Jesus pursued the vulnerable, protected the little ones, and poured out compassion on the ‘least of these.’ Any dismissal of abuse, any baptizing of evil, any cover-up, or denial of truth is nothing like Him.

Pardon my handwritten reflection in two images, cobbled together.

I sit with people in complicated grief every day. I sit with my own heart, as well. This is a letter to my heart – and maybe to yours as well, if you’ll receive it.

The work of redemption in broken places is a hard and dark place to go, but it is also a place of great beauty and hope. Shackles fall away, crippled feet run, stooped backs stand straight, truth is embraced, and hopes bloom.

Back at work today after a holiday and then being ill. Working on foodios...
* Updated source repositories and rebuilt the whole bluesky server-side stack
* Added back the user interface to get invite codes to share with your friends
* Rebuilt iOS and Android apps
* Started writing test instructions

It's tragic and infuriating that the administrative processes to support making schools safer for children in South Africa are not being streamlined and prioritised to the degree that would make an actual difference

A Facebook post unearthed a legend: the lost MingKwai typewriter, designed by Lin Yutang in 1947, resurfaced in a NY basement. Hailed as a marvel yet dismissed as a failure, its rediscovery revives debates over innovation, identity, and what it means to be Chinese, writes @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.

Table Mountain this morning #CapeTown #SouthAfrica

ghosts-toaster allows you to use @ghost.org as a nice usable frontend for designing multiple static websites on a single machine, but actually serve them by publishing the content as static files that are served elsewhere. #sideproject #ghost
github.com/inconceivabl...

Google Workspace prices are increasing to incorporate Gemini which is in effect a compulsory AI software license, with no opt-out #antitrust
workspace.google.com/blog/product...

This is a statement from white South African Christian leaders in response to US government pronouncements about injustice in South Africa that totally misconstrue the real injustice in our nation!

Sky tonight

We don’t need to pretend the brokenness in ourselves or in the world is not there in order for us to celebrate Christmas. It is for this very brokenness that Jesus came, so vulnerably, to love and to heal and to restore.

Rethreading a drawstring following this idea... The straw I had was a bit big so used the end of a chopstick to help it through
www.artofmanliness.com/skills/how-t...

Investigation into social grant fraud is a flop

SASSA investigation into SRD grant application system fails to answer crucial questions

Read groundup.org.za/article/inve... by Nathan Geffen

Google gives some wildly inaccurate currency valuations in the charts that appear when searching for conversions.
Here's a search for USD in ZAR, showing the last month's values.
Note the rate of 12.39 on the 25th and 26th of October,
and similar rates around 14 or 15 on subsequent weekends.

Well done Springboks #EngvsRSA #Rugby

Ubuntu 24.04 uses the new deb822 style .sources files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and attempts some convert on upgrade to the new release. But there are no tools to do such a conversion automatically, despite the internet being full of instructions to create .list files as part of deployments