I think it’s hilarious that Apple has added “A preferred look for Liquid Glass.” In display settings.

You’ll be able to choose between Clear, which offers a translucent UI, and Tinted, which uses darker colors for contrast from the background.

Liquid Glass not good? It’s a you problem now.

CSS for Obsidian to show selected checkboxes as bold (no strikethrough)

Use this snippet in your Obsidian and add the class selected-checkboxes to a note to make checked items display without strikethrough and with a bold label. Handy for on checklists.

Apple’s Freeform app is actually really great for moodboarding.

Happy Friday!

Here’s a list of album releases I enjoy. Over time, you’ll find a variety of music genres, including jazz, death metal, power metal, ambient, and electronic. There’s likely something for everyone’s taste.

Previous week I had a mild fever for several days. This week I’ve been struggling with post-viral fatigue. Can’t do anything without being out of breath and wanting to lay down. What a weird feeling.

Interesting. Looks like an Arc Browser alternative and is build with SwiftUI/AppKit and WebKit for browsing.

www.orabrowser.com

Fun! The phenomenon of Taylor Swift in a Grafana Dashboard.

Taylor Swift (Grafana’s Version): How to track and visualize data related to pop’s biggest superstar

I’m worried about ChatControl

I’m worried about the EU ChatControl regulation. With the vote scheduled at 14 October 2025, it’s nearing a critical decision point. The regulation requires service providers to scan ALL communications on: Emails messaging apps (yes, even the encrypted ones) collaboration platforms (Slack, Teams, Discord, etc.) and cloud service (Google Drive, iCloud, etc.) This to ‘detect illegal content like child sexual abuse material’. The idea is to use on-device scanning, before it gets encrypted (if at all). …read more

Converting Mela Recipes to Markdown to use in Obsidian

Mela.recipes is a recipe manager that I highly recommend to everyone. Yet, I’d like to have the recipes in plain text for safekeeping. The bash script below converts the .melarecipes export to Markdown. I then use Obsidian bases to display and filter through the recipes. To have the first image show up in the Obsidian Bases card layout I did the following: Add a custom property, name it cover-image or something similar. …read more

The unauthorized party also gained access to a small number of government‑ID images (e.g., driver’s license, passport) from users who had appealed an age determination.

How am I not surprised.

Update on a Security Incident Involving Third-Party Customer Service

I’ve just finished a Traditional Strength Training workout. It lasted 30,9 minutes and I burned ≈ 290 kJ .

Great workout! Added some extra sets.

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Currently reading: Nature and the Mind.

It gets better. Marc also covers (architecture) design. Some good insights. Still pretty repetitive, though. As if a specific word count needed to be met.

My talented and hard working wife, Julia, has started her Inktober! She’ll be doing short comics like these each day! If you like, give her a follow on Instagram: @julia.vanderbos. Tell her I sent you. 😉

It’s Inktober! On a bigger screen, you can now draw on my website’s background. It’s ephemeral, though. So you won’t be sharing your masterpiece elsewhere.

If you want to teach someone about privacy, you should force them do to one of those OSINT courses.

I’ve just finished a Traditional Strength Training workout. It lasted 35,0 minutes and I burned ≈ 292 kJ .

Was a bit harder today. Probably because it’s early. Perhaps a good ritualistic pre-workout could help here?

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Great coverage from Matt D’Avella about the state of social media: youtu.be/zN-rElTzR…

There is a difference between what we value, and what we attend to. — Jack Conte

I automated sharing interesting content using Raindrop.io’s RSS functionality and a Hugo Shortcode.

This lets me bookmark items in my public collection, which are shared automatically at geff.re/links/ with the notes I add. 😄

What Happens When Mark Records Everything?

Mark is a profiling expert. You and he agreed that he is to record every single thing you do. This agreement began when you clicked ‘I agree to the terms of service,’ remember? Now, Mark is really good at his job. He’ll be everywhere. On the device in your pocket, the machine on your desk and the display of your car. Mark works for companies and occasionally for governments. They are ravenous for this information he collects. …read more

I’ve just finished a Traditional Strength Training workout. It lasted 32,8 minutes and I burned ≈ 303 kJ .

Reached all the rep targets.💪🏻 Feeling strong! Great start of the weekend.

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