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Pointed Claude Cowork at two Japanese lease applications in Excel. It asked me a few questions, then filled both perfectly. (Better than I could—when I did the same via Excel for macOS, I broke the lookup formulas.) Welcome to the...
I'm editing blog posts to add to my digital garden, and just found these doodles in a post from 2014. Why did I ever stop making them? They are so joyful!Here is the story about them: back then, I was on bed rest for a while because I...
AI continues to be a hot topic. Be it the OpenAI/Apple spat, or the latest (clever) anti-AI pushback, or how it won’t ever attain consciousness, or how it feels to have people think your art was generated by AI when it clearly wasn’t....
Album#46 High Violet 图1 《High Violet》專輯封面 专辑信息 专辑名称： High Violet 歌手： The National 年份： 2010-05-10 时长： 47:40 要說這張專輯什麼最吸引我，無疑是主唱 Matt Beringer 的嗓音，低沉而温暖，在專輯裡你能聴到他的中音和低音，都很好聴。 Matt Beringer 的個子很高大，有時他戴著眼鏡，看著像是一個教授。 The National...
You can now mute words on powRSS. It’s only available on the desktop version. Click on the settings dropdown and add the words you don’t want to see on the home feed.
This will be the first time (so many firsts this month!) I’m attending HTML Day, which is in its 4th year. This is worldwide in-person event, where participants hand code HTML (CSS optional) websites/pages. I’ve written raw HTML in high...
Something I noticed as a consequence of online culture and platform design, especially on social media: It is very common online to follow an account not for the person behind it, but the way they present and discuss a topic or niche,...
This is a Blaugust 2026 blog post. Next month I will celebrate my second anniversary of moving to Portland, Oregon. I’m so happy to be here. I celebrated my first anniversary nearly a year ago with a series of Mastodon social media...
Writing this, I have arrived at the island of Formosa, the adopted home of the Republic of China (中華民國) as well as that of the people of Taiwan. I intent to stay here during the fall term, as I complete part of my studies abroad. Last...
¡Blog!¡Blog! nació como una necesidad propia: descubrir la mayor cantidad de blogs personales en español, y hoy aquella idea esta cumpliendo su primer año de vida. Lo que empezó como un directorio en donde listar blogs en español,...
I have a small bugbear: the trope that old people aren't tech savvy. A guy at work brought it up this week — a joke about how if you want to do some exploratory testing, just give the app to his mum and she'll find a way to break it....
Even though I use my Bambu Lab A1 mini printer regularly, and I occasionally design my own parts, I still haven't progressed beyond Tinkercad. And why would I? It's simple, and it gets the job done, so I see no reason to complicate my...
If Emily Dickinson had written her poems on her Wordpress blog, her host would have deleted them outright when the bill came due. Instead, her sister found 1,800 poems written on paper and stored in a drawer. Words written on paper take...
July 2026. Chesterfield. “A Top 100 pub ! ANOTHER one ?“. Why not ? The Royal Oak was the highlight of July, a “Wow” moment that Thursday afternoon in floral Chesterfield. The Shambles may not have the fudge and Harry Potter tat of York,...
Bogdan A. Sima, membru al grupului Linux România de pe Facebook, a postat povestea lui cu Linux. Povestea este faină și interesantă și arată că, dacă vrei cu adevărat, poți folosi orice sistem de operare, indiferent că este Windows,...
Charlie Kurth, currently Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University, will be moving to the University of Georgia. Professor Kurth is known for his work in ethics, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of mind. He is the author of...
♠ Today I learned: Atuin ships hooks that capture commands executed by AI LLM coding agents into the same shell history as mine. As of today there are hooks for Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and Pi. % atuin hook --help Manage AI-agent shell...
Photos of parched ground. A note to my future self.
In the autumn of 1998, a hedge fund called Long-Term Capital Management lost roughly $4.6 billion in about four months and had to be unwound by a consortium of banks assembled at the Federal Reserve’s request, for fear its collapse would...
Seguimos incrementando versiones, pasando los días, meses y años. En este caso, repetimos un poco el patrón del año pasado. Estoy en tierras manchegas, disfrutando de la familia y teletrabajando. Hemos dejado atrás la saturación de la...
