by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com When I’m deep in a manuscript, every word feels precious. That closeness is what makes the writing possible in the first place, but it’s…

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Microsoft officially requires UEFI, Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and a supported processor for Windows 11. A hardware enthusiast apparently looked at this list and decided to treat almost every individual…

With 16 cores, ECC memory, and 40 watts of typical power consumption, the Loongson 3C3000 initially sounds like a highly efficient server processor. The small addition “at 1.5 GHz” is, however,…

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“Quê Mẹ” (Motherland) is a portmanteau of “Quê Hương” (Homeland) and “Lòng Mẹ” (Mother Heart). Written by Y Vân, “Lòng Mẹ” is a beloved anthem for Vietnamese mothers. Every Vietnamese person knows…

Our society has a messed up body image problem overall.

Which teams don’t need asterisks by their title?

ven though I’m only able to work on my open source projects as one hobby amongst others, my projects saw several updates and releases over the first half of 2026. In case anyone is curious about what…

I am mapping the trajectory from raw, noisy technical entries to a distilled, deterministic knowledge structure. By leveraging NixOS to define my publishing surface area, I am ensuring that my…

I have spent this weekend meticulously migrating my architectural design from transient notes into the living codebase, ensuring that future collaboration is guided by code-level contracts rather…

Stop asking clients to email passwords. Use encrypted, self-destructing request links to collect credentials, API keys, and sensitive files securely.

--> Hello, loves! Rested, I feel ready to do the passage-generating code. I’ll TDD what I can. Maybe random seed will help. This morning’s test got us close to what we need: def…

--> Hello, loves! I have a somewhat complex idea about passages, but a simpler scheme might work. Let’s find out. Anticlimax: I stop just before the thrilling conclusion. Last night, in between…

chaoticevilspacewitch:toocoolforhole:this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt,…

The original ‘Backrooms’ youtube shorts are effective passionate-amateur work by a high-school kid, Kane Parsons; I enjoyed them but they weren’t particularly scary. The 2026…

I write my WG21 papers with MPark/WG21, a Pandoc-based framework I vendor into the paper repo as a git subtree. The framework had a major overhaul–the build system split apart, and Pandoc jumped from…

I personally don’t think that having a “teen” storytelling voice is a PROBLEM if you want to write YA. While it is true that the YA market is not exactly THRIVING at the moment… also, SO WHAT? That…

Why Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG and BDO Are Separating Parts of Their Nordic Businesses In July 2026, Deloitte Denmark announced what appeared to be a relatively straightforward strategic transaction.…

This is an archived post from October 9, 2025 As always: spoiler alert for everything. Media discussed: K-Pop Demon Hunters, Steven Universe, Ursula K. Le Guin, Demon Slayer, and Taylor Swift In the…

A while back I wrote about how claiming to be Googlebot is now a bad idea , where I noted that there were (reports of) malicious crawlers out there impersonating Googlebot and other legitimate big…

I'm working in my office downstairs but am laughing because I just heard my Secret Numbering System working from afar.For a couple of years now, Naveen (11) and I have a system of generating numbers…

To hear her tell it: Not a damn thing . Me? I agree.

Early access release date for Ship Miner has been announced but what is the current state? and what about the plan to get into it?

Well. The editor I was using, Phoenix Code, added a bunch of AI bullshit, and I hate nothing more in the world of website programming than AI bullshit tools that just get in my way. Unfortunately, I…

the typhoons turned out to be lots of rainthankfully no wind, just lots of rainthat in itself did its own damage in several areas, we were okay thoughFriday, we did have this big earthquake from the…

In preparation for the upcoming major integration between Google Tag and Google Tag Manager, Google has rolled out some user interface changes to your GTM containers. The changes simplify the UI…

An indie horror movie from the 1970s, with very fake blood and everything.It had an interesting story, though I'd say some of the concepts of the time didn't age well - tropes of mental disabilities,…

A love letter to all that we've become to survive the world we came from This is an archived post from August 18, 2025. Click here for the revised piece for Toyon Multilingual Literary Magazine .…

Worm by Jeni Pleskow released in 1997

Woz by Mike Balonek released in 1998

On Wednesday, I received a goodbye letter from Wart Jr. in the mail. I’m glad it was him, and not Lily, that moved out. When I spoke with Candi, she offered to buy the trilobite I had in my…

Thought for the Evening: Vicarious Intention There are clearly situations in which people have vicarious intention , i.e., intention on behalf of another. An obvious example is parenting, which often…

Hello and welcome back everyone, and thanks for joining us for this episode! This is episode 621 of Linux in the Ham Shack, the most terrific amateur radio podcast on the internet! This week we're…

Now owning a Nintendo Switch 2 we had to obtain the latest Super Smash bros to relive some childhood.

Alex Hsu is hosting June 2026 indie web carnival. The theme is No Way. My entry is not about something that happened to me specifically, but something that blew my mind when I first learned about it.…

I've been doing this march for 4 years now and even I can't do the official city one, I want to still continue in the community, open to all marches across the city. This year I handed out stickers…

Last year on LinkedIn I posted an update about how I was benefitting from leadership coaching, therapy, orthodontia, time to read, and opportunity to play pick-up soccer. Here’s what I wrote: So far…

Diplomatic privileges Shading by Koof Hi-res and textless version available for free on my Patreon! https://unitedhelpukraine.org/ https://savelife.in.ua/en/

hate it when my phone tells me there's a software update and if you don't update the hackermans are going to get you! i know that's not what it says and i'm simplifying security risks. but it's every…

It's hard to write a whole book. So for now at least, I've turned the prologue of my book into a short video. I hope you enjoy it.

"The Serpent of the Sea," is a new comic by writer Finlay Miles and illustrator Lyndon White. It's a highly enjoyable one-shot story with a delightfully unreliable narrator who might be suffering…

Thanks to everyone who responded with ideas to my Post #28: A Failed Refactoring . I dug into this today and found the reason why the signals for the mouse events weren't firing 🎉 The Result Here is…

Added support for cleaning Arc, Dia, and Vivaldi. New Enable All / Disable All toolbar buttons. Enable All now selects only the browsers and options that actually have data to…

This week I finished: Plastic Inc.: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil’s Biggest Bet, by Beth Gardiner: I read this book for the book club of alumni of my workshop. I watched and…

Today's pic from the archives was contributed by Andjelija B. in May-2009. Red Converse high-tops with white & black trim laced with multi-colored “Army Lacing”.

I ended my week of Monday 22 to Sunday 28 June 2026 with back pain from a rather nasty series of spasms, which kicked in on Saturday and are kinda still with me as I write this on Monday. I’d…

I relate to the struggle of juggling hobbies and the guilt that comes with not dedicating enough time to them, as reflected in Ludalx's video.

I spent the summer of 1974 researching my dissertation in London, and a lifelong love affair began. The World Cup started in Germany shortly after I arrived, and I saw at least half of the games. The…