8604/21523I haven't got to spend too much time with the kids recently as I've either been in hospital or in bed and trying to isolate a bit so I don't pick up any treatment-threatening, life-threatening bugs. But they came in today to give me my Father's Day cards and presents and to remind me (as if I needed reminding) that I absolutely can't die for at least 15 years, however much my body wants to self-destruct.I didn't get the #1 Dad it the world this year, but it's nice that it's gone to…
This is a fun concept. Folks who set aside a little time each week to take calls with whoever about whatever. unoficehours.com I've got a bunch of traveling to do. Setting up calls with some folks is on the list for when I get back. -a Endnotes I'll totally be using this to talk with techy folks about bitty to get feedback from them. For the non-techy folks, we'll play the conversations by ear and see where they go.
Adventurers Character Race Class Description Anoran Hall Human Cleric level 2 A thin, wiry, and bald follower of Promehene, the God of Time. He doesn't know what drives him to adventure. Drokh Human Monk level 2 A tall, lean human monk with piercing eyes, weathered skin, and a warrior’s poise—calm and charismatic, he speaks with purpose and strikes with precision, wielding spear, bow, and blade. Ignaeus Elf Fighter level 4 / magic-user level 5 An arrogant and self-assured sellsword wandering…
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Judge Parker, 6/21/26 Look, we know what you want and what you don’t want out of your soap opera comic strips, and what you don’t want is character growth. That sort of thing is how you get the man once known as “Tommy the Tweaker” yammering about his skivvies in a…
Caitie texted me Friday night and mentioned she was coming into Albany on Saturday, not Sunday. So I left early yesterday (0550) and drove straight through to Clifton Park without stopping. I guess it makes a difference if you skip breakfast and have nothing to drink! Traffic was light so I made good time. Got to Jimmy's Egg in Clifton Park a little after 9:00 to have some breakfast before I went to Mom's. Visited with her for a couple of hours before I went to pick up Caitie at the train…
Over the last few weeks, I've been writing about what it means to show up consistently. The compound effect of doing it. What it looks like when it's hard. The difference between presence and performance.All of that was about how you show up for your work. For your team. For your career.This week is about the showing up that people often deprioritise: showing up for yourself.The Things That Get PushedYou know exactly what they are. The training you've been meaning to do. The exercise that used…
The Cunning Plan Why Paying the Piper Bubbles and Pin Pricks A Certain Musky Odor The Point At the risk of constantly returning to the subject of the lack of use from large language models—and I hope to keep this one short—early in June, I started seeing a strange shift in sentiment. After years of screaming at us to “get on board or get left behind,” and after the massive backlash especially from software developers, a bunch of people—half a dozen blog posts that made it to my screen, as…
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Wake-on-LAN is used to power up devices via LAN. ip -br link to find the name of the network interface in use. sudo apt install ethtool to install the tool required to inspect the Ethernet configuration. sudo ethtool enp2s0 to check whether Wake-on-LAN is available and/or enabled. Wake-on: g means it is enabled. I found it to be enabled, so I will skip the steps required to enable it. ip a to find the MAC address of the interface. Look at what follows link/ether In the remote client My laptop…
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As I do every morning I was on my usual walk. A stroll down to the end of my street; I loop around the Commons by the Post Office and then jog back up my street. It's an overwhelmingly peaceful trek that's far too punctuated by awful, noisy, polluting car traffic.Almost every day I see some kind of minor traffic violation; forgetting to engage (or disengage) their turn signal, running lights being off, driving 15 miles an hour over (or under) the speed limit...This morning, though, I saw a…
Matt Murdoch, in his day job of being not Daredevil, is at the law school of Empire State University: The NYU law school, as seen from West 4th Street:
This is Day 3 of 13 of my Balkans road trip with Just You, doing a circular tour from Romania, through Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia – and ending up back in Romania. If you missed the start of the journey here’s the link to take you there. I woke up in my third country in three days: Bulgaria. This morning I was in Veliko Tarnovo and we’d be heading to Sofia this afternoon. What’s the Yantra Grand Hotel like? Once again I had a great night’s sleep on very comfy pillows. You never…
Tilde.club — a shared Unix computer where you can do, learn, and share stuff. moments — A smol photo journal by Bear blogger Peter Gombos. TownSquare — Super cute thingy to add to your website. It's SO CUTE! Open Video Downloader — A youtube-dl-gui seems handy. Biodiversity Heritage Library — Read about this lovely site in a Guardian article. Lettera — I like Markdown, so I'm always interested in new, shiny editors. Evergreen Sewing — Cool people. When they need to buy a manual, they share it.…
Sunday Asides #100 I've reached a point of relative stability with work right now. Both part-time jobs are steady, my full-time job search is still fruitless, but I'm doing okay. Not great, but not terrible. Just...okay. Surviving, not thriving. Living, but not giving. I'm here, I'm queer, and well...I'm used to it. According to Bloomberg, tech workers who don’t embrace AI could face 3x the risk of being laid off. Back when I worked at my last full-time job, I had to evaluate my team based on…
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If I move, or exert myself suddenly, I will have a coughing spasm. That will cause the burning pain in my right rib cage. The lung that I didn't have the surgery on is the one that is continuing to throw a hissy fit. I feel no discomfort or pain from the left lung surgery site. So today I mostly sat on my arse again and did nothing. I got up to pee and get coffee. The pain site has shifted today. It is still under my right bottom rib cage but the pain has moved to the left a couple of inches.…
June 21, 2026 I saved a guide called npm: A Free Guide for Beginners to GoodLinks the other day. This morning, I wanted to read it and keep it for future reference, but I realized GoodLinks isn't where I want to store this kind of material. I briefly thought about DEVONthink, but since I uninstalled it recently, it wasn't an option. Instead, I saved it to Bear using the browser extension. It captures the entire article, allowing me to read, highlight, and archive everything in one place. It is…
Jamie and I began our weekly walks on Clapham Common about three years ago. We’d known each other distantly for more than 40 years, but we came close when Jamie came to offer help to us with pain we were suffering over a tragedy with our grandson in Mexico. Jamie had an instinct for helping people, for kindness. Perhaps he’d always had that instinct, but it must have been enhanced by the terrible pain he suffered over the death of Katherine, his first wife, and over a severe illness in one of…
This edition covers why inaccessible systems make AI worse, the theater of AI generated feedback, and dangers of ‘user-friendly’ AI. Also don't miss a catalogue of 250 named colors, a Wikipedia link visualizer, and local file sharing tool.
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The apparent path of the sun reached its northernmost point at 8:24 UTC today, marking the longest day of the year and the beginning of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and the shortest day of the year & first day of winter in the Southern. May all of your plans come to fruition in the fullness of time, and Blessed Be!
Friday afternoon once work had finished began in thoroughly civilised fashion. A couple of drinks in the sunshine with my good friend Beth beside a rather pleasant stretch of the River Leam which coincidently just so happen to be part of the WBAS portfolio. It was all terribly sophisticated and cultured. Unfortunately, I had already made the fatal mistake of thinking about fishing.Before Beth arrived, I had carefully introduced a few pieces of bread into the pool from the old bridge. At first…
by Caue Napier This is so cool! TownSquare adds a small virtual square at the footer of a website, on which visitors can walk around, jump, high-five and talk to each other. And this can connect multiple websites together! Strongly considering adding this somewhere on my website.
The donut is a misunderstood animal. It needs in-depth research.Donuts are good. If you hear a so-called expert say otherwise… [CENSURED PAGE] Looks like the god/algorithm doesn't like donuts so I can't talk about them. You will have to look at the pics to discover the text.
I always remember the book Writing, Illuminating & Lettering by Edward Johnston (1906). This book was written more than 100 years ago and it’s very inspirational since it talks from the perspective of a time before computers and their impact in we know for typography. Nothing there has the perfection of a machine, and that’s beautiful.There he shows a figure full of useful ideas to fill gaps in a calligraphy page.Here I created my own version. If you suffer/enjoy from horror vacui you can use…
