Rockstar are about to drop the long-awaited Netflix extended look at GTA 6. For the nine days leading into it, a group calling itself Cyber Leek has been leaking unreleased gameplay on a daily…

In January 2013 I posted a note on the BillBlog to say that I had decided that I’d no longer sit on men-only panels at conferences. Because I was working at the BBC I acknowledged that there…

El 21 y 22 de agosto participé junto a Javier en Flyleaf festival, un evento de autoedición organizado por WIRWIR y Falschrum books que se celebra en el barrio de Neukölln, Berlín. La muestra se…

This is an interesting board, with a unique way of dealing with function keys for a 65% board, and both mechanical and Hall effect switching modes. It will also take both ordinary mechanical and Hall…

A very bumpy section of the Ship Canal Trail along W Emerson St near Fisherman’s Terminal is getting fixed. Luckily, there’s a fairly easy detour on the north side of the street, though it does…

A brief update about where I've been and what I've been dealing with..

Hello everyone! I had some trouble with Gitlab these days, after I upgraded it to 19.3 together with my Alma Linux dependencies the SSH push/pull stopped working, and the cause was a drift in the…

Related Links :: Tags: < rpgs > Summary: As an #RPG about heroic and mythical knights, #MythicBastionland necessarily considers time. Both fairy tale logic as well as heeding the admonition for…

I’ve been enjoying Herman’s podcast, The Idea Roastery , recently.

I turned from the kitchen counter, iPhone and MeshCore tracker in hand 1 . “Okay,” I told my best friend, all geared up to infodump, “look at this.” I extended my phone toward her. “That’s the public…

Some info about recent changes to LisaGUI, and a slight peek behind the curtain.

It’s Not Me, It’s You — Mhairi McFarlane A re-read of the second McFarlane book I read. I liked it a lot back then, but was only gradually coming to terms with the fact that a…

Iran decided to take out AWS regions Ukraine decided to take out fulfillment centers of Russia’s largest on-line retailer Moscow is iching to start shit. eu-central-1 is about 2000km from…

When news broke of the death of Dolly Parton at age 80, yesterday, the organization I work for snapped into action, given that Dolly was one of our long-time affiliates. We put together a lovingly…

In February 2026, I filed a petition asking EPA to evaluate the South Bay in Boston for the Superfund program — the federal program for the country's most contaminated sites. The South Bay is…

A data lakehouse architecture stores data in open table formats (like Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake) on object storage (like S3). Broadly, open table formats make object storage behave less like a…

Ben Nadel discusses his transition from programming as a four-way win to programing as a hobby....

I started this blog before Facebook, Instagram and Twitter were founded. In those days, if people wanted to find out what you were up to they went to your blog. I had a small readership of friends…

Far be it from me to encourage you to buy any other book this summer, but I feel obliged to draw your attention to a flurry of notable books, made by mates, that have come out recently or are…

I thought this video covers some of my reticence towards BL and straight women trying to use gay men.Look, as a queer person, I don’t hate straight people writing queer people. What I dislike…

When folks talk to me, I often get a sense that they want advice or maybe an opinion. They seldom ask. I often give an advice or an opinion before...

Read the report on the VAGO website here . This found that the SRL was likely to run over budget and had a high chance of running over time. The government also had problems funding it. As for the…

Mundane days, best kind of days.

When games start feeling more like work than fun - complexity, grinding, multiplayer, and just messing around.

What is Dave wearing today? In spirit, Dave is wearing a coat of many colors. In reality, he is wearing an off-white polo shirt and red shorts. How does Dave feel today? Dave is reflective. What are…

It’s the first day after a long summer holiday. I’m on my bicycle again. I never clock my rides. I know that it takes me between 40 and 50 minutes to commute. It depends on traffic lights, wind, and…

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Normal (2025) • View trailer 3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for profanity and relentless strong, bloody violence Available via: HBO MAX and other VOD options By Derrick Bang <span sty

The more I think about Dan Wang&rsquo;s book Breakneck the less I think of it. Wang presents America as a country of lawyers — orderly, slow, nothing gets done — and China as a country of engineers,…

旅と日々, Tabi to Hibi, lit. 'Journeys and Days' A calm, and in parts even funny movie, about the struggle to be creative. A struggling screenwriter takes a vacation in the snowy mountains, where the…

Today I&#x2019;m reviewing Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab&#x2019;s new edition of Television&#x2019;s 1977 debut, Marquee Moon, which underwent Mobile Fidelity&#x2019;s UltraDisc One-Step process and…

Intro & Why Did I Move I am really enjoying the ease of use of Bear Blog for my blogging. Setting up and maintaining a blog on Bear Blog is so easy and frees up time for other activities like writing…

Sometimes I kvetch about how boring I find fantasy pantheons that are just Greek gods with a bad coat of paint. Sometimes I've blogged about it. Guys do you want to hear about my setting's unique…

Hey MAGA, a quick word&#8230; I see you out here today, trying to claim Dolly Parton as your own, as if she were one of you, as if you and she were kindred spirits, as if your heart and hers were…

Fixed ’em. Fixed ’em all. Well, almost all — down to 10 bugs on the NetNewsWire bug tracker. (See the Mac 7.1.3 release notes and iOS for the big list of just-fixed bugs.) This means I’ve gotten the…

The What NGS Triangulation Station BEAUTIFUL Survey marks or monuments are objects used to mark a precise location and/or elevation on the earth. The markers most survey mark hunters look for most…

Agencies Agencies that establish survey markers Adirondack Surveys Aquatrak Army Corps of Engineers AT&amp;T AZDOT Boston Museum of Science Bureau of Land Management Central Railroad of New Jersey…

The main links you need: Stephen Hill&#8217;s wonderful page of links, and Natasha Tatarchuk has added the content from this year&#8217;s Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course to our…

(CW: mentions Lindsay Clancy so if you know who she is and don't want to hear anything about this, I recommend turning away) So usually I stay away from more topical stuff, and political content. Not…

Today marks month four of the first and only break in my entire software engineering career. I've been working remotely for tech startups ever since COVID hit during my sophomore year of college.…

In the speakeasy of my mind, your merciless reticence echoes down the halls. Capturing me without objection, Secrets your body holds yell to me More than what they mean to you, And they fill the…

Another book I&#8217;ve discovered via the excellent Book Club podcast, and one about which I can&#8217;t quite make up my mind. It&#8217;s set in Italy &#8211; specifically Sicily &#8211; during the…

Weighing in on two very different shows at SummerWorks, as well as a whimsical As You Like It sequel

You might think that the USA must change deeply over the next decade, which will unfold 250 years after the decade in which our republic originally took shape and will include the first eight years…

The best teachers were degenerates The boys on the way down, Are the fun drunks. Unfamiliar with the cold bottom yet, Holding their reasons while they can, And toasting to nothings that they believe…

Talking about ACOTAR and its R rated inspo, The Black Jewels.

I remember seeing a post 1 a few months ago about Moments , an indie web photo blog site. I thought it looked nice, I like looking at pretty pictures, and I have been doing a lot of cloud photography…

$185,000 bought this house five blocks from me Charles L. Marohn Jr. and Daniel Herriges, Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis. Hoboken NJ: Wiley, 2024.…

Psychologist Dr Nezhat Farnoody sits in her well-appointed office in Irvine, an upscale, modern city about an hour and a half south of Los Angeles. She and her daughter, Nelly [&#8230;] The post Meet…