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Looking for D&D merchandise that feels made for your character rather than just the game? Here's why I designed fifteen class collections instead of one generic fantasy range.

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips,…

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This newsletter treats you to the extraordinary sight of people paying for a free newsletter. Why would anyone do such a thing? Read on.

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Half a year down. Wow. We finally got a dumping of snow, but it's disappearing quickly with the sun beaming. White caps from around the block 🏢 Work I finished up at my previous job. Instant weight…

One of the easiest things to do is grab a new place and hide or shun entirely what you did before. Like none of that mattered or somehow starting from a blank slate is better. But I say, if you want,…

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In anticipation of investing in some YC Demo Day startups, I transferred $50,000 from my Fidelity brokerage account to my Citibank checking account. This was right after I'd already wired…

Should you have the time, this 18th Century English poem as expertly sung by the Askew sisters below will help you settle in to this post: Although Deborah's poem is also a great response to…

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The mega blog post series on portfolio optimisation continues! A couple of posts ago, here , I looked at using the idea of formal testing for structural breaks in parameter estimates. Important…

On today's Talk Your Book, we speak with Ryan Issakainen fro, First Trust about investing in the buildout of a new power grid, AI bottlenecks, data centers, thematic ETFs and more. The post Talk Your…

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Joké Bakare drops the set menu for a summer of suya in Fitzrovia. Chishuru has run on a set menu since it opened in Fitzrovia. From 22 July that changes. Summer Suya Sessions is the restaurant's…

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A vendor I vouched for got challenged twice in one week. I couldn't answer with more than trust, so I built a method to climb past it.

6/29/2026, 7:02:58 AM Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning1. Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for…

Can humans remain in control with superintelligent AI (ASI)? | Dark design music video redone | What are normal people saying about AI? | My hero: Dr. John M. Carroll of IBM Research | Finally, a…

Keys, keys. Wherefore art thou, keys? When last my hands caressed thy cool metal, thy humble lanyard dangling ‘gainst my heaving breast, we departed together upon an Uber chariot. Together, we…

The oldest religious building in New York, the Friends Meeting House in Flushing, was originally constructed in 1694, and greatly expanded by 1719. So even the big alteration was some sixty years…

A cold caller offered me a free trial of their AI website builder. I used it to make a warning about their unethical tactics and published it on their own domain.

Someday real soon, most of us — starting with young adults — will carry an always-on AI. This agent will help us navigate our journeys, answer our questions, tutor and teach us new skills, remember…

This entire homelab rack took less time to cut than a set of these Lab Rax corner pieces take to 3D print. Today, we’re going to find out whether laser cutting is a good alternative to 3D printing…

Masayoshi Son, the founder and CEO of SoftBank, the Japanese investment giant, dropped this profoundly weird slide deck a few days ago for his company’s 46th Annual General Meeting of…

Joan Slonczewski, A Door Into Ocean A young man from the stratified society of Valedon leaves his home to join the post-human Sharers of the ocean world of Shora. The people of Valedon live with…

Bill Buxton’s “long nose of innovation” is the standard antidote to breakthrough mythology. A technology that seems to arrive overnight has almost always been gestating, quietly and…

Our brains want to sink into predictability. Don’t let it happen. By Dinty W. Moore As a writer, you’ve probably fielded the question more than once, “Really, where do you get your…

It’s true at work as much as it is at home – model the behavior you want to see more of, fight for what you believe in, and hope for the best. ✊

This week's projects include the blog's newsletter, maybe-useful results from mini-server testing, the blog's code, a return to the Scrawls editor, and some library updates.

6/29/2026, 6:58:45 AM I had a dream that some AI program was making “security announcements” in real time over a loudspeaker in every neighborhood about people walking around.Obviously, no one would…

The air was thick as I stepped outside. It wasn’t raining, but it felt like the sky could open up at any moment. It was quiet. The world hadn’t fully awoken to greet the day. On mornings…

The man behind THOSE colourful homeware creations is taking over the Corner Shop, fish and chips bowl included Gustaf Westman is the Stockholm designer whose wonky, slightly cartoonish homeware has…

Pam Hogg’s name will be familiar to anyone who enjoys reading about other people’s parties. A nightlife personality and a party girl with trademark highlighter-yellow hair, she might be…

The recently concluded and deluded Cannes Mess-tival of Technology might just as well have been as Hollywood-style hype premiere for some trillion-dollar blockbuster some studio or another is banking…

This is a blog about RPGs, but I want to talk about something else and I have no other platform for long-form content. If you’re looking for an RPG article, skip this post. Check out the root ring ,…

i don't know how i feel about 'parasocial' (i think it can be used a bit cruelly, and it's normal to wonder and care about people you don't know- i spend my whole life doing that), but i do hope…

One of the lesser-known things about EVs is that it can be difficult to charge an EV. Gas pumps are easy. You drive up, pop open the filler door and fill ‘er up. The hose and nozzle are easy to…

Contrary to the fevered dreams of the woke, everything isn’t racism. That doesn’t mean, however, that a particular thing that the government does isn’t racist. Distinguishing…

Foreign owners of registrations based on Section 44 or 66 should pay close attention to this decision. The Board affirmed a Section 2(d) refusal of the mark TOUCH MOBILE for telecommunications…

Imbolc † Age of Wolf So much pomp and circumstance, punctuated by the harmed and the feared. Bullywugs. Suspicion and pitchfork. Tattered flags and fanfare. Inside the city walls, the Trees shiver.…

This is the eighth post in a series I'm writing on portfolio optimisation. I haven't done one of these for a few posts, so here is the story so far: In the first post I showed that if you are…

My first morning in Rouen, I went with Jean-Christophe to sketch the Rouen Cathedral. It is the most elaborate decorated piece of architecture ever. As we began to draw, we thought maybe we bit off…

Last night was the first one since the surgery that I slept through the night. I didn't wake up until 0750. It felt wonderful waking up refreshed and not tired and wanting to roll over and go back to…

a flower said we were too many words for work we were begotten wrong we were making matter when we could make matter some worth sweet maybe more work more bee bee scent between her mythic mouth her…

By Michael Kelley There’s an interesting phrase that appears in Colossians 1. Perhaps “interesting” isn’t even the right word; at first reading, it doesn’t just sound interesting - it sounds…

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Why It’s So Hard to Spot a Stock-Market Bubble: Bubbles are obvious only in the rearview. A timely WSJ reminder as the AI-trade froth keeps everyone…