Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota Judy P. Pu; Samuel A. Bowring; Jahandar Ramezani; Paul Myrow; Timothy D. Raub; Ed Landing;…

Previous title: Twitter / X changed the rules and I’d like to cancel my subscription now When I signed up, I did so without installing an app to my cell phone. I signed up with the website,…

The career data nobody tells you to collect. The data that was sitting in my own office, the whole time. I was sitting in our accounting department, watching my manager accept an ad hoc task from the…

I am typing here while my spouse sleeps and I ought to settle. I’m finding it hard to let go of the weekend and accept the week ahead. Mondays in particular are input-heavy days with many stakeholder…

📷 Olympus OM-20, Zuiko 200mm f /4 🎞️ Ilford HP5+ pushed to ISO 1600

Weekly events, and an essay 'The Tyranny of the Short Form', in celebration of our new (Longer-Form) Emails.

It’s hard to believe there’s no local coverage to date on Rep. Scott Perry’s recent bill, dubbed the “Protecting Kids from Creeps Act” (HR 9131), for which he issued a press release June 11th. …

Inside DMA Design with Brian Watson The post The Man Who Made Lemmings Work On Atari ST: DMA Design’s Brian Watson – The Retro Hour EP537 appeared first on Retro Hour Podcast.

Fantasy is one of the most imaginative genres of literature, and it wouldn’t be the genre it is without its characters. Long after we’ve forgotten the details...

Post [001/100] of the #the100pics challenge. Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, May 26th 2026

Update: A full production prototype is here: Product Thinking AssessmentMuch of the daily work of news product management is translating critical thinking into business answers. That means…

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The difference in poetry that makes a difference

In 2023 veteran games writer and video personality Jeff Gerstmann decided to make a ranked list of every NES game released in North America. And then he did. In 2013 critic Tevis Thompson wrote :…

my mother used to tell me she'd find me standing on the balcony in the middle of the night, simply looking out into the world. i was also told that when i was only two years old, i quietly walked out…

I love seeing linguistics communication work, and the wonderful ways people do lingcomm to bring linguistics to new audiences. I do lingcomm as part of my job as an academic, which means that I also…

Amateur cryptography: decrypting TVT CCTV camera config files

From tangled horizontal layers to vertical Boundary-Control-Entity slices, and why they are a perfect fit for LLM-assisted development.

With the changes to web development ushered in by AI, there seems to be less point in posting the kind of ‘how-to’ technical articles that I’ve been writing here thus far. I thought I’d try blogging…

One Markdown file produces both a web page and a print-identical PDF. Version-controlled, zero drift between versions, and built around a headless-browser-versus-PDF-library decision I had to defend…

WhatsApp polls seem useful until you actually use them for anything real.

Heli-No. (image from Moby Games) Okay, so I started a Toaplan retrospective and have yet to finish it. But I just had to share this phenomenally pissy review of Tiger Heli early, because it's…

Some programs perform one basic task, e.g., analyse input to calculate some quantity. These programs often take a set of input values and produce some output. If a program contains a single coding…

Maybe you need failure Maybe it reminds you what's important to you Maybe in the midst of yearning and longing and dreaming and wanting You let everything around you Unravel So that you can put it…

Four weeks ago I was in downtown Manhattan for the world premiere event for C++: The Documentary. It was great to see two theaters full of enthusiastic C++ developers, and getting to mingle with…

The first episode of the new season should have been the finale of last season. I guess it was going

part one: persistent data structures part two: immutable.fnl optimizations part three: parsing part four: parsing (again) Other than that, the parsing is complete, and we can look at the compiler…

Everyone knows not to store money as a double precision . One can hope. The rule is so well drilled that it has stopped being interesting, and it is also not where the trouble usually starts. The…

Got some inspiration back in 2017, got it again nearly a decade later.

Artist: The Art Of Butchery Album: Butcher Works II Year: 2026 Genre: Death Metal Web: https://youtu.be/n_cRO9FrIww / https://www.facebook.com/TAOB Country: Spain Quality: 320 Kbps Tracklist: 1.…

Josh Haden: What’s in my Scrip? Pt. 2: Yes, we CANJosh Haden: What’s in my Scrip? Pt. 2: Yes, We CAN! Can’s Irmin Schmidt, Barack Obama, Ts Bayandalai

I was lucky that I could get a fig tree from someone in town. Just moved it with the cargo bike.

Had a better time at basketball on Monday. It was a fairly low bar, so after a made a lay-up off the first possession I'd already surpassed my own expectations. Was slightly concerned that the sports…

“…it feels like an ad in a cheap hardware store in a part of town where there is at least 4 different people injecting heroin under that store” - Rosa, when presented with this article, 2 days ago

It’s such an incredibly dull thing to have to comment on but holy fuck has it been hot. Our flat can handle a day or two of heat but by day three it’s a difficult-to-cool furnace. Our lads have been…

New Board: Guition JC4827W543 Es­pos­i­to OS now runs on the Gui­tion JC4827W543, a 4.3" ES­P32-S3 dis­play pan­el with 480×272 res­o­lu­tion, 8 MB oc­tal PSRAM, ca­pac­i­tive touch, and an SD card…

Albert Einstein did not get the Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity. The check of $1.2 million for the expires after 12 months. The prize is never given posthumously. Why Gandhi never won the…

14-06-26 I knew the Small Pearl-Bordered Fritillaries were out and about thanks to a couple of sightings posted on the ESB fb group. I was reluctant to head to Tentsmuir too soon but only had a…

Earlier this week I read Kyle Chayka’s latest for The New Yorker , called “ The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet .” It’s about Anthropic’s Claude Design and some of the visual…

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I think I'm probably gonna go to the grave bitter than tech bros and the billionaire class are starting to make me hate robots. Robots (in fiction) have been my beloved little guys, my conduit, my…

It is difficult to write about Martyn Cornell’s last book, Porter and Stout: A Complete History without being caught up by the sad fact of his passing a little over a year ago now. As many had…

Dear Dad, We're in the kitchen right now. I've brought my laptop here so I can sit with you. But you're not interested in me. The past few days you've been a fucking prick. You're starting to throw…

I Brought Galileo’s Telescope to a Navy SEAL’s Gun Range Two optics, four centuries apart. Shawn sighting Galileo’s 1609 spyglass; I’m on a suppressed precision SigSauer Rattler .300 Blackout…

At what stage of AI model evolution are we at?

This past week Ann Blyth died at the age of 97. She starred with Bing Crosby in the 1949 film Top O' The Morning. Her greatest role though was came a few years earlier in Mildred Pierce (1945). RIP…

Various reviews and an excessive amount of text about On What Matters volume 3. Read here.

“It sucks for you, but we’re not gonna pass a tax on your citizens without them deciding,” Kicklighter said. “If they let their citizens vote on it and their citizens approve it, it’ll be approved by…

huzzah, meanwhile i was melting in the heat, i have taken an interest into minecraft tech mods.. sooooooooooooo. yeah. gonna try some out i guess. i still need to get readjusted to a laptop again its…