Mon Oct 19
La violencia agarra vuelo y no se detiene como tirar una piedra colina abajo hasta un tropiezo accidental lo empieza, una dolorosa caída. Es así de natural porque lo redondo rueda los golpes asustan al corazón y el pestañeo instintivo es devolverlo todo. Porque lo redondo rueda la piedra no parará en la primera...
It's an acronym I was not familiar with until recently: NIMBY -- Not In My Back Yard. Last year I was visiting a vineyard in southern England. Yes, the South of England temperature spectrum is warming to support serious grape growing. During the tour of the estate we were shown extensive vineyards, beautifully...
Heya! I just read this post by Dr. Glowcat, and I have some thoughts to share. First of all, I don't like AI. I feel like that's obvious if you take a look at my blog, but I just want to mention it here again, in case this is anyone's first time reading my stuff. Still, I think what the Linux Kernel Team is doing...
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19 Confused | INDEX | 21 Hero 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.
Formes des luttes (Formas de Lucha) es una herramienta colaborativa que permite a diseñadores gráficos, artistas e ilustradores participar en la lucha a través de medios visuales. El colectivo nació a finales de 2019 durante las primeras movilizaciones por la reforma de las pensiones bajo el mandato de Macron,...
Andrej hat da etwas aufgeschrieben, und ich finde, dass jeder lesen sollte, was Andrej da aufgeschrieben hat. Also, wenn es nach mir ginge. Aber wann tut es das schon? Wo fängt Heimat an, wo hört sie auf, wo war sie nie Es ist ein bemerkenswert ehrlicher Text eines Russlanddeutschen über Identität und die...
Beware: spoilers for a couple of minor plot holes, a twist that annoyed me, and potential queerbaiting. Since I first saw the trailer below 1, I wanted this movie to do really, really well. Women! Working together! Pulling off a complicated, high class heist! What on Earth is there not to like? I have watched this...
When do we determine when to speak up and when to let sleeping dogs lie? When is it itching for an argument? And when is dealing with conflict honestly and productively?
I was asked about my opinion on the violent protests in France. I do not cover day-to-day events because the details seldom are necessary for my theoretical insights. What follows is a general view on political violence, governance, and reform. Political violence as a tool Violence is a tool. It can be used by the...
Opening up about my screen addiction on Manual in May drew a strong response. Among the many comments and emails I received, one message from a reader, R., stood out. A software developer, she related to my story. She said what saves her is “sort of hating technology.” I’ve been thinking about it ever since I read...
I hate seeing the lake like this. 📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR 🎞️ 55 mm focal length – 1/500″ at f/8 – ISO 1250 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and...
Inspired by Matthias Pfefferle, I also just implemented JS-based rendering for the sitemap.xml, which was using XLST until recently. XLST broke when I made the Content-Security-Policy in GoBlog more restrictive. Given XLST is deprecated anyway, I switched to CSS, but that’s more limited. JS-based rendering works...
The Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence. Photograph by the author. I’ve recently returned from a week’s holiday in Florence, a much-needed recharge for me, both artistically and to remedy my exhaustion from my day job. I have visited Florence before, but that was back when I was eighteen-years-old doing my A-Level Art....
The origins of my CPTSD have been one of the most heartbreaking things I've talked about in therapy this year. I've been going to therapy for almost a decade, on and off and with different therapists, and I'd never had the courage to talk about it as openly and brutally as I have now. Needless to say, it's been...
The five Lisbon girls are impossibly beautiful angels, adored by the local boys, raised by an overbearing mother and a weak father in the affluent suburb of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, in the summer of 1975. The historical context is important when reading the novel, and will explain some of the language and the...
My perhaps strangest confession to date: I’m annoyed about all the common ways people obfuscate text. I think I developed this frustration during the GUIdebook times. In my gallery of splash screens, I would often be faced with this situation: I didn’t want to propagate the registration info, and could think of a...
Any weird things going on in your home lately, H.C.?I’m continuously clearing black gunk out of my bathroom sink, but it keeps coming back, almost immediately. I suspect it’s evolving.If you had to use a word that was not a color to describe how the portal looked, what comes to mind?Radiant, and blindingly so. Or,...
I started in week 40 with writing a list of five good things for each week, inspired by the #3goodthings I post almost every day (I want every day, but sometimes I forget hehehe) Then I jumped in to write this post just now, and wrote joyful instead of good, and thought to myself: that’s pretty on-brand for me, as I...
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ― Mahatma Gandhi #100DaysToOffload (No. 180) #prayer #faith #quotes
Dessa vez eu vou fazer um pouco diferente e vou deixar as minhas impressões das faixas primeiro e depois as considerações finais pra fazer um pouco mais de sentido o que eu quero escrever sobre esse album novo das NMIXX. Birthday Wish Apesar de não ser tão fã da narração no começo, mas tirando isso essa música me...
From afar, the R train subway entrance at the northwest corner 77th Street and Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge doesn’t warrant a second glance. It looks like any other street-level entryway, with the Helvetica signage, the concrete staircase, and the no-slip step tread at the top of the stairs. But look closer, and some...
We have reached the "lawns" unit in the Master Gardener certification class I am taking, and I am only half joking when I say I should ask if I can skip this unit on religious grounds. My religious/spiritual beliefs are pretty amorphous, but I have one opinion approaching dogma, and it is: Turfgrass lawns are an...
The less said about the week leading up to the weekend, the better. Things did massively improve once Saturday was around. A lot of good company, food and drink, what more does one need? (Maybe a coffee. I just got up. And that’s why this one is very short.) Reply by email
We have been in a stretch of perfect autumnal weather: chilly nights, clear days, before the time change so we still have plenty of time to enjoy this perfect October time. As I drove down the Cumberland Highway on Saturday, I was struck by how many small towns had piled pumpkins around the "Welcome to ______ "...
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the University of Toronto have launched new initiatives to support and focus philosophical research on various aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). Eduardo Paolozzi, “Perception through Impressions” from The Conditional Probability Machine The...
Have you heard the good news? I bemoaned the approach of putting an icon in every menu item by default which shipped with macOS Tahoe — but now it’s gone in Golden Gate! John Gruber wrote about this reversion back in June, including the fact that Apple’s new Human Interface Guidelines specifically call out Tahoe’s...
“All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms.” “God is Change,” Octavia Butler wrote, channeling in poetic truth the fundamental scientific fact of the universe. We know this. And yet to be human is to long for constancy, to crave the...
The curl project has decided to alter its vulnerability disclosure program procedure and starting October 26 2026, we insist that all vulnerability reports submitted to us that are deemed to be severity LOW or MEDIUM should instead be submitted as issues in our GitHub repository. Only vulnerabilities deemed to be...
Going all the way back to the early days of The New Leaf Journal in November 2020, I have published five articles on the subject of rotting decorative pumpkins in Brooklyn. We have so many articles on rotting pumpkins, as well as happier non-rotting pumpkins, that I created a collection page for the topic. While I...
Finalizado: 2026-10-19Los sistemas electrónicos avanzados muestran realidades alternas y personalizadas a medida del individuo usuario, creando versiones matemáticas del usuario y de su cosmovisión. › Ver más »¡Patina todo el día!
Weekly cleaning and home improvement series, with some thoughts in between. Since I barely slept on Sunday and had a rigorous day, I let myself sleep in and turned off all alarms. It's now 13:12 and I'm eating my breakfast as a type this. No matter how late I wake up, I still eat breakfast. The term comes from...
I din't know this phrase was a Japanese proverb. The first time I read it was on this card in high school. I played it in my Goku deck. It's mechanics have nothing to do with starting over, in fact it's just a counterspell that gets exiled after use. I was pulling an eBay order today when I flipped through the DBZ...
I was doing follow-up research for a previous blog post about JSON-LD when I made a typo whilst searching for a specific entity. As well as a normal search, Google also lets you search for entities by "Knowledge Graph Machine ID" - or kgmid for short. For example: the kgmid for Ethan Hawksley is /g/11m62cgdtf, and...
Hoy termina el evento del Salón Mundial del Automóvil en Paris. Un lugar donde empresas de todo el mundo presentan sus nuevos modelos de automóviles que saldrán a mercados o prototipos de estos que sirvan como base para la próxima generación. Es una puesta en escena, donde toda empresa de automóvil debería estar...
October 2026. Swalecliffe. Kent. An evening in London, then a visit to see Dad in Waterbeach, where Sunnyside is aquiring new thatch, a quick drop-in to the in-laws in Kent, then back to the coast at Rye. It never stops. And then back up to the north Kent coast to complete another section of the Beer Guide, tucked...
Well not really. It’s going on fall really so right now Siem Reap has beautiful cool mornings. Went out last night for beers. Met with bill. I had my fill. Done with barangs for a time. Now though let’s talk spring. Spring Coffee that is. Really nice and comfortable place not that far from the house. I can sit and...
The job search process can be chaotic, stressful and scary. It's easy to lose track of the progress you've made in a sea of rejection emails. As you progress through the stages, it becomes important to keep track of everyone you talked to and what you discussed. When you have multiple applications going at once, it...
An old friend, knowing my interest in such oddities, has alerted me to a wonderfully outlandish theory that seems to have attracted thousands of believers, many of them already adherents of Flat EarthTheory. It all began ten years ago, when someone in Crimea, whose account has since been deleted, posted a video on...
Creating a file with ed and a here document When it comes to creating a new file with ed and a here document, there is a difference between "GNU ed" and "ed" on BSD. This is about creating a file, so we want to edit a file that not yet exists. Creating a file with GNU ed and a here document As an example we create...
With my previous post on “using the platform”, I was surprised that the comments on Hacker News and Lobsters tended to veer toward web components. This surprised me because I didn’t mention web components at all in the post. I was less surprised when I did some research and found that the entire “use the platform”...
So if I'm currently not doing 'too much' (as per docs advice) and not writing anything at the moment, what am I doing all day? A nice mug of rooibos. It's sort of red because that's what the name means; 'red bush' . No caffeine, so safe for the old ticker.
Bigger consequences for kinetic mistakes, deploying currently in progress #rasdFastwalkerLeague View on Bluesky
I’m emerging from a few months of doing things, art workshops, childcare, days out and other such activities that are easier done than documented. It seems odd to write about this as the leaves outside are already orange and yellow and the cold weather forces me to wrap myself up thoroughly in a cardigan, but here...
Sigo vivo. Sé que llevo un mes y medio sin pasarme por aquí y sin casi actividad en Mastodon. No ha pasado nada malo, por suerte. Ya sabéis que septiembre es un mes que me resulta bastante complicado gestionar porque estoy involucrado en muchos asuntos, y aunque este año ha sido más relajado he tenido igualmente la...
Above you see the nice li’l machine that has a nice SAS card that I’m using for my /dvd RAID (that, confusingly enough, has more ripped blurays than ripped DVDs now). Here’s the major, incredibly important problem: If there’s been a power outage (for instance, because I’ve had an electrician in to do something), the...
Roshan: Roshan moved page Blog/2026-10-19/Command Palettes Are A Fantastic UI Affordance to Blog/2026-10-19/Command Palettes Offer A Fantastic UI Affordance: Fix usage of 'affordance' [[File:{{#setmainimage:Screenshot_-_Example_Command_Palette_from_Roshan's_Task_Manager.jpg}}|thumb]] A command palette is a type of...
Listeners of ABC Radio National recently voted Cloudstreet, the 1991 novel by Fremantle based Australian author Tim Winton, to the top spot in the Top 100 Australian Books poll. Cloudstreet won a number of literary awards, including the 1992 Miles Franklin prize for Australian literature, and went on to be adapted...