Nov 07, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 7 — Marginalia Poetry DAY 7. Marginalia PoetryMarginalia are the notes, arrows, grumbles, doodles, and side-whispers readers leave in the edges of a text. In medieval manuscripts, scribes glossed, quibbled, even sketche...
Nov 06, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 6 — Misheard Prayers DAY 6. Misheard PrayersThe term mondegreen was coined by writer Sylvia Wright in a 1954 Harper’s essay. As a child, she misheard the ballad line:“They hae slain the Earl o’ Moray / And laid him on ...
Nov 05, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 5 — Inventory of What Remains DAY 5. Inventory of What RemainsAn inventory poem catalogs, lists, and tallies. Unlike the bookish errata/corrigenda, this one lives in the material world, what’s left behind when someone leaves, w...
Nov 05, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software Zürich and Vaduz I wasn’t quite sure if I should put this post on this blog or my personal one, but since it is about two people who have been important in my life as well as being involved in open source I figured...
Nov 04, 2025 from Improve Something Today A choice to counter culture: notes for November 2025 Ways to practice: refusal, invitation, risk. The new Ram Dass book. Revisiting ‘whole-heartedness.’
Nov 04, 2025 from R74n Newsletter NEW Civilization Simulator - GenTown - OUT NOW Influence human society indirectly in this nation simulation game.
Nov 04, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 4 — Duplex of Two Places DAY 4. Duplex of Two PlacesA duplex is a braid of repetition. Each couplet borrows the previous line, shifts it a little, and carries on. Think: echo that returns changed. Today, let two geographie...
Nov 04, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software NixCon 2025 Apologies for such a late post on my trip to NixCon back in September, but my life has recently been overtaken by events. The annual Nix conference was held at the Ostschweizer Fachhochschule (OST)...
Nov 03, 2025 from BEEW Holy Shame The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf Woolf meant this as a warning. A century later, I can’t help but wonder if those same eyes might be the only thing that co...
Nov 03, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 3 — Corrigenda Crown DAY 3. Corrigenda CrownIn fixed forms, a “crown” often means linked sonnets; we’re adapting the idea: seven linked lists with a repeating line that mutates and returns. A crown of seven short poems...
Nov 03, 2025 from Galaxy Garden Another Long Unexpected Water Supply Disruption in 2025 Having to endure an unscheduled water supply cut that lasted more than a day was not in my 2025 bingo card, let alone having to experience it twice in the same year. In late May, my house experienc...
Nov 02, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 2 — “Errata Sonnet” DAY 2. Errata SonnetWhat are errata? In publishing, an erratum (singular) or errata (list) is a set of post-print corrections bound in or issued separately. We start by mimicking the dry book-histo...
Nov 02, 2025 from Chuniversiteit Efficient and green LLMs for software engineering Training and using large language models to develop software is bad for the planet – but it doesn’t have to be that way.
Nov 01, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria NovPoWriMo 2025: Day 1 — “Palimpsest of Self.” DAY 1. Palimpsest of Self"Palimpsest of Self" uses the concept of a palimpsest—a manuscript with original text partially erased and rewritten over, leaving faint traces of the old—to describe the s...
Nov 01, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria The No November Miracle: The First-Morning // The Audit of Beginnings 8.05AMThere’s a kind of hush that only the first morning of a new month understands. The sky hasn’t had its tea yet. The neighbourhood dogs are still negotiating with the sun. And I’m standing at m...
Nov 01, 2025 from is this it? op Sydney Sydney Harbour Bridge. Up until this point in my life I wasn’t sure if the Sydney Opera House was real. Growing up watching terrestrial television, I’d see the occasional news story with the report...
Oct 31, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz Throwing off my groove A response to the IndieWeb Carnival for the month of November 2025. The theme of this short post is Cycles and Fluctuations.
Oct 31, 2025 from Bobby Hiltz Throwing off my groove A response to the IndieWeb Carnival for the month of November 2025. The theme of this short post is Cycles and Fluctuations.
Oct 31, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Opt-in devotion: keeping the providence, skipping the roster of reverence? I’ve been thinking a lot about where I stand with (which?) religion these days. I still believe there’s something: a supreme power, a force bigger than us. That hasn’t gone away. I tinker with the ...
Oct 31, 2025 from Chronicles of Miss Miseria Write a poem about a word that haunts you. Why does it linger? [Compilation] I came across this prompt on the internet: Write a poem about a word that haunts you. Why does it linger? What began as a small exercise unraveled into a month-long excavation of language, memory, ...
