A capacitive dropper is one simple method used in some transformerless power supply circuits. In this method a capacitor is connected in series with the AC supply to limit the current going into the…

One of the reasons I started this blog was to connect with others with similar values, and who are interested in similar things as I am. I find it a...

Everyone has probably heard of Wordle, which is a fun game itself, but I think I prefer this one to it. It really makes me think a lot more, and I usually can't get all the categories. There always…

A photogram I did way back when. Actually I made the belt part. The ass stole from somewhere online. Bill Evans playing something beautiful.

You need something soulful that'll make you do the funky chicken? You got it.

Last Updated on October 21, 2026 by Kay Hokkaido is one of the best places in Japan for skiing and snowboarding, thanks to its amazing powder snow. When we visited this year, my husband (who happens…

Link for Registration The flagship program of FDPPI for 2026 namely the IDPS 2026 is scheduled for November 21 in Bangalore at Hotel Fairfield Marriott, Rajaji nagar, Bengaluru. The program will be a…

TL&DR: Programmers writing Cisco Nexus OS code should have known better. They didn’t (care?). One can understand that an operating system written in the late 1980s generates crappy suboptimal error…

I just spent all morning searching through all my Gemini chat sessions for a particular conversation thread we had several weeks ago. I remembered that the later part of the thread had the useful…

Mt Shirouma-dake (白馬岳, shirouma-dake) is a 2932m peak located in the Northern Alps of Japan, right above the village of Hakuba. With a hiking course of around 12 - 14 hours, it can be done as a long…

We are currently testing a new WAF for our organization. After activating it, we noticed that some requests never hit our server. Further investigation showed that the root cause was linked to our…

I am back in Belgrade.... But my suitcase is not! 😯😔 A short connection in Charles de Gaulle airport is most likely the cause, andc here are several Paris - Belgrade flightsca day, so I am hopeful.

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Bookmarked bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/php-warns-admins-of-two-critical-flaws-emergency-patches-coming-tomorrow by Lawrence AbramsWell that’s all PHP-based services shut down for now.

Former US Ambassador Chas Freeman: “In an exchange between Ansarallah [Houthis] and the Saudis, the Saudis lose, because they have so much to lose and the Ansarallah has almost nothing to lose.”…

Toxic culture rarely starts with a bad actor. It starts with the leader who saw it, said nothing, and called it patience.

As a product person, you quickly learn the art of saying no. You have brilliant colleagues who come up with all kinds of ideas, and you'll only ever be able to invest in a small fraction of them.

Looking at https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/utility/bitset/count, I was intrigued to see popcount mentioned in the “See also” section. Handy. That made me curious to see how the stdlibs…

This capacitive voltage divider calculator helps us to find the C1 and C2 capacitor values for dividing an AC input voltage into a lower AC output voltage. We just have to enter the input AC voltage…

The very strong El Nino appears to have hit its peak earlier than predicted a few months ago, suggesting a substantial weakening later this autumn and winter. Let's begin by looking at the sea…

Consistently wrong about Computers, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence and Immortality - While educated readers typically consider science fiction as more of a lens on our present world rather…

BT.1886 Color Space Conflation The Standard: ITU-R BT.1886 defines only a reference Electro-Optical Transfer Function (EOTF). No white point. No color primaries. The Claim: Despite this, Charles…

A terracotta sarcophagus bearing a relief of a Silenus mask has been discovered at the ancient site of Attouda in western Turkey. It is the first time one of the cylindrical terracotta sarcophagi…

Twenty Years Ago on FITK Fríða Frænka, an Antique Shop in the lower two floors of a house on Vesturgata, is a pleasantly over-stuffed collection of curios, furniture and household items. The pack-rat…

Decompilation turned games into raw material. Xbox is leaning in, Navok wants a moat, and the fans want Batman.

I just lit a fire....literally. I have a fire going most days this time of year. I chop and stack the wood myself, which means constant sweeping, woodchips everywhere, and a house that smells like…

212 Westbound Part 2 of 2 · Complete Background & supporting material Marlee slid out of the booth, alarmed. “Are you joking?” “Not at all,” Garrett said, scanning the aisle. “I saw it; I’ll take…

In my last article I spoke on CLoudflare tunnels as well as Ngrok ones. As we were wrapping that, I found a clean approach to just adding a sidecar to a Kubernetes pod to create tunnels on the fly. I…

Donald Justice on Edwin Arlington Robinson: “Robinson’s techniques were more or less the same as those of his contemporaries, the meters strict always, so strict and even jingly at times as to…

What happens when your rich, eccentric villain of an uncle leaves you his legacy? You get a cat, obviously.

A huge bison seems to stare directly at us, lit up by the late afternoon light in April near the exit of Tierpark in Berlin.

Handy Windows utility for keeping things up to date | UniGetUI by Devolutions | Windows package manager GUI https://devolutions.net/unigetui/ 'One GUI for WinGet, Scoop, Snap, Chocolatey, Pip, Npm,…

In a market full of talkers, the builder has an unfair advantage.

i joined a new webring! the Creatively Weird Webring :) see it on my homepage.

For most of our lives - atleast mine - ambition was supposed to be an all consuming fire. You burned in the flame and like a phoenix you were born anew. But The Bear, posits a question about what…

When I was about 20 years old, I began to notice a strange re-occurring phenomenon on my right hand. Maybe just once a year a small black spot appears on my finger. It stayed for a week or so, then…

Part 1 of the Data Structures catalogue · The Catalogues A slice is not a growable array. It is a small value that describes part of an array it does not own. Every surprising thing slices do follows…

I apologise for being absent so long, the day job has kept me busy for a lot longer than originally expected – with a little luck next year should be a lot better for the project. That said a…

Standing behind a blue coroplast sign reading “Stronger Alberta within a united Canada” – surely a big step down from the heady days of a “Sovereign Alberta within a united Canada” – Premier Danielle…

Nine slice isn't just a technical trick—it's the gateway to beautiful, intricate user interfaces that modern design has forgotten how to create. This deep dive explores how AI-powered generation…

I’m painfully aware that I’m a bit of a nostalgia poster. Most things I post about on here are basically baked in millennial nostalgia. When I post about current events or recent trends, it’s usually…

The first UK screening of Rogue Trooper took place at the British Film Institute (BFI) as part of the BFI London Film Festival, bringing together an incredible mix of cast, creatives and die-hard…

 

From Blessed Karl of Austria : His Imperial Royal Highness Imre von Habsburg-Lothringen , archduke of Austria, is the great-grandson of the last emperor and king of Austria-Hungary, Blessed Karl…

I built a Mac dictation app in about a day. Press Caps Lock, talk, and your words appear at the cursor in any app.

The Internet is having a bad few days. One of the many recent security issues is a compromised certificate authority that -- get this -- used "4" as…

Modern CCTV cameras come in many types, shapes and sizes, and can have a multitude of different features. In this post, I’ll share my thoughts and opinions on choosing appropriate cameras for a…

Publisher: Capcom (2002). Review posted 2026/10/21.

Publisher: Limited Run (2023). Review posted 2026/10/21.