Preparations for war
Inspired by the excelent read of MurkDice TO WAR! , the section of Specialists in OSE and the awesome KILLCHAIN by Castle Grief, I wanted to do a sort of hack/list of things that would be needed to…
App.js 2026, TypeGPU Shaders, and Singing Can’t Stop at 1 AM in Kraków
The Hangover, Part Kraków Once the singing stopped and the hangovers set in… It turned out App.js had also shipped some software. A suspicious amount of it numbered 3.0. Gesture Handler 3.0 went…
Big S**t Poppin' [Do It] by T.I.
May 25-29, 2026 Big S**t Poppin' [Do It] by T.I. The electric guitar in this song SHREDS!! Makes me want to learn how to play the guitar 🤔
Pictures of Tokyo photo booths
Photo booths aren’t uncommon in Tokyo. Quite the opposite really, with many found in and around the city’s numerous train stations. Plenty of supermarkets have them too. An incredibly regular sight…
Off to North Texas Con
So everyone knows I will be at North Texas Con this week. My books and maps will be for sale at the Black Blade Publishing Booth. I am running three sandbox adventures for the event: Scourge of the…
hello CLOUD
let me yell at you. what does chris walla, the producer and musician, mean when he says "burn ai to the ground?" it's just not an option, any more than "bury war underwater" is. we all want both of…
Ready Time's on TinyLaunch
Ready Time is moving up the ranks at TinyLaunch. Go give it an upvote!
on ugly cities you dream of leaving
on ugly cities you dream of leaving I walk these streets, or, well, more precisely, I ride through them in an Uber, because it’s dangerous to walk here, and I keep thinking: what is all this for? I’m…
Controlling VSCode from the Terminal
Do you prefer the command line over the mouse? Would you rather start VS Code from the Terminal than finding it in Applications and clicking around to open your repo? In this article I’ll show…
I'm definitely a homelabber now.
I've recently learned that my husband was impressed by my hard drive replacement the other weekend, which is pretty cool. It was not a difficult thing to do, except for the screw placement thing I…
I gave Luke Gygax £100
I'm not a regular attendee to many conventions, but I do enjoy UK Games Expo. The convention has somehow remained friendly and welcoming despite reaching around 87,000 unique attendees . I grabbed my…
Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata
These characters were… obnoxious and unfunny. Honestly, the humor was mostly “check out this otaku reference or trope,” which made the first season hard to watch. I liked how it…
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Find the original manifesto here. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions beat…
Can Swift Match Rust on a Lambda Micro-Benchmark? Almost.
A few weeks ago, Jérémie Rodon published On-Demand Archives on S3, a detailed write-up of a Rust Lambda that downloads 3,000 objects (15 GB) from S3, streams them into a ZIP archive, and uploads the…
Originally published May 2, 2001
truenuff:Originally published May 2, 2001
Back Cove
The cordgrass blurs to gray suggestion.Eiders merge—dark smudges on darker water.The cove’s edge wavers, uncertain. I know the herring gull is thereby sound: the measured drop and crack,shell against…
Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother
I was going out the back door of the hall,into the sugar pine evening air,after my talk on familyand poetry. Someone had askeda question about loyaltyand decency. And up untilthis moment, alone now,…
It Makes You Sick: The Attacks on Health, Healthcare, and Care
When I was young I believed that the ideas I needed to grasp were complicated fact-dense new ones, and maybe back then I did need to take in more data. As I've gotten older, I've come to…
SEQTRAK as sound module: Connections
A quick hit on the SEQTRAK front… I’ve been experimenting with Yamaha SEQTRAK as a sound module. The biggest trick is living within SEQTRAK’s MIDI channel assignments: Channels 1 to…
Lemon-garlic whip dip
Prep time 3 mins Cook time 0 Serves Yields 1/2 cup This one came about in one swoop while testing a recipe for pork arayes – I didn’t have greek yogurt or tahini to make the sauce the…
Murderbot Season 1 (TV review)
★★★★★ - A pitch-perfect adaptation of All Systems Red. Alexander Skarsgård is dead on as the socially-anxious security cyborg who just wants to be left alone to watch its shows, but has to protect…
Devlog 8
It’s been a while since I wrote a dev log. I was working on some networking project and I didn’t really think about other stuff for a few weeks. Now I’m slowly getting back to…
Is the Monaco Grand Prix decided at qualifying?
A Formula One driver triggered my fact-checkitis. They claimed that Winning the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo is determined nine out of ten times by which position one starts in. That makes…
When Organizations Believe
Some belief systems are not refuted by evidence. They feed on it. Every objection becomes a confirmation, every dissenter becomes a traitor, every external observation becomes part of the conspiracy.…
Ben Recht, author, "The Irrational Decision"
Today’s AI algorithms promise to optimize every aspect of our lives. But as Ben Recht writes in “The Irrational Decision,” the important things in life can’t be optimized or computed. The world still…
Service revamp - HyNET Social
Since soc.hyena.network (running Akkoma) proved too hard to maintain over the last years, I’ve revamped the service and migrate myself over to social.hyena.network which will be the stand-in…
America's reddest state runs a socialist bank
North Dakota votes Republican by margins that make the word landslide sound timid, treats "government overreach" roughly the way other states treat arson, and has owned and operated its own…
japan trip part one: tokyo
I went to Japan and Taiwan for 3 weeks back at the end of March into April, and it was so amazing and overwhelming. I wanted to write about it so I didn't forget anything, but I didn't blog here. I…
Utah, 2026
tl;dr: A trip to Salt Lake, UT
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