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I am trading blog post titles with Joe. He gave me a few suggestions for what to write about. I chose the title “Scotland’s brightness levels”.

Place is a recurring theme when I am writing. Where am I? What do I see? What I write about Nature is what…

[Yoni Greenbaum]

I really appreciate this distillation of the twin needs of optimizing the Engine — getting as much value as you can out of your existing business model — and the Explorer, which is all about actual innovation that seeks out new products, markets, and models.

“If…

PC Gamer is reporting that the current demand by AI companies for computer chips is having a disastrous effect on the rest of the industry.

In an interview, the CEO of Phison⁰ said:

If NVIDIA Vera Rubin ships tens of millions of units, each requiring 20+TB SSDs, it will…

Navidrome released plugin support a few weeks ago and I've been working on implementing a plugin that scrobbles my listens to my own API endpoint. This has replaced my previous approach of regularly polling a private endpoint that sat unused in Navidrome's UI. It works better and uses a…

Last year, when it comes to movies, was probably one of the best ever in my life. I got to watch some amazing flicks and have some great moments binging movies myself or watching along with my family.

I went through 50 movies total, and because of that, the summaries…

Owning your own data is hard. I've been trying to own as much as I can, and my site has become a reflection of that process, both in what I display and discuss. As difficult as it is, there's a freedom in owning as much as you can.

[Germain Gauthier, Roland Hodler, Philine Widmer and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya in Nature]

This is a very significant finding. Users who moved from a reverse-chronological social media algorithm to X’s:

“[…] were 4.7 percentage points more likely to prioritize policy issues considered important by Republicans, such as inflation, immigration and…

I have been thinking about the rhythm of my writing recently. I wrote in my drafts:

I have spent much of this evening writing. I started by working on a draft of a post about clouds that I wrote on my phone using Apple Notes while waiting for the bus.…

I visit the IndieWeb wiki almost every day. The wiki is maintained by the IndieWeb community, documenting everything from interfaces for creating posts to POSSE.

I was thinking that, like all wikis, there are pages that are almost “hidden gems” in the sense that, while they are on the…

As I shared on previous posts, my dad and mom acquired new devices, the same model, but with quite different uses!

Regardless, as the more tech-savvy member of the family, the responsibility to set them up fell upon me, having to deal with a lot of progress indicators, toggles asking…