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My workflow of letting Claude Code process raw files into notes and sort them into my personal wiki, while making sur...

A short overview on how I self-host.

There is no builtin way to convert a relative path to an absolute path in ansible. However we can use the readlink co...

The World Pakistan brokered a ceasefire between Trump and Iran just before the deadline! TACO etc. However, Israel vi...

The Banner Saga is a trilogy of turn-based tactical combat RPGs about a caravan of survivors trying to stay ahead of ...

It is a new month! Yesterday was Easter Sunday. These weeknotes are a day late because I was busy yesterday. The Worl...

A satirical post about alternative Android operating systems

In honour of CSS Naked Day, I will disable CSS until tomorrow

A plea to stop using the many online teaching tools like Kahoot! and switch to a more ethical alternative

A satirical post about alternative Android operating systems

In honour of CSS Naked Day, I will disable CSS until tomorrow

A plea to stop using the many online teaching tools like Kahoot! and switch to a more ethical alternative

Leafy intro Welcome to the 275th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

Leafy intro Welcome to the 273rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

Welcome to the 273rd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online ...

This is the first part of a series looking at the structure of the Carthaginian army. Although Carthage has an (unfai...

This week we’re going to look a specific piece of early Roman military equipment, the humble bronze pectoral, which i...

Hey folks! Another gap week because, as mentioned last week, I am at the annual meeting for the Society for Military ...

If you’re thinking of starting a pet supply store, now is a great time to do it. More than half of all UK households ...

If you’re going through anxiety, ADHD, or depression, it may be time to seek help from a psychiatrist. It’s important...

When you open a slot game, you want one thing—to understand it immediately. You do not want to read the rules or gues...

A travel journal from my visit to Mackenzie Basin, New Zealand.

A travel journal from my visit to Dunedin, New Zealand.

A travel journal from my visit to Christchurch, New Zealand.

Ready for some focus training exercises? You sit down to work. Within ten minutes, you have checked your phone twice,...

Self-regulation techniques are not cold psychological tricks, but everyday tools that help a person stay grounded whe...

Knowing how to track personal progress has recently become the difference between drifting and deliberately moving fo...

Most people’s health goals involve some sort of number. Weigh less than this number. Get cholesterol under that numbe...

This was the easiest cake request so far. So much easier than a Mario cake, a Rapunzel cake, an Ariel cake, a penguin...

Way back in May of 2019, I signed up for Arcadia Power. A couple years later, in July of 2021, I wrote a review of th...

Ne rien avoir à penser Se faire prendre pour des crétins parce que ça fonctionne Google l’annonce : il y a plus de pe...

La première Madame Pipi de l’espace profond Outre la première victoire au Tour de France d’Eddy Merckx, 1969 fut une ...

Le logiciel, un nouveau pétrole ? Extrait de mon journal du 24 septembre 2025 Nous sommes fiers de nous passer de pét...

Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discove...

Join us at The 7th Annual Red Queen Conference April 22 -23 – Silicon Valley How do Portfolio Acquisition Executives ...

Your Startup Is Probably Dead On Arrival If you started a company more than two years ago, it’s likely that many of y...

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

Nicholas Carlini, a research scientist at Anthropic, reported at the [un]prompted AI security conference that he used...

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently workin...

The title - Hiding - is a pretty good description of the state of mind I find myself in right now. I could leave it a...

If you had told me a year ago, that I’d be living in a new apartment now, I wouldn’t have taken you seriously, laughi...

A list of 40 Questions to ask yourself every year. I saw it elsewhere, and decided to give it a go. – What did you do...

The Taieri River diverted through the tunnel. The Taieri River starts in the Lammerlaw Range, flows north through the...

If I told you I was trying to focus on the central leaf you may not believe me. Two rolls of black and white film and...

Home Screen Light Meter Analog Photography Assistant (APA) is a free, ad-free, privacy-first android app for film pho...

EmailShot now exports any shared email as a clean Markdown file or a print-ready PDF with a QR code. Here is why that...

Everything you need to know about VCF files — what they are, how to open them, how they work with contact sharing, an...

Everything you need to know about ICS files — what they are, how to open them, how they work with email invitations, ...

So we are preparing the plants that we are going to have in our garden in this season (cucumbers, courgettes and toma...

Recently, Hacker News updated the comments section of their guidelines: Don’t post generated comments or AI-edited co...

I’m still enjoying programming in OCaml, but because most of the code I have written to date is a toy compiler that m...

It’s been a while, I know. I sit here writing today because I feel trapped; a prisonless prisoner who laid bricks unt...

Slowly emerges from the sixth sea of silence. Hello! I’m back for the time being. I started working on a handful of p...

These past two days have been something of a whirlwind, as I made a couple of important life decisions. The decisions...

It really is the stupid phone ruining everything isn’t it? The stupid screens of doom and the stupidity of the world ...

Dark, winter-y, eXistenZial questions

Thanks to a vintage receiver that came with the cassette deck, which I got because I had to deal with my box of casse...