Gas prices are up from about $1.30/litre to $1.75/litre across Canada this year.  There is conflict in Iran. Markets are reacting to geopolitical uncertainty once again. So what should investors…

The codebase doesn’t care how it got written, but you will. Robby Russell wrote a piece that I keep thinking about. His argument: the pros dismissed Access and FileMaker, but founders built…

Editorial note: I originally published this over on the Hit Subscribe blog. I was perusing the Heavybit newsletter this week when I decided to wander over to their site and see what they were up to.…

Charlie Haden: Photos, Pt. 7Charlie Haden: Photos, Pt. 7. Photography of Cheung Ching-Ming.

A bit late, but finally here are the few submissions we got for April’s Vim Carnival about notes, and PKM. I hoped to get more people involved, but that wasn’t the case. Perhaps the next…

The sentence appears early in Dune: "thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." Almost everyone reads it as a technological prohibition, as if Frank Herbert had…

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All 1 by Sumiko Arai translated by Ajani Oloye Yen Press 2024 The cover of The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All stands out for its…

I’ve been in some discussions lately about AI in writing, which is, at the moment, the hottest topic in publishing. Everyone has an opinion. I have one too. Mine is going to make some people on…

Better late than never. Today I'm finally sharing my Gundam Aerial HG build, a model I picked up as a souvenir in Akihabara, Tokyo, back in 2023 and finished in early 2024. It's been sitting on the…

I was so excited to be camped in my favorite spot in all of Death Valley National Park - with an amazing view of Striped Butte - that I was ready to go even before our alarm went off in the morning.…

Eyeglass Scratch Repair turns out scratched glasses can be repaired easily enough, I had no idea! Tags: glasses eyeglasses spectacles repair diy cleaning scratches

The Ordesa Valley is everything they say, but also harder work than I had imagined. And keep you boots dry!

The 2026 edition of my No Nonsense Technician Class License Study Guide is now available for review. I would love for you to download it, read through it, and comment on it, either here in this post…

Okay, today's off to a much better start. Easy to do when I remember I have to work and also get groceries. I do want to try and go as many days as I can without buying groceries because I have a…

A true blue blog is now in a serif font as of today ^^ I will experiment with some more other fonts if/when I feel like it, but I started to get an idea that Space Mono is not the most comfortable…

Long awaited and finally released: Every image can be used as a team logo! Simply go to the editor, open a data pack and in the team editor click "Load custom logo". Over the past weeks the game got…

I’m sitting in a darkened sports arena in Kazakhstan as I write this. For the first time in 7 years I am again on the International Judo Federation world tour; working in the IT team. Life goes…

TrustedVolumes, a resolver and market maker used by 1inch and other defi platforms, suffered a $6.7 million exploit after an attacker was able to steal funds without proper validation. The thief then…

what? I submit that the most gameable number is 12. I ask you: Why are there 12 months of the year? 12 zodiac signs? 24 hours in a day? 12 inches to a foot? 12 Apostles, 12 tribes of israel, 12 gods…

Our internet bill was too high. It had gone beyond the promotional contract period and the triple-play bundle for 300/300 net, medium-level TV package, and home phone (yes, a landline!) was just too…

I just added a new feature to Kino , my educational movie-discovery project built with LangGraph: a prompt-driven discovery flow that finds grounded titles from a local catalog. The easy label would…

David reviews the new 'Mortal Kombat' film

Rooted Android phone Disabled IMS (VoLTE, VoWIFI) Lock the LTE band to the lowest band available No voice calls SMS via SGd

My STT journey started with Whisper. One of Freya's STT models was a fine-tuned Whisper Large-V3. I optimized it with TensorRT, got it to 130ms, around 94x realtime. Solid, but we hit a wall. The…

By Peter Gabaldon (X / LinkedIn) TL;DR This past summer (2025), during an Ethical Hacking process, we found a Smart Drawer machine for automated payment management. The employees of this recreation…

IndieGameJoe is the only person I know who can actually make twitter work. Nobody else can tweet once and earn a game thousands of wishlists. 4 Years ago I talked to him about going Viral on Twitter…

Blog Post Preview: Unveiling the Adventure in *Operation Perilous Magnetism. Exciting News for Young Readers! Good morning everyone! We're thrilled to announce an upcoming middle-grade novel that…

I spent two nights in Arezzo, which is surprisingly a great town to stay and relax. I stayed at The Homestay, which was a nice place to rest and not too far from the attractions, plus it’s next to a…

in which i finally put down DDFF and write about something else

I first heard about Cloudflare around 2011, on Google Reader. I was 18 or 19, working at a small shop where most of what we shipped ran on an internal PHP framework that was mostly chunks of Zend…

Couple, Too, Tree During Boise Code Camp this past weekend, pgFirstAid hit 500 stars on Github! Honestly, I really did not think it would gain the attention it has. Not to mention, in the thick of…

What happens when someone generates a front-end comp for you and says this must be the way? Of course this hasn’t happened with any of our clients, since this is unallowable into the field. But we’ve…

ocurrent/docker-base-images publishes the ocaml/opam:* Docker images which the OCaml CI systems use. For each distro, it tracks 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, and master opam release branches in…

We implement tokenization using the byte pair encoding algorithm.

Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading="lazy" for <video> and…

Today I read “This is why I’m fat” by Gordon McLean, and a lot of the ideas he puts forth I can relate to, so I wanted to write about those, and my own experiences. With the societal…

I've been not playing RPG for 20-or-so years, after having played a bunch as teen. This year, I got into the hobby again, after stumbling on the Die comics and getting super curious about how RPG had…

A new academic study reveals what active fund management really sounds like behind closed doors. King's College London professor Crawford Spence interviewed 28 senior fund managers and found an…

I turned 50 years old at the very end of 2025. I don’t really have any perspective on that, though I keep thinking I should. I certainly don’t feel like a 50 year old man and I am sometimes…

In our quest to minimize our electronic support travel kit, we hit a snag with non-PD devices.

As a developer I type lot of command lines but there are certain commands that we type more than others : (example for (git : git status, git commit -m “message”) or (angular : ng g c myComponent) or…

In Copenhagen, five of us shared a cosy apartment where the windows overlooked the courtyard, and the balconies of all the other apartment buildings near us. I could see the flowers beginning to…

Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people are at a significantly higher risk of becoming a victim of violent crime than other people in Canada. In Canada, thousands of Indigenous women have been…

Why do agency projects become unprofitable? It’s usually not scope creep alone. A look at delivery leadership, boundaries, burnout, and agency profitability.

I could be wrong, but I feel like this post is going to be similar to the one I wrote recently about crypto stablecoins. I know some readers never got past the headline, because they were busy…

Step by step explanation of a Zoom option, which can be useful if you tend to re-meet the same trusted people on an irregular schedule.

For The Devil Wears Prada 2 . Originally opened by ABC Cinema is 1998 , it was bought by Odeon in 2000 and rebranded. But most of the decor doesn't seem to have been updated, including the small red…

Writing to Learn Math: Math journal explanations avoid the formality that turns so many students away from geometry proofs. Do you want your children to develop the ability to reason creatively and…

Department Chair Barbara Stewart, Nicci Obert, Andy Hines The Department of Human Development & Consumer Science, within which our Foresight program sits, initiated a series of Excellence awards…

Some sumptuous hand-carved scrollwork returns to its original designer after two decades’ service.