Critics respond to the latest adaptation of the iconic video game franchise.

I've been really eager to listen to this album from the moment I saw this fantastic front cover: a step further than just encouraging your fans to play MTG during your live show is to adopt the…

A productivity suite that willfully rejects common notions on how such software should behave, on an operating system most haven't heard of, running on a processor 30 years ahead of its time.

The most human thing about us has always been our urge to build sanctuaries. Now coders, neuroscientists, and AI are helping us build them inside the machine — and the results are stranger and more…

There were 42 principal masonry forts and dozens of smaller batteries built as part of the U.S. “Third System” of coastal defense between 1816 and 1867 to protect major harbors. You know…

How about this great assemblage of nine Italian torpedo boats passing the Ponte Girevole in Taranto between the Mar Grande and Mar Piccolo in the spring of 1960? Leading the parade is the 130-ton,…

In the Newsletter this weekAnalysis: EU rail ticketing reform proposal is out next week: this is what to look out forBullshit Meter, retrospective: Berlin-Warszawa with FlixtrainGood week: Record PKP…

I can’t help but notice a pattern: I seem to end up writing circular or recursive ideas. I think it’s a thinking habit, for better or worse. Recursive thinking is good at finding the hidden…

L et's begin the week at The Twilight Zone Vortex , where Jordan watches the comedy episode " From Agnes–With Love " so we don't have to. It's prime, and sad, evidence of the show's dramatic decline…

How we moved a Kubernetes-hosted product from a development setup to a platform with controlled delivery, policy checks, observability, and tested recovery.

Parkinson’s law asserts that work expands to fill the time available for its completion. It also applies to how much space is allowed in one’s life for work; it is a gas that expands to occupy all…

Jet Lag The Game - Taiwan 2026, Adam Chase, Ben Doyle, Sam Denby My rating: Loved it! This season was amazing! One of my favorites so far. The game mode is great (and would only ever work in Taiwan’s…

Before you get too excited, NO, I’m not giving away any financial advice. However, whatever the global markets are doing right now doesn’t match the physical reality of the Iran war.…

TYPES 2026 Skyline of Lindholmen where TYPES 2026 was held. [Zoom in! 🔍 ] This week was TYPES 2026. As usual, TYPES was a nice conference, with lots of likeminded people gathered to discuss type…

Anya Kamenetz on how nothing is ever going back to normal, listing out some of what we’ll have to do to rebuild after we emerge from the superpower suicide the current administration is putting the…

Matthias on the importance of curating the web in the age of AI. I agree. (Thus these link posts.) Isaac Kolding on how reading is good for you and how it expands your effective freedom. I also…

TYPES 2026 Skyline of Lindholmen where TYPES 2026 was held. [Zoom in! 🔍 ] This week was TYPES 2026. As usual, TYPES was a nice conference, with lots of likeminded people gathered to discuss type…

It's time once again for our regular Open Thread. Talk about whatever you want, so long as it isn't Culture War. Overhauls are Falklands Part 1, The Spanish-American War Part 4, LCS Parts one, two…

Almost every modern web application will need a REST API for the frontend to communicate with, and in almost every scenario, that frontend is going to expect to work with JSON data. As a result, the…

[1962] Before the British Invasion Telstar rocketed up the charts everywhere. This was an even more modern invasion from the British Isles I feel like Joe Meek must have gone "I really like the…

Before we get into this issue, I thought I'd just let you know that Scott has launched a free Mindful Design Toolkit , packed with good stuff for you. Polypane snippets store Polypane is already the…

Companies like Anthropic have one advantage in the world of SaaS. They're developing a product that serves their own Industry sector. This is a very rare situation and it's why most SaaS products…

One of the fascinating threads in “The Last Dance” documentary is the set of changes that took the Chicago Bulls from being a top-two team in the Eastern Conference to arguably the…

Perhaps one of the best Apple Intelligence decisions I've ever heard, the company announced this week that users will be able to swap Apple's AI model to a rival's to control the new AI system. That…

High School Hallway by Matt Dempsey CC BY-SA "You don't know what you're consuming!*" It's a loose translation of what my grandmother used to say to me when I refused to eat something 'exotic' (in my…

Hyperlink Havoc is basically the classic link dump you’ve probably seen on other people’s pages — only this one is curated by me, filled with things I’ve read and found interesting or resonant in…

a week spent trying to manage my anger and grief. reading a tree grows in brooklyn hasn’t helped, either. time to go scream.

One of the most revealing leadership lines I’ve read in a long time came from Robert Caro, now 90, still writing the final volume of his Lyndon Johnson biography. The post Note #37: Strategic…

Your regular reminder that shitting on OSS on social media is a selfish thing to do. Good job sapping volunteer maintainers' motivation in exchange for your "internet points". Next time: try rolling…

Loosening the setscrew didn't release the thimble

Writing to you from a feverish state, but saw Peige’s monthly reflection over on Pretend Typewriter and was inspired to look back on the month of April. Yes, I know it’s May 8. + The first couple of…

As part of my birthday present earlier this year, Fern got me a half day cooking course for Outdoor Dirty Cooking and smoking workshop from Howl Bushcraft, which took place a couple of Sundays ago.…

I ran across a reference to Moore’s Law the other day. This was named after Gordon Moore, an engineer who later became one of the founders of Intel. In 1965, Moore observed that the number of…

“If you could visit anywhere, where would you go?” It’s one of those first-meeting(s) questions that sounds simple, but actually says a lot about a person. If you are ever wondering, the answer has…

Every now and then, we like a Chardonnay with that rich, buttery flavor produced by malolactic fermentation. You can spend almost as much as you want on wine, but we wondered whether you really need…

C’è una specie di convitato di pietra, nel dibattito furibondo sul caso di Delitto di Garlasco, ed è curioso che quasi nessuno sembri volerlo nominare apertamente. Il confronto pubblico procede ormai…

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If you think your CTO is losing the fight on AI, get them to read this one. The CTO’s Incoming Storms Let me name the six conversations I’m watching land on CTOs right now, and the stance I’d want…

TGIF! Here is this week's mix. Enjoy!Songs to check out:01. Antigravity by Metric02. Little Death by past self03. Dopamine by Robyn04. A Step Ahead by Misty Mountain05. Underground by 2DCat06. The…

As a software engineer, I almost don’t code anymore, but I instruct AI to do so on my behalf. And while I am at it, and I don’t necessarily need to share a lot of of myself in the descriptions I also…

Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 just wrapped with a finale that earned its ending and a run that never once asked you to care about the multiverse. In a franchise that turned every streaming show into…

The traditional BLCKDGRD Bigass Holy Day Pynchon's Birthday post, he is 89 today: I wouldn't be me without his novels, especially Gravity's Rainbow , Mason & Dixon , and double especially Against the…

During this period the moon’s phase will reach its last quarter phase on Saturday May 9th. At that time the half-illuminated moon will rise near 03:00 and will remain in the sky the remainder of the…

Antony Szmierek Chalk Opening with a deadpan vocal and a low swagger of bass line, Chalk is the latest release from Antony Szmierek. Depicting a game of 8-ball, there is a startling, poetic vividness…

The update from yesterday that introduced custom team logos also introduced a bug that caused issues when saving data, especially on Windows. This has now been solved and I will do more testing on…

I Think That I Might Love You is my sister Carla's fifth solo album. When you add in the TeenCanteen and Poster Paints albums, she has built up quite a discography since the summer and fall of 2016…

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Four states have purged Muslim voters by the millions. The states are West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan and Kerala. Forgive me the ... READ MORE

Last weekend, Cambridge United secured promotion in the most Cambridge way possible, scrambling a 0-0 draw and relying on other teams failing to win. Work felt a bit like this, trying to keep…