I respect Codeberg's right to take a position on this, and I understand why they might feel this way, but this is kinda' crazy. Glad I'm not using it, because I'd have to move some projects off of it. The article is also just confused in some ways. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...

Banger of an art deco façade, which appears to be the tourism center, in Braga, PT. #PT2026

And now it's the turn of the Smooth Gentlemen from Poland, who're doing equally well. #PT2026

As a student of accents, one of my favorite musical genres is "non-Americans who do American musical forms like country and blues so authentically, you think they're from Tennessee". Barcelona's Wax&Boogie met that mark and were brilliant in the Braga Blues festival. #PT2026

This sign (in Braga) is looking *awfully* dated now… (Worse, it's a program to teach programming to kids, so the whole framing was terrible to begin with.)

Once you have this you've covered most of the world's major delicious food groups. Sheer genius lurking here in Braga PT.

That's the rub. The problem is that people are incentivized, just as they were with MOOCs, OLPC, etc., to focus on the anecdotes instead. FYI, not sure if it's intentional that your handle doesn't work.

Providence from the East Bay Bike Path today. The funny/weird part of the Canadian wildfire-induced smog is that even though we had a heat-alert, it was actually quite…cool, both yesterday and today.

New name for water body dropped.

Cabo Verde Airlines has done a fine job repainting its tailplane to feature the Cabo Verde football team! Spotted yesterday in Providence airport. The body text reads "Cabo Verde na copa" (Cape Verde in the World Cup).

I'm not a "I will never fly X" person, but my first experience w/ Breeze Airways has left me shocked. Sending people to arrive *4 hrs late at 130am at an airport 1h30m away* (PVD⭢BDL) w/ no transport. Zero agents. No phone. Chat hard to find. Chat cuts off with this. Epic fail.

Turns out the FIFA site has an AI chatbot which is about what you expect. For the last question, it *started* to generate text on how wonderful FIFA is, then stopped midway, and then printed this. Someone who enjoys jailbreaking agents should have fun. media.fifa.com/en/tournamen...

16/ Of course, there's more to Belgium than just that! I caught parts of the Ommegang, a medieval jousting festival, superb beers, great pastries, and more. An odd pastiche of a country, it manages to pull its weight.

13/ Even better, you can see some of his earlier work presaging what came later. And the radical breaks he made along the way. And glimpses of his artistic compromises for the sake of income! ↵

12/ They are opinionated about how you visit: they want you to start at the top floor and work your way down. This not only saves some of his most iconic paintings for the last, but much better, you can see how his work evolved and how different he was in various phases. ↵

5/ The standout is the fantastically restored Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck. The Altarpiece has a long and complicated history as one of the pre-eminent pieces of Western art (imagine being swiped by both Napoleon and Hitler!). Its restoration is *stunning*. ↵

4/ On to Ghent, which is maybe my favorite city in Belgium. It has a really strong youthful vibe due to the large university. The city center is full of people. Great veg food. Not Disneyland, like Bruges, but strong medieval presence (and not bombed out in WW2). ↵

3/ Antwerp also has the Mayer van den Burgh. Currently closed, a beautifully curated set is in a nearby former orphanage. Just 43 pieces, so you can view each one closely. A booklet describes each one, and there's time to read it all. Includes Brueghel the Elder's Dulle Griet! ↵

2/ Antwerp has the Platin-Moretus house. The is both the museum to, and historical home of, a seminal Antwerp printing family from the 1500s. Rubens painted for them; they popularized Garamond. Go to see and learn about old presses, books, and homes, and printing history. ↵

JS, obviously. (-: Funnily, we have a paper coming out about this…

Got directed to what I think is a slop-generated site — either that, or now I'm intrigued to see how much the cliffs of Newport have changed in the week I've been away from the country.

Imagine randomly walking into one of the main cathedrals in Brussels at 8:30pm on July 4, hearing an ensemble playing (fabulously), and finding out it's from … Rhode Island. (They ended, fittingly, with Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever".)

One of the things I've appreciated about multiple art-related museums I've been to in Belgium is that they have at least some material for the visually impaired. (This one is from the Burgundians exhibit at KBR in Brussels.)

Alright, Europeans, I have some questions…

Bruxelles, place Rogier, nocturne.

Americans on Twitter: Euros, be more like us! Europeans: ⭢ Americans on Twitter, prolly: No, not like *that*!

Ha, I was going to drop you email: here's what I got yesterday! (To Belgium's credit, and my frustration, you can't buy any swag at all at the national road race event! Are the fans *too* hard core to be seen buying swag? That would be un-cool?)

This is an outdoors equipment store (think like REI in the US) in Ghent, Belgium. It's housed in a former *sewing workshop* designed in 1922 by Maurice Fetú. It was restored for 2M€ a decade ago, during which they got rid of the intermediate floors, re-exposing the skylight.

The restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece is *absolutely stunning*. There are lots of videos of the restoration work, so I wanted to see it afresh. The 30 min AR tour is actually not half bad either (& you can skip ~10min if you know all the history). Brilliantly exhibited too.