There Are No Good Billionaires…
… but Dolly was pretty damn close. Send me an email Latest 3 posts 26 Aug, 2026 Happy Birthday and Nightmare Fuel 25 Aug, 2026 There Are No Good Billionaires… 25 Aug, 2026 Stupid Summer People Older…
In London On Hiroshima Day
“ Peace is not something that we passively wait for. Peace is something that we must seek out and cultivate. ” 1 ~ Michiko Yagi Just before lunch on the 6th of August, 2026, I left my office and…
Extreme Temperature Diary- Tuesday August 25th, 2026/Main Topic: ‘Bigger Climate Shocks Are On The Way’
The main purpose of this ongoing blog will be to track planetary extreme, or record temperatures related to climate change. Any reports I see of ETs will be listed below the main topic of the day.…
I bought an unreleased Teenage Engineering audio toy
Teenage Engineering SP-1 Stem Player I know very little about this device and only recently even heard that it existed; however, what I have learned is that at some point Teenage Engineering and…
Building A Functional Suitcase Car (Technically A Kart)
Engineers at Mazda built a prototype suitcase “car” in 1991 to showcase(!) at auto shows. It never made it to production. That’s a shame, the world might be so much different now if…
Joining the OSM US Charter Project program
Big announcement! An exciting and important update: I’m very pleased to announce that OldInsuranceMaps.net is now officially a Charter Project of OpenStreetMap US! OSM US is a US-based…
Racing to, well, somewhere around the finish
From Harper’s Weekly Review: A Georgia Army unit offered soldiers four days off to play Grand Theft Auto VI upon its release in the fall as a reenlistment incentive, streets were closed in…
WELCOME HOME STALIN
August 25, 2026 I’ve been all over the world and have seen both its good and sordid countries. One of the best run, most decent and honest nations I’ve seen is Canada. As George Bernard Shaw noted,…
How technology is transforming the modern Esports experience
Esports has become a thing - and with it a whole industry branch around it.
Memory ordering in CPUs
I frequently see statements about differences between strongly ordered architectures (like x86 or SPARC) and weakly ordered architectures (like ARM or RISC-V), with the confident assertion that…
Teaching 'Huckleberry Finn'
"Huckleberry Finn" is disappearing from high school reading lists: It's too difficult to teach.
The future in the 1990s - Psion and Palmtop Magazine
I have scanned in lots of 1990/2000s "Palmtop" magazines and list some of the articles within them, and their future predictions: "Do you remember when you didn't have a palmtop computer? Life was so…
What I'd Tell My Younger Self About Building Software and Scaling Teams
If I could go back in time, what would I tell myself? Lessons from a career of building software and scaling teams, in four pillars: product, process, engineering, and people.
Progressively Enhancing Grid Lanes
The more I think about it, the less sympathy I have for Grid Lanes. You create a DOM order that you think makes sense, then you mess it up with CSS. Then, if you're aware of the problem, you fix it…
Who Should I Watch in College Football?
To go along with my delve back into live sports, if I were going to start watching college football, who should I watch? I went to Drexel University who didn't have a football team. I had no college…
Talking About Water Tasting on the News
I was the guest in the newsroom at KTVU, based in Oakland, CA, to talk about my Water Tasting Classes. The segment went super fast, but I overcame my cringe to watch it and I think I did pretty good!…
Commonplace Book 2
As the philosopher and writer Paul Valéry explained in 1938, “A poet’s function is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.”…
Wrapping up in Cherington
My last harvest of the 2026 season with Glorious Grasslands on a rescheduled day due to heavy rain forecast later this week....
Photography
I’ve never been too far from a camera. Ever since my parents gave me a Miranda Sharpshooter for Christmas at the age of 8, I’ve had a succession of different cameras. As I reached my late 20s and…
The Long Walk: Shipping Your Writing
§ July 2025 The honeymoon is over. The first draft was a thrill. Now, it's a tombstone in the ‘review’ folder. Here’s how you ship: 1. Slay the Enemy. Your enemy is fear. You feel it now. A tightness…
Staring into the Void
Staring into the Void - by Myles Marino
Nekus
Nekus by BioRain Games Kill monsters and use their corpses to evolve into more powerful forms. Play on itch.io
nitter needs support
Look, I had a different post scheduled for today. That is, until I stumbled upon this Hacker News submission, Nitter project received cease and desist , linking to this GitHub issue: All public…
[Image description: Screencap meme of Robert Downey Junior as Iron Man inside the suit. End…
morganitism:Jarvis remove that gimmick blog’s addition from that otherwise good thread [Image description: Screencap meme of Robert Downey Junior as Iron Man inside the suit. End description.]
Andrew Tate’s sports cars are rented–so what?
I saw this going viral, “Andrew Tate exaggerates and did not own supercars in photos, his lawyers say.” This is the biggest nothing-burger ever. The media are so desperate to paint him as…
Politiser le bien-être, Camille Teste
Quelques notes de lecture, en vrac.
Debugging Ubiquiti's 5G Backup on AT&T
For a mobile 'mini homelab' project I'm working on, I wanted to use 5G Internet as a primary 'on-to-go' connection, but still have the ability to plug in another Internet connection when I put the…
Party Planning 4 Bubble Wrapp, Library, & Mod Gallery*~⋆｡‧˚ʚ🎪ɞ˚‧｡⋆
Everything in my lyfe is going to get a little more enchanted over the next couple of months and I can't wait but also I can because tbh I need to take it slow and enjoy summer because it's sooo…
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i'm still smiling, in spite of it all the ache in my chest doesnt quite go away, but it's balanced out by the golden sparks crackling along my ribs butterflies in my tummy orbiting their ball of…
Preview Environments That Actually Promote to Prod
Overview Last week’s post closed with a promise that was really four promises: preview environments per change, release trains where stable and canary share a namespace, weighted traffic…
How Will This Cycle End?
Parallels between the Go-Go Years and the 2020s boom. The post How Will This Cycle End? appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...
reminder on sovereignty
when people can’t control you, you may witness them try all tactics and throw all kind of drama at you. when people can’t influence you, they may get very angry at you. when people can’t overpower…
A day in the life of an acquisitions manager
What's an acquisitions manager? At my workplace (in education) that means i oversee a large department's purchasing. This includes things like: monitoring several budget lines; negotiating with…
Daily Thoughts 25 August 2026
Thoughts 💭 I saw a YouTube video titled "Gen X aren't burnt out, they're done." I absolutely feel that. I'm done with the crap. I'm done with the endless struggle. The endless and ever…
Have You Heard the Good News About Microlighter?
Dave Rupert wrote about shipping microlighter: a tool for handling syntax highlighting using the CSS Custom Highlights API. I saw his post the day he released it, and I had an implementation PR up…
An enabling environment for online regulation
In a previous post ( The Vibe of the ECHR ) I explored ways in which a regulatory policy agenda could acquire the halo effect of association with the European Convention on Human Rights. Whilst that…
No fishing
This pond dried out weeks ago. Earlier in the year, the council spent quite a lot of money trying to stop this from happening.24 words · 1 image
Meermin’s Summer Sale – Up to 50% Off
It could be just me, but I never knew that Meermin did sales outside of one-off sample sales, so when a friend of mine showed me that Meermin’s Summer Sale was beginning today, I knew I had...
I have a new fanfic up: Illogical Assumptions About Names
Illogical Assumptions About Names (421 words) by ilzolende Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek , Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply…
Oh, yeah. I need to do that today too, don’t I?
I didn’t even have a chance to forget that awful runoff today. I went to my allergist for a shot, and as I was leaving… there was Henry. Also waiting for a shot. I stopped to say hi, and…
Apple Not Changing "Hide My Email" Addresses After All
In July, I reported that Apple planned to migrate domains for both iCloud Private Relay (Sign in with Apple) and "Hide My Email" over to a new shared domain: private.icloud.com. While existing legacy…
mi tu li pali ala #789 - jan wawa
Full transcript Page 1 Panel 1: A woman with short spiky hair, jan Aki, is walking down the street. Panel 2: jan Aki: "seme?" Panel 3: The panel shows a second person, jan Mamolu a tired looking…
Héctor Puente Sierra - Revolution & Counter Revolution in the Spanish Civil War
In 1936 a revolutionary movement swept the Spanish state. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the German Revolution of 1918/1919 it was one of the most important workers' revolutions in history.…
New things for regular expressions in PostgreSQL (pg_tre and pg_re2)
Well, truth be told these are not all that new (couple of months), but I finally have gotten around to research it. So, let's see what's what. For starters I need some test data. Luckily, I have…
Humans are terrible programmers 2026w20
Collectively speaking humans have always been terrible at programming. Let's look at some real examples
Goodhart's Law Is a Prediction, Not a Warning
There is a particular comfort in citing Goodhart's Law. Someone proposes a metric. Someone else recites the line about measures and targets. Everybody nods at the wisdom of it. Then the metric ships…
Onboard vs Overhead
Sometimes when I see a plane flying overhead, I’m thankful I’m not on it. That I can stretch out, that I’m comfortable, and that isn’t me. This is not one of those times.…
If You Ain’t Got Nothing, You Ain’t Got Nothing To Lose
Watch Listen “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.” James Baldwin I spent 3 years with zero income before my first pre-sell flopped. 7,000 subscribers got…