Finished reading: Song of Susannah by Stephen King 📚
Two weeks ago, I wrote about finishing Wolves of the Calla.
Things are really heating up, and boy does King go hard. If you know you know.
I made a mistake; my thoughts, above, were supposed to be for Song of Susannah, which I finished on August 11th, not Wolves of the Calla. Looks like I forgot to log “Wolves”!
I found a fun little quip from John Wright, the drummer of Nomeansno, about the history of music post Nirvana.
Every major label tried to sign every band, and then it became no longer an alternative, it sort of became co-opted by the mainstream and people moved on to hip hop and dub step and then everyone got sick of rock and roll and went to raves.
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I recently learned about the wcurl command. It’s a wrapper around curl, focused on making downloading files simple without passing options. It has some heuristics to figure out what to do with the …
The old God shot, taken from a car window.
I was muttering the abbreviation API (a, pee, eye) under my breath, and shifted over one phonetic stop to “ape pee eye”. The puerile interpretation is right up front, which did make me …
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Started reading: The Dark Tower 7:The Dark Tower by Stephen King 📚
Finished reading: The Dark Tower V Wolves of the Calla by Stephen King 📚
Things are really heating up, and boy does King go hard. If you know you know.
Silly dream: I want my domain, chrisdeluca.me, to return something for every protocol supported by curl. 💽
What do you call an undead creature that sucks your nose?
Nostrilatu.
Today I learned about the Trivial File Transfer Protocol, and the matching tftp command. It’s like FTP, but much more simple, less secure, uses less memory, and is sometimes used in initial bootloading on low memory devices. It isn’t used over the internet, given the security concerns.
This trivia brought to you by me mistyping something in the terminal and seeing this command in the autocomplete suggestions. 💽
Watched on Friday August 7, 2026.
I saw Dan Deacon for the first time last weekend, and man does he put on a great show. The fans were genuinely kind and fun, very good vibes. No small feat!
I’ve really been getting into The Hellacopters recently. So far I’ve been working through their releases on Bandcamp, with Head Off and Grande Rock the primaries, but I’m looking forward to expanding my listening beyond that. 🎵
I used the unix look command to find every SASS variable in a file: look '$' my-file.scss. Kind neat, but the use case is pretty narrow. Anyone have a more wide use case for look? 💽
Focus on the cat, ignore the mess. 🐈
I got my signed copy of Difficult People. Great comedy on physical media won’t solve waves hands, but it sure helps.
I discovered the uuidgen command, which generates a unique ID like 3E7FE9F8-9D26-42BE-999D-43D2D34697BC. This seems like it would be great to use in some shell glue script or another. 💽
Still the best.
Pure mood 🐈
The drama of soccer.
Alt-comic God Brian Poseidon. Is that anything?
I think Corey Doctorow is right about the corporate motivations and economic implications of AI.
AI can’t do the jobs it’s replacing: AI is predicated on the premise that the monopolies, duopolies and cartels that control the global economy can deliberately worsen their products without suffering economic or regulatory consequences, because they’re the only game in town.
Give the whole thing a read, I think it’s worth it. 💽
Thomas Frank writes about politically noxious nostalgia for Harpers. It’s connects the bicentennial in 1976 with our current impoverished political moment. I think it strikes a chord.
Donald Trump didn’t invent the eternal return of nostalgia any more than Ronald Reagan invented the retro style of the Seventies and Eighties. Nostalgia is today a structural feature of our modern world, the emptiness and vapidity at the heart of our culture, the inevitable mass-produced sentiment of a society that permanently feels that everything is constantly going wrong but is chronically unable to identify why.
I can certainly cop to rooting around in nostalgia (see my recent post on an old DOS game), and I do feel uncomfortable about it sometimes; the politics wrapped around nostalgia can be manipulative and harmful, and even if my idle musings on the past don’t have those goals, it feels like being too close to the past in thought can lead one astray in the present. Moderation in all things, perhaps?
The essay is worth reading in its entirety, and the conclusion is interesting, if unleavened. 🇺🇸