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We bought one of these Pupsicle toys for Rubi a couple weeks ago. It was a hit with both dogs so we bought one for Izzy too. Now Rubi wants them both.

Apparently I have limits

After the Big Outage, the EdgerouterX remains out of commission. I think now that I've sort of recovered from the whole ordeal of living off a hotspot for a week, I might be ready to zee it out and give things another shot from scratch, because I've got a few self-hosted things sitting on my Synology I wouldn't mind using again, like Linkding, and I had a pretty nice reverse proxy thing set up to give them all tidy, memorable hostnames.   Sadly, the CenturyLink router is bad in a number of ways. Fortunately, speed isn't one of them. But it does some weird stuff that is baffling me that I never had to deal with when I was using the Edgerouter. The syno's reverse proxy stuff was fine, port forwarding was fine, etc. The CL router has laid all that to waste.  I guess the nice thing is that...

I’m pretty sure I’ve posted this before but it bears repeating. ““Suffering doesn’t disappear from life, it disappears into life.”” — Barry Magid, Ordinary Mind Zendo 

Super useful error report right there!

We are not supposed to think, feel or be anything in particular. We can only be exactly what we are.

Ordinary everyday life is meditation enough if we attend to it in the moment with simplicity, an open curious mind and without taking ownership of any of it.

As a matter of experience no beginning or end can be located. We always find ourselves in the midst of everything that is happening.

There is no effort or technique required to be completely and wholly alive. We are automatically and spontaneously totally alive at all times without even having to do anything at all.

““We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live.”” — Carl Jung

Dusting off the Fedora box

I've got a System76 tower that I put away for a while to do some work on the house. It had sat unused for a while.  Tonight I got the proverbial wild hair and decided to cable it back up in my office. It's in the middle of getting through 2387+ package updates, and I eagerly await whatever hell will break loose after that.  (Update: Actually, none. It just took forever to reboot and then it was fine.) I've got a Dell monitor with built-in kvm and enough ports that the Mac Studio can connect via USB-C, the tower can connect via HDMI and another USB-C, and the two can share the wireless keyboard and mouse dongles I've got plugged into a few USB-A ports. So it's easy to share peripherals via the remaining ports, and I've even got a YubiKey both machines can use sitting in one of the...

Supernote has made the right tradeoffs

I like writing notes by hand. It's not a "distraction-free" thing, it's not an aesthetics thing, and it's not an old-school affect thing.  Years ago, when I decided to try to improve my handwriting, I discovered that writing things by hand had a great effect on my focus. By concentrating on making better characters with deliberation — grasp the instrument lightly, slow down, close every character — I gained a feeling of calm and focus, and I learned to listen for what matters instead of trying to match my typing speed with the rate of talking around me. I am happiest and my notes are most useful when I'm writing them by hand.  But I also like things that digital note-taking in plaintext files gives us, like search and backup-ability.  My ideal "notes to finished product" pipeline is probably:  1. Handwritten notes from interactions with others, or drawn from fleeting impressions,...

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These dogs are trying to take my spot in bed!

TeraCopy for Mac

I'd stayed away from TeraCopy for Mac for a long time because it didn't have good reviews. It was updated for Apple Silicon earlier this year, so I decided to try it out. I have some huge folders with tens of thousands of images and audio files that I need to copy to and from external drives and computers. I easily set up a job on a 2019 MacBook Pro to copy 135GB from an external mechanical hard drive to the internal SSD over a thunderbolt port. It took about 30 minutes and I was able to use the functionality of TeraCopy to verify the integrity of the files. Features• During transfers, any problematic files will be tagged and skipped without aborting the whole process. After the transfer is complete, you can retry only the skipped files. • You can proactively handle any file naming conflicts that occur during transfer...

Wisdom is recognising the difference between: “I was unhappy but now I am happy.” and “there is unhappiness and there is happiness.”

Solemnity and earnestness are the enemies of revelation, transformation, insight and wisdom.

Det första intrycket

Jag har genomfört över 6 000 husbesiktningar. Det har inneburit otaliga platser och ännu fler möten. Ibland är det kunder som jag har mött tidigare. Med cirka tusen besök per år kan det vara svårt att minnas personen i fråga. De gånger jag faktiskt minns tidigare möten beror det oftast på det första intrycket de gav. Det handlar om ett av följande två alternativ: • Positivt • Negativt Två alternativ, samma avtryck. Två valmöjligheter, samma insats. Det är upp till oss vad vi väljer. Vad väljer du?

Astal Goose

[Apple Music Player] Yes, nu finns Astral Goose på Apple Music.

““The ego is the workshop where the self is made.”” — Carl Jung

Tailscale, Blink, Files.app

Not sure when it happened, but Blink Shell—the iPad mosh/ssh client—added support for Files on iOS/iPadOS. So if you've taken the time to set up hosts in there, you can add file locations on those hosts and they show up in the Files app and make themselves available as a provider over an sftp connection to whatever can talk to Files . Combined with Tailscale, it's all very simple and handy and spares me a lot of configuration work to keep it all secure.  My current proof of concept involves a handful of org-mode todo files that I'd like to be able to read with Xenodium's Plain Org, an iOS/iPadOS org-mode app.  It has worked very well with that. I'm also playing around with his newer Journelly (an org-based journal app) and Flat Habits (org-based atomic habits, though he warns against working on files in place, and it's the one...

Syncthing - Free and Open-Source Cross Platform File Sharing

I first heard about the free and open-source file syncing app, Syncthing, when I started using Obsidian and may people were suggesting it as the back end of their DIY vault syncing strategy. I ended up using another method for Obsidian, but lately I have been exploring numerous ways to share files in my home lab setup, which features Macs, iOS devices an Ubuntu Linux box and VMs of all different sorts, including Windows. The aptly named Syncthing Foundation is behind the app that they describe thusly “Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, whether it is shared with some third party, and how it’s transmitted over the internet.” Syncthing is private and secure. • Private - no central...

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Seen on an I-66 overpass in Arlington: “Rise up Apr 5”.

Experience is a spectrum not a hierarchy.

No April Fools… Happy 19th Anniversary to nemu*nemu, the comic that brought @kyubikitsy and I together! To celebrate, please enjoy reading one of the comics (or all of them!) 

Recognising what is needed is more important than imagining you know what you want.

Möttes av den här skylten när jag gick ut i skogen för att slå en båge. 

““When the mind recognizes itself, there is no thing to see there. It’s just wide open.”” — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Just received my copy. Very excited to get stuck in…

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The wife told Rubi I’d be home soon. This is the picture she sent me right after.

Can You Help Me Find the Photos App I Need?

I'm going to turn the tables today. Instead of giving YOU information on software, I'm going to ask you to give me some recommendations. Specifically, I am looking for a photos app. Since I am eliminating Google and Amazon from my online life, I won't have access to their photo management tools, which, I will admit are pretty good, considering that both companies will mine every bit of data they can from my images in an attempt to extract money from me for their billionaire owners. Here are the features I'd like to have:1. Facial recognition to be able to identify people in photos and to be able to group photos of the same person together 2. Object search (e.g., dogs, landscapes, babies etc) 3. Being able to search by dates is a must 4. Tagging 5. Smart folders/albums 6. The ability to use photos in my file system without...

Week in Review - March 30th, 2025

👽 Personal • I finished up my second week at my new job, and I have very mixed feelings about the whole thing. There has been some information left out about the job, which soured me a bit, and I was able to dig in and see exactly how dysfunctional and disorganized everything is. This is going to be an uphill battle to get things straightened out, and I don't think I'm paid nearly enough for the task at hand, but I'm thankful to have a job and I'm just going to plug away from the time being. • I'm struggling to find interest in watching TV, listening to music, blogging, or even playing video games for an extended period of time. I think this has to do with the new job, and me just trying to find my feet and ground myself. I mean, I really shouldn't complain, because...

““If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so…  The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance.”” — Alan Watts

OM: Advaitic Songs

Part of my deep dive on metal has taken me into the stoner subgenre (think Kyuss, Red Fang, Sleep, The Sword, or Black Mountain). Though it's not stoner metal, OM surfaced in my poking around thanks to its connection to Sleep via Al Cisneros.  There's no real emphasis on riffs—it's built up from bass and drums—but it shares metal's often impressionistic approach to lyrics. Unlike metal's preoccupations with chaos, externalized forces, and evil, it's more of a hodge podge of Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu mysticism. A visit to Genius is often helpful when I feel like paying attention to the lyrics (which is only occasionally).  The music itself is repetitive, droning, and minimalist. You can get a sense here: [YouTube Video] It took me a day to decide I just wanted everything of theirs I could get from Bandcamp. Advaitic songs is my current favorite thanks to "State of Non-Return": ...

• 🤷‍♂️ Actually fixed the issue with the `lightbox` class being added on images and displaying weird on the Micro.blog timeline. For real this time!

Just saying...

Skaparglädje som huvudingrediens

Jag lyssnade på en intervju med Camilla Hamid, som med sina unika recept har blivit en av Sveriges främsta profiler inom bakning. När hon får frågan om hur hon lyckats bli så framgångsrik, förklarar hon att det som driver henne är passionen och glädjen i det hon gör. Hon berättar att hon inte är det minsta strategisk och tillägger: "Jag har tackat nej till riktigt bra grejer för att jag inte tycker att det verkar kul." Passion, glädje och skapande i en härlig blandning. Skaparglädje, ett verkligt framgångsrecept. Det går självklart att toppa det hela med ett visst mått av strategi. Men om inte huvudingredienserna är på plats, då kommer en yttre framgång aldrig riktigt speglas inåt. Det kommer att kännas smaklöst. Om vi däremot skapar med glädje och passion som huvudingredienser, då är det inte i hela världen om det blir en framgångssaga eller inte. Resan är en smakupplevelse...

Every word is too much and yet not enough.

remote workers

As everyone knows, any remote worker with cats has colleagues by his side for the most part of the day. Mine have their own specialization. Archie, depicted here, has a special talent to open the web inspector of a generic browser windows and explore the various options available. What about your co-workers?

Short Ruby Edition 129

Short Ruby Newsletter - edition 129 highlights📅 Events• African Ruby Community shared that Ruby Conf Africa opened its Call for Papers for this year event which will took place on 18-19th July. • Euruko announced their 2025 Call for Papers is open, seeking talks on Ruby 3.x evolution, the Ruby ecosystem, and Ruby in production for their "The Heart of Code" themed conference • Ruby Conf Taiwan announced the date August 9-10 for this year event and more information that will coming soon 👉 All about Code and Ruby• Hiroshi Shibata announced the release of Ruby 3.1.7 (the final version of the 3.1 series) and 3.2.8 (starting the security maintenance phase). He also recommended updating your Ruby to 3.3 or 3.4 • Igor Kasyanchuk published a cheatsheet about Hotwire cheatsheet • Oskars Ezerins published LLMs benchmarks - Popular LLM benchmarks for ruby code generation • Russ Olsen shared that he...

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Not all of Old Town is historical buildings and art work. It’s a city with alleys and trash cans like any other.

Keyboard Centered Apps for Power Users

A global keyboard shortcut is a combination of keys you can press while in any application on your Mac to execute an action belonging to a background process. I typically have a half dozen or more apps running in the background that use global keyboard shortcuts. Some of these include: Keyboard MaestroKeyboard Maestro is an automation app that allows you to initiate or control just about any repetitive process. Don't let the name fool you though. Keyboard Maestro can execute actions based on two dozen triggers, not just keyboard combinations. Some of the actions I launch with the keyboard from Keyboard Maestro include typing in extra long passwords with a shortcut, launching apps using keyboard combinations, launching a shortcut that queries OpenAI using my API key, activating templates in Drafts, running AppleScripts and more. My Top 10 Keyboard Maestro Macros RaycastRaycast is a keyboard app launcher with over 1000 available...