It’s the Friday open thread! The comment section on this post is open for discussion with other readers on any work-related questions that you want to talk about (that includes school). If you want…

Classic investigation boards appear in Dark Light (dir. Padraig Reynolds, 2019).

The terminal's return as a serious surface for new tools (Claude Code, Codex, Omarchy) has mostly been read as a developer aesthetic story. Alcides Fonseca reads it as the receipt for thirty…

Settling into routine, another mystery novel, sportsball, Québecois Traitors, an absence of video games, and links.

2026 is not going well...

For a while, AI has been discussed mainly as a product story. Who has the best model? Who has the best assistant? Who has the best demo? Q1 2026 results suggest the discussion is shifting. In that…

A point: SG1. Z point: FR5. Term: 3 Years. Routing: Avoids Marseille and clocks 140 ms RTD.

Manchmal sind es die kleinen Dinge, die mich erfreuen. Hier zum Beispiel der zweite Lautsprecher, der den am unteren Ende spiegelt. Motorola benutzt hier nicht die kleine Tröte, die normalerweise…

Every time I speak with wannabe writers or voice actors, I give them a piece of advice that I suspect everyone in my position tells to wannabes. It's sound advice, the kind they may need to hear over…

If Ashley isn't blowing out your speakers with flamethrowing chainsaw guitar, she's drowning you in a torrential downpour of waterworks with a power ballad. Even the more hushed moments come with…

Regardless of how long US President Donald Trump’s ill-advised war and today’s stagflationary conditions last, the long-run consequences will be profound. Fancying himself an absolute monarch, Trump…

The annual report does not specify what litigation(s) is/are responsible for most of that amount. A recent patent settlement could account for a large chunk of it.

Among the many stories that populate America’s long fascination with UFOs, few are as enduring as the claim that President Dwight D. Eisenhower secretly met with extraterrestrial beings during the…

Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips,…

Pearls and Irritations is digging deeper into issues and, thanks to new partnerships, bringing you perspectives from leading thinkers both in our daily feed and in curated series about important…

One of the reasons everyone should watch and participate in sports is that it demonstrates why one must always cultivate hope. Why one should never give up. If you keep your willpower intact and keep…

The shell-pop Emacs package provides on-demand access to a terminal buffer via a single, configurable key binding. It allows toggling a terminal window without disrupting the workspace layout, making…

The cybersecurity industry's reliance on gated PDFs and MQL-driven content is actively destroying future pipeline by making the best content invisible to AI engines. Here's the case for a fundamental…

In this week’s free newsletter, I explained how bad the circular AI economy is in the simplest-possible terms: Anthropic not have money to pay big cloud bills, because Anthropic company…

Eran Feit Accuracy vs. Speed: Comparing Faster R-CNN and SSD in PyTorch Last Updated on 08/05/2026 by Eran Feit In the world of computer vision, choosing the right architecture is often a game of…

This is an amazing documentation about Art Spiegelman, his most famous work "Maus" and how it was created and how he now looks at his legacy.

all-mammal-creechur:ALTVolcano Rabbit Romerolagus diaziAlso known as the teporingo or zacatuche, is a species of small rabbit that lives in pine and alder forests on volcanic slopes in Mexico. It is…

I’ve talked a lot over the years about a simple, powerful idea. This idea represents a shift away from the guest experience of a couple decades ago into something that looks similar on the…

5/8/2026, 10:33:45 AM Back workout, 2x5 power cleans. Might as well strengthen my back if I don’t have to recover from judo.

We look for truth in many places. From Bitcoin and science to AI and technology, but where does truth come from, and what does Christ mean in our always-online digital world?

Eh. I really don't have time for this. But.... So, I was reading this post by Mr. Maliszewski the other day, as well as its associated links. All things considered it feels a little disjointed which…

Mr. Blurrycam strikes again: war.gov/UFO I was hoping for some laughs on aliens.gov, but no joy. Via: ZeroHedge: On Friday, the Trump administration released the first official tranche of…

Neil Young - Tanderup Farm, Neligh, Nebraska, September 27, 2014Neil Young’s performance at the Harvest The Hope anti-pipeline benefit in September 2014 has come up on two consecutive All One…

Building a civic information economy, not cultures of extraction.

I don’t like people adding tracking stuff to URLs. Still less do I like people adding tracking stuff to my URLs. https://chrismorgan.info /no-query-strings ?ref=example.com ? Did I ask? If I wanted…

I a movie that I recently watched , the weather (a typhoon, to be precise) plays a key role for the progression of the plot. To foreshadow this, weather reports are used as background noise during…

History In 2013, I started my website, using Hyde . In 2016–2018, I reimplemented the site on Lektor and redesigned it twice (including migrating all content, which was actually fairly involved in at…

Last of the purchase posts from Sandown Park, it's funny I've mentioned the stash/pile and Battle of the Planets in the last 24/48 hours, and Bushy managed to name-check them both in the last few…

Heading back for a second bite from The Hold Steady 's 2006 break-out album Boys & Girls In America . And, sure, from the first beat it's a made-to-order indie rock anthem, rousing riffs and…

I had a wonderful chat about design systems and AI with Donnie D’Amato on his wireframe show. We talked about all sorts of spicy topics, and I feel like this conversation captures a lot of…

Insurance companies don’t like aluminum electrical wiring. It’s not technically the wires that are the problem, but the connectors used to join the wires. Because aluminum is soft, the wires come…

The Analysis Situs ver. 2026.1 is now available. This spring release summarizes what we've been doing in the field of CAD algorithms over the past 4-5 months. You can download the Windows x64…

If my development environment needs the internet to work, that's a dependency bug. The network is the least reliable resource I have. Keep it out of the critical path. I test this by turning Wi-Fi…

Last month, LEGO and BrickLink updated their terms and conditions impacting resellers and they received some backlash from it. They have recently sent out another email clarifying their stance. You…

ComicBook's fawning over the news a collection of British comics is being put up for auction, alongside more DC/Marvel back issues, and even harcover compilations: Excalibur Auctions is running the…

Every so often he had to skim off his bubbling thoughts. — Jules Renard, Journal 1887-1910 **** One ruins the mind with too much writing. One rusts it by not writing at all. — Joseph Joubert, The…

In Australia, suicidal men who contact helplines for support are now automatically assumed to be perpetrators of domestic violence. It's a shocking manifestation of a feminist establishment, says…

There is a functional relationship between the mass of the proton and the charge radius of the proton that is consistent with experimental measurements of those quantities, that doesn't have an…

So, an interesting exercises to show the vectors obtained by linear combinations for c(2, 1) + d(0, 1) with c = 0, 1, 2 and d = 0, 1, 2. So, eu escrevi a soma dos vetores e os números que c e d…

The subtitle of the first Climate Biennial, Rehearsing the Unexpected, captures the biennial’s central idea: learning to navigate moments like ours, when the present is shaky and the future uncertain

by Andrew Rice, The Atlantic In the summer of 2017, Keeron Wilson was an 18-year-old deckhand working on a spectator boat in Bermuda, serving cocktails and carving out a modest living as part of the…

As I mentioned a few days ago, the Emacs 31 release process was on the verge of starting. Now Sean Whitton writes to tell us that the Emacs 31 branch has been created and that the feature freeze has…

These are the most popular names in the nation. But do they really represent our naming style? The post Meet the Top American Baby Names of 2025 appeared first on Namerology.