They built a new tram in my town, and it is pretty fantastic. It has a modern look, runs smoothly, has little delay between two trams, inside heating, is spacious and well lit, is kept really clean…

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Every vendor sees only the deals that reach them. The 2026 Video API Report maps the market no insider can see and no buyer has time to build. The post The vendor you're about to bet on…

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This is a loosely-based sequel to my May 16 blog post Mac App Store: What’s in a name? inspired by an app named App for YouTube ℠ with a symbol at the end. This blog post is inspired by an app named…

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Compared to other [[SQL IDEs]], I like using vim motions and [[Neovim]] for querying and copy the data in a new buffer. There&rsquo;s two plugins that make this possibel:

Now that Rogallo is starting to settle down somewhat, with all the main Gemini Protocol work falling into place, I've been thinking about adding one or two adjacent protocols. The two most common and…

Conor&#8217;s Comment: The following article first appeared in Powerlifting USA in June 2010 and tells the strange, sprawling story of the original Westside Barbell Club in California. It is part…

Started Reading: Jul 14, 2026 Finished Reading: Jul 20, 2026 Whew, FitzChivalry was getting on my last nerve for much of this one. The story feels like a tightening noose and some folks (like myself)…

Georgia is free on almost every computer. A little negative tracking, a slight vertical stretch, and a fake medium weight go a long way.

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When I started an independent editorial studio, most of my business came from referrals. I continued this as I rebooted my business writing practice several months ago. I also wrote thoughtful cold…

A true story of grace and transformation, originally published in the Quaker journal, 'What Canst Thou Say.' I share it again for the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, which begins at Vespers on July 21.…

My Novels How should my novels be interpreted? I wrote them, so I should know. There are two: Bad Patches and The Space Trap. The first title suggests both bad patches in a life and bad patches in a…

How can we make microscopy images accessible to everyone, including those who have colour deficiencies in vision? I&#8217;ve written previously about a tool to check figures for accessibility. There…

Bozhidar Batsov has a quick post on a recent enhancement to Emacs Flymake. The TL;DR is that you can arrange for Flymake to append a diagnostic at the end of any line with a problem. It&#8217;s a…

The 2026 update to my real-world device testing recommendations paints a clearer picture than ever…

Picked this up last month on vinyl at a local record store for about $10, and it was worth every penny. All 1000 of them. This jam session differs from Pablo&apos;s other recordings in that it…

The click-target problem is why I’m fine with macOS’s mandatory squircle. Older icons sometimes made negative space look clickable when it wasn’t. Apple’s uniform shape makes the target predictable—a…

I want to be really clear about something because the internet has trained all of us to flinch: the catalog entries for The Cryptid Cataloger are free. Actually free. Not &ldquo;free trial,&rdquo;…

Classic investigation boards appears in Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Headfirst Productions/Bethesda Softworks, 2006).

Whisky Still The original function of a Web server was to respond to queries by revealing the appropriate part of their internal data. This necessarily meant that repeated queries, for example from a…

Gardener of Life &#x2014; Tuesday 7/21/26You don&apos;t find out what you actually have until you go looking for it. Not what you assumed, not what the label promised &#x2014; what&apos;s actually…

A new MacBook Pro and iPad, progress on a couple of apps, vehicle prep before San Antonio, and a steady week at work.

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Pretty late to the game but I finally watched Backrooms today. I thought it was a pretty good film. Shot competently, really great set and acting. The narrative was a little clumsy but it still…

September 23, 2012 marked fifty years since the debut of what, at the age I was fifty years before that, one of my favorite TV shows. So on 9/23/12, I posted this piece on this blog. And I'm…

Book Review: 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me' 3 / 5 Stars Well, here we go with another vintage Alfred Hitchcock anthology, published by Dell in 1965. The cover artist is…

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The long-awaited day has come! The audio edition of The Besotted Baron is now available from Apple Books, Spotify, and Audible. This title has also been distributed to library channels, so you should…

You never realise you are jeopardising your life in the moment you are doing it. You have no context, while committing the act, that this very act would prove fatal. There is no way to determine that…

I had to look twice when I saw this Space Shuttle toy. The box art and polystyrene body with the stickers really rang a bell. <a…

Day Four. We left Gallup, New Mexico at 6:30AM local time outbound to Fresno, California. We arrived in Fresno at 6:30PM local time. It works out to 13 hours becuase we had a shift in time from the…

"What app eats up most of your screen time?" A medieval lady and mercenary debate guilt and stolen hours.

Let’s Game It Out is a YouTube channel where Josh Knoles occasionally grabs a modern videogame and tries to play it in a particularly creative way – finding bugs, breaking things, doing an action…

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Ishmael caught my attention because it takes one of iA Writer ’s best qualities–an editor that disappears while I am writing–and applies it to an entire manuscript, with chapters, outlines,…

This is the balance Oniyasha must learn, that his father urges him to learn. To understand and respect form without being a slave to it. To love Sarugaku enough to destroy it. Read more The post…

TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2026 The courts will protect us, he said: Why in the world did David Brooks say what he said last Friday? Brooks appeared with Jonathan Capehart for their usual Friday night spot on…

Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac Prince Canuma is the developer behind the excellent MLX-VLM Python library for running vision-LLMs using MLX on a Mac. I'm really excited about his new…

HAVING HAD A POOR EXPERIENCE WITH GOOGLE GEMINI, I TRIED COPILOT I decided to give Microsoft's Copilot a try and posited the same requirement. Use a PICO to connect to a PC over USB as a disk drive…

On Sunday, a HUGE free festival in Twickenham. I'll be in the Eel Pie pub at 1 p.m. with an unusual band line-up that includes the fabulous, unique Lester Square on guitar, Ruth Tidmarsh on bass and…

I get up early every morning, and practically the first thing I do is check the news to see if our ghastly president is dead yet. I have high hopes that sometime in the near future he&#8217;s going…

A step-by-step visual tutorial for newbies about installing and setting up the federated microblogging service GoToSocial

[Gosh, that’s fast.] Back in March, Scottish runner Josh Kerr announced his intention to break the world record in the one mile, which had stood for more than a quarter-century. That record was set…

A thought occurred to me this afternoon. Someone asked me how I was. It was someone I know, so the enquiry was a bit more Read the full article...

Thank you to the 900 people who completed the John Rich &amp; The Big Picture exit survey! 😭 AND THE...