BlogFlockFor this entry in the series, I have picked a beautiful song which evokes that curiosity we have about the otherworldly. The Elves is a song written and composed by the much-beloved Socratis Malamas. My favourite version is performed at a live concert together with Ioulia Karapataki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU9UDuiqHOU.
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I was inspired by, of all things, a video monologue by a Scottish surfer [1] who said that the future for them was challenging themselves in new ways. My guitar was close by and I thought maybe I should give myself a bit of a challenge too. I picked up…
From the age of myth you arrive as thunder and whispering fountain As the vivifying warmth of a luminous star Intensity you are of a special kind that moves hearts and reshapes the land In the dragon's year grey became blue green turned to amber Indeterminate Captivating Potent Manifest you…
I plan to avoid most news and all social media for a week. It's to the point where, between the daily barrage of horrible, incompetent people doing stupid, horrible things and the incessant misinformed chatter about all of it on…
Jane Bown is one of my favorite photographers. She commonly used an Olympus OM-1n with the Zuiko 85mm f/2 lens. I happen to have that exact setup, so I went Jane Bowning with a roll of HP5.
I'm no Jane Bown! As much as I love the viewfinder in the…
Alan Jacobs on the Iron Laws of the Comment Section:
- Those who have read and understood the post, whether they agree with it or not, will email you if they have something to say.
All of the rules sound right, but that last one nails it. It's one reason…
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Tonight I will work on my denote package. There is a feature branch
I implemented this morning and am now ready to continue refining the
code. The immediate goals:
"README-driven development" is a phrase Simon Willison used and it's kind of perfect.
I'll never understand why people get such a boner over ridiculing someone else's code. It's not a good look.
I've been using macOS exclusively for about a week and I'm a little embarrassed to admit how smooth things have felt. Not because of macOS specifically, but because I don't need to worry about keeping things set up and synced on Linux, too. I've been worrying about it a lot…
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