We can see several mountains from our backyard deck, and the highest one is Table Mountain, 10,223 feet sea level. It's the highest point in the Highland Mountains, and also the highest point in…

Last year Nathaniel Lockhart, host of The Memory Machine Podcast, assembled a roundtable of video game and computer historians to answer the question: What is the first personal computer? This week…

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📓 have survived work, barely. 💤 took 3 very much needed naps. I’ve been having some weird anxiety dreams and nightmares this last week; it means interrupted sleep at night and having to catch up…

A gap between data and question

Last Friday I ran a session of Frydheld sector that was just kind of frustrating and didn't really match the expectations I have for myself. It's been some time since the session so I wanted to write…

Some security issues, Steam as a monopoly, and some blog posts.

I started writing a piece about "5 lukewarm programming takes", but I started to really hone in on this particular topic, and realized it might in fact be a hot take, and not belong in my…

Are we still talking about the whale? Or is there another net weight on the agenda? There is a specific way of talking without speaking, of hearing without listening, of looking without seeing — and…

A method in Go is a function attached to a type. A generic method is a method that declares its own type parameters, allowing it to work with types that are not fixed by its receiver. Consider a…

Mandla J. Radebe, The Lost Prince of the ANC: The Life and Times of Jabulani Nobleman ‘Mzala’ Nxumalo, 1955-1991 (Johannesburg: […]

Coalplating

18 trains. 100 hours and 9 minutes. If it all goes to plan for the trip from Kemijärvi to Lagos. But what happens if it doesn’t go to plan and something doesn’t work? Re-plan and…

Rust "Crate" Libraries compromised with malicious code. Unknown number of programs / systems security compromised as almost all Rust programs pull in some "crates". Continue reading →

My wife and I switched from Facebook Messenger and RCS to Signal almost a year ago for all our messaging needs. We have no plans to stop using Signal , but to be honest, Signal kind of sucks as a…

The closest coffee shop to where I lived in Venice, (the Los Angeles Venice) back in 2020. I miss it.I'm planning on taking a break from Good Rectangles for at least a few weeks after the…

This is not a trail. It started years ago on the bluffs at Devil’s Lake State Park, when someone decided that rather than walking down to the trailhead about 50 yards away, they could cut…

The means used by people who can't code to accrue their cognitive debt and their impostor feeling. The latest means used by companies to accrue technical debt and to create online popup stores.

Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto…

Developing a framework for a Patients' AI Bill of Rights for hospitals and medical centers that patients can understand as a standard of care.

I have no proof that the above story happened, but I have had my own “Gary” experience back in the early 2000s, back when I lived in Toronto. And yes, I’ll name the person and place: Joe Sacco,…

I love seeing films where your hero mopes around the screen for two hours, face tripping them, don't you? Yes, that's why we tune into hugely positive role-model archetype characters like Superman…

Running document containing notes on deploying a development PostgreSQL 16 container using Docker & Docker Compose.

In the 80s, there were various visual expressions of being working class / poor, both in real life and culturally (e.g. Roseanne). In 2026, the aesthetics of poverty seem to be a bigger sin than…

Most days, the girls would eat their lunch at school, like school-lunch, whatever is on their menu. Other days, whatever is on their menu doesn’t sound very enticing, so they...

I have been a fan of Third Wave Water (TWW) for several years now. Their espresso profile mineral treatment gets me pretty close to the coffee I used to make at the cafe we owned for a few years…

And I made a cool thing in Expense that I find incredibly useful. Once a month comes along and I have my statements, I import the PDFs into Expense and let it reconcile the expenses. It looks up if…

The Aestheticization of the Left

Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. In 4th year of school we had to write…

I've been protective of my hearing since I started listening to cassettes of children's music on a Sony Walkman in the late 1980s. I'd keep the volume low so as not to damage my…

Good luck with the kids while I’m in space, dear!

These clouds look like they’re in a hurry though, to be honest, I can’t remember if they were moving fast or not.

Admittedly, both Sharpee and Chord are still very young and cranky. I continually find seams in both through working with Chord. In my latest set of activities, I started to port my old Textfyre…

Sunday I woke up at 2am CST, had a lyft scheduled for 3am CST and started making my way home from banana ball in OKC. (That post to come, but it was easier for me to knock...

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Today is the day I got a second chance when the surgeon—this time last year—removed a foot of colon in order to exorcise a small cancerous growth. I am eternally...

If you already read my “ What Is the Point of the DMA? ” piece yesterday, this morning I added a lengthy footnote regarding the DMA’s predecessor, the GDPR. Click through to read the entire note, but…

To keep myself off my phone, I print articles out (reader view, four-pages-per-sheet, double-sided), fold them twice and stuff them in my pocket for later, then onto my shelf if they were…

It is a well-established law of homelab physics: if a task can be automated, it will be automated—until it violently consumes your entire digital existence. In our Night-Tower setup, our self-hosted…

After the talk with his sister, Natalia, Rogério went to bed with a heavy feeling. He couldn't pinpoint exactly what it was; his intuition was screaming at him that maybe twins exist – but it wasn't…

Do you remember when Furbys were a national security threat? All those brave, strong military men, terrified of a triangle-shaped rat thing with enormous ears. Sure, I was scared of them too, but for…

A picture of my wife in Morocco

From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia&#8217;s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 92-93: Local rulers imported Indian practices as a means of…

In 1968 the dilapidated freighter Corita hastily leaves Freetown to avoid a customs inspection. Captain Lansen (Eric Porter) has a cargo of dangerous explosives which he is smuggling so he can…

If you're still clinging to cable or want to save more money on streaming, I've got a guide that can help. Read more › The post Huge cord cutting guide update appeared first on Advisorator.

The show continues to wear its anime inspirations on its sleeve with The Death of Superman by way of the Cell Saga. It’s a fun and pretty enough blend, though the characters continue to be fairly…

I can see why the expressive and fluid moveset offered really grabbed people and inspired to come back and build on the original tech demo, but unfortunately the rest of the game acts as a good…

I write these words on the evening of August 24th (composing tomorrow's post tonight...I do this sometimes). Sitting with Murder The (Internet) Cat on my left demanding attention and my mind…