They arrived last month. Evil, seductive things that they are, they started showing up in my mailbox, unbidden, but promising miraculous results and weeks, nay, months of gratification. And I am…

LOGIC ANALYZER SHOWS SHORT GLITCHES THAT CAN AFFECT STATE MACHINE When looking at the logic analyzer traces I collected while doing seeks with the Virtual 2315 Cartridge Facility (V2315CF), where the…

They are bad at most stuff. So what is the secret?

… but Dolly was pretty damn close. Send me an email Latest 3 posts 25 Aug, 2026 There Are No Good Billionaires… 25 Aug, 2026 Stupid Summer People 25 Aug, 2026 Digging and Unearthing Older Posts I'd…

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Mac Studio with M5 Max features an 18-core CPU, an up-to-40-core GPU with Neural Accelerators built into each core, and up to 128GB of unified memory, accelerating…

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): With M6, Mac mini now delivers up to 4x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage and graphics, and 40 percent faster CPU performance. Everything on Mac mini with M6…

The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day.…

I know very little about this device and only recently even heard that it existed; however, what I have learned is that at some point Teenage Engineering and Kayne West collaborated to release a…

Engineers at Mazda built a prototype suitcase “car” in 1991 to showcase(!) at auto shows. It never made it to production. That’s a shame, the world might be so much different now if…

Big announcement! An exciting and important update: I’m very pleased to announce that OldInsuranceMaps.net is now officially a Charter Project of OpenStreetMap US! OSM US is a US-based…

From Harper’s Weekly Review: A Georgia Army unit offered soldiers four days off to play Grand Theft Auto VI upon its release in the fall as a reenlistment incentive, streets were closed in…

In Brussels' iconic Grand-Place, a summer tradition literally blossoms in monumental style. The city's Flower Carpet event, which this year celebrated its 24th edition, celebrates art, community, and…

August 25, 2026 I’ve been all over the world and have seen both its good and sordid countries. One of the best run, most decent and honest nations I’ve seen is Canada. As George Bernard Shaw noted,…

Esports has become a thing - and with it a whole industry branch around it.

I frequently see statements about differences between strongly ordered architectures (like x86 or SPARC) and weakly ordered architectures (like ARM or RISC-V), with the confident assertion that…

"Huckleberry Finn" is disappearing from high school reading lists: It's too difficult to teach.

Dolly Parton who has sadly died at 80 played the Sunday Legends slot at Glastonbury in 2014. The same year Glastonbury paid tribute to Tony Benn who had died earlier in 2014. Benn was not a Country…

I have scanned in lots of 1990/2000s "Palmtop" magazines and list some of the articles within them, and their future predictions: "Do you remember when you didn't have a palmtop computer? Life was so…

If I could go back in time, what would I tell myself? Lessons from a career of building software and scaling teams, in four pillars: product, process, engineering, and people.

The water line is in from the well, I gather there's still some more work to do in connecting the power line. We won't have power until NYSEG installs a new transformer and that'll be the final…

The more I think about it, the less sympathy I have for Grid Lanes. You create a DOM order that you think makes sense, then you mess it up with CSS. Then, if you're aware of the problem, you fix it…

To go along with my delve back into live sports, if I were going to start watching college football, who should I watch? I went to Drexel University who didn't have a football team. I had no college…

Rogan: We dropped into the sci-fi library briefly because there were a few books we wanted to add to the system... and found a big stack of comics on the cart labeled with our name. Turns out someone…

I was the guest in the newsroom at KTVU, based in Oakland, CA, to talk about my Water Tasting Classes. The segment went super fast, but I overcame my cringe to watch it and I think I did pretty good!…

As the philosopher and writer Paul Valéry explained in 1938, “A poet’s function is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.”…

My last harvest of the 2026 season with Glorious Grasslands on a rescheduled day due to heavy rain forecast later this week....

I’ve never been too far from a camera. Ever since my parents gave me a Miranda Sharpshooter for Christmas at the age of 8, I’ve had a succession of different cameras. As I reached my late 20s and…

§ July 2025 The honeymoon is over. The first draft was a thrill. Now, it's a tombstone in the ‘review’ folder. Here’s how you ship: 1. Slay the Enemy. Your enemy is fear. You feel it now. A tightness…

Staring into the Void - by Myles Marino

Nekus by BioRain Games Kill monsters and use their corpses to evolve into more powerful forms. Play on itch.io

Look, I had a different post scheduled for today. That is, until I stumbled upon this Hacker News submission, Nitter project received cease and desist , linking to this GitHub issue: All public…

morganitism:Jarvis remove that gimmick blog’s addition from that otherwise good thread [Image description: Screencap meme of Robert Downey Junior as Iron Man inside the suit. End description.]

I saw this going viral, “Andrew Tate exaggerates and did not own supercars in photos, his lawyers say.” This is the biggest nothing-burger ever. The media are so desperate to paint him as…

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Next month is when the concert season “officially” gets under way. As of this writing, “first out of the gate” will be the Center for New Music (C4NM). As usual, the month will serve up the un usual…

Everything in my lyfe is going to get a little more enchanted over the next couple of months and I can't wait but also I can because tbh I need to take it slow and enjoy summer because it's sooo…

For a mobile 'mini homelab' project I'm working on, I wanted to use 5G Internet as a primary 'on-to-go' connection, but still have the ability to plug in another Internet connection when I put the…

i'm still smiling, in spite of it all the ache in my chest doesnt quite go away, but it's balanced out by the golden sparks crackling along my ribs butterflies in my tummy orbiting their ball of…

Overview Last week’s post closed with a promise that was really four promises: preview environments per change, release trains where stable and canary share a namespace, weighted traffic…

Parallels between the Go-Go Years and the 2020s boom. The post How Will This Cycle End? appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...

when people can’t control you, you may witness them try all tactics and throw all kind of drama at you. when people can’t influence you, they may get very angry at you. when people can’t overpower…

What's an acquisitions manager? At my workplace (in education) that means i oversee a large department's purchasing. This includes things like: monitoring several budget lines; negotiating with…

I loved this when it came out when I was 11, but it now makes me remember seeing The Zombies at Market Harborough Leisure Centre in 2011. After he had played his keyboard solo on this, Rod Argent was…

I left for work before 10 am, had ten customer for massage, and came back home after 9:30 pm. It was a good day.Picture album: 2026 Like up3 users have voted.

Thoughts 💭 I saw a YouTube video titled "Gen X aren't burnt out, they're done." I absolutely feel that. I'm done with the crap. I'm done with the endless struggle. The endless and ever…

Dave Rupert wrote about shipping microlighter: a tool for handling syntax highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlights API. I saw his post the day he released it, and I had an implementation PR up…

In a previous post ( The Vibe of the ECHR ) I explored ways in which a regulatory policy agenda could acquire the halo effect of association with the European Convention on Human Rights. Whilst that…

This pond dried out weeks ago. Earlier in the year, the council spent quite a lot of money trying to stop this from happening.24 words · 1 image