The World The Iran ceasefire is "holding", more or less, although both sides have accused the other of violations almost immediately and there are some strikes being exchanged over the past few days…

What I’m focused on right now

I had a tougher week than usual. Someone I deeply care about had a bad fall, followed by the passing of Om. It made me think again about the impermanence of life:...

Yesterday, our son hit a milestone 11 years in the making achieving a black belt grade in karate. The happiest thing about it for me wasn’t the achievement however; despite how proud I am of…

Nau maiYesterday we played a show at the Detroit Fillmore. The first photograph of my new series From the Bus. Mortar oozes from century old brickwork in the alleyway behind the Fillmore. My…

i've been thinking about fandom, and getting other people into the things you like. like, what that means, for you two. it means a lot, right? because you are what you like, in a way; at the least,…

It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot…

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Beavis and Butt-Head Become A.I. Tech Bros Will A.I. finally be able to help Beavis and Butt-Head score? It did everybody else’s…

Ghost Cartridge / Mantrakid – looking into people’s windows First up tonight, on a night when I’m seeking a semblance of harmony amidst the roar of preparation for a long vacation…

Ride buses enough, you’ll get to know some of the regulars, maybe not by name, but by face and demeanor, especially on the routes nearest your house. For me that’s the #99, and today…

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished…

the best version of yourself is not a future version. it is a daily choice.

Ooof. I had my troubles back in college, and the counselor assigned to me used MBTI. I'm not sure if the test was mandated by the university but hell, having to take the test before the first meeting…

Leafy Intro Welcome to the 286th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-form…

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Every time I visit my father in the rural southern (usa) town he moved to, I lament being a muslim woman just a little. Every other demographic of people has the ability to hide their religion and…

For almost three weeks I have been writing in a paper journal in the evening or sometimes in the morning. The first attempts were a struggle: hand pain, handwriting was awful and pen was not the…

A reflection on why the word impact is too overloaded for work conversations, and why accomplishments and outcomes are clearer alternatives.

I just got back from a short weekend trip to Mendocino[^1] so this will be a short one. It’s funny how the books that are actually “life-changing” often aren’t the books we’d name as influential. In…

Sans Tech NiKo finally got his major It finally happened!! Last sunday, Team Falcons won the Cologne Major , giving NiKo his first major. I have been waiting for this event for years. If you don't…

Why proxy servers sell Claude tokens cheaply in China, how AI assistants are reshaping technical interviews, a Vedanta–Buddhism–Navayana comparison, and a Proxmox I/O-hang server fix.

This is not normal. It’s been a week of heat . Too hot to sleep. Too hot to cook. Too hot for the office air con to work. Too hot to think. The couple days of anxious waiting to see if schools would…

The other day, I saw a brilliant idea come across my Instagram feed. I only wish that I knew who posted it so I could give them credit.

June 2026 What the New AC Culture War Is Really About www.theatlantic.com Kids act would require age checks to get online www.eff.org · comments What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis…

Hot, hot, hot, man. Too hot. Uncomfortably hot. Dynamic Ecto Queries and PostgreSQL Query Plans – this is an interesting demonstration of how small code changes can ruin query performance. Well,…

I am late to share the news here on my blog, but I became a father recently. This has opened my eyes in many ways, but I want to jot down some thoughts about family mobility while they are fresh.…

This week was pretty chill. It was pleasant outside — it has been quite cloudy / rainy of late and I’m enjoying it. There was an office outing this Wednesday at a local resort. My colleagues and I…

These are late because I couldn’t be arsed. You get what you pay for dear reader. C has started asking me questions about what I think about things. He often doesn’t listen to the answer but he has…

this past week was a test for how bad i really want to be off my phone, and the answer is very bad . it's a tough habit to kick though, requiring intentional moves like deleting apps and logging off…

Divine Liturgy was great today, thanks for asking. I am a small flame, but a flame nonetheless; so are (You). Since I've been home from church, this afternoon has revolved mostly around cleaning the…

“I only care about what a few people think of my work and they are already aware of what I produce. Think of me as a ‘professional loser.’”

Can I keep doing this weekly?? let’s see This week I started and finished reading The Odyssey , translated by Emily Wilson. I enjoyed it! Wilson’s translation was easy to read and it was fun to…

During my weekend grocery run, someone asked me to help them. When this happens, its usually a certain demographic that mistakes me for the "help". It always invokes a shitty feeling because they…

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meta another week, another week note. still lots of fire-fighting at work (and not much time or brain space for much else). meh. did I followed up last week’s auto-twooter work with a bit more,…

This morning I went for my usual bike ride to go purchase eggs from a local farm, and had a few thoughts I'm writing up here. In a way I think they're related. Speed I realised this a bit when a car…

Notes for week 26 of 2026

In 2025, his book sales dropped by 46%. That’s what Tim Ferriss discovered when he looked at his spreadsheets. The smoking gun: ChatGPT’s release around 2022, when his sales started to decrease. And…

A blistering heatweave threw everything off this week; we even had a big power cut through central Cambridge that drove many of us to seek haven in gelato shops. While melting, I spoke at CHIA's…

In middle school, I was the kid who never had a pencil. Like, I'd go to school and figure it out on the fly. If I did get a pencil, I'd baby it until either I lost it, or it became an unusable nub.…

Payton played in two divisions this season. It was her final year at the 8u level, and the league needed

When schooling a horse, the rider is responsible for setting the horse up to succeed. Don’t ask him for hard things when he’s tired, confused, or upset. Give him generous warm up and cool…

As part of the Bear Blog Carnival this month, Juni asks "how do you stay connected while practicing digital minimalism, and how did you make the switch?" Good question. What if I'm still working on…

my house is flooding!

Tjeerd Royaards "Hot. Cartoon from last year." Tech Stuff DevCleaner Free space on your Mac that's currently used by the caches of Xcode, npm, Cursor, Claude, et al. Runs local,…

Living in Survival Mode I feel like I’ve been living in survival mode lately. 😫 I’m busy with Shiraki Press of course, but we also have a toddler who’s on the cusp of turning three and is in his…

When I was a younger I tried pretty hard to be liked. Whenever someone did not like me I’d try to figure out why and try to fix it. I wanted to be liked, I was a people pleaser. I also hated…

The Cast, June 27, 2026 (in which a file dragged out of a two-hundred-pixel panel produces nothing, Claude clones the entire source of Muxy — six hundred and forty-six Swift files — to find a...