A look at how one of the oldest open source projects grew up.

Did last week's heatwave really beat 1976? Not likely, says Paul Homewood, who argues the Met Office's "hottest evah" claims fall apart the moment you look at where the readings came from. The post…

If you’re a lemon lover, this Three Ingredient Lemon Dessert is about to become your newest obsession. Made with just three simple ingredients — double cream, sugar, and fresh lemons — it’s one of…

Here’s an under-the-radar gem I can’t wait to introduce to you. Part of that has to do with the story behind it, but let’s start with the music. Imagine the kind of power pop…

i have experienced the suffering of deep attachment but its totally wrong to say that attachments give us sufferings. infact its the opposite attachments help us thrive "Transformation happens inside…

A sequel to the last one, but a bit longer.On Leaving SlackAfter nearly 6 years, I left Slack in August of 2025. It was for a combination of reasons that added up to "it's time".The…

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We were familiar with their earlier projects (Lewsberg and The Klittens), we have seen them perform a few times (always intimate and pleasantly uncomfortable), and we wrote about their debut EP…

The plan is to write daily posts until I reach the six-week mark (the end of the “full recovery” window), or 42 days, which will be six days hence. After that, I’m going to just…

I realise my mistake at around 3am, when my limbs are starched flat on the bed but in my head sets off a cut, sparking wire that’s jumping around and making my heart thump and stop. Netflix is still…

All right, so what to say first. Hmm. A) Sure, Adamantine first. I think I said I had two chapters to go, not counting the short denouement. (Someday I will spell “denouement” right the…

I've avoided going deep with LLM usage, including for agentic coding. This is has been for a number of reasons. I don't want to be sending data to US tech platforms is a big one. I don't want to…

Deadpool is hired by two carnival performers (a bearded lady and a dwarf) to kill the Mayor of “Freaksville” Florida because he’s bigoted against weirdos. Meanwhile, Johnny Blaze–who became Ghost…

It's been a while...Man, a lot has happened. Earlier this month, I got to visit San Francisco. It ended up being a pretty long trip. I still had a lot of fun and got to eat some really good…

My dearest OB, It's hardest to be torn between loving someone and hating them, at the same time. Imagine your hands and legs tied to two horses running in different directions. They pull at the…

Greetings, traveler! SwiftUI provides a built-in .refreshable modifier, which covers the majority of use cases. At some point, product requirements start to demand more control over the refresh…

Almost missed a week of blogging. I have been feeling an elevated amount of ambient stress and I think it all stems from AI in various ways. Can’t wait for this fucking bubble to pop! Come on,…

Unwinding after a long night of patrol

🗺️ Map tinkering: Overpass and gravel paths 🔊 The Steve Mason Experience archive 🌡️ Worth keeping: weather forecast for the past weekend ❄️ Portable air conditioner: is ok 🎲 Random findings in the…

A pithos burial has been discovered in the ancient city of Hadrianopolis, modern-day Eskipazar in northern Turkey’s Black Sea region. It is the first example of this type of burial found in…

Climate tech is losing trendiness but not relevance. This post explores what’s replacing it and why mission and values matter more than branding.

/////////////////// le bonne (ident)idee /////////////////// idk man maybe it was just me but like, the naughty stuff the older kids new, or grown up things or whatever, it's not like they were…

Cisco DevNet channel has published an hour-long Getting Started with netlab interview with Suresh Vina , resulting in netlab.tools documentation having more weekly visits than ipspace.net blog for…

The most popular technology may not be the best. In 1989 Richard P. Gabriel coined the term Worse is Better , a clearly humorous take on certain tendencies in software development and design as he…

Welcome back to the weekly digest about the Cybersecurity & Threats in the wild. Below you will find a very subjective summary of Cybersecurity events for the prior week 1.An Income Tax…

As you may recall, I solicited help here to fix my Comic Book Script Writing template for the PC version of Microsoft Word. It started as a joint project of myself and my friend Steve Gerber, a long…

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warp point is a site that curates blogs that write primarily about games (making it a little fraught if i should submit mine, as i write about game stuff maybe once a year lmao). the creators wes…

One thing I didn’t like about being a YouTubeTV subscriber is that I couldn’t find a plan that worked for me which included the History channel. I’ve forgotten how much I’ve…

You don't build a reputation in the future. You build it today, in the choices when no-one is watching

Weekle #19 29th June to 5th July The following events all took place in this week in history in the last 100 years. In which year did they occur? Answers go back in order from most recent to oldest…

I used to think that everyone knew it -- “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” -- the same way everyone knew “And what is so rare as a day in June?” and “Into the valley of Death / Rode the…

Richard Kiel’s indestructible Jaws returns in the second half of Moonraker after crashing through a circus tent during the pre-title sequence. He wears the same outfit over the course of a couple of…

I picked up a Palo Alto Cloudgenix ION 2000 off of eBay and decided to try and stick OPNsense on it. It has a ethernet ports, 4GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, and an Intel Atom CPU. What I hadn't considered…

I have, for quite a long time, tried to figure out how to cover ‘80s music acoustically, or with an acoustic guitar and some samples in the background, and it’s really been a tough thing for me.…

How to write custom events from a Worker with Analytics Engine and query them later with SQL. Cheap, high-volume time-series data.

Here we share recordings of vintage Radio Dublin from the days when full-time broadcasting was still a dream. These extracts are from the station’s 36-hour marathon over Saturday and Sunday 17th and…

October, 2013:

This week’s “Dark Wave” featured music by The Sugarcubes, Nitzer Ebb, Christian Death, Mission of Burma, Love and Rockets, Felt, The The and more. The post Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted…

Discord is running a limited trial with Incode for facial age estimation and ID scanning. Here is what the vendor actually does, what are the privacy concerns This post first appeared at - The…

 Here is a d100 random encounter and prompt table designed specifically for the Adventurer Conqueror King System Imperial Imprint (ACKS II). This post picks right up from Integrating…

Same testosterone, same weekly dose — just twice a week instead of once. You lose nothing. You trade one extra needle a week for a flatter curve.

Yes: The environments capable of creating meaningful change are almost always the ones that shorten the distance between assumption and evidence – ensuring that learning happens before institutions…

Zimoun (interviewed in Neural #35) is an established artist who has inflected his very personal interpretation of kinetic art using large numbers of small moving parts, mostly driven by motors, in a…

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 7.2! It’s another pretty busy release for us with a varied set of new features across the board as well as the usual set of performance…

Go to Part 1 The Rimbound series by Stella Condrey is a set of twelve Mothership trifold supplements and adventures. These are pay-what-you-want and also available for free download. (However, while…

The three triangle laws (sines, cosines, tangents) followed by five worked "prove the identity" problems.

A symbol of freedom standing atop the United States Capitol seems like the perfect representation of American A computer sound effect sparked one of the funniest stories in tech history. […]…