2026/08/25 Tuesday Hundreds of these mysteriously appeared throughout the city overnight... <img src="https://pirahxcx.neocitie

I’ve been telling you&#160;for years&#160;that data about you is being accumulated and sold by tech companies, data brokers, retailers, law enforcement agencies, telecom carriers, financial…

Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. I spent the first half of my life…

Aug 25/26I&apos;ve come around to trusting the small, boring, repeatable thing over the elaborate one. That&apos;s not a new belief exactly &#x2014; twenty-seven years of watching complicated…

In 1918, before the end of WWI, and in reaction to the huge number of American servicemen who had sexually transmitted diseases, two Congressmen came up with a law that allowed law enforcement…

The big difference Apple isn’t really drawing attention to is memory bandwidth. The M6 tops out at 170GB/s and 32GB of unified memory, whereas the M5 Pro offers 307GB/s and up to 64GB–nearly twice…

Those of you longtime Irreal readers who have been following my quest for living a digital life know that I long ago gave up shopping at Walmart. One reason for that is that Covid 19 taught us that…

Next month Apple will be coming out with new phones. I&apos;m looking forward to it.It&apos;s easy to be cynical these days about tiny upgrades, corporate entities sucking us dry for everything…

Apple launched two new lineups of Mac models today (mini and Studio). The Macintosh hardware recommendations on this site were already a bit out of date, and today get even further out of date.…

If you haven’t played Kern Type yet, you’re in for a treat – released by Mark MacKay in 2011, it’s a delightful browser game that teaches you the art and the math of text kerning: If you have played…

Privileged take - I need to stop following people that are Internet Warriors. I just don&apos;t care. There&apos;s enough drama everywhere else - I don&apos;t need it in my Internet.

When I was a kid and we would go to Toronto to visit my mom’s family there, this commercial came on the TV: [YouTube embed] There is certainly no shortage...

This article appeared in the Guardian. I read it at speed. What special, world beating, middle-classic (?) fuckwittery have we here? I can only say that this isn't really a problem in the special…

25 August 2026 &#8211; What I&#8217;m trying to do is described HERE (hint: rebuilding) Originally Published on: Jan 19, 2026 I was recently going through some old books and found a slim volume…

I try to not look at Reddit too much nowadays, but I still end up there more often than I'd like to. One of the subreddits that keeps showing up in my feed is r/AestheticWiki , probably because I've…

Everybody says beating short-form addiction is necessary. There are studies showing how harmful it can be to the body and mind. But nobody talks about how to actually quit the short-form addiction,…

Way back in the day, my mom had a part-time business typing up term papers and dissertations for university students. Well, I did say &#8220;way back in the day.&#8221; We&#8217;re talking about a…

The real competition is not Germany versus China. It is Europe’s 452-million-person industrial network against China’s 1.4-billion-person continental factory system — and Europe’s cheap-labor…

At every gathering, there’s someone on the outskirts. Maybe by happenstance, maybe by choice. Some mourn this, being sidelined. But doesn’t it grant you a fantastic view? Best seat in the house. The…

This is the 454th anniversary of the St. Bartholomew&#8217;s Day Massacre, when the French king and Pope ordered Catholics to slaughter tens of thousands of Protestants (known as Huguenots) in Paris…

I&rsquo;ve been revisiting trying to run NetBSD on Wrap030, my 68030 homebrew computer. In the process I&rsquo;ve been running into some truly strange behavior. I&rsquo;ll change a kernel compile…

Good day. Here is your War News Update. Ontario premier Doug Ford told the US president to kiss his ass. He helpfully added that, “there’s a lot of real estate back there.” And instead of puckering,…

MLA, KDA, MoE, NoPE all attack either bytes transferred or bytes resident. MLA shrinks KV per token, KDA replaces a O(n)O(n)O(n) cache with an O(1)O(1)O(1) state.

Chris from uncountable thoughts is hosting this month's IndieWeb Carnival topic on purpose . This is my first participation in such a carnival, and its been fun, if a little challenging on my noggin.…

The boy appeared on a Thursday, which was collection day. Danny Toal had taken over the corner of the big shed from Micky Breen two years before, and he still thought of the week in terms of who…

I&#8217;m pleased to share a new practical guide to the Stoic Attitudes and Behaviours Scale, or SABS, written by Tim LeBon, the research director of the Modern Stoicism nonprofit. I helped create…

It was New Year's Day 2024, and downtown Miami should have been winding down from the holiday celebrations. Instead, Bayside Marketplace became the center of one of the internet's strangest modern…

NatureScot is currently running one of its periodic public consultations on the use of General Licences for wildlife management. In response, RSPB Scotland has today issued the following statement:…

This is the official video for the song All my friends are heathens by Twenty One Pilots. My oldest son who is frequently assumed to be ASD by people who have barely met him had that song on repeat…

At some point today, I'll receive a call from the funeral home to let me know my dad is ready to be picked up. Like my pretend child that does an after school program, only it's my cremated dad. I'll…

Earlier this month, I attended ClueCon 2026 in Chicago. The event was well attended with open source RTC/VoIP community members. Any opportunity I get to spend time with Daniel-Constantin Mierla is…

I wanted to convert a large number of string representations of common Base 10 number to Bijective Base 10. I found a textual method of creating the Bijective Base 10 string representations from Base…

Nashville drops the hammer, Philly keep climbing while the bottom drops out in Utah and San Jose

There’s big news in the land of small desktops. Jason Snell at Six Colors: In a bit of a late-August surprise while the world awaits word on the next generation of iPhones, on Tuesday Apple announced…

Even in repetition it is hard to discern clarity, a cog in the editing machine working within larger shapes, invisible in our fragments. I appreciate the passer-by staring for a second, as the…

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life (Proverbs 13:12). Anyone who has ambition will face disappointments. Ambition is not a bad thing. Ambition is a…

In my last two posts on this topic, I provided the history of the development of a mechanical CPR device. I also discussed a recent study examining a very large patient population and comparing…

The demo sets an anchor nobody wrote down, and then your team spends a quarter losing an argument to it.

Rigorous thinking about the future produces extreme outcomes.

&nbsp;Barnaby Sherlock patiently sits for me as I help raise funds for PAWS. (photo courtesy of ArtSpot)When I look back on the 15 years that I’ve been drawing, a few experiences come to mind as the…

I haven&#8217;t been able to stop thinking about this enamel cuff bracelet since I had the pleasure of seeing it in NYC, so today we&#8217;re going to talk about it. This Victorian enamel cuff…

With New Horizons now 63 AU out, it’s time to ponder that record hibernation period that the spacecraft just went through. Over 10 months long, this one had the same goal as previous such periods, to…

The more I think about it the more I feel that the future of everything is indie (Or my hope at least) Think about it every time I hear a complaint about something wether it's games, shoes, movies,…

I'm regularly rewriting my history, often with the lens of improving my commit messages. On the Renovate project, we use a Merge Queue with Squash Merge, which means that if I do want to have atomic…

On this Arizona Colorado River thing: pretty much anything the Trump administration has ever done has been grift, racism, or other malfeasance. (I give him credit for killing the penny and letting us…

Time, Discomfort, Payoff Well, that was a Monday. Between local fires, some personal news, and the awful unrelenting heat, I&#8217;m glad to be done with the whole thing. Today promises to be warm…

Part four of our summer adventure: Amsterdam!