I came across a post recently from a person I've side-eyed for a very long time. For obvious reasons, I won't be linking to the blog owned by this particular weasel as to not grant them even more attention than what they clearly so desperately didn't get from their family, but IYKYK. If this gets de-listed, then so be it. I've aired my bitch to this blogger before, their main blog last I talked about it was basically just regurgitating some lukewarm event and then asking 'wElL wHaT dO yOu…

Hacker News (aka HN) is a link aggregator where “hackers”1 gather to discuss technology, politics, and anything which “good hackers would find interesting”. HN is a means by which its host, prominent startup incubator Y Combinator, projects soft power, promotes startups it funds, and feeds people with ideas into its incubation program. Hacker News is one of the most popular forums for discussing technology online today – perhaps the biggest.HN also has a pronounced political bias, which is…

man starts blog. man's blog different. man writes real truth on blog. man understand all tricks brain plays, all illusions. man shrug nonchalantly at stupid things like stress and emotions and love. man writes Brennan tried and failed to be healer and saviour. man right. man writes about swede robert birming, his stupid positivity. how does robert not know all positivity is false? man helpfully informs the world of this. man doing service on his blog. man create interesting and subversive…

Mentally I get jammed up all the time, every day I feel overwhelmed by work and tasks. Whenever I want to do a deep work, I find my mind wondering. I could not concentrate on the task and sometimes I do not even know what task that I should focus on. Step 1: Write it all down Whenever I feel stuck with work or life, I would do a brain dump onto a piece of paper. I write whatever that comes into my head. I do not care whether it is important or not important. I just write it all down. While…

from Resident Evil (2026)I long ago came to the realization that my poems are usually different from others writing around and near me, both in the real world and virtual spaces I inhabit as a creative. It may go back to that realization I once had in an MFA classroom of going around the room and everyone saying WHY they write poems. Or what they want poems to do, both as writers and readers. How no one had the same answer and it explained a lot about why I felt like workshops in the program…

After more than two decades glued to screens (computer and mobile), my eyes have started to complain. Nothing dramatic, just the familiar fatigue after long sessions in front of the computer. I have always been particular about my colour schemes, I believe that anyone who stares in front of a computer for long hours should be, and for a couple of years, Solarized Dark was my loyal companion. I’ve decided to try something new, not because I don’t like Solarized, but just to try and adapt my eyes…

This update covers Sunday 09-20-30-26 through Saturday 09-26-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 Autumn has begun. A real change is in the air, and it’s one that I can feel. 📕 L. was accepted for the posting at a new location! She starts there Mon 10-19, with her last day at the poisonous old location on Thu 10-15. The issues discussed last week in OTHER still exist, but she’ll soon be in a better physical and mental space to handle them. She managed to win at a no-win situation, so for the…

Somebody took my proprietary CSS and made a website with it. I investigated. His name is Karl and he lives at: https://householderkarl.com/ It's the best-looking website on the Bear Blog platform. No old junk, posts are short and everything is arranged with an almost offensive amount of taste. It turns out the CSS works exactly as advertised. This raises serious questions about intellectual property, artistic integrity, and why nobody is paying me. Free clown again. This is how it starts. First…

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Earlier this month, I went to France to stay with my best friend, her husband and their baby a week before his christening. Since we live far apart, we don't get to see each other often - so far, since his birth, we've seen each other three times - a week at a time. I stayed with them when he was only three weeks old, then they came to visit me when he was seven months old, and he is now one year old. The good thing about living so far away is that we have to actually stay together when either…

The Grounds is a small chain of coffee shops in Sydney with over-the-top, very Instagrammable decor. Since it’s not too far from Sydney’s airport I like going there for a “bye Emma, see you next time” breakfast with my Mum before I hop on a plane back to Tokyo. Their original store in Alexandria opened in 2012, while their Coffee Factory is a more recent addition, having opened in 2024. It reminds me a little of the Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Tokyo which integrates all the coffee roasting…

As I was delightscrolling through the fediverse today, I came across this post with a close-up photo of a Palm IIIc synchronizing some email, and it made me realize how much I missed low-resolution displays. I'm thinking about how the rarity of a thing can increase its value, such as with diamonds (which are a huge racket), as they are actually not that rare, but production is tightly controled by a near-monopoly to keep the prices very high. And somehow, I think we appreciated pixels more when…

The nice thing about keeping a blog is that I can say at precisely 9:51am, Wednesday 5th February 2025, I discovered that macOS 15.3 had enabled a feature that was phoning home every 15 minutes with personal data. And that I said “no” and turned it off.At the time Apple were generous enough to provide a setting to disable this feature.Although they hid the second part deeper, because why should saying “no” be easy?Last week I succumbed to Apple’s harassment and upgraded macOS 15 to 27. I only…

I like Todd McGowan. He writes and talks about the most jargon-heavy areas of philosophy (German Idealism, Lacan, Marxism) and somehow finds a way to keep it simple and accessible. His simplicity is the biggest indicator of the vastness of his knowledge. Recently, I read his 2024 book “Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn’t Try to Find Ourselves”. This is a short review of the book. Alienation is perceived as a negative thing by most. It means being separated from our essence. It’s what…

I was recently the willful accomplice victim of a successful plot to pull me back into Skyrim. I put hundreds of hours into the game back in high school but had mostly escaped — until my friend texted me when I was sick. While playing through it seemed like the pickpocketing chance was bugged. Follow me down the spiraling rabbit hole to reverse engineer what backs it, what causes the bug, and just how much gold I can get away with stealing.

This whole circus at unstory.eu has been running for over three months. I had a website before. Maybe five people read it. This shit is read by maybe 500. It changes nothing. There is nothing to sell here. No service, no product, no subscription, no ideology, no data, no audience to convert into money. So what exactly am I doing? Playing a clown for free. There are practically two ways to exist online. You extract something from other people, or other people extract something from you. Money.…

I found a funky little used bookstore in my hometown recently. It might be my new favorite. There's a big sci-fi section which has a great selection of those mass market paperbacks I love so much. Usually on my first round through a bookstore I'll make a point not to consult the to-read list on my phone. Instead, I'll just take each title as it passes by, absent-minded and free of agenda. So I'm carrying on this way until I pass a copy of Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer. I've been meaning to read…

Use Johnny Decimal, set up a Zettelkasten, implement the PARA method, buy a Bullet Journal... none of it matters if you never do the work. I often read about people setting up these elaborate systems to save time. It only took you 3 weeks to set up, but think about how much time you will save going forward! It's bollocks. You're spending hours tweaking plugins, tags, and folder trees to avoid a five-minute task you don't want to do. All it does is give you the cheap dopamine hit of feeling…

Attention minions raising smaller minions:Have you ever noticed something... off... about Peppa Pig's nose? I only ask because I keep getting Peppa Pig cakes over here, and they're surprisingly, er, adult for a kids' cake, if you know what I mean. Admit it: if you'd never seen Peppa Pig before this would make you spit out your Diet Coke. I mean, what is that lizard doing? Granted, if you do know what Peppa looks like, that's not too bad.[sing-song] BUT THISSSS IS! Flashing Flops Of Fleshy…

Over the years, I’ve had many battles about accessibility ‘modes’, and why they’re a terrible idea. That’s another article for another day, but one thing ‘mode’ advocates often come back with is that we already have modes for things like colour and motion, so why not just add more? Our users have already told their operating system how they want things to work, whether that’s darker colours, more contrast, or less movement. We should respect those preferences as they browse the web. The browser…

[Epistemic Status: Speculative unifying theory of biology.] I don’t know about you, but I greatly resent having to be a biological organism and subject to all the poor engineering and design decisions that entails. This has many manifestations. A recent one is often wondering, why is the entire body such garbage except for the liver? Take the kidneys. Once you reach adulthood, they start to slowly decay. You can damage them through not-obviously-dangerous stuff like taking too much vitamin D or…

These have got a very dentist waiting room feel to them. In my head they were artful abstracts, alas.19 words · 3 images

This is not really a hidden find or anything - PMG are very high profile and if you're interested in this stuff you probably already know this video exists. But I do think it's worth taking time to watch this! I also think it could be a useful thing to show to teenagers or young people in your life. I spent much of the early part of my career watching people entertain the idea that "powerful people" in games are somehow controlling what games say, or what the games media says. When they pointed…

Jeff Atwood sharing an email response his piece on not being able to vibe code love, asserts some wisdom: Perhaps the LLMs are a reminder that we should make an extra effort to cultivate relationships with each other and form communities online – communities that belong to us, not some billionaire. Communities where we regularly stop to help each other, because that’s how we learn too. And if we do not stop to help each other… what do we become? I personally decided to stop cross-posting my…

I've been writing technical tutorials on my website since I started it last November, but this thread asking about static site generators for beginners on 32-bit Café made me realize I've never made a proper tutorial regarding SSGs from the ground-up basics. This post initially began as a reply to that thread, but I realized I had enough to say to fill an entire blog post. I hope this is helpful to anybody who has been interested in static-site generators but has found trying them out to be…

Roll a D6.If you rolled “1”:Read the article.Find and quote the weakest sentence. Must be tangential to the main thesis.Say “This makes me not want to read the article.”If you rolled “2”:Do not read the article.SF Bay Area humble brag: “This reminds me of the time I met Steve Jobs...”If you rolled “3”:Open with “I have a doctorate in point-set topology. This is utter nonsense.”Fail to explain the concept correctly.If you rolled “4”:“You no longer need to pay for software. I just spin up an…

The first recording today is What’s New Scooby Doo? – Uncle Scooby and Antarctica. In Antarctica, a strange undersea creature emerges and throws a man called Dr Zola into the freezing water. Shaggy and Scooby are volunteering at a zoo, where Scooby has made friends with a penguin called Petey. But the penguin needs to go home to Antarctica, so the gang accompany him there. This is a very generous zoo. They meet the captain of the plane, who introduces herself as a “dedicated iceist. We devote…

Once upon a time, I ran across an experimental project called TabFS, which mounts browser tabs as a filesystem. This seemed like such a cool idea! Ever since, I have wanted a way to interact with tabs programmatically. But the main thing I’ve wanted to do is be able to grab the URLs of some or all of my open tabs, and paste them into a text file. Each time I have looked into this before, it hasn’t been possible without installing an extension. And I don’t like installing extensions. I often…

I remember at some point growing up, I saw Elizabeth Holmes on magazine covers and spread across the internet as the "new Steve Jobs". I was fascinated to finally see a woman in that position; I think the #girlboss era wasn't quite there yet, and I welcomed a role model in spaces that were usually male-dominated. I kinda liked that she seemed very focused on her craft and the tech, while dressing in a more understated, but professional way. Instead of coming across like other "successful" women…

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