Sat Sep 19
September 2026. Southborough. Kent. Southborough lies betwixt Royal Tunbridge Wells and the more earthy Tonbridge, home to one of the UK’s top beer bloggers. The views into the Weald of Kent from my in-laws house are indeed bucolic, but Southborough itself is a one street, traffic scarred town, rescued only by the...
Could the Shit Machine END WORLD HUNGER? It’s NOT IMPOSSIBLE in the most LITERAL SENSE, which is all the justification we need to invest an AMOUNT OF MONEY that would OTHERWISE BY ITSELF END ACTUAL WORLD HUNGER.I’m not sure I’ll quote a better line than this all year.
Which song would you use to introduce yourself to someone new? Has to be rock music based but with a twist. Well, that makes it easy then. “Renegades of Funk” by Rage Against the Machine Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen to Gordon McLean's Apple Music playlist View...
I didn't go to uni, let alone Oxbridge, but I know people who did and their anecdotes track with a lot of the vibe in Thompson's debut. There's a lot of lived experience throughout the book I have absolutely no hope of truly understanding — I am not a Black woman — but I find it fascinating. Obviously Thompson...
My Thinkpad arrived yesterday. :jazz-hands: I decided to go with Fedora i3 spin for my distro and desktop environment. I was trying to balance nerdiness and usability. Arch was calling me, and I may go there next. But I don’t know how much hacking time I’ll end up having on this thing, so I leaned toward a...
Here is the English translation: I have several years of Linux behind me and, over time, I've gone through enough distributions to know precisely what I want and what I don't want from the operating system I use daily. The problem is that my list of requirements is somewhat contradictory - at least at first glance....
Hello fellow bloggers, I'm long overdue an update! There are many easter eggs in the works right now, which may or may not include adopting your own desktop cat for your blog ;) So..
Title: Walking Away Website: walking-away.de RSS Feed: walking-away.de/feed Privater Hobby-Wanderblog. Selbst gelaufene Touren im Harz, auf Fernwegen, Caminos und dem Arizona Trail plus Ausrüstungstests. Nicht kommerziell. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing consider becoming a supporter for...
My story writing brain has become rusty, but I am trying to lubricate and clean the pieces for a few months now. However, when I saw James prompt for the Fiction IndieWeb Carnival, my creative soul begged me to take part. I took to writing this story with all seriousness on the matter. Having spent considerable...
Finally! After claiming TWO* pixels in Pixel Area, it inspired me to finally make a button for this blog. * X:91 Y:95 and X:92 Y:95. They are neighbors in Signal Basin.Here it is: I'll also add the button somewhere in the ABOUT section so it'll be easier to find in the future. Feel free to download it directly as I...
An excellent feature of Eleventy1 is the @11ty/eleventy-plugin-syntaxhighlight plugin, which adds build-time syntax highlighting support via PrismJS. Official support keeps 11ty sites from worrying about client-side bloat from JS-based highlighters and the common failure mode of over-including language definitions.2...
A few weeks ago, I launched Ask A Monk ([https://askamonk.online](https://askamonk.online)) and posted it on Hacker News. I honestly didn't know what to expect, but the response caught me completely off guard.In just 24 hours, the site reeled in around 10,000 visitors, pushing Vercel Web Analytics close to its free...
I recently switched from Namecheap shared hosting to Cloudflare Pages. I have two websites that are both plain text html files that I edit by hand (for now). For my needs, paying to host two plain text websites that take up a combined 300MB is a bit overkill. I also had previously pointed my nameservers from...
Participando en una discusión sobre si hay cosas que molan hoy en día en el software, las dos cosas que he mencionado han sido monotemas, claro: Gemini y Delta Chat. Lo gracioso es que he acabado conectando esos dos hilos separados. En el hilo de Delta Chat, he mencionado como apartFuente: El blog es mío
♠ Terence Eden: For years, I’ve had a test-card at the start of my slides. Before I start my talk, I can immediately see if the aspect ratio is wrong, colours are off, or any other visual issues with the presentation. In fact, it’s brilliant and simple. ∎ — § —Reply via email#serenity %commentary
Watched Forrest Gump for the first time in 20 odd years this evening. Watching it again with an adult brain...Jenny is a real bitch! 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.
sprig in a box I almost balked at writing a recap of the week. It's something I started about a month ago and even if it goes unread, it helps me be reflective. So, this afternoon I sat with our kitten (Sprig) and pulled together an overview of the past week. Last Saturday, was a challenging day, for no particular...
Roshan: Wikipen One thing I've found hard to find on the Internet is a general list of techniques that work. Usually, people provide a lot of theory, or they provide many platitudes that I cannot turn into applicable information. I will add to this as I get more. This is a stub to get started with. == Eating ==...
George Hammond and Stephen Morris, reporting for the Financial Times: OpenAI copied millions of copyrighted articles in an effort to build technology potentially worth “gazillions”, despite recognising the “existential threat” it posed to publishers, according to a new filing in a lawsuit brought by The New York...
I’ve always heard lenses being categorized as either fast or slow, with the contributing factor being maximum aperture which is how much the lens can open. The more light the lens can let in, the better. I always associated the relationship between aperture and speed with shutter speed. The more light the lens lets...
The past year has been exciting for w64devkit, which like any software distribution is never complete. Peter0x44 joined as co-maintainer, and has pushed the project in good, new directions, with ideas I would never have considered. Many of his improvements have gone back upstream, and so you may benefit even if you...
I have been watching all of the top division bouts at the 2026 Aki Basho (September Grand Sumo Tournament). One of the highlight bouts on day 4 featured Yokozuna Onosato vs Takayasu. Takayasu delivered a brutal hit at the Tachiai, forcing the Yokozuna back. Onosato backpedaled, and circling away, tried to guide...
Writing for The Guardian, Raphael Rashid comments on the degradation of local culture in a neighbourhood of Seoul, South Korea: A wave of tourists and visitors has changed the character of the Seoul neighbourhood I live in and helped create a place that no longer feels like home Raphael’s story is one that many...
Je ne sais même pas ouvrir le terminal sur VSCODE pour voir si mon code python marche et les profs me demandent de savoir faire du traitement du signal avec ce programme... Je pense que ce mois will be the death of me. Genre POV j'ai même pas ouvert le premier notebook et j'arrive pas à télécharger les PACKAGES dont...
The aftermath of falling in love as a teenage girl, mess and all. Found in the archives on a slow Saturday night as a twenty-something. 02 I don’t even know how you feel right now. I guess I’ve never really known much about you. 03 Last month I found the necklace you gave me while I was looking for another one, and...
She does actually answer to LF now(along with all of her other names) Such a box cat lol still miss our other box kitty, Ruby... and I know someone else does too..
For several months now, I’ve been fighting the impulse to write a rant about the appalling callousness on display on social media towards people with disability, especially people notionally in the U.S. (most of the random people I rub against online are names on a screen, who knows where they actually are?–or even...
I didn't have to spend too long in the Steam Frame reservation queue. I'd just sat down on the sofa, after having dinner yesterday evening, opened the MacBook to hack on some code, and had this turn up: I didn't hesitate. However, during the checkout journey, there was a glitch. I opened the email, clicked on the...
Zwischen Autonomie und Resonanz: Das Paradox des Verstecks “Es ist kein Versteck, wenn dich niemand sucht. Allerdings kann die Grenze zwischen dem Bedürfnis nach Unsichtbarkeit und dem Wunsch, vermisst zu werden, manchmal fließend sein.” Auf den ersten Blick möchte man hinter der These dieses Satzes eine...
Discovered this app called Too Good To Go, which lets you order perfectly fine food nearby restaurants would otherwise have thrown away at the end of the day. At a fraction of the price, too. So much for trying to loose weight.
For the usual reasons and maybe others, I am thinking of changing how I blog yet again. I really enjoy the writing now but I guess I tire of the whole GitHub and netlify things. It just makes steps I have to remember from the Mac to my iPhone to write. One of the things I really enjoyed before was using Pika and the...
Content warning: Mention of suicide, grooming methods, child sexual abuse. In between all the social media bans and age-verification discussions, I think back to my online time as a child. My parents' household got internet when I was about 9 years old, and we had a family computer everyone used. At age 12, I got my...
Clouds seem to have a mind of their own in autumn. I love to watch them rush by my window, and imagine what they do to the earth below if they get a chance. That grey one over there looks mean, it looks like it could just drop rain at any second. And that fluffy white one… ooh I feel some mixed emotions from that...
From 610 KONA: During an interview this morning (Friday) on 610 KONA-AM’s Mike and AJ in the Morning, Hector Cruz, Vice President for Visit Tri-Cities, announced that the Tri-Cities will host the IRONMAN race for another three years. That’s an extension of the event’s original three-year agreement, which covered...
I bought this 2005-era translation device because… because… OK, here’s the thing: Normally when I’m reading something in French, I’ve got some proper tools handy for doing translation — I’m gonna need it. But other times, like when I’m reading an English book from the 40s, there’ll be a few French phrases here and...
What is Blacksky, how did it start? When you think about community, what is the image that you picture in your head? What role does the neighbourhood play in your current practice, and how did it shape you? How do you address the tension between being rooted in a local community, continuatively participating in...
September 19 is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, as well as Software Freedom Day. There was, for the first time in a while, here in Wellington the Software Freedom Day (un)conference! Organized by OpsDev.
Some thoughts from the week AI has been on my mind this week a lot more than usual. Even for me. I've been swamped at work lately, and this week was the first time in a while that I've been able to make time to join an AI for Grant Makers Peer Group that I have previously regularly attended. As a check-in for the...
Um título assim pode parecer estranho vindo de alguém que posta mensalmente sobre música. Mas eu raramente me animo a ir ver shows. MUITO. RARAMENTE. Para efeito de comparação, se você excluir o show do flow que eu vi no Anime Friends desse ano, fazia uns 10 anos que eu não ia a nenhum show. Ou exclusivamente um...
NotesWell, this triggered quite some) reactions :))ça fait 2 mois que je traîne sur la publication d’un article long format qui pose la question : pourquoi sait-on prévoirLikesLiked: https://www.manton.org/2026/09/15/ive-been-quietly-improving-the.htmlLiked:...
About two months ago I wrote about how after 11 years I switched from wearing my Apple Watch daily to simple analog watches, primarily Timex Weekender and Timex Expedition Scout. Since then I've been reading articles and watching plenty of videos about mechanical watches, building a virtual collection of watches I'd...
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.