- Draft created: Oct 26, 2026 15:17 (UTC).
- Pampanga’s Cuisine is at 46th and Fraser and at Joyce Station for those who don’t know :-)
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Highly Recommended Filipino film, Liway, about Marcos's martial law horrors
Discovered: Oct 25, 2026 21:58 (UTC) Highly Recommended Filipino film, Liway, about Marcos’s martial law horrors <– You can legally obtain the film from google drive at: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jtwXdnjpfsZhfEEIkraDQ3lRi0QjVnQZ
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Got my 9th COVID jab and my 2026 Flu booster on Tuesday October 13, 2026 at The Pharmacy on the Drive in Vancouver. Plenty of appointments for kids of all ages. Do it now if able! It's free!
- BC Residents book it at the following link: www.getvaccinated.gov.bc.ca/s/bookavaccine
Previously
- May 8, 2026:: Walked to Pharmasave at 1808 Kingsway and got a walk-in appointment and my 8th COVID vaccination today”
- Draft created: Oct 18, 2026 20:48 (UTC).
ME:: tl;dr-ing you have to be able to notice the bugs whether you coded or an LLM coded it. And you have to be able to find a solution for these things you notice. I wonder if this will be different in September 2030, probably not :-) September 26, 2026 Dan Luu:: There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
Discovered: Oct 18, 2026 20:43 (UTC) ME:: tl;dr-ing you have to be able to notice the bugs whether you coded or an LLM coded it. And you ave to be able to find a solution for these things you notice. I wonder if this will be different in September 2030, probably not :-) September 26, 2026 Dan Luu:: There’s no point at which turning your brain off will work
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Anyway, my point here is that, even when doing coding tasks, you often run into out of distribution questions where the agent behaves very poorly compared to a reasonable human being. If you want a good overall result today, you need to notice these cases and deal with them.
Vada Pav Mirchi's Maharashtrian food is highly recommended especially the Ragda Patties! 2975 Cambie Street (at 14th)
- Draft created: Oct 17, 2026 21:34 (UTC).
- Vada Pav Mirchi by Geeta <– you never know if a restaurant’s website will be there in a few years. So many people don’t bother renewing their domains and then the website dies.
September 1993:: Loyd Blankenship:: The Cow Ate My Brain - A Novice's Guide to MOO Programming, Part I
Discovered: Oct 17, 2026 03:11 (UTC) September 1993:: Loyd Blankenship:: The Cow Ate My Brain - A Novice’s Guide to MOO Programming, Part I <– I remember reading this in the 1990s :-) and thinking I should write some code for this. Clearly that didn’t happen!
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1977 me would have been amazed that in 2026 there would be a Hollywood animated feature called Forgotten Island about Filipino mythology like the aswang and that Forgotten Island isn't scary. And that aswangs aren't always scary. Forgotten Island is highly recommended!
I think I was 14 when I learned that 'danum' is Kapampangan for water and that the Tagalog word is 'tubig' :-) #7100Islands #100orMoreLanguages
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Draft created: Oct 2, 2026 23:58 (UTC).
Previously
- September 28, 2026: A few days ago I also learned that buldet is not Tagalog for your backside. It is Kapampangan lol. In Tagalog, it’s puwit :-)
ME:: Tell humans about the problem not the solution first as well of course! ; Sean Goedecke:: Tell agents the why, not just the how
Discovered: Oct 2, 2026 16:06 (UTC) ME:: Tell humans about the problem not the solution first as well of course! ; Sean Goedecke:: Tell agents the why, not just the how
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About half of...
Sean Goedecke:: If you have deep domain knowledge of any area of a codebase, you will routinely find yourself correcting powerful AI models and principal engineers ... You should all be asking way more questions
Discovered: Oct 2, 2026 16:00 (UTC) Sean Goedecke:: If you have deep domain knowledge of any area of a codebase, you will routinely find yourself correcting powerful AI models and principal engineers … You should all be asking way more questions
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You should all be asking way more questions. In other words, you should all be trying harder to actually understand what you’re hearing. Don’t trust that the person (or AI model) you’re talking to knows what they’re doing, even if you think they’re smarter than you. Nobody understands complex software products. If you have deep domain knowledge of any area of a codebase, you will routinely find yourself correcting powerful AI models and principal engineers.
Sean Goedecke:: Wicked features are features that must be considered every time you build any other feature like l10n
Discovered: Oct 2, 2026 15:53 (UTC) Sean Goedecke:: Wicked features are features that must be considered every time you build any other feature like l10n
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Wicked features are features that must be considered every time you build any other feature.
Here’s some examples of wicked features:
- Adding a new user type
- Adding an on-premise version of your SaaS
- Sharding your customers across many different databases
- Supporting strong data locality
- Supporting the ability for customers to move their accounts between regions
- I18n (translating your customer-facing text into their native language)
ME:: technical leaders and a few support people know how to figure out how a product works, everybody else knows their small part ; Sean Goedecke:: Nobody knows how large software products work
Discovered: Oct 2, 2026 15:41 (UTC) ME:: technical leaders and a few support people know how to figure out how a product works, everybody else knows their small part ; Sean Goedecke:: Nobody knows how large software products work
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A few days ago I also learned that buldet is not Tagalog for your backside. It is Kapampangan lol. In Tagalog, it's puwit :-)
A few days ago I learned that ulas is Kapampangan for blanket and kumot is Tagalog for blanket. LOL I thought ulas was Tagalog :-)
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Draft created: Sep 27, 2026 01:56 (UTC).
Previously
- March 7, 2019: I thought Everyone Spoke Kapampangan Just Like Tagalog :-)
- March 7, 2019: Malamig Means Cold In Tagalog :-)
- March 7, 2019: Marimla Means Cold In Kapampangan :-)
4000 pounds of daily danger: I would love to say to car and truck drivers who dangerously almost sideswipe bicyclists: How would you feel if a person driving this way hit your father, mother, grandparent, son, daughter, etc simply because they couldn't pass safely? Is every second so precious that you want to take that risk?
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Draft created: Sep 27, 2026 01:52 (UTC).
Previously
- September 24, 2026: I would love to say to bicyclists, e-scooter riders and e-bicyclists who dangerously almost sideswipe pedestrians: How would you feel if a person riding this way hit your father, mother, grandparent, son, daughter, etc simply because they couldn’t bother slowing down to a safe speed or dismounting? Is every second so precious that you want to take that risk?
I would love to say to bicyclists, e-scooter riders and e-bicyclists who dangerously almost sideswipe pedestrians: How would you feel if a person riding this way hit your father, mother, grandparent, son, daughter, etc simply because they couldn't bother slowing down to a safe speed or dismounting? Is every second so precious that you want to take that risk?
ME:: tl;dr-ing healthy relationships are vital to our well-being worldwide! ; Tim Lomas:: Across Cultures, One Key to Happiness Stands Out ¦ The MIT Press Reader
Discovered: Sep 22, 2026 15:07 (UTC) ME:: tl;dr-ing healthy relationships are vital to our well-being worldwide! ; Tim Lomas:: Across Cultures, One Key to Happiness Stands Out ¦ The MIT Press Reader
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Read the whole thing: Across Cultures, One Key to Happiness Stan...
St. Joseph's Vietnamese food roughly once a month Saturday and Sunday. Excellent sweet and savoury treats and BBQ and $15 noodle soup on Sunday! Highly recommended. There is no schedule so either ask them or just go by St. Joseph's at 5pm on Saturday and see if their tent is up!
Filipiñana 2nd viewing: shot in square i.e. 1:1 re-elect Dr. Palanca, colonialism is not over in the Philippines. This movie still highly recommended.
The re-elect Dr. Palanca terrible campaign is absolutely true; in fact truth is stranger than fiction when it comes to Filipino election campaigns at any level!
Actually shot in 4:3 but really looks square.
Colonialism isn’t over: 1st the Spanish, then the Americans, ...
ME:: tl;dr-ing: 'The organisation trades analogue flexibility for digital predictability, and discovers the cost only when complexity arrives that the fixed stencils cannot process.' ; Dave Snowden:: Cognitive outsourcing 3/3: analogue asymmetry - The Cynefin Co
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: Filipiñana, the full 2026 movie, is full arthouse at its most thought (or sleep) provoking and very gut wrenching simultaneously. What actually happened? Did the Doctor and all the Ilustrados get their just desserts :-) ?!?!? Probably not because corruption.
- Draft created: Sep 8, 2026 04:38 (UTC).
- As another gut wrenching complement to this movie please consider reading America is not the heart by Elaine Castillo. See my post from 2019: America Is Not The Heart - Elaine Castillo - Highly Recommended!. Guardian Review: America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo review – an impressive debut novel
- youtu.be/bOr3hgo2x2c <– things that make you go hmmm :-) Official Filipiñana website and Filipiñana on wikipedia
- Ilustrado - the spanish created them. Colonialism of course
- Read the book: Miguel Syjuco’s novel: Ilustrado.Check out The Guardian’s review of https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/27/ilustrado-miguel-syjuco-review
- I know zero Ilokano! But yes the Ilokanos in this movie could have been speaking Kapampangan or any the other 100 or so provincial languages (apparently there are 8 major groups)/
You haven't experienced the full Filipino food spectrum of flavours if you haven't tried one or more the of the following dishes which lead with sour: Sinigang, Paksiw, Adobo, Kinilaw, Dinuguan and many others I haven't tried I but and/or used vinegar (or soy sauce with citrus like calamansi) as a dipping sauce with Filipino beer food or Filipino food in general
Draft created: Aug 31, 2026 03:02 (UTC).
If adobo doesn’t have a sour component that you can discern, then it’s not really Filipino adobo. It can still be delicious of course :-)
And if you don’t like sour then that’s valid of course :-) I do still recommend trying on...
Gotta try it for future scraping projects; adbar/trafilatura: Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML
Discovered: Aug 29, 2026 17:18 (UTC) Gotta try it for future scraping projects; adbar/trafilatura: Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML <– QUOTE: Trafilatura is a comp...
Has this IP address been the victim of a botnet attack and has it participated in a DDOS attack? ;DDoS address lookup · Nokia Deepfield
Discovered: Aug 29, 2026 14:38 (UTC) Has this IP address been the victim of a botnet attack and has it participated in a DDOS attack? ;DDoS address lookup · Nokia Deepfield
curl --silent v4.check.deepfield.net ¦ htmlq -t '.headline'
Star Trek Strange New Worlds S4 E6 80% good, ein happy end für M'Benga :-)
I hereby officially declare August 27 Lake Ontario day :-)
Discovered: Aug 28, 2026 05:01 (UTC) I hereby officially declare August 27 Lake Ontario day :-)
Arm and Hammer Washing Soda;1 Cup of This Destroys Every Drain Clog - But Never Touches Your Pipes - YouTube
Discovered: Aug 25, 2026 15:23 (UTC) Arm and Hammer Washing Soda;1 Cup of This Destroys Every Drain Clog - But Never Touches Your Pipes - YouTube<– video with ‘AI’ imagery oh brother!
TL;DR
- Pour 1 cup washing soda (not baking soda, not drano, not vinegar) down the drain you are trying to unclog
- Pour HOT not boiling water in
- Leave overnight
- In the morning pour HOT not boiling water in.
I will always love you Dolly and Whitney :-) RIP both!
Star Trek Strange New Worlds S4 E5 - Loved the puppet episode because it's fun and different and yet serious simultaneously
Cloudflare DNS issue? I couldn't get holos.social's Android app to work on my Pixel 7A my account if it ever works will be :-) @roland@rolandt.lol
Discovered: Aug 25, 2026 13:53 (UTC) Cloudflare DNS issue? I couldn’t get holos.social’s Android app to work on my Pixel 7A my account if it ever works will be :-) @roland@rolandt.lol <– More info at holos.social