I got another commit merged in Git 2.55 (2026-06-29), yay! The release note reads: "git stash -p" has been optimized by reusing cached index entries in its temporary index, avoiding unnecessary lstat() calls on unchanged files. Here is the story of this change. Patch mode slowness The -p (--patch) option makes git stash interactive. Instead of stashing everything, Git walks you through your uncommitted changes hunk by hunk, asking whether to stash each one, using the same interactive machinery…
View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Calm and warm again. Today’s run was mostly a replay of Wednesday’s, with almost every stat and condition being very similar to the last run: Similar temperature and humidity Similar pace and BPM It was marginally better overall (and air quality was much better), but mostly it’s a rounding error. I started out stronger with an initial pace of 6:09/km, but that dropped off after the 2K mark. I detoured to the Nature House and got a drink at the fountain. This…
“A nostalgia é um sentimento permanente. Em outras palavras, sentimos nostalgia mesmo vivendo em nosso próprio país, ao lado das pessoas que mais amamos. Apesar de um lar feliz e de uma família feliz, um homem pode sofrer de nostalgia simplesmente porque sente que sua alma está sendo limitada, que ela não se desenvolve da maneira como deseja. A nostalgia é o sentimento de impotência diante do mundo, a dor de não conseguir transmitir sua espiritualidade aos outros.” Andrei Tarkóvski Se você…
I realize that I didn't review the three previous Masters of the Universe Origins playsets I own (Snake Mountain, Eternia, and the Fright Zone) and I didn't preorder/ crowdfund the Snake Lair, but I definitely wanted to check out the Slime Pit. Excuse me, I mean the Fright Pit. Yes, the 1986 vintage toy was called the Slime Pit because it used Mattel's own Slime (which they created and introduced to the toy market in 1976), but over the years Nickelodeon has somehow ended up with a trademark…
Here are some more (mediocre) photos from various things I've experienced recently around LA, including my experience in the secret tunnel, an experience attending a live Pokemon Go event that I haven't yet written up, and some other random shit I've done lately. I stand by my often-reiterated claim that if anyone living in LA is ever bored, they are simply stupid. It is impossible to be bored in this city if you ever leave your house. Half the fun shit you can do here is free, even!! Here is…
— I’ve been thinking about the dead a lot lately. Trying to count them up, in a way. You get older and you have more of the dead around you than the living most days. You know them better and you keep knowing them, the dead, even though they don’t know you back. Sometimes I forget who’s gone, and my writer friends, I talk to them in their books where they live on. — Last week I talked about reading Franz Wright’s last book which was published posthumously. Nick Cave’s book of interviews. This…
Like postcards of a beloved place and time. These screenshots from the late 90s bring back fond memories. This was the design we were all trying to immitate. I've spent hours nesting <table> tags, adjusting border and width properties. Source: Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
Ever since I moved out from my parents house I’ve been living on my own. I never had room mates, or shared a space with anyone in any sort of capacity. That is until I moved in with the missus and her son a little over a year and a half ago in the apartment they were living in then, which we eventually upgraded to our current house.After having spent quite a few years (15 or so, I’m not going to do the math) living on my own then suddenly sharing a space with two people was, as I’m sure you can…
Today, another little experiment. Usually, the Icebreaker of the Week is a secondary item in the newsletter. But what if it stood on its own? Would readers (like you) be more likely to actually answer in the comments? Would that be fun?There’s only one way to find out . . . Noticing is about other people, too. The Icebreaker series aims to help with that. There’s a central collection spot for all the icebreakers to date, here.Today’s icebreaker comes from TAoN favorite Judi K.What is something…
Internet commenting and interactions are pretty rough to moderate, so I didn’t want to have open comments on all my posts. Mostly, those end up being places where bots just add random stuff, so I decided to allow replying to my posts by email. For any post you see, you can reply to it by tapping the "reply by email" link. I also now have a guestbook on my blog, so if you’d like to leave a general message or a cute illustration, feel free to do that!
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14:23 I woke up fresh in the middle of the night. As if I had slept for hours. I hadn’t. It happens rarely. But it does. 22:04 A lot is happening. A lot is getting done. A lot is yet to be. Busy times. Yet fun times. Reply to this post
A few weeks ago, the phrase "old faithful" came to me. I thought "that would be a good name for a ship!" This evening, I decided to do something with the name. I had an idea for a direction, but the story went in a completely different direction than I thought. I ended up writing a story in a version of Scots (that at least makes sense to me).In writing this story, I realised I could hear the story but didn't necessarily know how to write it down. I'm not certain on my spelling in some places,…
Toni Schneider, Automattic’s founding CEO, board member, and now CEO of Bluesky, has a great conversation with Nilay Patel on The Verge’s Decoder podcast (YouTube, Pocket Casts). Automattic invested in Bluesky back in 2023, and I’m very excited to see what they figure out in open social protocols.
Day: 1Show: 3Title: Sound and Noise and BodiesCategory: Clowning / Comedy / Drama / Improv / Original Music / Solo Show / Spoken Word / Storytelling / Audience participation / Historical contentBy: Octoberdandy ProductionsCreated by: Jen ScottLocation: Theatre in the RoundSummary: A very personal solo show by #TCTheater artist and improvisor Jen Scott that covers some big topics with humor and charm.Highlights: In this quirky genre-bending show (directed by Levi Weinhagen), Jen shares stories…
As a natural melancholic, the idea of being drawn to the sea — to drown one’s regrets, whether figuratively or bodily — makes me glad there isn’t a significant body of water within six hundred miles. It isn’t that suicide holds appeal for its own sake. Rather, it’s a fire door in the back, rigged with an alarm but duly located in case of an emergency. Sometimes, when an elderly person goes missing in the mountains, I wonder if they disappeared because of forgetfulness, as the silver alerts…
I was succumbing to my Hacker News habit recently and saw this post from Rands: The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing. PT Mono was in the list of fixed-width fonts that made his cut. For some reason it stuck in my brain. Maybe because I hadn’t heard of it. Later, I found myself perusing macOS’s Font Book app. There, in the relatively small Fixed Width collection of fonts, was none other than PT Mono. Turns out it’s a default font on macOS.... Read the full post on Sal's
I’ve never done an “introduction”-style post on here. The closest is perhaps the possessions post from two Blaugusts ago. Well, it’s introductions week for this year’s Blaugust, and one of the prompts is “Ten facts”, so here are some facts about me. I’ve slept with the same yellow-orange blanket for over 20 years. This sounds weirder than it is, I think? It’s not a “blankey” or anything, I don’t obsessively sleep with with it every single night without fail — it’s just a blanket that has served…
My list of I want tos keeps getting longer, and I’ve stopped reading that as a failure. Wanting too much is better than the alternative.
I wasn’t planning to do all my Blaugust posts on tech stuff, but it seems to be working out that way this week. 🤷 Today I learned about hybrid MBR/GUID partition tables, where the GPT (not that kind) on a disk is duplicated in an MBR table for compatibility purposes. Those reasons are probably outdated, unless you’re running a really old operating system, because GUID partitions have been around a very long time now. According to Wikipedia’s chart you have to go back to Windows 7 to find an OS…
Mia Sato, the Verge: When web traffic is funneled through LLMs instead of a traditional search results page, as Google has been doing, being cited by a chatbot becomes ever more important. Now, a whole host of startups, brands, and agencies are coming to Reddit to try to promote their companies in hopes that they will get picked up by AI. In an effort to try to manipulate LLM responses and stuff AI search results with brand-friendly answers, marketers have descended upon Reddit, a…
Writing is at least as fun as programming.
It was quite the workout to raise the anchor from 20 meters deep. But with both of us pulling we managed without our rope to the winch backup plan. Inside the bay we hoisted the mainsail and motored out. Just as we were in deeper water, a pod of humpback whales greeted us. What a majestic sight! As the darkness fell, we changed to staysail and few hours later put in a reef to the main. The night was rainy and fast. The waves were tossing us around and neither of us got much sleep. In the dawn…
Apple rejected an astronomy app from the iOS App Store because “it was astrology”. When the author appealed, Apple doubled down because “We understand that the app includes a live tarot reading feature.” Ridiculous, right? Well. The author in question is Terry Godier, and while I understand that he has gained quite the following in recent months, I am not a fan. He is unabashedly pro undisclosed AI writing, having conjured — “written” would be inappropriate in this context — a whole essay on…
https://rcs-discography2.com/search.php?type=acode&key=fish6000Location : New York CityOwner : Elmer DadeDate : 1962 (copyright: October 20, 1961)Source : Lancaster Eagle-Gazette from Lancaster, Ohio · March 8, 1962, page 9Tommv Fisher : To Appear In - New York City ; Former L a n c a s t e r resident ; Tommy Fisher will make his debut at New York's famous "Peppermint Lounge" upon his return to that city later this month, j - The 1958 graduate of Lancaster - High School plans to make a series…
Stephan Pastis’s Pearls Before Swine comic strip for 8/5: Dating tip: avoid crazed lunatics; and while we’re on the subject, ax murderers too — when on offer in the sexual marketplace, let caution be your watchword Now, as for ax murderers, return with me to 1969 and my first male lover, Larry. I was in fact his first male lover as well. We both had had sexual experiences with other men, but what developed between us was a passionate connection of affection as well as raw sex, and I moved him…
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn’s I Have This Thing for Flowers connect our humanity to flora in surprising and magnificent ways in one of the year’s most powerful essay collections. Booklist wrote…
Day: 1Show: 2Title: Chum!Category: Comedy / Musical Theater / Audience participationBy: Theatre EngineCreated by: Alexis Bacon & Alison DobbinsLocation: Rarig ArenaSummary: A musical parody of the 1975 movie Jaws.Highlights: I'm not sure I've ever seen Jaws, but now I kind of want to, although it's probably not as much fun as this musical parody is. The four-person cast, accompanied by a two-piece band (keyboard and percussion), tell the full story of the murderous shark who terrorizes a…
I was in Cheltenham earlier this week, where they were filming something or other (Young Sherlock). I was a bit distracted by the lovely carriages to pay any closer attention.
