The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear The Web will not vanish overnight, but the Web as we know it, the open place where people search, click, read, browse, publish, and discover, is already being…

I have a song in this new Amiga diskmag, Speed #77 by Nah-Kolor. It’s happy summer chip style, just the way we like it (while the world is burning). This title screen pixeled by .misha. Nice…

8613/21532Disappointingly the injections don't seem to be affecting my appetite this time. So I might not lose another 5kg, but I guess that's a small price to pay for it all essentially…

At least make the fonts bigger, dammit.

Our 2 hens have finished sitting on the Guinea fowl eggs - out of 10, we managed to hatch 5 of them. The chicken eggs we have in the incubator won't be ready for another week or so. Excited to see…

It's Time for a Time Crystal Update Scientists connect “time crystal” to real device in quantum breakthroughScientists Discover “Levitating” Time Crystals that You Can Hold in Your HandCan Time Flow…

The thing that made me grin today: I tell Claude Code to “work in a git worktree,” the agent jumps into a fresh checkout, and my Ghostty terminal follows it — new tabs and splits open right inside…

A deep data analysis of arXiv reveals the defining AI research trends of mid-2026: the agentic boom, Qwen overtaking Llama, and what's fading The post 170,927 AI Papers Reveal the Biggest Research…

This channel is for people who want a world where education gives ALL kids, including outside-the-box learners, the tools to truly write their own scripts in life. Education should empower learners…

I’m delighted to share the beautiful cover for the Heiresses paperback - out in September but available to pre-order now. I thought you might be interested to know a bit about the images we…

The Ware for June 2026 is shown below: This board is from my personal collection of “favorite boards” that I’ve collected over the years. A lot of old memories associated this one…

A tropical destination closer to home than Bali or Thailand, cheaper than Panama or Costa Rica, more welcoming than the EU or US, safer than you think, and nobody’s there yet El Salvador. A…

The readings for Sunday, July 5, 2026: First Reading: Zechariah 9:9-12 First Reading (Semi-cont.): Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67 Psalm: Psalm 145:8-15 (Psalm 145:8-14 NRSV) Psalm (Semi-cont.): Psalm…

A further curious case arose, recorded in a now obscure German medical journal in 1898. It seems that a certain Mr S. from the city of Düsseldorf had gone to a physician with a rather atypical…

I was having these ideas in my head for some days about a subject that I was really excited to write, something about how it was my experience growing up and having my formative years as an…

Life and project updates from the current consecutive three-month period. You might find this interesting in case you're using any of my open source tools or you just want to read random things. :-)

Friends, I recently learned of companies creating new products which include big batteries. The products? An induction cooker, an electric boiler and a heat pump: all items which have not…

The Ware for May 2026 is, in FETguy’s words: “one of many large pc boards of a Rodgers Instrument Co church organ. The core memory was used to store and recall settings of the…

Deep diving into Walter Benjamin’s “Arcades Project”/“Passagen-werk” again after many years and it’s almost like reading an entirely different book. It has always…

That time of the month when I get skeptical about things, this time it landed on AI, the learning phase, and metacognition.

Reflections on UN Open Source Week 2026

[Composed 1/6/2026] Pulling into the parking lot at 12:20 for our 12:30 slot, I already felt like the day was a win — because a genuinely tricky part of visiting Waiʻānapanapa State Park isn't the…

How to determine if you need to attend more seminars.

Welcome to ​​One Thing Better​​. Each week, the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine (that’s me) shares one way to achieve a breakthrough at work — and build a career or company you love. You…

guys. I need to finish my thesis. I am so demotivated. I don't want to do this. Pray for me. I CAN DO THIS. I CAN WORK ON THIS. ITS JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE. YOU CAN DO THIS YOU CAN DO THIS YOU CAN DO…

Building a three-node VPP lab the declarative way with Containerlab: two Alpine endpoints and a VPP router that binds the veths via af_packet, forwards between two subnets, and drops a destination…

Nuns walk down a street as temperatures hover over 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35°C) in Prague, Czech Republic, June 2026 #ClimateChange #Art #Culture

… is of course very very critical infrastructure, blunders in this area will have devastating consequences for the whole globe. this time it is luckily only the CLIENT ssh side that is affected…

The last days I've been working on my website and portfolio and I'm finally finished! Yeah! Just wanted to show my portfolio on here too, for anyone who might be interested ; )

I've never asked myself before if it's a common thing all around the world, but in Italy, each school year, kids buy a diary to write in. I don't think I've ever seen one outside of Italy, or maybe I…

How to turn dead children, frightened people, and supplements into a business model. In December 2012, twenty children and six adults were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,…

I was working on my diff-minimap package, deep in the weeds of fringe indicators and search highlights, and I did the thing. You know the thing. I was in Dired, accidentally, for some reason hit D to…

Your first AI agent should not transform the company. It should reliably own one boring workflow with clear inputs, approvals, and monitoring.

You unzipped a file with WinRAR, the way you always do. Nothing on screen looked wrong. The next morning you logged in and malware was already running, and the only thing you did was open an archive…

Another day, another attempt by Congress to pass an age verification mandate, another useful idiot in the HackerNews comments section saying “okay but we have to protect the children”. Stop lying.…

LONDON: Saturday 22nd August 2026, 2:30pm, The Betsey Trotwood. I’ll be providing the voices of Derek Jarman and Samuel Pepys for Dickon Edwards’ salon about diaries. Victoria Redfern is…

Outside The Miners Arms they’re digging up the street again for ‘essential public works’. Last week they were installing piping for moonshine on tap, the month before cable radio so people could…

Never has the phrase "the rest is history" been more appropriate, and even if the actual history didn't happen this way it matters not a whit. Read more The post First Impressions – World is…

Preface. When my husband Jeffery Kahn was a science writer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, astrophysicists told him fusion was 30 years away and always would be. ITER was supposed to be…

A palate cleanser after the poor book I just finished. I thought to myself who is the best writer, and in my opinion it has to be graham greene, so I picked one of his I'd not read before. Extremely…

Chrome 148 ships an origin trial for something web developers have wanted for years: a way to render actual DOM elements into a <canvas> using the browser's own layout engine. Before diving…

Way atop Mount Tusculum, there are some streets that remind us this marvelous hill was once a vineyard. The streets named Chardonnay Ridge, Riesling Knoll, and Catawba Valley are fairly redolent of…

My uncle and I had a visceral loathing for one another … In my childhood when he came […]

SWEET WATER A great many years ago, a pure freshwater spring was discovered in the tidal flats surrounding a dark and slow river, a river that would in time dissect the Smoke. A shrine was built…

On The Royal Game of Ur, the link cable nearly broke me. It was by far the hardest feature of that project, burning through most of $50 in API...

I got this stick from Steve. You can find his review here. Milo’s Temple is a brand based in England… Continue reading “Milo’s Temple – Coconut”…

There’s a new update to beorg out today. I’ve decided to change how I name each version, primarily so I stop worrying about when I’m going to make the jump from beorg 3.x to 4 😜. The…

Code review nitpicking crowds out logic review, demoralizes authors, and slows merges. Automate the nits, label the rest, save attention for what matters.

Learn how to use foreshadowing in crime fiction and thrillers to build suspense, plant clues and keep readers guessing without giving too much away.In this postWhat foreshadowing isIs foreshadowing…