High Times
Un trozito de donuts, una cucharada de personajes carismáticos y mucho amor hacen de esta novela visual el juego perfecto
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Juliette died last night. She was 13.
In June I posted a photo of her in a yellow unicorn party hat and called it her "second" birthday. A year before that I had spent a weekend doing some kind of CPR on her and writing her heart rate down every 30 minutes, certain she would not see Monday.
She saw fourteen more months. She walked, she ate, she ran around the flat like nothing had happened.
That post: https://dol.social/@dima/116782367532858418
Thank you to everyone who wrote something kind under it. I went back and read all of it again today.
This photo is from a boat on Lake Lucerne. A third of her life she spent here in Switzerland, and on every walk it was obvious who was walking whom.
She always got her way. She never backed down from anything, not once, not until yesterday.
❤️
#Dachshund #DogsOfMastodon #Dogs #Grief #Pets #Blog #Thoughts #Medicine #Fediverse #Mastodon #Switzerland #Death
Convert Excel Spreadsheet File Format (XLS, XLSX) to CSV
Learn about the Free and Open Source Software options available to convert Excel spreadsheet file format (XLS/XLSX) to Comma Separated Values (CSV).
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/convert-excel-spreadsheet-csv/
#blog #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #commandline #linux #unix #windows
Menaville
A colleague's accent brings back a childhood memory. I open a Commodore 64 emulator and go looking for Menaville, a city that never existed, and the freedom that did.https://my-notes.dragas.net/2026/08/17/menaville/
#MyNotes #Blogging #Blog #Memories
I wrote about a Tech Bro that had to invade my offline life, and a quiet indie bookstore, and then I just had enough so had to fight him. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-bookstore-hope/ #AI #Books #Bookstore #Writing #Blog #Blogs
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More #fantasy ! It's fair to say I enjoyed Martha Well's Witch King much more than Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, though it is probably also indicative of the development of the genre in the last 20 years. It was surprisingly and pleasantly different from both Well's prior Murderbot Diaries and a lot of standard fantasy fare. Definitely recommend, and I'm putting the next in the series on the list.
https://write.as/the-casual-critic/witch-king-the-return-of-the-demon
A Future Identity: Away With The Flat
In between of things, while the project is going slowly, I've been thinking about refreshing the look of the samerion.com website, along with giving the project a whole new logo.
https://samerion.com/journal/2026-08
#Samerion #Gamedev #Indiedev #Blog #Design #FlatDesign #Logo
Review of GNOME Core App Document Viewer (Papers)
A detailed review of the GNOME Document Viewer (Papers) application with overview, advantages, criticisms, formats, keyboard shortcuts, and install.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/review-gnome-document-viewer-papers/
#blog #GNOME #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #linux #tech #technology
Adamsdesk Bans Font Squirrel Over Privacy Concerns?
Find out what lead to the discovery of privacy concerns, complications whether to ban linking to certain websites and what decision was made.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/font-squirrel-privacy-concern/
Software Freedom Day: Celebrate and Protect Our Freedoms
Join in the celebration of Software Freedom Day and learn about Free Software and its virtues along with how to host or attend this worldwide event.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/software-freedom-day-2026/
#blog #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #tech #technology @dff
📰 Little Bits: Issue #39 For July 2026
A new issue is here of curated discoveries sourced from the fediverse and beyond with loads of little bits to explore all organized into categories.
Latest mailing list update, Kingett's podcast episodes for May https://buttondown.com/weirdwriter/archive/kingetts-podcast-episodes-for-may-fb70/ #Blog #Blogs
Extract and Review Web Page Links Using a Bookmarklet
Learn how to combat poor web design by extracting and reviewing all web page links found on page with the use of a bookmarklet.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/extract-review-web-page-links/
Next milestone achieved 🍾
Merged into @symfony core.
max_depth was counted per runtime class name. A Doctrine proxy is a subclass of the entity, so it got its own counter, and a graph with max_depth 1 serialized two levels deep instead of one.
The depth key now falls back to the parent class when the parent declares the same MaxDepth. Proxy and entity share one counter.
The issue was opened in October 2024. 685 days in the tracker before someone got to it.
Landed in 6.4 LTS, merged by nicolas-grekas, upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1 next.
https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/65647
#Symfony #PHP #Doctrine #Serializer #OpenSource #Backend #Blog #Fediverse #FOSS #Software #Development
![A black card in DOL brand style. Across the top, in mono uppercase, Open source, Symfony core, and on the right a dark green pill reading 6.4 LTS. A large white headline, Merged into Symfony core. Under it in grey, the pull request title, [Serializer] Fix max depth counting for subclasses that inherit MaxDepth metadata. A thin rule, then four figures with labels. Pull request #65647, Issue open for 685 days, Merged by nicolas-grekas, Upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1. At the bottom the DOL emblem with dol.ch and dol.social.](/proxy/post_attachment/1173994/cfa236e253.png "A black card in DOL brand style. Across the top, in mono uppercase, Open source, Symfony core, and on the right a dark green pill reading 6.4 LTS. A large white headline, Merged into Symfony core. Under it in grey, the pull request title, [Serializer] Fix max depth counting for subclasses that inherit MaxDepth metadata. A thin rule, then four figures with labels. Pull request #65647, Issue open for 685 days, Merged by nicolas-grekas, Upmerges to 7.4 and 8.1. At the bottom the DOL emblem with dol.ch and dol.social.")
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Luanti; the open source voxel gamming experience
With geo-politics being what they are; I've been looking for alternatives to big US tech where I can.
Recently I tried Luanti and was impressed with the ease of set up both on desktop and mobile. Keep reading to learn more about my experience and whether I'll be be dumping Minecraft for good.
#Luanti #Blog #Gaming #Minecraft
http://chunkshift.com/2026/08/31/luanti-the-open-source-voxel-gamming-experience/
It took me _so long_ to read Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence's own memoir of his role in the Arab Revolt. I came on the book by accident years ago and only now read it. It is... an experience. Lots of sand, rocks and people. It was very different from what I expected. Whether I would 'recommend' it, I'm not sure. It's a very niche read now.
https://write.as/the-casual-critic/seven-pillars-of-wisdom-the-dune-messiah
just posted on the blog: "know your place"
what type of places are you trying to create? who are you actively welcoming?
📰 Little Bits: Issue #40 For August 2026
Little Bits is far more than sharing. Discover what this blog series is truly about and afterwards enjoy a fresh supply of shiny new bits to explore.
Latest mailing list update, Kingett's posts for April https://buttondown.com/weirdwriter/archive/kingetts-posts-for-april-02c0/ #Blog #Blogs
New Agentic Coded / Vibe coded Fediverse blogging thing came across my timeline https://github.com/the-jk-labs/omicron #Blog #Fediverse
We Need Diverse Disability Fiction https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/we-need-diverse-disability-fiction/ #Blog #Blogs #Blogging #IndieWeb #NoPaywall
recently posted We Need Diverse Disability Fiction https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/we-need-diverse-disability-fiction/ #Blogging #Blog #NoPaywall
We Need Diverse Disability Fiction https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/we-need-diverse-disability-fiction/ #IndieWeb #Blog #Blogging #Blogs
New #blog ! A #review of Erik Olin Wright's 'How to Be an Anti-capitalist in the 21st Century'. It had been on the shelf for a while, and there is a lot in it for a mere 150 pages. Wright's argument will definitely appeal more to activists thinking in terms of coalitions and systems than in vanguard parties and workers, but it is undeniably the case that Wright's work is deeply considered. I would certainly recommend it.
#socialism #anticapitalism #books
https://write.as/the-casual-critic/how-to-be-an-anti-capitalist-in-the-21st-century-being-like-water
I decided to make a list of my favourite #book series. Turns out there's 90 of them! Mainly speculative fiction, but a few other genres as well.
I published my list on my #blog: https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2026/10/17/favourite-book-series
What are your favourite book series? I'd love to know and add them to my list!