Last Updated on October 21, 2026 by Kay Hokkaido is one of the best places in Japan for skiing and snowboarding, thanks to its amazing powder snow. When we visited this year, my husband (who happens…

I just spent all morning searching through all my Gemini chat sessions for a particular conversation thread we had several weeks ago. I remembered that the later part of the thread had the useful…

We are currently testing a new WAF for our organization. After activating it, we noticed that some requests never hit our server. Further investigation showed that the root cause was linked to our…

I am back in Belgrade.... But my suitcase is not! 😯😔 A short connection in Charles de Gaulle airport is most likely the cause, andc here are several Paris - Belgrade flightsca day, so I am hopeful.

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Toxic culture rarely starts with a bad actor. It starts with the leader who saw it, said nothing, and called it patience.

As a product person, you quickly learn the art of saying no. You have brilliant colleagues who come up with all kinds of ideas, and you'll only ever be able to invest in a small fraction of them.

Looking at https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/utility/bitset/count, I was intrigued to see popcount mentioned in the “See also” section. Handy. That made me curious to see how the stdlibs…

Consistently wrong about Computers, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence and Immortality - While educated readers typically consider science fiction as more of a lens on our present world rather…

BT.1886 Color Space Conflation The Standard: ITU-R BT.1886 defines only a reference Electro-Optical Transfer Function (EOTF). No white point. No color primaries. The Claim: Despite this, Charles…

Twenty Years Ago on FITK Fríða Frænka, an Antique Shop in the lower two floors of a house on Vesturgata, is a pleasantly over-stuffed collection of curios, furniture and household items. The pack-rat…

What happens when your rich, eccentric villain of an uncle leaves you his legacy? You get a cat, obviously.

212 Westbound Part 2 of 2 · Complete Background & supporting material Marlee slid out of the booth, alarmed. “Are you joking?” “Not at all,” Garrett said, scanning the aisle. “I saw it; I’ll take…

In my last article I spoke on CLoudflare tunnels as well as Ngrok ones. As we were wrapping that, I found a clean approach to just adding a sidecar to a Kubernetes pod to create tunnels on the fly. I…

Handy Windows utility for keeping things up to date | UniGetUI by Devolutions | Windows package manager GUI https://devolutions.net/unigetui/ 'One GUI for WinGet, Scoop, Snap, Chocolatey, Pip, Npm,…

In a market full of talkers, the builder has an unfair advantage.

i joined a new webring! the Creatively Weird Webring :) see it on my homepage.

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For most of our lives - atleast mine - ambition was supposed to be an all consuming fire. You burned in the flame and like a phoenix you were born anew. But The Bear, posits a question about what…

Part 1 of the Data Structures catalogue · The Catalogues A slice is not a growable array. It is a small value that describes part of an array it does not own. Every surprising thing slices do follows…

I apologise for being absent so long, the day job has kept me busy for a lot longer than originally expected – with a little luck next year should be a lot better for the project. That said a…

Modern CCTV cameras come in many types, shapes and sizes, and can have a multitude of different features. In this post, I’ll share my thoughts and opinions on choosing appropriate cameras for a…

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I built a Mac dictation app in about a day. Press Caps Lock, talk, and your words appear at the cursor in any app.

The Internet is having a bad few days. One of the many recent security issues is a compromised certificate authority that -- get this -- used "4" as…

1979 was the year I got into buying and studying fanzines. That had a lot to do with Maximum Speed , the main mod publication, which that year was particularly high-profile and prolific. I recall a…

My weekend project was to fix a leaky valve and a leaky connection for the irrigation system at my house. In the ten years I’ve lived here, I’ve replaced just about every sprinkler and a bunch of…

So, a bunch of my services run, or rather, ran, on an old Intel NUC 8 that I bought back in 2020 and have mostly used as a “random stuff goes here” server. A year and a half ago the fan…

You probably only have 78 keys on your keyboard. So why do you never use 12 of them?

<p>Last year on a whim, I completed the <a href="https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2025/10/27/atb-2025/">Around the Bay</a> 100km route. However this year I wasn’t…

Now that it’s October, triathlon season has come to a stop. Although warmer than usual in Toronto, I have stopped swimming outdoors and cycling with my group. I still try to run two times a week and…

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It's that time again: there are new Oracle JVM updates released today (Oct 20, 2026) for the current long-term support (LTS) releases of Oracle Java 25, 21, 17, 11, and 8, as well as the newest…

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

Why I Decided to Upgrade My C10 Cooling System Last summer, while driving my truck to car meets, I noticed it was getting fairly warm when we were moving very... The post Budget C10 Electric Fan…

Recently, I've been hearing about people wanting to make an SMW Central alternative. As far as I can tell, the individuals who desire this the most are also the individuals most open to using GenAi.…

In the current AI discourse I keep hearing things like “being human means thinking and expressing independently”. Here is V. H. Belvadi: “…so I want to start with the fact...

A spooky one for the spooky season, Through Familiar Eyes is in pre-launch over on Backerkit. It's a kind of fairytale horror piece, self-contained with pregens with their own tiny tiny system. It's…

Ugly (UK) “In Samphedoo” Ugly (UK) are very polished, precise, and mannered in ways that don’t often overlap, which means they often sound sorta like modern musical theater crafted by…

Many of us are living a bonus life (or two) because of modern medicine

Short to the point: there seem to be a divide between AI criticism and AI “accelerationists.” The divide being that on one side “they get it”, on the other they don’t.…

Robert Yang made a web-based clicker game called Up the Vote in response to news about dismal voter registration rates among young people in New Zealand, where he lives. I enjoyed both reading about…

I have to admit I’m brought up a little short by things presupposed by this article by the European Space Agency about AMEC , a cloud in the Martian atmosphere that forms daily (by Martian reckoning)…

We mentioned that in a previous post, a couple of days after coming back from Japan, we had a Filming Day in Quebec City, with Olivier and Marie-Pier. The paper Governing Fairness in Insurance…

I have blogged every previous Cyan Kickstarter, so the foolish hobgoblin demands this post. Cyan is now crowdfunding the Myst Trilogy "Guild of Writers" Deluxe Collection. These are the three Myst…

There is another man with the same name as me. He is a professional bicyclist, and he is Swiss. I figured this out when I kept getting emails to firstnamelastname@gmail , but my email is…

This is a very long and detailed article and study on pricing yesteryear and today on a whole host of things. I’ll leave it to the reader to study for himself, but here are snippets. At a…

Covered here, but this is a more succinct listing of what models have been canceled for production. Maybe Beretta knew something we didn’t when they tried to buy Ruger. Maybe they should still…