I finished two books in June during my first month off of school for the summer break. Much better than the zero books I finished in May. Raising Hare: A Memoir - Chloe Dalton Very similar in tone to James Herriot or James Rebanks, I really enjoyed this slow reflection of rescuing and raising a hare without trying to domesticate the animal. The care given to adapt to the hare's natural requirements gave a lot of points for reflection on how we interact with our own environments. The Man in the…
Previously I've described being part of the ecosystem in different contexts - fandom, the indieweb, locally - but I think what I really mean by that is community. An ecosystem is super important but it's also scientific. There's no emotion involved in an actual ecosystem. There's no rejection or embarrassment. There's this concept I think about a lot - about wanting the thing vs wanting to be the thing. So I want people to comment on my fic (mostly, I think. Kinda complicated) but am I being a…
Good evening. This month has been a rollercoaster for me. I've been oscillating between a lot of positive, and a lot of negative emotions, and it's been quite exhausting. I don't remember the last time I was so tired. Scrolling through the list of posts from this month, everything from the start of the month feels much more recent, for some reason. Nothing really stands out as noteworthy until about half-way through the month. Wow. Keep it light, mate. Andy and Alanna and their kids came to…
I fine-tuned a Llama model on my own notes to build a chatbot that mimics my voice — and discovered that AI is less magic and more data pipeline than I expected.
I consider myself fairly well versed in the English language. School wasn’t really my thing growing up, but I did fucking great in my English classes. Benefits of growing up as a nerd in the 90’s, I suppose.I most definitely have an accent when I speak so you can tell I’m not a native speaker. But unless we’re having a conversation that contains certain highly specialized, technical words, I’m good. I can understand and make myself understood perfectly.Hell, my English is probably better than…
As I mentioned, I signed back into Todoist this week to kick the tires. The next day, I got this email: I knew I’d dabbled on and off over the years, but 19 years ago? Is that even possible?? Wikipedia says Todoist was created in 2007 as a hobby project. I guess I was an early adopter. And that I’m old.
This is Pipa. She’s 10 years old: born in March of 2016, and radio-collared and tagged that Fall before she was even a year old. She was labeled with a number: F06. She was the sixth out of seven to be trapped and shackled with a collar that year, and purple ear-tags were punched into […]
This is just what it says on the tin, and is HILARIOUS. Lockwood has previously been featured here eviscerting John Updike, meeting the pope, and discussing David Foster Wallace. BTW, that last link includes me urging you to read the whole piece on Wallace & to in particular not miss the final three paragraphs. I stand by that rec today, three years later.
Long streamers were rising from over Kemble End one large flake loop-shaped, not a streamer but belonging to the string, moving too slowly to be seen, seemed to cap and fill the zenith with a white shire of cloud. I looked long up at it till the tall height and the beauty of the scaping—regularly curled knots springing if I remember from fine stems, like foliation in wood or stone—had strongly grown on me. It changed beautiful changes, growing more into ribs and one stretch of running into…
With a nearly constant stream of new indie games releasing throughout the years, it's very easy for many of them to slip through the cracks if you aren’t paying close attention. It’s almost like trying to pick a favorite snowflake out of a blizzard. I’ve come across a few hidden gems that I’ve either seen on sale for $5 or less and just said “fuck it” and pulled the trigger, or from a review that pops into my feed. If not for any of that, I would’ve just skimmed past these games like anyone…
I began testing out how I could use a new static site hosting service and in doing so, I need a way to send files to the remote host over SSH. Once your account and SSH keys have been loaded to the remote server, you can begin connecting and need a way to upload your static site content to be displayed on the web host. The sample script uses an rsync process the keeps the remote host up to date with what is stored in the local build folder. What is great is rsync natuarally supports ssh as the…
A closeup of the Fairchild PT-19A Cornell ‘163’ “Spirit of Little Norway” (reg. LN-BIF).
Sony has announced that, come 2028, games will no longer have physical disc releases. Everything will be digital on the PlayStation store or those little download codes in boxes at retailers. This will, in essence, kill the resale market for any new video-games games and really makes it look like the PlayStation 6 could be coming in 2028, and will be digital-only. We've had the option of digital-only consoles for some time (Xbox Series S springs to mind), but that being the sole option is…
We've had a very special and unique visitor in EKSN: Fairchild PT-19A Cornell ‘163’ “Spirit of Little Norway” (reg. LN-BIF). Also TIL: Little Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Norway
Tristan Manalac for Biospace: Amgen’s Tavneos troubles continue as NEJM retracts pivotal publication. First came FDA questions about data integrity. Now the academic authors are confirming the data tampering, though per the now retracted study they did “vouch for the completeness and accuracy of the data, the complete reporting of adverse events, and the adherence of the trial to the protocol. All the authors participated with the sponsor in the design of the trial, the analysis of the data,…
My team at Factory’s growing (FTE, onsite in San Francisco). Come work with me to beef up 1) our security stance, and 2) our IT program. We’re growing rapidly and I want to get ahead of scaling issues. You’ll work directly with me, with agency to define and evolve your own role. Today we need hands-on-keyboard IC work. Want to grow that into a director-level role? This is the time to join. Security Engineer: factory.ai/careers/s… IT Operations Specialist: factory.ai/careers/i…
Due to global supply chain disruptions and macroeconomic shifts, hardware prices have increased across the board. Flash storage media is no exception. Depending on the brand and speed class rating, a legitimate 1TB SD memory card typically retails somewhere between 150 and 250 Euros. That is no small change. While prices used to be slightly lower, they were still far from cheap—and in the current market, they have become exceptionally expensive. The price trajectory of an average memory card…
Vintage Sunset – Ogden, UT – Fujifilm X-T30 – Kodacolor Part 1: 5th-Gen, Part 1: 4th-Gen This is Part 3 of what will be a five-part series exploring Fujifilm Recipes for each generation of cameras. Beginning with the latest models, we will work our way back towards the older cameras. For each article, I will suggest seven Recipes to try. This is intended for those new to the whole Recipe thing, who haven’t tried them before (or perhaps only a few Recipes so far). The intention is to provide you…
I was recently staring out my window just daydreaming about a simpler time. That time being my childhood when flip phones were the “in thing” and Myspace was the best way to keep up with what was cool. So sometime during the mid 2000s. It was at that moment that I felt I understood how someone like my mom can’t really relate to the world we currently find ourselves in. While she isn’t a boomer by the strict definition she is from the generations before technology truly exploded into the titan…
America is turning 250 this Saturday, and you know what that means. It means Chinese fireworks, and the ER at your local hospital preparing to treat burns, your health insurance company is preparing to deny your claims, and most importantly, think pieces on the Internet about the sad state of our alleged democracy. Don't worry, I swear this isn't a think piece. I'm too tired to think much these days. Consider this an unthink piece.You see, to me, as a passionate, patriotic, all-American pickle,…
A lot of you asked for a way to put your townsquare on stream, so I built it. TownSquare now has a livestream overlay. This guide walks through adding that overlay to your stream. The overlay is a browser-source URL, so any app that supports browser sources can use it. In this guide we'll use OBS as the example. The overlay is watch-only. It shows the live square without adding a new active visitor, so putting it in a streaming app should not inflate the count or make a fake person appear in…
Having initially made a beeline for the pubs in the shadow of the cathedral, I set out to discover what was along the southern bit of the High Street - the flatness of which is welcome after a few treks up and down Steep Hill.There are a fair few pubs dotted along this road between the level-crossing and South Park, including three 2026 Good Beer Guide entries. All very handy for supporters of those little championship sides like West Ham who'll be making the trip to newly-promoted Lincoln in…
It's easy to find yourself getting into invisible patterns. The mindless autopilot after doing something over and over again. The narrow rut already running deep before you even notice it. The wagon wheel doesn't need to see the groove to follow—the wheel remembers the path, sinks into it a little deeper with every pass. And then you can no longer steer. Within the ocean, the Waves seem endless, new every time they break, but underneath they're following the same channels the tide has carved…
In something I never expected to have to clarify, this is a hot dog recipe but it is not a recipe for hot dogs. I know that I have a history of making foods from scratch that most sane people do not feel the need to — cream cheese, fig newtons, bagels, vanilla extract, and [coming soon] almond extract too — but I do still leave “grinding meat with spices, salt, and curing agents into a smooth, fine emulsion” before being “stuffed into casings and smoked” to the experts, usually at Hebrew…
Behold the Hovering Sky Baby Medical specialists — pediatricians and proctologists — probably believe themselves to occupy a higher plane than general physicians. Their extra training feels like a badge of specialness. They're the specialest! We cling to what makes us feel special and ignore the rest. And it's that second part that I'd like to discuss. In the long arc of their education, an orthopedist's specialty training is barely an eye blink. From 30,000 feet, they are 90% doctor and 10%…
🇨🇦 Happy Canada day everyone. Taking a bit of a breather today and just doing some much needed spring cleaning ahead of our move in a month - destination, unknown.
It was a flying visit to Ayureki today. This is Iceland's fifth biggest conurbation with the country's second biggest hospital. Ayureki is on the northern coast of Iceland which makes it a 5 hours drive to the capital. There's seasonal flights here from the UK by easyJet (boo! hiss!) There was no darkness last night - we're in the land of midnight sun here. It'll be the same tonight and tomorrow. We had a very lazy morning, sitting around reading, drinking tea and watching the town from deck 8.…
FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE was announced on June 16, 2026. If you’re running 15.0-RELEASE, you have a well-defined upgrade path - but the exact steps depend on how your base system is managed. The first question isn’t “which tool should I use?” but “how is my base system installed?” This article follows the official 15.1-RELEASE upgrading instructions, explains the pre-upgrade detection, walks through both supported procedures (distribution-set and packaged-base), and covers the boot-loader update…
Finished reading: Deep by Kylie Scott 📚
I’m so glad that my local library in Plymouth, Michigan has a free print newspaper that I can support and have mailed to my house. It has lots of local news, along with other fun bits like teenagers reviewing media they enjoy. Living in a suburb means that there really isn’t a local news source, other than the Detroit Free Press I guess, because all the other sources of local news like websites run by one or two folks and Facebook groups generally seem to be right wing and have a strong nimby…
