Some self-described "public health scholars" have called on doctors to stop talking in public about drugs that could save their lives. I look at their backgrounds and possible motivations for wanting…

Last weekend I visited Nürnberg with some friends. It was a long drive but worth it in the end. The weather was amazing and it was my first time checking out the cities famous historical mile and…

In the last couple of weeks, we talked A LOT about selling in ​The Council​. Beyond our guest sessions, we spoke of what gets our prospects to buy. So, naturally, we got to talking about triggers.…

posted some of the art i've done recently to my gallery, inspired by some movies i like! (project hail mary and your name(

Six years married to my best-est friend. R makes me a less terrible and much happier person every day. And puts up with my many missteps. I love coming home to her and P&C. Two weeks ago, we made…

A recent survey by Pew Research shows that in 2025, 16% of Americans used a smartphone as their only source of broadband. The percentage has grown a bit over previous surveys. I’ve seen articles in…

Two weeks ago, we at Halcyon hosted our first large in-person event on time and speed to power: the critical paths for companies building the energy infrastructure required to meet soaring demand for…

Not what you want on the business end of a 2.5 A wall wart

Last month I watched a nonprofit communications director deliver a technically perfect donor pitch. She hit every talking point. Her slides were polished. Her data was current. The donor asked one…

please explain me

Rooting a VMC2040 security camera part 7: Conclusion and summary Brief In this part we are going to give some thoughts about the security of the camera and what to do to prevent this kind of attack.…

Rooting a VMC2040 security camera part 6: What did work Brief In this part I will show how I finally got root access to the camera. The other parts of the series are: Part1: Basic examination Part2:…

Microsoft has announced a new security change for Microsoft Entra ID. Starting June 2026, App Instance Lock will be enabled by default for all newly created applications. In this article, we will…

Condensed presentation of Jakob Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics in infographics that explain what each heuristic means and show design patterns that support the heuristics as well as anti-patterns…

“There is a difference between abandoning the world and finding a way to remain part of it.”

AI is doing more than making us faster. It's changing the fundamental nature of what our work is, and the sooner we adapt, the better.

[1969] THE scuzzy drug fuelled sound, the sonic revelation and ace riff-o-rama that preempted Black Sabbath, Hawkwind, Spaceman 3 and all your favourite things that have proto, neo & stoner at start.…

Aoyama, TokyoPentax 6x7 with 165mm f2.8 lensPhotographer: Chikashi Suzuki / instagram / website

Yodobashi Camera, ShinjukuCanon AE-1 Program with Canon FD 35-70mm f2.8-3.5 S.S.C. lens

LibreNMS has been a faithful companion for years now. It quietly handles the monitoring of my servers, devices, and services without demanding much in return - exactly what you want from a tool whose…

Was is Joseph Goebbels who first put forward the thesis of the big lie? That is “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Was it Goebbels? Or…

Today! Thursday May 7th 2026 7 pm doors for a 7:30 pm start Pay what you want The Folk of Gloucester 99-103 Westgate Street (just down from the Cathedral) Gloucester Gloucestershire GL1 2PG Fiona is…

Sorry for the radio silence, for I’ve experienced a lot of first world problems. I’ve had some ups and downs the last few weeks, it’s fair to say. I think I shared the majority of…

The Managed Life There is a version of life that works. It runs on time. It eats well. It doesn’t overreach. It keeps its impulses contained and its moods within acceptable range. Nothing spills.…

Most diving conferences focus on equipment, techniques, and destinations. However, from May 31 to June 5, 2026, on the island of Vis, Croatia, The Human Factors in Diving Conference will do something…

As I was packing for my month long trip to the Philippines, I cleaned my room. Not a deep clean, just the kind you do when you want to come back to something decent after being gone for a good while.…

Lately, there’s been a lot of buzz in my tech bubble about good old RSS/Atom feeds. Not only are people rediscovering them and making them available on their blogs, but new services are also…

Amok by Stephan Zweig Information about the book author: Stephan Zweig title: Amok pages: 115 Modern form of enslavement The mysterious man who tells his story was a doctor hired in India by a…

A local transportation planner has won an international grant competition with her designs to upgrade the Bike to the Sea Bike Kitchen along the Northern Strand Trail in Malden.

There is a growing interest in Zephyr RTOS within the embedded community. Unlike Arduino or ESP-IDF, Zephyr gives you a real hardware abstraction layer that lets you write firmware once and compile…

Step 9 - But what about Java This is the final step, adding a Java generator - each step adds or improves a small feature, this text is just highlighting a few details along the way, the best way to…

For years, Upwork worked in a frustrating but understandable way. You applied to dozens of jobs, most went nowhere, but a few...Read More... Source

Our pick of new history books for May. From the Vikings to the Weimar Republic, the Georgian Dining Room to Winston Churchill.

The U.S. and China represent the two largest national economies on Earth. Since President Trump's 2 April 2025 "Liberation Day" global tariff announcement , trade between the two nations has…

Two steps forward, one step back.

From the conclusion of Anthropic’s article summarizing their own research into AI-assistance and skill formation: Our results suggest that incorporating AI aggressively into the workplace,…

A talk by Michael Crichton given at the International Leadership Forum in La Jolla, California, April 26, 2002.

Every meal planning app treats cooking as the hard problem and shopping as a logistics detail. They have it backwards. Cooking is mostly solved. Shopping is the last mile.

A WooCommerce site with an ERP integration in progress. The external developer reported a mixed encoding in the database: latin1, utf8mb3, and utf8mb4. ALTER TABLE looked like the right move. But it…

x-ocaml { font-size: 0.8em; display: block; margin-bottom: 1.4rem; } x-ocaml.hidden { display: none; } A while back I wired up x-ocaml so this blog could embed live, editable OCaml notebooks. That…

You might have also wondered why, especially over the last few years, it has become increasingly rare to read about truly interesting malware and its in-depth analysis. If you’ve been in…

I have a diverse reading audience, from academics to my mom. (Hi, Mom!) I, myself, am not a formally trained theologian. But I do delight in popularizing and making accessible the theology I have…

Photo by Mike Smith on Unsplash The fortnight that’s just ended started with one of the smallest possible problems: commandspace, “screenlock”, return, and the wrong version of…

I wonder why too much love can be off-putting. Is it a boundary thing? It feels like a boundary thing when I'm the one who feels that way about someone else's boundless love. That said, I don't want…

Prosperity rests not on intentions, but on foundations. In Germany’s case, those foundations were historically not only institutional and industrial, but energetic: the stable supply of power that…

There's a trend I have noticed when folks try sell software, their perception of how hard it was to build the software influences their comfort in setting a price. More difficult to build, more…

I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger generations pining for those simpler days, I was there. Paper maps were absolutely horrible, just you and…

I’ve been working on a PC Engine emulator (aka TurboGrafx-16) after getting the bug to start looking at a new system, and I’ve found it to be pretty interesting hardware-wise. Originally…

[MC Lothlorien, Commodore 64] It has been some time since we talked about MC Lothlorien , one of the oldest and most prolific British wargame…