I like using my computer with keyboard alone, navigating through desktop and windows only with shortcuts. Mac was very bad at it, expecting its users to be mouse dependant; it's much better in Windows and GNOME, and GNOME is even better because it allows setting your own shortcuts.

I played "Doom 64" when it was finally re-released for modern platforms, and the game was solid and decent, but still, there was something underwhelming there. Like, I wanted to like to more, but it just wouldn't let me. Later, I tried additional level, and it wouldn't do much either. I guess […]

"Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" is a 1986's cult classic, which I was planning to see for years but kept forgetting. Now I remembered. It's very bleak, both thematically and visually, but it aged like fine wine. Due to budgetary constraints, most of the murders are shown as a detailed […]

A while ago, I started disabling animations in my devices: smartphones and computers alike. It generally speeds the devices up, due to two reasons: one is that animations take time, and all that unfolding of menus and sliding in of elements accumulate during the day; two is that animations […]

I started playing "Tomb Raider" remaster. I'm not sure it'll be something I play a lot soon, but I wanted to see it. Visually, it improved a lot, which we can check any time by switching between the original look and the remastered one, a feature that is often present in remasters. The old view […]

"Superliminal" is a game that can easily be considered a worthy successor to games like "The Stanley Parable," "Antichamber," or "Manifold Garden;" including featureless player character. The action is set in a dream, which goes into another dream, and into another, etc., thus, resembling […]

"Alice Through the Looking Glass" (2016) is a follow-up to "Alice in Wonderland," but it deviates even further from the source material; not that it's bad: with Tim Burton gone, the story takes more standard approach, and in the end, I liked it better, even if it's a sort of a low ball in the […]

Season 2 of "Fallout" continues story where season 1 ended. I'm not gonna get into the plot, instead I'm gonna say this: the creators are very good at creating stories with multiple plots and arc happening in parallel, then meeting at the end. This heavily reminds me of William Gibson's books […]

Today, lofi hip-hop. A side note: I have no idea why it was called hip-hop at all. Perhaps, it's because it sounds like a beat to rap to? Beats me, for sure. But it works as a non-intrusive background music.

In Polish, we don't translate the "FAQ" acronym, but we read it as if it was a word. Fuck.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JavaScriptBuzz/116028882149845038 WebStorm's hint taught me to put `void` in front of Promises that I fire and forget.

I was looking for an album that I could swear had "rooms" in the title, and I came up short; but I noticed some interesting album covers in the search results, and I started listening to them. All those albums are different in style, but I found some of them interesting, so I'm munching through […]

Oh, shut up! :D

I have picked up semicolons from "Moby Dick," and I realised that I started using them in my Slack messages at work, and that led to me realising that I'm pressing send less, and my messages became more contained; whereas earlier, I would send 3 or 4 messages, only to realise that the flow of my […]

Yesterday, I had a brief discussion about Moltbook with someone, and I abandoned it rathe quickly, after I realised that my interlocutor is attributing more agency and awareness to LLMs than they have. And I'm afraid that's a problem when discussing the AI topic with non-technical people: the […]

Fantastic album. A faux soundtrack, something that is popular on Bandcamp; but I still checked if there was no movie. https://theprotomen.bandcamp.com/album/the-cover-up-original-motion-picture-soundtrack https://soundmachinestore.bigcartel.com/product/the-cover-up-cd #Music #TheProtomen

This is where we got to.

My (ergodic) website is smol web at the moment, but in due time, it will be long web. Just let me write some more.

I used to do props-drilling in React a lot, but now I'm wiser. Fetch data as close to your component. It's fine, really.

My colleague wrote "MF," to not write motherfucker, and I expanded it into "Merry Fellow," and now, we're using it (or Merry Friend) in our everyday conversations.

I guess the biggest downside of running your own Mastodon instance, content wise speaking, is that you're short on hashtags.

I'm not interested in yearly rankings; although, I'm still considering top 10 movies, because why not; but one thing that 2025 put on the map of my interests is whaling. Now, I'm not gonna drop everything and become a whaler (I would have to move to Iceland, and I don't like cold), but I am […]

I neither take notes nor highlight anything in a book; a book is a sacred thing for me, not to be defiled with such behaviour.

In a heavy metal concert, no one can hear you scream.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@InternationalCyberDigest/116000595285290638 Nothing is sacred anymore, not even Notepad++. *shakes head in disbelief*

"The House with Laughing Windows", 1976, is a giallo horror, but it's not very scary by today's standards. Probably the most scary part is when the main character is kicked out of his hotel and has to move to an old mansion, which checks all the boxes in the haunted-or-at-least-creepy-house form […]

"Alice in Wonderland" (2010) is Tim Burton's take on the classical classic, and he does it with some changes: Alice has a different last name (although, I don't remember if she had one in the book) and is older, and in the movie she returns to Underland (that she calls Wonderland), but she […]

"The Hidden" (1987) is a glorious, shameless sci-fi action horror. Kyle MacLachlan plays here an aloof FBI agent, pre-Twin-Peaks, and it's a perfect casting. He brings all his Kyleness to the role, which initially helps to fool us, the viewers. Something that would be a twist and major reveal in […]

Apparently, there is going to be "Copenhagen Cowboy's" season 2 this year. Good. Although, this page is the only souce; but it's oddly specific when it comes to dates. I couldn't find anything on the byNWR's official website. https://whenetflix.com/copenhagen-cowboy #copenhagencowboy

This, apparently failed, documentary about Melania Trump reminds me of an anecdote about Cato, one of the stoics, who, when asked about his monuments, and why there were none, replied: "After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."

I just had a genuine discussion about a front-end implementation of a feature, and it made me think that if enough devs (of any stack) would follow hashtags related to their specialisation, and would start interacting with other users' posts, especially when they reach out for an opinion, then […]

"But like every pirate, the tech companies dreamed of being admirals." (Cory Doctorow) Source: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115984482208470590

`kill -9` is a very dependable friend. It has never failed me.

Ernest Hemingway famously said to "make every word count," but I learned that additional words, which kind of don't really count, help with pacing, especially for texts that are meant to be read aloud, and the speaker might need to catch a breath or something; so, there's a practical side to […]

I can understand that they tried inviting Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Moscow for talks, but c'mon; that borders on a low-quality bait. 😅

I am asking myself now, why hadn't I written a script for any presentation before? It's brilliant (the idea; the script remains to be seen from the audience reactions). We learn something new every day.

After, like, 10 hours into "Hexen," I have to say that its soundtrack if far more superior to the "Heretic" one. I'm really glad that it go Andrew Hulshult's treatment. #Music #hexen #andrewhulshult

Speaking of the term "Doom clone," the Polish word was something like "Doom-alike" ("doomopodobne"), which sounds not far from "Souls-like." #Doom

So, the E.U. is going to investigate Grok. I would really like to believe that something, anything will come out of it.

After a month and a half, I learned to type on my new, budget keyboard. Either the buttons needed breaking in, like they used to do with horses, or I learned to navigate its intricacies. Alas for her, I'll be buying a full-blown mechanical one, as typing is what I do for living, and I need the […]

I gotta admit that this Ishmael-inspired punctuation works for me, and I think it's because it allows me to use English in a manner closer to Polish, which is my mother tongue, after all, so I can make my sentences flow better. At the same time, my project of a children book written in Cormac […]

This is from a promotional video for a hackaton run by an AI company. At first, I scoffed, but I think that this unironically embodies what's wrong with this whole fad. It's like a self-own they don't realise it is.

If I can operate my computer from keyboard only, I am the happiest man on Earth.

I didn't know what was the story behind "Sinners" (2025), so it surprised me a bit when vampires showed up; and this was after I joked that it starts like "Lovecraft Country." Similarly to there, there is strong historical background presented. Moving forward, however, the movie started […]

When I got Crunchyroll, I was surprised to find out that there is anime based on "NieR: Automata." I decided then that it's unlikely that I will play the game any time soon, so I went with the show. And wasn't it fun! It's generally split into two distinguishable parts: the first 12 episodes […]

"Nomadland" (2020) depicts a live of Fern, a Usonian woman living a nomadic live: she's movie in her van adjusted to living through the U.S., catching seasonal jobs, from Amazon during the Christmas frenzy, to beet root plant. The movie feels like a half-documentary, and for a good reason […]

"The Beast In Me" (2025) is a limited series about a writer who, experiencing a writer's block, gets an idea for a new book when an alleged, rich killer moves in as her neighbour. Literally, the killer offers it to be about him. The show was balancing on being low-quality pulp, but good […]

Sometimes, when you find a proper album, the mix after it can play for hours on long.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Krazov/115944936579404389 That, however, is me. How Wikipedia editors will take it is another question. If they see this as trading their pro-bono work, they might abandon contributing to that shared pool of knowledge, and that would be a loss for everyone. Something […]

Last week, I read that Wikipedia is finalising a deal with AI companies, and my initial reaction was: there goes my monthly donation to them; but this week, I read a little more on the subject, and I realised that the situation is tough, and Wikipedia could take up a fight with an opponent with […]