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Jonathan Corbet wrote: fork() is a relatively expensive system call; it must copy the entire process state (including memory) for the child process.

I was inspired this week by the three-column layout of Sylvia’s website enough that I took a stab at one myself.

Memorial Day in the US was Monday this week.

This rendition of Song of Storms from Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time by Jon Batiste and Josh Harmon started out as a little teaser on social media.

John Dickerson has been on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert many times, and published a short piece to mark the end of the show.

Look up: Milky Way photographer of the year 2026.

Albert Burneko wrote: Nothing on earth could get me to outsource any part of the work of writing to an AI chatbot.

A handy reference for how ISO standard paper sizes work.

I’ve been practicing iaidō for a little over two years, going to classes more or less once a week during that time.

I took a trip with my parent, my sister and her husband, and Tess to the Netherlands in May 2026.

This one frilly tulip was really goin’ for it above the rest.

Keukenhof is most famous for its tulips.

Inside the Willem-Alexander pavilion at Keukenhof they had many many planters of begonias.

Just some of the many beds of flowers at Keukenhof.

There are more varieties of tulips than I realized.

I enjoyed the “high & low” arrangement of this a several other beds.

The gardeners at Keukenhof do an excellent job of finding interesting combinations of flowers.

Anil Dash writing about Flickr and its significance for the web: many large institutions, especially ones that have developed complex processes for good reasons, like government agencies and big businesses, often have trouble maintaining public-facing web…

NetHack reached version 5.0 this week.

The <a download> attribute lets you hint to the user agent that a link should be downloaded, and furthermore what filename it should use when saving the linked content to disk.

Tess was in China this week, so I had a lot of time to myself.

This was a week with no Artemis news, which is decidedly less fun than weeks with Artemis news.

I got a hair cut this week!

Nick Heer wrote: It blows my mind that their view two hours prior had the Earth at great distance.

Chris wrote: I wrote SkiFree in C on my home computer, entirely for my own education and entertainment.

Shady Characters’ 2025 wrote about the PERSON IN SUIT LEVITATING emoji in their 2025 Advent Calendar series: Connare connected some dots.

Japanese class picked up again on Wednesday night, after spring break last week.

NASA published a playlist on Spotify of the wakeup songs they played for the Artemis Ⅱ astronauts during their mission.

Artemis Ⅱ made their flyby of the moon today.

I took this photo of the aqueduct in Segovia, Spain in 2015.

Delphi Tools: A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools.

The weather in SF has been exceptional the last few weeks, so Tess and I took a bike ride up to Cole Valley.

The Oberlin Luddites, a student organization at my alma mater, wrote an opinion piece last September in the Oberlin Review last September, asking the president of the school to opt out of the use of AI in school work.

Someone taped over the street sign at Cesar Chavez and Folsom in San Francisco, relabeling the street Huerta Way, in honor of Dolores Huerta.

NASA’s Artemis Ⅱ mission launches today, assuming everything goes to plan.

Today is TDOV.

I was on my own this week.

Alex Harri has been working on an ASCII image renderer and wrote about how it works.

Les Orchard wrote on his blog: Before AI, both camps were doing the same thing every day.

Neil Brown wrote on his blog: I’ve been reasonably pleased with hugo, and it does the job, but I find it complex.

A fun house set DJ’d by a puppet.

A view of the field from our seats Tess and I took our friend Divya to the Bay FC home opener this weekend.

mpd is a headless audio player – a music player daemon, if you will. rmpc is a client for mpd written in Rust.

Today I got around to updating my VPS (the one serving this website) from FreeBSD 14.3 to 15.0.

A brilliant pink cherry tree I found in the parking lot of Page Springs Cellars.

This metal floral sculpture I found in Sedona, AZ reminded me of the Black Lotus card from Magic: The Gathering.

Sir Ian McKellan was on Colbert this week.

I’m turning thirty eight today!