I can imagine drones are pretty annoying for olympic athletes but as a viewer it looks incredible

In the USSR we had Plan Mode, every five years.

Web tech keeps escaping and messing things up beyond the browser.

It's 2026 and the web is still like this:

First in 2023, now again in 2026. Almost no training, still hit my goal, though I set the bar quite low. Trail running is cheap and fun. And it helps with your head. Go run!

People will never get bored inventing checkboxes that make you guess their current state

Claude Code's @zed.dev integration is still rough. Script-based edits skip the review UI, and the .md plan files can't be opened in the editor — they just sit cramped in the sidebar. TBH, the built-in agent feels much better, but claude code subscription is still cheaper than direct API usage

that damned AI jagged frontier drives me mad. One day Opus feels like reading my mind. The next, it burns tokens, runs in circles, breaks everything, and digs itself into a hole until I pull the plug

For some reason thought Ready Player One would be smth like Snow Crash, turns out it's much-much weaker. "My first fanfic" level. Now I'm curious what could in the sequel that got "widely negative critical reception" (but not enough to find out)

reading books is fun: neighed, shrill, taciturn, enmity, morose, whelp, indefatigable, ensconced, gambolled, knoll, desultory, nuzzled, conviviality, abhorred, aberrant. so handy that kindle has a built-in vocabulary

an alternate timeline where the Soviets preserved Moscow's old architecture alongside their Constructivism. (a photo by Robert Byron from www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/firs... )

Just found out our local cinema shows old films occasionally — they don’t put posters for them so I had no idea. Watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest today. So feels like in 2026 I’m about to watch many classics I’ve never seen on the big screen.

I see very few reposts in my feed. Why don't you share stuff you liked more? How could it get discovered by others? Do you rely on "Discover" feed? But it's a weird mix of what I've already seen (more) and new posts (less)

I’ve got a Leatherman Skeletool bought around 2008. After all these years, the screw-bit clamp got loose. Their site says "no questions, forms, just send it to us — we’ll repair or replace." Today I got a brand-new one. 😍 That’s what great warranty and customer service look like.

microsoft ai? lol, I believe

even sadder to see articles that might’ve not been chatgpt but clearly copied its default style. The authors not having their own voice or sense of good writing, copied what they think is good or professional. really, the worst of both worlds. or nowadays everything here is llm generated?

TIL that $100k+/month is not enough to maintain a framework like Tailwind CSS

Nobody in the history of the universe has ever, ever, wanted to paste rich text. Even if they did, the colors are all wrong.

Feels like for static sites, the only thing HTML/CSS/JS really lacks is HTML includes/partials. Everything else what Astro does (JS modules, CSS preprocessing, bundling )- either works natively in browsers now or could happens at serving/CDN level. Web Components exist but not for HTML templates?

3 of these are in NL, with more throughout Europe (Poland, Spain, Germany). Worth the trip!

again you, running

Also a fun video on how they came up with the sequence: youtu.be/U--ppFmOyHM?...

Got suspicious at first (UX in Mastodon? Android? Linux?) but the talk by @jenson.org is excellent (all suspicion was entirely my own fault). "UX improvements have stopped". The last major waves were all consumer-focused, not productivity- or professional-focused.

listened to Billy Corgan’s podcast with Al Jourgensen and even mild language like “bullshit” got bleeped out. Odd feeling

you tell yourself: I can learn basic piano. just practice, no special gift needed. Then you see your daughter’s 7-yo classmate, no lessons, casually picking up melodies by ear, unable to even explain what could be hard about it. “The keys are just next to each other. You listen and repeat.” 😭

Listened to 12 podcast episodes on Fela Kuti (Fear No Man). Really like this historian-journalism style. Unfortunately, it usually happens only after death and some time. Letov, Mamonov, now Kuti.

Choices.

My 8yo asked what I was reading so I tried to explain There Is No Antimemetics Division by @qntm.org. A team investigating things u either can't notice or notice but instantly forget. Opposite to a tune stuck in ur head. "Ah, that happens to me at school. You ask about my day and I can’t tell much"

'Let it Snow' with all the positive lines removed

Meanwhile noticed that iOS Messages app now translates incoming texts seamlessly and unobtrusively. That’s exactly what I want from LLMs. Waiting for on-device models to get accessible enough and other apps use them. @bsky.app included. One step closer to Babel Fish experience.

Posting about music here often lately, but the new Kurara is quite good. I always think of them as kinda Ural Deus. Krovostok, though… still don’t get them. наверное потому что у меня нет своего шезлонга в Ницце

first time gpt recommended me a real gem: firesweden.bandcamp.com/track/work-s... Still can’t find anything else quite like it. Most dark jazz is too smoky; most free jazz too chaotic. While this one has that slow, heavy, ritualistic middle.

First, David Byrne, now Air 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjuo... Really like their format: ~20 mins live sets.

if I have a compile-time known fixed array in TS, do I seriously need `as const satisfies readonly [Item, ...Item[]]`? It looks like without it, TS either forgets it’s Item[] or assumes the array could be empty. 🌴

Skeuomorphic designs like fizzy.do can feel overdone partly because today’s interfaces are so dull. The contrast is so stark that these UIs can seem like too much. And many “toyish” designs are usually not snappy or well-thought-through. Fizzy doesn’t seem to compromise there.

Another interesting Russian-speaking album. 1st was a concept record, an homage to Morrison, built around Zamoskvorechye, a Moscow district. Now it’s a one-man (drums + bass + sax) avant-rock thing. Unexpected and quite cool. music.apple.com/nl/album/fut... запах горбуши голову кружит

reading on the history of electronic music and rave culture and remembering how we used to combine parties with full-time work. meanwhile I stayed at my laptop a bit too long on Monday, slept ~3 hours less, and now I’m completely non-functioning and just waiting for the weekend to recover. lol

Hell yes. 🤘 youtu.be/PNmcF6eRE7w?si=LeVqT...

'Tis the season once again! Around this time of year, people who strung their Christmas lights the wrong way start wandering into hardware stores looking for what they later find out is often called a "suicide cable."

I’ll answer as a world-class professional caulking specialist with decades of precision silicone-finishing work for high-end bathrooms. Use your finger.

OCCII (Onafhankelijk Cultureel Centrum In It), an independent music venue in Amsterdam. Originally a tram depot, then a squat, now with a restored facade. Built in late 19th century by the guy who architected Paradiso and Melkweg (other famous music venues). Inspired by "Russian National Style"

trying out Apple Music instead of YouTube Music. Never used it seriously and no surprises it's schizophrenic. Apple Music > Home > Recently Played > an album. Click play and it plays (and shows) only 1 track which it added to your Library b/c you added it to a playlist while listening to this album.

well, I know it was just a matter of time when this day would come. I just had to restart macos to make it recognise my wired headphones

Woke up with a drum intro and a nice bass melody looping in my head. Pretty sure it's based on something I've heard before, but it feels original. Time to assemble a punk band, yolo. and heal that trauma of cringing at my own voice.

@zed.dev I see an RSS feed for blog updates, but release notes seem available only via email newsletter. Any chance of an RSS for those too?

Increasingly appreciate when apps don't force an urgent update upon releasing new features. It's some special level of, idk, respect an empathy. So rare these days

still not over the fact Den Helder — Nijmegen train reversing direction in Arnhem. such tricks should be illegal.

Well, the experiment of routing all my RSS feeds into an email client didn't work out. Back to a dedicated RSS reader. Giving inoreader a try this time, until @en.sitnik.ru releases his app

Just listened to Carbon Based Lifeforms – Live at Ozora 2024. Still remember how impressed I got when I first heard their Live at Ozora 2022. This one feels weaker in comparison. Though still a good listen overall.