Hot dogs are acceptable in this house. It's even better with the works -- chili, sauerkraut, mustard....yum! This was the perfect puzzle to reminisce on carnival and food truck summers. We used to go…

This reading list is courtesy of Vivaldi browser, who pay me decent money to fight for a better web and don’t moan at me for reading all this stuff. We’ve just released Vivaldi 7.9, with even more…

Via Open Culture comes this YouTube video showing how librarians can save a wet book. The main secret seems to be unlimited supplies of paper towels. See also Reading habits

Hi everyone! Over the last few months I’ve covered several types of wire antennas: This time let’s focus on how to actually get them into the air when you’re operating […] The post Portable Ham…

the trap of low-hanging fruit

TL;DR- Read “Vibe coding” – Ignore the title, read the book.

I'm at home, sitting on the kitchen table. I just took my boys to school and I'm about to start my work. I'm writing this message directly to you. And you are reading it. Hello! Isn't that funny?…

We woke up at 6:30, ate some granola, and then rode out with lights on as it was still dark at 7:00am. The ride through town was beautiful in the early morning with no traffic and surprisingly few…

Welcome to Technology Short Take #195! It wasn’t planned this way, but it seems like this Tech Short Take is heavily slanted toward AI/LLM-related articles and posts. Topics like security…

Apple introduced the HomePod mini six years ago, in 2020. I'm not one into smart speakers, but the feature that made me take a closer look was their ability to form stereo pairs, without any direct…

 5/6/26 Fishermen's TerminalFor our second outing during International Urban Sketchers Week, USk Seattle chose Fishermen’s Terminal, which we think of as our inaugural site. A bit chillier and…

On April Fools in 2021, the popular xkcd comic ran Checkbox , which was a Morse code puzzle in disguise. (It’s interesting to see the community trying to figure out what it actually does .) Engineer…

Stuck in the middle. With you?

Carney’s Liberals are pondering privatizing airports. What would that do for us? Notice the slickness of Finance Minister François‑Philippe Champagne saying “it’s about…

Today I learned how to fill in an emoji with CSS. Here’s an example: .filledEmoji { color: transparent; text-shadow: '0 0 0 #86efac'; }

Explore Afghan flavour and Texan technique We're approaching BBQ season and we've got just the thing to get you ready to grill like a pro this summer. Cue Point co-founders Mursal Saiq and Joshua…

In Praise of Crazy Visionaries by Jeffrey Blehar Ted Turner passed away today, at the age of 87. He had been out of the public eye for several years now, first retiring from corporate responsibility…

According to Cole Allen's motion to disqualify Jeanine Pirro as prosecutor in his case, she had made six sometimes wildly emotional comments about his alleged attack. The post Cole Allen Catalogs…

A couple years ago, Jay Naborn wrote: I am studying people’s preference for categorically correct forecasts (such as getting the winner of a sports game right) over error-minimizing ones (such as…

You ever get so tired that your brain stops fantasizing about money and starts fantasizing about owning three goats, a rusty lawn chair, and a shotgun labeled “For Emotional Support Only”? Because…

Understanding and navigating federal data can be tricky– for both novices and experts! But there is now a resource to help you understand this complex ecosystem. Through support from the UC…

A response to gb's post, "radio is cool, actually".

Lenny Hargreaves stood at the gate and looked at the patch Tommy had left behind. Just mud and weeds, same as it had been for the last two years of Tommy’s life, only now Tommy wasn’t coming back to…

[Images: Adobe Stock, Mitchell Luo/Unsplash] By Chris Stokel-Walker Twenty years ago, if you asked the average person what Google was, they’d tell you it was a search engine. The company became…

Just reached saifee. MaMo has added two cases. Last one of them is left. Run run run dhanwantiiiiiiii induuuuuuuuuce. Will message when I reach home. Drive safe

One of the other librarians emailed this morning asking if the rest of us had gotten an email from an outfit called Librar Labs. We hadn't, but I looked them up. And yeah, this whole webpage can fuck…

TO: All Garden Personnel / Feline Sentry Units FROM: The Chief Agronomist (The Grumpy Welshman) DATE: 08 May 2026 SUBJECT: Pre-Deployment of Lycopersicon (Tomato Units) Feline Sentry Units on Patio…

The Department of War (DOW) has posted new information on UFOs, at the request of U.S. President Donald Trump. Never-before-seen files on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) are part of the…

I’m considering using the þorn & eð characters in my posts, but I do worry that people who aren’t used to seeing them might find their presence annoying or confusing. Like, what it turns away…

Retro Games Ltd has delayed THEA1200 to December 4, 2026. A follow-up Q&A confirms pre-order status, pricing, and product plans. The post THEA1200 December Date Confirmed After Retro Games Ltd…

A brief update about a photo show

The Fritzes award honors the best interfaces in a full-length motion picture in the past year. Interfaces play a special role in our movie-going experience, and are a craft all their own that…

His relationship was amazing at first, but it's become a nightmare. But even after he's been given the perfect opportunity, he can't bring himself to leave! via Paging Dr. NerdLove.

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Consolidation in the [[Data Engineering]] market is happening quickly. Tools from the [[Modern Data Stack]] get unified into bigger [[Data Platform|Data Platforms]]. This note highlights the latest…

When things start going all Highfalutin,the nerds reappear from their lair, and try and fix the stuff the Alpha-Males did while they were away. Sick of getting ambient sand from the chill out room…

The tech industry has declared that AI will increase developer productivity. Task-level productivity feels obvious, though concrete evidence is elusive — for example, METR reported a widely cited…

A weekly round-up of what I’ve read and enjoyed from around the web. I’m interested in journalism, media, technology and nerdy things found down the back of the World Wide Web’s sofa. Most weeks I…

Dremio revolutionizes self-service analytics for data teams. It empowers data analysts to explore and visualize data with rapid query response times. Concurrently, data engineers benefit from the…

This is only a hyprethetical scenerio to express what would proceed if the “Faust Baseline” framework was actually challenged in real time. The institutional player claims the category.…

Back in 2018, the American Sign Museum saved the old Cincinnati Gardens sign and installed it on their exterior wall facing the street. Over time they put up scaffolding and have been filling it up…

Marco Finelli of Retro-Gamers.it has released an English guide for setting up Compact Flash storage on Amiga systems. It covers A500, A600, A1200, Workbench, and WHDLoad use. The post Amiga Compact…

All the different ways you can mess around with strings. So many different ways.

I grew up watching TV in the 90s, which means I grew up watching TV series with 20+ episodes per season, released weekly, and that ran for years and years. Too many episodes, for too long, really.…

“He can’t see the forest for the trees,” the saying goes. It’s a recognition that attention to detail can obscure an overall pattern. Of course, someone could respond by…

How is it that I manage to feel so inept still, even though I have accomplished so much already? I am in this enviable position. People are amazed at what I have done on Udemy. And yet I feel inept.…

I once worked on a project to bring inclusive-themed bench installations to a small municipality. The benches had an inscription on them and were painted bright colours. It was fun! The committee I…

Having failed to beat Sam Altman in the race to dominate AI, Elon cuts a deal to become Dario Amodei's landlord.