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I’m currently trying out jrnl for my journalling needs. I assure you no one is more surprised than I am that after nearly four years of journalling in Obsidian (with detours to Day One, Diarly and other dedicated journalling apps, but...
If you happen to be in Wellington, New Zealand on Tue, 18 Aug, 5:15-7:15pm, then come along to the next public fireside.rs workshop. REGISTER NOW (LIMITED TO 40 SPACES ONLY) If you convene humans to collaborate or facilitate learning in...
What I'm...Working on Mostly my job and cleaning up courses for next semester. That's been the majority of my waking hours. Contemplating Time management strategies Why do conservative weirdos try to ruin gaming? What I'm going to do for...
Nathan has given his perspective here on the session, so I'm going to recap it myself and give my thoughts at the end. First Half - Session 0We kicked the session off discussing the characters, what we wanted out of the game, what we...
Mostly just dull and meandering. Whole thing feels like a badly-planned-out project; visually daring to no apparent end, and essentially little more than a shaggy dog story dragged on by two long scenes of people recounting events more...
You might already know that atoms are mostly empty space. Physical size behaves a bit weirdly at the atomic scale, but essentially the radius of an atom’s nucleus is tens of thousands of times smaller than the radius of an electron’s...
It has been a dooooooozy of a month. My last “real post” — as in, one that isn’t attached to the Patreon, more on that later — was on July 4th. And then I just kind of stopped writing blogs. I kept writing. I kept building things. I did...
Spotted some art on tree stumps around #SanFrancisco walking between SFPursuit sites this weekend. The little blue house on the tall tree stump near the 19th Ave entrance to Golden Gate Park has a "For Sale" sign out plus American Gothic...
Having done a ton of grocery shopping, it was time to leave industrial Tahiti behind. We knew our anchor was stuck on an old mooring, and so we chose a calm morning to detach. Luckily the mooring rope was long enough to reach the...
StarringDylan O'Brien, Jessica Henwick, Michael Rooker, Dan Ewing, and Ariana GreenblattDirectorMichael MatthewsOverviewAn apocalyptic love story.Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in...
Been feeling flat for the last few days and realized the reason this morning: I’ve been an inside cat too long. Heat and busyness have kept me inside for weeks, so I and my walking stick headed to Murray Woods this afternoon. Just what I...
I needed a function that could tell whether a string was a valid Common Lisp program. In theory, you could just call read on the string and see if it throws an error, but I don't want to throw random text at read. It could contain a...
🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few things I’ve built: Kerouac, a...
Portrait of a Crown Drawer Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Art & Text Read Time: 7 min Topics: Art critique There's a scene where Jeffrey Wright as Basquiat is just making, hands moving faster than the thought behind them, and...