In this old post I have demonstrated how to abuse forfiles.exe to run your ‘cmd.exe’ of choice. There is one more trick we can do with this tool. When forfiles.exe enumerates the files it…

I generated a landing page, looked at it, and felt nothing. Not because it was bad – it was fine. But fine is the problem. Here I share what that hollow feeling is actually telling us, why designing…

Over the last few decades. DC Comics has published some events that depict our favorite heroes as evil versions of themselves. The first version we saw was the Crime Syndicate in Justice League of…

Working with large structured datasets in Python often means choosing between speed and simplicity. The new CTable object has born out of the need for a columnar store that compresses data on the…

Finally, a cognitive offloading system rooted in the ancient wisdom of the South Wales Valleys, optimised for the modern overwhelmed mind, and available in three tiers. Apparently, I have been living…

Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s…

A reference post for system configuration

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I host my open-source projects on Codeberg. But out of respect for this excellent service, I don't want to clutter it with one-off piles of code and stuff I don't take seriously. Also, I wanted to…

I've run a digital agency from Manila for 23 years. I've billed clients in San Francisco, London, Sydney, and Canada — often at rates that would make a US shop laugh, and sometimes at rates that make…

Leaders make hundreds of decisions throughout the day and every small decision they make and every action they take has a substantial impact on the growth of the organization and its people. Their…

I recently a bought a Lenovo Chromebook 14, and wanted to run Zed on it. This took me a little while, but I finally figured…

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It's bearblog carnival and I can tell you about my favorite flies. As I told before I've really been into dipterology lately, i. e. the study of flies, mosquitoes and midges. I can't pick only one…

I'm back from holiday! I guess coming back to familiarity after a few weeks of novelty got me thinking. Sometimes you repeat the same stuff over and over. Sometimes you breeze past stuff, never…

We published a Where To? update. Version 13.5.5 contains several bugfixes and improvements and supports 19 additional micromobility providers: 549 Самокати 🇺🇦 Aldin Cycles 🇬🇭 AO Drive 🇴🇲 BiciCastro…

A week between a YouTube shoot, a hypnosis session, and thoughts on impact-driven goals in bug bounty and learning in the LLM era.

Runner Dock operating report Snapshot as of 2026-05-06 09:01 BST / 08:01 UTC. Recommendation: CEO should approve the first warm-intro target set, choose the agent-readable mailbox path, and keep the…

On discovering that “show your work” is not the same thing as “do the work well.”

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The world is a lot right now, so I want to suggest that you find some little delights to keep your spirits up. Perhaps start with birds. (And if that doesn’t work, there are always dogs.) Last…

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Troy Press published a piece "D&D Rules, According to Past Players" based on a survey they did - and I am fascinated by the 'mentioned in passing' implication of a huge amount of non-active D&D…

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Why AI changed what I want to do after work and my ways of working

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Big brain wants to create perfect setup straight away. Smol brain knows: start simple, improve later.

So I a few months ago I noticed that on John St there is now a pho restaurant called "Pho John St". By itself, there's nothing particularly noteworthy there -- it's a pho restaurant with a…

Wrap Up With Analytics And Takeaways

In the second part of this series, the library for the Soccer Table program has been implemented. This library code does not interact with the outside world yet. Therefore, an interactive program…

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By Kel Weinhold Well, here we are 10 steps into our 52 step journey! And no matter where we go we keep coming back to feeling stuck. I don’t mean that you aren’t moving forward. I can…

So I spent a lot of time talking about John Byrne’s 1980s run on the Fantastic Four, probably focusing too much on the specifics without saying, in the big picture, that it was classically-done…

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Notes on how mDNS is prioritized on the .local top-level domain.

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Himself has been continuing to search for more sneaky ways to improve the performance of the Bachmann 'Dukedog', searching for every last place we can hide a precious few grammes of extra weight.…

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I watched the one-woman stage show Fleabag today by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. I’ve tried watching a few film recordings of stage shows, and they often don’t really land for me because the…

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A few years ago I wrote a blog post titled “My take on microservices”. I cannot believe it has been almost a decade, nine years to be precise, since I published it. It is still…

It's essential to know what our brand says about those who choose it.

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Lately there has been a lot of discussion about whether LLMs are conscious. Richard Dawkins recently added fuel to the debate by posting an article about his long conversation with Claude, which he…