YAY! it's june which means pride and my birthdayyyyyy finally gonna be 20 i feel like i've been 19 for 30 years lmao. last i was on here i had just watched i saw the tv glow for the first time, it is…

Turns out Backblaze no longer backs up cloud files—not even cloud files that are already downloaded and stored locally on your computer. Worse, they quietly shipped this change in a minor point…

Trying out Herdr exposed how little I knew about opening folders in the terminal. This is how I made it simpler.

Últimamente he estado tratando de escribir más, cosas además de mi blog, cosas para mi, pero también cuentos y poemas que en algún momento de mi vida compartiré cuando me sienta cómod@. Además de…

We're Maxmaxxing with the second chapter of our Stranger Things story EL AND MAX HIT THE ROAD! This one contains the long overdue moment where El beats up Billy! Then...after years of exhaustive…

The Checkout Counter #42 happy june! may had such perfect weather—don't think i ever really appreciated it until now. how fortunate to be able to enjoy a stroll around town every day.thanks for…

I honestly didn't think I was going to finish this book due to being in the Stress gauntlet for the past month. Luckily for me, audiobooks are there to the rescue, even though you also trade some…

June first baby summer is basically here. And it's pride month! And I just got back from the movies. And it's Zangief's birthday. Crazy. Saw two movies last week: Backrooms (which I saw twice because…

Here is another doodle of a photo I took earlier this season. I'm having lots of fun doodling my pictures! I recommend it. Some people do this kind of thing sitting outside but I like to do it on…

Spring fun – Google I/O

You probably know the ones: they feel sort of suedey when they’re brand new, but they don’t stay new for long. I work in a public library, and believe me, these covers are grime magnets. Today I…

Painting is incredibly hard.

Manage your robots.txt rules from the WordPress admin — add, edit, and remove directives on the physical or virtual robots.txt, and disallow unwanted bots by category using the full list from…

I have wanted to read this book for awhile. Unfortunately, it did not live up tot he hype. I liked

Here is a video report from ABC (Australia) Foreign Correspondent about the plight of villages in the rural Arcadia region of Greece. Greece is a highly urbanized country. Nearly half of Greece's…

10k Swords against heaven ) das a lotta swords. Genre: Cultivation, Marxist? Touchstones: Exalted, Das Kapital What is this game?: 10,000 swords against heaven is a self described "Maoist Xianxia"…

I'd say that writing has become a core part of me at this point. It has brought me comfort, allowed me to vent, and share my thoughts and ideas with others. But sometimes I do wonder where my love…

My original Kenner Landspeeder from 1978 has long been lost to time, but I was lucky enough to find this POTF Landspeeder for twenty bucks in a local resale store, unopened. This 1995 revamp of the…

Nate’s Dotfiles A couple of nuggets I picked up: mise.local.toml lets me add personal tool configuration to any project – even one whose mise.toml I don’t control, or that has none at all.…

At first glance, there seems to be only two payment options to select from on a claim form for a class action settlement: The third paper check option is in smaller and greyed out text: compare the…

This post contains a canary message that’s cryptographically signed by the official BusKill PGP release key For more information about BusKill canaries, see: https://buskill.in/canary…

well, i had a third interview for this other job, the one up in boston, near my family. it went well, except now, after learning more about this role and how its different than my current role, i…

So here's the thing. When a company loses a class action lawsuit and has to pay millions to regular people, they don't just write you a check. They go out of their way to make sure you…

We had a disconcerting experience last month when we returned from a trip abroad and entered the US at San Francisco International Airport: When we opted out of facial recognition (which is posted as…

It's been nearly two years! since I transplanted the kumquat and started fertilizing the lemon, but new observations and reporting are now in! That's because it's the first season that exciting…

A while back I swapped out my bird feeder for a squirrel resistant one. It’s a standard thing. Birds do nothing to it, but the weight of a squirrel will cause it to block of the seed. Well, the…

Often I feel hampered from writing by the feeling that I have nothing to write about, or that the thing on my mind is too insignificant to warrant a whole post, but at the same time I feel an itch…

“the things I detest, for instance: italicized passages in a novel which are meant to represent the protagonist’s cloudbursts of thought. Then background music, canned music, piped-in music, portable…

This week's reading spans from stunning dark sky photography and Vaonis smart telescopes to immediate practical utility in Postgres database sandboxing and Flipper's new networking gadget. Plus,…

code { font-size: 10pt; background: #ddd; border-radius: 3px; padding: 4px; } It's Saturday morning, and you have no plans. Perhaps your schedule happened to line up that way, perhaps the kids are…

Running a bootstrapped business is a hard slog - to say the least - so it's worth celebrating a little when you get the chance. Well, today is one of those days, with a nice article in the…

And that's the problem. It's because it feels good that it doesn't arrive from a logical place. So you do things you don't intend to because decompressing yourself by hating feels good. It's kind of…

My mom does not really “keep up” with pop culture. However, she does have great taste—which means that when she recommends a book or movie, I pay attention. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern…

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 7.1! This is our first monthly feature release since Incus 7.0 LTS and it’s a pretty busy one as we’ve had some time to clear our backlog a…

This is a ludicrous amount of money for a website - but I’m more outraged this wasn’t spent within the Wellington region. Its time for our local councils to focus more on spending…

In July 2025, Jason Lemkin watched a Replit coding agent delete his production database during an active code freeze, after he had told it repeatedly not to make changes. The agent had legitimate…

Here's how I finally optimized my site for viewing in w3m (a text-mode browser).

I’m joining OpenAI’s Developer Experience team to help grow and support the developer community.

Some time ago, I built a box to track ADS-B data in my location. Since then, I’ve added more Pi’s and SDRs and had been planning an upgrade for some time, but my hand was forced after…

This paper provides a technical explanation of how to send blockchain tokens only to verifiable US citizens. It runs entirely on-chain and is trustless. This approach scales to other jurisdictions…

I filtered ~1 TB of FineWeb-Edu down to its high-quality, long-context core for about $2.40 — no cluster, no download, one command on Hugging Face Jobs. Here’s the quick version of how, because it’s…

An article from 2015 is making the rounds again because the internet has no new ideas and neither do we, that says Shakespeare (yes that Shakespeare) was quite possibly absolutely baked out of his…

Run terraform plan against infrastructure nobody has touched in a month and watch it propose changes. That drift is the absence of a reconciliation loop. But the missing loop is only half of why most…

Notes from turning a Raspberry Pi 5 into a 24/7 DarkFi testnet node and miner: NVMe boot, self-hosted WireGuard, the ARM dependency trail for darkfid and xmrig, and a look at the ZK circuits the node…

Over the past few days a reported account-recovery flaw let attackers take over Instagram accounts, including high-profile ones like the Obama White House account, by getting the Meta AI Support…

I built a static analyzer for OTP supervision trees and ran it over thirty-some well-known open-source Elixir projects. It found real cross-tree coupling in Livebook, TeslaMate, Teiserver, and…

A collection of interesting things I've read in May.

WWDC26 is just around the corner, and as always, it is the most exciting time of the year for Apple developers. Next week, Apple will show the future of its platforms, frameworks, and developer…

If you're looking for the invoice generator, it is at the bottom of the article. Jump straight to the generator → Why won't my accountant accept Apple's App Store report? If you sell apps on the App…