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.

Éthique à l’usage de mon fils Personal Rating: 9/10 - I read this book while I was in grade 9. It profoundly changed my perspective on life and started to spark my interest in different areas of…

Xinjiang 新疆 An autonomous zone. The “wild west” of china. Only 5% habitable. 他们有这种考的鸡蛋，必须得试一试。比煮的鸡蛋香多了。.

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…

Secret Weapons (1972, David Cronenberg) In a 1977 future during the North American civil war, a drug company has taken over the country and “the holy police are experts in psychic…

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!

My husband during a rest break on our ride. We generally stop for ice cream…

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…

DNA-based unravelling of history is one of the great amazements of our time: - Birds are dinosaurs! - Most of us are partly Neanderthal! - The humans who actually killed off Neanderthals left no…

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.…

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 city’s auditor general is criticizing municipal garbage management: too much of the city’s waste is still going to landfill, communication and information to citizens is poor, people…

Spent my down time at work today elbows deep in the files for my book in eternal progress. There are things in my notes that I’ve both completely forgotten about and that I’ve completely forgotten…

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…

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,...

I'm always checking out new music and seeing what's trending. Sometimes I agree that an artist/song sounds good and am pleased when they start taking off and I hear their music on the radio ( Dominic…

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 last booking we had to do for South Africa fell into place last week.…

I have started a new podcast called “Every Sound There Is: Exploring The Beatles’ Songs”. I know you’ve got friends and family who love The

A guy’s dog finds a severed hand by the river, the guy says “ow my balls” and jaunty TV theme music starts. Fulci in TV detective show mode, it almost looks like a proper movie but…

People who played TOCA Race Driver remember the other cars. They take a line. They brake late and run wide. The compliment is always that they feel driven. I already had the container. Codemasters…

I’m currently reading Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever (2025), a physicist’s tour of the ideologies of Silicon Valley: the Singularity, AI doom, effective altruism,…

The sixteenth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out: In Episode 16, I chat with Nic, the author of nicchan.me about, among other things, using the web as a design tool, web accessibility, learning…

My European software radar: the complete list of software (hosting, payment, monitoring) that I use or recommend to launch a product in Europe.

My field guide to surviving the jump from Mac to Windows and WSL, without losing a week to filesystem gotchas.

Should a language model review your paper?

Beta 6 is a quiet one. device-interaction learns tvOS, and the translation skill goes from 20 locale style guides to 56.

SE-0546 proposes allowing us to declare a struct's memberwise initializer in a same-file extension. Let's see how it works.

How jf-hosting-command wraps the WP Engine and PressWP REST APIs behind a single command surface — jf-host sites list pulls installs from both platforms into one table, jf-host cache flush detects…

"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "Nor is there anyone who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it,…

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." — Carl Sagan Most mornings I make a cheese sandwich. Two slices of bread, some butter, a few slabs of…

Surely a progress bar can't affect performance that much?

“Spending 4 hours writing a post that goes nowhere.” That’s the opening line of a rant I found on LinkedIn yesterday. I get it! What spend hours on something nobody sees? The algorithm always favors…

The industry spent two years teaching you to call your agent a teammate. Now watch what happens the first time something breaks.

Coffee Journey & Bake is a cozy little cafe only a 2 minute walk from Takadanobaba station. The Japanese name is 地球を旅するCAFE or "the cafe travelling around the world" which sounds a little cuter. They…

A while back I wrote about how I set up Authentik forward auth with Traefik on NixOS. It worked fine but recently I decided to rebuild my homelab/vps from scratch and decided to try moving to Pocket…

Don't use AI to ship software faster. Use it to ship better software.

This is one of those bookmarks for future me, from https://infosec.exchange/@hal_pomeranz/115220370083388046, wherein it is stated that the following incantation against the /proc filesystem will…

Rebuilding haiku.joecooper.me for CPU-only inference.