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The SNCF has plastered the train windows with corny stickers saying “let yourself dream”, “#nofilter” and “seat with a view”. Everybody awake is heads-down in their phone. Everything around here used to be the deepest and most vibrant...
Gordon Brander writes: The thing about computers is that they can do anything you wish, so long as you specify your wish in exacting detail. However, LLMs relieve this constraint. An LLM can extrapolate what you mean (more or less) from...
Some days. Maybe most days. Ok. All days there is this going. I love going out for coffee mornings. When we first moved to the house, choices were limited. I enjoyed the same places. And I would do as I do now. Cycle through them. Then...
(2026 – Retroactive Records) Como parte de la serie “Metal Icon Series”, nos llega una... The post Apostle: White Metal | Descubriendo Mas Heavy Metal De Los ´80 first appeared on Del Otro Lado Metal.Fuente: Del Otro...
My review of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”.
Just like everyone else in this part of the world, I wanted to see the eclipse last Wednesday. Given that my living room windows face directly toward the sun around the time of the eclipse, I decided to just do that from home. Alas there...
It’s popular for certain news organizations to have their reporters ask politicians how many genders there are. The “right” answer, apparently, is two. But a question like this is not fair to the politician or to voters. A politician’s...
A couple of weeks ago, Fabrizio of Passo.uno dropped me a message on LinkedIn and told me that my article, “Substack writers, you need a website!“, was No.2 on Hacker News. I thought he was pulling my leg. I checked Hacker News and...
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Hindi matatagpuan sa Bear Blog Discovery feed ang pinagsasabi ko dito, ngunit puwede mo itong makita gamit ng RSS at ibang pampublikong feed. Kadalasan itong sinasabi kung nagsasawa na ako sa ulam sa bahay. Maaaring paulit-ulit na...
One subject, three lenses, let's fucking goooo Back in the Cohost days ["COHOST MENTIONED" ALARM SOUNDS] I used to regularly post these "one subject, three lenses" projects where I'd slap three different lenses on my camera and try to...
This is the second installment of my series called Hitting the Digital Brakes. The first post was On the Joys of ImperfectionI didn't grow up with computers, phones, tablets and such. The tech I grew up with record players and my...
There’s a bizarre aspect of AI coding that I’ve been trying to put my finger on, and I think it’s this: you can basically just decide how many bugs you want your software to have now. We discovered this first with security, because of...
As for the unknown/unknowable, I think it’s all those other selves within us that are both a part of and separate from our conscious selves—memory, dream, demons perhaps better left undisturbed, perhaps not. A poet writes about any...
August 2026. Frome. Pub 6, or 7 (seven) for those on our Frome Roam who had popped off to Palmers Bottle Shop after Just Ales. I can tell you nothing about Palmers, which means it is guaranteed to make the next GBG. The pace was...
Mugshot of Raoul Villain, 1914. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. It took me a while to figure out why “Stuck in the Middle with You” has been in my head for most of the morning, and why it’s got me thinking about effective...
There is a huge list of people participating for Blaugust and you can go to Andreas’ website if you want a full OPML file to simply import to your RSS Reader. Personally, I haven’t added too many new people to my feed, but there have...
If you already own a smartphone, why would you use anything else to play music?
Re: My spirituality in three stories In reply to: My spirituality in three stories — Sylvia's Studio As the title suggests, Sylvia shared three beautiful stories that illustrate her spiritual beliefs. I highly recommend you read her post...
This weekend was very sleepy. After friday it was mostly just laying around, being comfy, eating nice food. Not really looking forward to tomorrow. Work + not knowing what's wrong with my car (assuming it's just the ac) or knowing how...
It looks like AI scrapers have been using a surreptitious method of making their marauding presence appear legitimate, this time by appending a bogus query parameter, or tracking tag, to the URL of the webpage they are targeting. In the...
A weekly recap of the articles and posts I’ve read that I think are worth your time. Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change – 82MHz — I enjoy Apple products. But I am aware of the “trap” I am in. Does that...
Happy Elvis is Dead Day to those who celebrate! (Died on August 16, 1977. You have a year to plan ahead for the big five-oh anniversary next year!) Send me an email Latest 3 posts 16 Aug, 2026 The King is Dead 15 Aug, 2026 Two Day...
Birding photos from Dutch Gap on Aug 15, 2026 My best bird photo from this morning is a dragonfly (Eastern Pondhawk, I think). Least Sandpiper Green Heron Red-headed Woodpecker. It's a juvenile, so its head is not actually red yet.
What brought me joy New coffee! I’ve had this coffee resting for 4 weeks and it’s finally ready to be opened! Opening a new bag of coffee is always exciting. I’m a few brews in and I’ve found that I prefer it brewed with the TORCH...
Astăzi, 16 august, Debian marchează 33 de ani de existență - o cifră care spune mai mult decât orice altceva despre cât de bine a îmbătrânit acest proiect. Totul a început în 1993, când Ian Murdock, pe atunci student la Universitatea...
Over the past day or so, you may have noticed that Daily Nous was down quite a bit, and sluggish when you could access it. It turn out there were over 127 million requests (web communications) initiated with Daily Nous over the past 24...
A comprehensive 25-country survey published by Pew Research Center earlier this year found that Americans do not merely distrust one another. Increasingly, they see their fellow citizens as morally bankrupt. American citizens are far...
Heya! So, I was talking about this a couple blogposts ago, but I'm actually making a bearblog-based rpg currently. I still have no idea when I'll be done with it (it'll probably take quite a while still), but the process of making it has...
Otro verano más que no estoy escribiendo ni la mitad de lo que me gustaría, ni de los temas que tenía en mente. Pero: no-pasa-nada. El caso es que hace nada he heredado una workstation en el trabajo. Eso quiere decir que ahora tengo...
♠ Problem statement: a code block that quotes a markdown file swallows the first closing fence it meets, which is the inner one. The ADRs and LLMs post quotes a README.md that itself contains a fenced template. Written naively:...
HWC Asia Pacific: Round 2Can’t believe it is already nearly two weeks since the inaugural HWC: Asia Pacific event—this means meetup #2 is happening next Wednesday! (At the moment, HWC: AP runs on a bi-monthly basis on a Wednesday.) Who...
Following on from html2gemtext, the inevitable has happened: I couldn't let the Markdown side of things remain unaddressed. While Rogallo v1.8.0 added some extra rendering of Markdown to make it look more "pretty", I felt it really...
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Back in January, I started an experiment by turning this website into a social media timeline-like experience. But now, we’re back to the roots. I like how each iteration of my personal website tells a different story. It’s a snapshot...
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The heatwave in Germany is continuing and everyone is suffering. We’re simply not (yet!) prepared for so many days with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius. Thomas’s plants are also suffering from heat stress, even though he’s been...
I’m very sorry to have to report the sudden death yesterday of my esteemed colleague Randy Picker, who was well-known for his work on antitrust and intellectual property, among other topics. A triple Chicago grad (B.A., M.A. in...
10th August - 16th August Along with basically everyone, I watched the eclipse using the traditional "colander and a sheet of paper" method. I took a few horrific snaps with one of my cameras but, without a solar filter, they were...
