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July 2026. Sheffield. Foiled in my search for a can of tomato gose (though the Neptune Black Cherry Oatmeal Stout at Hop Hideout was superb), I took the tram back towards RM Towers, wondering if I should make a rare stop at the Welly. At...
About three weeks ago, a neighbor down the street posted to a local group that she found an orange cat laying on her porch. She’d brought him in for the night, but was looking for his person. The next day, I was outside chatting with my...
July 21, 2026 I've been thinking about this a lot lately: security and privacy are often discussed as if they're the same thing, or at least on the same team. They're not. They represent two distinct concerns, and I've come to believe...
A week in Franconian Switzerland—castles, caves, and quiet trails far from the crowds. No alpine climbs, just long, green hikes through lush forests and moss-lined valleys. Underrated, peaceful, and full of surprises. Here’s our trip in...
The indispensable Michael Tsai has an interesting post up today about Apple Park and whether its design isolates the people who work there, despite its having been designed—in part, at least—to encourage collaboration. As usual, Michael...
Ever intriguing boutique musical Grey Gardens makes a very welcome Melbourne return in this insightfully directed, splendidly cast new production. 2006 Broadway musical Grey Gardens had its memorable Melbourne premiere from The...
it’s writing the weather. Sentences, little vials of style and language, are here to hold a record of the internet’s contact with our body, our attention—its energy, pitch, vibe, vocabulary, tone, and how these qualities inform our own...
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I came across orchids’ post sharing their conflicted feelings on whether or not “No AI” statements are genuinely necessary, helpful and/or useful. In their post, orchids argues that the onus is on the viewer/reader to distinguish...
While I'm having a moment of calling code stable, I've bumped Wasat to v1.0.0 as well. There's no actual difference here when compared to the last release, other than the development status classifier in the PyPI metadata and the version...
Pe un grup de Linux de pe Facebook am întrebat ce tutoriale în Românește ar vrea să citească / să vadă. Majoritatea au dat răspunsuri de genul: mai bine învățăm engleza sunt destule in engleza Toate națiile își fac tutoriale și articole...
This is the companion to I own my books, where I made the case for stripping DRM and actually owning what I buy. This post is the machinery overview: how I store, serve, and read all of it from my own homelab. My books workflow # When I...
Let’s get to the point. These are the reasons why I was irritated by Chris Nolan’s Odyssey: It’s a cheap attempt at diversity. Hollywood has been giving me the impression that it’s not confident stories from other cultures would be...
A year ago I published an article about GoToSocial, a fediverse microblogging software (think of it as an alternative to Mastodon or Sharkey) that I had been using and loving. That is still very much the case, a year and a half after I...
Part 5 of the Power User and Small Team track in my CybersecKyle Security How-To Series turns the accounts, devices, and self-hosted services from the earlier guides into a small monitoring routine.The fastest way to make home security...
Weird technology mistakes: on Saturday I just wanted to add one of our family gatherings to my calendar on the iPhone. I typed “Family gathering” and the phone helpfully used all the information from an old family gathering, (2019!)...
For those who didn’t have time to read Appiah’s report, this is a balanced overview and assessment. An excerpt: The most trenchant of the report’s methodological critiques is on “identity as a basis for criticism.” Appiah prosecutes an...
Celebrated Meredith's second youth making Strawberry Gin & Tonic Ice Cream from scratch.Currently Listening: Washed Out “Feel It All Around”Reply via email
Como comenté anteriormente volveré a la presencialidad en el trabajo. Mucho del tiempo que tenía para escribir va a verse afectado. No tendré el espacio que tengo ahora para escribir sin que nadie venga a interrumpirme con la historia...
The kitchen light was the only one on in the house, and Cole was already under it when Russ came down. Six birds on the counter, out of the plastic now, pale and sweating in the trays. Their mother had made this every year for the church...
For reference in an upcoming posting about small worlds: brief accounts of Larry Kramer and John D’Emilio, two (justly) celebrated and very public gay men, of extraordinarily different natures, who I happened, once, to get linked with as...
Part of the me in this little life now is finding places in the mornings to sit. Doing this doesn’t require much research. It seems every day almost there is a new place around our neighborhood. It feels like a wonderful random chance...
Bring back the silly.The quick and easy.The nonsense.Make procrastination a reason. Note: this post is for me, it will bore you, it’s about this blog, which is really only of any interest to me as a whole. Perhaps you are interested in a...
Como era de esperar, las calles se vaciaron. Ocurre siempre que se disputa la final del Mundial de fútbol y uno de los dos equipos representa al país donde vives. Así que, tan pronto como empezó a rodar el balón por el césped...
Principal Software Engineer · Durham, NC I'm a dad in perpetual training, a curious software engineer, a Marine Corps veteran, and a consummate bro. I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Clever, where I work on systems that handle...
Estos días he estado pensando mucho en esto. Cada vez que le dedico tiempo a mi sitio personal, me pregunto si esto es algo que dentro de unos años seguirá teniendo sentido o si simplemente me gana la nostalgia y me estoy aferrando a una...
Het is inmiddels duidelijk dat zelfs maar deels Amerikaanse bedrijven met allerhande middelen gedwongen kunnen worden om onze data te overhandigen aan de Amerikaanse overheid. Ook kan de dienstverlening gestaakt worden na een enkel...
Alternative Title: How to break up the responsibilities and power of your phone Phones are amazing tools. They are an extension of our brains (which basically makes us cyborgs) and provide us with many tools all packed into a small...
Some of the things I most love doing now, I loved doing as a child. Here is a list of five of them, what are yours?1. Writing poetryI don’t know why I started. I also don’t have those poems anymore, thanks to the awkward almost adult...
Honestly, I truly thought crazy exes only existed in Hollywood and sad breakup songs, well, as a part of amy tries life, Amy Tries Exes!I like peace a lot. Really, I try and hang out with peace as much as I can. But no matter how much I...
Taking Stock as a Skill mtift Tue, 07/21/2026 - 18:36 Marnie and I have been taking stock now that we’re empty nesters. With one kid in college and another in grad school, life is different. We’ve been talking about how to spend our...
Sid Meier’s Memoir! A life in Computer Games By the Creator of Civilization! con ese título se presenta el libro autobiográfico de Sid Meier, uno de los creadores de videojuegos más reconocidos. Sid Meier’s Civilization es una de las...
I don’t know about you, but I read more novels during the summer than any other time of year. I probably can fit in a few more novels before the school year begins. What have you read lately that you like? As for me, two recent fiction...
Roshan: Wikipen Today, [https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ a GPT-5.x prototype escaped containment on HuggingFace's servers using a 0-day it came up with] which is both phenomenally cool and a...
I was studying, like, last night and noticed that I was tired as fuck during the process of writing a few queries while watching a video explanation on how to use the best parameters in a database. Yeah, after a day of more than 8 hours...
The air is thick with dust and the smell of decaying wood pulp. Shelving units like fossilised bones stretch beyond the limits of sight. Waterproof dust jackets protect ancient volumes from the desultory clouds which form among the upper...