Small one today. No big announcement, no build I've been sitting on for weeks, just a thing that happened in the homelab that I want written down somewhere because it made me stupidly happy for about…

You've worked your heart out building your startup. You’ve convinced the smartest investors to pour millions into your vision. You’ve recruited a dedicated, world-class team. Your…

I run a Claude “chat” project I mostly use from the Claude mobile app, and it needs to keep certain files up to date. I’d already run into this same problem with mail and calendar,…

Fun story today about that time I tried to make my company's program comply with the Vista requirements. Spoiler alert: it's literally not possible to comply with Vista requirements. At the time I…

We still don’t have a decision on whether the Scottish judicial review of Palestine Action can proceed. Lord Young is thinking about it. Last Thursday’s hearing went about as well as it…

A few days after posting Getting lethal with things , I did follow my own advice. I had written Getting lethal after a petty bank transfer of 186€ from my account with online bank A to my account…

We can see several mountains from our backyard deck, and the highest one is Table Mountain, 10,223 feet sea level. It's the highest point in the Highland Mountains, and also the highest point in…

Last year Nathaniel Lockhart, host of The Memory Machine Podcast, assembled a roundtable of video game and computer historians to answer the question: What is the first personal computer? This week…

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📓 have survived work, barely. 💤 took 3 very much needed naps. I’ve been having some weird anxiety dreams and nightmares this last week; it means interrupted sleep at night and having to catch up…

A gap between data and question

Last Friday I ran a session of Frydheld sector that was just kind of frustrating and didn't really match the expectations I have for myself. It's been some time since the session so I wanted to write…

Some security issues, Steam as a monopoly, and some blog posts.

I started writing a piece about "5 lukewarm programming takes", but I started to really hone in on this particular topic, and realized it might in fact be a hot take, and not belong in my…

A method in Go is a function attached to a type. A generic method is a method that declares its own type parameters, allowing it to work with types that are not fixed by its receiver. Consider a…

Mandla J. Radebe, The Lost Prince of the ANC: The Life and Times of Jabulani Nobleman ‘Mzala’ Nxumalo, 1955-1991 (Johannesburg: […]

Coalplating

18 trains. 100 hours and 9 minutes. If it all goes to plan for the trip from Kemijärvi to Lagos. But what happens if it doesn’t go to plan and something doesn’t work? Re-plan and…

My wife and I switched from Facebook Messenger and RCS to Signal almost a year ago for all our messaging needs. We have no plans to stop using Signal , but to be honest, Signal kind of sucks as a…

The closest coffee shop to where I lived in Venice, (the Los Angeles Venice) back in 2020. I miss it.I'm planning on taking a break from Good Rectangles for at least a few weeks after the…

This is not a trail. It started years ago on the bluffs at Devil’s Lake State Park, when someone decided that rather than walking down to the trailhead about 50 yards away, they could cut…

The means used by people who can't code to accrue their cognitive debt and their impostor feeling. The latest means used by companies to accrue technical debt and to create online popup stores.

Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto…

Developing a framework for a Patients' AI Bill of Rights for hospitals and medical centers that patients can understand as a standard of care.

I have no proof that the above story happened, but I have had my own “Gary” experience back in the early 2000s, back when I lived in Toronto. And yes, I’ll name the person and place: Joe Sacco,…

Running document containing notes on deploying a development PostgreSQL 16 container using Docker & Docker Compose.

Most days, the girls would eat their lunch at school, like school-lunch, whatever is on their menu. Other days, whatever is on their menu doesn’t sound very enticing, so they...

I have been a fan of Third Wave Water (TWW) for several years now. Their espresso profile mineral treatment gets me pretty close to the coffee I used to make at the cafe we owned for a few years…

And I made a cool thing in Expense that I find incredibly useful. Once a month comes along and I have my statements, I import the PDFs into Expense and let it reconcile the expenses. It looks up if…

Writing Less Ever since I started working, it has become harder to put thoughts on the page. Writing less, in retrospect, is a warning signal. I keep track of my journal word counts assiduously;…

The Aestheticization of the Left

Part of the User Manual Series where I give some brief overviews of the media, experiences, thoughts that help make me...me. Released hourly on my 32nd birthday. In 4th year of school we had to write…

Good luck with the kids while I’m in space, dear!

Admittedly, both Sharpee and Chord are still very young and cranky. I continually find seams in both through working with Chord. In my latest set of activities, I started to port my old Textfyre…

Sunday I woke up at 2am CST, had a lyft scheduled for 3am CST and started making my way home from banana ball in OKC. (That post to come, but it was easier for me to knock...

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To keep myself off my phone, I print articles out (reader view, four-pages-per-sheet, double-sided), fold them twice and stuff them in my pocket for later, then onto my shelf if they were…

It is a well-established law of homelab physics: if a task can be automated, it will be automated—until it violently consumes your entire digital existence. In our Night-Tower setup, our self-hosted…

A picture of my wife in Morocco

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The show continues to wear its anime inspirations on its sleeve with The Death of Superman by way of the Cell Saga. It’s a fun and pretty enough blend, though the characters continue to be fairly…

I can see why the expressive and fluid moveset offered really grabbed people and inspired to come back and build on the original tech demo, but unfortunately the rest of the game acts as a good…

I had my doubts, but it seems that as long as we have both people and the internet, the former will never stop blogging. Topics evolve and morph, blogs themselves are started and then abandoned,…

There are many examples across Scotland where landowners large and small are continuing to frustrate the ambitions of individuals, businesses and social enterprises through the exercise of the…

Apple Unveils New Mac Studio and Mac mini →Apple has just announced their new line-up of Desktop Macs. There&#8217;s a new Mac mini with M6 or M5 Pro chips, and a new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5…

🍦 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 12/? posts. In my quest to try all soft serves from a local bakery , today I got their August Raspberry and Lemon verbena flavour. (Note: this was in the…

On and off since spring, I’ve woken up with sore ankles. They were particularly sore the past few weeks ago.&#160; I tried treating the symptoms by stretching them out with a foam roller, or…

G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero #37 (1985) Art by Frank Springer and Andy Mushynsky • In this issue, writer Larry Hama introduces several characters and vehicles from the toy line (and, by this point,…

A Fu reminds me of Maya Fey... Wen Ko-Hsin's little :3 face is so cute 😭 Mr. Ginger is only one 🥺 Learning that the Philippines was instrumental to the prohibition of opium: