I guess that Method Of Doubt's latest EP, Total Soul Ignition , technically came out at the end of 2025, but since we didn't see the vinyl release until early in 2026, I'll probably include it as one…

And in your browser, it's hard to tell who's winning Remember "fair use"? It's a concept kind of like "public airwaves." There's an ideal in there somewhere, but the…

New job, new apartment, new city, new quests

  2022 post. While mowing June 26, 2026 I saw that this pole was savaged once again and more severely. There wa​s a bite at the bottom from a bear on all fours wh​ich was unusual​. ​Mostly they…

Babrius 48 (tr. Robin Waterfield): A square-cut statue of Hermes had been placed by the side of a road, supported by a pile of stones at its base. A dog came up and said, "To begin with, Hermes, I…

~1089 words. ~5 minutes. tags: emacs programming debugging Or as I would like to call it, GLORIOUS Unified Debugger. This is my submission for June's Emacs Carnival, Underappreciated Emacs built-ins.…

Galicia, June 2026.

I love it when a romance book becomes more than just about falling in love. Caught Up may not have the most unique plot but the heart of this story is something that you rarely find in just any book.…

Why AT URIs are not valid under IETF RFC-3986, what the impact is, and some possible ways forward.

This was initially diagnosed as a shunt fault, but the cable appears to be effectively severed with the approximate location of 9 kilometers from repeater 4 towards repeater 3. To the best of my…

Emmett Rensin, writing at Los Angeles Review of Books: But if it is childish, if any of this—the outrage, the horror, the belief that something must be done—is childish, it is only…

In this bite, we explore how slurping on (or being slurped by?) cosmic spaghetti affects galaxies.

Napster returns as an AI music generator, letting users co-create tracks with chatbots. But questions about copyright and creativity remain.

Trying to prod myself a little into reading more carefully.

Joanna Newsom – Only Skin

2026 and all that: Well for one thing the nukes are not Scottish, more UK-ish but also mostly USA-ish. It's mixed bag of defence chicanery that goes right back to the 1950s and the Polaris deal with…

I love flying, even though I rarely do so -- I'm not one for travel. But when I get the chance to fly I find it hard to not just sit there, staring out of the window, marvelling at the view. Today I…

Coding agents work by sending your prompt and files to a model’s API over HTTP and receiving generated code and tool calls in return, including Bash scripts that execute on your machine. Coding…

Techreccs now has emojis. I was inspired to figure out how to do this by Kev. I thought it would be hard with Ghost, but it turns out you can Windows Key+Period it (Standard Emoji Picker). Feel free…

A new Tradecraft Garden and Crystal Palace release is available. This release introduces a proper install script and consolidates its commands behind a cpl [verb] CLI interface. I’ve also added an…

In Super Mario Galaxy, shooting Mario at a very specific spot on the cliffs surrounding the beach in Deep Dark Galaxy will cause him to enter a glitched rolling state. The player can move him around…

Thus it came to pass that Postmark Games graduated from dice to cards. After some of the finest print-and-plays in recent memory — after Voyages, Aquamarine, Waypoints, and Scribbly Gum — I suppose…

Programming note; this is the 150th issue of NULL BITMAP, and NULL BITMAP will be going on a hiatus for a while, maybe just for the Summer, maybe indefinitely. I think I need a bit of a break from it…

Brief Biography: David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and the founding Director of the Institute for Data Science at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where he also founded the…

Taking stock on progress with 2026 ideas

The 17th annual Panda’s Thumb Photography Contest begins now, Monday, June 29, at 12:00 p.m., MDT (MDT = UTC(GMT) – 6 h). Owing to the short notice (we have been preoccupied), we will accept entries…

Aalto UniversitySchool of Arts, Design and ArchitectureOtaniementie 14Espoo, 02150FinlandApplication deadline: August 31, 2026, 11:59pmRead the original post hereAalto University School of Arts,…

I finished my comic project for Kawacon, lol it is done and I made something real!!

overall - what a fun day! had fun, no IT band pain post tri / no cramps on the run. finished on la crema vineyard with wine + pizza from diavola :D other thoughts - tris are tough for partners cause…

Just Wait ‘Til I Get These Fucking Rubber Bands Off by a lobster.

I’ve never been great at dealing with stress. I have a tendency to overthink, assume the worst and constantly worry, it’s a great combination! This summer has been the most stressful of my life. My…

In the midst of the legion horde, the Thousand Eyes of the Destroyer laughed at the blood of the fallen and the souls of the dead. This collection of texts tell of the many battles of the Galchutt…

The Tour de France gets a new climb, the Col du Haag. A dilapidated forest road has been repurposed into a cycle path and now awaits Tadej Pogačar and company as the final climb on Stage 14.…

ALT“At the Beach” (A la platja), drawn between c. 1910-1920 by the Catalan artist Feliu Elias. Ink and coloured pencil on paper.National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).

Windows blanked, end wall cornice added, gaps puttied, corner bevels adjusted. Ready for stucco. The arcade is coming along, but that'll get its own post.

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune is a cozy fantasy novel that follows Linus, a caseworker for a government organization that runs orphanages for magical children. As a cozy novel fan, I am…

Texas schoolchildren will learn Bible stories, "The Lord is My Shepherd" and "Blessed are the peacemakers."

While Anthropic and OpenAI have massive valuations, the ROI from enterprise AI is coming from applications and data, not the model itself. It’s not unlike the relational database market, which…

Ralph Nader (born 1934, still active today) is a consumer advocate and political leader who interviewed me for his radio show in 2016. Typospherian Elizabeth L. kindly typed up the following…

IDK how long this entry will be, but regardless it IS an entry! To put short, not much has really happened in June, aside from me going to watch the Backrooms movie and seeing TADC finale. The…

Deep in the Heart of Texas I’ve never been a good fit for this place. Even as a child, I was repulsed by the provincialism that permeates this society. Texas is one of the few states that mandates a…

I'm going to describe a character archetype to you, found in many modern comedies. These characters have an extremely high opinion of themselves, but are generally incompetent. They are also…

The Bible Shelf The other day I visited Aligro, a Swiss cash-and-carry supermarket. If you have never been to one, imagine a place where everything is sold in quantities suggesting that you are…

Investors instinctively turn to past performance when choosing funds. But new Morningstar research on 6,003 European funds finds it is far more reliable as a warning sign than a buy signal.

There are dozens forged or cast parts, like the one below, in an aircraft. Forming their shapes with polygon meshes and Bevel modifiers is difficult, because of their complex, rounded edges. Usually…

How I built Tinkerfont, a browser extension for inspecting and swapping fonts on live websites -- Manifest V3, content scripts, and a Firefox port.

Your browser does not support the video tag. I'm a generalist. I design, I code, I end up in a lot of places where typography matters but isn't really the job. Reviewing a client's staging site.…

When mihomo runs in TUN mode (stack: system, auto-route: true), starting it kills all network connectivity, including SSH. The problem isn’t the mihomo config — it’s two system forwarding…

For the last couple of weeks we’ve been drafting and re-drafting our discovery playback deck, straightening up the story we need to tell so that it’s clear. It’s also helping us create shared…

Ich bin seit gut 20 Jahren ein Touchpad-Nutzer. Zunächst auf iBook und MacBook, dann mit dem Magic Trackpad. Das lag daran, dass die Apple-Mäuse so schlecht, die Touchpads dagegen gut waren. Als ich…