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Summary: I presented “Mentoring VS-Coders as an Emacsian” for Emacs Conf 2023. I go through my approach (at my best self) and being curious about how folks are using their…

Welcome to the first ever Shady Characters advent calendar! I’m counting down to Christmas by way of a collection of beautiful, clever, important, and/or outright odd calculators and calculating devices.…

I don’t know if there are many things better than speckles. Speckles, freckles, dapples; they’re all magnificent. I worked today with a limited… The post Speckled White Horse Watercolor appeared…

<img src="https://linuximpact.com/media/posts/70/nevernote.jpg" alt="A notebook with a crossed out Evernote elephant logo and the word nevernote next to a large three-leaf trilium logo. There is a pencil in the middle" />…

It was our second week of four in Lucca in July 2015. We were there to heal. It was very hot, and we had quickly settled into a rhythm of…

A weekly list of interesting things I found on the internet, posted on Sundays. Sometimes themed, often not. 1️⃣ A real blast from the past. [🔗 apple.com] (Via Stephen Robles)…

There are some subjects you should leave alone if you’ve already addressed them. There are some wells to which you should not return, leaving well enough alone. Alas, these are…

Broom Forkmoss, Dicranum scoparium with a little cedar berry appearance. Thuidium delicatulum, delicate fern moss or common fern moss. ID uncertain, possibly Entondon cladorrhizans flattened entondon moss

This case involves an “embedded pinhole camera” “disguised” as a “mountable hook” that a Doe merchant offered in Amazon’s Marketplace. Allegedly, Amazon inspected the item three times: Amazon’s Product Safety…

1. Recalibrating respect.  Fertility issues again. 2. Breakthroughs of 2023, an important thread. 3. Arnold Kling has built a GPT to grade your Op-Eds (requires ChatGPT plus, paid version).  Here…

The Bush Clinton Playground is named for one failed presidential candidate, but that is not why the name is memorable.Possibly related posts...A Walk Across the Hamilton Avenue FootbridgeBiden, Lincoln, and…

I see myself very clearly in this post, which is a somewhat rare and lovely thing. I've called myself a technologist for over a decade, but the definition in this…

My mom was sent home from the hospital after many hours waiting and several tests. What she thought was the problem turned out to not be the problem – but…

My EmacsConf presentation will stream in a few hours, and someone's probably going to ask where I find the time for all of this. =) So I dug through my…

When I fell while skating, my most immediate concern was the hit I took to my head. I went to an urgent care clinic to have it checked out, but…

Last week, Jerome Bias led a woodworking class of six black woodworkers as they built a six-board chest by hand in our workshop. It was one of the more memorable…

For the retro enthusiast, cassettes are the best way to listen to a audio dramatization because they're so portable and fun to use, and they remember where you left off. They're…

The other day I was looking after Bowser and doing something (can’t remember what) in another room. Bowser was in the living room and being a bit too quiet for…

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Waiting for Peace.’ See more responses here. This peaceful scene was taken at Pelekane Beach in Kawaihae. It’s a favorite spot of mine…

Bins and bins and bins for all the things...