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\n\n\n\nYes, there are things with the capacity to kill you (like everywhere) and yes, we have a large selection.\n[…] Yet you’re more likely to die from a falling coconut than a shark attack, and the people killed by spiders is infinitesimal next to the other unfortunate ways to go.
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As an Aussie, I do wonder at how genuine the fear of being killed by spiders, snakes, etc. actually is. I mean, they’re real, but I’ve not personally been threatened by them. Closest are a couple of redbacks, and they’re easy to deal with.
\nVia: Michael Harley
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/96001997","date_published":"2026-08-18T22:50:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-18 22:50","date_timestamp":1787093454,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"96001942","content_html":"I wish more modern code editors adopted the same approach to extensions as the editors of yore: a script interpreter with a broad yet approachable API. Needing to setup a brand new developer environment is too much for the small things you simply want to hack together.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lmika.org/2026/08/19/i-wish-more-modern-code.html","date_published":"2026-08-18T22:48:12+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-18 22:48","date_timestamp":1787093292,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uxf6lpd2feuelyey5sknpkih/post/3mtfcgqlblf22"]}},{"id":"96000923","content_html":"@JohnPhilpin That’s a good post. And a good way of thinking about invention verses discovery. Makes me wonder whether software design could be mapped to such a spectrum. At this stage, or in the particular domains of design I deal with, I’m not sure that it does. But perhaps it could, and we simply lack the invention of thought that maths is blessed with. Maybe in a couple of millenia.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/95939048","date_published":"2026-08-17T21:49:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-17 21:49","date_timestamp":1787003363,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95937063","content_html":"Exit 1.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/95900199","date_published":"2026-08-17T06:58:37+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-17 06:58","date_timestamp":1786949917,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95899651","content_html":"It’s said that maths is not so much invented as it is discovered. I think the same thing could be said for most software. Sometimes a design is clear to everyone. You just need to “talk through” to the discovery.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lmika.org/2026/08/17/its-said-that-maths-is.html","date_published":"2026-08-17T06:38:23+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-17 06:38","date_timestamp":1786948703,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uxf6lpd2feuelyey5sknpkih/post/3mtb3spiivi22"]}},{"id":"95888630","content_html":"@lmika Probably would’ve been less embarrassing if I just told them I need these newspapers to line a birdcage.
\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/95888630","date_published":"2026-08-17T00:29:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-17 00:29","date_timestamp":1786926540,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95888370","content_html":"There are some things you wouldn’t have thought you’d miss when you loose a contact that worked at a library. Access to old newspapers is one such thing. Now I’m calling branches saying things like “can I collect your old newspapers? I have a need for old newspapers. Can I have them?”
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lmika.org/2026/08/17/there-are-some-things-you.html","date_published":"2026-08-17T00:17:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-17 00:17","date_timestamp":1786925837,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uxf6lpd2feuelyey5sknpkih/post/3mtagiwbuw52t"]}},{"id":"95883934","content_html":"Forget national service. Maybe what we need to introduce is that everyone is required to be a garbo for a month. That way, everyone will think better about throwing their litter on the ground.
\n","summary":"","url":"https://lmika.org/2026/08/17/forget-national-service-maybe-what.html","date_published":"2026-08-16T21:37:57+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-16 21:37","date_timestamp":1786916277,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uxf6lpd2feuelyey5sknpkih/post/3mta5kvjj5y2f"]}},{"id":"95861001","content_html":"Silhouette.
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\nUpdate: item has been collected and is no longer available. Good thing too: I didn’t need to dig out the marquee tags for this.
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\n![\"A](\"https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/25293/2026/ce86fd18bc-m.jpg\")
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\nAI’s the core subject of this article but it was this part about overthinking that got me, well, thinking:
\n\n\n\nWhatever the details, this is where overthinking kicks in, because it feels like the solution to the anxious feelings in your body is to scurry off into your head and think some more, read some more, argue some more, maybe use A.I. some more.
\n\n
I see this in a few people I know, including myself. And it definitely is a protection mechanism. The quote comparing it to an addiction was a powerful realisation to me.
\nVia: Sal’s Blog
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That’s a reference, John. 😉 ↩︎
\n🔗 Noēma: The Future Of Knowledge Workers In An AI-Driven World
\nA thought-provoking essay. Not sure I believe my role to be utterly pointless at this stage. We know whom we serve, and see it appreciated. Yet there is still a slight malaise I’m feeling that I can’t quite put my finger on.
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\n","url":"https://micro.blog/lmika/95697854","date_published":"2026-08-13T12:19:51+00:00","author":{"name":"Leon Mika","url":"https://lmika.org/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2024%2F15%2F55331.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"lmika"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-13 12:19","date_timestamp":1786623591,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":true,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":true}},{"id":"95687495","content_html":"@lmika In short, I just need to relax about things more. But the right things. Too much relaxation about the wrong things got you into the state you’re in now.
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