Another one to add to the list of Papa Roach hits on this blog. Lyrics in the chorus are so simple, but it's the way the song is sung that makes it so good.

One last kiss Before I go Dry your tears It is time to let you go

Because days come and go But my feelings for you are forever Because days come and go But my feelings for you are forever ♪ ♫ ♪

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Today woke me up at 05:45 or maybe 04:45. Not sure. Was some allergic reaction in left nose. Mayhap I am allergic to snot and sometimes it reaches some critical threshold and spirals out of control.

Not sure.

It’s not like I am a scientist or something; I have only the faintest idea of what’s going on in my life or the world around me.

I am given a certain amount of brain power and a certain amount of curiosity, and the sum total is nowhere near enough to gain a comprehensive enough understanding of things around me for me to make many definite statements.

That’s not to say that I am not grateful for the many gifts I have: two eyes, only one is lazy, two noses. Ok it’s only one nose, but it has two channels and only one of them is congested. I have also two knees, and only one is wobbly and tends to hop out of its place: The cap.

The brain is functioning too, and honestly it’s pretty powerful. Arguably.

But these are not my greatest gifts at all: I have a big heart and a high EQ.

If I may say so myself.

I may say so myself, because here I can put whatever stuff I want.

It doesn’t even have to be true.

Watched this 3-season Spanish series on Amazon Prime, and I am baffled as to why this hasn’t become a bigger deal. I suppose it’s down to the fact that it’s subtitled, but this show has it all: Atmosphere! Sex! Violence! Betrayal! More Betrayal! Catacombs! More heel turns and face turns than a season of pro wrestling! In the name of God, what do you want from television if this isn’t it?

The setting is the titular boarding school for incorrigibles, nestled on a mountain peak atop sheer rock walls. Oh yeah, there’s a monastery there too. The school is openly abusive—students are routinely sent to “the cooler,” a literal dungeon open to the outside air, as punishment, and then have to recite a creepy thing about how they deserved their punishment in front of the entire student body. In an early episode, a girl has her head shaved for disobedience (and then apparently decides she’s gonna make it work for her, as she continues to rock the buzz cut for at least three months of story time. Go Paz!).

But students (and some staff) soon find that there’s something even more sinister going on at the school than the abuse everybody knows about. Does it have to do with the ancient cult that used to meet on this site? Or the sinister guy who doesn’t work at the school but seems to be in charge of it somehow whose daughter has amnesia? Or the monks who may or may not be what they seem? The show does a wonderful job of keeping us off balance, as the students try to figure out exactly what the hell is going on while searching for missing comrades and trying to dodge an apparent serial killer.

Now, let’s be completely clear—there’s a lot that is preposterous about this show, and you have to be willing to put that stuff aside. Stuff like, “wow, these parents really don’t seem to care that multiple murders have taken place on this campus, huh?” or '“you know, for a place with such draconian discipline, it’s a bit weird that the students are essentially unsupervised and have no trouble being places they’re not supposed to be pretty much any time at all.”

Also, secondary characters tend to kind of disappear a lot, waved away with a “yeah, they left the school.” And there’s a significant departure after season 2 that never fully makes sense.

BUT—literally every mystery in the show, of which there are many, is ultimately resolved in satisfying fashion. Every single one! I’m so used to shows halfassing the ending or just hoping we’d forget about part of the mystery that it was incredibly satisfying to have every single thing wrapped up satisfactorily by the end.

If you’re squeamish about gore, there are five or six moments per season that you’ll want to avoid. But if you think a show about plucky kids trying to fight against overwhelming odds (while of course still negotiating high school hookups, because priorities!) in a spooky setting might be for you, you’re probably right!

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One thing's for sure: this morning's rain rules out any yard work for the rest of the day. Which is not a bad thing. There are enough chess-related bookkeeping chores to keep me busy. And baseball games to keep running in the background.

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Today’s readings

I don’t believe in coincidences, spiritually speaking. Being in the right place at the right time isn’t usually a coincidence. Far more often than we realize, it’s the work of the Holy Spirit. That is certainly the case in today’s first reading. How else would we explain an angel directing Philip to be on a road at the very same time as the Ethiopian eunuch passed by, reading a passage from the prophet Isaiah that referred to Jesus? Seizing the moment, Philip proclaims Jesus to him in a way that was powerful enough and moving enough that, on seeing some water as they continued on the journey, the eunuch begged to be baptized.

The same is true for those who were fortunate enough to hear Jesus proclaim the Bread of Life discourse that we’ve been reading in our Gospel readings these past days. Having been fed by a few loaves and fishes when they were physically hungry, they now come to find Jesus who longs to fill them up not just physically but also, and more importantly, spiritually. Their hunger put them in the right place at the right time.

What I think is important for us to get today is that we are always in the right place at the right time, spiritually speaking. Wherever we find ourselves is the place that we are directed by the Holy Spirit to find God. Wherever we are right now is the place where the Holy Spirit wants us to find God and to proclaim God. That might be in the midst of peace, or chaos, or any situation. We never know how God may feed us in those situations. Because we never know when there will be someone like an Ethiopian eunuch there, aching to be filled with Christ’s presence and called to a new life.

It is no coincidence that we are where we are, when we are. The Spirit always calls on us to find our God and proclaim him as Lord in every moment and every situation.

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

Estètiques de combat i imaginatives a l’horta de València. Estètica de somier. #horta #fotos

A popular misconception is that good design offers multiple ways to do the same action.

Meanwhile, monotony means having exactly one way to do some action. It’s the opposite of redundancy.

Monotony sounds dull, but is actually a profoundly clarifying guideline. I first heard about it from Jef Raskin—yes, the Macintosh guy.

Let’s analyze some examples.

1. Journal entries

iOS’s Journal app has a delightfully short feature set:

1. Create and delete entries

2. Edit and add attachments to entries

3. Bookmark and filter entries

Unfortunately, it lets you bookmark, edit, or delete an entry in four ways:

Redundancy distracts.

Imagine how focused you’d be if you had exactly one way to edit an entry. You’d spend more attention on actually journaling; and less on learning to use the app, and deciding which way to use it.

Meanwhile, the app offers only one way to create an entry, or attach an image.

Would it be better if, in addition, you could also create an entry from within the entry editor? Or also attach an image by touching and holding an entry?

Quoting Jef Raskin:

When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.

When there’s only one way to do something, you never decide which way to do it; you just do it.

2. Playlists

You can add a song to a playlist in two ways: from the song, or from the playlist.

From the song makes sense. You’re already looking at it: “this song would be good for the party!” Plunk.

From the playlist is horrible. You have to browse your entire library within an interstitial sheet, using inferior views with smaller artwork and no sort settings.

And what if you want a song that isn’t in your library? You can’t search the catalog here. Perhaps they could add a Search tab within the sheet…

No, now we’re cloning the entire app within one of its sheets. Bananas.

The best way to choose songs is with the main UI, because that’s what it was designed for. That’s the better way to add to playlists, and it should be the only way.

Those inferior versions of the albums, artists, and songs lists within the sheet? It took effort to make those, all for an experience that was incomplete and unnecessary to begin with.

Monotony simplifies development too.

3. App folders

iOS offers one way to create an app folder: drag an icon onto another.

You can’t create an empty folder first, then put icons into it. You don’t even have the option, so there’s no decision to make. If you never noticed that, that’s a good thing.

That’s why I designed album folders in Songpocket the same way: the only way to create a new folder is while moving albums. It’s simpler for users to use, and for me to maintain.

Clarification

Monotony doesn’t mean only one way to produce some result. That would eliminate the Backspace key, because it enables you to put “hello” on your screen in infinite ways.

So there’s room for interpretation in what you call an action.

You could call it redundant for a keyboard shortcut and a clickable button to activate the same command, but that’s generally fine. Accessible controls too.

Rather, it’s redundant for a toolbar button and menu command to do the same thing. When you explore each area, you have to mentally track which actions are unique, versus which actions you can activate in other ways. That’s a load of cognitive load.

Monotony improves focus

A monotonous design is easier to learn, use, and maintain.

A perk: it’s also easier to support, because there’s only one help article to write, and when users contact you, you know they’re all using it the same way.

Quoting Jef Raskin again:

[A]n interface that is both modeless and, insofar as possible, monotonous […] would be extraordinarily pleasant to use. A user would be able to develop an unusually high degree of trust in [their] habits. The interface would, from these two properties alone, tend to fade from the user’s consciousness, allowing [them] to give [their] full attention to the task at hand.

Design means deciding how things should work: to consider all the possibilities, and choose the best one.

It is irresponsible to waste people’s attention with pointless options by being indecisive. Eliminate what doesn’t need people’s attention, and you free people to focus on what actually matters.

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See also:

• The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin
• Zusch Login

Retro; the customizable clock widget is now available on Flathub in v2

This new release comes with

Support both 12h and 24h clock format. It follows GNOME Date & Time preference while being sandboxed thanks to libportal new API for the settings portal.

Energy usage has been improved by using a more efficient method to get the time and by making use of the magic GtkWindow.suspended property to stop updating the clock when the window is not visible.

Better support for round clocks. The new GTK renderer fixed the visual glitch on transparent corners caused by large border radius. Retro now restores window dimensions and disables the border radius on maximize to make it look good, no matter the shape.

Controls have been moved to a floating header bar to stay out of the way and prevent interference with customizations.

There are further improvements to do, but I decided to publish early because Retro was using GNOME 43 runtime which is end-of-life and I have limited time to spend on it.

Help welcome https://github.com/sonnyp/Retro/issues

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The next best is to swipe your card.

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Overwatch is also on Steam, so S installed it. We dragged L into a few games and lost all of them. It was a wonderful night.

I also got to hang out with S again, and I definitely feel better after that. I think I’ve just been isolated for a bit and a perfect storm of several things that negatively affect me.

“When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.”

― Richard Kadrey, Aloha from Hell

R – 3 breaths

E – I don’t have much work this quarter, and I will go insane.

S – Start learning or doing projects that you’ve been putting off, like game hacking, CTFs, editing, music production, react etc.

T – I’ll go ahead and start concretely laying out that choreo I’ve been planning forever.