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I've blogged a couple of times over the past few days about my son's rhabdomyolysis and his subsequent hospital stay. Over the past 36 hours, his creatine kinase levels fell to the 3000 range, low eno...

I've more and more become passionate about trying different fiberarts, and it makes me want to be an advocate for crafting, especially when the world overwhelms. I'm a long time crocheter and...

This is samoyed-and-teddy-bear.jpg. It is a 896x592 .jpg file, 111KB in size. Uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons by user Teddybear nut at 06:05 UTC on December 26th in 2005. The dog is named Kokinee....

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  This is samoyed-and-teddy-bear.jpg. It is a 896x592 .jpg file, 111KB in size. Uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons by user Teddybear nut at 06:05 UTC on December 26th in 2005. The dog is named Kokinee....

If you have also been waiting for a way to play this game without involving yourself in the Microsoft ecosystem, the time is near Ok so to catch you up; Young Suns is the latest game from KO_OP, cr...

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  If you have also been waiting for a way to play this game without involving yourself in the Microsoft ecosystem, the time is near Ok so to catch you up; Young Suns is the latest game from KO_OP, cr...

My son started playing competitive soccer this year. In true preteen fashion, playing the sport comes second to looking the part. I’ve noticed his wardrobe shift a bit, as well as subtle comments abou...

Spending 15 minutes on a call with insurance annoys me much more than it "should" but I think my feelings are correct here. I can only call the insurance company Monday to Friday, 7am to 7pm. Mornings...

Hi everyone. I’m joining in with the Wednesday Hodgepodge once again. Here goes. 1. Fall arrives this week in the northern hemisphere. Does it look/feel like fall where you live?What’s something you l...

At the beginning of this year, as soon as it came out for the West, I've tried out the Hobonichi App to do some light journaling without ever stopping writing on paper. This is something that's sugges...

Charlie recently gave a talk at Chain React about the future of mobile app development. I like his talks because they still sound like him: loose, opinionated, slightly nerdy. He’s an unusual CEO, a d...

The game industry is reaching maturity. That means growth will be harder to come by for most companies. Naturally, these corporations will look to control and squeeze more money from their player base...

At the beginning of this year, as soon as it came out for the West, I've tried out the Hobonichi App to do some light journaling without ever stopping writing on paper. This is something that'...

A while back, when I first started this blog, I paid for a yearly subscription to support the site. A year later I had forgotten about it and it auto-renewed. No biggie at the time, but I still went a...

I was going for a walk six years ago when this caught my eye. As the sign on the right shows, there is a public footpath leading across the field. Yet the owner has put up an ugly, hostile sign sayin...

If it's one thing I've noticed for a long time, it's our obsession with optimization. We have to be doing the most optimal exercise, for the most optimal length of time. Our heart rate has to be monit...

You heard me right. No more zero days.Shared by Reddit user u/ryans01 over a decade ago (can't believe I've just come across this concept), the simple premise is that a day where you've no...

After years on Google's Blogger, I finally migrated my personal blog to Bear Blog. What a change, man! I ditched my heavily modified Blogger theme and embraced Bear's defaults. Except for Alegreya, my...

The nice thing about keeping a blog is that I can say at precisely 9:51am, Wednesday 5th February 2025, I discovered that macOS 15.3 had enabled a feature that was phoning home every 15 minutes with p...

The beautiful plant wall pictured above is just around the corner from where I live. I took the photo yesterday. I often take a mini detour just to stop for a second and have a look. It does something...

Vote For the Inevitable

The bombs just don't stop falling. Russians drop usually 5 bombs at the time. And they repeat it 24/7. We are just laying and thinking: "We are waiting till one will hit our house". Or if we are flyin...

Hacker News (aka HN) is a link aggregator where “hackers”1 gather to discuss technology, politics, and anything which “good hackers would find interesting”. HN is a means by which its host, prominent...

I am a creative person, always was. It doesn't matter if it's video, audio or graphic design: any kind of artistic expression always had my interest and therefore I learned how to make stuff thanks to...

I’m a long time Arch Linux user for a reason: out of the box, it doesn’t feel particularly interested in telling me how I should use my computer. It starts with a minimal base and expects you to assem...

My neighborhood recently got high-speed fiber, and we can now get 5 Gbps for $125/month. This is a miracle for somebody who grew up with a 56K modem. But I was shocked to find out that even with light...

In his novella The Story of Your Life, Ted Chiang imagines a woman who learns to comprehend the language of an alien species that perceives the universe through a teleological lens, meaning that inste...

Abstain from LLMs for a month challenge? I just stumbled on the No Sloptober page and it sounds like a fun idea to try. I'm not sure I will, though. While some projects I work on require me to use...