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🪷 Finding True Peace: A Reflection on “You Are the Happiness You Seek” 🔗 We’ve all been there: chasing the next promotion, waiting for the perfect relationship, or buying that one…

I was going to prepare the layers of a small quilt for basting on my large table in the basement when I remembered I still needed to trim this 16 patch quilt. I didn't look for binding fabric yet.…

In this article, I talk about how I create and maintain a centralized, augmentable list of deserialization methods for resources used by ToyMaker.

Readers will be happy to know that tonight’s kitsune tale is a heartwarming one, not a sad one like the previous animal stories we had. The story refers to a man named so-and-so and a place…

The most interesting part of this interview was the brief discussion on the rate of diffusion of AI into the broader economy. It’s a fascinating clash of old-school economics perspective and…

The concept of You, Inc. is a direct application of the idea of self-motivation instead of externally-imposed motivation, self-discipline in place of outside discipline, self-reinforcement in the…

I was thinking of maybe having themes for each week, but decided against it since it would add complication and would make it even harder to do things in time (I don’t have a backlog for this yet).…

"Any city, however small, is in fact divided into one city of the poor, the other of the rich." Plato "One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human…

We’ve had several inquiries about our plans to drive the iconic Route 66 that we’d planned. So what happened? Hmmm… our plans changed is the short answer.

There was not one God. “Reading a Bible translation today, the text seems to speak everywhere of a generic “God” or “the Lord”. This, however, is a linguistic illusion…

I suspect Luke Muscat isn’t the kind of dev who’d be content to spend the next few years churning out course add-ons, but I for one would be glad if he did. Normal Golf Game has an…

PHP ships an emergency security release today, October 21, 2026, at 14:00 UTC. The release fixes two critical bugs in PHP core. People already call them “php2shell”. The details leaked…

In Expert asterisks, Ned Batchelder asks knowledgeable people “to resist the impulse to add little-traveled tangents” when helping learners…

The fourth little pig’s house was made of wolf skulls. They aren’t very sturdy, but they send a message. From a Cartoon Depending on the [...]

After the Wiltshire LiDAR Lens , I wanted to look at the other great henge landscape, in North Yorkshire. So there is now a second one, free and with no login: the LiDAR Lens for the Ure henges .…

Text of the day: “I might have put up with it years and years ago but I’m not putting up with it now.” The post Some Woman appeared first on Aleks Sierz.

REIMAGINING THE GOOD LIFE PODCAST Season 11 of Reimagining the Good Life begins October 28! This season, we’ll explore what it means to flourish through conversations about disability and belonging,…

Machinists > Tailors Software engineers are turning into AI Engineers? No, we are turning into software machinists. Replacing handmade software with (increasingly) cheap, plentiful, machine-made…

TAKE THE NEXT STEP PODCAST E34—Do your conversations end in silence, defensiveness, or words you wish you could take back? Are unhealthy patterns undermining your marriage? How can you communicate…

Figured it was time for a fresh coat of paint~

Allowing an AI to write code that you then ship without considerate review causes some anxiety. How do you know the code works? How do you know it isn’t doing something strange you didn’t ask for? It…

Exit SlaveWorld: Training Camps And Men’s Retreats: Pittsburgh, PA, 5/11/26

The story is mainly about North Woods and not just the humans who lived in it. Generations of humans used[...]

It really does feel the Atlantic Ocean got much, much wider. As Europe struggles with riots and populism, financiers in the USA dismiss Yoorp as irrelevant, and think their economy is doing just…

Pull request #9111 "Build FirebirdSQL CMake+CLang" by Sergey Khalyutin was merged into the Firebird master branch on October 21, 2026. It makes it possible to build the whole Firebird project with…

I uploaded a new article, "An Imperial Cipher from 1496?" . This is about a cipher recently identified independently by Daniel Bourdeau and George Lasry. Lasry dated it to 1496, to which Bourdeau…

Since 1.0.0 nspawn 1.0.0 came out a month ago. There were ten minor releases between that one and 2.0.0, and most of them went into making a machine do what docker run does with a container, so that…

“If we all focus more on menstrual health, it actually unlocks the whole of a woman’s life course,” she points out. “Nothing affects any human more commonly than having 12 periods a year for 40 years…

Alberta secessionists lost a referendum by a large margin. Quebec secessionists are in better shape, but still facing an uphill struggle. Update on Canada’s Two Secession Movements

Following the success of Simon’s Collingwood appearance at the The Fareham RailEx show earlier this month which included being awarded ‘Best layout in Show’ , Collingwood and its…

Microsoft Clarity is a useful way to see how people interact with your website. I’ve been using it since it first came out in 2020, but ignored or overlooked something that happened a year ago,…

Switzerland, a Prison? A few days ago, I came across a short video from Switzerland. Perhaps fifty seconds long. The first time I watched it, I was convinced the whole thing had to be staged. It was…

October 21, 2026 It’s time to bring out the bright colors, if you have them! The crowds these days are pretty drab (and I don’t really do much to help that, unless I’m wearing some…

I did this for hexes and planets , but what if I want to use this same system for giving an NPC some specific behaviour notes? Forget how they look, how do I give this NPC some life without doing a…

Early in the development of Paxton Road there were decisions to make about arrangement of structures… In the original concept the cement silo was to be placed at the rear, as per the inspiration,…

I ask tons of questions. The most frequent one is probably this: — What am I doing? The answer this time: Working on doing everything consciously, hold myself accountable for the energetic welfare of…

Every hash function treats a collision as a defect — except the ones he runs on language, where the collisions are the whole point.

Electro-pop addicts, your next discovery has entered the chat! ⚡ BRAZN's “My Final Boss” brings big beats and bigger feelings. The post EMERGING ARTIST: BRAZN Takes on Their Inner Demons with…

My work these days is in part focused on trying to ensure content is what might be called uncontaminated: that the cold clammy hand of AI is not only anywhere near it, but is seen and believed to be…

It's the time of year when German beer is that little bit more visible in the shops and speciality bars. There are the seasonal Oktoberfest variants, of course, but it seems to be an excuse for…

The International Festival of Economics will take place in Turin from 22 to 25 October 2026. I hope to be there to participate in all but the first day. (I'll be speaking on Saturday.) The…

I compared official Anima Turbo v1.1 and Aesthetic v1.1 against Base v1.0 on an M1 Max 64GB with ComfyUI. Base-trained character LoRAs worked across all 4 seeds when specifying hair and eyes, but…

I would really love to know what the “U” stood for. It’s not a name I’ve seen used by anyone else. The passage of a couple of decades have seen some significant changes to U. The gravity has fallen…

Despot Donald Trump (DDT) is the Democrat’s best campaigner as he crosses the country, looking stupid and demented. DDT always brags about his own polling, but now he’s denying that GOP senatorial…

As the Guardian has noted in an email this morning: After weeks of speculation, the secretary of state for energy and net zero, Miatta Fahnbulleh, Read the full article...

Here are two random 1950s photos for ya (I saved .02 seconds typing "ya" instead of "you"). Somebody stuck some Skyway gondolas up above the Pirate Ship, but you know what? It works. If we all had…

LFF, you do not have to say anything, yes plus time equals no. The post The half empty nest | weeknotes 21 October 2026 first appeared on Neil Williams.

The pocket calendar of Thomas Moran’s Grand Canyon of Arizona painting is just as heavily cropped as the wall calendar. The pocket version includes more of the right side of the painting than…