A couple weeks ago, I went on an adventure. I used to do go on adventures all the time as a teenager, but I don't get around to doing it as much these days, work and responsibilities got in the way.…

.app-logo { width: 8rem; height: 8rem; margin-bottom: 2rem; } wp is a menu app that offers a minimal wallpaper switcher. It lets you cycle through your favorite wallpapers on a timeout or with a…

A practical method for collecting, trimming, and organizing links so a list stays useful long after the first share.

I would love to have a bike, to be precise, a cargo-bike. I live in a flat city and having a fast and easy way to do my groceries and move around would be nice. But here's the thing, I live in a…

.app-logo { width: 8rem; height: 8rem; margin-bottom: 2rem; } TrickleBar is a menu app based on aria2 that provides a minimal interface to view and manage your downloads. It requires aria2 to be…

The small details that turn a website from a one-time click into a useful bookmark: clear purpose, fast pages, durable URLs, and something worth returning to.

Going Purple: CRT TV Makeover xD - So, remember the CRT TV from my last article? The one I brought from Nagoya for my Modern Retro Station ? Well... it works great, but it was a little bit boring…

PLEASE stop putting skid malware on torrent sites as South Park episodes

Praise can reward what you did—or announce what you will now be expected to keep doing.

US citizens: call on the Senate to investigate Sen. Collins for possible corruption. US citizens: Join with this campaign to address this issue. To phone your congresscritter about this, the main…

US citizens: thank states and cities for opposing surveillance pricing.

“Write user stories for an ordering portal.” Most requirements prompts look like this. The answer looks plausible, reads well, and nobody can say whether it is good. The next person asks the same…

This quilt was created from a free pattern called Kaffe Fassett Zipper from Free Spirit fabric company. It was intended to be used with a certain pack of fat quarters that was available at the time.…

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…

What is content steering and how it will help solve the multi-CDN complexities in modern media delivery at scale

That is one good looking, nicely lined harbor service boat.

Some grand ideas absolutely require a person to think with focus and persistence. When a large number of shallow thoughts keep pulling you away from your original path, you must stay alert, find ways…

A short video about the forgotten other type of pub: the beer house. Pubs which were only allowed to sell beer.

This post is the companion to the short film 81 degrees at Stonehenge . It sets out why two stones at the centre of the monument are turned off the solstice axis, how far, and how the angle can be…

I haven't been to a mall in yearrsss, sometime back in college. I never really went too much other than with friends to just walk around and hang out for a while. I would probably enjoy going today…

Ah, my sheetrock of shame. Three smashed computer mice. Have I ever mentioned how good it felt to do that? Chess and I had a good run. Then I walked away for a few months [ "Now I Can Quit Chess,"…

Here is this week’s selection of the fools from the past week. It emanates from a blend of religious Fundamentalism with right-wing politics

This is a real blockbuster of an exhibition, not only in sheer size – filling 13 big, sometimes enormous, Royal Academy galleries – but in scope. It’s a sort of (selective) history of…

The London venue Stone Nest seems to be a hub for innovation: in March 2024, I attended a performance of Our Mother, starring Emma Kirkby and with the same ensemble as here, FIGURE. That was…

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…

It is the 20th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo calendar. It is also the Feast of the Maternity of Mary established by Pope Pius XI for the universal Church in 1931, commemorating the…

Last night my friend Zoe texted me how she’d been listening to a podcast and a neuroscientist reworked the phrase “fight or flight,” as, I love this so much: “battle...

In which I talk about music, but also Paris and French history.

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…

Something has changed out there, and you can feel it if you listen. People are not just uneasy about AI anymore. They are angry about it. Not everybody, and not all at once. But the mood has turned,…

Fapws4 is my small and fast Python web server: a single C file built on libuv and picohttpparser, embedding Python, with one process, one thread and one event loop. Over the last few days it received…

The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) is the representative body for radio amateurs worldwide. The IARU President Tim Ellam, VE6SH made a presentation at the 2026 RSGB Conference titled ' What…

Read in BM I didn't sleep at all last night. Want to guess what I was doing? I was building my Neocities site! I finally managed to build the front page after struggling so much. But then, out of…

Man, the budget for this season of Ranma ½ got a serious pimping. Read more

As the cataloguing of more than 5,000 coins in Norway’s largest Viking coin hoard proceeds apace, archaeologist Anne Skogsfjord has identified one of the rarest coins in the country: a silver…

All signs were pointing to an Illini win. My hotel room in Chicago on Thursday night after Big Ten Basketball Media Days was room #217. And then – and this is very important – while…

Llobet: Complete Guitar Music Happy Sunday.  

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I borrowed The Second Chance by Charlotte Butterfield from the library after reading a great review recently from Nicki at Secret Library Book Blog. You can read her review here: The Second Chance.…

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…

My week of Monday 5 to Sunday 11 October 2026 saw me exploring food quite a bit. I baked a snapper. I made fried rice with the leftovers. I explored the wonderful world of baked potatoes. Oh, and I…

When Amazon suspends your account, the dramatic language in their email can mask what's actually happening. This guide breaks down the exact steps to take, how to write an effective Plan of Action,…

Yes, it’s that time of year when, imitating World Athletics, I present the list of the athletes who (to my eyes, obviously) have distinguished themselves during the 2026 season. Is there any need to…

I got an urge to play the launch version of Cyberpunk 2077. Linux is fantastic when you want to play older (or many different) versions of a game, as they can all run in their own Wine prefixes…

Death is the doorway to new perspectives for the stubborn.

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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…

Installing Ollama on Windows, measuring RTX GPU and RAM usage, switching local models, increasing context and connecting Binance MCP. Continue reading.

A London by-election produced a result of exactly 314 votes — and the candidate who got them was the one everyone said would spoil the race.