The boats they race in are thirty-five-year-old Catalina 37s. Weighing in at around 7 tonnes, with dacron sails and symmetrical kites. They have a maximum speed of around 7 knots. The event is living…

“coding is a solved problem”

I love this short open-access paper from danah boyd where she suggests shifting the term we use to describe social media.

I'm nearly finished curating my family history materials and finding safe new homes for artifacts that don't have a close, direct connection to my family. This is Part 2 of the saga of letters and…

There are local elections being held across the UK today. Voters in Scotland and Wales will elect representatives to their respective national parliaments, while in England the voting is for local…

In this public lecture (in Dutch), Jasper de Groot takes you into the surprising and often hidden world of scent.

Rock and (beef and onion) Roll My latest West Midlands History Podcast is not really suitable for going on a fact-finding walk for. It concerns the improvement in household living in the Black…

Untying the knots holding back Iraq's fintech ecosystem.

SPECIMEN #000: Custos corruptus (The Corrupt Guardian: How the World's Largest Social Network Profits from the Grifts It Claims to Police) Classification: Attention Merchant / Grift Enabler /…

Posted on: Logbook, Misc.Tagline: Pages from my logbook.Yesterday morning I watched a puddle drying up, taken by force by the sun's rays. A "necessary" violence to make room for the…

Notes CSS CSS in Hiccup CSS with garden

“Scripting languages are designed for gluing”, wrote John Ousterhout, the creator of Tcl, in 1998.1 What Ousterhout had in mind was writing an application in a scripting language and…

Disclaimer: This is all for general information and entertainment purposes only. I am not your doctor, nutritionist, dietician, physical/physio therapist, psychologist, personal AI, or any other…

Omniscient POV might be resurging, thanks to some recent bestsellers. To use it well, remember three C’s: clarity, consistency, and control.

I woke up at 7AM. I have to on WFO days, if I want to beat the traffic. Woke up. Checked Slack. Was automatically logged out of Slack. And I knew. Shit. Shit shit shit shit. Opened email. "Action…

Recently at work (on my last day), I dealt with a SQL query that got pretty complex because of new features making the business logic increasingly involved. The query ended up quite lengthy, but it…

A major atmospheric change is about to start, as the latest oceanic data confirms the 2026 El Niño is intensifying below the ocean surface. New … The post Atmospheric Code Red: 2026 Super El…

Friend of the newsletter Sam Jeffers from WhoTargetsMe has, for his sins, been monitoring the online campaign ahead of today's local elections in Britain. Reform has taken a fundamentally…

On the road, as it were, right now, so this report will be updated with the necessaries when possible. Highlights of the month: Published a link to Photographs on the main site Seedlings still having…

Everyone needs a tracking URL shortener. Why tracking? I want to know if they opened my email and clicked the link. Why shortener? I want them to know what the link is about. For example,…

The tide has turned. The seasons have shifted. The dandelions have popped. The penny has dropped. It is time. So the Beast has been released. I say Beast but it’s really Beast II, Son of the…

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Low-code and AI are now giving you the opportunity to adapt your chatbots to better fit the profile of your different users

The not-Moon-Monday edition. 🌝

Merch hasn’t died – it’s just taken a darker turn.

The new search engine, introduced in beorg 3.39.0, gives you a much more expressive syntax for finding what you need. Not only is it a more powerful syntax, but beorg now gives you the results almost…

In 1950, Le Corbusier began designing the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. Le Corbusier wrote that it represented ‘Liberté’ (freedom).[1] Totally free architecture. A veritable phenomenon of…

You’ll go down to the basement after you’re done up here, the Director says in our language. To […]

ISSUE 23.18.1 • 2026-05-07 By Susan Bradley It’s time to prepare for the May updates, which includes pausing and deferring them. That’s why the MS-DEFCON level is going to 2. There may be some…

This month featuring: a wodge of 80s nostalgia, a trip to Manchester to see one of my very favourites, and a last minute chance to see one of the rarest shows in town. Princess Julia, Electric…

  Most CFOs treat lead time as an operations problem. I did too, until I started noticing what it was quietly doing to our working capital, our headcount, and our margin. It turns out flow…

See below for an explanation of this image. Will Powers work on Post-Finasteride Syndromes (PFS) has generated a lot of interest. It would be easy to misread the responses. This post asks people with…

In a previous article , I explored building nested forms with Stimulus. But what about when you need to edit existing questions, remove ones you no longer need or reorganize them? Let’s extend that…

The Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) document sitting in your governance folder is one of the most useful tools in the business. Most orgs never use it that way. They treat it as a compliance box…

Lalela, the LO-Def Film Factory and GaudiLabs teamed up to co-run a workshop where participants learned how to build their own solar-powered devices, and learners were invited to think beyond solar

Way back when streaming services did not exist, me and my family watched movies by renting them out in a Video City shop in town 1 . I’m too young for VHS and just the right age for Blu-Ray and…

We are excited to announce the release of The qPocketPCR; an ultra-compact, open-source Real-Time PCR thermal cycler designed for portability, accessibility, and versatility. About the size of a…

In my previous post, I said that I live a very sedentary lifestyle and wanted to change that. So this is roughly 3 months of hitting the gym. Truth is this isn't my first three months in the gym, but…

The Hidden Infrastructure Problem Nobody Talks About. India has talent. India has ambition. India has capital. India has one of the largest pools of engineers in the world. Yet India still struggles…

Cuckooing is when criminals take over someone’s home to use for dealing drugs, storing weapons, sex work or other illegal activities. They target vulnerable people: someone with a drug or…

I have recently had the domain renewal notice for skryblans. It is set to auto-renew annually anyway, it's just they let me know a couple of weeks before that's due to happen. Even though I haven't…

I've ported Intel's ASTC compressor (in ispc_texcomp) to pure C for benchmarking and discovered this gem during the process. The swap() utility function for float values, located near the top, has a…

This week's action-packed Commando set includes the epic conclusion to the Valiant Stormers Forlorn Hope series, a race against the clock for SAS Captain Hulke, and some old crackers too. Issues…

Transit carried 84.8 percent as many riders in March of 2026 as the same month in 2019, according to data posted by the Federal Transit Administration yesterday. This is the highest level of transit…

The pub on the corner Corner sites are favourites for any business that relies on walk-in trade – shops of course, but also pubs. I passed this glowing example on a recent walk from New Bond Street…

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once i woke from a dream. i opened weary eyes and limply grasped a bright and burning seeming. but, the seeming went— as easily as it came— into base gray matter, dissolved, and washed away.

I was working on a design doc recently with the help of AI when it generated a sentence that immediately made me stop. It described another team’s system as “legacy infrastructure that should be…

I decided to try different models at OpenRouter for my OpenCode use. It was easy enough to set up OpenCode; all that is needed is an API key, and the rest worked automatically. I was interested in…