Wed Oct 28
A brief moment during storm Boelo. Taken from the top of the Yorkshire Dales as the storm passed through.
If a person has a blog and does not write a post about blogging every few months, can that person call themselves a blogger?Yes. Of course. Meta posts are annoying to most people.Anyway, here we go. Meta post begins...now!I changed things... againThe ship was on course. Calm seas and clear skies ahead. Things got a...
Every year in October one part of my extended family has a big gathering at one of my uncle’s homes. And over the years, a certain routine in running that event has emerged – everyone has their role and by now it is a well oiled machine. Being one of the cousins I’m part of the group of people who move around all...
Kijk, de gemeenteraad van wassenaar heeft weer vergaderd. En zo kun je dat leuk visualiseren.Op dinsdag 27 oktober 2026 vergaderde de gemeenteraad van Wassenaar. De raad stemde over 7 punten. Bij 4 punten was de raad verdeeld. Er waren 6 moties en amendementen.Hayo Bethlehem
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Do I wished I’d seen The Invite in a theater? Maybe… This is the sort of flick you want to talk about right after viewing. Alas, I can barely get to the gym with regularity, let alone the cinema. This flick works fine on a small screen though, for a few reasons… The dialog. I’d compare it to Before Sunrise with...
28 Trophy | INDEX | 30 Cookie 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.
One of my pet peeves with the web development community is that so many of the decisions we make are vibes-based. Frameworks are “blazing fast,” tools will “supercharge” your development, the right abstraction will benefit both you and your users (DX and UX all in one!). All of this breathless boasting is usually...
When we bought this fixer-upper house in Spartanburg back in early May, we thought we would spend the summer renovating it and move a truck load of belongings down here to be ready for a fall semester with less commuting back and forth to Arden. It's been a slower remodel than we expected.Last night was our first...
Violets Violet (more true to colour) this tree knows how to do autumn colours Two leaves from the tree in the previous picture The leaves on my hibiscus are turning yellow. All pics taken with the hipstamatic app
Clouds reflected in Osawa Pond at Daikaku-ji Temple, and cherry leaves turning red. 大覚寺の大沢池に映る雲と、赤く色づいた桜の葉。
A team of researchers conducted a three-year study of philosophers’ judgments about the philosophical capabilities of generative artificial intelligence. Their finding: “As participants became more familiar with generative AI and increasingly recognized its formal competence, they simultaneously sharpened the...
When Ali G discovers that his long-term girlfriend is 8 months pregnant, he ends his 20 year nap and heads to America to reclaim his former glory and earn some “cashmoney”. This turns out to be far from the formality he expected. Wicked! Wicked! The movie changed into a mockumentary and it tries to feel realistic,...
Quoted Sumo: 33-yr-old Churanoumi becomes 1st komusubi from Okinawa Pref. by Mainichi (The Mainichi) Churanoumi became the first wrestler from Okinawa Prefecture to reach the three "sanyaku" ranks below yokozuna on Monday after he rose to komusubi in the latest rankings announced ahead of the Kyushu Grand Sumo...
For the past few weeks I have been engaged in the production of Halloween costumes for my nephews. Their outfit choices: a hurricane, and a QT (Quick Trip) Robot Vacuum. This endeavor has been challenging for a few reasons. First, these are not the type of costumes you will find at a Spirit Halloween store. And...
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Another useless AI rant, me screaming into the void, feel free to ignore. When we see someone brandishing a knife, we tend to go "They have a weapon." Then they use it to cut a rope or open a letter. Or just cut some bread. Then we go "It's a tool." When we see someone holding a firearm, we immediately go "They have...
The idea of a Linux smartphone has been simmering for several years. There have been a few obstacles along the path, but such a device is somewhat more possible now, than previously. To fly, the l-Phone — could I use that name? — would need to meet the expectations of smartphones users, particularly in regards to...
Media GuideAaaaaand we are back! The last two months have been a bit hectic at Foofaraw HQ with a print edition of the September magazine, a new novelette, and our Best of 2025 anthology all rolling out at once plus many WIP things we can't wait to roll out. While we did miss talking about a couple things like War...
I don’t know if there is officially a cozy solarpunk speculative cli-fi category, but Becky Chambers "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" would certainly be the best read to have on that shelf. #books #bookstodon #indiewebbookclub
Half social network, half relaxing practice, the daily challenge on this site is to pile virtual stones according to the proposed theme. There is a gallery with other people’s works.
Believe it or not, there is a World Satire Day (or rather World Day of Satire), inaugurated in Nigeria in 2019 and, I think it's fair to say, not very widely observed. Its date, November 9th, seems to have been chosen for no particular reason. Today, October 28th, would be a much better candidate, as it is both the...
Title: Ascension Author: Nicholas Binge Published: 2023 Format Read: Hardcover An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to explain its existence. When Harold Tunmore, a scientist of mysterious phenomena, is...
I have published many articles featuring Halloween decorations in Brooklyn over the years. The first was The Happy Halloween Ghost, published on October 18, 2020. In that article, I documented a friendly-looking inflatable ghost decoration holding a Jack-’o-lantern in Brooklyn Heights. The photo itself was...
(It’s Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories. After this and this, the post below feels like a third story in an accidental “angry rectangle” trilogy.) If you used Windows in the 1990s or 2000s, it’s likely you’ve seen this effect, which today we’d call a “glitch”: The reason...
This “weeknote” is another 2.5 weeks late. I might as well change to monthly recaps if I keep missing the streak… 🫣 Anyhow, this covers the period from Oct 14 to Oct 27. Going Out More§I went out more than usual in the last two weeks to attend a few events in town. It was nice enjoying some of my other hobbies...
Back on Monday, I finally received some lens inserts for my Steam Frame. I originally registered my interest in getting some back on September 20th, got an email to say they were available for purchase on October 1st, and ordered them the same day. They finally turned up on the 26th (two days ago). Considering that...
Celebrating Halloween with my fellow queers. On Monday evening, I went to a Halloween party hosted by Luzerner Theatre. My new choir buddy, A, invited me. "If you bring a costume, you get a free shot," she wrote. The party started at 20:00. Somehow, I assumed it was a casual party so I didn't think I needed to...
Andrej Karpathy sees a widening gap in how people see LLM capabilities. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And a small sliver of professionals are experiencing the vertigo of the...
This is a quick followup to the blog post about having a dedicated li’l keyboard for doing translations. The problem is that this product category — small keyboards — is cursed. It’s not surprising, because it’s not something that the major producers are involved with much (they concentrate on actual, real...
I see where Kevin is ripping out his Fediverse support from his blog comments based on a post by Manu, and I was moved to follow suit. Like every blogger in the history of the world probably, I post on my social media accounts when I post a new blog post: that's POSSE. I was using my own version of Bridgy to check...
I love when people are passionate about things. I love it even more when people are passionate about the same thing in completely different ways. It started with Joel who is getting a little fed up seeing AI used for blog posts: Every day I am more and more annoyed by the way some of the blogs I have followed for...
Hacía tiempo que buscaba alguna solución para evitar a visitantes no esperados y me encontré con un Anubis, un firewall web, open source, que se encarga exactamente de esto. Básicamente es un proxy inverso que se coloca delante de la web, el flujo sería algo así: Visitante -> nginx -> Anubis -> la web Cuando llega...
É um pensamento que tenho com frequência e que tem feito eu reavaliar minhas escolhas profissionais. O que eu faço hoje já pode ser automatizado e eu já vi alguns exemplos disso, mas a mão de obra humana continua sendo mais barata que agentes de IA. Acredito que, em breve, esse valor irá se inverter e eu terei que...
Roshan: /* Final Implementation */ Last week, my friend Porter told me about [https://x.com/VictorTaelin Victor Taelin]'s [https://github.com/VictorTaelin/OptMem OptMem] system. The system is elegantly simple: # Append each memory to a file # Compress memories together recursively In his system, you have a fixed...
por Laura Fernández El escritor, en tanto despertador inconsciente de mentes, incorruptible y oculto visionario, observador irredento –y a veces, tan solo y sobre todo eso, alguien que no actúa, alguien que recopila–, tiene una misión en el mundo. Una misión que, demonios, poco o nada tiene que ver con uno mismo –he...
Unfortunately, it seems like my medication (for Bechterew's disease and Crohn's disease) is no longer fully working. You can even go back and read it, seeing that in almost every monthly summary post on this blog has a mention of a flare up. It all seems like one little outlier, even to me, until you see that...
To have a cat choose you for the first time is one of the greatest feelings you could have... Ten years later, and it still amazes me and warms my heart whenever Mumu is sleeping somewhere in the room, looks at me, gets up and comes to lay by my side touching my body. I also remember one of my bestie's dog. He was a...
I’m not on Firefox (I’m a Vivaldi user), but I like their browser a lot, and their latest video made me smile. Whilst I didn’t recognise all the memes (the shoes one passed me by?), it was fun to see Where the Hell is Matt, as…well…I’m in the 2012 video. I talked about it on my blog at the time where I confidently...
Lately in this little adventure of one, I’ve felt curious I guess about things back in California. It has seemed so long yet really only 4 years and some months that I was back. I left in 2022 after 3 days and following a year in Mexico. To tell the truth I almost just stayed. I loved Mexico but really it was...
Back in May of this year, I returned to the Mastodon account I'd opened when Twitter went to shit the hands of Elon Musk. I don't remember the exact date. The years around the COVID pandemic are fuzzy. I hadn't really used it before, and this time I decided to start following people other than the dead accounts from...
October 2026. Cambridge. I’d popped down to see Dad in Cambridge on Sunday, and felt sufficiently concerned to stay the night in Orchard Park‘s Travelodge, visible from the A14 if not space. Having not eaten all day I was grateful for the PLUS room with its Lavazza machines (3 double espressos please) and a couple...