One-watt LED Thermal Pad Reflow: Nope
What looks like melted solder is really an adhesive layer
Not All Eyes are the Same, Pt. I
Scout ©2018 Pearl of Light, DeviantArt You stand on a tall hill, bow in hand, gazing at the valley below and searching for your mark. The air is crisp, and dawn’s silver mists have retreated from the…
Ten minutes now, two hundred minutes saved
An idea that we discussed recently that stuck with me: ten extra minutes spent making sure what you send is concise and clear can save the organization two hundred minutes. The math is simple. Send…
"He told me that we could / I want to I said and will we / he promised me that we would." Merwin Before the Flood
“Before the Flood” by W.S. Merwin --
WTF is for Whacky Tall Fellows!
These came from Peter Evans a couple of weeks ago, and are, well, whacky tall fellows . . . or fellowesses? I mean WT-very-actual-F? Clearly the Hong Kong 'old guard' in China, jumping on the Skibidy…
Tabard Inn History: Sold in 1927, Bought Back in 1930
The Tabard Inn's founder sold it in 1927, then bought it back at a 1930 foreclosure auction for $2,000. Deeds, plats and census records tell the story. The post Tabard Inn History: Sold in 1927,…
Lessons in incomprehension
Jason Kratz wrote a rebuttal to my arguments against the precedent set by Aaron Parecki’s decision to use AI in his work on the IndieWeb and his method of defending it. It is a poor rebuttal for…
SSMMÜT Premiere “An Dullahan”; A Blight on the Perfect Organism of Death Out Oct. 30
The sonically amorphous project spearheaded by now-Berlin-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Robert Mirolo, SMMÜTT is set to release A Blight on the Perfect Organism of Death on Oct. 30 through…
On writing humanly
Recently I’ve been heavily engaged in AI-assisted scientific research. While the large language models are generally impressive, their behaviors outside of coding and running research experiments…
Just for Clicks: How a $300,000 Alleged Bribe became a $50M Sinecure
The fight to the death between Ric Grenell and Alina Habba AKA Mildon keeps revealing unprecedented levels of corruption. The post Just for Clicks: How a $300,000 Alleged Bribe became a $50M Sinecure…
A which side are you on issue…
OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. Her books must be available to the public. Their withdrawal from sale, on the basis of ill-conceived and draconian anti terror legislation, is…
Streaming: crítica de ‘Hasta siempre, hijo mío’ (‘So Long, My Son’), de Wang Xiaoshuai (MUBI)
Este poderoso drama familiar chino que abarca medio siglo de historia de ese país es un doloroso y efectivo retrato de una pareja que atraviesa una larga serie de tragedias. En MUBI, a partir del 27…
godot starter kits
https://kenney.nl/starter-kits Generous contribution of 6 game skeletons in Godot. Impressive what one person can accomplish these days! I've made 6 open-source @godotengine.org projects perfect for…
Eight Ring Routine
Wow.
Horror delight
The evening light has changed. After work, it shines an amber glow across spindly seedheads. Shadows stretch. Coppery leaves fall slowly to the ground. At the beginning of October, our son announced…
Kenya: Paul Mackenzie Found Guilty of 191 Murders as Questions Mount over Failures by Authorities
Prof HAKIZIMANA Maurice Kenyan preacher Paul Mackenzie and 28 co-defendants were found guilty on Monday, October 19, of murdering 191 people, including 190 children, in the Shakahola mass graves…
Pat Murphy & Vince Lombardi
Former college players remember Pat Murphy fondly. This graf reminded me of a Vince Lombardi technique : ...Former Notre Dame outfielder Mike Rotkis recalled a 28-10 loss at Western Michigan in…
As to the mark of slavery (and our treatment of Native Americans, which he is as damning of) that…
Democracy in America As to the mark of slavery (and our treatment of Native Americans, which he is as damning of) that remains in our nation, you cannot spend any time in the US as a neutral…
New Dickens exhibition looks at the smells and poverty of old London
A foul and putrid air is once again abroad in London, as the stench of cholera and death that once haunted its streets seeps into the Charles Dickens Museum.Read more ›
It was just a polling experiment, bro
In August, I wrote about the exposé of fake pollster Median Strategies. Yesterday, the team over at poll aggregator FiftyPlusOne exposed yet another fake pollster: Wedgewood Polls. Their suspicions…
Flow in UX
Flow is the state of total absorption in which work feels effortless, time evaporates, and performance peaks. Its 3 preconditions (clear goals, immediate feedback, and a challenge matched to skill)…
Complaining with ✨style✨ 101
Today’s guest post comes from Skyler Holobach! I’ve known Skyler forever, as one of our fellow deliverability experts in this world of email, and now she runs her own company focused on email…
Chris's Moon Cat: It's Purr-fect! -
Woodsy, Here's the first thing: An original Park Moon Cat in perfect shape with box. A beloved toy from childhood. Chris W. <div style="text-align: center
Wednesday Comics: DC, January 1986 (week 4)
I'm reading DC Comics' output from January 1980 (cover date) to the end of Crisis ! This week, I read the comics on sale on October 24, 1985. World's Finest #323: Metropolis is engulfed in perpetual…
Thursday Photo Funnies
It's time for the Thursday Photo Funnies, brought to you a day early because that's just how hard we work here at RoundSeventeen Headquarters, formerly in Culver City, now in Pasadena. And…
EVE Online's Winter Expansion Fractured Skies Launches November 10th
The mad lads and lasses in Rekjavik went and did it. While some studios shied away from launching titles into the meatgrinder World of Warcraft Forever and Grand Theft Auto VI have made this…
Web-Perf Wednesday 014 – Performance Budgets Need a Representative Worst
Performance budgets need a representative worst, while Safari changes identity resolution and Chrome improves module recovery and memory debugging.
The tipping point
Back in 2019 I ran into a silly interaction while pushing code to Bitbucket. I wrote a commit message locally Adding @font directives and pushed it up. To my surprise, it had tagged the user @font ,…
The Epidemic of Billionaires
It takes a lot to get tens of thousands of people to riot. For it to happen simultaneously across several countries points to a supranational underlying cause, as opposed to local grievance at an…
Wie ich lernte, die Zahl 8 nicht zu schreiben
Die Lehrerin, die sich vor mir aufgebaut hat, presst ihre zu Fäusten geballten Hände fest an ihren Körper. Sie ist sehr wütend und in diesem konkreten Fall richtet sich ihre...
The 2027, 2028, 2029, and 2030 Cranky Network Awards Will Be in Phoenix
Summer is over, and that means planning for the Cranky Network Awards presented by Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is in full swing. I thought it was time for a little update on where things…
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Sunstone dev log 15: Bistro is here
Seeing Bistro right-way up, and improving depth buffer precision.
The Women of Route 66
And Their Roles in Creating and Maintaining the Highway's Kitschy-Americana Environment The post The Women of Route 66 appeared first on WednesdaysWomen.
Gyne
A dark cabaret Gyne contains fourteen dark collages consisting of electronic, digital and acoustic ambiances which present the rise and downfall of... some undisclosed entity. Contrary to the…
10 Wednesday AM Reads
My mid-week morning reads: • Is CoreWeave the Silicon Valley Bank of 2026?: Perhaps, but not in the way you might think. Robin Wigglesworth: SVB’s 2023 collapse was supposed to trigger a…
Eleven Shoulds by Noon
Waiting in for the plumber, I wrote down every word the voice in my head said. On paper he's a flatmate who's wrong about most of it. I don't take his orders.
Frigate on Proxmox: the config problems nobody warns you about
Frigate itself is good software. Almost every problem I hit running it came from the layers around it: Proxmox, LXC, Docker, kernel modules, and my own YAML. None of them announced themselves…
Recovering eMudhra's Weak P-384 CA Keys and Testing curl, Node.js, and uv on macOS
The eight compromised eMudhra intermediate CA keys were integers below 256. I recovered all eight from public certificates on an M4 Mac mini, then checked which TLS clients still accept the…
Operation Toy Train runs through Saratoga this November 14!
Time to get excited for the holiday season. And for me, that means keeping an eye out for several “Holiday Train” runs throughout the area. And while I wait for the CPKC Holiday Train to…
Consistency and Correction
I was reading Elder Gong’s talk from conference. He mentioned the importance of being consistent in good habits and it put me in mind of something that a firearms instructor told me a couple of…
The Why And How Of Impeachment
If we don't impeach the Roberts Majority they'll wreck any attempt at reform. The post The Why And How Of Impeachment appeared first on emptywheel.
Why The Power Of Suggestion Matters In Paranormal Investigations
The power of suggestion, when a person believes something due to being influenced by someone else's suggestion, plays a significant role in the paranormal world.
Freak Valley 2027 Adds Altin Gün, Vinnum Sabbathi, Bong Voyage & More
Before this second full announcement went out, Freak Valley 2027 added Brutus as a headliner, which makes Altın Gün the second revealed lineup-topper for the three-day event. One more to go. I…
Everywhere we look, the various events of people’s lives have turned to the advantage of democracy……
Democracy in America Everywhere we look, the various events of people’s lives have turned to the advantage of democracy… The gradual unfurling of equality in social conditions is therefore, a…
Running AI..
AI is finally becoming useful... to me. When it was just a "chat" bot, I couldn't have cared less. And when it could spit out a python script that I had to copy and paste into an…
September 2026 Snapshot of Who Owns the U.S. National Debt
The U.S. government's 2026 fiscal year came to an end on 30 September 2026. On that date, after tallying up the entire the national debt to the penny, the federal government's total public debt…
ADA Chief Science Officer Departs Abruptly Amid Turmoil
Amid ongoing turmoil, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) announced yesterday that Rita Kalyani is no longer its chief scientific and medical officer, “effective immediately.” The…
Transplant Shock and Spiritual Formation in Protestant Spaces: Part 7, Grace is Not Opposed to Effort
The next contrast between the soils of spiritual formation I want to consider concerns synergism versus monergism, how we think about divine/human agency. Historically, Catholicism and Orthodoxy have…
The CBS Eyemark Celebrates its 75th Birthday
On Oct. 20, 1951, television viewers saw a symbol for the first time. After seventy-five years, it's one of the world's most familiar logos. The post The CBS Eyemark Celebrates its 75th Birthday…