Frank Wiles wrote about an attack he nearly fell victim to: a downloaded git repo had active git hooks that would have compromised his system. Seeing the risks, I wanted to make git hooks more visible on my own machine.A git hook is a script in the .git directory of a git repo on your machine. They run during various git operations. The important detail to understand about hooks is that they do not get installed locally when you clone a repo. A newly cloned repo never has active hooks. Hooks…

Pick the 9 albums that made you. All of these albums mean a lot to me for different reasons. Ever since I discovered them, I’ve listened to them from start to finish countless times, and I still listen to them regularly. Maybe I’ll write more about it someday.

in response to gemini://detritus.smol.pub/1791652976 you know what, i never really imagined an audience for my writing. i assumed it's small enough and out of the way that probably nobody's going to read it! the tone of my writing is very conversational, i think subconsciously i'm addressing it to the one friend i know reads it, who encouraged me to start it? well, if not to them directly then to that "type" of relation. "we're well meaning pals here" and i assume i can just share my thoughts,…

If you’ve been following the space these past few weeks, you’ve probably seen decision models pop up everywhere in your feed. It started in mid-September with TypeSafe’s Jev, a model that, unlike LLMs, doesn’t write a single word as its output (it only picks between options you give it, and tells you how sure it is).Since the release of Jev, I haven’t gone a day without reading something new about it. LangChain plugged it into their agent harness, someone built a copy and paste that understands…

I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various case and substring tests. (Note that this ends today.)

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If you have ever tried planning your day in fifteen-minute chunks, you probably know the feeling of total collapse by 11:00 in the morning. One unexpected phone call or urgent email arrives, the schedule derails, and the rest of the day becomes an exercise in guilt. During my peak "productivity phase", I treated my calendar like a game of Tetris. Every minute had a specific task assigned to it. It looked neat on paper, but real life rarely cares about colour-coded lines. The breakthrough for me…

If you're old enough (and possibly not that old, either) you'll know that some musical performances are so impactful that they stay with you for the rest of your life. Although today's song is only two years old, I believe it is one of those performances. While I usually introduce music that you may not know on this blog, I assume many of you have heard this song before, as it was performed for the first time during the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony. It was watched live by hundreds of…

Recent talk, well more, action on the latest Mosslanda project has me reflecting on the journey. It all started here, at Wrecsam Canolog…Arriving at the station to find a trusty 150 waiting for me is always a delight. These tired units remind me of my youth - and whilst the regulars probably think of them as old an tired, I delight in nostalgia for the sights and sounds make me feel young once more…To exercise an idea, scratch an itch or entertain a left field prototype.Most of that of course,…

A frost first thing but quite nice later. Car washing ~G.B2.Doc making 134 to date. Cut some wood up for the incinerator. Ted going into the hospital in the morning.

'Worlds Beyond' was an ITV series that somehow managed to run for 2 entire years - September 1986 to December 1988 - despite only consisting of 12 half hour episodes. Each of those dozen episodes is purportedly based on stories from the archives of the Society for Psychical Research.We've featured a few episodes from the series on Wyrd Britain over the years despite them being, on the whole, pretty woeful because I have a bit of a soft spot for them. This, the series' final episode is perhaps…

Four 2004 versions of one 2004 song, remastered for 2026.See the individual tracks for the story behind this album.This was the last song to be originally written, recorded, and released under the moniker “fluffy porcupine,” and was a realization that it was time for something new. More info Track: Run Faster [Inflight Turbulence Mix] Track: Run Faster [Newark Airport Mix] Track: Run Faster [Song Fight Mix] Track: Run Faster [In The Yellow Heart Of Texas Mix] #FluffyPorcupine #Ambient #Country…

Back on October 9, 2022, jazz pianist David Benoit, well regarded as the prime torchbearer for Guaraldi’s Peanuts legacy, along with his trio — Roberto Vally, bass; and Dan Schnelle, drums — were joined by the Santa Rosa Symphony for the world premiere of Playing for Peanuts: The Music of Vince Guaraldi. The performance took place at Santa Rosa's Luther Burbank Center for the Arts.This ambitious project had been a collaborative effort, for the past couple of years, between Benoit, Sean…

Sometimes I wonder if BBMP confuses itself with ASI - trying to dig-up old civilizations …

good things are happening, y'all. i'm wearing pants indoors! i've been able to drink my coffee hot this week. the evenings come earlier and the candles have been going. well, one candle, in my little golden holder that makes it look so cozy and warm. a cup of shimmering honey. i've been brave and started exploring gopher and gemini, it looks like a lot of fun. i changed my font to look like an old school pixel monospace and the client looks very nostalgic, like in my days of exploring MUDs and…

It’s always coffee o’clock.

One week at number one on 9th July 1988On one of the first warm days of Spring in 2014, I left my flat in Streatham to witness a commotion. A vortex of crows was cawing angrily overhead, and the subject of the fury seemed to be one of their own kind – he (or she) was sprawled on the road like a sack flapping in the breeze while two others gouged and grabbed at his neck. As I approached, the attackers flitted nervously away, and their victim flopped upside down, legs in the air, blood dripping…

Yep, it's Snoozle™ time, with these falling under the sub-category of "Blurzles™". As if often the case.This first one is from the 1950s, and might have been a pretty photo of a Casey Junior Circus Train chugging through the patchwork quilt of Storybook Land, but our photographer was a little bit jumpy. It's not a total loss though, the late afternoon sun makes it kind of pretty.Next, from 1967 or 1968 comes this dynamic composition with the yellow Mark III Monorail coming toward us on the…

I’m back and Bowser and I are enjoying some lovely fall walks – just the two of us – as it’s Mommy and Daddy’s turn to be away on some much needed vacation time. The scenery does not disappoint! These pictures are a compilation of several days walking hence the varying degrees of overcast and sunny weather. Although the way the weather changes quickly on this island, these could have very well been taken all on the same day! We hope you are getting out and enjoying the changing seasons no…

American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987)

Changing my mind about AI, a freelance experiment, and China again.

Quick bits I finally closed my German bank account. Paying €4.9 per month for an account I no longer use isn’t worth it. Why it costs more to have an unused account than an active account is beyond me. I turned a street corner and saw a few NHS ambulance vehicles with people standing around. Accidentally overheard: “Because the death was unexpected, there will be an investigation.” A murder mystery… on my doorstep?! I saw a white horse outside a pub named The White Horse.1 This week’s projects…

The trend of VC-backed tooling ending in abandonment rears its ugly head again. But hey, people gotta eat, right? The community will pick up the slack and steward the projects, right?

View out to the sea Distant Hill Construction cranes Sail bridge Bridge over water Marina Marina closeup Other The City Gates Wind turbine from the train

Even the most beautiful tram ride eventually comes to a halt. Even the transcontinental railroad has a beginning and an end. It is also true that after eight days of divas, detours, detectives and decadence, the Giornate del Cinema Muto closes its doors for another year. I had a wonderful festival with great films and … Continue reading Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2026: Pordenone Post No 8 →

I’ve always had a soft spot for icons1. Not only do they add polish to a UI, they can also tangibly improve usability. Familiar icons help users find what they need quickly, since we recognize pictures much faster than we read words. And as a web architect at heart, the current dominant ways we have to include icons on the Web make me sad. While there are many, many different ways to include icons in a Web UI, each with different performance characteristics, by far the most common ones involve…

Some people dislike children. Others viscerally love them. I don't have strong feelings. I am perhaps not exposed to them enough to be cornered into either camp.When I see children show up in any social setting, it's often one surrounded by many other adults. The child becomes the center of attention with all the peekiweekies, whistles, claps and the like, and I thus keep to myself. There's plenty enough stimulation for the child to deal with.For now, I remain deep in the throes of the grown-up…

The original Doxy was the first sex toy I ever wrote about on this site, and ever since I tried it I’ve been obsessed. I’m not the only one – since it launched it’s become a staple in the drawers of many sex bloggers, readers, and plenty of my friends as well. I’ve mentioned it […] The post Doxy Die Cast Max: what’s all the Doxy fuss about? appeared first on Girl on the Net.

Source Still the single most impressive Cottonmouth, we have ever seen! This snake was unbelievable in size, I really think part of the reason it’s so big it was likely heavily predating on small invasive pythons, given the area we found it in the Everglades. While we’ve seen thousands of cottonmouths and many big ones, there’s only been one other who compared and it was from central Florida, I’ll post a picture of it in the comments. Also, don’t forget, Cottonmouths do not chase people!