In a movie that I recently watched , the weather (a typhoon, to be precise) plays a key role for the progression of the plot. To foreshadow this, weather reports are used as background noise during…

Heading back for a second bite from The Hold Steady 's 2006 break-out album Boys & Girls In America . And, sure, from the first beat it's a made-to-order indie rock anthem, rousing riffs and…

I had a wonderful chat about design systems and AI with Donnie D’Amato on his wireframe show. We talked about all sorts of spicy topics, and I feel like this conversation captures a lot of…

The Analysis Situs ver. 2026.1 is now available. This spring release summarizes what we've been doing in the field of CAD algorithms over the past 4-5 months. You can download the Windows x64…

(This is a continuation of my October 2024 post). Tire hit the asphalt. Was on my way to the gym to test out my two night lights. Better get it over with no matter how tired I feel. “I don’t normally…

If my development environment needs the internet to work, that's a dependency bug. The network is the least reliable resource I have. Keep it out of the critical path. I test this by turning Wi-Fi…

ComicBook's fawning over the news a collection of British comics is being put up for auction, alongside more DC/Marvel back issues, and even harcover compilations: Excalibur Auctions is running the…

Every so often he had to skim off his bubbling thoughts. — Jules Renard, Journal 1887-1910 **** One ruins the mind with too much writing. One rusts it by not writing at all. — Joseph Joubert, The…

There is a functional relationship between the mass of the proton and the charge radius of the proton that is consistent with experimental measurements of those quantities, that doesn't have an…

It was Golden Week. On Sunday (Constitution Day), I went for a ride with Emma over to Ōizumi Gakuen. It was a nice reminder of how something that can seem impossible (will Emma ever learn to ride a…

The subtitle of the first Climate Biennial, Rehearsing the Unexpected, captures the biennial’s central idea: learning to navigate moments like ours, when the present is shaky and the future uncertain

by Andrew Rice, The Atlantic In the summer of 2017, Keeron Wilson was an 18-year-old deckhand working on a spectator boat in Bermuda, serving cocktails and carving out a modest living as part of the…

As I mentioned a few days ago, the Emacs 31 release process was on the verge of starting. Now Sean Whitton writes to tell us that the Emacs 31 branch has been created and that the feature freeze has…

These are the most popular names in the nation. But do they really represent our naming style? The post Meet the Top American Baby Names of 2025 appeared first on Namerology.

Hot dogs are acceptable in this house. It's even better with the works -- chili, sauerkraut, mustard....yum! This was the perfect puzzle to reminisce on carnival and food truck summers. We used to go…

This reading list is courtesy of Vivaldi browser, who pay me decent money to fight for a better web and don’t moan at me for reading all this stuff. We’ve just released Vivaldi 7.9, with even more…

Via Open Culture comes this YouTube video showing how librarians can save a wet book. The main secret seems to be unlimited supplies of paper towels. See also Reading habits

Hi everyone! Over the last few months I’ve covered several types of wire antennas: This time let’s focus on how to actually get them into the air when you’re operating […] The post Portable Ham…

the trap of low-hanging fruit

Analysis of CVE-2026-XXXXX, a Linux kernel LPE vulnerability in ESP and RxRPC packet fragmentation handling.

I'm at home, sitting on the kitchen table. I just took my boys to school and I'm about to start my work. I'm writing this message directly to you. And you are reading it. Hello! Isn't that funny?…

 5/6/26 Fishermen's TerminalFor our second outing during International Urban Sketchers Week, USk Seattle chose Fishermen’s Terminal, which we think of as our inaugural site. A bit chillier and…

Apple introduced the HomePod mini six years ago, in 2020. I'm not one into smart speakers, but the feature that made me take a closer look was their ability to form stereo pairs, without any direct…

McZee meets a penguin!

A Technical Book Review - TL;DR- Read “Vibe coding” – Ignore the title, read the book. There’s an old saying, if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you? Given one’s need for…

Welcome to Technology Short Take #195! It wasn’t planned this way, but it seems like this Tech Short Take is heavily slanted toward AI/LLM-related articles and posts. Topics like security…

We woke up at 6:30, ate some granola, and then rode out with lights on as it was still dark at 7:00am. The ride through town was beautiful in the early morning with no traffic and surprisingly few…

On April Fools in 2021, the popular xkcd comic ran Checkbox , which was a Morse code puzzle in disguise. (It’s interesting to see the community trying to figure out what it actually does .) Engineer…

Stuck in the middle. With you?

Today I learned how to fill in an emoji with CSS. Here’s an example: .filledEmoji { color: transparent; text-shadow: '0 0 0 #86efac'; }

Explore Afghan flavour and Texan technique We're approaching BBQ season and we've got just the thing to get you ready to grill like a pro this summer. Cue Point co-founders Mursal Saiq and Joshua…

In Praise of Crazy Visionaries by Jeffrey Blehar Ted Turner passed away today, at the age of 87. He had been out of the public eye for several years now, first retiring from corporate responsibility…

Understanding and navigating federal data can be tricky– for both novices and experts! But there is now a resource to help you understand this complex ecosystem. Through support from the UC…

A response to gb's post, "radio is cool, actually".

[Images: Adobe Stock, Mitchell Luo/Unsplash] By Chris Stokel-Walker Twenty years ago, if you asked the average person what Google was, they’d tell you it was a search engine. The company became…

Well I have got a quarter way to my goal of having read (and written about) 100 poems, short stories and essays. What I have gained so far: Discovering Ellen Gilchrist's Rhoda stories, which are…

We had a mild winter; still, this is the first real rose of the season, spotted on walkies. Boxnoggin was ecstatic at the prospect of watering the lower bit of the plant, I contented myself ... Read…

One of the other librarians emailed this morning asking if the rest of us had gotten an email from an outfit called Librar Labs. We hadn't, but I looked them up. And yeah, this whole webpage can fuck…

TO: All Garden Personnel / Feline Sentry Units FROM: The Chief Agronomist (The Grumpy Welshman) DATE: 08 May 2026 SUBJECT: Pre-Deployment of Lycopersicon (Tomato Units) Feline Sentry Units on Patio…

The Department of War (DOW) has posted new information on UFOs, at the request of U.S. President Donald Trump. Never-before-seen files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) are part of the…

I’m considering using the þorn & eð characters in my posts, but I do worry that people who aren’t used to seeing them might find their presence annoying or confusing. Like, what it turns away…

Retro Games Ltd has delayed THEA1200 to December 4, 2026. A follow-up Q&A confirms pre-order status, pricing, and product plans. The post THEA1200 December Date Confirmed After Retro Games Ltd…

A brief update about a photo show

His relationship was amazing at first, but it's become a nightmare. But even after he's been given the perfect opportunity, he can't bring himself to leave! via Paging Dr. NerdLove.

The Fritzes award honors the best interfaces in a full-length motion picture in the past year. Interfaces play a special role in our movie-going experience, and are a craft all their own that…

Consolidation in the [[Data Engineering]] market is happening quickly. Tools from the [[Modern Data Stack]] get unified into bigger [[Data Platform|Data Platforms]]. This note highlights the latest…

When things start going all Highfalutin,the nerds reappear from their lair, and try and fix the stuff the Alpha-Males did while they were away. Sick of getting ambient sand from the chill out room…

The tech industry has declared that AI will increase developer productivity. Task-level productivity feels obvious, though concrete evidence is elusive — for example, METR reported a widely cited…