my favourite character introduction of all time, Jackson sets the tone for this odd thriller that defies expectation. Young Mary Kate Blackwood lives with her sister and uncle in the spacious family pile. The actual location and time are largely irrelevant; this book is deliberately timeless. They...
Yes! Comics! And for music, I’ve been listening to my albums chronologically on and off for almost a year now — starting with the late 60s, and I’m now up to 1993, I think… It’s kinda fascinating how certain years were more or less exciting musically. 1993 is probably some kind of low point? At least I bought a...
I’d like to see the applications from xapp-project.org available in formats other than .deb. I understand that this project is maintained and developed by the Linux Mint team, @linuxmint@mastodon.social, but most XApp applications cannot be installed on Fedora, @fedora@fosstodon.org, for example, without compiling...
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Conservative political victories are always followed by economic misery for the conservative base, because the senior partners in the conservative coalition are the bosses who get richer by making workers poorer. Conservative rulers try to offset this with spectacular acts of cruelty against disfavored minorities,...
Hasta hace poco desconocía por completo la existencia de La Netiqueta. Fue en «El Blog de Lázaro» donde descubrí este concepto y, cuanto más leía sobre él, más interesante me parecía. Creo que son unas normas que merece la pena conocer y compartir, por eso he querido dedicarle este artículo. InterneFuente: Tecno y...
Green Lake 4 U 💚 I wanna improve the appearance of water in-game, hence the XPM-related posts covering me trying things. Trying to improve performance has been iterative. #rasdFastwalkerLeague View on Bluesky
Just finished testing the gain levels on the H1n. It's very good at grabbing everything around it, which will work great when filming the boiling water and such. The current mic I am using is a mini boom mic connected to my phone to get targeted sound. The only issue is that it's mono and not ultra amazing....
The big oak tree in my garden is bullying me. Every time I rake up the leaves, I turn around to put them in the compost, and boom! New heap. To add insult to injury, it sometimes dumps leaves on my head while I clear away the old ones. And every time I can hear it laugh like a maniac. It keeps coming up with new...
I shaved my hair and beard ten days ago. But I have to do it again, which is too much work. Here is the publication from ten days ago: I left the eyebrows. And here is another picture of it. So I might let it all grow again!
The funny thing about trees is that the more they spread their leaves, the deeper their roots seep. I came up with that line last night, and I had to do a cliché-check to see if anyone had already said it. There was some African motivational speaker who already said something like that, but with a slightly cleaner...