I share a lot of useful articles, research, frameworks, tools and commentary through the All-About-GRC Newsletter. This page brings all those original sources together in one searchable place, so…

The hardest part about going to Disney World is waiting in lines, especially when you're under ten years old and each minute feels like forever. When I was at Disney World recently, I saw lots of…

I had plans every single evening this last week. Fortunately, I could bike to attend to all my commitments. So I consider these commutes as working out. On Wednesday, I finally sat for a Leben in…

July's moongazing and the golden handle

Described as "Deeply relaxing. Soothing. Bright." with a scent profile based on cedarwood and frankincense , Serenity Sublime is a hand-rolled masala style incense made in India (most likely in Pune…

At least they're human. Biologically human, anyway. 1.   Civilization ends at the Hudson River — everything to the east of it is a howling barbarian wilderness. It's dotted with quaint…

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Week ending Oct 18 2026 Cached... ට Life ට Games ට Plushie of the Week #250 ට Dreams

The week’s Bizarro comics and my scandalous confessions about vacation food and Grandma’s house!

Person A's stance is that disagreements happen. They seem unbothered. Person B frames the disagreement--amplified by the fact that it apparently means so little to Person A--as disrespect and…

Why only one device I own has any personalised stickers on it.

Earlier this week, the auto shop called to say the part finally arrived and I could bring the van in right then and there. The Auto Guy said it’d take 5-7 hours to get her all fixed up. With a free…

Why are you learning Chinese, and is your answer the same today as when you started? Let’s explore what motivates us to learn Chinese and how those motivations change over time. I’ve…

Actual rain on Friday. Cool breeze, blue skies and sunshine this weekend. Invigoratingly autumnal. Three gyms. I’d simply stopped weighing myself for a couple of weeks. I did it again this week and…

§ Autumn’s arrival is suddenly undeniable. Everywhere leaves are changing color and beginning to drop. Yesterday I spent part of the afternoon bringing all our our houseplants back inside. Sometime…

A Saturday in NYC with Allison and the Manson Family Saturday was a cold day, wind biting up and down the canyons. Sheila kind of weather. My friend Kate and I have discussed at length our preference…

SPUR launches to establish a fairer AI deal for publishers, OpenAI launches its own decision model, and agent buying behaviour overwhelms ticket sales.

Given the state of this week’s weather, veering from sunshine to torrential rain, and the accompanying drop in temperatures, I had to take action. This morning, I packed up all...

Hank Green in a video about Theranos:We should not be complacent about the ways in which our world sucks. But if we're convinced that everything sucks and it's because people are terrible…

DIY Detail sent me their Damyo Drying Towel, which is a micro twist loop drying towel that is 1200 GSM and made of a 70/30 microfiber blend. It measures 17" x 25" in size and comes in a 2-pack as…

The Neo-Luddite Weekly, issue one. October 18, 2026. (Name is subject to change.)

Overstimulation is affecting my life for the past few weeks, or maybe months at least. Time flies by and I don’t notice it. I do the same things, things that I like and still like, but all…

Mein Vater ist Anfang der Woche im Krankenhaus verstorben. Er war sehr krank und ist friedlich eingeschlafen, so wie er es sich gewünscht hatte. Er hatte schon lange mit dem Leben abgeschlossen, in…

Back to work, back to normal! The new normal, anyway. It felt weird and good to be back in an office, getting used to small-talk, catching up on all the people and progress I'd missed. A big, big…

This is a world where people stare blankly, waiting, in their boredom, for you to tap dance. Here's the thing. I'll tap dance on a dime. I'll tap dance if you ask unrudely. In fact, I'll tap dance…

Set up early cause I am/were traveling. The RetroTINK. Become worthless (to tech companies). Good steps, not difficult ones. (via) Experiencing a Victorian London street in 3D. (via) “One…

From forgetting the algorithms to Jim Henson’s puppets, a dramatic Ironman win, a view on friendships, thinking like a lab team, and choosing what you attend to.

Week 42 summary - Hot Sydney summer, my 200th gym session, a concert, and some great South Indian food.

Houston AMSAT Net signs off after 40+ years, TAPR’s annual meeting, BATC CAT26, a Frankenstein Halloween FunXpedition, and Byrd and Earhart radio history.

Waiting at the ruby diadem of the traffic light, scarfing down a bread roll so soaked in industrial-grade butter I can feel it insta-coat the inside of my mouth, a sudden film of fat across the…

It will be 20th time. Enough.

Hi geeks, and music with Night Verses. Every sound has a color in the valley of night, by Night Verses Interesting [fr] L’esprit critique - Les lycéens. Naomi Oreskes: Escaping the “balance” trap and…

Personal notes for week 42 of 2026

If you know me from my dev or open source work, you probably know me as rly0nheart. You may also have no idea how to say it. It’s “lionheart.” For years I was the only one who knew…

This month's Field Notes restores presence, cutting out the endless background noise to focus on one thing at a time in both work and leisure – and asks whether a business can scale with the same…

Mother would have been 105 years old on her Oct 17, 2026, birthday. She literally kept the Steinhoff fires burning in the basement fireplace. She didn’t cut the wood, split it or stack it, but…

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The World It feels like the situation in Ukraine is about to come to a head, with Trump and Musk almost openly siding with Russia, mainly by restricting Starlink access in Ukraine, but also by…

This is a video series from my studio overlooking Lake Michigan. It’s where I slow down, listen, and make art that brings light into the world. This is Echo Base Dispatch—a brief transmission…

I hate scammers. And I hate spammers. I know, controversial opinion. But seriously, I do think I harbor an outsized rage towards them, at least for someone who's never been a victim of a serious scam…

It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot…

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages The project continues to be a convenient source of tiny-tiny programs written in various…

October 17 2026 - 21:01 I epilated in the shower yesterday instead of after the shower, and it was actually way less painful. I deadass did my kneecaps, which…

More internet highlights I selected.

added a new slash page to showing off my nail polish collection .

ProtocolPolice I had the weirdest dream last night. I installed an app on my phone so I can look up the prices for couches. That makes sense, it's time to get a new couch in our living room. It…

This week, I spent a little time refining Field Notes. I also spent time (slowly, on and off) this weekend rewriting the case studies on my portfolio. Lot of work. I also finished The Secret History…

meta Another week of grinding, trying to get up to speed on the new role at work, and trying to make plans to do some (IMO) really needed cleanup of some shared stuff before I have to head-down on…

this was one of the, maybe, 4 weeks in the year that i felt really good physically and mentally together. i was hoping that using my little energy to go out to inspiring spaces would help me get up…

What do you do when you have no big material desires left? When you already have a monetary safety net that will serve you in case of an emergency? Your bank balance will grow, but most of it will…