rediscovered @somafm.com around christmas looking for themed background music. haven't stopped since. months of it now. perfect for work or dinner in the background.

Artemis Real-time Orbit Website: www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

Got another scam/phish email about a "CJIB fine" — been getting these since Odido's fuck-up. But credit where it's due: "mallorcaimmobilienkongress.de" as from-address is certainly a choice.

The Netherlands just moved to summer time, resulting in UTC+2, which should be around Minsk, Kiev, not Amsterdam. And now there is no Nazi to blame. EU even recommended to remove clock shift back in 2018 but nobody could agree on what time to stick with.

Browsing Flickr in 2026 feels like checking those old phpBB forums. And some of those are still true gems — the only source on certain topics. Stood the test of time, while all these socials come and go.

indeed it feels like for GitHub to save themselves, they need to ditch Copilot and go all-in on revamping their core offering for agentic coding. Or Microsoft juggernaut will just ruin another one

One nonobvious thing I learned from a decade of occasional acute disc/nerve flare-ups (in lower back): stay as mobile as you can tolerate. Bed rest makes it worse.

In these times of AI and automations, I could not not buy another mechanical film camera. It’s ~65 years old, all shutter speeds are slow, so needs some cleaning. But hey, it shoots in portrait orientation by default, right into the socials!

eBay has always been a mess. Nothing really changed in 20 years since I first used it. The UI is fucked up as ever. Yet it's still the only place where you can actually find rare stuff internationally.

20 years ago today.

Finally getting close to combining todos, reminders, notes, and calendar in one place. Haiku 4.5 has no problem running it. Need to test with GPT-mini/nano, which are even cheaper. Kinda pico-zepto-claw.

Went to an abandoned gas station turned music venue to see Federale, Portland-based western-themed psychedelic rock. Really nice to get out of a dorp once in a while to see some.

First time at the Speed Skating World Championship. Mixed feelings, but fun overall. Best part — and the main reason: my kid watched the Olympics for the first time, then suddenly got to see the same athletes competing live. 😍 (pic is a quiz: what’s going on?)

TIL the Netherlands used UTC+00:19:32 (later rounded to 00:20) until 1940 — known as Amsterdam Time or Dutch Time. During the WWII occupation it switched to Berlin Time, and the country never switched back. Damned Nazis.

meanwhile, Apple releases a brand new laptop with 8gb ram

I’m writing an essay about Fn (and Globe) keys on the keyboard. If there’s anything on your mind: any questions you have, or any trivia/interesting things you know of, or any personal experiences, please let me know! 🙏

The first time I’ve seen “anything could happen 🤷🏾‍♂️” in chart form.

You skip a show, postpone it — "next time for sure." Then a sudden death, and that’s it. RIP Nikolai Komyagin (Shortparis). One of the defining acts of today’s Russian music scene — distinctly Russian, yet globally legible and respected.

olympic ski mountaineering is fun but is so far from real ski mountaineering

if you use Codex CLI and want properly formatted Markdown tables, consider upvoting: github.com/openai/codex...

Was researching how early games did pseudo-procedural generation, stumbled on Ian Bell’s Elite page. Authentic HTML 3.2. Last updated 2024 or after. 🤌 www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/index....

Just realized you can’t hide reposts from a specific user in your feed. @support.bsky.team please add this — feels like a fundamental feed control feature

2026 plan: revive photography. Separate feed to avoid spamming here. Follow, like, or reply if interested.

Can’t find a blank Linhof-type lens board (no hole) anywhere online. Would anyone be up for 3D-printing one? Happy to pay, or exchange for a portrait shot (I suck at them) using a beat-up pre-war lens.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Haven’t shot with a real camera in a while. Picked up a new one and day 1 I hit the same issue as before: exposure compensation is always off when I’m about to shoot. I barely ever use it, but the dial sticks out and gets bumped while carrying. Can't believe it's only me

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!