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Tuesday Deep shadows on the orange grass today. Some dew, which is dampening the ground and has settled on cars. As I come out of the park, light filters through two tiny wild poppies and they glow like stained glass. I remember that’s...
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...
1. An inexperienced vibecoder might create an app where all user passwords are stored in plain text.2. An inexperienced user might use the same password across all services and not use two-factor authentication.3. An inexperienced hacker...
I bought a new phone last week. For those who care, it's a Nothing Phone 3. While getting familiarized with it and its camera last Thursday after work, I realized that I hadn't taken any photos of the Seto Inland Sea for a while (I...
An end of week recap “When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.” – Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus Sadly, we bid Tove & Moomin Month farewell this coming week as August draws to a close, the...
Dahilan (Reason) by Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles (De La Salle University Publishing House, 2026) It wouldn’t be too much to require that before reading Parra one consider the
I went to the library, and just browsed. No aim. Path of least resistance. I hadn't been to this library before. Found myself browsing a shelf that seemed to have no order. Fiction, non-fiction. Then I saw the receipts. This was the...
Welcome to the weekly newsletter. This week on the blog I wrote How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 5e. The most popular posts this week were Dolmenwood Resources for You, Dungeon, Inc., A First Review, Reading in the Dark, Close and...
I have a small batch of scans featuring various parades, and thought it might be fun to share some of them today.This first one is from the 1950s (I believe), from Long Beach, California. A bathing beauty waves to an appreciative crowd,...
Time management training is popular. The evidence that it works is thin. The critique that landed hardest for me: these trainings teach planning and structuring, and they leave volition alone. Volition is the capacity to protect an...
All done in brickGlancing up a York backstreet called Oglethorpe, I caught sight of this, a brick building of 1648, to which a pair of curvy, Dutch-style gables with dormer windows were added a bit later in the 17th century. It is said...
In the 2 weeks since my last post I've spent a bunch of time getting my Forgejo Action Runner working. Although really it's more "getting certain things working on the runner". After years of using, making, and fixing Github Actions for...
After a week in which, holy Toledo, freakin’ glaciers melted in Nepal and all-world all-star champion megawatt entertainers Dolly Parton and Tim Curry passed, the question of how the heck Monsieur Blogmeister can write today’s post...
On route to Carrot Road where Burnley play Norwich City this afternoon. A long journey and mixed start to the season means that there is plenty of room on the coach today - much needed as I have some work to do en route.
I've been keeping a list of all the movies I've watched on Letterboxd since August 2018 - so that's eight years now, and as of today 1005 total movies. That makes 125 movies a year. I think the number is pretty inflated by 2020 and 2021,...