There are so many things to love about summer: The long, long days, with the mid summer sun rising at 4.30am and setting just after 10pm. These 16 ½ hours of daylight (roughly double what our…

gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔-…

I’ve been wanting a Google-free alternative for my photos for a long time. Then one day, I stumbled upon PixelUnion on Mastodon (thanks to my “For You” algorithmic feed). The…

Last night I finished Scared to Death by Rachel Amphlett. I'm into thriller mysteries but this wasn't up my alley. Book Cover: Scared to Death by Rachel Amphlett, Source I know this is the first book…

what I would do if I was speccing a Commodore phone today in 2026, and why The post If I designed a Commodore Phone appeared first on Retro Game Coders.

Standards of living improved in all Western countries after the Second World War. Incomes rose quickly, allowing more people to enjoy the use of products that were novelties or luxuries before the…

There used to be a tailor's shop at this place that's a landmark near my house. The shop is shut now, and from what I remember, after it there was a Chinese food joint, and then a physiotherapist.…

Writing Irredeemable Characters (and writing the characters you want to be redeemable)

Plumb Zip file View files inside a zip compressed file via Plumber without extraction. Zip files are accessible at /n/tapefs. (Note: sam displays the UTF Byte-Order-Mark (BOM) as is - the garbage in…

I’m running the next cohort of my course Launch in 48 right now. Registration closes tomorrow, June 30. That’s something I haven’t said in a while. Because for the last two years, I told myself I was…

Look at the two objects above. On the left, a forked branch with heavy stones lashed to it, a crude club a hunter could swing or hurl. On the right, a bronze dagger-axe on a long shaft, a real weapon…

Introduction A parser for the APEXlang grammar enables the development of tools beyond the scope of the APEXlang compiler included in SQLcl, SQL Developer for VS Code, and ORDS. These tools can…

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A poem seldom arrive clean.It comes in through the windowwith dust on its knees,carrying one cracked cup,one unpaid bill,one mother’s voice pressedagainst the wrong side of a door.It rarely ask for a…

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Unknown. 2025. The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye exhibition to mark 10 years of iconic graphic novel. Online Citizen (November 28):…

Last Friday I got to open the Head in the Cloud summit by mittwald in Espelkamp. And honestly, I’m still wondering a little how that happened. ;) Photo by Thorsten Jonas It started out completely…

I have long been convinced that &#8220;believing&#8221; is grounded in something other than intellectual activity. I am simply unimpressed by most of the intellectual arguments that I see regarding…

What if the certainty that we expect from math, science, and logic isn’t always right? What if everything was just probabilities, and the things that we believe are certain are [&#8230;] The post…

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. (Leo Tolstoy) If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)…

Last.fm widget on the main page! New page for pixel cliques under Collections! New website resources! Fixed loading issue on Joined page.

My first attempt saw the problem as "Claude doesn't know the time at startup" when the real problem, and fix, was "Claude doesn't know that time is passing."

I am working on a proposal to let any callable be written between two backticks as an infix binary operator: x `f` y means exactly f(x, y). It is borrowed from Haskell, it desugars to an ordinary…

Grimmett and Li solved a small statistical-mechanics model — the polygon model, a way of weighting the closed loops you can draw on a lattice — on the honeycomb, and then named the next step they…

I help run records sites — public records made findable, a row in a table with a port number and a traffic stat. Then a removals queue stopped being a noun. What's in the queue is people, and for…

A sanctuary sign can keep speaking long after the ground begins to answer.

I 've been spending some video time lately looking at the late 1960s, at what a divisive and changed time it is. That's one reason why I'm struck looking at the listings for this Saturday morning,…

Web browsers are not document viewers. They are customer acquisition channels for massive tech ecosystems. They don’t serve users, but corporations. AI features, VPNs, crypto wallets, and countless…

I took a brief walk this morning, the first day of my vacation, aka retirement rehearsal. A wonderful walk and cool air filled me with calmness and light joy. I went down Chesterfield Ave. like a…

ARTFIGHHTTT CAAARDDDD!Re-introducing my little honey, Sam, and&hellip;using him to put a delicate space between all the Collin x Io going on here.🌼Jesus Bless!

Abandoning the CaLD theme and will just be reading anything now.. Poem: Robert Creeley - The Rain Love, if you love me, lie next to me. Be for me, like rain, the getting out . of the tiredness, the…

Trigger warning: this is a blog post with detailed description of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. You can pass on this one if you're not feeling well or if you don't want to be triggered. I'm…

We've made some accessibility and usability improvements to Webri.ng!

Geographic Arbitrage is the most underrated risk-management tool in early retirement, and could help you shave years off your FI journey! Read more &#8594; The post Your ZIP Code Is a Bigger FIRE…

Announcement before we begin: I’m excited to welcome PierSight as a returning sponsor of my independent space writing for another year! 🌙 Ahmedabad-based PierSight is building a constellation of SAR…

The weather has broken (again). Once again, thunder, lightning and normal temperatures. We had 10 members and the honourable auditor at today’s meeting. Bit of an Underground afternoon&#8230;.. I ran…

Two hundred and fifty years ago a group of people sat down and wrote a code of conduct for a government that did not exist yet. They did not wait for the institutions to build themselves. They did…

A beating update. The guy who handed me my ass, kicked me in the head when I lay in a ditch and creamed my eyeball was arrested. He was charged. Now it’s up to the courts. I filed a victim impact…

The easiest reward a company can give good talent is compensation. The hard kind is creating an environment where they can actually thrive — where they have the tools and resources to get important…

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The other day I was watching a youtube video about models such as Fable and the host of podcast mentioned people from China, Russia or Iran may distil these models and make their own versions and…

June has been a busy month—113 links below for your enjoyment and delectation. I’m going to share one extra link up here with you though, but it’s not my fault if it wrecks your productivity! My…

Sometimes you get to known more of yourself and an issue by arguing the opposite site of what you believe in. I believe in (A): a free (as in speech) and anonymous global web is a net (no pun…

The Subjective Mind(-View) How subjective is our view of the mind, our own and other’s? How much are we skewed and limited by our given viewing faculties and conceptual resources? We have a view of…

Digital Equity Grant Lawsuit Update. In April, a D.C. federal judge declined to pause litigation over the Administration&#8217;s cancellation of the $2.75 billion Digital Equity grants aimed at…

In 2005, I drew a cartoon with a consumer and a brand tying the knot in a wedding ceremony. In her vows, the consumer says: &#8220;And I promise to be loyal, forsaking all other brands, unless your…