Notes

“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk, by Claude Monet - Beyeler Foundation, Public Domain.

Saw “Lady Snowblood” (★★★★☆) , on Tubi.

George is making the AI do coding wonders.

Holy macaroni!

I feel morally obligated to say I did not write the code in this repository myself.

They push “120B” without explaining active parameters.

Ubuntu (or maybe this comes from Debian) has the most backward, annoying, exasperating package management, in my opinion.

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We watched “One Battle After Another” (★★★★☆) over the weekend, or was it Monday night?

Screenshot of a very humorous Claude session.

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We have VIP designations at work, specifically when fulfilling service requests.

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I recently came across Donohoe photo albums, and have since gone through all their photos with delight, and a bit of jealousy.

I left my Mac’s volume too loud last night, so today while working the hourly time announcement was bothering me.

Sent an abuse report to AWS, and, even thought I provided the offending IP, and correct timezone from get go, they made me repeat it three times, on three different emails

Three maiko (apprentice geisha) playfully re-enacting the “Three Wise Monkeys” maxim.

The Met, who keeps sending us expensive mail aiming to gain our support through a membership—which I am entertaining to get, actually—has expanded its collections by offering high definition 3D scans of many of their artifacts.

Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find,…

Defuddle extracts the main content from web pages.

As I finished washing Horsie’s wagon, and was about to apply tyre shine, it started to rain.

Pics from a blizzard, u/Shotsbystevn.

My Ghostty configuration under macOS, in case it is handy as a starter point for anyone.

Fitness, with its time to stand up nagging truly needs to back off.

While I still prefer using the OS default applications, I have decided, for the time being, to use Ghostty as my default terminal application on macOS (maybe on Linux too, we’ll see).

Karl Marx was resurrected and came to the USSR.

A lot of what I am seeing on the tubes as of late isn’t vibe coding.

“Design in Theory and Practice” by Ernest Allen Batchelder.

Tomorrow we move forward one hour (going into EDT), and with it—or, rather, before it—some kind of allergy has started its Spring “vacation” on me.

Was just telling Horsie about a program I listened to on NPR, which related to horses, and their whinnies.

Feeling guilty beyond belief after eating around 8 fluid ounces of Häagen-Dazs’s caramel cone ice cream.

“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.” — George Eliot

Hi, I’m Mark Pilgrim.

Maybe it is just me—though I hyperbolise, as I can’t be alone—but I have zero issues using Safari (Apple’s web browser).

If that MacBook Neo advertisement isn’t incredibly well done, I don’t know what is!

“Simplicity is a great virtue, but it requires hard work to achieve and education to appreciate.

Another MacBook tomorrow?

Hacker News user std_move succinctly lists a few points that they believe make the MacBook Air “the best laptop for the general consumer around $1k”.

Apple’s March event.

When someone joins, that person puts in $30,000 CAD ($22,000 USD) to cover a down payment (this is returned if they leave).

Redirect links from Twitter (now known as a bloody hellhole) to Xcancel, you know, for “the rest of us”. javascript:void(location.href='https://www.xcancel.com'+location.pathname); Create a bookmarklet with the above, and use it while on the tweet you are

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Today I was made aware of 𒀯, which is pretty cool!

With work, life, and other news taking precedence, I completely missed that Apple plans to unveil, allegedly, up to five different products next week, starting tomorrow.

Predator: Badlands.

I have noted about sponsoring, and donating before.

I have converted all JPG and PNG images to WebP, saving quite a few MiB in the process.

Just like on this one, kid asked me last night to mention five characters’ names from the “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” series we just saw.