If someone had told me a year ago that I would be spending time choosing bras, working out my cup size and thinking about which one was most comfortable to sleep in, I would probably have laughed. Yet that is where I find myself now. The reason is fairly straightforward. My breasts have developed due to the treatment with Finesteride for my enlarged prostate. Eventually I reached the point where the need for support wasn't just something I could ignore due to the jiggling and wobbling of my…

I have entered into the fourth and final year of studying my Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering.

September 21, 2026 I've been experimenting with Spotlight's Siri AI integration since updating to macOS 27. I wanted to launch a Keyboard Maestro macro from Spotlight, but selecting the macro opened it in the editor instead. So I asked Siri AI how I might do that and it suggested exporting the macro as a trigger file. Once Spotlight indexes the file, selecting it runs the macro.

By Demi ElGatoPossum Print GamesOSELevels 3-6 Verzogen Vald is a twisted forest surrounded by impassable, jagged peaks. Folk that go in almost never come back out. One man has, but in his two weeks in those woods, he looks to have aged decades. His memory is not completely reliable, and his fellow lumberjacks think him insane. Though, they are disconcerted by his unnaturally fast aging, and his stories of what lurks in those woods. Every two hours, the great Green Dragon, Viridis, flies over…

I recently built Date Trees, an Obsidian plugin to help me better organize my journal entries and daily notes. You can download it from the Obsidian plugin directory, or read the rest of this post to understand why I built it. Note I built this plugin almost entirely using coding agents. I reviewed every line of generated code, and often rewrote parts of it when it wasn't up to snuff. I also added an excess of comments to the code to ensure I understood it completely (a post for another day).…

The tech is there for us, if we want it You know it's obligatory for one to rewrite their blog from scratch every couple of years (months?). It's possible I may have found a solution for this because this blog has been up since 2022 and while I've been curious about other tools, I never found sufficient reason to replace it. The winning tech seems to be the Wagtail CMS which is an opinionated configuration of Django. I never really spent too much time writing code for it (apart from a couple of…

Mini-Server, Part 33 Recipe Pesto DIY Incubator Entropy Arbitrage, the Posts Entropy Arbitrage, the Code Library Updates Next Today—from last night’s sunset to tonight’s—marks Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, centered on (to nobody’s surprise, given the term) atonement and repentance. These days, I always forget to check the holidays on Lunar calendars1, so I want to cycle more in, and what better an example than probably the most important? And with that, on to the week’s projects.…

The Self-Styled Mayor of BalhamTime Out have two wonderful books of London Walks - all curated by writers/comedians/artists. This walk is a quick jaunt in Balham, created by the comedian Arthur Smith. The associated essay suggests that he lives at the visited Du Cane Court - as you may see him on the way to the shops. In his capacity as the self-styled Mayor of Balham, he promises a gold embossed certificate for those completing the walk. But we know he is a comedian, so it is unlikely to be…

WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE Bayer’s Kerendia First Drug in 30 Years for T1D-Associated Kidney Disease Eversense 365 to Integrate with the iLet Bionic Pancreas Medtronic Begins Final Steps to Separate MiniMed Seeking a Fresh Start, Novo Drops the “Nordisk” How to Use Social Media to Enhance Diabetes Education Fixing the Most Overlooked Problem in Diabetes: Your Skin Touched by Type 1 Annual Conference — September 26 I Can’t Sleep.

This week, new court records from the three year old New York Times' lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal something explosive. High-level executes at both companies knew what they were doing was a crime and they continued to do it anyway. This cuts against their claims of "fair use," shows willful disregard for the law, and – at least from my layperson understanding of the law – may be enough to open them up to RICO charges.Now, let me say for the record that I don't believe copyright…

After watching rival campaigns flood YouTube with desperate sixty-second videos begging viewers for micro-donations of one dollar or fifty cents, congressional candidate Bill Fold announced a complete strategic overhaul. He will simply pay constituents fifty dollars cold hard cash in exchange for their vote.Fold pointed out the baffling mathematics of modern political fundraising, where candidates hire dozens of digital consultants to raise money solely to buy more ads asking for smaller…

December of 1901 at the construction the St. Regis Hotel, temporarily called “the Astor Building.” At the beginning of the month, the steel skeleton, the concrete floor slabs, and the heavy masonry facade were all simultaneously in progress. The 55th Street (north) side: And the Fifth Avenue (west) side: I mentioned in the last part of this series how out-of-scale the building was with its neighbors, rowhouses on Fifth and more-pretentious single houses on 55th. Obviously that disparity only…

As a teenager my life was pro-wrestling, and thankfully I found myself living in Memphis, Tennessee which was home to two major wrestling promotions at the time. There was Power Pro Wrestling, which was a feeder organization into the WWF that aired Saturday mornings, and then there was Kick Ass Wrestling, Memphis' own version of ECW which aired at 1:30 AM on Sunday mornings. Over time, there was some financial disagreements, and Kick Ass Wrestling was bought and turned into Memphis Championship…

I had hoped to review this second entry in the Dorothy Gentleman‘s series, back in March; alas, best laid plans and all that.My reading mojo has been so inconsistent, that it’s now over six months after publication. Beware: Alzheimer’s Nobody’s Baby, by Olivia Waite One of the very real joys of genre fiction is finding those literary spaces where one feels safe. Sometimes, we need spaces where nothing truly bad happens, and other times, we just need the safety net of knowing that, even when…

Back over to Essex this weekend. We had a holiday flat in Walton-on-the-Naze which we used to spend a lot of time at. Around the time we were moving to the opposite side of the country some friends and neighbours there were looking to downsize and rent. So they’ve been our lovely tenants up until now when they’ve moved away. So we drove over (well, Mary did the driving as usual) on Friday to check the place was fine. It was. hmu if you want a nice two-bed flat with a sea view in a…

I wake to see Matto rowing TRIM out of the anchorage. He is off to Rockland to haul out. I can see Bobby is up and stowing gear on LAGNIAPPE, getting ready to head west to Portland.6:05 cast off from the mooring and it is a gentle drift over to LAGNIAPPE. I tell Bobby it was good to see him, hope to see him in the fall on Chesapeake Bay.6:50 out on Fox Island Thorofare, 3.3. Sailing into the wind with an opposing tide, it is a pleasant series of tacks with North Haven to starboard and…

I arrived a little later than I should have. This seems to be turning into a habit. Not a happy one, mind you. Also, there are so many companies in this area, around the Esplanade Park. This sure is a popular area; beautiful too. How CRA affects today's agentic driven development by Ishani Bhardwaj and Berk Türetken, Consultants @ Netlight This talk was about CRA, which I did not know anything about before this. CRA is an EU Law that requires manufacturing companies to be responsible for…

Lady of Rain sent some of her People to hills surrounding forest. There they dug deeply into untouched ground. She said they would find treasure. The Child God taught them how best to be safe and work hard without peril. Their tunnels were deep and expertly shored. They had much light and fresh air. The mines all yielded many great treasures. Lady of Rain’s promise kept. There were precious ores and many less so for use in simple living. They also found gems, the kind adorning beloved Lady of…

A short work of fiction. 1 Ruth called during an episode of Seinfeld that was being generated as Alexandre watched. She was already at the cinema. He asked the generator how much of the episode remained. It asked when he needed to leave. “Two minutes,” he said. He found his coat while it finished. Ruth had kept him a seat in the crowded cinema. She moved her coat without looking at him. They were showing an old film whose maker kept appearing onscreen to interrupt one story with another. When…

One of the principle reasons for our recent trip to Brighton was to collect a painting. Some time ago I was fortunate enough to work alongside talented graphic designer / artist Siân Klein at an art centre here in Oxford. She fled the city and headed to the coast during pandemic times, but we’ve just about stayed in touch, and I recently learned that she’d turned her hand to landscapes. Specifically she’s produced a series of bright acrylic paintings that celebrate the geometry of cityscapes.…

One of the principal reasons for our recent trip to Brighton was to collect a painting. Some time ago I was fortunate enough to work alongside talented graphic designer / artist Siân Klein at an art centre here in Oxford. She fled the city and headed to the coast during pandemic times, but we’ve just about stayed in touch, and I recently learned that she’d turned her hand to landscapes. Specifically she’s produced a series of bright acrylic paintings that celebrate the geometry of cityscapes.…

first replacement slats fittedNo hiccups getting this set fitted. Wasn't sure that I would have room to move the apron up/down on to align the dowels.hmm......I tapped the slats down fully in the bottom apron. On the top one I set them in part way. I then use the mallet to tap the apron up/down until the dowels in the legs aligned with the dowel holes in the aprons. Yesterday this was dicey as the slats would pop out before I got the alignment set.checking the 2nd setI had 9 slats to chose from…

Flare now has a dark mode, and this post walks through the design work needed to make it feel right and stay accessible. Nice details on semantic color tokens, fixing gradients and shadows, and using screenshot comparisons to keep the light theme intact. Read more

Detail of the construction of a new residential tower being built adjacent to the Shops at Park Lane in Dallas. The post New Tower Going Up appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

The Black Creek Stopping-House and Other StoriesNellie L. McClungToronto: William Briggs, 1912224 pagesWe have here a collection of short stories by a writer best known as a novelist.Scratch that.Nellie McClung is remembered today as a campaigner for women's rights. I learned this in 1973 when my mum brought home a sheet of newly issued postage stamps bearing her portait.My mother was born at a time when women in Canada were not considered persons under the law. Strange but true. She wasn't…

Editor’s note: Article originally published on September 23, 2018. According to Rick Riordan, author of the acclaimed young adult series Percy Jackson, “Names had power!” Among the first questions people ask parents upon the birthday of a child is “which name did you choose? Names also possess a meaning. Now you may or may not … Continue reading 3 Similarities I Share with my Namesake— Saint Matthew The post 3 Similarities I Share with my Namesake— Saint Matthew first appeared on The Simple…

I haven't been posting many links recently. That‘s the thought that occurred to me earlier. I've been busy coding mostly. Anyway I decided to go for a bit of a search for some interesting posts. Pretty quickly I found 4 blog posts that sounded interesting from their titles. This post, this one, this one and this one. I go them all on Hacker News main page. So I opened all four in 4 separate tabs, git myself a coffee and started reading. Each one starts out looking like it might be something…

What if you could play golf with your Animal Crossing neighbours? I just thought of this idea and love it.

Use Johnny Decimal, set up a Zettelkasten, implement the PARA method, buy a Bullet Journal... none of it matters if you never do the work. I often read about people setting up these elaborate systems to save time. It only took you 3 weeks to set up, but think about how much time you will save going forward! It's bollocks. You're spending hours tweaking plugins, tags, and folder trees to avoid a five-minute task you don't want to do. All it does is give you the cheap dopamine hit of feeling…

I have spent the last 10 minutes reading a Wikipedia article about Hurricane Hugo. People who dismiss Wikipedia articles probably haven't read any in the past 20 years--they can be downright scholarly. I got absorbed in various parts of the history of that storm, when all I really wanted to know is the day and time it came ashore in South Carolina.The answer to that question: very early on September 22, which means that on this day in 1989, I'd have been waking up nervous. In the afternoon,…