Editor’s note: First published by Mad in America on June 19th As a systemic psychotherapist, I believe that human distress needs to be understood in its relational and social context. The…

Part 4 now. Thought I would have hated an allegorical novel but pleasantly surprised. I grew fond of the Hamilton and the Trask families.

Cursor Pro is best when it edits code, not when it thinks out loud. A practical split workflow — Perplexity for current research, ChatGPT for planning, Claude for review, Ollama for cheap tasks, and…

Went to a rose garden today.

Another annoying GPT-ism (circa June 2026): while describing something, it always describes what it *does*, but never what it *is* > "LocalPerf benchmarks local LLM inference servers and keeps the…

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Or the lack thereof.

Facebook is such a messed up place. We exist there by the grace of the whims of a narcissistic asshole I guess we’re doing numbered lists… I know perfectly well how all of this works. I’ve beeen on…

Five scenes is all you're likely to get through in a four-hour RPG session. Narrow your prep down to the five scenes you might run to help you focus and avoid getting lost in the vast and overwhelming

i have experienced the suffering of deep attachment but its totally wrong to say that attachments give us sufferings. infact its the opposite attachments help us thrive "Transformation happens inside…

A sequel to the last one, but a bit longer.On Leaving SlackAfter nearly 6 years, I left Slack in August of 2025. It was for a combination of reasons that added up to "it's time".The…

https://projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-capture-cant-solve-climate-change/

I've avoided going deep with LLM usage, including for agentic coding. This is has been for a number of reasons. I don't want to be sending data to US tech platforms is a big one. I don't want to…

It's been a while...Man, a lot has happened. Earlier this month, I got to visit San Francisco. It ended up being a pretty long trip. I still had a lot of fun and got to eat some really good…

Greetings, traveler! SwiftUI provides a built-in .refreshable modifier, which covers the majority of use cases. At some point, product requirements start to demand more control over the refresh…

Almost missed a week of blogging. I have been feeling an elevated amount of ambient stress and I think it all stems from AI in various ways. Can’t wait for this fucking bubble to pop! Come on,…

🗺️ Map tinkering: Overpass and gravel paths 🔊 The Steve Mason Experience archive 🌡️ Worth keeping: weather forecast for the past weekend ❄️ Portable air conditioner: is ok 🎲 Random findings in the…

Climate tech is losing trendiness but not relevance. This post explores what’s replacing it and why mission and values matter more than branding.

/////////////////// le bonne (ident)idee /////////////////// idk man maybe it was just me but like, the naughty stuff the older kids new, or grown up things or whatever, it's not like they were…

Cisco DevNet channel has published an hour-long Getting Started with netlab interview with Suresh Vina , resulting in netlab.tools documentation having more weekly visits than ipspace.net blog for…

The most popular technology may not be the best. In 1989 Richard P. Gabriel coined the term Worse is Better , a clearly humorous take on certain tendencies in software development and design as he…

warp point is a site that curates blogs that write primarily about games (making it a little fraught if i should submit mine, as i write about game stuff maybe once a year lmao). the creators wes…

One thing I didn’t like about being a YouTubeTV subscriber is that I couldn’t find a plan that worked for me which included the History channel. I’ve forgotten how much I’ve…

You don't build a reputation in the future. You build it today, in the choices when no-one is watching

Weekle #19 29th June to 5th July The following events all took place in this week in history in the last 100 years. In which year did they occur? Answers go back in order from most recent to oldest…

Which teams don’t need asterisks by their title?

Richard Kiel’s indestructible Jaws returns in the second half of Moonraker after crashing through a circus tent during the pre-title sequence. He wears the same outfit over the course of a couple of…

I picked up a Palo Alto Cloudgenix ION 2000 off of eBay and decided to try and stick OPNsense on it. It has a ethernet ports, 4GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, and an Intel Atom CPU. What I hadn't considered…

Collection of 4 art prints from original ink drawings inspired by H.P. Lovecraft short stories. Includes: Mountains of Madness Shadow Over Innsmouth The Color out of Space The Dunwich Horror Size: 4…

This week’s “Dark Wave” featured music by The Sugarcubes, Nitzer Ebb, Christian Death, Mission of Burma, Love and Rockets, Felt, The The and more. The post Playlist: Sirius XM’s “Dark Wave” — hosted…

I realise my mistake at around 3am, when my limbs are starched flat on the bed but in my head sets off a cut, sparking wire that’s jumping around and making my heart thump and stop. Netflix is still…

The Incus team is pleased to announce the release of Incus 7.2! It’s another pretty busy release for us with a varied set of new features across the board as well as the usual set of performance…

The three triangle laws (sines, cosines, tangents) followed by five worked "prove the identity" problems.

A symbol of freedom standing atop the United States Capitol seems like the perfect representation of American A computer sound effect sparked one of the funniest stories in tech history. […]…

I’m currently watching 4 Elements Air and reading the book it’s based on. So far I’m enjoying the show (the book is also a fun read) and I think the team’s doing a pretty good job with their…

venort:overwhelmedfernfrond:universeleads:universeleads:I explained the concept of “blorbo from my shows” to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I…

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com When I’m deep in a manuscript, every word feels precious. That closeness is what makes the writing possible in the first place, but it’s…

ven though my open source projects are only one hobby among several, I was able to invest enough hours over the first half of 2026 to produce several updates and releases. In case anyone is curious…

For a while now, I’ve followed a pretty strict rule: public services are public, and private services are private. For me, that meant that the only things on my network that were exposed to the…

Stop asking clients to email passwords. Use encrypted, self-destructing request links to collect credentials, API keys, and sensitive files securely.

chaoticevilspacewitch:secretchordstyx:this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist…

I write my WG21 papers with MPark/WG21, a Pandoc-based framework I vendor into the paper repo as a git subtree. The framework had a major overhaul–the build system split apart, and Pandoc jumped from…

Why Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG and BDO Are Separating Parts of Their Nordic Businesses In July 2026, Deloitte Denmark announced what appeared to be a relatively straightforward strategic transaction.…

I'm working in my office downstairs but am laughing because I just heard my Secret Numbering System working from afar.For a couple of years now, Naveen (11) and I have a system of generating numbers…

To hear her tell it: Not a damn thing . Me? I agree.

Backstory time: there’s a whole subreddit dedicated to maps without New Zealand. It’s an unfortunately large category. Most maps are like this one from the 404 page of New Zealand’s government: Years…

Early access release date for Ship Miner has been announced but what is the current state? and what about the plan to get into it?

I'm actually seeing more and more both social platform posts and media news on TV, that often times the person would immediately take any Data presented/given on the screen as an immediate…

Well. The editor I was using, Phoenix Code, added a bunch of AI bullshit, and I hate nothing more in the world of website programming than AI bullshit tools that just get in my way. Unfortunately, I…