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A Place For My Head

Thanks for visiting. I’m Shiv J.M., a software developer from India. I write about technology & software development (Technology); my work (Work); movies, shows, books & games (Thoughts & Spoilers); and whatever else is on my mind (Journal). If you’d like to know how this started, my very first entry explains how A Place For My Head came into being. You can keep up-to-date via @shivjm.blog on Bluesky , my #shivjmdotblog tag on Mastodon , or this site’s Atom feed.

  1. Not bad but I don’t feel it needed a second season, really. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Wolf Like Me (2022)

  2. Some good. (Watched .)

  3. An excellent, surprisingly thoughtful film. (Watched .)

  4. Quite bad. (Watched .)

  5. A lovely and convincing hour and a half of gentleman Rober(t)ry. (Watched .)

  6. Perfection. (Rewatched .)

  7. Good, not hilarious, and mostly a demonstration of Keaton’s genius. (Watched .)

  8. Not enough, now that I’ve tasted a full-length novel in the series, but very good nonetheless. (Read .)

    · #6, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Murderbot Diaries (2017)

  9. So bad it’s funny. (Watched .)

  10. This reduces the danger of accidentally deleting or overwriting them.

    · #41, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  11. Not good. (Watched .)

  12. Just a little bit of LogQL, but timestamps need special treatment.

    · #40, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  13. A very good season, if not quite as good as the last one, with a (relatively) shocking ending. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Hacks (2021)

  14. A non-HA Kubernetes cluster on shared CPUs was nearly unusable, so I switched to HA and dedicated CPUs.

    · #39, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  15. Some good but not a whole lot. (Read .)

  16. Beauty, melancholy, truth, and depth in one slim novel ostensibly for children. (Reread .)

  17. Funny and all but not quite as enjoyable as hoped. (Played .)

  18. Not as compelling as the first one. (Played 29th November, 2023–24th August, 2024.)

  19. A good enough time but also somewhat unjustified and, ultimately, not fully satisfying. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Minx (2022)

  20. A great game where the flaws just don’t matter that much. (Played 8th June–20th August, 2024.)

  21. A small diversion that I don’t have the patience to continue. (Played .)

  22. Different and enjoyable. (Read .)

  23. Decent and mostly enjoyable. (Watched .)

  24. Wants to be deep and good; is not. (Watched .)

  25. The quickest way is to do as little I/O as possible.

  26. Top notch. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: We Are Lady Parts (2021)

  27. I made my own database table to track these because of potential concurrency issues.

  28. What a deliciously substantial entry. (Read .)

    · #5, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Murderbot Diaries (2017)

  29. Absurdly stupid. (Watched .)

  30. Not as grand a conclusion to this quartet as I expected but very good nonetheless. (Read .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Murderbot Diaries (2017)

  31. Very good fun that, like most of Marvel’s upcoming slate, emphasizes the past. (Watched .)

  32. Something slightly different from the first two novellas and very good. (Read .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Murderbot Diaries (2017)

  33. Nicely written and engrossing. (Read .)

  34. Genre-defining for a reason. (Read .)

  35. Seven thunders, all epic. (Reread .)

  36. Even after three years, I quite enjoyed this second instalment. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Murderbot Diaries (2017)

  37. Going from v2 to v3 wasn’t that easy because of all the changes in the chart.

    · #38, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  38. Tremendously good but with the same nauseating attitude towards sexual relationships. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Zones of Thought (1992)

  39. I accepted that wearables aren’t magic but I still obsess over the numbers.

    · #7, The Measure of a Man(’s Fitness)

  40. Dated but fun, primarily thanks to the actors. (Watched .)

  41. I used Ventoy, the UEFI Shell, and Mosby.

  42. Not my kinda show. (Watched .)

  43. I replaced the complicated Nu Html Checker with hihtml.

    · #66, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  44. A wasted season. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Bear (2022)

  45. I switched from js-beautify to Prettier for better beautification.

    · #65, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  46. Very funny but I was in completely the wrong frame of mind. (Watched .)

  47. I had to upgrade cert-manager and add a TLSCertificateDelegation resource to get a usable wildcard certificate for my domain.

    · #37, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  48. A superb standalone episode unlike anything else on the show. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Marvel’s What If…? (2021)

  49. For the sake of brevity, I turned my enum with struct variants into an enum with tuple variants wrapping one struct per variant.

  50. More non-Bob makes me sad. (Read .)

    · #9, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Laundry Files (2004)

  51. The server itself needs to be shut down along with the browser.

  52. Very, very good. (Watched .)

  53. Pretty good with a bit of preparation and the excellent language server.

  54. Not what I had in mind. (Read .)

    · #8, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Laundry Files (2004)

  55. I frequently have to fix it from the settings.

  56. A superb show in every way. (Watched .)

  57. Only chance saved me from creating a disaster at work.

  58. Not as complex, enjoyable, or challenging as hoped. (Played .)

  59. Delightful, sweet, and unique. (Rewatched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Hilda (2018)

  60. A good read, circumspect on certain subjects but surprisingly revealing about everything else. (Read .)

  61. Cute, very funny, and all in all a good time despite its visible flaws. (Rewatched .)

  62. Better than the first two but just not the same as before. (Watched .)

    · #5, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: All Creatures Great and Small (2020)

  63. The details of how I’m styling opening paragraphs in select articles.

    · #64, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  64. Not my speed. (Watched .)

  65. Lesser Jurassic Park is still Jurassic Park, unlike everything that came after this. (Rewatched .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Jurassic Park (1993)

  66. Half of this is stellar sci-fi, the other half is a fascinating concept and not a lot else. (Read .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Zones of Thought (1992)

  67. Glory, magnificence, and the best film ever made. (Rewatched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Jurassic Park (1993)

  68. Excellent first episode, bad second episode that lost me entirely. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Witcher (2019)

  69. An enjoyably loony game. (Played 2nd–7th June, 2024.)

  70. Stupid and badly etched. (Watched .)

  71. I added lightboxes as Web Components via the Yozo library.

    · #63, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  72. A superb, unique, and regrettably brutal show. (Watched .)

  73. The magic is still gone and now so am I. (Watched .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: All Creatures Great and Small (2020)

  74. What a tragically underwhelming movie to follow Fury Road with. (Watched .)

  75. Powerful, intense, terrific… and I don’t even particularly like jazz. (Watched .)

  76. Masterpiece then, masterpiece now. (Rewatched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Knives Out (2019)

  77. A gentle and riotously funny masterpiece. (Rewatched .)

  78. Quiet and interesting, but with a poor choice of leads. (Watched .)

  79. Exists solely to cheapen the legacy of the magnificent reboot trilogy. (Watched .)

  80. A distinct but slight and unappealing story-heavy game. (Played .)

  81. A little dreary, badly written & performed, and uninteresting. (Played 10th February–20th May, 2024.)

  82. Garmin Connect abruptly decided the watch couldn’t connect so their support had me re-initialize it with Garmin Express.

    · #6, The Measure of a Man(’s Fitness)

  83. A pretty good continuation. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Bone Season (2013)

  84. I got my second Garmin device, this time to track my daily activities.

    · #5, The Measure of a Man(’s Fitness)

  85. Beautiful (if crass), hilarious, melancholy, and wonderful. (Rewatched .)

  86. @shivjm.blog is back, baby!

    · #62, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  87. A surprisingly and sometimes jarringly pleasant show about grim events. (Watched .)

  88. Every visit counts.

    · #61, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  89. John is intriguing and compelling but it loses its way after the big reveal. (Watched .)

  90. I added Pagefind for better searching when JavaScript is available.

    · #60, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  91. Not a strong Miyazaki production. (Watched .)

  92. Good performances, weird movie. (Watched .)

  93. A wonderful film. (Watched .)

  94. A stupendous continuation and a wonderful ending. (Rewatched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Gravity Falls (2012)

  95. Fun and exceptionally funny. (Played 20th April–9th May, 2024.)

  96. Good ideas for its time wrapped in a bad novel. (Read .)

  97. A tiny delight no matter what age you are. (Read .)

  98. A good book but I’m too much of a child. (Read .)

  99. Nonsensical and fun. (Watched .)

  100. Cynical and uncomfortable. (Watched .)

  101. Fantastic climax. (Watched .)

  102. Yay for the return of the FUN Percy Jackson! (Read .)

  103. Bad enough to make me regret the 10 minutes I saw. (Watched .)

  104. An immature mockery of the excellent Doom Patrol version. (Watched .)

  105. Not interesting at all. (Watched .)

  106. Bigger, dumber, and a little less fun. (Watched .)

  107. Some really great things, some not so good things, but unique throughout. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Doom Patrol (2019)

  108. I guess my blog isn’t allowed to skeet.

    · #59, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  109. Not a good adaptation. (Watched .)

  110. An excellent book. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Across Realtime (1984)

  111. Not what I expected; sharp and critical, but not as much as it thinks. (Watched .)

  112. Unimpressive. (Watched .)

  113. A decent classic. (Watched .)

  114. An excellent if inexplicable sequel. (Watched .)

  115. They don’t make ’em like this any more. (Rewatched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Gravity Falls (2012)

  116. Publish ‘A.I.’-fabricated quotes, release a policy that was supposedly already in force, vociferously defend ‘A.I.’ in the comments, and reveal your own involvement in myriad ‘A.I.’ projects… did I miss any steps?

  117. Does a great impression of being the opposite of a show that’s made for me long enough for me to stop watching. (Watched .)

  118. A rather old and long story about a malfunctioning university website and the call that followed.

  119. Intriguing and excellent until it falls apart. (Watched .)

  120. I built another little Rust program to share my entries, at least before Bluesky rejected me.

    · #58, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  121. Weird garbage with way too many big names attached. (Watched .)

  122. No explanation so far, and I can’t even communicate with them over email.

  123. Not particularly good, despite the charismatic Russell duo. (Watched .)

  124. Flawed but great. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Across Realtime (1984)

  125. I tried and failed to create a PAT using the GitLab provider.

    · #36, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  126. I was so excited but it was a big disappointment. (Played 2nd–7th April, 2024.)

  127. Built with Rust, Ratatui, OCD… and, as always, zero ‘A.I.’.

    · #57, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  128. A good ending to a story that moves me again and again, though I wish it weren’t the end. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Faraway Paladin (2021)

  129. Scoop had accumulated tons of old versions of applications (and cleaning them up revealed some Thunderbird footguns) and the NixOS store was ridiculously large.

  130. Bad start but an exceptional season with a phenomenal ending. (Watched .)

  131. So many small changes, all adding up to big changes.

    · #56, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  132. Good movie with a few great lines and tons of pleasingly familiar faces. (Watched .)

  133. Using a non-default input directory prevents it from processing new files.

  134. The big plot development saps its verve but it ends well for all that. (Watched .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Succession (2018)

  135. A good time to reflect on how I’ve been shaped as a writer.

    · #55, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  136. Hard to read, so I stopped. (Read .)

  137. Very easy using relative dates.

  138. An excellent new world for me to explore, even if her later work is better. (Read .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Bone Season (2013)

  139. I wrote a script to copy newer files to a target directory based on the timestamp and size.

  140. Good at first but problems became apparent and my rudimentary skills didn’t suffice. (Played 18th–26th March, 2024.)

  141. I joined Bluesky and the Fediverse (read: Mastodon).

  142. Fatiguing instead of thrilling. (Read .)

  143. I gave in and made a stub LinkedIn account to point at hire.shivjm.in.

  144. Even better than the second season, but with the same problems, which are beginning to fatigue me. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Succession (2018)

  145. I’ve discovered the utility of both the Do Not Disturb mode and the Bedtime mode.

  146. A somewhat tedious but still enjoyable diversion (in co-op) with many strengths. (Played 29th December, 2023–17th March, 2024.)

  147. ARC was simple to set up but Contour made it complicated to expose.

    · #35, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  148. Quite a bit better than the first. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Succession (2018)

  149. I wrote a Python script to glue some things together but it’s not necessary any more.

    · #34, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  150. Basically perfect, and painfully hilarious. (Rewatched .)

  151. I’d installed a Runner that never worked because of a bad token, so I fixed it permanently using Terraform.

    · #33, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  152. A very pleasant and fairly mature story built on familiar pieces. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Faraway Paladin (2021)

  153. Selection, focus, scroll, and state bugs.

  154. A good book with too much gore and no Bob. (Read .)

    · #7, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Laundry Files (2004)

  155. A good ending for a show that’s lost some of its magic. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Archer (2009)

  156. I bought a fitness band to track my sleep.

    · #4, The Measure of a Man(’s Fitness)

  157. Much better than I expected, especially the visuals. (Watched .)

  158. Madcap and hilarious. (Rewatched .)

  159. I narrowed the options for wearable fitness devices down to Garmin’s offerings.

    · #3, The Measure of a Man(’s Fitness)

  160. Pretty decent but it didn’t inspire me to watch more now that I’d stopped obsessing over the MCU. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Marvel’s What If…? (2021)

  161. Sleep Cycle’s results made no sense so now I have four Garmin devices.

    · #2, The Measure of a Man(’s Fitness)

  162. Disappointing, less than faithful, and unnecessarily violent. (Watched .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Dune (2021)

  163. Monetization is a four letter word around here.

    · #54, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  164. A good show about bad people, each sympathetic at different moments. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Succession (2018)

  165. Theatre, singing, growing up, lots of photos & videos, and monumental health milestones.

  166. Too much to take. (Watched .)

  167. An excellent film the third time as well, unsurprisingly. (Rewatched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Dune (2021)

  168. Top notch fun mixed with slightly gratuitous but enjoyable sentiment. (Rewatched .)

  169. Half morose, all good. (Rewatched .)

  170. A unique and brilliant film (mostly). (Watched .)

  171. Very unimpressive. (Watched .)

  172. Not really for me. (Watched .)

  173. I did some theatre in November and it was a very different experience.

  174. A lot of humour as well as heart. (Rewatched .)

  175. A very good book, just not a continuation of the stories I wanted. (Read .)

    · #6, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Laundry Files (2004)

  176. Moderately interesting but not enough. (Watched .)

  177. I swapped my shaving gel for a cream, replaced the after shave balm, and added a shaving brush.

  178. Still a magnificent spectacle that peaks quite early. (Rewatched .)

  179. Grim, dreary, dark, gory, incomprehensible gobbledygook. (Watched .)

  180. To me, drinks are for drinking quickly.

  181. Excellence in clever and absurdly scientific non-fiction form. (Read .)

  182. I didn’t realize initially that the shocking, repulsive sexualization of every single character is foundational to this repellent series. (Watched .)

  183. I built a Rust program to parse my compliance through my Google Calendar and a Grafana panel to plot it.

  184. Not a terrible disappointment but somewhat below average. (Watched .)

  185. It’s suddenly obvious why a scene looks different through my eyes.

  186. A marvelous and somehow hilarious film about something so utterly inhumane and disturbing. (Watched .)

  187. The first half is great, the second ain’t. (Watched .)

  188. Very good and filled with substance. (Read .)

    · #5, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Laundry Files (2004)

  189. The best Edgar Wright film is self-evidently among the best films in existence. (Rewatched .)

  190. Slightly different, still great. (Read .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Laundry Files (2004)

  191. Great film. (Rewatched .)

  192. Very good interactive fiction with a great ending. (Played 28th January–5th February, 2024.)

  193. I needed something that encapsulates my professional work.

  194. Terrific in pretty much every way with a touching message of love and friendship over war. (Rewatched .)

  195. Very hard to control. (Played 29th November, 2023–3rd February, 2024.)

  196. Quite bad. (Watched .)

  197. Good, just not as much as the first one. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Empyrean (2023)

  198. Predictably manipulative and not quite convincing but still good. (Watched .)

  199. I made actual business cards.

  200. Very addictive but too opaque. (Played 14th December, 2023–27th January, 2024.)

  201. Quality Pratchett, and sadly very timely. (Reread .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Discworld (1983)

  202. Imperfect but so good. (Rewatched .)

  203. Quite good to my eyes at the time. (Read .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Empyrean (2023)

  204. Unequaled, unrivaled, unparalleled. (Rewatched .)

  205. Reasonably atypical and good. (Watched .)

  206. I didn’t even get halfway. (Read .)

  207. An immensely moving masterpiece. (Watched .)

  208. More good writing, despite the increasing horror aspect. (Read .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Laundry Files (2004)

  209. Quite good overall. (Watched .)

  210. Some good in it, but the overall approach is wrongheaded. (Watched .)

  211. Still incongruous coming from the Charles Stross I’ve been reading in recent years, but still very good. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Laundry Files (2004)

  212. Reduces a serious subject to painfully bad melodrama. (Watched .)

  213. Dated in its ideas but an enjoyable beginning. (Read .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Laundry Files (2004)

  214. Not as good as The Priory of the Orange Tree but rich and enjoyable. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Roots of Chaos (2019)

  215. Almost no redeeming qualities. (Watched .)

  216. Somehow quite engaging for a long while in spite of many flaws. (Played 27th May–5th December, 2023.)

  217. A disappointing and insubstantial movie and the final straw for this camel’s back. (Watched .)

  218. Uneven and somewhat incomprehensible, but there’re quite a few things I like in here. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Loki (2021)

  219. The scales tipped too far towards the bad stuff in spite of the good choice to recast the characters. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Rick and Morty (2013)

  220. Not enough to keep me watching. (Watched .)

  221. Not very good. (Watched .)

  222. eleventy-plugin-font-subsetting works fine but its configuration is finicky.

  223. Too many of the same problems as the first season had. (Watched .)

  224. I moved many of my remark customizations to public npm packages, which was an annoying experience.

    · #52, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  225. Nowhere near the visceral magnetism of Primal. (Watched .)

  226. Loses what made it compelling. (Watched .)

  227. I turned a blog entry into a profile of myself as a developer.

  228. A gargantuan game with too little of the fun things and too much loading and waiting. (Played 2nd–29th September, 2023.)

  229. I used a bit of htmx for a very simple frontend and spent a lot of time stubbing the backend.

  230. A step down from the already-diminished revival of the early 2010s but still ultimately Futurama. (Watched .)

  231. I prefer the regular Single Edge.

  232. Reasonably good fun in classic Bollywood style. (Watched .)

  233. The nadir of the series. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Sex Education (2019)

  234. Imperfect but very good. (Watched .)

  235. Vulgar, gory, uninteresting. (Watched .)

  236. Disappointing; no more for me. (Read .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Earthsea Cycle (1968)

  237. Reasonably good, quite funny, and a little gross. (Watched .)

  238. Pretty good and very nice to look at it. (Watched .)

  239. The magic was mostly off-screen now and the ‘science’ broke my suspension of disbelief. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Dr. Stone (2019)

  240. Simultaneously bad and very good. (Watched .)

  241. Great fun. (Rewatched .)

  242. Not quite as good as the first one but still good after the opening. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Afterparty (2022)

  243. A good season with a rough start and a disappointing ending. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

  244. Seems to be a godsend for experts, of which I am not one.

  245. Deliberately dull, dreary, and oppressive. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Earthsea Cycle (1968)

  246. A fun film despite how conventional it is. (Watched .)

  247. Too deep for me. (Played .)

  248. Captions and the short power cord are the biggest problem with this digital photo frame.

  249. A pleasant first book, though not as substantial as I had hoped. (Read .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Earthsea Cycle (1968)

  250. Nice looking with some good moments, but empty and meandering. (Watched .)

  251. Such a stupid movie. (Watched .)

  252. I designed a non-business card to hand out to anyone who’s got my name wrong.

  253. Atmospheric and frightening (I think) but I eventually quit it. (Played 28th–30th August, 2023.)

  254. The lab is back up after a lot of downtime but JSR is a disaster and Deno is no longer viable so I need to rewrite it.

  255. Uses my custom rehype plugin to split lines, plus some intricate CSS.

    · #51, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  256. Bleak but unique and engrossing. (Read .)

  257. Disable At a Glance in Home settings.

  258. Gathering a (mostly) great cast again doesn’t always produce a great movie again. (Watched .)

  259. Good concept but there’s a mismatch between what I expected in the CLI and what I got. (Played .)

  260. The main one is a bizarre session restoration bug.

  261. Shockingly funny. (Watched .)

  262. The reason why I don’t share any is that I have nowhere I’m comfortable putting them up any more.

  263. I thoroughly enjoyed this. (Read .)

  264. Bad handling of network files, UI issues, and weird pauses.

  265. A stellar season with a couple of spectacular episodes. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Bear (2022)

  266. Use Adobe Standard or Adobe Color instead.

  267. Good, fun, very few flaws. (Watched .)

  268. I wrote a script to get the timestamps and device information right.

  269. What a great ending. (Read .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Scholomance (2020)

  270. Exactly as brilliant as in the theatre a few months prior, if not better. (Rewatched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

  271. Open Sans and better text.

  272. More excellence, to my relief. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Scholomance (2020)

  273. Half great, half good-to-middling. (Watched .)

  274. A weak last instalment. (Read .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Johnny Maxwell (1992)

  275. An odd and disappointing attempt to translate the magic. (Watched .)

  276. Very good, so I don’t know why I just didn’t get into it. (Watched .)

  277. A fantastic book that puts most of its exposition in the first few pages. (Read .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Scholomance (2020)

  278. Not for me. (Watched .)

  279. I liked it once, but no more. (Rewatched .)

  280. Quite bad. (Watched .)

  281. I did not expect this to be so darn good. (Watched .)

  282. Entertaining, with at least one fantastic performance, but lacking in substance. (Watched .)

  283. Excellent filmmaking and performances in a reasonably good film that glosses over everything except the burden of a ‘great man’. (Watched .)

  284. A good continuation, with an especially good… special. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Dr. Stone (2019)

  285. I turned off the Samsung Odyssey Neo G8’s marquee feature because it’s too distracting and unpredictable.

  286. It’s the little things.

    · #50, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  287. A very faintly absurd masterpiece, again. (Rewatched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Dune (2021)

  288. A pioneering work filled with what are now clichés. (Reread .)

  289. It’s hard to follow Fallout with something that’s decent at best. (Watched .)

  290. A lesser Pratchett that confusingly ignores the previous book. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Johnny Maxwell (1992)

  291. No magic, either in the story or in the book. (Read .)

  292. Melancholy but enjoyable. (Watched .)

  293. One of my favourite books, unharmed by time. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Johnny Maxwell (1992)

  294. Quite a good murder mystery by Bollywood standards. (Watched .)

  295. A much better film than the marketing would lead one to believe. (Watched .)

  296. A fantastic game in every possible way, with unexpected emotion. (Played 12th June–3rd July, 2023.)

  297. A good book with emotion and weight. (Read .)

  298. Beautiful, hilarious, outstanding. (Watched .)

  299. An unexpectedly good second half makes this film. (Watched .)

  300. A fun show that I don’t expect ever to need to rewatch. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Dr. Stone (2019)

  301. Just use `required_providers` except at the top level.

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  302. Facile conversion of subtext into text. (Watched .)

  303. Decent but not up to the usual standard. (Read .)

  304. Almost a great film, definitely much better than expected. (Watched .)

  305. Quality Pratchett. (Reread .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Discworld (1983)

  306. Dated, with a surprisingly weak lead performance, but good. (Watched .)

  307. I couldn’t stomach more than about half. (Read .)

  308. linkerd-viz failed to install a ClusterRole after an update, but the problem went away on its own.

    · #31, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  309. Not what I remembered, but still a singular movie with a heartbreakingly poignant finale. (Rewatched .)

  310. Unfortunately not something I felt like continuing. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Reservation Dogs (2021)

  311. Even though it isn’t bad, I found myself unwilling to continue. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Raising Dion (2019)

  312. Nothing I was very interested in. (Played .)

  313. Loses steam after a great start. (Watched .)

  314. It’s hard to believe the sequel is just as much a masterpiece as the first one. (Watched .)

  315. A nice game but not one that held my attention for more than 20 minutes. (Played .)

  316. Charming and poignant, though I didn’t stick with it for very long. (Played 27th May–8th June, 2023.)

  317. A few things that aren’t bad can’t save a film that overwhelmingly is. (Watched .)

  318. A stellar, incredibly dark, and incredibly fitting final season. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Barry (2018)

  319. I upgraded from an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card to a 5080 and it’s been okay apart from the cost and some unrelated difficulty during the installation.

  320. I finally got an HDR monitor when the old one conked out.

  321. My Dell Latitude 15 clocked itself down to its minimum after resuming from suspension and only went back to normal after I plugged the charger in again.

  322. Concentrated excellence in every way. (Played August 2022–June 2023.)

  323. Not as good in some ways, but one particular sequence is enough to justify the existence of Apple TV as a whole. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Prehistoric Planet (2022)

  324. Very quick and enjoyable on the whole, in spite of the implausibly dense network of secrets and very unnecessary sexualization. (Watched .)

  325. It’s more Bob’s Burgers and that’s really all I need. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Bob’s Burgers (2011)

  326. Great in theory, but it didn’t hold my attention at all. (Played 21st November, 2022–27th May, 2023.)

  327. Very JRPG and without much to recommend it. (Played 9th January–27th May, 2023.)

  328. An unmitigated joy that focuses on fun but not mockery or parody. (Watched .)

  329. An empty and pretentious waste of time. (Watched .)

  330. A rich, brilliant, and original work. (Read .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Roots of Chaos (2019)

  331. The highest highs and lowest lows of the MCU after Endgame. (Watched .)

  332. Not nearly as clever as it wants to be, and unsatisfying to boot. (Watched .)

  333. Helm charts need continuous attention since old versions can be removed at any time.

    · #30, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  334. The first ‘post-Covid’ year was good in many ways, despite all the bad.

  335. The camera is better, it’s nice to have notifications that work again, and I like the shape, but boy do I miss the physical switch for silencing it.

  336. The upgrade failed and I had to rescue it with arcane console commands.

  337. Some good, a lot of confusing, just a little bit of bad. (Watched .)

  338. Superb leads and an excellent opening. (Watched .)

  339. Quite a masterpiece. (Watched .)

  340. I was able to reassure a relative about their finances even with just partial, not quite comprehensible data.

  341. Release management is a mess.

  342. An excellent conclusion to the epic duology in spite of many of the same flaws. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Ponniyin Selvan (2022)

  343. Make sure the source function is tracking its input (usually by accessing a signal’s value).

  344. A good collection of fascinating ideas. (Read .)

  345. Putting something non-reactive inside reactive code can make it look reactive when it’s actually being replaced.

  346. Good in some ways, not enough to keep me coming back. (Watched .)

  347. One important reason why I use dependency injection is to make testing easier and more deterministic by enabling mocking with little to no global state.

  348. A lovely, comforting show without peril that I can’t wait to see more of. (Watched .)

  349. Even with P directives, every transaction needs a cost basis to calculate gains.

  350. I tweaked the Eleventy output directory to get around the Vite plugin’s simple string comparison.

  351. I don’t want to watch an entire season of road rage writ large. (Watched .)

  352. Good animation but not a show I want to watch. (Watched .)

  353. About as unimpressive as I imagined. (Watched .)

  354. Worse than the finale of the first season, and uninteresting too. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Shadow and Bone (2021)

  355. Middling and frustrating with a few good qualities. (Watched .)

  356. Tolerably enjoyable but forgettable. (Read .)

  357. Better than the last season, very strange, and still only as good as Dragon’s Blood can ever be. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Dota: Dragon’s Blood (2021)

  358. A confusing movie. (Watched .)

  359. A bit of a waste of time. (Watched .)

  360. A middling movie, not a bad one. (Watched .)

  361. Instead of Nix, I built hledger-web-us with a Dockerfile adapted from the book’s example, without static compilation.

  362. A superior season sadly constrained by the nature of the show. (Watched .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: DanMachi (2015)

  363. It ignores what exists in favour of claimed solutions that do nothing in reality.

  364. A patient, distinct, and captivating film with a sublime performance at its center. (Watched .)

  365. Either expose the backend on its own separately or proxy requests from the frontend.

  366. An excellent game becomes an unparalleled masterpiece of filmmaking. (Watched .)

  367. I tried Perseus but quickly turned to Leptos and had a pretty good experience.

  368. Not just a sequel but a superb second half. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Dune (1965)

  369. Prescient and wonderful. (Rewatched .)

  370. Quite a pleasure to watch. (Watched .)

  371. w is more correct than x except in one scenario, which is going to be fixed, but the CSS must match.

  372. Much better, and fairly pleasant to read, except for some things. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Hyperion Cantos (1989)

  373. I had to move the user configuration from the container to the Pod.

    · #29, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  374. If Jaeger isn’t up, the installation will fail.

    · #28, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  375. Not bad, but a disappointing waste of potential. (Watched .)

  376. A tour de force of unconventional storytelling. (Watched .)

  377. Not a bad idea but badly done. (Watched .)

  378. Excellent 20 years ago, excellent now. (Rewatched .)

  379. A genre-defining masterpiece. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Dune (1965)

  380. One of the greatest and most heartfelt comedies I can remember. (Rewatched .)

  381. Little substance but quite a lot of fun. (Watched .)

  382. Instead of minifying HTML and CSS, I make it easy to read.

    · #49, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  383. What a weird movie. (Watched .)

  384. An unexpected conclusion but a strong one. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Great Cities (2020)

  385. Not incompetent but absurd and failing to delight. (Watched .)

  386. Too blasé about death and torture for my taste. (Watched .)

  387. A good start and a few good qualities, but unimpressive overall. (Watched .)

  388. A more successful season than the already-enjoyable first one. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Hacks (2021)

  389. There’s no reason to watch this terrible movie… except to support its lead. (Watched .)

  390. Dependencies usually mean splitting things into modules, hence the Terraservices pattern.

    · #27, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  391. The excellent tension of the first act is deflated by the second and never recaptured. (Watched .)

  392. Not a very good book, but it has its strengths, and I’m willing to try the next one. (Read .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Hyperion Cantos (1989)

  393. Mostly the same but slightly better and not worth continuing past this season. (Watched .)

  394. A meaner but good sequel that never threatens to upstage the far superior film. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Jurassic Park (1990)

  395. Weird and not worth my time, in spite of a bit of promise. (Watched .)

  396. One short data file and one tiny template to block… er, dissuade all AI scrapers and crawlers.

    · #48, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  397. My second attempt to play this was as much of a failure as the first. (Played 6th–7th January, 2023.)

  398. Running the Nu Html Checker on every merge request was unnecessarily complicated and I don’t yet have a way to visualize the output.

    · #47, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  399. An adequate ending. (Read .)

    · #8, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Invisible Library (2014)

  400. In which I discover my own fallibility.

    · #46, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  401. I finally added that hanging punctuation.

    · #45, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  402. A great game, but not better than the first one like I thought it was. (Played 19 November 2022–6 January 2023.)

  403. I used the CSV import option to provide the TOTP tokens.

  404. A good movie that doesn’t live up to the first one. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Knives Out (2019)

  405. I put the details in environment variables populated from a Secret.

    · #26, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  406. Quite disappointing. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: DanMachi (2015)

  407. I’m stuck using the kubectl provider with templatefile.

    · #25, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  408. An improved show but a much worse arc through most of the season. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: DanMachi (2015)

  409. Everyone should read my sister’s book.

  410. A huge amount of wasted effort.

    · #24, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  411. The detour into darkness doesn’t fully derail this otherwise beautiful film. (Watched .)

  412. They only seem to affect what Argo CD can do directly.

    · #23, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  413. A wonderful peek at an incredible man. (Read .)

  414. I did something theatrically adjacent after seven years and it filled me with joy.

  415. The fanservice is a blight upon a good show. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: DanMachi (2015)

  416. A new Markdown directive, better HTML, and better layout.

    · #44, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  417. It might barely progress the plot and might have taken the wrong approach, but I loved it anyway. (Rewatched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: One-Punch Man (2015)

  418. Hard to dissect; it’s just so good. (Rewatched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: One-Punch Man (2015)

  419. That time I had a very confusing welcome call.

  420. A very good show that I somehow couldn’t continue watching. (Watched .)

  421. Fails to match its predecessors. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: All Creatures Great and Small (2020)

  422. A fairly good book whose greatest achievement is providing the raw material for the films. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Jurassic Park (1990)

  423. Much better than the first season, and acceptable as an ending. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Inside Job (2021)

  424. Good but also strangely forgettable. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Rick and Morty (2013)

  425. Always excellent. (Rewatched .)

  426. Cute and fun but not engrossing enough. (Played December 2022.)

  427. A darkly excellent and sadly incomplete show. (Watched .)

  428. Disappointingly confused and focused on the wrong characters. (Watched .)

  429. Almost pure magic. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Avenue 5 (2020)

  430. A good but atypical entry with some flaws. (Read .)

    · #7, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Invisible Library (2014)

  431. Very enjoyable, as before. (Reread .)

  432. Too deep for me. (Played October–November 2022.)

  433. A good film with surprising heart. (Watched .)

  434. Beautiful and grand. (Rewatched .)

  435. A brilliant show with a somewhat questionable beginning. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Bear (2022)

  436. I updated a bunch of broken intra-site links with the help of Org Mode in Emacs.

    · #43, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  437. The much-anticipated move arrived, and with it an endless amount of work.

  438. USB is fine, network scanners are not.

  439. Use prompt_toolkit to accept input and drive the just process with Python.

  440. Mostly been busy moving, but here are a few odds and ends.

    · #42, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  441. Terrible and traumatized. (Watched .)

  442. Another enjoyable instalment. (Read .)

    · #6, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Invisible Library (2014)

  443. Diminished but far from destroyed. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Archer (2009)

  444. Great fun, with lots of waiting. (Played October–November 2022.)

  445. Last one wins.

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  446. An inferior product of its time with a few good bits. (Rewatched .)

  447. More downs than ups but interesting overall. (Watched .)

  448. Don’t let TSM restore TST sessions.

  449. Dark and disturbing. (Watched .)

  450. Unappealing and exploitative. (Watched .)

  451. I would have if I could but I cannot. (Watched .)

  452. A little too dark for me, sadly. (Watched .)

  453. Dismal and pointless. (Watched .)

  454. Good, but confused and ultimately dissatisfying. (Watched .)

  455. A good time. (Watched .)

  456. A great film with minor flaws, with Brendan Fraser at his finest, that keeps me laughing throughout. (Rewatched .)

  457. Resolving the deadlock between the three using first contour-plus then temporary certificates.

    · #21, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  458. Not bad is not the same thing as good. (Watched .)

  459. A good read but with a slightly exhausting escalation in intensity. (Read .)

    · #5, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Invisible Library (2014)

  460. One for me to watch, not play. (Played October 2022.)

  461. Scattered, dissonant, and ultimately not worth following. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: SPY×FAMILY (2022)

  462. An enjoyable and complex diversion. (Played October 2022.)

  463. The best of the Disney+ crop yet. (Watched .)

  464. An enjoyable but dissonant ending. (Reread .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

  465. An Argo CD workaround, permission issues in minikube, strange Linkerd bugs, and the nuances of deploying the Jaeger extension.

    · #20, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  466. Some good, undermined by a bad central performance and pedestrian revelations. (Watched .)

  467. Not my kind of game. (Played .)

  468. Not for me on the second attempt either. (Played April & October 2022.)

  469. A decent film with flaws and strengths alike, carried by strong performances and one especially charming character. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Ponniyin Selvan (2022)

  470. Linkerd and minikube had different ideas about CNI plugins.

    · #19, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  471. Just as impressive, but noticeably haphazard. (Rewatched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

  472. The excellence continues. (Reread .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

  473. An overhyped, uninteresting disappointment. (Played .)

  474. A triumphant marvel. (Played August–September 2022.)

  475. Lots of good undone by two puzzling non sequiturs. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Primal (2020)

  476. I built a new space for experiments with a bunch of unfamiliar technology and quite enjoyed the experience.

  477. A gorgeous game. (Played 18th–19th September, 2022.)

  478. A timeless classic, just like the first one. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

  479. Sadly too boring to stomach. (Watched .)

  480. Nothing to hold my attention. (Watched .)

  481. A frankly criminal waste with only a little of merit. (Watched .)

  482. A beautiful and delightful experience. (Played .)

  483. Pretty at times but otherwise empty. (Watched .)

  484. Nothing I need more of. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Never Have I Ever (2020)

  485. A brutally honest and brilliantly executed film. (Watched .)

  486. A few small changes, but mainly an explanation of where I was for four months.

    · #41, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  487. In spite of a comparatively disappointing second half, this is a lovely film. (Watched .)

  488. Now I can scan, crop, save multiple versions, and upload to Drive in just two steps.

  489. Still brilliant. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

  490. Too many disks spoil the Windows installer broth.

  491. A few weak spots can’t detract from how much I enjoy the show. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

  492. git-filter-repo and a spot of Python let me combine two repositories that ought to have been one in the first place.

  493. A fun film that doesn’t try to be anything it isn’t. (Watched .)

  494. Bringing order to my finances with hledger.

  495. An insubstantial failed attempt to add to a well-worn genre, but not devoid of merit. (Read .)

  496. I adopted Nix on both my computers for parity between Linux and Windows.

  497. An initial return to form is betrayed by the return of its previous form. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Resident Alien (2021)

  498. I got a laptop to free myself from my desk and took my first step away from Windows.

  499. A dramatic and enjoyable, somewhat standalone sequel. (Read .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Invisible Library (2014)

  500. How I compiled it with MinGW64 but no longer can.

  501. Not as perfect a conclusion as one might hope for but still a masterpiece. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Better Call Saul (2015)

  502. Not even in extreme cases.

  503. An excellent beginning undone by a single scene. (Watched .)

  504. Good, but introduces an undesirable element to the plot. (Read .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Invisible Library (2014)

  505. Good fun. (Rewatched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Ocean’s (2001)

  506. Uninteresting. (Watched .)

  507. Sad when considered objectively, but a fantastic film. (Rewatched .)

  508. More odds and ends.

    · #40, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  509. An enjoyable, fairly restrained diversion. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: SPY×FAMILY (2022)

  510. Don’t respect the rectangle.

    · #39, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  511. Sparse story, inadequate performances, and little intelligence. (Watched .)

  512. The second perfect LoL–based show in the span of a year. (Watched .)

  513. Getting Grafana to use the light theme by default.

    · #18, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  514. A masterpiece of comedy and emotion. (Rewatched .)

  515. A phenomenal demonstration of guided procedural storytelling. (Played July–August 2022.)

  516. Another perfect dose of Hugh Grant. (Rewatched .)

  517. Not bad, but hard to care about. (Read .)

  518. Perfection in romcom form. (Watched .)

  519. Not one that’s aged well. (Watched .)

  520. Fun but dated. (Rewatched .)

  521. The enjoyable, feature-length episode we all hoped for. (Watched .)

  522. Lovely and delightful. (Rewatched .)

  523. Good but disappointing as a sequel to Ragnarok. (Watched .)

  524. An appealing anthology of stories about relationships. (Watched .)

  525. A good opening, a dismal middle, and an out-of-place finale. (Watched .)

  526. Remembrance, gratitude, and reflections.

    · #38, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  527. Quirks of external-dns and limitations of automated DNS records when using Netlify.

    · #17, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  528. No Helm, no Jsonnet, just Terraform, kubectl, and templates.

    · #16, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  529. Markdown, rehype, and lots of JavaScript to wrap each line in a separate element.

    · #37, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  530. Sappy and magnificent. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

  531. Tedious and uninteresting enough to put me off the show. (Watched .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Westworld (2016)

  532. A masterpiece. (Watched .)

  533. Juvenile, disgustingly sexualized, and bland. (Watched .)

  534. Decent but slight. (Played July 2022.)

  535. Better filmmaking doesn’t provide sufficient justification for the existence of this bloated season. (Watched .)

  536. Enjoyable and beautifully cosmic. (Played July 2022.)

  537. Just as good, even with slightly more visible flaws. (Rewatched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Luca (2021)

  538. Pretty good. (Rewatched .)

  539. Dealing with IPs and routing so webmentiond can send links.

    · #15, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  540. A solid sequel. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Invisible Library (2014)

  541. Brilliant and witty. (Watched .)

  542. A promise broken at the eleventh hour. (Watched .)

  543. Good enough to read once but not to continue the series. (Read .)

  544. Another timeless classic, no matter the flaws. (Rewatched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Jurassic Park (1993)

  545. Brilliance marred by a few uncharacteristic missteps. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Barry (2018)

  546. Once again: never lets me down. (Rewatched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Sky High (2005)

  547. My experiences over a year of modal editing in Emacs.

  548. Warm, joyous, and lovely. (Rewatched .)

  549. An unnecessary continuation. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Flight Attendant (2020)

  550. Adequate but unmotivated. (Watched .)

  551. Couldn’t take more than five minutes. (Watched .)

  552. Not a useful tool.

    · #14, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  553. A pleasant continuation that I wouldn’t want to change (much). (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Bob’s Burgers (2011)

  554. Using delta by default and difftastic as an option.

  555. Tempo was a non-starter at the time.

    · #13, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  556. Too gory, disgusting, and offputting to continue. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Boys (2019)

  557. Nice, short, soothing. (Played June 2022.)

  558. A phenomenal film. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

  559. Running a frustrating gauntlet to escape their promotional messages.

  560. Just takes a bit of configuration.

    · #12, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  561. Grand, detailed, and addictive. (Played May–June 2022.)

  562. The greatest, now and always. (Rewatched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Jurassic Park (1993)

  563. An astonishing feat. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Prehistoric Planet (2022)

  564. Lives up to its reputation. (Watched .)

  565. Getting Linkerd, Argo CD, Prometheus, and Grafana working.

    · #11, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  566. Excellent wit ruined by a bit of disgusting ‘humour’. (Read .)

  567. Nice but not enough. (Watched .)

  568. Alright but not good enough to make me want more. (Watched .)

  569. Unmemorable but acceptable in its first half. (Watched .)

  570. Enjoyable and authentic. (Watched .)

  571. Lovely. (Watched .)

  572. Not too difficult in the end.

    · #10, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  573. A very good if haphazard series. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Minx (2022)

  574. The past two months have been especially interesting.

    · #36, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  575. I sort of got it working but it was too brittle to keep.

    · #9, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  576. A big ol’ bundle of fun, much to my relief. (Watched .)

  577. I made a small, silly mistake configuring the trust anchor.

    · #8, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  578. A good, overlong film with minor flaws. (Watched .)

  579. Fun but out of my league. (Played May 2022.)

  580. From Application to ApplicationSet, and learning about deletion and custom resources in Argo CD.

    · #7, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  581. An awful experience with almost no redeeming qualities. (Watched .)

  582. A worthy but vastly more complex successor to Game Dev Story. (Played May 2022.)

  583. Delightful and compelling. (Read .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Invisible Library (2014)

  584. This is a triumph. (Played May 2022.)

  585. A poor first half and a good second half. (Watched .)

  586. Didn’t grab me. (Played May 2022.)

  587. An enjoyable affair despite being a collection of short stories. (Read .)

  588. A great film that holds up. (Rewatched .)

  589. A wonderfully unique story. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Wolf Like Me (2022)

  590. I created a custom Argo CD image.

    · #6, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  591. A great film with superb music even today. (Rewatched .)

  592. Too long and somewhat uncomfortable but still funny. (Watched .)

  593. Fun but not gripping. (Played March–April 2022.)

  594. Bad. Terrible. Silly. (Watched .)

  595. Excellent but perhaps not with a lot of staying power. (Played April 2022.)

  596. Getting cert-manager up and running.

    · #5, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  597. It turned out not to be necessary anyway.

    · #4, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  598. A terrible, seemingly AI-generated waste of two hours. (Watched .)

  599. Ruling out everything else and getting it to play nice with Linkerd.

    · #3, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  600. Figuring out which layer is responsible for applications.

    · #2, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  601. Beginning the mammoth project of rebuilding my Kubernetes cluster declaratively.

    · #1, The Death and Rebirth of a Cluster

  602. Still holds up. (Rewatched .)

  603. An unusual and reasonably enjoyable diversion. (Read .)

  604. Addictive and enjoyable. (Played April 2022.)

  605. Not great but adequate. (Watched .)

  606. A criminal waste of money and potential. (Watched .)

  607. Disappointingly mediocre. (Watched .)

  608. A book that rewards patience. (Read .)

  609. There is little of merit to be found in this very Bollywood butchering of a unique story. (Watched .)

  610. Decent and believable but not particularly memorable. (Reread .)

  611. Amazing dancing, good music, and a good story never disappoint. (Rewatched .)

  612. Fun, funny, excellent. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Afterparty (2022)

  613. Pulpy and unpleasant. (Read .)

  614. Brilliant by ordinary standards; quality Pratchett. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Discworld (1983)

  615. Lesser Pratchett is phenomenal by normal standards. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Discworld (1983)

  616. An almost unmitigated delight. (Reread .)

  617. AVIF has slightly worse image quality, so I enabled it (in theory) only for the bandwidth-conscious.

    · #35, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  618. Not devoid of merit, but deeply uncomfortable and gratuitously violent. (Reread .)

  619. Too stressful and grim to continue. (Watched .)

  620. Much faster and more useful.

    · #34, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  621. Not as good as it ought to have been. (Watched .)

  622. Simply phenomenal. (Reread .)

  623. The surprisingly long road to building the site outside Netlify.

    · #33, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  624. Grand, epic, magnificent, and imperfect. (Rewatched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005)

  625. A sleazy, salacious, exploitative, and poorly told story. (Watched .)

  626. Boring and unappealing. (Read .)

  627. Still a solid film that set the stage for all that came after. (Rewatched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: The Dark Knight Trilogy (2005)

  628. A movie that never lets me down. (Rewatched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Sky High (2005)

  629. Aging somewhat poorly but still enjoyable and charming. (Rewatched .)

  630. Flexbox isn’t enough; this needs subgrid.

    · #32, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  631. Not too complex once I had finished making my mistakes.

    · #31, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  632. Simply wonderful. (Rewatched .)

  633. Complex, partially automated, and fully frustrating & tedious Git surgery.

    · #30, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  634. Git LFS is a little tricky and Netlify’s support is more than a little touchy.

    · #29, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  635. Slightly worse than the risible first season. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Dota: Dragon’s Blood (2021)

  636. A good, short conclusion with some flaws. (Reread .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Cities in Flight (1955)

  637. A confusing film with conflicting messages. (Watched .)

  638. I will never get tired of canceling the apocalypse. (Rewatched .)

  639. Still fantastic and timely. (Rewatched .)

  640. Lovely but all too brief. (Watched .)

  641. A superb story that appeals to every space-loving cell in my body. (Reread .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Cities in Flight (1955)

  642. An incredible, deliriously funny film now as it was then. (Rewatched .)

  643. Another charming and nearly perfect chance to spend time in this amazing world. (Watched .)

  644. A much better second instalment. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Cities in Flight (1955)

  645. I added more context to the headers.

    · #28, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  646. Mostly a good season, but Henry Cavill brings it down. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Witcher (2019)

  647. Pretty decent, with some qualifications. (Watched 2019.)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Witcher (2019)

  648. Getting around a Firefox quirk.

  649. It takes way too much effort to get good audio.

  650. A good book, sometimes even hard to put down. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Cities in Flight (1955)

  651. Pretty good. (Read .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Murderbot Diaries (2017)

  652. Different and not on par with its predecessors, but still excellent. (Read .)

    · #6, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Memoirs of Lady Trent (2013)

  653. Another Lin-Manuel Miranda letdown. (Watched .)

  654. A big, unexpected success. (Watched .)

  655. A marvelous first half and a good second half. (Watched .)

  656. Still magical in the first half, still very good in the second half. (Reread .)

  657. Bad. (Read .)

  658. `margin-top` and the sibling selector are perfectly adequate.

  659. Still very good. (Reread .)

  660. A masterpiece. (Reread .)

  661. A good beginning turns into an uninteresting slog. (Watched .)

  662. A hilarious film with the wisdom to let its cast carry it. (Rewatched .)

  663. An all-time classic. (Rewatched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Ocean’s (2001)

  664. Enjoyable, could have been better. (Watched .)

  665. Not ‘good’, but more silly and fun than the first one. (Watched .)

  666. An unusual cast, lovely images, and reasonably enjoyable words. (Read .)

  667. Uncharacteristically disappointing. (Read .)

  668. The long-delayed dark mode arriveth.

    · #27, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  669. A marvelous, one-of-a-kind achievement. (Watched .)

  670. More small changes than you can shake a stick at.

    · #26, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  671. Phenomenal, beautiful, and addictive, but in some ways painfully tedious and repetitive. (Played April 2022.)

  672. Empty and not as pretty as I had hoped. (Played March 2022.)

  673. So pretty, but too dark and gritty for my tastes. (Played March 2022.)

  674. A good 4X game with a unique personality. (Played March 2022.)

  675. A fleetingly pleasant attempt at a spiritual successor to Theme Hospital. (Played March 2022.)

  676. Fun and replayable tactical RPG. (Played August 2019.)

  677. Big changes, some good.

  678. zig cc works as advertised even when other tools don’t!

  679. Browsers: my past and present.

  680. Upgrading to the latest and greatest hardware isn’t without its pitfalls.

  681. Probably also applicable to other CI systems.

  682. This one didn’t work as well.

  683. How I got it to work.

  684. How to use Nix to build an image with exactly what is required and no more.

  685. sfdisk to the rescue.

  686. Using systemd as (un)intended.

  687. Fun, engrossing, charming, and hilarious. (Watched .)

  688. The brilliant parts make up for the bits that aren’t quite so. (Watched .)

  689. A wonder and a delight as always. (Rewatched .)

  690. Interesting concept, atrocious book. (Read .)

  691. Not flawless but still uniquely amazing. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Doom Patrol (2019)

  692. ‘Mediocre’ would be generous. (Watched .)

  693. Painfully mediocre and underwhelming. (Watched .)

  694. Long, sad, and captivating. (Reread .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Inheritance (2010)

  695. Even more confidently sweet, charming, and wonderful. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: All Creatures Great and Small (2020)

  696. A delight, but one that will leave you reeling. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: What We Do in the Shadows (2019)

  697. Stylish, interesting, aimless, and empty. (Watched .)

  698. Okay at first, better by the end, with potential for something more. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Inside Job (2021)

  699. Vivid, masterful, brilliant. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Dune (2021)

  700. Not bad, only disappointing compared to its predecessor. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Inheritance (2010)

  701. Unique and fantastic as ever. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Inheritance (2010)

  702. A masterpiece. (Read .)

  703. Offputting start, but excellent by the end. (Watched .)

  704. A code-free recounting of a tiny success.

  705. Very good overall, with a disproportionately sad ending. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Archer (2009)

  706. Rebasing and preserving the author date.

  707. Good game, very hard. (Played March 2022.)

  708. A few missteps don’t detract from a masterclass in superheroics. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Marvel’s What If…? (2021)

  709. I accepted defeat and built a dynamically-linked binary.

  710. Brief, engrossing, enjoyable. (Played March–May 2022.)

  711. Just bad. (Watched .)

  712. The new secondbest video game movie of all time. (Watched .)

  713. Nice but not compelling. (Played March 2022.)

  714. A slice of heaven. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: All Creatures Great and Small (2020)

  715. A boring money grab, as expected. (Played December 2021.)

  716. Small and enjoyable. (Played March 2021.)

  717. Serviceable but not as compelling as expected. (Played March 2021.)

  718. Fun and engrossing until the normal boring endgame. (Played November 2021.)

  719. Prepare to hear about what I play too.

    · #25, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  720. Simply excellent. (Played September–October 2019.)

  721. Turn off scrolling and add an ignore file if you can.

  722. So very good as a story, but inadequate as an ending. (Read .)

    · #9, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Temeraire (2006)

  723. A rollicking good time. (Watched .)

  724. Excellent. (Read .)

    · #8, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Temeraire (2006)

  725. consult.el, tree-sitter, and Forge.

  726. A mediocre and unintentionally silly series with a good beginning. (Watched .)

  727. Upgrading made notifications unreliable on my OnePlus 9 Pro, among other things.

  728. My favourite so far. (Read .)

    · #7, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Temeraire (2006)

  729. How to avoid warnings.

  730. The perfect opening and the highest highs of the series, but a disappointing conclusion. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Sex Education (2019)

  731. Hacking together fake GitOps with shell, CI, and cURL.

  732. An imperfect but fond farewell. (Watched .)

  733. Mostly typography.

    · #24, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  734. A different, hopefully better approach to responsive typography.

    · #23, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  735. Tolerable up to a specific incident. (Watched .)

  736. An entirely too-long, unsolicited recounting of my experiences with shaving.

  737. A masterpiece, for the right reader. (Reread .)

  738. A bit of a slog, but maybe a necessary one, and with redeeming qualities. (Reread .)

    · #6, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Temeraire (2006)

  739. Satisfying, mostly, and also not. (Watched .)

    · #5, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (2015)

  740. Adventures in putting things together and hoping they work.

  741. Predictable and somewhat stupid but fun. (Watched .)

  742. Not quite the best but a good season nonetheless. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Rick and Morty (2013)

  743. The darkest and dreariest point of the series, but with important developments. (Reread .)

    · #5, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Temeraire (2006)

  744. A sad instalment. (Reread .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Temeraire (2006)

  745. Still the same show in every way, but Erina and Soma’s relationship is finally allowed to take center stage and propel it to new heights. (Watched .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (2015)

  746. A quick, successful shift from a lighthearted-though-significant festival to defending the heart of Tohtsuki from culinary Nazis. (Watched .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (2015)

  747. An eventful year, for better and for worse.

  748. A third act that tests one patience doesn’t take away from the rest of an enjoyable book. (Reread .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Temeraire (2006)

  749. I finally figured out how to crop the image on my C920s.

  750. More Food Wars, but somehow even better. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (2015)

  751. An enjoyable but unnecessarily long and ultimately somewhat disappointing film filled with good performances. (Watched .)

  752. Sweet and heartwarming. (Watched .)

  753. A very good continuation, despite the emphasis on shipboard life. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Temeraire (2006)

  754. A lovely introduction to the series. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Temeraire (2006)

  755. One of the best things I’ve seen in a while. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (2015)

  756. Deploying Kyverno with helmfile and managing everything with just.

  757. Easily funnier and better than the first one, but still ultraviolent and gory for no reason. (Watched .)

  758. Moving your Google Workspace subscription away from a reseller is actually uncomplicated.

  759. Brilliant, completely unusual, and riveting. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Reservation Dogs (2021)

  760. Beautiful, quiet, painful, and heartwarming. (Watched .)

  761. An assortment of small changes.

    · #22, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  762. Not worth watching except for Yelena and the post-credits scene. (Watched .)

  763. I made output better and almost added line numbers to code blocks.

    · #21, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  764. Apparently, you can do worse than Dota: Dragon’s Blood. (Watched .)

  765. Lovely and sweet despite the morbid beginning. (Read .)

  766. I added citations, is what I’m saying.

    · #20, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  767. An entirely expected failure to recapture any of the original’s magic at all. (Watched .)

  768. A deceptively simple page.

  769. Poor start, good finish, Paxton is the highlight. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Never Have I Ever (2020)

  770. Why I’m no longer accepting them.

    · #19, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  771. A good conclusion but unavoidably sad. (Read .)

    · #5, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Trials of Apollo (2016)

  772. I wrote the missing guide.

  773. Less loss, but a grim exploration of the nature of a god. (Read .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Trials of Apollo (2016)

  774. Devastation and sorrow. (Read .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Trials of Apollo (2016)

  775. A welcome continuation of the Percy Jackson style. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Trials of Apollo (2016)

  776. A welcome return to the Percy Jackson style. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Trials of Apollo (2016)

  777. Unique, lovely, captivating. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: We Are Lady Parts (2021)

  778. And cmd too.

  779. Improving my Emacs experience with a reproducible configuration.

  780. Dated but funny film with a good climax. (Watched .)

  781. Fantastic, fun, and easily capable of performing its function in the larger MCU. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Loki (2021)

  782. A great character-driven ending. (Reread .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard (2015)

  783. A disappointment, but with redeeming qualities. (Watched .)

  784. We shut down the A Viral World project.

  785. Really good, really funny. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard (2015)

  786. An exciting beginning, reminiscent of Heroes of Olympus. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard (2015)

  787. Grand and satisfying. (Reread .)

    · #5, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Heroes of Olympus (2010)

  788. The darkest story, though just as good as the others. (Reread .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Heroes of Olympus (2010)

  789. Starts strong, builds to an excellent climax. (Reread .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Kane Chronicles (2010)

  790. A big step up from the previous one. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Kane Chronicles (2010)

  791. Annabeth in the spotlight, and it’s great. (Reread .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Heroes of Olympus (2010)

  792. The one we were all waiting for. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Heroes of Olympus (2010)

  793. A welcome return to Percy Jackson’s world. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Heroes of Olympus (2010)

  794. Still a great film. (Rewatched .)

  795. Darker and heavier than Percy Jackson and the Olympians, but good. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Kane Chronicles (2010)

  797. Lovely, warm, light, charming, gorgeous. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Films: Luca (2021)

  798. Meandering and unfocused but good. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Hacks (2021)

  799. Well made and intelligent, but closer to a dramatization than a story. (Watched .)

  800. I just released shivjm/helm-kubeconform-action, a GitHub Action that runs Kubeconform on all Helm charts in a given directory, with support for multiple values files.

  801. A superb series comes to an excellent conclusion. (Reread .)

    · #5, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2005)

  802. The saddest so far in the series. (Reread .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2005)

  803. The best yet in the series. (Reread .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2005)

  804. A mediocre story with an important message. (Read .)

  805. The most excellent adventure continues without a pause. (Reread .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2005)

  806. A wonderful introduction to a fantastic world that is still engrossing on its own. (Reread .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2005)

  807. Hilarious and excellent. (Watched .)

  808. Unremarkable, generic, predictable, unappealing. (Read .)

  809. Disappointing and aimless. (Read .)

  810. Good absurd fun. (Watched .)

  811. Disappointing, amateurish, boring. (Read .)

  812. Why my link previews are more ordinary now.

    · #18, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  813. One fun third, not worth wading through the other two. (Watched .)

  814. Decent and easily forgotten. (Watched .)

  815. Good and timely. (Read .)

  816. A lovely end to the series. (Read .)

    · #5, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Memoirs of Lady Trent (2013)

  817. Some emotion, some problems, quite fun and easy to watch. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Never Have I Ever (2020)

  818. Still excellent, and overflowing with interesting developments this time. (Read .)

    · #4, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Memoirs of Lady Trent (2013)

  819. A good show with a great beginning. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Shadow and Bone (2021)

  821. Starting a new paragraph after every sentence is an exhausting trend.

  822. A charming, enjoyable, and slightly absurd show. (Watched .)

  823. Some good, some bad. (Watched .)

  824. The wonderful and charming series soars to new heights. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Hilda (2018)

  825. The CW’s sensibilities ruin yet another promising show. (Watched .)

  826. Confused, strange, and good. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Resident Alien (2021)

  827. A little slow to get started, but a pleasant way to spend one’s time. (Watched .)

  829. An endless parade of torture, trauma, and violence. (Watched .)

  830. For the fans, who’ll excuse its quality, but probably no one else. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Dota: Dragon’s Blood (2021)

  831. Great visuals aren’t enough to salvage a joyless show. (Watched .)

  832. Happiness, gratitude, and a lot of self-satisfaction.

    · #17, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  833. One of the most beautiful movies I’ve seen in a while. (Watched .)

  834. Seven shining episodes undone by the final two. (Watched .)

  835. A ‘comfort read’ for a reason. (Reread .)

  836. Bleak and interesting. (Read .)

  837. Good but not of the same calibre as her previous works. (Read .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: Great Cities (2020)

  838. More of the (wonderful) same. (Read .)

    · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Memoirs of Lady Trent (2013)

  839. Prettier previews, built with many moving parts.

    · #16, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  840. A fitting & excellent final act. (Watched .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (2020)

  841. Contrasting pagination and looping, with examples and a reference image.

  842. A brilliant film that could only have been made by a man with Nolan’s skill and resources. (Watched .)

  843. Front matter, templates, collections, and JavaScript.

    · #15, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  844. Enjoyable but very flawed. (Watched .)

  845. Tolerable but bland. (Watched .)

  846. A pleasing second instalment. (Read .)

    · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Memoirs of Lady Trent (2013)

  847. Great thriller with fantastic characters & performances. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Flight Attendant (2020)

  848. A lovely movie. (Watched .)

  849. Squandered potential. (Read .)

  850. A disappointing sequel. (Watched .)

  851. Entrancing, witty, original, and excellent. (Read .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Memoirs of Lady Trent (2013)

  852. An interesting start but awkward execution. (Read .)

  853. Thrilling, sometimes hard to watch, but top notch all the way through. (Watched November 2020.)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Primal (2020)

  854. A wonderfully original and charming show undone by the final episodes. (Watched .)

  855. How I stopped resisting the truth.

    · #14, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  856. All the little factors that make it a frustrating experience.

  857. The same strengths and weaknesses as the first season, but with some great additions. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: The Boys (2019)

  858. Jaeger, Loki, lies, and labels.

  859. A beautiful and melancholy masterpiece. (Watched .)

  860. I switched from markdown-it to remark and I’m much happier for it.

    · #13, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  861. After years of thinking about it, I finally got my feet wet with observability.

  862. Strange, sweet, visually impressive. (Watched .)

  863. A charming and lovely movie. (Watched .)

  864. I published my Helm chart for webmentiond.

  865. What I had to do to verify my identity.

  866. Better than I remember, and still much stronger in the second half. (Rewatched .)

  867. · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (2020)

  868. Rethinking typography and image presentation.

    · #12, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  869. Unique and unforgettable, with hidden depths, despite outward appearances. (Rewatched .)

  870. I simplified a bunch of warp routes with macros and attention to detail.

  871. A fun show, better in its first season than in the second. (Watched .)

  872. Incredible. Just incredible. (Watched .)

  873. Profound, heartfelt, moving, magnificent. (Watched .)

  874. Still surprisingly enjoyable. (Reread .)

  875. How I improve the reading experience and why it took so long.

    · #11, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  876. A brilliant continuation of a consistently unique story. (Watched .)

    · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Doom Patrol (2019)

  877. Thoroughly underwhelming and unsatisfying. (Read .)

  878. The many, many steps and stumbles.

    · #10, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  883. I quit playing DotA, a second time.

  884. There are now useful icons and simpler URIs (but still no dark mode or comments).

    · #9, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  886. An old XCOM 2 story I posted on Reddit.

  888. How I set up GitLab CI/CD pipelines that wait for Netlify Deploy Previews.

    · #8, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  889. Considering my options and their consequences.

    · #7, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  890. These are not two separate things.

  891. The site gets a quiet facelift.

    · #6, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  896. An actual conversation with Domain.com’s tech support.

  897. · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Three-Body Problem (2008)

  898. · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Three-Body Problem (2008)

  899. · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Books: The Three-Body Problem (2008)

  900. How I got the archive page permalinks right.

    · #5, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  901. · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Better Call Saul (2015)

  902. How I integrated responsive images into A Place For My Head.

    · #4, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  903. How to disable npm and cache dependencies.

  904. The only way to get things done is to do the work.

  905. Relying on JavaScript to show static text isn’t just unnecessary, it’s hostile towards your users.

  907. · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Avenue 5 (2020)

  908. · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Raising Dion (2019)

  909. A naked blog no longer.

    · #3, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  910. · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Altered Carbon (2018)

  911. · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Altered Carbon (2018)

  912. The hoops I jumped through to avoid any booby traps in a RAR file.

  913. Building on my previous updates to make Emacs a proper Rust IDE.

  914. My journey to lightning quick JSON parsing in Rust.

  915. How I set up a statically-linked Docker image for a non-trivial Rust project.

  916. Even a touch of easy optimization can make your website infinitely better.

  917. · #3, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Westworld (2016)

  918. · #2, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Westworld (2016)

  919. · #1, Thoughts & Spoilers: Show: Westworld (2016)

  920. Bringing modern packages to my Rust experience in Emacs.

  921. How I set up Eleventy to avoid including unnecessary CSS.

    · #2, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head

  922. Welcome to A Place For My Head.

    · #1, Colophon: Finding A Place For My Head