Web browsers enable incredibly rich app development—and that’s radically easier than it used to be.

We were ahead last time too.

1979 was the year I got into buying and studying fanzines. That had a lot to do with Maximum Speed , the main mod publication, which that year was particularly high-profile and prolific. I recall a…

Hercules #13 is the last original issue of the run from Charlton. The comic is dated September 1969. The cover is by Sam Glanzman, the guy who has done all the covers for the series. The comic is…

My weekend project was to fix a leaky valve and a leaky connection for the irrigation system at my house. In the ten years I’ve lived here, I’ve replaced just about every sprinkler and a bunch of…

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Highlights include the initial release of command-line tool tblaunch to support automated workflows and a preview of fafalone's forthcoming rich edit control.

So, a bunch of my services run, or rather, ran, on an old Intel NUC 8 that I bought back in 2020 and have mostly used as a “random stuff goes here” server. A year and a half ago the fan…

You probably only have 78 keys on your keyboard. So why do you never use 12 of them?

So, catching up on some published volumes that I haven’t discussed yet in much detail… The Center for Social Presence arose out of a collision between a few different things, one of which…

<p>Last year on a whim, I completed the <a href="https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2025/10/27/atb-2025/">Around the Bay</a> 100km route. However this year I wasn’t…

 Integrating NUELOW Games' gothic and horror resources—such as their system-agnostic line of classic comic adaptations like Gothic Chillers—into Jason Vey’s Amazing Adventures (Troll Lord Games)…

There were 32 different kinds of apples for sale at Volante Farms in Needham last weekend, roughly tracking the 30 varieties listed on their dedicated apple web page . ¶ (They were out of Cosmic…

Today Mastodon launched a major redesign and it doesn't work for me ; I can't read the new design for any length of time due to font size and lack of contrast issues, among other flaws. In theory one…

The Index is valued at $1,435 USD on October 21, 2026, a gain of +43.50% since its inception in July 2026 at $1,000 USD.  Ben Rice: 2025 Topps Chrome Update Series #USC138 –…

Lawrence Abrams, Bleeping Computer: In an advisory published Tuesday, the PHP development team announced that it plans to release security updates on Wednesday, October 21, at 14:00 UTC (10:00 AM…

Now that it’s October, triathlon season has come to a stop. Although warmer than usual in Toronto, I have stopped swimming outdoors and cycling with my group. I still try to run two times a week and…

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Sitting easy at current country crossroads, Jeffrey Silverstein slips through the best shades of ambient country’s rising wave and the rippled revue of Cosmic Americana. An unflappable traveler of…

around about and therapy this week and turned out this time: the problem is that i am myself again other things said well, Yesterday :: Tuesday, 20th October 2026 :: Tomorrow

It's that time again: there are new Oracle JVM updates released today (Oct 20, 2026) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java 25, 21, 17, 11, and 8, as well as the newest…

Today is a big milestone, 150 days of posting without missing a day. Thank you everyone for all the support!

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

Why I Decided to Upgrade My C10 Cooling System Last summer, while driving my truck to car meets, I noticed it was getting fairly warm when we were moving very... The post Budget C10 Electric Fan…

The landing page for the Rubenerd Show hadn’t been updated since 2015. We were still using iTunes back in those days. Whoops. I’ve updated this with a link to the Overnightscape…

Recently, I've been hearing about people wanting to make an SMW Central alternative. As far as I can tell, the individuals who desire this the most are also the individuals most open to using GenAi.…

No one has ever asked me what I’ve learned making a blog entry a day for a year. And I hate that this dangerously flies very close to a LinkedIn-style post, but it’s what I’ve got to say today, which…

In the current AI discourse I keep hearing things like “being human means thinking and expressing independently”. Here is V. H. Belvadi: “…so I want to start with the fact...

Hi there, I’m Steven 👋 I enjoy solving hard problems. I currently work on the GPU performance team at Jane Street where I think hard about making models train faster on GPUs.

I've had medium to long hair for most of my life. I've dyed it red, blonde, purple, green, blue, magenta. I've shaved the side and had designs razored into my scalp. When I was younger (and…

GPU (Nvidia) GPU Architecture How is GPU architecture different from CPU architecture? This is a good article for the different sms, like sm_87: https://arnon.

A spooky one for the spooky season, Through Familiar Eyes is in pre-launch over on Backerkit. It's a kind of fairytale horror piece, self-contained with pregens with their own tiny tiny system. It's…

Ugly (UK) “In Samphedoo” Ugly (UK) are very polished, precise, and mannered in ways that don’t often overlap, which means they often sound sorta like modern musical theater crafted by…

At some point, I’m sure that most of you have seen one of those cute little sidewalk robots roaming around your city, probably on their way to deliver someone’s smash burger and fries.…

Many of us are living a bonus life (or two) because of modern medicine

Short to the point: there seem to be a divide between AI criticism and AI “accelerationists.” The divide being that on one side “they get it”, on the other they don’t.…

A running list of posts and blogs I really like, in the ante-chronological order of my findings – indeed. https://bungleinthejungle.bearblog.dev/there-go-200-of-my-closest-friends/ Camp is for adults…

Robert Yang made a web-based clicker game called Up the Vote in response to news about dismal voter registration rates among young people in New Zealand, where he lives. I enjoyed both reading about…

We’ve heard a lot about Amish disaster relief in North Carolina following Hurricane Helene, which, time flies, happened over two years ago now (September 2024). Amish crews from the Midwest and…

I have to admit I’m brought up a little short by things presupposed by this article by the European Space Agency about AMEC , a cloud in the Martian atmosphere that forms daily (by Martian reckoning)…

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.…

We mentioned that in a previous post, a couple of days after coming back from Japan, we had a Filming Day in Quebec City, with Olivier and Marie-Pier. The paper Governing Fairness in Insurance…

I have blogged every previous Cyan Kickstarter, so the foolish hobgoblin demands this post. Cyan is now crowdfunding the Myst Trilogy "Guild of Writers" Deluxe Collection. These are the three Myst…

There is another man with the same name as me. He is a professional bicyclist, and he is Swiss. I figured this out when I kept getting emails to firstnamelastname@gmail , but my email is…

This is a very long and detailed article and study on pricing yesteryear and today on a whole host of things. I’ll leave it to the reader to study for himself, but here are snippets. At a…

Covered here, but this is a more succinct listing of what models have been canceled for production. Maybe Beretta knew something we didn’t when they tried to buy Ruger. Maybe they should still…

Written by: Mindy Weisberger New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announced the launch of the New Jersey Supercomputer Initiative, at an event held on Oct. 20 in New Brunswick. New Jersey Governor…

Astonishingly, the U.S. president claimed this week that his use of the word “Shylock” in a recent speech was not meant to be antisemitic. When called on it, he claimed that he had never…

在未来的工作模式，或者说如何高效使用AI中我提到了那个笑话： AI流行之后，经常能看到一些社畜下了地铁以后还捧着电脑走路，因为电脑上的AI正在干活，不敢把电脑合上。 要想让AI不间断地干活，要么让自己的电脑24小时开机，要么租一台服务器（VPS），然后远程指挥AI。 前者对笔记本用户来说很难，所以这里主要说第二个办法 - 服务器。 配置好的效果 配置好了是这样的：…