Sometimes to become a human you’ve got to become a mushroom. This was the subtext—if not the actual text—of last night’s Music for Mushroom event. Described like so: Ophelia and Tender invite you to…

Many of my projects become courses in cabinet making, with everyday other woodworking thrown in for good measure. My work balances out the machinist in us–that couch-potato, tube-watching…

There were two translation houses in town. They translated the same things, but they could never be the same.

More snow finally came on Tuesday night, two months later than it was supposed to finally come, and it is too late, but it is better than nothing. That’s what everyone is saying. “I’m so grateful for…

But I think it's more than just avoiding boredom. It's more than being inquisitive. It's about having a fight to fight. Having something that excites you. Something that drives you. Something that…

A new Linux zero-day called Dirty Frag gives any local user full root access on every major Linux distribution, and right now no distribution has a patched kernel available. The researcher planned to…

Veteran super-coder Jez is back, and claims he has "finished" implementing Cell, Andy's toy language, in Rust. Jez and Andy basically gossip a bit, about code type stuff. Read Jez's blog at…

My coworker: "This is Adam, he's leading the platform development." Researcher: "Oh yes, I saw the platform! Very nice work!" Me: "That's very nice of you, but really, there's a lot of things, we…

Bonobo trekking in the Democratic Republic of Congo GROUP TRIP (and ROC, and CAR) Bonobos are our closest living relatives. The closest thing to humans on our beautiful planet. They are only found in…

It's possible, even in surprisingly ancient times, to have hugely sprawling cities -- but they're not quite the same type of sprawl we see today. The reason is simple: how are you going to get…

I was reading the post of Mikael Nystrom, who regularly consults and assists with businesses and deployment. One of his comments caught my eye — the boring but important stuff. He offers up a…

The following fictional text was extracted from William Firebrace’s Scaletales (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln, 2026). The book investigates the various meanings of…

Added some more useful links, including some revolving around Linux.

The Sheep Detectives (2026) • View trailer Four stars (out of five); rated PG, and needlessly, for mild dramatic intensity Available via: Movie theaters By Derrick Bang • P ublished in The Davis…

Ever wondered how difficult it would be to communicate with aliens? Probably a bit harder than Star Trek makes it appear - in fact a person might have to change her whole view of the space-time…

Poop App Posted on 5/8/2026 Tags: Programming , Games , Parenting My 4-year-old son enjoys traveling... except for having to poop in a strange bathroom. It doesn't matter if it's a hotel or a…

Nine times out of ten, when an engineering team starts complaining about “slow database performance,” the database itself is perfectly fine. The real culprit is almost always hiding…

This Lap Cheong Mei Fun is a deliciously simple way to enjoy mei fun, or thin rice vermicelli, with Chinese sausage and a bright variety of vegetables!  We enjoyed a dish similar to this at a…

Sunday, April 26 I came back from my friend’s farewell ceremony. She was my oldest friend, 99 years old. I would rather celebrate her beautiful life than feel sad about her passing. I feel so lucky…

There is something especially appealing about smaller cancelled games. Not the giant, headline-friendly projects that get brought up every few years whenever somebody wants to lament what might have…

Becasue I’m working in Health Informatics at the moment, initiatives like OpenMed are really interesting to me. I’ve gotten it working on my Raspberry Pi. 1. Prepare the Directory Ensure…

CD – Soleilmoon Nikola Tesla’s legacy is a symbolic device, a device that continues to radiate potential. His experiments do not remain confined to the domain of technique, but are articulated as…

yodaprod:Ebay (2005)

Having made a bit of a fuss over Tallaght's Priory Market, and its built-in brewery, when it opened last summer , I was overdue a revisit. I stopped by on a recent Friday afternoon to find it's all…

Floppy disk art in one of the computer pools at Martin Luther University.

At a large enterprise I recently worked with, the board asked the Chief Digital Transformation Officer to develop an AI adoption strategy to drive innovation, growth, and cost efficiency. His…

A Madness of Angels (2009) 613 pages by Kate Griffin Matthew Swift #1 First sixty pages are a slog. Those are the times I wish I was a speed reader. The narrator doesn’t introduce himself…

This time it's Coinbase, PayPal, and Cloudflare who all cite AI as a primary driver. These companies are hurting real people....

Another day, another Linux exploit. It’s been hard to keep track over the last few months. Vulnerabilities are inevitable, but they do highlight my concerns again regarding monocultures. Any…

Matt Mullenweg recently gave a small group of trusted contributors the authority to overhaul the site without approval....

May 8, 2026 I don’t know if the character in the painting is sad, or is just getting away from the news – and other people – for a few minutes… This heroine remains quite…

* Why explore Venus * VERITAS, NASA’s Venus mapper * EnVision, Europe’s mission to Venus * ISRO’s plan to study Venus in unprecedented detail alongside NASA and ESA Related: Coverage of India’s…

Generative AI has hit the peak of inflated expectations. The Gartner Hype Cycle reminds us we've been here before - and shows why governance, not hype, and doing the work still matters.

Discover how SwiftUI provides built-in formatting support that makes it easy to display and edit numbers, currencies, dates, measurements, and more directly in Text and TextField views.

In this week’s poetry news round up we bring you articles about the sad loss of two figures from the world of poetry. Hirohiko Okano, Leading Japanese Tanka Poet Dies at 101 The respected…

Some thoughts about the past and dwelling on it

I hate soldering oh so much. I hate the thick grey smoke from solder and flux. I hate the sticky goop on all I touch. I hate the VOCs and particulates. With lead that spreads, I'm fed up. But man is…

So the new hot book of the week is Dynamite’s Ben 10 #1, based on the cartoon from some years back and apparently in short supply in these here parts. Notably, this wasn’t an item that…

The Colorado Department of Transportation says it will issue its detailed financial and operating plans for its Front Range rail proposal in June, but in the meantime it has published the service…

Six years have passed since I started building EndBASIC: a retro-looking BASIC interpreter that works on the web, on the desktop, and on embedded hardware—and that allows writing cross-platform…

At a glance this 1991 PC Engine exclusive may appear to be some sort of unspectacular Galaxy Force style into-the-screen …

As I was migrating my online backups to Restic, I was concurrently building a system that would allow me to use Restic to complete full-disk backups to external USB drives, thus replacing my use of…

Jalopnik: With 12,000 Flights Canceled In May Already, We’ve Got Bad News About Your Summer Vacation. “The U.S. is now two months deep into an unprovoked war with Iran and the results…

I built something that makes my life a little easier, maybe: a tiny mental math quiz: Daily Math. I want to maintain a little bit of mental math skills with minimal effort, and I heard one of the…

táng hú lù is a traditional chinese snack consisting of several malt sugar coated fruits of chinese hawthorn (crataegus pinnatifida) on a bamboo skewer -•••- my grandmother imported for us sacks of…

How you're going to get your layout in and out of a show venue is not always high on the list of considerations when its designed. In our experience it's one of those thing you adapt and improvise as…

So Long and Thanks, Crayfish

nixersnewsletter — 2026-05-08