George Washington, at 22, experiences combat for the first time and writes to his brother. He gained a bit of notoriety from this—the letter was published in the London Magazine later that August–such that King George II commented (possibly, it’s probably just gossip) The right wing, where I stood, was exposed to and received all the enemy’s fire … I heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me,…
wow, American Gods HBO show was ass. book is infinitely better. The butchered it. They fucked the story up pretty good. Casting was excellent though :chefs-kiss:
American Gods is the only book of Neil Gaiman that I have read. The book felt like experiencing a dream where you were not quite sure that what is happening was real or not, or that the book exists in some intangible surreal space. Just awesome really, loved it. Looking forward to reading more of his books. It is a story about a man becoming his own person, with his own beliefs, and finding his…
Fuckin hell, being off adhd meds fucking sucks. The crash , or the come down, is a challenge, it is exhausting. I lose an entire day a week. My mood changes noticeably. Doctor advice is to take a day or two off a week, to give my system a break, which I totally understand, and to build a small buffer in case there are difficulties refilling, which is a smart idea, neither are worth the cost of…
It looks like my wife and I will be going to Burning Man this year. We have not been since 2011. My first year was 2006. Feels like a lifetime ago. We are not the same people we were then. A lot of life has happened since then. That life got very real and serious. And we had no room for Burning Man or other parts of our lives that were pure fun and play. When we go back, it is going to be such a…
Picked up a burr coffee grinder and couldn’t be happier with the results! Excellent grind. A burr coffee grinder differs from the common blade style in that it creates a more consistent grind and does not fucking shred your beans into pulp. The blade grinder chops your beans with abandon and no control, creating inconsistent chunks and dust in the same batch. Just an uneven mess. A burr grinder,…
Whew, fixed the image paths in my RSS feed
Look at this cool bird I saw on my morning walk. I live in the desert. Allegedly. Technically.
The Ruby community has a DHH problem DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought What the hell happened to DHH? (I did some digging) Shopify CEO endorses idea to give more votes to wealthy Canadians ‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice” The Ruby community appears to have a right-wing techno-fascism problem. It’s not just Ruby though. Pulling…
Found an excellent blog titled “ How my images are dithered ” that is all about, dithering images. I ran the process on some of my artwork and they are just now infinitely better and more interesting lmao. I LOVE screen printing, defects, repeatability, all the qualities of this effect.
Nice work, Bryan! . Would love to know more about your Go webmentions tool. I want to build the same thing. I am using webmention.io currently, but in the spirit of self-hosting, I really want to own my own webmention processing as well.
Tim Hårek wrote about the overhaul of their homelab . Really impressed with the networking work they did. I have to admit I am also a bit jelly about that new hardware too lol! Really nice stuff. Homelabs are so much fun.
An indieweb version of a guestbook is a neat idea. Guestbooks were popular on websites back in the 90s and 00s. I have created one that uses webmentions . Simply create a post or page on your own website, then submit that url to my webmention endpoint to “sign my guestbook”. Check out the guestbook .
I may submit to the unknown, but never to the unknowable. ― Roger Zelazny Lord of Light
Impermanence is not a loss you’re owed protection from, no instead it is the thing that makes any thing worth enjoying while it’s here.
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. ― Frank Herbert Dune
Adults with ADHD may pay high price to mask traits and fit in, SFU study finds A new SFU study found more than 91 per cent of adult participants with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) reported hiding, suppressing or compensating for their ADHD traits to navigate social situations. While masking may help people get through day-to-day interactions, the study found it often leads to…
Dopamine Fracking The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources — money, crowdsourced math, analytics, optimization, min-maxing, popular opinion aggregation, etc. — into a previously casual or complex, layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit, with no regard for anything except dopamine.
https://blainsmith.com/articles/just-fucking-use-go/ Hey, dipshit. You know what compiles in two seconds, deploys as a single binary, and doesn’t shit itself when a transitive dependency gets yanked from npm at 3am? Go. oh yeah, this is speaking my language. Dependencies that don’t ruin your weekend go mod init. Done. Your dependencies live in go.mod and go.sum. The sum file is a cryptographic…
for the shits and gigs
DJ Templehead · Dave the Drummer live at Templehead 9.6.00 The Cockpit Leeds
Observability is not for debugging your code logic. Observability is for figuring out where in your systems to find the code you need to debug.
Should I have tacos in 2026 ?
Last week I was at a work retreat in San Diego, California. We were given four options as to which non-work activity we would like to join. There was a “Tacos and Tequila” walk, a katamaran trip, an ocean kayaking trip, and a slot canyon hike. I chose the slot canyon hike because first of all it would be fewer people and I knew a week of socializing would be quite exhausting for my poor nervous…
The video projection effect is excellent this whole video is amazing.
I want every room I spend time in to look and feel like this video.
Watching Director’s Label, Volume 3: The Work of Director Michel Gondry. Lots of memories of watching MTV, of dancing around the living room with friends, and just having so much fun. Music videos are just so fucking cool. This song in particular has a soft spot for me, so many friday night dance parties at friends houses and this song would just be the jam.
More insane work by Michel Gondry.
Insane work by Michel Gondry.
Something I have been noodling on is how to integrate AI in ways that can help alleviate some of the burden of running your small business as the sole person responsible for all of the business operation. When you have to be sales, marketing, and admin, it leaves less time for doing the work that made you want to run the business in the first place. I don’t think you can eliminate or entirely…
Heck yeah, I can slop out a tool for my blog in absolutely no time now. I’ve manifested a very simple CMS UI for my Middleman based static website. It’s a TypeScript+React companion app that uses TipTap markdown editor that I can run when I am in bloggy mode.
It’s kinda weird that I am now able to materialize software on demand.
https://charity.wtf/2022/08/15/live-your-best-life-with-structured-events/ Live Your Best Life With Structured Events. If your tool set no longer works for you, friend, it’s time to go all in. Maybe what you wanted was a faster horse, but it’s time for a car, and the sooner you turn in your oats for gas cans and a spare tire, the better. In brief: if you aren’t rolling out a solution based on…
https://sterlinghamilton.com/en/shared-reality/ Good article about how to think about and work with coding agents. Simply said, adopt a spec-driven, test-driven, pair-coding model with your agents and you will have far better results. Define the shared reality in which we, both humans and coding agents, operate. Much like developing the ubiquoutous language required under a domain-driven…
Well, I officially have 2 users on Teddy Diary – myself and my wife 😂. She excitedly asked if she could also use the app after I shared the weekly summaries and entry suggestion/prompt.
We may be going home this year )‘(
I was inspired by the consistent habit of Theodore Roosevelt to log his daily events in a pocket diary and so I have built, for myself, a simple Rails app to do just that. To offset the slight inconvenience a digital version has over simply carrying a notebook around (as I already often do), this version will gently nag me when I do not enter anything for the daily entry. Additionally I get a…
Currently I exist in a strange place where I know a thing, but cannot explain said thing deeply and technically. Frustrating. Perhaps too much embodied cognition, not enough dialogue, not enough discourse. The good news is that this a learnable skill. Something to practice. I am reading too much about 19th century men who had a gift for speech. They were built different. I am built from passive…
Personal computers have become too good and that is why there is a powerful effort by big tech to take that away. Why own when you can rent? Why freedom when you can “walled garden”?
The Internet is awesome. It’s the web that sucks.