hyperactive radios "scenius" or just a crazy scene? you decide...

other people's stuff - may 2026 a bunch of my friends got backlinks. go check 'em out!

During the last few days of April, my wife and I drove from our home in Georgia to Whitehall, Michigan. My sister invited me to join her in a group dedicated to the upkeep and management of five…

Last weekend I visited Nürnberg with some friends. It was a long drive but worth it in the end. The weather was amazing and it was my first time checking out the cities famous historical mile and…

In the last couple of weeks, we talked A LOT about selling in ​The Council​. Beyond our guest sessions, we spoke of what gets our prospects to buy. So, naturally, we got to talking about triggers.…

posted some of the art i've done recently to my gallery, inspired by some movies i like! (project hail mary and your name(

Six years married to my best-est friend. R makes me a less terrible and much happier person every day. And puts up with my many missteps. I love coming home to her and P&C. Two weeks ago, we made…

Two weeks ago, we at Halcyon hosted our first large in-person event on time and speed to power: the critical paths for companies building the energy infrastructure required to meet soaring demand for…

Rooting a VMC2040 security camera part 7: Conclusion and summary Brief In this part we are going to give some thoughts about the security of the camera and what to do to prevent this kind of attack.…

Rooting a VMC2040 security camera part 6: What did work Brief In this part I will show how I finally got root access to the camera. The other parts of the series are: Part1: Basic examination Part2:…

Microsoft has announced a new security change for Microsoft Entra ID. Starting June 2026, App Instance Lock will be enabled by default for all newly created applications. In this article, we will…

Condensed presentation of Jakob Nielsen’s 10 usability heuristics in infographics that explain what each heuristic means and show design patterns that support the heuristics as well as anti-patterns…

“There is a difference between abandoning the world and finding a way to remain part of it.”

AI is doing more than making us faster. It's changing the fundamental nature of what our work is, and the sooner we adapt, the better.

Aoyama, TokyoPentax 6x7 with 165mm f2.8 lensPhotographer: Chikashi Suzuki / instagram / website

Yodobashi Camera, ShinjukuCanon AE-1 Program with Canon FD 35-70mm f2.8-3.5 S.S.C. lens

LibreNMS has been a faithful companion for years now. It quietly handles the monitoring of my servers, devices, and services without demanding much in return - exactly what you want from a tool whose…

Today! Thursday May 7th 2026 7 pm doors for a 7:30 pm start Pay what you want The Folk of Gloucester 99-103 Westgate Street (just down from the Cathedral) Gloucester Gloucestershire GL1 2PG Fiona is…

Most diving conferences focus on equipment, techniques, and destinations. However, from May 31 to June 5, 2026, on the island of Vis, Croatia, The Human Factors in Diving Conference will do something…

As I was packing for my month long trip to the Philippines, I cleaned my room. Not a deep clean, just the kind you do when you want to come back to something decent after being gone for a good while.…

Amok by Stephan Zweig Information about the book author: Stephan Zweig title: Amok pages: 115 Modern form of enslavement The mysterious man who tells his story was a doctor hired in India by a…

There is a growing interest in Zephyr RTOS within the embedded community. Unlike Arduino or ESP-IDF, Zephyr gives you a real hardware abstraction layer that lets you write firmware once and compile…

Step 9 - But what about Java This is the final step, adding a Java generator - each step adds or improves a small feature, this text is just highlighting a few details along the way, the best way to…

Our pick of new history books for May. From the Vikings to the Weimar Republic, the Georgian Dining Room to Winston Churchill.

From the conclusion of Anthropic’s article summarizing their own research into AI-assistance and skill formation: Our results suggest that incorporating AI aggressively into the workplace,…

A talk by Michael Crichton given at the International Leadership Forum in La Jolla, California, April 26, 2002.

A WooCommerce site with an ERP integration in progress. The external developer reported a mixed encoding in the database: latin1, utf8mb3, and utf8mb4. ALTER TABLE looked like the right move. But it…

You might have also wondered why, especially over the last few years, it has become increasingly rare to read about truly interesting malware and its in-depth analysis. If you’ve been in…

Every meal planning app treats cooking as the hard problem and shopping as a logistics detail. They have it backwards. Cooking is mostly solved. Shopping is the last mile.

Photo by Mike Smith on Unsplash The fortnight that’s just ended started with one of the smallest possible problems: commandspace, “screenlock”, return, and the wrong version of…

I have been assessing InnovateUK and similar government agency funding competitions since 2011. To date, I have reviewed: – 140 Competitions. – 1,395 Applications. – In excess of…

I wonder why too much love can be off-putting. Is it a boundary thing? It feels like a boundary thing when I'm the one who feels that way about someone else's boundless love. That said, I don't want…

Prosperity rests not on intentions, but on foundations. In Germany’s case, those foundations were historically not only institutional and industrial, but energetic: the stable supply of power that…

There's a trend I have noticed when folks try sell software, their perception of how hard it was to build the software influences their comfort in setting a price. More difficult to build, more…

I like the Internet. I am old enough to remember the pre-Internet era and despite the younger generations pining for those simpler days, I was there. Paper maps were absolutely horrible, just you and…

I’ve been working on a PC Engine emulator (aka TurboGrafx-16) after getting the bug to start looking at a new system, and I’ve found it to be pretty interesting hardware-wise. Originally…

[MC Lothlorien, Commodore 64] It has been some time since we talked about MC Lothlorien, one of the oldest and most prolific British wargame companies.…

The boats they race in are thirty-five-year-old Catalina 37s. Weighing in at around 7 tonnes, with dacron sails and symmetrical kites. They have a maximum speed of around 7 knots. The event is living…

“coding is a solved problem”

I love this short open-access paper from danah boyd where she suggests shifting the term we use to describe social media.

There are local elections being held across the UK today. Voters in Scotland and Wales will elect representatives to their respective national parliaments, while in England the voting is for local…

In this public lecture (in Dutch), Jasper de Groot takes you into the surprising and often hidden world of scent.

Rock and (beef and onion) Roll My latest West Midlands History Podcast is not really suitable for going on a fact-finding walk for. It concerns the improvement in household living in the Black…

Untying the knots holding back Iraq's fintech ecosystem.

SPECIMEN #000: Custos corruptus (The Corrupt Guardian: How the World's Largest Social Network Profits from the Grifts It Claims to Police) Classification: Attention Merchant / Grift Enabler /…

Posted on: Logbook, Misc.Tagline: Pages from my logbook.Yesterday morning I watched a puddle drying up, taken by force by the sun's rays. A "necessary" violence to make room for the…

Notes CSS CSS in Hiccup CSS with garden

“Scripting languages are designed for gluing”, wrote John Ousterhout, the creator of Tcl, in 1998.1 What Ousterhout had in mind was writing an application in a scripting language and…