Last edited 15 minutes ago. So the deed is done. The 11 year long relationship is over. There was no arguing or fighting or begging. Just a lot of crying and sobbing and bleary eyes. We took a walk through the park nearby, and I thought that was fitting. That was one of the first things we did after I moved in with him almost four years ago. It's been barely a week now, my mind is fuzzy and sometimes I feel good about it and sometimes I do not. A huge thank you to everyone who reached out — I…

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On March 19 I made the first commit to a small Mac app that reads RSS and Atom feeds. I wanted one thing from it: open a window, see what the people I follow have written, and read it. No account, no sync service, no algorithm deciding what I see first. Six months and around eighty commits later, it runs on the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. The rules I set three rules on day one, and they have held up. No third-party dependencies. Foundation’s XMLParser handles RSS 2.0 and Atom fine. WebKit renders…

When the October days are as warm as today you have to take advantage. Luckily I have a friend with a cabin on a lake and a canoe. We headed out for a paddle for a couple of hours and I even got some fishing line wet. I just love this time of year. Note tags: autumn, NovaScotia, canoeing

Thanks to the power of Apple Intelligence I’m not missing any phishing emails from a bank I’ve never communicated with and a @gmail.com address.

Please understand that if you ask me to join you and a friend I don't know somewhere where we need to be social and I ask you if they are going to be weird and exoticize me, one of the few wrong answers you can give is to start lecturing me about how all French people are not the same. I will definitely not come then. (This goes for just about any time a friend is looking for reassurance from xenophobia, racism, homophobia, etc. in an unknown setting.) #france #xenophobia #homophobia #racism

Last weekend, Wisconsin, and this weekend, Minnesota, one state to the west. I’m in Minneapolis, to get a feel for the city while Sloane interviews for a job. It’s too bad we don’t have time for a longer trip—two of my remaining eight states are Minnesota neighbors: North and South Dakota. We stumbled right into the the Twin Cities marathon tomorrow—the other twin being St. Paul, the capital city—which we only realized upon texting our only friend in Minneapolis, who happens to be running the…

This week was a bit different. For starters, it rained. And I visited the local office. And I consciously set aside hours to catch up on my writing instead of herding AI or doomscrolling, and again, failed at a bunch of that because–well, I lied. Work has been… odd, discouraging and, above all, draining, so I’ll just get that out of the way: Every time there is a reorganization, a bunch of wheels are reinvented. That is fine; it’s part of the transition process. But the kind of wheels that…

Panta rhei Cratylus, Heraclitus Plutarch once told a story about a boat. The Athenians preserved the ship of Theseus that sailed home from Crete (the guy who killed the Minotaur in the Labyrinth and forgot to change the sails with white ones so his father Aegeus threw himself in the sea filled with grief - giving the name of the Aegean sea), and being conscientious custodians of the memory of the mythical hero they replaced each plank as it rotted, and being philosophically inclined as they are…

Peacock Mandala (no date) by Judith Drury. • A few links related to my own activities this week. Firstly, the mix of the week is a guest mix I put together for The Invisible College. I haven’t made a properly mixed mix for a while. This one was made with Audacity, an application that’s free, open source and multi-platform. Secondly, there’s the news that Ghosts on the Cam, another collection of spectral tales compiled by Robert Lloyd Parry, will be published by Swan River Press in December.…

Squirrel! in Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany Filed under snapshots with tags: Berlin Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜

NEW RELEASE – CLEMENT TRIMOUILLE & JACK KINSELLA Two guitarists bond over vintage voltage, vintage gear, vintage jazz. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Clément Trimouille & Jack Kinsella (guitar, Ties Laarakker (bass), Stéphane Chandelier (drums) Recorded on May 23, 2026 at Zoot Studios, Paris Released as Zoot Records 15 in 2026 Track listing Moonlight Becomes You / Billy’s Beanery / The Party’s Over / All Through The Night / Say It Isn’t So / Our Waltz / Fat Feet [/half] [row-end]…

Ben Nadel demonstrates that the "new java" operator can load Java classes from JAR files in Adobe ColdFusion 2025....

Back at Gruga for some dedicated photography time. Little did I know that it was absolutely packed! The nice weather plus the current "Essen erntet" festival seems to have drawn A LOT of people. Ventured off the beaten path a bit to find some calm. Earphones helped as well. I'd call this two hours well spent. 👉 View 5 more images

This one surprised me, as the launch came with very little fanfare: the Mongol pencil brand has apparently been reborn. I inadvertently discovered these pencils while browsing one of our distributor websites, and since I collect vintage woodcase pencils, well, I had to pick some up to see if they were worthy of the name. The new Mongol (bottom) compared against a vintage Mongol 482. The original Eberhard Faber (later Faber-Castell) Mongol pencil was considered a quality office brand intended…

Pushing through and showing up. Well that was Buffy's chapter for today. I'm just a player in the story, lol. Anyways, Weekly Wrapup: Run For Cancer (3rd Place Podium) WFH at Dreamy Draw Bike Ride at Dreamy Draw Drum Circle Guitar Lesson SUN VER Bike Ride ~10 Miles - 900 feet climbing Day off due to Family Issues Worked n#ked at Sycamore - Buffy pulled it together and Pushed Through 1st Friday Drumcircle ![Upload of IMG_8308.jpeg failed] This post (A Week - Pushing Through and Showing Up) was…

A very silly role-playing game about introspective thugs with big pointy sticks. Inspired by this BlueSky post, and written by someone who has never read Proust. You will need: Pencils or pens. Paper - you could use paper plates because you may need something to catch biscuit crumbs. 1d100, 1d20, and (maybe) 1d6. A packet of biscuits - these can be any sort of token, really, but with

Two very good things happened yesterday. Here’s a breakdown of people’s reactions: Are we sure the things are good? Are we sure of the source of the good news? Wait, what bad things will these good things bring? Let’s celebrate! I’d offer a more elaborate analysis of what this says about people's coping skills when confronted with good news, but I’m out celebrating :).

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A lovingly made animated film. Not only is Mr. Fox fantastic - everyone is. And so is the story, the sets, the music. And as typical for Mr. Anderson, it sometimes difficult to appreciate all those little details during the first viewing.👍 Recommended!

Truman and I enjoyed a moment gazing out the window this week. After the moment Truman expected treats. Of course he received them.

Some reflections and learnings after 2,000 days of meditation. No, I can't levitate. Yes, I'm imperfect and still have a lot to learn.

I treated myself to a CD of Kenny Garrett’s 2003 album Standard of Language, having been seduced by the Penguin Guide to Jazz calling it “unmissable” (and indeed I was not disappointed); the eighth track is called “Gendai,” and of course I had to look that up in my Japanese dictionary, where it was defined as ‘the present age, modern times; modern, contemporary, current.’ But then I wanted to know the etymology, so I turned to Wiktionary, where I learned that it was from Chinese 現代 (xiàndài),…

“Side Two” LP in progress. At 14 songs, it is nearly complete. I expect to release it before the year’s end. The post Another Saturday, Another Song. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

Upon seeing the screenshots of this game, and apparently not bothering to read the description, I bought it assuming it was a more horror-themed Kikikaikai-style shooting game. Other than each starring a young female exorcist, however, the two games have almost nothing in common! What Deep Shinonome: Yin Yang Maiden (which is the name it's given in the Switch's UI, while Shinonome Abyss: The Maiden Exorcist is what's on the title screen)actually is is a stage-based survival horror game,…

I’m starting sewing down the appliqué for the front of my jacket. I’m hoping to finish it this weekend. Selfie a day for a year, day 42: Oct 3, 2026 edition.

littleFedi is "A small ActivityPub server written in Go" It was officially released (I think) yesterday, and is another project from Stefano Marinelli of BSSG fame. A few years ago I'd decided I wanted to "own my content" 🙄 so I ran an instance of Mastodon. Mastodon is overkill and I didn't enjoy it. Then, later, I installed an instance of Go2Social, which worked well. Trouble was, I was all-in with social media at the time and being on a single-user instance felt lonely...nothing useful in…

Autograph Hound Saturday — and Brian Leno got so excited over his new bust of King Kong he began digging in his extensive files of John Hancocks, and look what he’s found: Here’s some King Kong fun. The drawing of Kong is signed by the three principals in the film, Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot and Robert “Bob” Armstrong. The Armstrong is a little messy but he added 1934, which helps a lot. It also bears the signature of John Northpole, who played a sailor in Kong. He had parts in Citizen Kane, Captain…

Talking Heads Speaking In Tongues Get It At Discogs Talking Heads found a way to open up the dense textures of the music they had developed with Brian Eno on their two previous studio albums for Speaking in Tongues, and were rewarded with their most popular album yet. Ten backup singers and musicians accompanied the original quartet, but somehow the sound was more spacious, and the music admitted aspects of gospel, notably in the call-and-response of "Slippery People," and John Lee Hooker-style…

My newest MCP experiment was to add it in WT Builder and then Claude was able to watch me creating content in near real-time through tool calls and give me immediate feedback on typos and grammar suggestions.