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 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)…

So I just finished the page proofs for How to Run Your Evil Empire, which has me thinking about the differences between writing the first draft, revising it, and polishing it. For those of you who…

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…

Celebrate this semiquincentennial Halloween in ghoulishly revolutionary fashion with this Founder-era pumpkin soup. Use your jack-o-lantern’s excised body parts to make it!

Performance budgets need a representative worst, while Safari changes identity resolution and Chrome improves module recovery and memory debugging.

It is commonly said that AI today is the worst it will ever be. This is true. AI today is probably the most centralized it will ever be as well. Currently the most reliable way we know how to make…

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…

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…

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…

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 ,…

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…

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...

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…

Daily Drawing 1025

Seeing Bistro right-way up, and improving depth buffer precision.

And Their Roles in Creating and Maintaining the Highway's Kitschy-Americana Environment The post The Women of Route 66 appeared first on WednesdaysWomen.

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…

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…

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…

After getting back to consulting, I've been in the lucky/unlucky situation where I get to create and maintain different agent setups for various clients, each with their own unique requirements and…

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…

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…

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…

duckdb-differential now ships an Agent Skill, so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can version, branch and replicate DuckDB databases correctly.

10x productivity, 10x outputs or 10x frustration? Are we actually more productive? Aren’t we working even more? Where are the productivity gains? Depends who you ask. You can hear bold claims all…

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…

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…

I know this is probably a crazy idea for a post, but before I wrote the scene I needed to know if men’s trousers in the Regency era had a waistband. So here goes… Yes, men’s trousers in…

How the derivatives market turned a library of paper contracts, strained by every crisis from the 2005 backlog to Lehman to lockdown, into named clauses, versioned definitions, an open shared model…

My friend David, who is an outstanding writer, once sent me this text message regarding notes on my latest manuscript: “You’re the best person to receive a note because no […]

I have been part of a church that offers a pumpkin patch every year, a huge undertaking, from the offloading of the pumpkins to the selling of them. That South Florida church funded a variety of…

by Wesley Moore I previously announced that the forum would be made read-only at the end of October 2026. It was always my intention to replace it with a static archive some point after that. Today…

1. Sparrows tumble in and out of the sky on unknowable little brown bird business. 2. I hack out a crisp quarter slice out of a red cabbage head and peer within to admire the white on purple…

The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark TALKIE for, inter alia , "downloadable computer chatbot software for simulating conversations in the field of entertainment, education, creative…

I've been recently speaking with Oukitel about their vital apps configuration while testing their devices for Android Enterprise. I raised the issue during earlier testing and it was passed to…

The prompt for the Daily Create, with a Write Out theme, is to capture the voice of a river. I used our Mill River, which once was the scene of a massive dam failure and tragedy. The floodremains…

On October 20, 2026, a major WebPKI security incident was publicly disclosed at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com: the private keys of eight intermediate Certificate Authorities (CAs) operated by eMudhra…

I continue to receive great questions from folk and continue to try to answer them. Here is a wide range on key issues for anyone interested in the informed study of the New Testament.…

“And you’ll ask: why doesn’t his poetry speak of dreams and leavesand the great volcanoes of his native land?Come and see the blood in the streets.” I explain a few thingsPablo Neruda…

Can a vampire also be a ghost? One of the great questions of our time. For my money, CE Ward’s “House of Wonders” answers it pretty well. I came late to CE Ward’s work,…

Prof HAKIZIMANA Maurice The Front for the Refoundation of the Nation (FRN), announced in Goma on October 12, 2026, under the leadership of former president Joseph Kabila, is more than…

Well, dear readers, after an unexpectedly VERY busy morning, all I did from two on was sleep. I slept and slept and just when I thought I could sleep no more, I slept again. You see, she of the Evil…

Any Questions Gaming beat World Sports Invictus Gaming 2-0 in Week 1 of VCT Threshold China 2026.

Blocking Identity Resolution Infrastructure | WebKit: In our iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS 27 releases, Safari and WebKit block network access to identity resolution infrastructure to prevent…

So, I added a post about my new group where I would be sharing all the graphics that I have made over the years. All the scrap kits, all the web graphics, all the email stationery, all the tubes, all…

Starting from July 6, 2027, Revit 2022 and older can no longer create or open Revit Cloud Models, including Revit Cloud Worksharing.

For several days, I was struggling with a strange issue on my Mac mini M2 Pro: soon after restart, like 5mins or so, entire system would becomes super slow. UI would visibly render bit by bit,…

For decades, leadership was viewed as the natural next step in career growth. Moving into management meant greater influence, greater responsibility, and often greater fulfillment. Today, that…