Sun Oct 18
We’re off on our first airplane trip in ten-ish years, so of course this is a perfect moment to make lists. I call myself a chronic listmaker, because I have to be honest with myself. I have lists in Keep for my husband and me (he’s an Android guy and hates every other app I showed him), in Obsidian for my blog and...
Computer-Casa: Making a Human-size computer case Description ≤500 words Nr. attendees Tech skills requirement Duration Tech requirement Knitting Our Internet Description ≤500 words Nr. attendees Tech skills requirement Duration Tech requirement Serverhood: Exploring neighbourhood servers and networks of sisterhood...
Because water won’t wash away pencil, and chronological order makes more sense Productivity inspiration Michael Stevens has stopped writing his analog notes with a fountain pen, in favour of pencil. Because pencil on paper won’t bleed away into oblivion should the pages get soaked, as his did. Even if the pencil...
American Chemical Society. “Forget LASIK: Safer, cheaper vision correction without lasers or incisions.” ScienceDaily, 29 September 2026. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260927034004.htm This Science Daily article caught my eye. There have been all kinds of technologies that have tried to replace PRK...
While I didn’t have as much fun with car lights, I experienced another nice motor memory moment last week when using CarPlay. During my drive, I wanted to ask the new Siri something – but as only an occasional driver, and my phone out of sight, I was puzzled as to how to actually invoke it. I did see the new Siri...
Terence Eden asking on Mastodon what people's setups look like. Here's mine - 38" ultrawide LG monitor that docks to my Framework 13, Fully standing desk, fish tank and motorbike helmets on the wall. I love my home office, but I do like heading into the office too. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace,...
A young man, Joe, whose fiance died in a homicide just few days before the wedding tries to cope up with grief and emotionally supports his parents in-law. The whole incident unfolds slowly through conversations where the trio (Joe and in-laws) go on with their lives. However, there is a secret between Joe and his...
Warning I am not a medical professional. These notes are based on personal research and personal experience. They are not intended to replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. I suffer from nocturnal bruxism. That is, at night, I excessively clench my jaw and grind my teeth. Humans have an...
October 2026. Borough. London. Last Sunday’s mini-crawl in London concludes with a walk throught Bermondsey, where I resist a detour to the Sussex Best in the Royal Oak (since I’m down in Harveys Land for a while, anyway), admire a bit of St George the Martyr and Little Dorrit, which sounds like the sort of...
I wanted to share a quick thought from the Gospel reading and homily in last night's Catholic Mass. The Pharisees once asked Jesus if it was lawful to pay taxes to Caesar (Matthew 22:15-21). Jesus responded by asking them whose image was on the Roman coin used to pay the taxes. They replied that the image was...
The garden in front of the Tekisuian tea house at Okochi Sanso, in the hills of Arashiyama. 嵐山の丘に建つ大河内山荘、茶室「適水庵」の前に広がる苔庭。
cogdogblog. CC BY 2.0 image via Wikimedia Commons. Over the past couple of years, I’ve become involved in an honor society to which I was elected in college. I’ve mused a great deal since then about the split between two assumptions, namely a) my own naive ones regarding said society’s asserted raison d’être...
The week of 12 to 18 October on social.omgmog.net had a pile of retro software running in odd places, from the first iPhone in a browser tab to PS2 games on WebGPU. There’s also some Nintendo history, a typeface and a virtual guitar.
A starting point for you to customize your own Mac setup for development and automate it for the future. I will also share my dotfiles and explain what they contain and how to customize them to your needs.
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A new, experimental feature in Ubuntu is Myna, a local speech-to-text engine. After giving it a shot, I can say it works really well, and feels native to the system. I've tried a few alternatives on Linux, and none of them have been as smooth or responsive as Myna. Everything from the on screen display as it...
My recent book AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview is free online today and tomorrow (through Oct 19, presumably UK time). I don't think the hard copy is available yet. Get it while it's free! Here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/ai-and-consciousness/E77C92088DA3C9F89E7FE7C75CBB1896
I read out loud the story I wrote and published this morning, titled Letter in a bottle. It is about me writing a letter to a friend whom I have never met. The text is available here: https://protesilaos.com/books/2026-10-19-letter-in-bottle/. 🔷 Consider making a donation.
It is an odd thing, looking back on your life, trying to recognize in the mirror of memory the people you used to be, finding them strangers: the person who kissed your first kiss, the person who drank your last drink, the person who had your best idea, the person who made your worst mistake, the person who over and...
Yesterday was a fairly easy travel day, a pleasant surprise. I decided to go the way my phone directed me, which took me across I 40, the 2 lane part that's under construction. It's much easier early in the morning going from east to west. But I focused on breathing and staying focused on the patch of pavement ahead...
12th October - 18th October Impossibly warm sun shines through a chink in the seemingly endless rain clouds, catching the wings of a flock of crows in flight –I briefly wonder if one of them is the bird I saw dive-bombing a Buzzard over the fields yesterday– and lighting the first fallen yellow leaves scattered...
We live in what is being referred to as a “post literate society” in which 40% of Americans did not read a single book last year. This is mind blowing to me, but - I can also see that with screentime (on a phone alone) being somewhere over 5 hours a day, it makes sense where most of everyone’s time is going....
Existing in 2026 means hearing all manner of AI-related discourse. I'm intensely bored of it. Wake up babe, FooAI dropped a new model; it's slightly better than the last model and marginally cheaper. BarAI release their new model the next day and it's even better. Colleagues fanatically complain that BeepBoop 6.1 is...
Lately I’ve wanted some kind of change in the things I do. How I really want to have some kind of home in words. Not words over on some social media site or wallowing in favorites and boosts. More of a place I could hold. A place I could own and feel. A start of a thing. Not just where blog posts go when I’m done....
tl,dr: me diverti demais assistindo ao filme, recomendo muito pra quem acompanha a série desde o começo e recomendo médio pra quem não acompanha o jogo. Pra ser bem sincero quando anunciaram o filme eu fiquei muito apreensivo. Fazer filme de uma das franquias mais famosas que existe é sempre complicado e quando você...
I’m going to call it. UUIDv7 is weird. Most blog posts about UUIDv7 tout these benefits: monotonically increasing IDs a helpful timestamp of when the object was created; and unguessable IDs But none of these properties are strictly held. Certain RFC compliant implementations of UUIDv7 violate these properties to...
At this point it is super clear that I probably have ME/CFS. This has not been determined by a doctor (not for lack of trying!), but by a lifetime of experience and the fact that the issues I have match the profile pretty much exactly. I’d be tempted to blame the bad case of COVID I got back in 2024 but the...
So many things have changed since the last time I posted 17 days ago. Grandma has been in the same UTI Factory since getting released from the hospital. She is set to be released on Tuesday and will finally be able to come home. I took a bit of a break from constantly updating here because it seemed like, every...
A song from the last gig you went to. I waited a long long time to see this artist live. Her Jagged Little Pill album was my era, the songs remain sharp, vivid, and bold. She set a trend that said “women can rock too” and opened doors for many current artists who now, too, headline stadiums. And that voice. Ohh my...
Comet AI es el navegador web de Perplexity. Esta empresa de IA ofrece un motor de respuestas impulsado por esta tecnología. Hace aproximadamente un año, por mediación de una oferta con PayPal pude suscribirme por 365 días. Lo he usado bastante, sobre todo ahora, me ayuda a buscar información para los artículos en...
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I finally read an article that I have in an open Tab since a couple of weeks. I procrastinated, because it was rather long (> 5500 words) and I didn’t just want to rush through it. The article is “An epochal shift The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.” […]
I’ve been meaning to write about this for ages. Today I’m reading something that is helping me crystallise the thoughts. The things that people compare LLMs and agentic software development to really bother me as they are not equivalent. People compare LLMs to the machines that brought about the industrial...
Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past few weeks. I’ve had almost no time to read comics lately… When translating/collecting works from prolific artists, publishers wisely publish the best material first. I mean, you want the people who pick up the first volumes to be impressed and keep buying. So what are we...
Republican representative Thomas Massie, from Northern Kentucky and elected to Congress in 2012, is notable for being the sole 'no' vote on many pieces of legislation, such as renewing the ban on plastic firearms and sanctioning Iran and North Korea. In other cases, he is the only 'no' from his party, or one of a...
Si seguís la web y el blog y habéis navegado un poco por él os habréis fijado en la sección de Running. Ahí voy subiendo los entrenos y carreras que voy haciendo. Ayer, como buen Domingo, decidí hacer algo de la limpieza en la estantería. Me di cuenta que tenía varias de las medallas conseguidas en las últimas...
Not the news I wanted to hear: Taika Waititi’s adaptation of Klara and the Sun, has been slammed by critics at preview screenings. The consensus seems to be the New Zealand/Aotearoa filmmaker overdid his signature whimsy bringing Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel, which I liked, to the big screen. This was something I...