Fri Oct 16
The GNOME Foundation seems to be ...kind of a train wreck. And that makes me sad because it represents such a vibrant group of people who make cool shit and give it away for free. Every time I stop by the GNOME forums I come away grimacing. The community always seems to be in some state of discontent. One day it's...
October 2026. London. We’re based in Rye for Autumn, though it feels like Summer, with me whizzing up and down the road and rails to see Dad and keep up with the post (mainly about Powers of Attorney, inevitably). We stayed in Whittlesford just north of Cambridge, with a fast enough line into Liverpool Street from...
OverviewRemote-support appliances, VPN gateways, firewalls, email security, document collaboration, Windows, backup software, refrigeration controls, and the advertising supply chain all failed in ways that turned trusted infrastructure into an attack path this week. Most of these incidents did not begin on an...
A few days ago, Allison Sheridan wrote a very persuasive article about using TextEdit, the “unsung hero of macOS,” as a simple word processor. I’ve been trying it out and… I’m going to stick with Pages. Let me explain why. First, you should know that I almost never use a word processor. The overwhelming majority of...
A song that you discovered in an unusual way. Ahhhh illegal music, downloading MP3s galore, Napster, Limewire, WinAmp. I had more music than I could ever listen too, most of it still on an old iPod. I download all sorts. Compilations made up by others were a favourite, 20 tracks, all random and it was in one of...
A bit different from what I usually write, but I thought it would be nice to break format for a bit. What was your favourite food growing up? Food can be a bit vague so I'll talk about my favourite sweet growing up, because I can remember that extremely fondly. There's a bit of a niche sweet called Boondi. Boondi is...
The last vacation made me want a better camera than the one in my phone. Especially one with a telephoto lens, so I could take pictures of animals from a safe distance. Today we were at a wildlife park and I was able to take some portraits of some residents with the camera I bought. Here are my favorites, all...
https://k.sosnierz.me/08-11-24/ Making an 88x31 book-button using ImageMagick
I reread Stephen King's Carrie last night, because I last read it when I was nine, and mostly what I remembered was the false bill of goods it provided on the wonders of puberty. (Still waiting for my telekinetic powers....) This morning I am shelving books, minding my business, when suddenly I get...
The new giant ad screens are up now (It’s called Metrovision) and they are also incredibly bright. So that’s the silver lining, I thought it was gonna be hard to look away from them but I can’t even look at them, they’re too bright. They’re everywhere in both directions so it’s not possible to look away from them...
France Statistiques Projections macroéconomiques de la Banque de France - Publication trimestrielle Cette projection partage une prévision à deux ans des indicateurs suivants : croissance du PIB annuel inflation taux de chômage évolution du pouvoir d’achat des ménages croissance de l’investissement des entreprises...
There is a scene in the movie Hurt Locker, where Jeremy Renner's character, Seargeant William James discovers an improvised explosive device in a Baghdad road. He locates a wire and begins tracing it to it's destination, brushing away dirt until he exposes the tip of a buried mortar shell. Sgt. James then retraces...
I finally got to see Sting live. Most artists of his vintage would tour with a bigger band and have other players cover much of their instrumental parts. Not Sting! Three-piece band, all the amazing bass playing was Sting’s, and I’m not sure how he has kept his voice so good. Much like Peter Gabriel on the latter...
«Que 20 años no es nada» como dice el tango habría que verlo bien. A unos pocos días de empezar este curso empecé a pensar que justo 20 son los años que llevo en esto de la educación. No diría yo en este sentido que han sido nada. Fue un lejano primero de septiembre de 2006 cuando crucé la puerta de mi primer...
In the last few years AI image generation has gone from something very rudimentary and nigh-on unusable for commercial purposes to the go-to option for small businesses' signs and menus from SF to Rome—this sucks. Somehow, as the models have gotten better, they've left something behind. I find myself thinking more...
I set my terminal’s font to Iosevka this morning after skimming this thread on HN. My old terminal font — JetBrains Mono, Ghostty’s default — was good. Now it’s Iosevka. I tried Iosevka before but didn’t bond with it, and now I’m trying it again. I tried some new color schemes recently. Everforest, Catppuccin. My...
Puking out some feelings. Yesterday I had my first session with a pelvic floor therapist. Without getting into too much detail, my "homework" has been to buy a toilet stool and to learn how to relax. Apparently, I have a strong pelvic floor but there's so much tension that my muscles are exhausted and slow to...
16 Gangly | INDEX | 18 Flightless 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.
Derek G.Glendale, CA★★☆☆☆ March 30, 2024 | 11:54 PMtook my girlfriend to cheesecake factory tonight for our 2 year anniversary cause it’s her favorite and i was trying to make it a thing even though she’s been all moody lately. we got the buffalo blasts and 2 vodka sodas to start. she ordered her usual chicken...
Sorry if you received a copy of the previous Weeknotes a second time by email. That issue is fixed. I turned 51 this week. It was an unremarkable flipping of the calendar other than it was near 90 degrees in mid-October. It’s surreal when it gets this warm in the autumn because it feels like summer but no birds are...
I've been working all month on the story for the Indie Web Fiction carnival, which I am hosting, but the plot got so good, that I am on draft 4... I hope to finish by the last day of October even if I do not revise it; I reserve the right to change it after a month when I actually revise... it might be too long to...
This is an entry from my journal. The gist is to not lose hope but also to become more decisive in finding our people. I was talking to a friend the other day. He is handsome, smart, highly educated, and has a family with kids. He basically checks all the boxes of a successful man. Advances in AI have made many,...
It’s a Saturday morning. Been playing with how I want to do a notes collection in 11ty. Have a few possibilities. I don’t like actually doing the work in the mornings. I like puttering around in the diary and then starting this instead. All the other stuff is meant for after I walk and do coffee. That time is coming...
I see that today is Oscar Wilde's birthday (born 1854). Here is something I wrote some years ago about him – or rather about an altogether extraordinary Max Beerbohm essay, 'A Peep into the Past'...'Browsing my overcrowded bookshelves with a view to some thinning out, I came across a collection of previously...
Hace bastante tiempo, al parecer ya por el 2022 o mucho antes. había comprado este pequeño aparatito con el fin de hacer experimentos. En realidad es bastante más útil de lo que parece y tiene una calidad increíble. Si bien compré este aparatito en Banggood, es mas fácil localizar información sobre el en Amazon. de...
I think we had a discounted membership through work when my wife and I were first married (over two decades ago) but we rarely, if ever used it and let it lapse. But last Saturday we got a Costco membership. The primary reason? Protein powder. When our town finally got a Costco warehouse a few years ago, everyone...
It was my birthday week. I took the day off and didn’t do much. Anju took me to Mai Mai on MG Road. I loved the food. I also liked that we could sit outside. It’s rarely possible in Bangalore these days. It’s become so dusty. We went out for dinner the night before at Bombay Brasserie, Orion Mall. I’m glad the young...
The Holy Trinity of Male Hotness pic.twitter.com/P5oihkWlSf— 𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙙𝙚 (@desirecode_) October 14, 2026 What the list cannot see A clip went around this month: the holy trinity of male hotness is emotional intelligence, physical attractiveness, and money. Hotness is a word for what you can tell from across a room,...
In der Sendung Corso vom 16. Oktober ging es um Videospielmashups und -reimplementierungen, die mithilfe von “KI” erstellt werden. Ich konnte ein paar Gedanken beisteuern dazu, darauf verweisen, dass einige der Erzählungen vielleicht nicht ganz so sind wie dargestellt und auch darauf, dass hier natürlich auch...
Eu gosto muito de ver filmes, eu devo ter herdado isso da minha mãe que, se eu gosto de ver filmes, ela é uma máquina de assistir. Desde que eu me tenho por gente, eu tenho memórias dela assistindo alguns filmes todo fim de semana e eu meio que comecei a acompanhar ela nessas sessões de filme desde criança. O tempo...
I’ve been reading some books about improvisation over the past couple of years. My interest was originally sparked by experiments with taking a more improvisational approach to tabletop roleplaying games, but the idea of applying improvisational techniques more broadly appeals to me too. The book Life Unscripted has...
Editando el borrador del post sobre el Scrabble, me dio por escribir sobre este tema algo relacionado. Amo los acertijos, los rompecabezas, puzzles, etc. Creo que lo que más despertó este interés fue cuando me regalaron un cubo Rubik, aunque desde antes disfrutaba resolver sopas de letras y crucigramas. Estaba...
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I kinda fucked up by merging the line art with the paint layer but ... lets see how this goes
Esta semana tuve muchas aventuras artísticas (¡casi que una por día!). Sobre todo cinemáticas pero mi preferida fue musical. Rita Payés y Lucía FumeroUn concierto espectacular, no por una producción extravagante ni por una teatralidad desmedida, sino por el talento desbordante de estas dos mujeres cuyas voces...
A small Shinto shrine inside the Tenryuji Temple complex, as the light fades into the night. 天龍寺の境内にある小さな神社だ。薄明かりが夜に溶けていく頃。
I’ve blathered before about how hard it is to do traffic stats these days — AI scrapers run full browsers via VPNs with residential endpoints. So you can’t distinguish them from real traffic, really. I mean, none of this matters, but… One trick that really helps weed out scrapers from the stats is to just not...
I saw Wouter going mad for stickers to put on his laptop and I decided I would do the same! I have had like a couple dozen loose stickers that I got from AliExpress ages ago, some were gifts and some were included in videogames I’ve gotten, so I put a mix of eerything here and well, I’m pretty happy with how it...
Scarf and Coat Weather Means she Returns to her Perch Pretty much for as long as she's been alive, Possum has enjoyed perching on my shoulder like a parrot; when she was a kitten this was achieved by CLIMBING UP MY LEGS (hence why I usually wear motorcycle-grade denim lmfao) but in her later years she went to...
I don't know why, but Locked Up Abroad is one of my comfort shows. I've watched every episode at least twice, and since there's a whole channel for it on Roku, I sometimes just let it play all day. I'm not sure what's so appealing about it as it's literally just the same drug smuggling story told by different people...
The amount of AI generated sales emails I get these days is astonishing. If you can't be arsed to write your own sales pitch, why the fuck should I be arsed about your product? 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.
College Football is dead to me 5 years ago I wrote about my declining interest in college sports in I'm Over College Sports. For the most part that is still true, although I do relapse during March Madness. Last night, Purdue football, winners of two B1G games in a row for the first time since 2022, was on network...
I spent most daylight hours yesterday driving in torrential rains in pretty bad visibility, and I was astonished how many cars didn’t have their lights on. It looked something like this. The cars with tail lights on were somewhat visible, but the cars without them didn’t stand a chance: I read up about it, and it...
Back in early June I blogged about my summer fitness challenge. The two main goals were to lose some weight—from 89.6kg to 85.3kg, the oldest measure I had on record from late 2015—and also to get back into a better shape than I was a decade ago. The weight goal was easily quantifiable; I still have the same exact...
The Plough and Stars, a pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has begun hosting “philosophy nights”, and they’re a hit. Last month, people piled into the place for food, drink, and a talk by Agustín Rayo (MIT) on math and certainty. photo via The Plough and Stars Later this month, Helena de Bres (Wellesley) will be...
On October 7, 2026, I covered a Halloween decoration making light of the long-delayed reopening of the Carroll Gardens branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, which I had first written about all the way back in 2023 (see Halloween and the Closed Carroll Gardens Library). This Halloween decoration is a skeleton,...