Hubble explores the universe 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That means it has observed some fascinating cosmic wonder every day of the year, including on your birthday.

What did Hubble look at on your birthday? Enter the month and date below to find out! What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday? - NASA Science

My birthday picture is of the Whirlpool Galaxy:

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no hello - please don't say just hello in chat

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Dione - Rewinder

Saw this Blog Questions Challenge about Travel Adventures and it piqued my interest.

1. What's the silliest souvenir you've ever brought back from a trip?
2. If you could teleport anywhere right now, for a day trip, where would you go?
3. What's the weirdest food you've ever tried while traveling?
4. What's the most memorable "wrong turn" you've taken on an adventure?

What's the silliest souvenir you've ever brought back from a trip?
More stupid than silly. On my way to Australia, I bought some very nice honey in Mauritius.
It promptly got confiscated by the Australian Border Force as their biosecurity does not allow the import of honey.

If you could teleport anywhere right now, for a day trip, where would you go?
Off the top of my head this would be Île des Pins in New Caledonia.
I spent two very nice days there in 2018 while doing an extended New Caledonia weekend trip during my last rotation in Sydney.

What's the weirdest food you've ever tried while traveling?
Probably crocodile. This was in 2013 while traveling in Australia.
There was a australian game meat BBQ organized for us tourists, and various meats could be tasted.
Didn't particularly like the crocodile, it tasted a lot like chicken.
The hosts explained that crocodile usually tastes like the thing it eats, and these ones were fed with chicken, cue them tasting like chicken.

What's the most memorable "wrong turn" you've taken on an adventure?
While traveling by train to Amsterdam, somewhere outside Frankfurt there was a problem with the tracks.
The ICE I was on, returned halfway to Frankfurt and then used a very long but scenic route along the Rhine river to reach Koeln.
Overall the journey to Amsterdam took 4 hours longer than planned, but we got to see some very pitoresque villages along the river.

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How to write exceptional documentation

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I recently tried out Claude Code for both some personal project as well as some work project.
Was very impressed how far the AI coding assistants have come already.
Looks like a powerful tool when used by an experienced software engineer.

I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It's like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks, using nothing but chat. [...]

Claude Code's form factor is clunky as hell, it has no multimodal support, and it's hard to juggle with other tools. But it doesn't matter. It might look antiquated but it makes Cursor, Windsurf, Augment and the rest of the lot (yeah, ours too, and Copilot, let's be honest) FEEL antiquated.

— Steve Yegge, who works on Cody at Sourcegraph

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Deborah De Luca SUNRISE SET

If your content is only on social media, I'm not going to see it by Cory Dransfeldt.

If you only post on social media, I won't see it. If you don't have an RSS feed, I won't follow it, I won't subscribe to it. I don't want want your app because I don't want a homescreen full of apps for publications and platforms.

I don't have a fear of missing out. I am missing out. I've come to terms with that. Algorithms can be a convenient means of surfacing relevant content. They can be. But those algorithms are tailored by platform operators whose aims are (very) often not aligned with yours. They tailor content discovery purely to keep you hooked. Eyeballs to ads, money to shareholders.

Or as commented on by Mike Sass:

Same same. Just get an RSS feed, and stop relying on the hegemonic platform silos.

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Tmux - the essentials is a concise article by David Winter giving a gentle introduction to the tmux terminal multiplexer.

• tmux create a new tmux session
• tmux ls list any existing tmux sessions
• tmux a reattach to the last open tmux session
• ctrl + b the default tmux command prefix
• prefix + d detach from current tmux session
• prefix + c create a new window
• prefix + 0-9 to switch to the numbered window
• prefix + , rename the existing window
• prefix + % split the current pane into two vertical panes, left and right
• prefix + " split the current pane into two horizontal panes, top and bottom
• prefix + q view numbered panes for current window
• prefix + q, 0-9 switch to pane immediately after displaying pane numbers
• prefix + z to zoom and unzoom

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Jan-Piet Mens wrote up a short note explaining how to sign Git commits using an SSH key. It also includes a short guide how to setup your GitHub account to recognize the SSH signing key.

$ git config --global user.signingkey ~/.ssh/key_file.pub
$ git config --global gpg.format ssh
$ git config --global commit.gpgsign true
$ git config --global tag.gpgsign true