Some days I can sit down at my drum kit and, without any effort, feel like I can play so much better than before.
Then today I sit down and drum for 90 minutes and just feel so frustrated and unable to do even the basics.
And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.
"It’s a bright spot on the moon,” CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen said, his voice breaking up, “and we would like to call it Carroll.”
The crew all shared a hug after.
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The Artemis II crew just reported several impact flashes—explosions from hypervelocity impacts of meteoroids with the Moon—during the solar eclipse.
We make a big effort to see a handful of these from Earth with telescopes.
That astronauts flying by the Moon saw >4 in tens of minutes is AWESOME.
I am super geeking out over these new Artemis photos.
The “Earthrise” is crazy.
Flat earthers are in shambles.
The Artemis II mission seems good because it is.
People seem excited by it because they are.
It looks like a testament to the value of teamwork because it needs many people working together to succeed, and it’s succeeding.
One of the best things about this is how straightforward it is. Authentic.
4 people are flying around that Moon today.
The first since 1972, and the first-ever with digital cameras, to see better into the dark craters and textures.
The crew will have perfect quiet when the Moon blocks out Earth - a time of peace, alone, together.
My 2026 bingo card didn’t have “Mr Blobby’s musically talented French Canadian cousins make it big” but here we are I guess.
Frank Herbert (yeah, I know I'm a nerd), in God Emperor of Dune, has a character observe: "What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking; there's the real danger."
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
“If building is cheap and maintenance is expensive, what’s the actual moat? Domain expertise.”
julien.danjou.info/blog/the-saa...
Try it. Swap your next doomscrolling session browsing kagi.com/smallweb
Tell me you don’t find something interesting.
Browsing the small web > doomscrolling.
I'm someone who was there at the midnight releases of the Harry Potter books and movies.
Watching this show puts money in the pockets of J.K. Rowling. And if you do that, you're helping fund a deadly worldwide campaign of hate against trans people.
Consult your conscience.
The fact that there are no pokemon battles in Pokopia kind of suggests that without humans, pokemon all just live in peace and won't use their powers to harm one another.
Wtaf is it April Fools day today? Such a bizzare article. Github issues, for grocery lists?!?
The more I use AI tools, the more I have to admit that I'm not that much more productive... I simply FEEL that much more productive.
In reality, the context switching of kicking several things off wipes out my perceived productivity gains. At least in many/most cases!
Yeah I get it, it’s just of all the things - why the design? Like that’s the clearest expression of someone’s personality. Why does the web need to be perfect and better UX? I miss inconsistent, scruffy pages, MySpace html and rubbish css. I do “perfect web” all day for my job.
It’s my website.
Get some of it on a place like GitHub! Share it!
pb is now building my website - paulwrites.software
Anyways I just wrote a markdown file in @obsidian.md then ran my CLI tool to produce this page with various features that Paulblish already supports.
paulwrites.software/articles/pau...
99% CSS and html, only thing that is JS is mermaid, and that's only loaded via cdn when it is found on a page
I wanted this to follow the "file over app" philosophy as well (stephango.com/file-over-app) because that rocks as a concept, and paulblish (yes, pun intended) does. Your markdown / notes directory becomes the website's path and links.
RSS, sitemap, local assets all work, as does social icons!
Thing I love most about hyper-personalised software (HPS or "hips") is that I don't have to keep thinking "how will people use it?" or what edge cases I need to cover. It only needs to work exactly as I want it. It is built to fit in with my work flow and habits.
Hyper-personalised software rocks. I can now write my website as markdown files, and run a custom made CLI tool to automatically turn it into a static website. All configuration and settings managed through markdown frontmatter in the "Home.md" file. github.com/phalt/paulbl...
You can only be so prepared, and then discover your space ship as two versions of Outlook on the hard drive 😆
right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer
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Best bit about the Artemis II live stream so far is the astronaut can't figure out which continent they're looking at as they look back at Earth.
Also the whole "Can't login to Outlook" conversation.
Gorillaz lore. The silly thing is I’ve been here before, but clearly my hyper focus demon needs a refresh.
