táng hú lù is a traditional chinese snack consisting of several malt sugar coated fruits of chinese hawthorn (crataegus pinnatifida) on a bamboo skewer -•••- my grandmother imported for us sacks of…

How you're going to get your layout in and out of a show venue is not always high on the list of considerations when its designed. In our experience it's one of those thing you adapt and improvise as…

So Long and Thanks, Crayfish

nixersnewsletter — 2026-05-08

We cannot use the same evidence to convince everyone. Be careful.

In 2024, Chattanooga, Tennessee, was named North America’s first National Park City, and this mixed-surface ride is designed to show you exactly why. Grab your basket bike, snorkel, and sunscreen,…

In the spring of 2017, Jeff Tantsura , the IETF Routing Area chair , delivered a short “ Introduction to Segment Routing ” webinar. In mid-April 2026, we had ~100 people at ITNOG 10 attending the…

As cyclists, we crave the unknown, desire ribbon-like roads that unroll in front of us. We’re blazers of backroad routes, seeking challenge and adventure. We remember each bend in vivid detail.…

Bandcamp Friday may have been last week hit the next best time to support the artists you love is right now and since it’s Friday again, maybe there will be...

This week's AI videos were solely focused on Flotilla participant and alleged sex pest Thiago Ávila. Because they bother him. Continue reading Israellycool AI Videos of the Week at Radical Truth…

Owen Jones This is a catastrophe for US power. The West is falling, and this is accelerating that decline in a big way. US power is not going to recover from this. It's already suffered shattered…

I’ve been reaching for my phone without thinking — a habit I’ve tried to break for a while now. Today, I’m doing something simple: keeping it far from my hands. Whenever the urge hits, I write it…

Reading Time: 44 minutes   Well, even in its partially incomplete form that’s a, er, miserable-looking set of electoral results, isn’t it? Good to see, based on the extent to which the Reform…

Katie Halper Grayzone editor and investigative journalist Max Blumenthal argues that a London stabbing fits a suspicious pattern of "antisemitic" attacks being used by Keir Starmer and pro-Israel…

I've yet to meet a garden owner who actually likes this plant: The proper name is Arum maculatum, which always makes me think of eye problems (macular degeneration, I think), or Arum italicum if you…

In a new report by Boston Consulting Group, they conclude that the CIO is now the most important role in a bank. Not long ago, the CIO was the person who kept the lights on and kept core systems…

blob lady bird lane lump buds blue fire We're past the Equinox & Bealtaine & Liberation Day NL, and no late frost, so Spring must be sprong. As evidence I found the first ladybird Coccinella…

Administrative Trademark Judge Elizabeth A. Dunn has retired from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. She was appointed to the Board in 2019. Judge Dunn is, by my count, the tenth TTAB judge to…

​​How far critters travel is becoming more surprising and known. Male coyote swam 2 miles to Alcatraz Island, twice as far as biologists had expected Another amazing example. They should name it…

The founders most likely to break their company are the ones who never learned to stop building.

Closing the Gap Between Data, Insight, and Action. Palantir, Databricks, Snowflake, and now Microsoft Fabric are often compared as if they solve the same problem. They don’t. Most organisations…

Managers going back to coding for various reasons. I'm trying to find which group I belong to.

So, wanna hear something a little embarrassing? I have been Chroniquelly Onlinne since forever, but there were some mysteries that to me seemed like magic. Like Photoshop. To be honest, Photoshop…

I did a show in Chicago last week and I’m sorry you weren’t there because it was so fabulously good. I’m from Minnesota and was brought up not to say that but I’m 83 and it’s time to take liberties.…

There’s something wonderfully old‑fashioned and comforting about a cookie that feels like it came straight from your grandmother’s kitchen — and these Nut Jumbles are exactly that kind of treat.…

We’re wired to look for faces. Show someone a photograph with people in it and their eyes go straight to the faces, searching for expression, emotion, identity. This reflex runs deep enough…

It’s always a good day when Rural France release a new record, even if the rest of the world still hasn’t fully caught on. Maybe album number four finally changes that, because SLOTHS feels like the…

Contents : - April fishing - Snakes alive! - Chris Bladen's bronze art - Sussex fly fishing clinic - An ode to the French Partridge - A chalkstream guide's fly tying recipe - Birthday wishes - Heron…

Switching from an Intel iMac to Apple Silicon felt like a hardware upgrade. It turned out to be an architecture story, and that story is now reshaping the cloud.

a half-assed review"> From the award-winning creators behind Journey (2013 Game of The Year) and the highly-acclaimed Flower, comes a ground-breaking social adventure that is set to warm your hearts.…

Thee Seizures are an “anti-fascist acid punk” duo from Lisbon, Portugal, who needed just two wild days to cut their debut album Introducing… (they already shared the eight tracks…

and they're better than ever

i actually do this quite often. but today, i finally asked someone else about it. it feels like something that’s hard to explain—like something you can only conceptualise if you feel the same way,…

If you think the AI we use today is smart, fast, and accommodating, then you will want to read the McKinsey Quantum Technology Monitor published this week. It announces, in the sober language of…

An article dispelling myths about W Social, the new European platform that aims to rival X: it is a fork of Bluesky that shares many similarities with Eurosky and requires government ID to sign up.

My monthly column in the UK outlet, Middle East Eye: Can a nation remain on a permanent war footing and survive, even thrive? Israel is trying to find out. Although it has been in various conflicts…

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I attended Anthropic's Code with Claude developer conference in San Francisco on May 6th. Here's what I learned about context management, the shifting bottlenecks in software engineering, and what it…

I’d already planned to write about this, but noticing an article from the May issue of The Atlantic , “ The Eighth Deadly Sin ” (or: “The Medieval Roots of Modern Self-Help”), has spurred me to write…

Last weekend, I went down to San Diego for my close friends’ annual Kentucky Derby party - reliably one of the most fun weekends of the year. This year was a bit more “mature” than…

Man, I just can’t shake this upper respiratory infection. Getting sick at 50 feels a lot different from when I was ten. I’m not sure how she found this old shirt, but I was delighted to…

In the DevOps engineer’s toolkit, few commands are as revered—or as misunderstood—as awk and sed.

So, when someone says that their taxable income is in the 35% tax rate bracket, they probably just mean that their last dollar earned is there. They’re only paying 35% on the taxable income that's…

Note: The links in this post are affiliate links. My “Pick” for today is this fantastic Zobirez 10-Port / 750W Fast Charging Stationr. This little gem will quickly charge all of your devices at once.…

🏝️ Desert Island Disc: "Cursive's Domestica (2022 Remastered Version)" by CursiveDesert Island disc 4. Cursive’s Domestica is the perfect post hardcore…

I can’t listen to music while writing. For a break I might play the video of a song that had been nagging my memory. More often I’ll select a comedy clip – Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, Jack Benny,…

There's still a couple of Sandown related things in the queue, but they may join the many folders down the bottom (of Picasa!) which date back to up to fifteen years ago, it will get posted one day .…