Yeri Tiete

Artemis II

Iceberg Collapse

Both pretty and terrifying at the same time. Some of that ice may have been thousands of years old.

Long haul flights

I just got back from a long haul flight SIN-HEL-BRU and saw this from Kottke . Not sure which part I can relate most to… There’s so much in this article I need to link to… Half of Economy appears to have boarded directly from bed. A woman is wearing what looks like patterned pajamas. By the time I reach 40C, my overhead bin space has been taken by someone three rows ahead who…

Demon Hunters

You could say I’ve either been living under a rock, or just suddenly gotten old. I (vaguely) heard (via the radio!) Golden from Demon Hunters before, but never paid much attention. Until my kid heard it. Now it’s on repeat as my 3.5 year old doesn’t stop dancing to it. I’ve just realised this video has 1.4bn views!!! Like how did I miss this?! At least I didn’t miss…

Giving AI SSH access

I let Claude SSH into my devices, and realised I had no idea what it actually did. Here’s how I scoped, logged and secured the whole process.

Prompt

My current AI prompt for every new project

Lyssavirus

What if you dropped a bowling ball in the Mariana Trench?

Night Train

I love the idea of more trains, but let’s look at how Japan (and, increasingly, China) does it. Night trains are romantic and all, but in all fairness, who wants to travel for 12hrs+ on a train with barely working WiFi, no (fancy) restaurant or entertainment, no proper working desk, and sleeping in a metal sardine box. All that at €300? You do this once, maybe, as an experience, and then…

Scheduling posts on a static blog

One of the things I missed moving from WordPress to Hugo : scheduled posts. WP just… does that. Set a future date, and forget about it. And static site generators don’t… The site only rebuilds when you git push , and that’s it. 😢 Why schedule posts, you ask? Because at times I write 3-4 posts in a day, and I don’t want to spam. ¯\ (ツ) /¯ I have a rule that there…

Musk v. Altman Closing Arguments

Adding to this : I’d like to focus on my actual takeaway here: Elon Musk sucks at AI. Look, Musk said multiple times that OpenAI wouldn’t succeed. He’s tried, repeatedly, to kneecap it and steal its researchers and in one case — that of Andrej Karpathy, a founding team member Musk lured to Tesla — succeeded. But how’s xAI doing? Well, it’s a black hole for money that’s been acquired by SpaceX.…

The web, ladies and gentlemen

What a time to be alive! The web is truly, utterly broken. To be entirely clear, I’m not doing anything. It just refreshes a million times, DoS ing itself in the process, until, after a while, it actually loads “perfectly” fine. All I run is uBlock and NextDNS to get rid of (a portion of) the trackers and ads.

SlimmeLezer+

Notes (and a working config) on getting a SlimmeLezer+ talking to Home Assistant alongside a Marstek battery CT on the same P1 port and some context on my setup.

From WordPress to Hugo

Can’t believe it’s been so many years … But the time has come to say farewell to WordPress . It’s been on my mind for years, but never really put in the effort to export so many years worth of posts, media, etc to a better solution… It felt like a Herculean job and everytime I thought about it for more than 3 minutes, I dreaded the idea. But since the future’s…

Attention

It’s my firm conviction, now more than ever, that the degree to which we are able and willing to struggle for ownership of our attention is the degree to which we are free. – James Williams From Dense Discovery : Here’s a familiar story we tell ourselves about our new inability to focus: screens bad, books good , civilisation circling the drain. It’s a seductive diagnosis – and also, probably, a…

Email on new post

I vibe coded a quick tool that lets you sign up, and get emails when a new post is posted (based on the RSS feed) on this blog, as well as my uncle 's.

Trees Are So Weird

What if ALL the sun’s power was focused in one place?

Unifi u6+ failing to upgrade

I have quite a few sites where some Unifi U6+ Access Points fail to upgrade with a generic update failed message. Marquis WiFi Vergaderruimte 4 update failed. I've tried everything, from ssh 'ing, factory resetting with set-default , to manually upgrading with upgrade , etc. Nothing worked. I thought I had a bunch of bad APs (and many had their warranty expire by a few weeks or months). As a last…

Pregnancy is Insane

Professor accuses class of cheating

Don’t go clubbing East Berlin this summer.

What if you funneled Niagara Falls through a straw?

How Far Can We Go? Limits of Humanity

This version has a mistake somewhere, but still worth seeing. They remade the video:

Your brain

Appistocracy

We’ve heard much about the slide into oligarchy – and with good reason: the members of the US cabinet’s collective worth is reportedly close to half a trillion dollars, with the majority of them belonging to the top 0.0001%. But journalist Ken Klippenstein offers a better term that captures our current moment with uncomfortable precision. He calls it the ‘appistocracy’ – a ruling class whose power…

This Is NOT An Anti Meat Video

Why is everything binary?

Source : briefs. video

This is What a Nuclear Strike Would Feel Like

Syria, Israel, Ukraine - A New Decade of War

Christmas card 2024

This year's edition! As we're preparing to move from Singapore to Belgium . 2024 - front view 2024 - back view See all the previous editions here .

Allergies

Collapse Aware

From Dense Discovery and Rosie Spinks . In How I became ‘collapse aware’ , Rosie Spinks articulates something many of us sense but struggle to name – that persistent feeling that we’re approaching the end of a particular way of life. “It’s a nagging sense that has hung over modern life since 2020, or 2016, or 2008, or 2001 – pick your start date – that things are not working anymore. And that…

We Fell For The Oldest Lie On The Internet

“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?” Here is Bernie's answer

Vote, and vote wisely.

It'll affect everyone.

Why Scientists Are Puzzled By This Virus

What if Earth grew 1cm every second?

Apollo 16 lunar rover

Via Kottke .

There Is Something Hiding Inside Earth

Cabel Sasser, Panic - XOXO Festival

The Bizarre Virus That SAVES Your Life

…Will Save Your Life Next Week

What if a glass of water were really half empty?

Cycling from Finland to Singapore

Could you survive a nanosecond on the Sun?

Linking the Faroe Islands

Growing up, I always wanted to be in the heart of the city—a densely populated, well-connected place (which is why I moved to Singapore). But gradually, I’m starting to crave a quieter life… something more remote, peaceful, and slow-paced. I’ve spent countless hours dreaming about living in a small town in the French Alps, a secluded village in Bali (away from the tourist spots), maybe on a boat,…

Fever

Time's 2024 Kid of the Year

A few years ago, he read about imiquimod, a drug that, among other uses, is approved to fight one form of skin cancer and has shown promise against several more. Typically, imiquimod, which can help destroy tumors and usually comes in the form of a cream, is prescribed as a front-line drug as part of a broader cancer treatment plan, but Heman wondered if it could be made available more easily to…

Hopefulness Is the Warrior Emotion

Q: Following the last few years I’m feeling empty and more cynical than ever. I’m losing faith in other people, and I’m scared to pass these feelings to my little son. Do you still believe in Us (human beings)? A: [...] Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position…