Minutes to Midnight - Call It Like It Is
I read with interest recent posts by Leon and Bix about — in essence — how to deal with taking a stance, by calling things out with their names.| minutestomidnight.co.uk
I read with interest recent posts by Leon and Bix about — in essence — how to deal with taking a stance, by calling things out with their names.| minutestomidnight.co.uk
A collection of thoughts I've had and thought maybe it would be worth sharing.| Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog
Please for the love of GOD ask me something other than "how's work?"| Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog
Scattered reflections on fatherhood: I like being a dad. I think I’m good at it. And I think Omri is really great. I notice different things. My friends are mostly childless and it’s st…| Sahar Massachi
I know it’s been awfully quiet here. I’ve not posted for a while. But I’ve been writing prolifically somewhere else. Earlier this year, I started an AI lab called Lossfunk and that is what has kept me (happily) busy. We have a newsletter there called Lossfunk Letters where I write very often, so if you’re… Read More| Inverted Passion
Recently I lost a heart I held close. A presence that could not judge, for the concept itself was foreign. A presence that made the house live has moved ...| Babu Export Company
I have been rather too busy hopping from project to project to do anything but read and watching a little TV in the evenings, as well as a bit annoyed by more industry disturbances and layoffs.| Tao of Mac
I express my gratitude and appreciation for the prize, as well as including some links and quotes from Malcolm's talks and others' memorials to him.| Better Simple
By Anton Lang ~ By now, those dedicated readers here at our site would have noticed there has been a lack of Posts being posted on a daily basis. I’m on my own now as the Editor here, and I’m visiting my Sister in Canberra. I usually fly everywhere these days, so it’s mostly a […]| PA Pundits International
You might remember that I worked for years with Marcin Wichary on his book set Shift Happens: three volumes, over 1,300 pages, shipped in a slipcase! The edition sold out in early 2024. However, Marcin has given me permission to sell a few unopened copies with unique extras that were offered in the highest tier of the crowdfunding campaign. (Marcin’s kindness in letting me sell these gems stems from my upcoming surgery, the cost of it, and lost income; you can read about that here, in A Hea...| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
For a few brief moments, my stock holdings in my former employer were hypothetically worth $5 million. This is the wild story of how I realized less than 1% of that value.| Never Down, Always Up
After years of running, my heart finally told me to slow down. This is the story of how a heart condition, burnout, and a year of loss helped me find a new rhythm.| JeremyDaly.com
What to do If you have a 3D printer, choose a design and print whistles. If you’re going to distribute yourself, add lanyards and flyers explaining them. If you hear a whistle and you are in …| Heidi Waterhouse
When I made my first web pages with Netscape Composer in the late 1990s, I had no awareness of what accessibility was. My only concern at the time… The post The next chapter is a complete takeover first appeared on Karl Groves.| Karl Groves
Today is the official publication date of my memoirs. This evening, October 21, I will be in dialogue with Leonie Haimson at the Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, at 286 Cadman Plaza. I wrote stuff about my personal life that I have never shared with anyone. It seemed to be the right […]| Diane Ravitch's blog
If you’ve been looking to find 🤓 more personal blogs and bloggers to read, then you’ve come to the right place ✅!| Learn Digital Marketing
This is my submission to this month's Indie Web Carnival theme hosted by Bix of slow.dog. It is a stream of consciousness triggered while reading Genius and Ink ; Virginia Woolf on How to Read (2019). There is something about her writing that just makes my brain click. At the same time, it makes it rather difficult to get through her writing since I have to stop to write myself. A possession of sorts. Who knows. I have come to notice that as of late, I find myself forming thoughts of a cer...| Konfetti Explorations Feeds
I just turned 40 and since we are culturally bound to make these round numbers significant, even though it is arbitrary as your life don’t follow these sort of milestones anyway, I still felt inspired to make a retrospective of my now four decades.| winther blog
There's been a lot of drama at my house lately, although that's unsurprising. My mom is old and sometimes needs assistance from a nurse. This nurse has been ...| Tadaima.
What I’ve been listening to since last time| Kevin Murphy
I it. It’s not a language. It’s a linguistic car crash. A Frankenstein of laziness and insecurity, where meaning commits suicides by hanging between two alp...| Babu Export Company
After nearly five years at Birmingham Museums Trust it has only just dawned on me I don’t have a desk. With nine locations plus lots of travel i’m never in any one place for very long. The stereotype is the more senior you get the bigger the view/desk/. I like to judge myself on how many people I have helped. How many projects have shipped. I do like being socialable in the office and that’s what I largely think “being together” means. When people diss working from home I often thin...| Reasonable Doubt
Let me show you how I redefined a personal milestone as the beginning of a new cycle.| Claudette | Writer of Words etc
A bit about baseball, the beagle’s pork belly, and upcoming Thanksgiving| Claudette | Writer of Words etc
What do moms do all day? Creative mom life reflection, incoming.. It sounds like a simple question, but if you’re a mom without a traditional job — or one who leans into creative work as your daily rhythm — you know it’s never simple. Once school starts back up and the routines settle in, someone […] The post “What Do Moms Do All Day?” — The Question Every Creative Mom Gets Asked appeared first on HealthyHappyLife.com.| HealthyHappyLife.com
Hi! I’m Kathy — cookbook author, photographer, and the human behind Healthy Happy Life. My Vegan Blogger Story: Kathy Patalsky, Creator of Healthy Happy Life & Finding Vegan If someone asks me today, “What do you do?” I tell them: I built a career as a vegan blogger, recipe creator, cookbook author, and food photographer […] The post OG Vegan Blogger: How It All Started (and Where I Am Now) appeared first on HealthyHappyLife.com.| HealthyHappyLife.com
[New to Gemini? Have a look at my Gemini FAQ.] This article was bi-posted to Gemini and the Web; Gemini version is here: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/kraileth/neunix/2025/eurobsdcon_2025…| eerielinux
Last week, I made an adjustment to my emergency fund. See how I define my emergency fund size. … More Emergency fund changes and interview announcement| amber tree leaves
Lately, I’ve been thinking, or rather wrestling, with this notion of rights. Not the performative, brochure kind we’re sold, but the kind that comes with the price. The kind that are treated, or rather handled, by those who believe they have any authority over what belongs to me.| Babu Export Company
A reader asked why I’m not more active on social media. Said I’d have more “reach.”| Babu Export Company
I see this more clearly than most, and no, I am not boasting. It is simply an occupational hazard of being an editor and having spent too many hours in the bowels of the edit bay.| Babu Export Company
You hauled me through over a thousand clicks of bullshit, bad calls, and aching knees and you didn’t say a word because you’re just shoes. Now you’re falling apart like everything else eventually does. You served your purpose and now you are free.| Babu Export Company
Over the last year, I’ve been developing a personal documentary. Progress has been slow, irregular, with commercial work taking up most of my time. But that work funds this project.| Babu Export Company
I managed to hold on. Somehow. Even when Mr. Botox started making choices so categorically dumb. Then came the coup de grâce. He drives a vintage car into a fucking hill. Not as metaphor. Not as commentary. Just... because. And I gave up. I couldn't care less after.| Babu Export Company
I should’ve kept the original title. There was a precision to it. Before the second-guessing that bled the life out of it. I didn’t protect my instinct. ...| Babu Export Company
On Monday October 14 it's been eight weeks since my open heart surgery. This means that my sick leave comes to an end and I'm back to work at my regular capacity. "Regular capacity" might be pushing it a bit. I obviously feel a| Axbom • My Next Heartbeat
On the art of focusing on design as a strategy to avoid thinking about the drama of reconstructive heart surgery and a new mechanical heart valve.| Axbom • My Next Heartbeat
I'm in the process of preparing for open heart surgery. It's an elaborate procedure where I'll get a new mechanical heart valve and also replace about 6-7 centimeters of the aorta. This is followed by sick leave and rehabilitation with, among other things, breathing techniques to make sure my lung| Axbom • My Next Heartbeat
Early this year, my son, Bhimal Fox Turner, and I began writing a new children’s series called Milly & Fox, which tells the story of a friendly alien named Milly and my son, Fox, and how friendship can transcend worlds.| Paul Rodney Turner
This month has been a success, and I actually immersed every day as I said in the previous post. I locked in and averaged at least 1.07h/day of Japanese in ...| extremq.com
Win of the week: got my Covid and flu shots — pretty minimal side effects, mostly a little muscle soreness in my arms Looking forward to: planning a tourist day in Seattle next week — somehow I have never been to the Seattle Art Museum? Stuff I did: 9 hours consulting 3.25 hours writing — […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
La mirada es el dato biométrico más revelador y menos consciente de todos. Más allá de identificar quién eres, como lo hacen la huella o el iris, los ojos cuentan qué te atrae, qué te distrae o cuándo estás a punto de quedarte dormido. Ese filón invisible de la atención humana está transformando industrias como la automoción, la salud, el marketing o la educación. Pero también abre un debate crítico: lo que hoy es innovación, mañana podría ser un arma de vigilancia. La clav...| JMFLORESZAZO
Cuando una organización busca crear un producto de software sólido o encarga su desarrollo a un proveedor, surge un reto común: ¿cómo asegurarse de que negocio y tecnología hablen el mismo idioma, sin malentendidos? Ahí entra en juego BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation), un estándar concebido para describir procesos de negocio de tal manera que cualquier persona —desde analistas funcionales hasta desarrolladores, gerentes y stakeholders— entienda claramente el flujo de tr...| JMFLORESZAZO
You’ve built something brilliant. You’ve got a great reputation, your clients love you, sales are steady, and you’ve got plans… BIG plans. So why does it still feel so bloody […] The post Wondering Why Growth Feels So Hard? Doing More Isn’t The Answer By Delyth Parsons appeared first on BEYOUROWN.| BEYOUROWN
I wasn’t able to write much this week, because we came back from a trip to Los Angeles, and then things have been busy. This week I went to a retirement party for two of my former co-workers, and it was wonderful to catch up with good friends. School is great, I’m getting to know…Read more →| The Book Stop
I didn’t take many pics this week so I thought it would be fun today to do a cross between what we did and the old Frugal Friday posts I used to do. Enjoy! Meals We Ate We mostly follow the weekly meal plans I send out on Sundays with a few adjustments based on... The post What We Did This Week: Frugal Friday appeared first on Little House Living.| Little House Living
Earlier this week I picked up my custom ankle foot orthosis (AFO). It’s not miraculously making me walk like I used to because I was bedridden for too long. But it has already made a huge difference in how much less energy I spend trying to get around. When I had the appointment Wednesday to […] The post My AFO is Punk AF appeared first on Emily Suess.| Emily Suess
What does citizenship mean today? A naturalized Canadian explores identity, freedom and belonging after giving up his birth citizenship.| James Zhan in real life.
Introverts share why they chose a small city hall wedding over a big celebration—and how COVID helped them avoid family pressure for the perfect day.| James Zhan in real life.
So one thing that I hate is when people refuse to give out estimates. I’m not talking about complex Fermi questions, but run-of-the-mill every day questions like:| tpaschalis.me
As insights are reviewed its always a treat to look at what written blogs have gone far in the vast landscape of the web.| Connor Tumbleson
Highlight of the week: bobcats!!! Looking forward to: I remembered that Seattle Restaurant Week is a thing, so I’m going to pick out a nice place to go for a belated birthday dinner at the end of the month (we rarely venture into Seattle proper) Stuff I did: 4 hours consulting 3.75 hours writing — painful […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
I made the switch to a dumbphone a month ago to the day. Here's what I've learned.| Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog
September was another month and a half to be honest. I struggled getting my body out of stress and then I got some work stress on top of that. There has been plenty of time that I have not been able to read at all. I didn’t finish the magical readathon. But I will before … Continue reading Dancing out of September 2025| A Dance With Books
After resuming my bullet journal a couple weeks ago, I started planning my next creative music endeavours. This time, back to writing and producing my own messages. What's taking shape, out of my scribbled notes on paper, are two distinct concept albums. Probably shorter than the previous one. I'm seeing 6-song works for now. I have names of all the collaborators I want to work with, a rough flexible timeline, and the themes. Although, once that was lined up in black and white, it occurred to...| Minutes to Midnight
Semi-random notes on my ongoing experience of living in the (tech) past. After taking the plunge, Mavericks keeps on giving. I created a brand new Set-up page featuring a probably incomplete list of everything I'm using. I'll be adding more info along the way, and probably more pictures. Experience Notes Mavericks' Aqua GUI, with its elegant and refined animations, gives a feeling that everything is running exceptionally well together. Almost as if it was a well-thought and organic piece of s...| Minutes to Midnight
A recent episode of The Mookse and the Gripes podcast got me thinking. Hosts Trevor and Paul were joined by John Williams of the Washington Post (mensches one and all). John had proposed a fascinat…| Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau
New job and responsibilities: what's now important to me?| stefan-marr.de
I flew a plane for the very first time! It’s one of the most exhilarating and frightening things I’ve ever done. The highlight was flying over my neighborhood at 7,500 feet. I’m still taking it all in. I thought I’d be a passenger for the most part, but turns out I handled everything but the […]| Geoff Graham
Like so many of us, I’ve been watching in horror since October 7th. I’ve felt paralyzed by not knowing what to do or say or how to understand how we got here. It feels again like it felt after September 11th; the first time I felt myself clinging to the back of my country like…| mattlumpkin
Yesterday my friend Katie DiSimone died. I met Katie in an unsolicited direct message. She reached out to me after I had asked some questions in a facebook group she ran. I was trying to figure out which hacked automated insulin delivery software was most likely to save my family from drowning in the endless labor…| mattlumpkin
Or, how remote work can trick you into feeling more stressed than you need to There is no trash can or recycling bin in your computer, just different ways the system tags files. But the useful fiction of the recycle bin interface lets us know what to expect about files we put there even if…| mattlumpkin
Hi, folks, a little personal news. In mid-November, I'm getting my aortic valve replaced via open-heart surgery. As scary as that sounds, my prognosis is excellent. This is fairly personal health news, and I'm posting publicly for two reasons. First, I am so grateful for the friendships and collegi| Glenn Fleishman interrogates the past
When I first boarded that plane to France, I thought I had a pretty good handle on what I’d gain by moving there. Better pastries? Sure. The challenge of a new language? Definitely. A fun, new life…| Oui In France
Die vermeintlich glänzende Idee einer anonymen Vorgesetztenbeurteilung entpuppt sich ausgerechnet in den Fällen als Falle, in denen die meiste Hilfe benötigt würde, weil die Beziehung zwischen Vorgesetzten und Mitarbeitern tatsächlich sehr schlecht ist. Der Artikel Vorgesetztenbeurteilung und 360-Grad-Feedback: Der Fluch der Anonymität ist erschienen auf initio Organisationsberatung. Mehr zum Thema : Beurteilungssystem: Ein potenzielles Veränderungshindernis zum Verbündeten machenBeur...| initio Organisationsberatung
Da wir kaum dazu in der Lage sind, die Persönlichkeitsstrukturen und Einstellungen von Menschen zu verändern, ist die Personalauswahl die wichtigste Einflussgröße auf die Mitarbeiterqualität. Der Artikel Personalauswahl: Die vernachlässigte Millioneninvestition ist erschienen auf initio Organisationsberatung. Mehr zum Thema : Persönlichkeitstests: Für die Personalauswahl nur begrenzt geeignetDerzeit gibt es kaum Persönlichkeitstests, die sich für Zwecke der Personalauswahl eignen un...| initio Organisationsberatung
Beurteilungssysteme können beabsichtigte Kulturveränderungen unbemerkt konterkarieren, wenn versäumt wird, sie den veränderten Anforderungen anzupassen. Sie können Veränderungen aber auch wirksam unterstützen, sofern sie konsequent auf die veränderten Anforderungen ausgerichtet werden. Der Artikel Beurteilungssystem: Ein potenzielles Veränderungshindernis zum Verbündeten machen ist erschienen auf initio Organisationsberatung. Mehr zum Thema : Human Resources / HR: Die Rolle des Pers...| initio Organisationsberatung
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This is my response to my own question on early web memories and I jump back to probably around 1997 when I first tried browsing the web. I was home at a friends house who had access and he showed me how it worked. I don’t remember we did much other than click a bit around on Excite (a web portal before Google took over) and I think we actually found a music video, which was possible at the time to view through RealPlayer. Took ages to load.| winther blog
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Highlight of the week: took the day off Wednesday to lounge around and read Looking forward to: reading a lot of fun, light books this weekend Stuff I did: 0.5 hours consulting 5.75 hours writing 0.75 hours business admin baked blueberry crumb pie (blackberries went moldy 😿) — decided at 8pm that I wanted dessert so […]| Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden
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Just to clarify, this isn’t about death. There is no death trigger warning, this is just about the end of, what was, a very important friendship to me. I’...| silly blog
Lennon recorded Walls and Bridges back in New York City, in the summer of 1974, after having lived for most of the previous year away from...| inmedias.blogspot.com
Over the past six months, a dedicated team of volunteers has been working to compile Roger's blog posts into a new book format. We refuse to let his imprisonment silence him— we want his writing to reach even further.| Roger Hallam
A few years ago, James Provost built a handheld texting device, based on Arduino, to send short messages over a connected ham radio set. One of my many backburner projects has been to build something similar, either based on amateur radio (like James’s project) or based on LoRa. Little did I know that Kevin Hester, […]| Shawn Hymel
Little appreciation post for my bearblog friends| Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog
A personal month in review. What a month September has been.| Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog
En mis años trabajando con sistemas legacy he observado los mismos obstáculos una y otra vez: acoplamiento excesivo, lógica enmarañada y deuda técnica disfrazada. Inspirado por estas experiencias, desarrollé una técnica llamada Heuristic Legacy Refactoring (HLR) y un proyecto de código abierto, refactor_heuristic, que aplica heurísticas y métricas objetivas para orientar la modernización eficiente de código heredado. En esta entrada profundizo en cómo combinar herramientas como N...| JMFLORESZAZO
En los últimos meses (o último año), todo el mundo habla de la Inteligencia Artificial (IA). Hay titulares que insisten en que la IA nos va a quitar el trabajo, que no está lo suficientemente madura o que las empresas no ven retorno de inversión (ROI). Pero, ¿sabes qué? Me parece que cuando hablamos así, detrás de esos grandes titulares, olvidamos lo que realmente importa: el para qué de la IA. Porque es justamente en los casos concretos, reales, donde la IA puede brillar.| JMFLORESZAZO
Running a business is exhilarating, empowering, and at times, overwhelming. For women founders especially, the weight of ambition, responsibility, and constant decision-making can become heavy. In the pursuit of scaling, […] The post 5 Mindful Habits To Build A Resilient Business Without Burning Out By Mariana Mindfulness appeared first on BEYOUROWN.| BEYOUROWN
In a world where first impressions can shape opportunities, how we visually present ourselves carries more weight than we often realise. Beyond style or fashion trends lies a powerful science: […] The post Closing The Visibility Gap With The Psychology Of Colour By Christina Avraam appeared first on BEYOUROWN.| BEYOUROWN
An article about stupid social norms that need to go away| Absurd Pirate's Internet Blog
A few weeks ago I announced that we were retiring the annual Metaphysician’s Day Planner offering, after nine consecutive years of making them, each one custom-made to order with your birth c…| benebell wen
Hey sweet friend! The post below was originally sent as an email to my community, but after receiving a lot of curiosity from people who aren’t on my email list, I’ve decided to publish it here as a post as well. I kinda like how it will get to live forever on my website now, […] The post I’m Retiring appeared first on Future Current.|
If it sounds like an adventure, it might just be. I believe that books choose us. At least sometimes they do, which is usually when we need them most. I read rave reviews about Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library but I never really felt compelled to read it, until I found it in the “Read Local” section of my library. It’s the first time I borrow from the library, which is a shame. It’s also the first time I read a book on my phone. That has been possible because I switched back to usin...| Design & other obsessions by Silvia Maggi
The second of a series of posts in which I document my progress learning to play the ukulele This post is long overdue. I started writing it several times but I have never been focused enough to do it. As with writing on my blog, also my exercising has slowed down. The previous diary entry ended with strumming rhythms and changing between the C, F and G chords. I was struggling with both. Not anymore. Despite the fact I learned just one new chord (G7), I feel much more confident playing. Song...| Design & other obsessions by Silvia Maggi
After a failed verbal reasoning test, I wrote an email reasoning why I firmly believe that these tests exclude perfectly good professionals. Hi [recruiter’s name], As I failed the Product Design / Verbal Reasoning test, I don’t expect the recruiting process to continue. I would like to offer you my feedback and opinion on the experience, as [company name] might find it useful in the future. It was the first time I had been asked to perform such a test. My experience was negative, although...| Design & other obsessions by Silvia Maggi
One of the things I missed most of our life in Cambridge is growing vegetables and flowers. Having a garden is a lot of work, but it’s highly rewarding. Simone and I have been busy preparing for spring during the last few weekends. We’ve found the mint we planted years ago, moved it to the other side of the garden, and are watching it thrive. From seeds, we planted: the romanesco variety of courgettes, which is sweeter and tastier chives chillies plum tomatoes parsley rocket salad red let...| Design & other obsessions by Silvia Maggi
Technology no longer excites me. To be precise, I’m not able to feel enthusiastic about new technology anymore. Might be because I’m getting older.| silviamaggi.co.uk
First of a short series of posts, where I introduce my switch to an operating system released in 2013, running in a computer built the same year. I can't possibly explain all the fine details of how it works, it'd require a book, but I'll try to dig out the best impressions. As explained at the end of July, I found myself at the bitter end of a long process of detaching from modern computing. Apple in particular. As a pure experiment, I installed and ran Mac OS X 10.9.5 (nicknamed 'Mavericks'...| Minutes to Midnight
Enough with the whining. Silvia and I have decided to kickstart the process that will ultimately lead us to share a dual citizenship. We came back to the UK two years ago, after failing to find common ground with our home country, and settled in our former house once again. Not coincidentally, we managed to find a way to pivot away from our old jobs. None of the above was an easy feat, according to Westerner standards. It took time, and a great deal of effort. Now, it would be possible (and e...| Minutes to Midnight
Once again, I find myself kind of forced to stop reading the news, in any form or shape. Filtering the shit from the interesting bits is like trying to put a barrier to a fastidious tinnitus (which I have, by the way). After a long time applying a harsh set of filters on Mastodon, where anything caught in my extensive amount of 'cancelled' keywords would simply disappear, I tried showing the 'filtered' notification for a while. It only led to the trap of clicking, seeing things that I didn't ...| Minutes to Midnight
A Mastodon post by Denny Henke, made me realise something that is currently making me really angry. He said: A lot of Apple enthusiasts are disgusted with Tim Cook and Apple given the recent display of bootlicking. I'm going to keep suggesting that we are all free to walk away from Apple's services. Your next computer can use GNU Linux. And before you dismiss it, have you tried it? Folks, I promise you, it is possible to have great and productive computing experience over here. The Free Softw...| Minutes to Midnight
A year and three months later, a follow-up on leaving the web industry. I was supposed to have distanced myself from that by now, to speak about it lightly. Not true.| minutestomidnight.co.uk
A few days ago I had a massive panic attack. Trying to think of something that would help me snap out of it, I asked Dan to “tell me you love me.” The “I love you” I got back was so begrudgingly given that even in the midst of a panic attack I couldn’t help […] The post Untitled appeared first on Emily Suess.| Emily Suess
Many people decry the idea of hard work that jeopardizes work-life balance. But maybe the sacrifice you're making now leads to better life options later. The post A contrarian view to work life balance appeared first on Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}.| Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}
Feeling bored led to an exploration of research showing that stillness matters to productivity, creativity, and maybe even personal growth. I was bored| Schaefer Marketing Solutions: We Help Businesses {grow}
