For no particular reason other than "I wanted to see if I could", I added an ActivityPub server to this domain ( wrla.ch ). If it worked, you should be able to subscribe to future posts on from this…

I just came across a fascinating visualization of rail in Europe. You can also visualize other places like the US, but as you know, there isn’t much to see there in the way of trains. What is…

This is a response to James' posts about inspiration from physical artifacts and how to organize them . My home bookshelf is almost full, but it still houses a bunch of reference books that can be…

The man with the wide-brimmed hat approached me first. "Excuse me sir," he said. "What's the only state that ends with a K?" I slowed down, shrugged, then picked up my pace. "You're living in it!" he…

AI can enable genuine transformation. But leaders and boards should be alert when the language of innovation is being used to obscure a conventional cost-out program that shifts work, capability and…

The next alpha version, 0.2, of my "do-the-work" Git repository viewer is now available; you can try it out on git.legoktm.com. My previous post explained the rationale behind it; in short: this…

Hello, Internet, and good mornight to you all! My name is Taffryne, shoppekeeper of Midnight on Memory Lane , and it is my absolute delight to welcome you to this week's gathering for Manga Monday!…

More times than I can count, I have looked over at my mother while we were watching a movie, singing together, or simply holding a conversation, and have seen her eyes just full of tears. And when I…

I’ve been using YNAB for a few years now, but the way I organize my budget today is very different from how I started. Before YNAB, I used Mint. Mint encouraged a fairly traditional approach to…

In 1569, a Flemish geographer named Gerardus Mercator published a world map that would shape how humans see the planet for the next 457 years. The map was 202 by 124 centimeters, printed in 18…

Today was pretty alright. I got up early and my partner had set our new coffee machine to have coffee ready for me when I got up, so I got to enjoy a nice hot coffee and a breakfast burrito with some…

Verdict first: this is the funniest short novel of the eighteenth century, the most widely taught, the most widely mistranslated, and the most widely misread. Read it in a new translation. Read it…

Would you believe, I have actually written about ZZ Top? I reviewed their Greatest Hits along with a Lynyrd Skynyrd box set. ZZ TOP, Greatest Hits Melody Maker , 1993 Like 'funk', like 'raunch',…

Nights Of Azure 2 is the sequel to the first game developed by GUST. It focuses Aluche who must stop the azure moon from coming to protect the land. The game is notable for its timer mechanic which…

kind of crazy to realize i'm a few weeks away from my 33rd birthday. you guys, i actually did something this week!!! vibe: nick and i listening to mid-spiral, drinking coffee (yes, 6pm). ill cook…

Why do I do things? Sometimes it's because Business Cat lives in my head.

Weeknotes again, twice in a row, it really has been a while since that happened. Anyway! From August 18 to 24, 2026.

Ambient membership. Important card. Carry at all times.

We rarely talk anymore, but every year we still exchange the same birthday texts we’ve sent each other for decades. I’ve started wondering how long this little piece of our friendship will last.

In a small city of some 5,000, you would expect there to be some overlap between the city council and other institutions in town, like the volunteer fire department, the PTA, or the Kiwanis Club. One…

First: hi, this is the official Kaijuville entree into RSS Club. 👊 Email subscribers to this site got a second ping last week, because somehow while proofing my…

Believe that what you know is enough, and the vast gulf of what you don't know will cease to scare you. With the barrier of fear demolished, the unknown will become accessible to you. When you are…

Have you lived somewhere other than your birthplace? How many languages can you converse in? How do you think you’d fare in political prison? Do you have a hard time in airports with the way you…

I think I have eaten something that my body disagreed. I have been unwell for nearly 24 hours. The abdominal pain has been annoying. Instead of lying down on bed, I decide to keep working by going…

new blog post about what i've been up to in the last couple months--my birthday, art fight, and my first convention, AnimeNYC!

TrendWeight has an API now. If you're comfortable writing a bit of code, you can pull your weight data out (including the calculated trend values you see on your dashboard) and push new weight reading

I added 5 new games to my favorite games section, which are Steins;Gate, Vermintide 2, Call of Duty 4, MW2, and World at War.

How I hacked custom sounds into the onboard memory of my Ozlo Sleepbuds 2 for phone-free local playback.

I’ve been working on Taste Library for some time. It’s a web app that lets you manage and show off your collection. Here is what it looks like: The main inspiration behind Taste Library is Delicious…

A moss-covered Toyota Land Cruiser sits wedged in a forgotten sunken road, and nobody can say how it got there.

Regular readers know I pick up litter every day, in particular in Washington Square Park, effectively my back yard. It’s one of my sidchas. Today I must have arrived in the park just after a…

At long last, Velvetlori's site rehaul is COMPLETE! Thank you so much for your patience during the site's construction period (人´∀`) I'm so excited to post more content soon!

Even though you might have already lost so much, like a few friends of mine which lost their cars in a car crash, essentially totaled them (they are fine, though), it got me thinking, after seeing…

What Glenfarne and the “Build the Line!” propaganda campaign want Alaskans to forget about are the extravagant promises of 2025 that Donald Trump would make the Alaska LNG pipeline a reality.…

I think a root cause for why I have been struggling so much with everything in life is that I am desperately fearful and unhappy, and I don’t know what to do about it. Our civilizational crisis…

" Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be." -Temple Grandin <p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal;…

TL;AI is a recipient-first communication principle built from BLUF, the Pyramid Principle, SBAR, speech-act theory, progressive disclosure and AI transparency.

Made sweet and sour chicken with rhubarb (plus a little brown sugar) in place of pineapple. Turned out quite well, despite having added the bell peppers a smidge too early. Annual skin check today.…

A place to find answers for my questions. Another monday in the life of a 26 year old who is in the rat race but do not know what he is running for. Woke up the morning with a heavy heart, confused,…

My guilty secret is that I have a voice in my head that is constantly watching and judging everything around it; it's looking for anything that it thinks is even remotely performative, unorthodox, or…

New starter is in1, and it Works! Your browser don't support HTML5 video I had some help from a family member. And by help, I was the help. I was the tool monkey, they did the…

The purpose of this post is clear from the title so I'll just get right into it. Start working out regularly I started going to the gym regularly around 3 years ago, but I actually did workout…

Filesystem operations in Python can feel clumsy, because the relevant operations are distributed over so many different modules in the standard library: some are in os (itself very large and…

UPDATE: Will only move forward if I get enough volunteers. Otherwise, I’ll make a donation when I can! R's post on Cara's situation presented all the context that's needed, so please check that out…

For as long as I have known my youngest, which is about 7 years now (😅), she has never been a sauce kind of girl. Ketchup, Luna? No! BBQ Sauce,...

The Lego bricks of the web, HTML, are now available on your happy Pika (Pro) blog! You can insert custom hypertext markups in posts and pages, including your default home page, via the small text…

Before the Internet things were different; this was the First Age. If you wanted to get your message out there you needed either a lot of money, fame, or power. Usually you needed some combination of…

The following snippet doesn't compile: struct A { static constexpr size_t size() { return 42; } int data_[size()]; }; The problem is that the size (and therefore the type) of data member `data_`…

Claude redesigned a bunch of our webpages and app screens. 3 months later I'm undoing it all

Three hours of code, $200,000 in a week, 190+ clones nobody remembers. Four laws on why copying a viral hit almost never works.