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,…

Thoughts on notes, tasks, and life Today a registered letter arrived at my place. It was a conspicuously passport-sized envelope, addressed to my baby grandson. I signed for it, and immediately sent a photo of the envelope with his mother to announce its anticipated arrival. Hooray! she exclaimed. Open it, and show me his dear little face! Done. We bathed in the cuteness. Then she said, It’s his first ever letter, I’ll have to keep the envelope. Oh. Oh dear. In my haste, I had torn the envelope…

If you compare this video to the one I took several weeks ago, you can see just how much happier and healthier the turkey is now that he can roam around outside of the coop, safe from literal henpecking. When I took this video on Saturday, I got a good look at the area on his back which was so bad before, and it seems largely healed now. He still spends a lot of his time near the fence, but that seems to be because he’s learned I throw feed corn over the fence when I come out around noon; after…

McGoohan as the ambitious Johnny Cousin.William Shakespeare's plays have provided the source material for science fiction films (Forbidden Planet), Westerns (Jubal), musicals (Kiss Me, Kate), and dramas (Ran). One of the most intriguing contemporary updates is All Night Long (1962), which is set against the backdrop of the 1960s London jazz scene.The story unfolds in one evening at a jam party hosted by a wealthy jazz aficionado (Richard Attenborough). Patrick McGoohan stars as Johnny Cousin, a…

For me, one of life’s great pleasures is standing at the bar in a pub and resting my elbow on the counter while vertical drinking and putting the world to rights. Thankfully, most establishments have a decent length of counter, which dates to railway architecture in the 1830-1840s. The modern-day expansive bar counter was created…

A reader recently asked me this to write about balance: “I’d like to read your takes on how to balance the tendency of slow living or the one-thing-at-a-time approach to life and staying current in the fast-paced world. Moreover, how to balance honoring decisions to slow down and also not fall into irrelevance, especially when you’re pursuing professional goals or passion projects you’d like to flourish.” I had a similar conversation with a friend who runs his own business. He told me, “Man,…

In my head I keep going around in circles: AI search is incredibly convenient. I see more and more people using AI search exclusively. Yes, that’s partly because Google pushes AI Overviews and is making conversational search the default. Yes, the answers are not always accurate, but many people don’t mind, or simply ask again until they get a more plausible-sounding answer. AI search is a time-saver. For the vast majority of non-expert users, the AI search experience feels superior. You don’t…

Sep 8 - Sep 10 这周突然想用中文写个周记。 跑步 这两周里前一周跑了4次，包括一次12km的长距离，也是沿着海湾跑到歌剧院和植物园，一路上完全没有红绿灯的烦恼实在是太棒了。最喜欢这条路线，因为风景怎么都看不腻，没什么感觉就十公里了。这一周达到了晚上十点到十点半之间的早睡目标。 第二周，周末两天有事，一整周都没怎么锻炼，只有在周五跑了6km。这周没有早睡，基本上在十一点左右睡的。 为了之后加长长距离的训练，我下单了一些 sis 能量胶，因为我之前的几次比赛都是吃的这个牌子。然后收到了沉甸甸的一盒。最近周一因为下班后要赶去上课，我试了喝一包 Up & Go （好喝），再吃一个谷物能量棒，看着家里的能量胶囤货，我觉得我已领先进入星际小说的“营养液”时代。不过仅限于周一，其余时候还是自己做饭。 阅读 通勤路上还在听 Mist Born 系列的第三部，但是这又是巨长的一本书，所以进展缓慢。 和新认识的朋友去市中心的 Kinokuniya…

A breezy morning, I raise anchor and motor up to the top of Waterman Cove for better protection. Mid-morning texts begin arriving from Matto and Bobby. They are both on their way to Perry Cove, Bobby coming down from up north and Matto coming up from Seal Cove on the east side of Vinalhaven.10:45 I see them coming down the Thorofare. I sail to Perry Cove under mizzen and jib, we all head in together. Matto grabs a morning for TRIM, SPARTINA ties us to his port and Bobby's LAGNIAPPE ties up on…

Are the cultural forms that Śrīla Prabhupāda brought from India essential to the cultivation of krishna-bhakti? Or can we separate bhakti from the culture in which it has traditionally been expressed and simply translate its essential principles into whatever cultural forms are most familiar to us? Before answering that question, we need to clarify what we mean by “Indian culture.” Some use the term to refer simply to the behaviors and customs that developed in India over the course of history.…

I'm in the process of making a display board for my 3d printed 1:144 WW1 aircraft.I've 3d printed some little pedestals, and glued a 6x2.5mm magnet into a socket at the top of each one. The models all have steel pegs in their bellies for attachment to magnetized flight stands, so they cling quite happily to the board. I'll paint it tomorrow.The board can go on a plate-stand thing for display, or I suppose I could hang it like a picture. The benefit of it is that it makes very conveniently…

In the middle of the pandemic, I decided to buy a smartwatch. I already had my first iPhone by then, so getting an Apple Watch seemed like the obvious choice. That is how I ended up ordering my first Apple watch from Amazon: a 44mm Apple Watch Series 6 GPS. I already knew these kinds of devices. A lot of people around me had one from one brand or another, but I was never particularly interested in them. To me, they mostly looked like an extension of your phone, basically a notification device…

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: Frontier Agents on a Smaller Memory Budget Paper Model A lot of recent progress in language models has focused on better reasoning, larger reinforcement-learning runs, and increasingly sophisticated agent training. One of the many remaining bottlenecks is the context. Coding agents, research agents, and tool-using systems repeatedly process hundreds of thousands of tokens while generating comparatively little output. At that point, prefill compute and the KV cache become…

Generative tools have made production more accessible. Using natural language alone, we can now give form to ideas that would otherwise have required one or more skilled practitioners to execute. Generated material now permeates both digital products and the physical world. As plausible output becomes nearly free, the premium once attached to production itself declines. More of the value moves into judgment. Expectations rise with that shift, and so does the bar for competent work.Generated…

Made by Peige, huge thanks! This will be featured in my upcoming Neocities page that I've slowly been getting together.

Mittags-Abgrund: Mittags-AbgrundOut 15th September on Darkness Shall Rise Productions True to the legacy of Russian black metal, this is a piece of impeccably landscaped material, conjuring a fully scoped out environment before our eyes, vast and inhospitable whilst compelling the listener onward, provoking their impulse for exploration. However, Mittags-Abgrund go further in populating this terrain with activity, life, conflict, struggle. The setting may be sparse in the mould of the…

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In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s Said the Dead is wholly atmospheric and inventively told, one of the most impressive postmodern ghost novels I have read. Kirkus wrote of the book: “Ní Ghríofa brings…

I've always made the :visited attribute for hyperlinks look the same as links that haven't been visited, and it seems that it's the default behaviour across the web. I've never really given it much thought, until I actually used :visited in anger. My feed reader of choice, Miniflux uses the :visited attribute properly, making visited links purple. When reading posts from the hundreds of blogs I follow via RSS, I find it really useful to see if I've already visited a link within a post. So with…

I chose a Chinese name before coming to Taiwan and it’s served me well. Most of my friends here call me some variation of Zhen-Kang (振康), and I like it.When I received permanent residency last year, my Chinese name became official. I now have two names on my Taiwan identity card: My original English name (written in English), plus my Chinese name (written in Traditional Chinese).When making online purchases, signing contracts, or using my name in any official capacity, I can choose which to…

Day Nine in Tokyo. Joshoyu beat Chiyonotaka and remains the only undefeated rikishi in Jonokuchi. Eisei locked up his kachi-koshi against Kotokawabuchi. Congratulations! The Abema footage of his win is below. Makushita has narrowed to a three man race between Tenshoyama, Inami and Yumenofuji. In Juryo, Kagayaki defeated Kayo and took a two-win lead. Kagayaki … Continue reading Aki 2026: Day Nine

Today’s TDC says: “Lasts: The last trip to the pool. Or the lake. The last hike. The last popsicle. Capture your warm weather favorites before it really cools down!” Lisa Truesdell This week we’re up in Findhorn on what will be our last seaside holiday of the year. On Saturday I took this photo as we walked along the sea front. Sunset at Findhorn flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Up at 5:30, calm with a broken overcast. I listen to the sound of the rushing tide. No rush to go anywhere, and my phone app show rain coming. Stay under the boom tent and relax. Cool air comes at 8:00. 8:30 a light rain arrives with a cup of hot chocolate. 9:15 rain moves on. 9:40 anchor up, under power. Motor over to Matt's boat to say it was nice to meet him and wish him a good trip home.10:00 sails up outside of the anchorage, a light mist falling. Motor sailing with just a hint of a…

It wouldn’t be a stretch to call Edwin C. Litchfield the father of Park Slope. Born in 1815, Litchfield became a prominent lawyer who resided in Greenwich Village and made big money investing in railways. In 1852, he saw the potential of a new kind of investment: in land on the sleepy outskirts of Brooklyn. Litchfield (second image) cobbled together a $250,000 deal for a square mile of former Cortelyou pasture and swampy meadows between Gowanus Creek and Mount Prospect. His vision was a…

Want me to apply the fix and commit it? ❯ why wouldn't i? ● No reason — I was asking out of habit rather than because there was a real decision left. Applying it. I'm just checking you're just checking.

September 21, 2026 Ray Camden linked to RSS Lookup in his Links For You (9/20/26) post, and I thought I’d share it too. I often find a site I want to follow, only to discover that its RSS feed is hard to find. With RSS Lookup, you paste in the site’s URL and it searches for available feeds. There’s also a bookmarklet you can add to your bookmarks bar and use while you’re on a site. Once it finds a feed, you can copy its URL or use the eye button to see the latest post.