(One of my summaries of the 2026 one-day PyGrunn conference in Groningen, NL). When automating in a big company with many systems, you often end up with spaghetti: many systems connecting to a lot of…

Akademy 2026 (the annual world summit for KDE) is happening in Graz. Austria, Saturday 19th – Thursday 24th September. First of all, if you're reading this and thinking, "Should i go to Akademy?" The…

You type "good" and macOS helpfully pops up a thumbs-up emoji suggestion. You type "love" and a heart appears, uninvited, hovering over your cursor. Trying to get to the actual emoji you want to use…

Imagine plugging an ESP32 into your computer’s USB port - and suddenly, your OS detects a brand-new MIDI device. You connect your phone to the WiFi network the ESP32 is hosting, open your…

Jokingly calling it Finder++. Here are a couple of videos from the past few days of playing around. You can use cmd+shift+. to summon the shelf from the bottom of the screen at any time. It’s a…

Dear Ciara, The garden beds are built, the seedlings are growing, but they’re still not large enough to be transplanted. I’m hoping another next week is all that is needed, provided the weather…

Chris Iorfida, CBC News: A Canadian is fighting back in U.S. federal court over what he says is an attempt by the Department of Homeland Security, through Google, to seek “vast swaths of…

  I recently asked people on Mastodon “What’s the most surprising fact you’ve learned in the last couple of weeks?” It was a nice way to learn a lot of interesting…

Reflections on making bread and sourdough starter cultivation

Euler CMX (supports Mini-ITX motherboards) Euler TX3 (supports Thin Mini-ITX motherboards) Euler CTX (supports Thin Mini-ITX motherboards, ultra-compact case) Galileo TU1 Plus (supports Thin Mini-ITX…

Talking this morning with Matt, our book man in Venice, about the intense passions of collectors of James Joyce’s Ulysses, and he reminded me that Richard Prince’s own bibliophilia…

Ricardo Gallén making full use of both hands in performing one of Sergio Assad’s Colloquial Preludes (from the YouTube video of that performance) Two days ago the Omni Foundation for the Performing…

Cardiff is officially the most haunted place in Wales, it boasts a higher number of reports of paranormal events than any other place throughout the whole of Wales. If you're feeling brave then here…

LNG Canada and Mark Carney’s “Low Carbon Oil”Those of you following the parallel track to my essays, the chapters of my memoirs I am also putting out on Substack and […]

If these songs are any indication, then the band’s highly anticipated album will likely live up to the hype.

Held on multiple charges, Tony Phillips will be released under electronic monitoring Friday

Puppy considers all its traits that make it pawsibly a vampire.

Richard Dawkins recently got some attention due to having spent a weekend with Claude (which he renamed Claudia) and deciding that it must be conscious. Plenty of people have been making fun of him…

we need to normalise drinking coca cola from a glass bottle. yes, it’s expensive but holy fuck it tastes so much better. for some reason i get a nostalgic feeling of old hollywood and let’s be real,…

A robot made by Toyota blows its own horn.Image from Wikimedia.   I happened to type “evolution revised” into my Safari browser, and A.I. kicked in. I try to turn off A.I. as much as I can, but…

the pain in my shoulder finally cleared up and i'm back to normal now, yay ^-^ hopefully i can go more than a few months now before another major health disruption (╥_╥) [...]

I have been using Roam Research for taking notes for years. One of the crucial features I like in Roam is linked references, also known as “backlinks”: you create links to new or existing pages as…

A rambling acknowledgment of the shmup community and their door-holding nature; a list of YouTube creators that you might find enjoyable.

In this blog I’ve often mentioned the name of my late friend Bertrand Dufresne, who passed away 10 years ago this year. Despite all the good memories I have with him, I wanted to remember him…

If you’ve ever needed to produce a typed binary format where the header constrains what the body can contain, you’ve probably written validation code that runs at runtime and hoped your…

The next TRS-80 Trash Talk live show is Saturday, May 23, at 6:00PM Pacific Daylight Time / 9:00PM Eastern Daylight Time! Delivered by PolitePaul service

STORM: EARTH’S MIGHTIEST MUTANTS #4 “Mama” Writer: Murewa Ayodele Artist: Federica Mancin Colour artist: Java Tartaglia Letterer: Travis Lanham Editor: Tom Brevoort STORM:…

The Pixar animated short Lifted was released in front of Ratatouille in 2006: = 2x) and (width >= 700px)" srcset="https://unsung.aresluna.org/_media/this-was-a-user-friendly-computer/yt1.2096w.avif"…

This is a list of things I buy and regret purchasing every single time. Ever expanding reminders for myself. My general theory of life: Do not expose yourself to luxury (middle class life being my…

Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: DateTimeZone::__construct(): Unknown or bad timezone (Europe/Berlin) in /var/www/html/domain.com/public_html/wp-includes/script-loader.php:414 Stack trace: #0…

Maureen Bowden

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Second-game F2P economy design can lower pressure without flattening spend by selling identity, continuity, social value, and creator-driven attachment. The post The Second Game Strategy: Designing…

Safe Intelligence is launching a new AI Agent validation and monitoring platform named /Spec27. Signup is free for early access.

AVIF, JXL, or WebP?

No-Vary-Search lets HTTP caches ignore irrelevant query parameters such as UTM tags, while still keeping meaningful ones like product variants in the cache key.

The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is now onl... Continue reading →

I moved into my new house three weeks ago. It came with a sofa. Not a welcome gift. A hostage situation. The sofa lived on the top floor. A beige, British-made monstrosity that had clearly been…

Fourteen Again continues at the Victoria Wood Theatre, Bowness-on-Windermere until 6 June 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is a divinely entertaining and heartwarming show which is a…

Grief erased the sound of her voice and the feel of her fingers. Then flour on my wife’s hands, and ink from my mother’s long-kept letters, brought Mama back. The post The Flour on Her Hands, the Ink…

A South Alabama mama tugged her sleepy boy into the predawn cold to chase the Great Comet of 1965, a faint smudge above the dark trees. Now, nearing the age she was when she left this world, he gazes…

Short discussion of "organic voice enrollment" in Sparky -- how he learns names and voices without ceremony, but by conforming to polite social norms.

new dreams

Funny. I think this a lot - but never quite put my finger on it. 🔗 Geography is four-dimensional But that place is long gone. It’s not like that anymore. 💬 Derek Sivers When it gets down to it I…

I have read the gallery guide for Helter Skelter Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince, Miuccia Prada’s two-artist show curated by Nancy Spector. I have created a mind palace and walked through it.…

For this episode, we need to talk about education, racism, and a bit more.

Nobody really talks about radio anymore. And by "nobody", I mean people my age. Speaking of people my age, I've been noticing this uptick in content about curation. Its the mechanic behind online…

I'm sorry, WHAT??? WE'RE TRUSTING THEM TO SELF ISOLATE? I'm sorry, no, but this is like the one thing that'll turn this anarchist full tanky. Lock them down. Give them chocolates or like pickled…

Previously I had talked about the idea of personal marketability when it came to learning AI. That was in the … More AI Was Already Here: Loud Opinions vs. Precise Understanding →

We walked back to our apartment in the early evening. White lights outlined windows of the old buildings along the Passeio illuminating the town with a warm, charming glow.