Better late than never. Today I'm finally sharing my Gundam Aerial HG build, a model I picked up as a souvenir in Akihabara, Tokyo, back in 2023 and finished in early 2024. It's been sitting on the…

I’ve been in some discussions lately about AI in writing, which is, at the moment, the hottest topic in publishing. Everyone has an opinion. I have one too. Mine is going to make some people on…

A few classic variants appear in Dead Island 2 (Dambuster Studios/Deep Silver, 2023).

I was so excited to be camped in my favorite spot in all of Death Valley National Park - with an amazing view of Striped Butte - that I was ready to go even before our alarm went off in the morning.…

Eyeglass Scratch Repair turns out scratched glasses can be repaired easily enough, I had no idea! Tags: glasses eyeglasses spectacles repair diy cleaning scratches

The Ordesa Valley is everything they say, but also harder work than I had imagined. And keep you boots dry!

The 2026 edition of my No Nonsense Technician Class License Study Guide is now available for review. I would love for you to download it, read through it, and comment on it, either here in this post…

We cancelled Auth0 over a year ago. Not because it stopped working, but because scaling to 350,000 monthly active users made the pricing model untenable. The migration to MojoAuth cut our…

Okay, today's off to a much better start. Easy to do when I remember I have to work and also get groceries. I do want to try and go as many days as I can without buying groceries because I have a…

A true blue blog is now in a serif font as of today ^^ I will experiment with some more other fonts if/when I feel like it, but I started to get an idea that Space Mono is not the most comfortable…

Long awaited and finally released: Every image can be used as a team logo! Simply go to the editor, open a data pack and in the team editor click "Load custom logo". Over the past weeks the game got…

I’m sitting in a darkened sports arena in Kazakhstan as I write this. For the first time in 7 years I am again on the International Judo Federation world tour; working in the IT team. Life goes…

TrustedVolumes, a resolver and market maker used by 1inch and other defi platforms, suffered a $6.7 million exploit after an attacker was able to steal funds without proper validation. The thief then…

Our internet bill was too high. It had gone beyond the promotional contract period and the triple-play bundle for 300/300 net, medium-level TV package, and home phone (yes, a landline!) was just too…

what? I submit that the most gameable number is 12. I ask you: Why are there 12 months of the year? 12 zodiac signs? 24 hours in a day? 12 inches to a foot? 12 Apostles, 12 tribes of israel, 12 gods…

I just added a new feature to Kino , my educational movie-discovery project built with LangGraph: a prompt-driven discovery flow that finds grounded titles from a local catalog. The easy label would…

David reviews the new 'Mortal Kombat' film

Cat Power & Loren Mazzacane Connors - Tonic, New York City, October 7, 1999Thanks to Jordan for alerting me to the recent upload of this classic, one-time-only (?) team-up — Chan Marshall and…

Rooted Android phone Disabled IMS (VoLTE, VoWIFI) Lock the LTE band to the lowest band available No voice calls SMS via SGd

8560/21479A mildly complex school pick up today. Ernie was in clubs til 4.30pm but Phoebe was playing cricket. My understanding from the email I'd seen was that they were playing away at a…

Amanda Shendruk writes about the work that’s done after Burning Man , where 150 people line up, side by side and arms apart, and slow walk the entire playa looking for Moop (Matter Out of Place).…

My STT journey started with Whisper. One of Freya's STT models was a fine-tuned Whisper Large-V3. I optimized it with TensorRT, got it to 130ms, around 94x realtime. Solid, but we hit a wall. The…

By Peter Gabaldon (X / LinkedIn) TL;DR This past summer (2025), during an Ethical Hacking process, we found a Smart Drawer machine for automated payment management. The employees of this recreation…

Netflix confirmed THE ONE PIECE, a full anime remake by WIT Studio, for February 2027. Seven episodes, 300 minutes, East Blue from Chapter 1. Here's every confirmed detail, the pacing math that has…

IndieGameJoe is the only person I know who can actually make twitter work. Nobody else can tweet once and earn a game thousands of wishlists. 4 Years ago I talked to him about going Viral on Twitter…

Blog Post Preview: Unveiling the Adventure in *Operation Perilous Magnetism. Exciting News for Young Readers! Good morning everyone! We're thrilled to announce an upcoming middle-grade novel that…

I spent two nights in Arezzo, which is surprisingly a great town to stay and relax. I stayed at The Homestay, which was a nice place to rest and not too far from the attractions, plus it’s next to a…

Tim Culpan, reporting at Culpium: This renewed commitment to meeting demand means Apple must also ask TSMC for a hot lot of A18 Pro chips, the same processor used in the iPhone 16 Pro. The…

in which i finally put down DDFF and write about something else

Couple, Too, Tree During Boise Code Camp this past weekend, pgFirstAid hit 500 stars on Github! Honestly, I really did not think it would gain the attention it has. Not to mention, in the thick of…

What happens when someone generates a front-end comp for you and says this must be the way? Of course this hasn’t happened with any of our clients, since this is unallowable into the field. But we’ve…

We implement tokenization using the byte pair encoding algorithm.

ocurrent/docker-base-images publishes the ocaml/opam:* Docker images which the OCaml CI systems use. For each distro, it tracks 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, and master opam release branches in…

Fundamentals is written by a Physics Nobel prize winner (Frank Wilczek), and is an elegantly written paean to science as well as philosophy, which I thoroughly enjoyed. For one thing, he starts with…

I first heard about Cloudflare in 2011, on Google Reader. I was 18 or 19, working at a small shop where most of what we shipped was PHP on the Zend Framework with a lot of jQuery on top. I read the…

worldofreel.com Aster once quipped that he couldn’t believe A24 was “stupid enough” to give him $35M to make “Beau Is Afraid.” They shelled out another $30M for…

Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading="lazy" for <video> and…

Today I read “This is why I’m fat” by Gordon McLean, and a lot of the ideas he puts forth I can relate to, so I wanted to write about those, and my own experiences. With the societal…

I've been not playing RPG for 20-or-so years, after having played a bunch as teen. This year, I got into the hobby again, after stumbling on the Die comics and getting super curious about how RPG had…

A new academic study reveals what active fund management really sounds like behind closed doors. King's College London professor Crawford Spence interviewed 28 senior fund managers and found an…

Act today. There are only a couple of weeks left to submit your group’s application to talk with a crewmember on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2027 *** Space—the […] The post Time is…

Dawn is creeping earlier and earlier, as it tends to do this time of year. Boxnoggin, regally unaware, continues to snore until I lever myself out of bed to commence the weary treading-through of…

What I call “wraparound” are repeatable indices on an array. The common use case is a carousel. Here’s how it’s done: const items = ["first", "middle",…

I turned 50 years old at the very end of 2025. I don’t really have any perspective on that, though I keep thinking I should. I certainly don’t feel like a 50 year old man and I am sometimes…

In our quest to minimize our electronic support travel kit, we hit a snag with non-PD devices.

As a developer I type lot of command lines but there are certain commands that we type more than others : (example for (git : git status, git commit -m “message”) or (angular : ng g c myComponent) or…

When it comes to war, knowing what the other side is up to is a huge advantage. As a result, nations invest a lot of money hiding what we’re up to — classifying critical information, speaking in…

In Copenhagen, five of us shared a cosy apartment where the windows overlooked the courtyard, and the balconies of all the other apartment buildings near us. I could see the flowers beginning to…

Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people are at a significantly higher risk of becoming a victim of violent crime than other people in Canada. In Canada, thousands of Indigenous women have been…

Why do agency projects become unprofitable? It’s usually not scope creep alone. A look at delivery leadership, boundaries, burnout, and agency profitability.