A system for resolving Cyberpunk mission preparation fast.

How the conferences FediForum and 2mr.social this week show how fediverse is trying to build connections with European politics, as well as with the atmosphere.

BOUGHT: Supergirl Vol. 1: Misadventures in Midvale (DC Comics) I was genuinely worried about this one. As long-time readers likely know, Sophie Campbell is one of my favorite artists—and,…

I came across some practical money rules on the Mel Robbins podcast that are worth keeping front of mind. Know where your money goes. Track and budget. You can't manage what you don't measure. Split y

How you can help the RIFL Act become law, and pass one of the biggest wins for gun safety legislation in American historyThis is a guest piece by Lauren Harper & Dr. Anthony Douglas II, MD MPH.…

For quite a few years the Rails project has been working with the Internet Bug Bounty (IBB). The IBB is an organization that awarded cash to security researchers that reported issues to OSS projects…

Imagine it’s the dark of night. You’re in... The post The Dark Side Of The Wave appeared first on Joe Jacobi.

In her book American Beauty, author Patricia Mears calls Jessie Franklin Turner (1888-1956) “arguably the first important American couturier of the twentieth century.” Her dresses usually had simple…

Yamaha Seqtrak went on sale last month — at the fantastically low price of $250 USD. OK, that got me. 🙂 By now, there are a mess o’ Seqtrak videos on-line. You’ve probably watched…

We humans use analogies and metaphors to understand concepts. But it is important to know that they are only approximations, not the actual concept in itself. Saying LLM is like a new higher level of…

Some weeks ago I discovered Immich and was immediately hooked and started feeding the family photo collection into it. Immich on CIFS It’s running on a VM at Hetzner, and I immediately filled…

The unexpected second life of passenger aircraft Next time you’re eating a lasagne on your holiday flight, pause to consider the aircraft type you are flying in may have well have gone to war, spied…

“Higher Gas Prices Are Hitting Lower-Income Americans the Hardest” —Latest headline from the Petroleum Institute’s economics journal “Duh!”

This fabulous creamy asparagus spaghetti recipe is based on a classic Italian dish known as asparagus alla Bismarck or asparagus alla Milanese. Both names refer to steamed or blanched asparagus…

Python 3.15 beta 1 is out! This is a really impactful release, with some really big additions. A new lazy import system, a powerful sampling profiler, not one but two new builtins, the usual…

I collect and analyse e-Bike fleet data for three vendors in Edmonton, Canada.

In this episode, I spoke with Lindsay Barnett, founder/CEO of Playground Productions, and James Deighan, founder/CEO of Mega Cat Studios, about the return of the Backyard Sports franchise of games.…

By customizable I mean letting the people using your app add, remove, and move toolbar items. Making a customizable toolbar in a SwiftUI app requires you to do the following: Give the .toolbar…

A couple of months ago I moved to a new team at work. The team had been running for a while before I joined, and there was a lot of context I didn't have — issues, discussions, strategy docs, repos…

Annual Finnish Social Psychology Conference, Tampere, 8 May 2026 Abstract Public and scientific discourses about ‘AI’ treat ‘artificiality’ as an inherent property of machines, and ‘intelligence’ as…

Tiens tiens, ce serait pas l’arrière-cour des immeubles du boulevard Foch au-dessus du Auchan ?

This is an album I picked up at a record store when I was taking a little vacation on Vancouver Island over the weekend. This is the only pre-hiatus Tears for Fears album I didn't have yet; I've kept…

Anita Sarkeesian is a name that should not be unfamiliar to anyone who was in the gaming sphere around 2014. She was an outspoken feminist who made a video series about women in video games, and…

Get better at: handling multiple files, multi-indexes, pivot tables, and plotting with Plotly.

dinosaurspen: This is from an article about Eliot Noyes, known for his work at IBM, which contains this anecdote:Serving in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, Noyes was assigned to the Pentagon…

We get so trapped inside the logic of the UK’s crazy electoral systems we often do not see what is really happening. Two thirds of active voters, voted against Starmer’s Labour at the…

Also: AMD's quarterly results, the government reviewing AI models, and the decline of capitalism. The post Is closed-source AI really losing its edge? appeared first on Cautious Optimism.

Palo Alto Portal Vulnerability, Most Companies Aren't Ready for AI, Surface Updates, CopyFail YARA Rules, and more...

Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/051.html Transcript: A comic in four panels. Panel 1. The adventurer stands exhausted but proud with his sword, in the…

The second edition is fully edited, out for review, and getting close to launch. Plus: Crystal Richards, Deb Aoki, and more.

The former Atlanta owner, who died today, left his mark on the uni-verse. Source

$81k in April for Hebrew calories counting app 💰 Plus, all the week's best indie startup news

Demystify AI agents by exploring the case for moving the loop to the browser. Learn how client-side orchestration enables tight UI integration and data control.

I’ve been chatting with a good number of folks who are turning down streaming services lately for various reasons. I’ve blogged about this before, and if you’re looking for advice…

I learned enough book binding skill to make a case for my new Xteink X4 e-reader. I enjoyed the process, and think of some future things to do with it.

a friend i hadn't seen for awhile warned me about their affliction, to avoid surprise or judgement, the disease being synthesizer module accumulation, and upon inspection i was relieved, declaring…

Watch the new music video for 'Hoedown', from our album 'Oxygen'!

Have you ever noticed when your smartphone gets unusually warm? Warm is not abnormal for smartphones. After all, a discharging battery produces heat as a byproduct of electron flow. Apps can also…

Maybe this is the image in your head when you read the title of this post? In college in the late nineties, I devoured a fantastic new book called A Perfect Storm on a flight to Boston. I was on my…

MalChela v4.1 is out today, and the headline is something I’ve been wanting to tackle for a while: dedicated Mac malware analysis tooling. If you’ve been following the channel or the…

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It is the transition that Northwest residents both expect and regret: the intrusion of low-level stratus clouds into western Washington and Oregon. Usually occurring in late May, this year the…

Making zines is a great time, however figuring out how to print them on a home printer or a copy shop's xerox machine can be a bit tricky, so I decided I'd create a library of templates for…

First Attempt Working with this video as my guide, I created my first woven item with Scotch Broom. There were a few errors on my part, particularly at the start which resulted in a base that wasn't…

Answer It’s kinda complicated. i3 exposes a scratchpad_state on every node, but it is not relevant for the node you initially check. The window node of the application you are targetting. Today…

After 5 months of owning my custom configured BMW i4 eDrive40 Gran Coupé M Sport (2026), and with petrol prices in the Netherlands reaching €2.60...

Americans are used to hearing one story about Iran: a hostile regime, a bad actor, a problem to contain. That story isn’t wrong. But it’s incomplete and that matters, because incomplete thinking…

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Last weekend I participated in Walk MS here in Philadelphia. The weather was overcast and cool which made walking a breeze and free of MS symptoms. When we reached the 1-mile mark, I felt good enough…