I'm never good at taking vacation time for extended periods, but I did it for my birthday week and it was, by far, the most relaxing week I've had in years. My twin brother came to visit from…

I have a confession to make: I am not a robot. Should I let my coding style be dictated by the fear of sounding like one? I don’t think so.

Posted on: Apple.Tagline: The favorite button in Apple Music on macOS feels broken af.You're listening to a song you love and want to save it. You click the favorite star and... nothing. You…

This summer is different.

I'm not sure why I'm turning to this blog right now. So much has happened that I haven't felt the need to write about. I took my ADHD meds for the first time in a while, so I feel the ability to sit…

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The data model in PyOBO closely resembles the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and macros in the OBO Flat File format. However, some communities prefer the simplified nature of the SKOS data model…

I just released a new version of pcsc-tools, a suite of tools for PC/SC. Changes: 1.7.5 - 3 June 2026, Ludovic ROUSSEAU 102 new ATRs pcsc_scan: fix an infinite loop do not crash if…

I've been drafting, and re-drafting various posts to get back to blogging. In the (relatively) short time of four months since my last post, I seemed to have lost the ability to just write what I…

A travel journal from my visit to Kaikōura, New Zealand.

Researching my husband's Steiner ancestors, this social item on page 1 of the Crawford County News (Bucyrus, Ohio), August 28, 1884, caught my eye: Addie Steiner, formerly of Nevada [Ohio], was…

I released a WordCamp Companion plugin to guide you through your day. You can run it inside my.wordpress.net.

honey one uh these days you gonna fly away to yer daddy’s house and he’ll be there sittin’ on the front porch waitin’ for you

This is the sixth post in my series on Emacs completion. The first argued that Incremental Completing Read (ICR) is a structural property of an interface, not an interface itself; the next four made…

Drowning in pull requests? An Instant-Reject List sets 5 agreed-upon rules so teams can reject low-quality PRs quickly and keep code review sane.

Part one made the core case: pg_stat_statements counts, it doesn't record. It walked through how the queryid jumble fragments one logical query into many rows, how the first-seen text freezes your…

Night train enthusiasts from Back-on-Track.eu gathered connection data from the 205 regular sleeper lines in Europe to present their 2026 interactive European night train map. This map is the most…

A promotion idea that has worked for us in the past is to do a drawing (i.e. plucking a winning ticket out of a hat) for a prize. In fact, let me experiment right here. Tell me in the Comments if…

Happy 24th birthday, x-log 🥳 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. You're awesome ♥️

Die deutsche Version ist unter dem englischen Text   Here we go again. The organisation KölnBusiness says a direct train from Köln to London would be economically advantageous. You can read…

Mythic has a lot of blank spaces left open for improvisation. In my experience, this works well enough, granting many advantages too. Improvise a castle town? Sure, I’m picturing it now. How many…

I present two NEW banners that I made for Artwork/Manip entries for the event Pen & Paint 2026 . The manips are available exclusively at Sunnydale After Dark . (the banners are scaled down to 500px;…

Bild: Viktoriastraße (Husemannplatz) am Weltfahrradtag 2026. Geht es nach dem politischen Willen der Stadt Bochum, wird es an dieser Stelle nie wieder eine Viktoriastraße geben und auch keinen…

Modern engineering values. Read the full post at https://cpojer.net/posts/modern-engineering-values.

Part 3 of a 3 part series post about AI Agent memory architecture.

Boards of Canada, Warpaint Live, The Book of Dust, Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die, Notorious.

It's time to start something new.

Aaron Title Crave Hailing from Washington DC, Aaron Title is a singer-songwriter, focused on creating lo-fi alt pop, R&B and electronic music. Aaron previously appeared on BlackPlastic back in…

Current PQC implementations in LoadBalancers and ReverseProxies can double (up to +100%) the processing load. Test and benchmark your setups now - before attackers do it for you.

New Order: One more week at number one on 5th September 1987 The Smiths: One more week at number one on 12th September 1987 Here the record buyers go again, ruining the natural cut and flow of my…

Liverpudlian Gothic There are still a large number of good 19th-century commercial buildings in central Liverpool, and some of them are highly decorative, as if to emphasise the prosperity of the…

The questions of whether containers really contain has been an active topic of debate since pretty much as long as containers have been in use and the answer, like most things in security, is it…

In my Rust program, I implemented some logic to replace a 11 MB file read with a mmap system call. I had changed the file's layout to only need the first few kilobytes to be read all at once, and the…

We do it to remember. Photo: © Stan B. I recently burned my greatest hits unto gold discs for posterity's sake... Yeah, I know, I know- delusions of grandeur. They probably won't survive a succession…

I once had a client that decided to cancel a project before they had anything prepared for the team to work on next. This was actually a great opportunity; the team could have spent that time…

Les outils d’IAG ont l’air très puissants dans de nombreuses situations. En réalité, une expertise préalable est requise pour les utiliser à bon escient, et juger de la réalité de leur efficacité. La…

What Happened: On 3 May 2026, ShinyHunters, the English-speaking adolescent cybercrime collective, claimed they breached Instructure by listing them on their Tor data leak site. Instructure is a…

All you need is about ten ingredients for this grilled vegan main course. Broccoli “steaks”... The post Grilled Broccoli Steaks with Spicy Peanut Chili Crisp Lentils appeared first on The…

No Aituweek last week, I had nothing real to say. This week: why I keep falling into fake productivity, how a power outage took my self-hosted blog down, and where Meetly is at.

Mein kleiner Rückblick auf das 11. BarCamp Bonn am 9. Mai 2026

Dans cet épisode 81 de Quantum, le podcast et « textcast » de l’actualité quantique en France et dans le monde, Fanny Bouton et moi-même revenons sur les nombreux événements du mois de mai et ceux…

A overview of my foray into the world of 3D printing.

I moved the linkarzu podcast interviews to their own YouTube podcast channel, without deleting the old episodes from the main channel.

The other day I went to the gym for the first time in a really, really, really long time. (This is the part where I tell myself I'm getting back in shape. We'll see.)We were talking with…

Okay. The sign is flipped. The (imaginary) doors are open. The reading window for book one is officially, as of today, go. If you missed the whole pitch: a couple weeks ago I started a book club for…

How can I add authentication and authorization to a PyQt6 application? Is there something built into Qt to make this easier?

Whether a Docker container is healthy is not just about whether it’s running. A service could stop working properly without crashing. Docker can detect some of those kinds of invalid states…

When Spuffy gets a little aggressive with the PDA, the scoobies tend to suffer 🥰Dialogue is from Heaven, make me an offer by Summerfrost over on Ao3. I thought it was so damn funny it inspired this…

I posted something on the other site hinting that I might retire the blog and move here instead. The current site has no post index nor search, and you have to ask for the RSS feed. The final stage…

Using AI for developement is changing pretty fast(maybe a lil too fast) and I keep evolving my workflow as it progresses. So I thought I'll start documenting it at certain times, just to reflect and s