It's a superpower.Diarium is a journaling app I've stuck with because the content (that is, my content) is easy to re-work, expand, contract, and generally re-organise to my fancy. I can do those things easily because it exports a SQLite database, with a schema you can figure out, hack on, and then import to replace what you have in the app.It does other export formats, but I see those more as archival. Tables and columns, mm, perfect for hacking on this kind of app.

Like my peers, I've decided to publish my personal ranking preference for the 2027 interop project. I'm doing this from a phone, so I can't link to the others that have published theirs, but I think it's interesting to see and compare what we feel is important. I did want to also comment on my ordering process. Originally I had something like 20 selected items, and even after using the "hot or not" selection process, my list is still pretty long. The Temporal API landed at the top because I…

Street stalking. 🔗 ∙ Tagged in My Photos.

There's an enormous, unimaginable cresting tidal movement happening in a very specific setting, and you almost surely don't know about it. It's complicated, so I'll just run you through the 30,000 foot view and you can take my word for it re: the significance.Mac gaming has always been problematic. Hardly anything is written for Mac natively, so it's all about emulation. And the problem with emulation is that it takes computing assets, which in turn reduces resolution, smoothness, and…

Senior ad salesman Justin Doors is widely recognized as the industry’s foremost in-house expert on out-of-home advertising, an achievement made possible by his unwavering commitment to never working outside his house.Doors, 38, sells highway billboards, commuter rail posters, and airport lightboxes from his living room sofa. As a remote employee dedicated entirely to out-of-home inventory, he spends forty hours a week inside his home thinking about people leaving their homes so brands can reach…

Every year we are blessed with opportunities. Every year we turn them down because we lack the capacity to take advantage of them.None of these opportunities come with a guaranteed payoff, but each represents another touchpoint for our work, a chance to expand our reach, and the hope that it might give us more resources to pursue other ideas.I am trying to reach out for help, to surround myself with people who can do things I can’t, or never seem to find the time to do. Illustrators, designers,…

I am getting in early with some monthly blog housekeeping by taking a look at the #MurderEveryMonday themes from October. If you are new to #MurderEveryMonday, it is a book cover sharing activity, which I host on Twitter a.k.a. X and Instagram and it is nice to hear that it has spread on to other social media platforms too, such as Blue Sky. As the hashtag suggests this activity takes place on a Monday and each week has a different theme. For more info here is my launch post. Here are the four…

I have a mixed review of “NYC’s bridges can last ‘forever,’ if we take care of them” by Clayton Guse on Gothamist. The main point of the article, that maintenance and capital repairs are flip sides of the same coin, is absolutely true. You can pay regularly – annually is best – to maintain infrastructure (Guse is writing about bridges, but things are little different with buildings) or you can pay once in a while for major repairs and/or replacement. Unless you are willing to live without the…

If I didn’t have AI, I wouldn’t be publishing articles every week. I’m 100% sure of that. Taking care of our 9-month-old son with my wife has been hard. This is a bit embarrassing to admit, but I actually thought that parents who were saying that nursing a baby is hard work were exaggerating. Well, they were right. Anyway. We all have our reasons why we’re tired. And when we’re tired, it’s damn near impossible to focus on your work. That’s because any type of knowledge work requires mental…

Yahoo Mail is massive, with an estimated 225 million active users globally. Somehow, email marketers seem to discount this mailbox provider, thinking of them as Gmail's smaller sibling, assuming that they are somebody they barely send mail to. But…Yahoo is big! Take your typical US consumer-focused email marketing list. Roll it up by who hosts what mail, and build out those mailbox provider counts. And you'll see, from your own data, that Yahoo is big. Really big. It'll probably show up as…

I am sure I will remember some of the bigger joys of October, like the Trail of Treats event on Tuesday night, the onground intensive in mid-October, the Crumley archives banquet, and a breakfast reunion with my mom's Lexington cousins. Let me record some smaller joys that might be forgotten.--My wrenched knee has mostly healed itself--just a twinge here or there.--Our Spartanburg house had no hot water, and my spouse couldn't get the pilot light re-lit. I called the gas company, who said they…

Gambel’s quail pair (photo from Wikimedia) 29 October 2026 With Halloween around the corner, some birds are already wearing masks even though they don’t have “masked” in their names. The male Gambel’s quail (Callipepla gambelii) has fancy white edges on his mask. Green jay (Cyanocorax luxuosus) wears overlapping masks, blue + black. European goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis) wears a black eye-mask (a domino) on top of a red mask. Green Jay in Texas (photo from Wikimedia) European goldfinch (photo…

PostgreSQL databases support having enumerated type (enum) columns so that the column only accepts one of a predefined set of values. I’ve worked with ORMs like Active Record from Ruby on Rails. Using Active Record, I could work with database columns that only allowed a certain set of values. I always thought that was only possible due to the ORM layer abstracting away these things, but that’s not the case. Enums can be enforced at the database level (at least with PostgreSQL). I’ll demonstrate…

The Chinese Maze Murdersby Robert van GulikGenres: Crime, Historical Fiction, Mystery Pages: 336 Series: Judge Dee Mysteries #1 Rating: Synopsis: Poisoned plums, a cryptic scroll picture, passionate love letters, and a hidden murderer with a penchant for torturing and killing women lead Judge Dee to the heart of the Governor’s garden maze and the answers to three interwoven mysteries. The Chinese Maze Murders represents Robert van Gulik’s first venture into writing suspense novels after the…

Snow falls on rugged mountain peaks at Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park. The post Snowy Peaks appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

John Wyver writes: Disconcertingly, Robert Vas’ powerful, poetic documentary essay My Homeland (1976) begins in silence. The silence of the censored and oppressed. The silence of the early morning before the tanks rolled into Budapest nearly 70 years ago. The silence of the grave. Made for BBC Television’s Omnibus strand to mark the 20th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution and its brutal suppression by the Soviets, My Homeland is receiving an exceptionally rare screening for the 70th…

If there's one thing that Linux does better than anything else, it's making available old hardware as if it's nearly brand new. To whit: My old MacBook from 2015. Sadly, the latest OS that it can r...

Mugdock June and October flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says One hemisphere is entering Fall from Summer the other entering Spring from Winter… show us in a photo something that is changing (not necessarily nature). Yesterday afernoon we found a gap in the rain clouds and walked around Mugdock Loch – a place we visit regularly, noticing as we walked around how many leaves had dropped since the last time we visited. Without…

Christopher Butler spends some time here rethinking the question of the energetic cost of LLM usage by comparing it to the always-on wattage of a human brain. There are more than eight billion devices on this planet that learn continuously from almost no data, repair themselves while running, last for decades, and do all of it on twenty watts. We did not design them. We still don’t understand how they work. On the measure that will actually decide what this technology becomes — not its…

rehabbing the knee and the tummy, too. walking a mile or moreisn’t as painful as before. Pantoprazoling a calendarthirty days to see ifit needs to become more permanent. two things I’ve had tochange in order to feelrelieved… commitment tothem hangs without care.I’m learning that my plansare planning to move meout of their plan and really…I’m okay with their decision. I’m fine-wining my waythrough life, collecting compliments on how wellI’m aging…if only they knew howmuch effort it takes tolook…

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I love autumn so much; it's pretty, it's sweater weather, it's long, cosy nights with loved ones; it's a breath between summer and winter! and to my complete delight, on my way to work today, I saw a tree that had the colours of a ripe mango. please tell me you also see it!

Image was taken with a Nikon N90s film camera and a Tokina 80-210mm lens. The film was Ilford FP4 Plus shot at 125 ISO and developed in Caffenol C-L for 70 minutes undisturbed (first 15 seconds agitation). Film was scanned to digital using a Valoi Easy 35 and 55mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor lens adapted to a Fujifilm X-T5 camera.

Race of Scorpions, the third book in the House of Niccolo series, begins in Northern Italy as Nicholas vander Poele travels aimlessly through Europe, disconsolate after the recent death of his wife. Although the title conjures up a vision of scorpions racing to a finish line, it actually refers to the rivalry between the two royal members of the Lusignan family, rulers/claimants of Cyprus. Read more »

Had an idea for a funny post: an empty Switch 2 Zelda Edition case.MediaMarkt moved my order to "sometime before Christmas".Ordered the case from Amazon. Now that's delayed too.No funny post, then.

Your fund manager may be lending your shares to people who are betting that those shares will fall. People often ask me if this share lending is something they should be worried about? This article can be read by selected Monevator members. Please see our membership plans and consider joining! Already a member? Sign in here. The post You should lend your shares to evil short sellers [Members] appeared first on Monevator.

Somewhere beyond the last remembered melody, a room is waiting for us to remember that no human being belongs entirely to memory. Its confines continue to breathe long after the drywall of experience has surrendered to oblivion, while the invisible inhabitants of its past move through one another with the exquisite indifference of ghosts who have misplaced the circumstances of their deaths. Perhaps memory has always been an elaborate misunderstanding between presence and disappearance, a…

I had no idea the naval base here provides the oak that maintains Old Ironsides

I love photography improv: flexing with a situation, setting, or subject to make magic. One of the best ways to practice this is behind-the-scenes photography, where you serve as the photographer while something – a theatre production, a commercial video shoot, or an event – goes on around you. Sometimes, you’re in an unfamiliar location, […]