jerieljan

I'm hungry for some curry. Or even some stew or chili. It's been raining almost nonstop in the Philippines and I could use something hot in this weather.

It's been raining so hard and the humidity's so high (90%) that one of my old keyboards basically broke. Hitting any button along the 5th row triggers all buttons in that row. Oof. Maaaaybe I should be keeping these on a case with a desiccant on it.

I bought an Xteink X4. I love it. But then I realized I actually don't have much EPUB-formatted books and the ones I do read are PDF... Guess it's time to convert these.

Been around on Twitter for a while recently and it feels like a breath of fresh air going back here and no longer deafened by its echo chamber. Sure, there's echo chambers here too but I actually have control over lists here than there.

I feel like a caveman but TIL about @npmx.dev and @e18e.dev

It's ironic to use AI when the Magnifica Humanitas covers AI at depth and its misgivings, but surely having a nicer way to read it is welcome. My understanding of the message is that it must be used with care, to be responsible and be mindful of others. reader-magnifica-humanitas.vercel.app

When businesses go for AI, they see it as a means to automate, optimize and lay people off. When it's their products/services, instead they sell ads, slow it down and claim "smart" when the dumb solution was actually better and easier. Gee, I wonder why people hate it so much.

I really miss traveling. I'm kinda resigned at the idea of it this year with all the health stuff I have to deal with. Sucks especially when you're growing older.

I deal with scanned PDFs and handwritten notes sometimes, and while agents can do it unsupervised, it sometimes gets stuck or fails. My solution was feeding said files to other llms separately via @simonwillison.net 's llm utility. Like a baton pass from my main K2.5 Opencode session/s to Gemini.

Buying all sorts of artbooks and art works in doujins (the safe variety) is clearly becoming an addiction when I have three file boxes worth of them. Looks like I need more if I'm dropping by to Japan again next year. I'm overdue two Comikets' worth of artist work.

It doesn't happen often, but goddamn, seeing Bluesky losing its login on a phone is enough for me to just uninstall the fucking thing.

There's so many good games this year. And yet, I'm also finding my way to beloved older titles and I'm also having a blast there. Expedition 33 is the best, then Silksong. I heard Hades 2 is also heading to it's full release soon so... yeah.

I'm mildly curious if ChatGPT agents hosted in the UK or EU are failing because of that UK age verification stuff.

Sometimes, I wish I got reminded of the little terminal utilities and applications I download and use since I forget that I have them already and they're awesome. `posting` (a TUI API client) and `ncdu` (ncurses disk usage) are some of them.

I was wondering why this was in my YouTube feed because I use DeArrow to hide thumbnails then I watched it. Was genuinely pleased and laughing loud to see Persona 5's design as a challenge for building a UX in Compose and as a conference talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KdP...

Ngl, I used Bluesky less lately because the feeds I rely on stopped working (from why, I believe) and my Following list was cluttered without it. I like reading news, but I wish I can follow agencies but mute them in Following. Now I have to unfollow and add them to a list instead.

Gemini on the web or app has vastly improved. I remember it being unreliable especially at advanced stuff and it was bad compared to the stellar API results. Now? I can actually get good results AND it works on Workspace + mobile. It's finally on par with the API. Finally.

It's kind of neat that I can take photos like these on a phone's 5x lens.

Seeing Pewds make a video that's focused on discussing Linux and how he customized it to his needs was certainly not on my bingo this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_...

Jetbrains getting all these updates is neat. I wasn't even expecting to get AI Pro and Junie out of the APP but it's getting added and that's neat. Junie is such a good addition, since it's a nice catch-up to what the VSCode editors are getting, and building simple apps with it is nifty.

> got an internet connection upgrade that essentially doubled / tripled my internet speed Yay. > new network is behind a CGNAT or Double-NAT or has similar difficulties with its public IP resolving to my DNS Well, that's shit.

Every time I use security products meant for business, I can't help but think what they're shipping is just as bad as the malware they're fighting against. The amount of them leeching so much CPU resources when idle, obsessive startup and persistence and annoyances is disgusting.

> over 400 container images aging up to four years ago because I forgot to prune after the regular updates > over 500GB of space on non-SSD NAS storage Welp, `docker image prune -a` is going to take a while...

Sometimes I wonder if people are just that dumb, ignorant or I'm reading a bot response. The lines between what appears to be a human troll and an AI one is becoming difficult to figure out.

The solution to getting rid of the reactions nag message in macOS is to disable FaceTime notifications and restarting your Mac completely. It's quite the wtf solution.

It seems like it's a hot take to side on Firefox as the tech crowd did its thing in YouTube and social media. And you know what? I do think it's overdone. Obsessing over diffs as if that's a definitive sign of abandoning principles is absurd. blog.mozilla.org/en/products/...

All this AI stuff is moving quite fast but there are surprisingly fewer posts about security when it comes to these. Thankfully OWASP has at least the important bits covered.

macOS Photos is a piece of software that I want to use, but because it doesn't play along with anything else besides Apple's ecosystem, it remains unused. A shame, really. If they made it work with the user's preferred structure and preferably through network shares, I'd use it a lot.

It's incredibly hilarious that I'm enjoying Python now because of a tool written in Rust. uv is such a godsend.