Double new pen day part 2: not quite a #fountainpen. Sailor Hocoro dip pen. Some thoughts in replies 1/

Double new #fountainpen day (another post to follow). Tom Hessin Edinburgh in Forth Bridge Red (F). Ink is Lamy Petrol. JoWo steel nib. Performs exactly as would be expected. Wanted to try a wood pen.

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]

So back in 1944, a German U-Boat Commander named Heinz-Wilhelm Eck did exactly what US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered US military forces to do - kill the survivors of a destroyed boat at sea. Now, as then, this is considered a War Crime. In 1945, Commander Eck was tried, found guilty […]

i have a website, mostly built up 15 or so years ago, written in a #perl based system named #Mason - mason 1 to be specific. i'm transitioning it to a virtual server running #nginx, and it's challenging. Mason 1 was pretty specific to apache2, but supposedly can be gotten to run with nginx using […]

i have a slightly aged copy of #mastodon in a docker container on a linode server. i'd like to migrate it to a different virtual ubuntu 24 server and also do any outstanding updates, of which i'm sure there are a number. can anyone point me at any guidance?

looking for input on the Jonathan Bennett book on OpenStreetMap. deciding if i'm going to order a copy. i also see a new book that is scheduled to come out early next year by Patrick Marie, anyone have any thoughts on what that one will be? #OpenStreetMap #cartography #books

I do feel like MS/Azure, AWS, and Cloudflare need to do a better job of coordinating their outages so some of yall can get some much needed time away from IT

i post a bit about books. this has had an unexpected side effect just in the past couple of days. i decided to join the affiliate program at bookshop dot org, thinking it was like the amazon one except it didn't feed the amazon beast. i was wrong. i now have an online bookshop of my own at […]

New pen day. The sale at Atlas Stationers was too good to pass up. Conklin 1896 (M) Deep Lake. A bit of a wet writer.

Just got an email from Medicare warning me of scams during Open Enrollment season. Naturally, the email has embedded URLs to click—and the links don't point to medicare.gov, they point to a .com that will forward the HTTPS request. (The email was also sent by that .com, but at least there's a […]

Got this at tonight’s Fort Orange Stamp Club auction. World Stamp Expo 1989 cover with #spaceflight themed block of four US Airmail stamps. #philately #stampcollecting

Fucktangular.

ROK stamps and souvenir sheet for Apollo 11 #philately #stampcollecting #spaceflight #korea

RFK Jr. fleeing the scene of a medical emergency is honestly the best outcome anyone could hope for.

Oh, my—per the AP, the guy accused of assault for throwing a sandwich was acquitted.

@SteveBellovin The right of the people to bear sandwiches shall not be infringed.

The former DoJ employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Trump’s law enforcement surge in DC has been found not guilty of assault. https://wtop.com/dc/2025/11/man-who-threw-sandwich-at-federal-agent-in-washington-is-found-not-guilty-of-assault-charge/

Anyone mapping the history of the German Autobahn? We have a particularly fleißig mapper who's coordinating the daunting task of mapping the historical evolution of die Bundesautobahn. He's off to a great start... and he'd love to have helpers. Maybe, just […] [Original post on mapstodon.space]

75 years ago today, European nations signed this Convention, so the Holocaust could not be repeated. Beware those who want this to end.

Minimalist #halloween costume

What do folks like for closeup viewing of #fountainpen nibs?

Doctor took more blood than usual today. Spirit of #halloween appatently.

The NSF's terms were quite perverse – even ignoring the clear ethical fuckery they demanded. "Promoting a diverse and international Python community" is written into our IRS-registered mission. Accepting the NSF's terms would have meant using funds in a fashion contrary to the mission that […]

nice update from Drew Brown: https://youtu.be/rNfWVSISLgQ #fountainpen

He got tired of watching teevee and came along for the ride. #skeleton #halloween

my student from Sunday's driving skills school tearing it up on the skidpad, i was in the right seat. 1989 Volvo 740 wagon with 200k+ miles, original springs (squashy) and probably original front struts. it was a party, but she was game for the adventure. i think […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

demonstration of what an airbag going off looks like outside of a car. we do this exercise every time we teach the Tire Rack Street Survival Program at Saratoga Auto museum (spring and fall every year). it's good to know what kind of forces are really involved […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

And a Corvette contributes to the pile of race car parts… #scca #roadracing #funwithcars @ Thompson Speedway

Snapshots from today’s season ending #scca road race at Thompson Speedway in CT. This picture, a naked Formula V. More pics in the comments.

Starting our pile of lost-and-found car parts early in the race weekend. Rear end bits from a Mazda. #scca #roadracing #funwithcars @ Thompson Speedway

#fountainpen at the race track. Whole lot of race car logbooks to fill out today.

The entire Western Pacific has been verified free of measles and rubella. The WHO has verified the elimination of both diseases in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows two decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional […]

New pen day, again, not quite a #fountainpen. Last year’s inkvent calendar has gone at a glacial pace. This cheap dip pen should allow proper day-by-day viewing of new inks. Now to figure out all these nibs.

What time of year is it? Time to switch to #snow #tires!

Ahh better!

trusting the process... when processes work, it's important to trust them. a few months ago, i found a rendering glitch associated with some natural/landuse closed ways in #openhistoricalmap i did the thing you're supposed to do, i characterized the issue as best as i could in a ticket, and […]

I think this article by Bruce Schneier is really important to understand in the world we inhabit today. The short version is that it is worth thinking about what your real threats are from authoritarian government surveillance and what you’re trying to protect or achieve […]

That time of year. We have a greeter posted on our driveway. #halloween2025 #halloween

New pen day but not exactly a #fountainpen . DSPIAE panel line pen for use detailing models. Dipped it in Robert Oster Crystal Marine and verified its fundamental unsuitability for writing with ink. Didn’t buy it for that, it’s for applying various washes and […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Breaking, new, by me: Self-replicating "Shai-Hulud" worm hits 180+ Software Packages At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Making sure all the #fountainpens will be nib up in the seat back pocket on the flight. #airtravel

a John Prine classic for your listening entertainment. from 1971. #music https://youtu.be/sRCLHBhZPQ4

Elsewhere on social media, Over on one of the stamp collecting groups, folks are sharing unique items. I thought I’d share this one here as well. Postcards with special delivery stamps are rare. The San Francisco Opera had a last minute postponement and needed to […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

When your code works but no idea how

i'm not recommending this for the history, although it's more-or-less adequate. for anyone, though, who understands civil war uniforms and equipment (and knows what Grant looked like), the AI generated imagery is hysterically funny (unintentionally so.) #americancivilwar #ai #badai […]

Yesterday USADC got a third No True Bill for Sydney Lori Reid, accused of stepping between ICE agents and someone they wanted to kidnap. Today they got a No True Bill for Sean Charles Dunn, the famous Subway sandwich thrower. Make grand juries relevant again.

New #fountainpen day. Hadn’t really planned this buy, but stumbled across it while learning about higher end Pelikans. Pelikan twist (m). Plastic body, steel nib, international standard cartridges. Decent value for slightly over $20, got it from Europe as apparently not exported to US.

Took a load of trash down the driveway just now, stopped to look at the milkweeds. Saw this #caterpillar and had to look it up. It’s a Milkweed Tiger Moth (duh).