It’s been a long time since I read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. My cousin Oscar and I were at school, we recently met Edgar and he presented us Santos, a senior at our school. Santos brought with him Isaac Asimov’s The Naked Sun, in English. By then I had read Arthur C. Clark’s 2001 and Isaac Asimov’s The End of Eternity from my oldest brother’s collection, but Santos had re…
While linking yesterday to Jordan Mechner’s website page about his Making of Prince of Persia book, I learned he also drew a graphic novel called Replay about his family’s past and his own life, including his game developments.
I took some of J…
After finishing Mickey7 I haven’t found another book that catches my interest. I might move into non-fiction. Meanwhile, I’m re-reading Jordan Mechner’s The Making of Prince of Persia.
I finished reading Mickey7. It was very entertaining and funny. At a certain part, I thought I guessed what was going to happen but I was wrong! There’s no filler nor fluff, I liked it.
Bubbles is “Hacker news for independent blogs.” I love it! A place where interesting blogs can be discovered without any trickster algorithm behind the curtains.
From Dune, in 1965:
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
My oldest brother had this Game & Watch, Helmet. The batteries were worn down, I played very little and broke it when my curiosity to see how it looked inside took the better of me.
You can play a free 3D-emulation on itch.io.
(Not my photo, I copied it from …
Cuando la mayoría de las personas piensa en internet, piensa en ancho de banda, piensa en fibra óptica, cobertura, estabilidad o capacidad de transmisión. Sin embargo, cuando administras una red propia descubres que existe una capa menos visible, pero igual de importante el routing.A medida que Signal a ido creciendo y comenzamos a operar nuestro propio ASN, nuestros propios bloques IPv4 e I…
Oh, I didn’t know the Mickey17 movie was a book adaptation, I’m reading it now! Fun fact: the book’s title is Mickey7.
Lorenzo Etherington has created 1,000 entries of his “How To Think When You Draw” series. That’s nothing short of impressive! It spans many diverse topics, he’s going for breadth rather than depth. For that reason, I wouldn’t recommend it to beginners.
I’ve been trying to collect them but some aren&…
Sometimes reading Red Storm Rising is a drag. I want to like it, but ughh. And it’s hard to remember all the characters and their subplots when I come back to it.
My kid’s school teachers upload worksheets to print via public Google Drive links. Google doesn’t provide a direct link for download, you have to visit the page and download or “print” it to get the PDF.
While looking at Python libraries to implement my own downloader, I found gdown which does exactly what I need! Thank you, Kentaro…
There’s No Such Thing as a Blank Page:
I don’t want AI to make my writing “better” (I want reading, and sitting in the chair, writing, every single day that I can, for hours at a time, because I’m not distracted by algorithmically recommended content and incessant notifications and p…
For a time, I was interested on improving my typing accuracy. My current average is 96 words per minute (WPM); I could go faster but I’d also make a lot of errors.
I’m focusing on accuracy, trying to reach a minimum of 97% if not 100%. This meant going down to 80 WPM or even lower, with the goal of returning to my average of 90 but at 100% accuracy.
I learnt cadence is very important. You don…
For a change, I went to the last page of my bookmarks manager‘s unread list. The oldest links were from 2019, six years ago! Naturally, most were broken. Others weren’t relevant or interesting to me now.
I felt old.
