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I’ve been writing ruby and rails for nearly 20 years. A couple weeks ago, I had gotten code snippets from copy-paste in a chat window, but I hadn’t even experimented with Claude Code or…

Michael Riddering's Dive Club interview with Loredana Crisan, Figma's chief design officer, is about how Figma wants a bigger, faster, more explicit design loop. Riddering asks Crisan whether…

Yarrow is a Tarot reader that runs on Astro, Tailwind, and Svelte, with an LLM doing the reading.

這是我的「 BlogBlog 同樂會 - 2026 年 6 月 」的投稿文章。本月主題是「 音樂與記憶 」，由 柚子 主持。如果你有自己的部落格，歡迎一起來參加！ I’m a dreamer. 每當心情失落的時候，我的腦中便不時回憶起坂本真綾演唱的〈白金〉（プラチナ）。這首歌是動畫片《魔卡少女櫻》的片頭曲之一。幼時看動畫時，或許只是覺得旋律明快、歌詞閃閃發亮；長大以後再聽，卻愈發覺得，這句「I’m…

Or: How to Get Rich Selling the Dream of Getting Rich There is a method. It is simple. It is clear. It unfolds in numbered steps. It will, with admirable confidence, produce $10,000 every month. The…

Jasmine Amy Rogers (Boop. Spelling Bee) will star as Maria in the second-ever Broadway revival of “The Sound of Music” part of a thrilling new season at Lincoln Center Theater, which includes…

Did you know NASA JPL has a service called Horizons which lets you look at mission statistics, here we try to predict the orbit and compare with Artemis I stats.…

Learn how to build a simple and effective 40-10m Off-Center Fed (OCF) Dipole antenna. This guide covers the design, the crucial 4:1 balun, and construction tips for your ham radio station.…

as you can probably tell from my website's design, i've been told to "be myself" a few too many times growing up, so i take expressing myself very seriously. thus, whatever customization options i…

In this post, we show Lemma 2.1 of Step 2 that proves (4.5): \( |\sigma_-(\mathcal{M})| < 3^\beta \gamma |\sigma_+(\mathcal{N}) ||\) seeing the description figure given…

Sparked by an old favorite from Panda Express, these Beijing Beef-Inspired Tofu Bowls are loaded with crispy tofu that’s tossed in that signature sweet and savory sauce, stir-fried with veggies, and…

Friendly reminder – Oklahoma isn’t the only state trying to turn public schools into taxpayer-funded Sunday school! Last week, the Texas State Board of Education approved a new mandatory reading list…

My family has had to deal with the death of a pet and the death of a friend recently. In the pet case, we put down one of our cats (cancer), she was 11 or 12 years old. The friend had a terminal…

While walking my dog the other day, I heard a cardinal singing nearby. I couldn't spot it right away, so I stopped to look up in the trees to find it. The trees weren't very dense so it took less…

A badly written romance that draws you in with really strong fantasy that quickly peters out

The Commodore Amiga 2000 occupies a strange and important place in computer history. It was not the cheapest Amiga, not the prettiest Amiga and not the fastest Amiga in standard…

Finland knows all too well what a confrontation with Russia would mean. So, the Finns are preparing… As traditional security guarantees begin to fall apart (i.e., the U.S. signaling reduced…

For decades now, Raymond Chen has been posting to his blog The Old New Thing about various technical Microsoft quirks, occasionally venturing into Unsung territory. Last week, Chen shared a nice…

Omphalos. San Francisco, 2025.

LaraPlugins rolled out security advisory scanning for Laravel packages , then found a 2-month sync gap. Here's what broke, what we fixed, and how to add a health badge to your plugin README.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote No Time , an entry jotting four topics that I wanted to expand on but didn't have time to before. Now, I'm ready to reply. The nearest grocery store to us, in the woods,…

A month ago I went to France for the Uneed founder residency. Thomas Sanlis had been inspired by the Hacker Residency event he went to in Vietnam

Every app and tool takes up PC resources, which can lead to a reduction in FPS while gaming. NVIDIA App, meant to replace the NVIDIA Control Panel, is relatively new, and you might be skeptical that…

People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill bit. They want a quarter-inch hole. Theodore Levitt (Harvard Business School) Why ask why? There is a line every product person knows. “People don't want…

ICYMI Arizona – Arizona held a special election to fill in a vacancy for AZPP Lookout/Outreach Director. Their IT committee also met to…

74 today. Data from my family tree indicates that I’m doing all right by still breathing: I’ve lived longer than any man in my paternal line going back to one Johann Andreas Duntemann 1729-1808. He…

Death is king in the world of men.There are many fountains that flow with wine, But you must sacrifice a finger every time you drink. There is great wealth to be had, But only if you learn to smile…

A reader writes: I have an employee who tends to call out more frequently than all the others in the organization. We work in a 24/7 office where technicians can all manage one another’s duties,…

I spent hours with dead friends two months after my mastectomy. I went to Körperwelten for two reasons. I wanted to understand what had happened to my body, and I was researching the history of…

I came to Nepal with a pictures of mountains in my head, and left with so much more - so much in fact I decided to split the blog of this trip into two parts. This is the first one, covering the…

Happy Pride. I'm glad that I'm still here, that you're still here. I'm proud of who you are and who you are becoming. Thank you for being here. The world is scary, but you are not alone. You are…

Two weeks ago I quit my job. I had been working as a staff engineer at this startup for the last 2.5 years. The people, pay, and workload were all good but it was time to move on. I have worked with…

News – In Memoriam: AIA President Stephen Dyson – Archaeological Institute of America Dr. Oswaldo Arteaga, a world reference for Phoenician archaeology in the Axarquía, dies | Sur in English Ittai…

As previously hinted at, in this blog post I’m discussing the Final Fantasy XIV encounter Dancing Mad (Ultimate) from a mechanical, technical, and narrative perspective. In order to understand…

During the Steam Summer Sale, I picked up Ace of Seafood, a 2016 plane-combat-parody-game??? where you play as a fish who is trying to conquer the ocean. I haven't played a lot of fighter jet combat…

New York Times seeks to refile OpenAI case, Feds seize hundreds of pirate sports domains, and game developer installs malware to fight piracy. Source

Heya all. So, once more I feel the need to blog something but didn’t have any singular impactful event, so here’s a bunch of shit that happened to me recently. Feel free to skip around. I’m almost…

It's been quite some time since I mentioned The Limeliters here. They were my favorite of all the folk-singing acts that popped up in the sixties and here they are on The Ed Sullivan Show for…

Experience the label that helped redefine contemporary jazz and improvised music as Record Bizzy explores International Anthem’s remarkable catalog on Darling’s remarkable system. Few…

There are plenty of circuit simulators available, that give detailed analysis of circuits with capacitors, inductors and semiconductors, and these can be used to simulate a purely resistive circuit…

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Let’s talk vanity metrics for a moment. Vanity metrics are what I call non-zero metrics. If they’re zero, you’re in deep 💩. Followers on social media? Sure, that’s not a…

From Dense Discovery : ................ Loupe for iOS shows you exactly what any app can read about you/your device without ever asking for permission — from time zone and keyboard languages to…

I'm dropping a little library called "okayfail" implementing a Result<Value, Error> type for TypeScript. (Like the Rust Result type, or the NeverThrow TypeScript library.) My…

Pals! Here’s my favorite Sheldon comic from THIS DAY IN 2023 If you’re a Patreon Pal, you can log in and check out 5,000 more comics in the archives! And if you’re not yet a pal on Patreon…JOIN…

Self-promotion of my day job may have waned, but I’m still out here designing rad icons! In case you’ve been living under a sadly icon-less rock, we’ve been pushing out brand new Icon Packs regularly…

Fun and fascinating - with fabulous fotos - Danceteria oral history by Joy Press , aka the missus, who was a regular at the legendary New York club in the 1980s. Everyone from Madonna and Fab 5…

There are many ways to measure the success of a videogame. Sales figures, review scores, influence, sequels, speedruns, tournaments, remakes. Tetris has all of that, and then something else few…

Elon Musk and the plot to hijack America’s broadband. BEAD was designed as an ambitious program to bring broadband to underserved communities and close the digital divide. Under Trump it has become a…