Working on important things. This will be a pooltoy and possibly a figurine at some point! If you're like "I must have one", poke me and I'll let you know how pre-ordering works!

bicycles are insane. you just take a mammal that’s very good at long distance running and put a wheel adapter on it

Malika Favre💫
#art #malikafavre #illustrator #mastoart

someone said there are no CGA nerds, there are only CGA sickos.

I take offense to that, I can be both

@evgandr Sorry for the quality, it's an 11 year old photo, but this is newborn dragonflies. They're still weak and wet, prepared for their first flight.

@wyatt@soc.megatokyo.moe it's really easy it's just a loop that makes it hard for water to traverse up the cable. here's a pic i found from google of coaxial but it's the same for any cable

Finally, I ended my writing about how I'm using Dired in the Emacs. With some configuration examples.

Tried to not just write about ELisp code, but also give some examples, how I'm using it in the real life.

This is a first blogpost, prepared with org-static-blog, not with Jekyll :drgn_blush_giggle:

https://eugene-andrienko.com/2026-07-05-my-emacs-configuration-dired.html

#Emacs #Dired

godamn dragons are hot wtf

#photography #AnimalPhotography #DragonFly

humans: ahh bird song is so relaxing

birds: AAAA IT'S 4AM AND THE SUN IS COMING UP TIME TO DEFEND WHAT IS MINE AAAAAAA THIS IS MY TERRITORY AAAAAAA FCK OFF EVERYONE I OWN THIS PLACE AAAA

humans: why do they keep insistingly singing is a mystery, it must be so serene to live a life consisting of just gentle songs

birds: **AAAAAAAAAAAAAA AA A A A A A A A**

Ringed the adult arctic tern and one of the last batches of gull chicks for the season, both satisfying and sad to be done with it 🥲

#seabirds #ornithology #birdRinging #birds

Bird-eating Snake, also known as Puffing Snake or Culebra Pajarero
About 2m long. Happily slithering along in the forest.
I guess their color varies a lot -- this one was a delightful blue. Paused on seeing us to let us pass by. No venom but still not one to pet...

#CostaRica #snake #OsaPeninsula

I managed an e-commerce server for about ten years. It grew from a small local shop into a major national business, even handling international orders. They expanded to the point where they reduced their local brick-and-mortar store hours because the bulk of their revenue was coming from online sales.

Then one seller came along and convinced them that switching to Shopify would be the key to growing even further. Apparently, their €130/month bare-metal redundant setup - which boasted a calculated uptime of 99.995% over 10 years - just wasn't cutting it anymore.

They’ve been on Shopify for about six months now, and every now and then, I still get the alerts. I left the monitoring active via Uptime Kuma and ran the numbers. Over the last six months, their uptime dropped below 98%.
In other words, in just six months, they’ve been down for almost as many hours as they were during the entire previous decade.

I contacted the client - not because I want to take over the hosting again, but just to understand what on earth happened (we're on excellent terms). Their response was: "We don't know, but if it happened on Shopify, it means it was bound to happen anyway."

As long as we keep swallowing the lie that "the cloud" and "tech giants" are always the right solution for us, we completely deserve the cloud and the tech giants.

#IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData

RE: https://f.duriansoftware.com/@joe/116841796843369429

This is proper vi-BE coding!

#IT #SysAdmin

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sony fucked up so hard even the furry sex toy companies are making jokes at their expense