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Evidence-based UK review of magnesium L-threonate for longevity, sleep, and healthy ageing. Updated 2026-09-28.

The night after I was supposed to leave I found a feather on my pillow, long and black with hints of green where it met the light. A magical thing, I supposed, but when I touched it to my face I could smell the bird on it, as earthly as

A test blog post for now.

Writing means you have to refine what's in your head and express it so other people can understand.

Probably just me, but using your own words makes what you want to say more authentic - because it comes from you, it's how you want to express.

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/08/12/write-for-people/

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การเขียน เป็นการขัดเกลาอย่างหนึ่ง ขัดเกลาสิ่งที่อยู่ในหัวออกมาในรูปแบบที่คนอื่นสามารถเข้าใจได้

อันนี้ส่วนตัวล้วนๆ มองว่า การเขียนที่เป็นการเขียนเอง ในรูปแบบภาษาที่คนเขียนสบายใจที่จะใช้ ทำให้งานเขียนชิ้นนั้นมีความ "จริง" ขึ้น เพราะเป็นสิ่งที่เลือกแล้ว ว่า จะสื่อสารออกมาในรูปแบบนี้

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/08/12/write-for-people/

My weekly blog post. Links this week include an auction featuring lots of cat items, a site where you work with others to recreate painting masterpieces one stroke at a time and an ancient musical tribute to a loved one. I have a kitty visitor! I also show off some postcards I bought. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.

james joyce - ulysses && homer trans. by emily wilson - the odyssey (reading notes in progress)

After reading Will Bunch cringing about Trump’s address to the UN last week and China summit, and yet another Natalie Harp expose on the Daily Beast, my thought is “how can we get out of this mess?”.

Still “Alive and Well” … and happy to “BE”

💬 Johnny Winter

Site release 8f2b63a: Commit two OpenTimestamps proofs upgraded to Bitcoin anchors (#190). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

As part of migrating my main website and other sites to a new hosting service, I have also been working to create backups of sites hosted elsewhere. One of those sites was a weblog I created using Drummer (created by Dave Winer) and using the oldSchool blogging template/tool. As part of other updates made by […]

Non-detection at traffic lights in the United States

Traffic lights that do not service traffic due to non-detection may not meet the federal legal definition adopted by most states for a traffic control signal, which is any device “by which traffic is alternately directed to stop and permitted to proceed”.

Did not know this was a thing. The abomination of a stoplight that leads to my street does this sometimes. I’m running the fucker the next time it misses my little car.

Dark Matter season 2 episode 5 is really beautiful, unique across the serie, it’s an arc of a men’s healing journey culminating into going back to life. Really Beautiful

The bottom line is that tech companies have rarely understood that developers can be major influencers. We give a platform new meaning. It's a good deal to invest in the people doing the work, who often are doing it for love more than money. That grew into the blogosphere. There was no telling where Frontier would take us, and it would have cost them so little to help insure it had a future, but the did the opposite.

This is exactly what AI CEOs sound to me.

As I go through porting Frontier, there's a sad note. What if Apple had made it a goal that Frontier move along with their OS. That it was a unique advantage of the Mac and should be promoted as such. Don't laugh, because Apple did do that for ThinkTank and MORE. We spent a ...

Remember MarsBot? M.G. Siegler (@spyglass.org) asked a question yesterday that got me thinking: "Where is the 'Where I've Been' Service?" He took a trip down the SoLoMo (social, local, mobile) memory lane with apps like Foursquare, Swarm, and Gowalla. H...

Sometimes I forget how much fun I have making software tricks that people don't even notice but contribute to the "it thinks like I do" feeling a of crafted UI. I think of it like walking on the Highline in NYC. You're just walking, right? But you're above it, in a city where a lot of what's going on is above you. And it's comfortable. Why? You don't need to know, it just is. But someone made it that way.

When I started this project, I had a goal in mind that has been achieved. It was part of a project I named daveMigrates. The goal was to use new hardware and system software to do the work I was doing in Frontier. At first we got a portion of Frontier working, planning to u...

Cheltenham Open Data has really grown in the last week or so with loads of new pages and I discovered I would need to run some activities from my Raspberry Pi rather than GitHub Actions. As one cannot reliably trust actions on a 5-minute cadence, I also noted an hourly job b...

What I’ve been listening to this month. Snakes In the Bag - Lions of Hazelwood Don’t Forget Me - Mark Lanegan Nothing - Drenge Chicken Bone George - Black Eyed Snakes Turn Around - Phats & Small This Is Who I Am - Joanne Shaw Taylor St. James Infirmary ...