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  Everett Road covered bridge. The wife and I just celebrated two years of marriage by going to see Billy Idol at Blossom last night, stayed in a campground in the national park and then did some exploring this morning. This was a nice and peaceful spot. It's also one of the most accessible sites in the park, with a short paved walk from the parking lot to the bridge. 1/? #CuyahogaValleyNationalPark #photography #coveredbridge

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  Hot on the heals of the last land grab on US National Park land, there is a proposal to build a number of 15,000 square foot mansions with a private access road in the Cumberland Island National Seashore. https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/mansions-proposal-threatens-national-park-in-georgia-2026-09-16/ https://parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?parkID=371&projectID=124458&documentID=153378

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  One of my biggest disappointments was always not seeing Rush live while Neil Peart was alive. I almost passed on this tour, but tickets for the second Cleveland show came down in price at the last moment and I realized that I'd never forgive myself if I didn't go. So after leaving work early and braving the downtown Cleveland traffic I actually managed to find on street parking and go see one of the best concerts that I've ever been to. I thought the first set was amazin...

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  Hike out to Blue Hen Falls today. #cuyahogavalleynationalpark #waterfalls #photography #naturephotography #hiking

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  Rode out to Quarry Rock Metropark in Solon today. This is a gorgeous valley and waterfall tucked right into the Cleveland metro area, minutes from Chagrin Falls. #photography #naturephotography #waterfalls 1/?

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  Some views from around Lanterman's Mill in Mill Creek Metropark, Youngstown, Ohio. 1/2 #photography #ohio #grainmill

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  I voted early today, first time voting on a day other than election day. It surprised me just how busy the polls were, there was a line extending out into the hallway. That does give me hope that people are fired up about trying to reverse course in the US. That's a good first step, anyway. Now let's hope that we get through the actual day without major shenanigans and that we can have a peaceful transfer of power after the fact.

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  Rode up to Rocky River Reservation today to visit Berea Falls. This is one of the more interesting waterfalls in Northeast Ohio from a photographic standpoint due to the awesome old railroad bridges. I find it strangely comforting that you can find places of surpassing natural beauty tucked away right in the heart of the city sometimes, but it makes sense that European settlers would look specifically for rocky canyons with flowing water to build a mill, and eventually a town. Cleveland has one...

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  Stopped on the way back from Berea Falls to get a couple of shots at the Wallet F. Ehrnfelt converted bridge, located in Mill Run Metropark just off Valley Parkway in Strongsville, Ohio. This structure is fairly unique for having laminated, bent-wood trusses, most commonly associated with churches due to their ability to support vast, wide-open spans without further support. #photography #CoveredBridges #Cleveland

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  The worst timeline. Fracking in Wayne National Forest. https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/state/2026/09/18/wayne-national-forest-plots-leased-to-fracking-industry-for-11-million/91823667007/

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  I have very little to add to this story. The US Supreme Court just gutted the remnants of the Voting Rights Act. https://abcnews.com/Politics/5-things-supreme-courts-landmark-decision-voting-rights/story?id=131396119

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  I've played around with NetBSD over the years. Never tried to use it as a daily driver though. In light of the fact they're just about the only viable OS that's taken a string stance against AI contribution, that might be about to change. There are issues of course. Some software is massively outdated in Pkgsrc (the NetBSD packaging system) or just plain non-existent. But 10.0 feels quite a bit snappier than earlier versions. I could get to like it I think.

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  I've read a couple of different post-mortems on the uutils CVEs in Ubuntu now. I still love Rust, but I'm struck by a couple of things. A lot of this comes down to TOCTOU, time of creation to time of use. Those issues would be mostly mitigated if the code took full advantage of Unix features such as passing file descriptors rather than paths, or passing permissions to file creation functions instead of creating a file and then modifying the permissions. The path of least resistan...

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  The NetBSD VM experiment continues. Currently building WebKitGtk60 using pkgsrc-wip to see if I can continue developing Sunstone if and when I make the switch for real. Overall I have to say NetBSD has come a long way from what I remember. In years past it really felt like it had lagged behind eg. FreeBSD. I'm not getting that impression now. The installer is really straightforward, you get X11 as part of the install, and Pkgin works just like you would expect a modern package manager to wo...

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  This $5 a gallon gas is really pouring a crimp on my riding plans for this spring...

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  So among the things that got seriously neglected when I started school were my blog and Gemini capsule. I've been trying to get a bit more active again with programming (hence the Sunstone project) but I also really miss writing. At least, I miss writing about what interests me, and not just writing endless essays and term papers about subject matter that only half the time really aligns with my interest. But the blog was already kind of hard to maintain -before- I started school. I've...

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  #Sunstone browser now has a searchable history. The period to display can be set to the last hour, day, week, a custom timeframe or 'all'. There is also an option to group the results by host. By default, 50 results are displayed per page. This is a WIP and subject to change. This biggest miss so far is a link in the page to navigate beyond the first page of results, although you can get there by appending 'page/<n>' to the url. The link to the host...

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  Short rant. My tuition is company paid. That's great, and I'm grateful for it. But it definitely feels like punishment that every dime is considered taxable income. Bumps me up into a significantly higher tax bracket.

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  #Sunstone browser now has a start page, with default search provided by DuckDuckGo. All of Sunstone's internal pages are going to be linked through the menu bar provided in the default page template. I am no web designer, but I've taken time to make the design responsive and hopefully nice and cleanly functional. Shrink the page down past a certain level and the sidebar becomes a top bar. There are still some omissions in the "internal" pages that are available...

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  I don't often go to the movies, but being able to share #projecthailmary with my wife and son was awesome. Some differences with the book, yes, but I didn't hate them. It had all of the same emotional impact as the book, and they kept the ending intact. Highly recommended.

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  Another nice to have feature just dropped in #Sunstone browser, access to WebKit's built in Web Inspector. This is currently tied to the context menu that pops up when you right click on a web page. You can choose to either just open the inspector or else inspect the element that was just clicked on. A little bit of exploration showed that the inspector is just as fully featured as Mozilla's. Definitely nice if you're doing web development work.

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  Every time I am forced to write Java, I am reminded of just how much I dislike Java.

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  Working on page search in #Sunstone browser. Nothing challenging here, it's just implementing a feature, but I figured I'd take a minute to post. There's a design decision when it comes to a tabbed interface. Do you give each tab its own controls? This simplifies logic at the expense of additional memory. Or do you have one set of controls and switch a bunch of state every time you change tabs? Back when I was working on the Eva gemini browser I did the former, but in Su...

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  Finished up page search in #Sunstone this morning. Unfortunately I can't pay changes because of codeberg being down. I'm the meantime, watching Krull (1983). I remember living this movie as a kid, but I could never remember the name of it. In spite of being almost comically bad and stereotyped at times, there is definitely something endearing endearing about this film, still. It makes me sad sometimes that there is such a lack of fantasy films now compared with how many were mad...

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  I've been attempting to configure Vim-Classic in a way that works for my taste. https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/vim-classic/ This is Drew Devault's fork of Vim from around 8.2, before the codebase was tainted by llm commits. I've been using Neovim long enough that I got really used to Lua configuration, so going back to VimScript is a bit jarring. Another issue is that plugins move so fast that older versions just aren't supported, plus the fact that most plugins are targeting Neovim...

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  It feels obvious that llm's have no place in free and open source software. Apparently it isn't, at least not to everyone. I recently became interested in exploring the scope of the problem after finding out that both Vim and Neovim not only don't have policies banning llm contribution, but already contain fairly significant amounts of llm generated code. https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

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  Some fairly big #Sunstone #browser feature implementations today. Bookmarks can be displayed at the 'sunstone://bookmarks/' uri. Clicking on the tag buttons for each bookmark card will bring up a page with all bookmarks that have that tag. There is also a search entry, which by default will search within the bookmark's name, alias, description, and url. This doesn't yet work from within a tag page, but that shouldn't take too much of a rafactor to implement. Because the sea...

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  Ok, decision time. Teal, or Chrome/Black? #motorcycles #classic650 #royalenfield

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  I'm experimenting with a mini titlebar in #Sunstone for when the main controls are hidden. It's just big enough to give you a handle to move the windows around, with the title in the center. Clicking the title beings to the controls and focuses the address bar, hitting escape hides the controls again. So far I like it. If a new user accidentally hides the controls they can get them back with one click. I'll probably add a button on the left to open the sidebar, and some windows contr...

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  I spent a few hours today rethinking the schema for the bookmarks database in #Sunstone . The result is better functionality in less code, which is hopefully a lot less brittle. This database is also going to be used for history, and it's tied in to parsing address bar queries, so it's definitely worth getting it right before going too much further. Next steps are going to be displaying bookmarks in list form in the sidebar, followed by serving a bookmarks page at the uri sunsto...