Bram Esposito

Left bank beach

Train ride

Tree haul

I was lucky that I could get a fig tree from someone in town. Just moved it with the cargo bike.

Sun is baking Antwerp, Belgium

but some like it more than others.

Legibility improvements on Mac OS 27

I find the new icon rendering in Mac OS 27 (Golden Gate) much easier on the eyes. The old ones triggered the autofocus sound in my brain, like a camera lens struggling to focus. Good for us who suffer from astigmatism

Found out what AI couldn’t : knopper gall wasp galls

Went back to the park today and found more of these strange seed pods (I now know they aren t seed pods). I examined all the trees around, but nothing came up that I could link to these things. Only Oaks, Beeches, Tilia, Cypresses, Cherry Laurel, They re galls from a wasp named Andricus quercuscalicis which [ ]

Mac Mini FOMO

Wondering if I should get a Mac Mini, now I still can.

The Public Suffix List

While researching security and how it s done on github.io as an example, I ran into the Public Suffix List today. It s actually fascinating to skim through the list itself. It s wild that such a low-tech approach is the solution to a security feature in browsers. Even more so when you realize that it takes some [ ]

Fable’s one-shots

Pretty impressive one-shots generated by Anthropic s new Fable model for Claude: Putting forward good questions is becoming the new skill, rather than researching a good answer.

Visiting de Quaye Werelt

We visited de Quaye Werelt , a medieval festival in Antwerps largest park. (Check the arrow coming down on the soldiers.)