KEYBOARDS STILL AVAILABLE – NEW PRICE! After a few years away from the Commodore 64 hobby, I am now slowly getting back into it again (link). As part of this, I have parts for a very limited…

Attach Cognito’s inbound federation trigger through Terraform and the AWS CLI while native support is pending. As of October 20, 2026, my provider PR is still open. Later pool updates can…

I moved my June 1995 poem, The Fate of Logic from paper back to digital and placed in a spot in the Poetry / Creative section, The Fate of Logic. The last couple of weeks my old poetry has come up a…

Notes, updates, highlights and thoughts from week 42 of 2026. The post Wk 42-26 – Weekly Note appeared first on aboutSG.

I’ll jump straight to the headline: I’m calling time on my role as CEO at Welcoming Australia. When you believe in an idea and its potential, you build it in...

A new version (1.6) of Hypervals is now out for Mac, iOS and Apple watch.

We're in election season. It's both exciting and boring, because the main way to save the world is through lots of industrious organizing, fundraising, campaigning for electoral democracy…

From the desk of Benji Welner in Stanford, CA. I do not believe that software engineering is undergoing a tectonic shift due to large language models. I have, at this point, seen a large enough…

Of all my side projects, Silk is still my favorite. I may have more to say on this soon.

Keep your scribblings straight. Read “Announcing: Dover” at joeldueck.com…

Extra! Extra! Read All About It — The Week That Refused to Stay Quiet These stories first appeared on January 20, 2026. As we settle into October 2026, some predictions aged poorly, others eerily…

クラウンズ・ド・ラ・シャットのサーカス兼劇場は、奇妙な一座だった。 観客の中にはショックを受けて途中で席を立つ者もいたし、毎回必ず誰かが金を返せと要求した。 同じ夜は二度となかった。 というのも、このショーは本当の意味で終幕へ向かって進んでいくのではなく、組織されたアナーキーとなって、ゴールラインへ向かって崩れ落ちていくようなものだったからだ。…

Author and yoga teacher Sue Bushell shares how ancient wisdom, Hindu mythology, meditation, and creative practice can help us discover the extraordinary within the ordinary.

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Setting up and customizing Linux machines has always been a pleasure of mine. For years I ran a few clunky local servers at home and hosted every kind of application on them. Then the cloud came, and…

Today we believe that the oldest living Romanian Olympian, Francisc Horvath, is celebrating his 98th birthday. We featured Horvath in our Olympic medal mysteries series some time ago, as he won…

I love Australian animals deeply. They're part of my identity and culture. And yes, when it comes to choosing between protecting native wildlife and allowing invasive animals like feral cats to…

All Things Open 2026 is on in Raleigh! With more than 100 sessions and speakers, choosing what to attend is not easy. I went through the conference program and shortlisted the sessions that caught my…

The alleged discovery of a covert recording device inside OpenAI’s offices raises an important question for corporate Australia: are businesses protecting their confidential conversations as…

A curated list of cyberpunk Japanese anime and OVA and Western animated films and television cartoons.

https://colorbrewer2.org/ A set of color-blind safe color palettes that I've used as the basis for a bunch of visualizations

alammo has been around for a while on youtube, posting pc-98 mixes with some very interesting and obscure picks (i recommend!). recently, they created this quirky website where you can browse various…

AI cut the cost of sending a submission to almost nothing, so signal and noise both went up by a factor of ten. The triage queues were built to never miss, and that's exactly what's breaking. Some…

From the air, a great circular gymnasium with a domed roof sits like a green eye in the middle of the overgrown grounds.

Schokomürbeteig is the chocolate variation of classic German Mürbeteig. It is made by replacing part of the flour with unsweetened cocoa powder to create a tender, crumbly dough that’s ideal…

Homeschooling comes with plenty of exciting opportunities, but figuring out where all the learning is actually going to happen can be a challenge. You want somewhere your kids can concentrate, get…

Chapter 1 of my first foray into fiction is out: Heavenly Lord - the story of Maewen. Mind the messy writing!

Some unfinished business with Dialectica categories I've recently put two Lab notes in my Drafts repository , both about extending Dialectica constructions beyond their usual setting. Neither is…

The 1975 “Manned orbital systems concept study” looked at extended duration Spacelab derived mini space stations, capable of being expanded into greater capability. The artwork reproduced…

I’m a fan of the Harmful Digital Communications Act. We need a quick and accessible remedy when a video of a child being bullied is posted on social media, for example, and the rest of our…

Hello, sweet friends! I saw that the Pink & Main monthly challenge and Simon Says Stamp IG Challenge were BOTH Halloween themed so I thought I would make something to join in the fun! Two birds with…

Today, for the first time, I used Apple’s “Describe an Extension” feature in Safari to have Apple Intelligence make a little useful extension for me and I was impressed. I hate clicking a link and…

The new Spacing Magazine arrived in my mailbox today. Can you imagine how excited I was to discover THIS while flipping through the pages? Definitely Thriving is on sale at the Spacing Store. Toronto…

One of the big things I’ve done recently has been to reduce my dependency on subscription-based software. I did some initial work on this a…

While I’ve had some time off from work, I’ve been designing curriculum. It seems like a good way to keep my skills sharp and create something useful for the greater math community. I chose to use a…

Four Supreme Court justices sat out the music publishers’ petition over “Double Shot,” leaving the Fifth Circuit’s worldwide-termination ruling in place by default. The post BMG v. Vetter: Recusals…

A case study in procedural atrophy

A long time ago, I was on the radio. And there I am, above - in a photocard I’ve still got. I was on The Pulse, in West Yorkshire, from 1993 to 1995. I then did swing on Hallam FM until the end…

tag(s): #emacs #random-thoughts #programming A week ago I received in my inbox a few patches, from two different users, for confluence-reader. My first thought was Aha! Turns out you don't need to be…

Last time, I made a post which went through some general design goals in a semi-structured way. In this post, I want to home in on a concept: the behavior you reward is the behavior you encourage. In…

Private ownership of digital infrastructure can give a small number of companies the power to determine the conditions under which everyone else participates in economic and public life.

ASP.NET Core 11 localizes Minimal API validation messages. Wire up AddValidation and AddLocalization, add resx files, and return errors per culture.

In 2014, $5 SSD Droplets and high churn were saturating DigitalOcean's image network. How a self-shrinking cache and a replay simulation of production logs got a risky hypervisor change approved.

En 2014, les Droplets SSD à 5 $ et leur fort renouvellement saturaient le réseau d'images de DigitalOcean. Comment un cache autorétrécissant et une simulation qui rejoue les logs de production ont…

Instead of dumping lore, ask questions that load it into your players’ brains.

The 20 principles of game feel, from coyote time to hit stop and i-frames, each shown with a side-by-side WITHOUT vs. WITH animation and practical Godot 4 examples.

I'm at the point now where, compared to a year ago, I can truly say that I'm doing well . Unfortunately, my wife is having a really hard time with her health. This means that I'm very torn, but it…

Jamboree on the Air 2026 On Saturday, October 17, 2026, Troop 119 in Lexington, MA took part in Jamboree on the Air (JOTA). This year the troop set up a radio station in the center of town instead of…

Popeye the Sailor has had an immense influence on both American culture and world culture, and it would be easy for me to write an entire blog series…