Thu Oct 15
I have come to the realization that I could keep going with life as it is right now and be just fine. I have a decent job, I get to save a lot living with my parents. I get to play games and read and have most basic needs fulfilled… Most days I wake up, pray, shower, walk to the bus, play/read/listen/watch during my...
Ayer 14 de octubre de 2026 el proyecto KDE cumplía 30 años de vida. Hoy un día más se suma a esa efeméride. El tiempo no para (que decía la canción) Empiezo a escribir este artículo el día después de «la resaca» digital por las celebraciones de los 30 años de KDE, que incluyó el estreno del documental dedicado a...
It's not brand new, it just has a new theme. Everything is still there from before. I made some changes to the reviews by getting rid of sliders and making it a radar graph. The colors aren't as gross anymore. I do have some image rendering issues on the cards but that's a task for next week. Noodlist ^ Go see it.
Over the past year or so my fatigue has been getting significantly worse. It’s almost always brought about by post-exertional malaise, which is one of the keystone symptoms of ME/CFS, which has no known treatment, just mitigations at best. And the core mitigation is to not overexert oneself.This presents a problem,...
If you run transmission-daemon, the somewhat popular (in small circles) Torrent client, any website you visit can talk to it, and execute arbitrary scripts/programs on your system. Oops! The GTK and Qt GUI apps share the same bug, but they don’t enable the functionality that is required to hit this bug (by default,...
Brent Lang writing for IndieWire: With only one member of its creative team returning, Sony Pictures shied away from selling it as a sequel, but the studio still sprinkled bits of “The Social Network’s” DNA into promotional materials. The Social Reckoning, directed by Aaron Sorking, a continuation of sorts of 2010’s...
I see this topic bouncing around the blogosphere here, here and here. I don't use passkeys. I find their usage and day-to-day workflow confusing. I'm sure that's because I use a 3rd-party password manager instead of whatever thing is built into Google. Like, if I just stopped resisting and let Google take that part...
“A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is a mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.” “To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control,” philosopher Martha Nussbaum...
curl started out GPL licensed, as direct inheritance from its httpget days, but in October 1998 we switched to the Mozilla Public License (MPL). In 2001, we added the MIT license as an additional license to optionally use in addition to MPL. We made curl dual licensed because clearly the MPL license caused problems...
Friends and readers: I have cancer. The type of cancer is not yet fully confirmed, but all signs point toward kidney cancer that has spread to my hips, back, and pleura. On the bright side, all my blood tests so far are normal, suggesting that the cancer is moving slowly, which is typical of kidney cancers. There is...
I thought I could relax. My next book, The Demon's Peace, releases on 27 October. Then I showed the cover to people, and they hated it. They hought it looked like a romance novel, when it’s anything but. Here's the old one: I commissioned a new cover with a dark fantasy focus. Darkness, I emphasized. People must be...
Alongside generally approved backpedals and tweaks to Liquid Glass, the ‘27 cycle of OS releases from Apple brought about some newer, more curious appearances of the material. Glass has never been this liquid, they say.I want to examine some of these new forms and see if they achieve what Liquid Glass purportedly...
I just finished adding AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md to each of my Emacs packages. I copied the files from the emacs.git trunk. Those files inform LLMs about the project’s policy to reject LLM-generated contributions. The reason for this change is that (i) I have assigned copyright to the Free Software Foundation, (ii)...
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I listened to a couple episodes of the Catholic Answers Live podcast on the topic of prayer and a few things stood out to me. I should preface these notes by saying I feel I have struggled with prayer most of my life, especially as I have gotten older. Latter-day Saints believe in praying “from the heart,” as in no...
The inspiration behind AT Kyrios, the process of making it, and what makes it unique.I'm obviously a giant fan of both Kyrios and ArrowType given Kyrios is all over this site as both our wordmark and headers. So it was a ton of fun to learn about Stephen's process from start to finish, especially the photos of the...
Superoptimization is the process where a compiler automatically finds the optimal sequence for a loop-free sequence of instructions. – Wikipedia Compilers are good at making mechanical transformations that make code faster. Unfortunately, most of them are not as good at non-trivial reasoning, so they can’t invent a...
This can sound stupid, but I’ve only recently learned how to insert PDF files on a web page; see, I’m from the generation that suffered the dreaded Adobe Acrobat thing, and also ActiveX controls, and if you don’t know what these are, well, ask your grandpa but don’t make him cry too much. So say you have a PDF you’d...
October 2026. Rye. You left us at the Winery in Rye‘s Rock Channel Quay, contemplating the merits of grape after grain, and wondering what the Martello development flats by the river sell for. Time to get back to the caravan and the blogs; Rye Harbour really is a writer’s retreat. The Number 313 trots back and forth...
When software meets hardware, engineering principles remain largely the same, but the sensible defaults often change. Kuldeep Singh describes our experience modernizing a large IoT fleet of battery-powered sensors. Our familiar principles remained important; what changed was how we applied them. These practices...
Tickling my son, chasing my son, generally just being silly with my son, illicits his laugh and my heart swells with joy and love. The back and forth banter between my wife and I. Pronouncing bagel BAHgel. Mash Potato. Coffee at the perfect temperature, not too hot to scald, but hot enough to feel going down....
1. Distract YourselfDoug did just about anything he could to avoid thinking about the giant interdimensional hole in his living room. He tried mediation, pottery, weight lifting, even tai chi. His therapist told him the hole didn’t exist. Doug generally agreed, but found that position harder to maintain when an...
Reservando su identidad bajo el seudónimo jInversor, el cual era también su nombre de blog, escribía sobre inversiones y hacker ético pero lo que más me gustaba era su mirada cínica, directa, cruda y realista sobre la sociedad en la vida real y la digital. Era un blog personal. Qué ridículo que hoy en día, somos la...
Last night over dinner, my TEEM cohort exchanged notes over how tired we are. This onground intensive is, indeed, intense. We eat breakfast at the hotel, head over to the Synod office meeting space, and we're meeting from 8 until 4 or 5, depending on how long we took for lunch. Lunch is brought in, and we try to be...
15 Hooray | INDEX | 17 Contraption Self-imposed constraint: Use the letters of the prompt word inside a 2-inch square to illustrate its meaning. Hongdian Black Forest fountain pen, EF, black ink on 120 gsm paper.
In the 1990s, users of some Unix-based operating systems would sometimes see a peculiar error. It happened occasionally when sending an email to a person you might have already sent email to before, and in addition to the error being confusing, the message itself was particularly bewildering. Let’s say you wanted to...
There's a link below to a project where someone wrote a game for the display of an old Nokia phone. These displays are really easy to interface with from an Arduino, and there are libraries available to communicate with them. I remember 20 years ago when I was still in university I bought an old Nokia 5110 because I...
I felt like writing a fun post and then I was storing away my pens and I had the idea, also perfect because I have this on both my blog post list and on my slashpages list :) This is the contents of my pencil case, satisfyingly knolled. I have these things with me at all times for two purposes: paper planning and...
Una de las cosas que recuerdo pedir más para navidad fue el Scrabble, no sé de donde me salió el entusiasmo por el juego, no tenía conocidos ni amigos que lo jugaran (y ahora que lo pienso, tiene sentido, los niños de 10 años usualmente no juegan Scrabble), aquí los juegos de mesa más populares familiares son la...
Ah, ik denk dat het CSR rapport wat negatief uitviel, en ze nu gewoon tot einde jaar co2 credits willen sparen. Stop die hele bezorgservice maar gewoon.Vanmiddag werd bekend dat de winkels wel weer bevoorraad kunnen worden, na de hackaanval of poging daartoe van afgelopen weekend.nos.nl
youtube • video ID: rUd2diUWDyIclick image to load player Ты меня обворожила, Погулять с собою предложила. Я бы взял копилку и разбил, И тебя в парк отдыха сводил. I was charmed by you, You offered me to go on a date with you. I would have smashed my money jar, And would have taken you to a recreation park. This...
Se tiene que morir mucha gente es una comedia española de Movistar Plus+ creada y escrita por Victoria Martín. La historia de esta serie es bastante curiosa. Su creadora, escribió un guion en 2017, pero ninguna productora quiso realizarla. Aprovechando la historia publicó un libro en 2022 y entonces, dado el éxito...
Postcard: guess what I'm knitting This is one of my postcards: short, handwritten messages—from me to you. Thank you for reading this via RSS! View this article on my website. Replies: E-mail / Fediverse / Webmention
We have this sign painted on a wall in our office in Johannesburg. Every time I walk past it, my inner radio sings “brings people together” in the voice of George Michael, adding “…it’s just a matter of tiiiiime.” After getting home from Cairo on Thursday night, I had just two nights at home before heading back to...
From Arashiyama mountain we can see the city in the distance. At left is Mt. Hiei across the city, below is the Oigawa River. Taken from Daihikaku Senkoji temple. 嵐山から、遠くに街並みが見える。左手には、街並みの向こうに比叡山が見え、眼下には大堰川が流れている。大悲閣千光寺から撮影した。
Why Teach Philosophy is a new series of interviews with philosophers known for their teaching, their research on philosophy pedagogy, or their work on curriculum design. Created by Russell Marcus, professor of philosophy at Hamilton College, the interviews, he says, are “an offshoot of a larger research project...
2026-10-15Hello! I haven't made a good landscape photo in a while.My bread and butter of photography seems to be a documenting process, photographing people or things that I see around me. Sometimes, I get to tap into the creative process a little deeper.I've employed three tricks to make this image's effect stand...
Sorry I’ve been quiet, life got in the way. I enjoyed Ross’ post entitled “The Search for Joy“, it’s been roughly where my head has been, trying to find a meaning. Life can feel real hectic at the moment, where you’re trying to run to stay still. This is especially true as a business owner, as you’re batting away AI...
Lately been back to playing with the website a bit. I’ve wanted to try out some css changes so luckily I can run the local development server first that lets me see how things will look. If I add some functionality it helps find issues. One of the things I want to add are notes. I think of them as shorter little...
A month ago, I wondered idly whether translation gadgets (for quick word lookup) exist, and while everybody said “just use your phone, dumbo”, that’s just too sensible for me. And way too inefficient. So while I pondered what to do about it, I bought some keyboards to see whether that could be the solution. Small...
I watched the Social Reckoning. I thought it was pretty good, but it quadrupled my dislike of Meta, which was pretty freakin’ high on the dislike scale already.Historians will look back on the social media age with horror.
This is my reply to Jame’s Food Questions Challenge🧑🍳 A good pause from writing my story (clarifying my lack of posts this months). I almost never use pictures on my posts, this time it is a must! All images are from google. What was your favourite food growing up? I was a very picky kid. As any picky kid, my diet...
From where I sit, figuring out what to build, building it, and shipping it are all part of the art of making software. Many disciplines have emerged through the years to facilitate this work: product, design, engineering, devops, etc. We need all these disciplines to make great, dependable software (granted, in...
El fin de semana pasado fuimos a Diepholzer Moorniederung, allá en Baja Sajonia, en el norte de Alemania. Un sitio dejado de todo. Fue además un viaje improvisado: la reserva del AirBnB quedó confirmada el mismo viernes por la mañana, y nos íbamos por la tarde. Y, ¿por qué? Pues porque se me antojó que quería ver...
Roshan: Wikipen [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screencast_-_Bitwarden_client_vs._chopped_down_client.mov}}|thumb|Bitwarden is slow now that they migrated to Angular or React or something else - but you needn't go along with that]] My favourite thing about modern LLM-assisted development is how fast you can make software. In...
This post convinced me to go a step further with the videos I saved! Laura is right, the internet (especially anything Google has it's hands on) isn't forever. I liked keeping them in Anytype1 for tagging and notetaking, but this is the perfect opportunity for making more use out of my pocket notebooks. It's easy to...
Anthropic ha appena aggiornato la propria usage policy e, dal 12 novembre, vieterà comportamenti abusivi e crudeli, prolungati e privi di scopo, nei confronti dei suoi modelli. L’IA non può più essere trattata male, ma la possibilità che sia l’IA a trattare male il sottoscritto inquieta, e non poco. Nel tentativo di...
I try to avoid writing about AI when I can because I know all of us are already drowning in it. Stick with me here, because there is a point to this and something I want you to take away that’s not just AI doomerism. If you want one thing to blame for this post of mine, I suppose it would be Epic Games going “all...
Read on the website: Scheme is fun and pretty! It could be even more perfect, and that’s what I explore in this post.