On Dyslexia fontsFound a dyslexia book in the kids sections a the library. "Oh cool! I should try this!" — or so I thought.First paragraph already made me dizzy.You see, it is not the font... the…

Loaded Baked Potato Salad from Keep It Simple Y’all Every Day This Loaded Baked Potato Salad from Keep It Simple Y’all Every Day takes everything people love about a loaded baked potato and turns it…

this is a self help... book. i say it like that because it's also a memoir of the individual writing it... and i liked the memoir of his life so far? it talks about several hard parts he's lived…

Smoke Ready Week is the perfect time for employers to prepare for wildfire season. Employers should take proacti ve steps to protect workers by: Preparing a written wildfire smoke response plan…

8 dirtbags to give your dirtbags other dirtbags to go after. For money!

Whenever I have some time, I keep improving OSM Spyglass. A very useful addition is that Spyglass now shows suggestions for the key and value filter fields. Spyglass gets possible keys/values from…

On overview of all the news in the fediverse for the last month.

Advice in old-timey books was just plain weird, man. The post “And THAT’s why they cancelled my gym membership.” appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.

RANDAL & VICKI MATHENY | SÃO JOSÉ DOS CAMPOS (SP) BRAZIL | YEAR 42 Vicki took a tumble while out walking May 10. She broke her right shoulder and skinned up head, lip, hands, and arm. Her arm is in a…

In addition to today's longish piece on incompetence over at the Department of Justice, I want to flag another piece of news that surprised and disappointed me today.Tulsi Gabbard was the…

As I’m putting on Ghyll’s lead by the door, I hear rolling thunder. I used to hear thunder a lot, but for whatever reason we don’t get much thunder or lightning in the UK. I put on my waterproof…

A year ago, USV decided to explore what an AI native VC firm would look like. We hired Spencer who built a platform and a bunch of agents and wrote this post about all of that before departing to do…

I thought of a cute problem: what is the smallest (size) ./a.out binary that I can create? Here are some rules the program should follow: ./a.out must run successfully. $? must deterministically be…

Last weekend I spent in and around Birmingham for UK Games Expo! The last time I attended was three years ago and the convention has grown significantly since then. There were over 50.000 unique…

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James Bond, also known as Agent 007, is one of the world’s most recognisable cultural creations, spawning a blockbuster film franchise and immortal catchphrases such as ‘Bond, James…

Yesterday morning, Governor Polis signed the Colorado Artist Company Act — the law that creates Artist Corporations (A-Corps), the first legal structure in the United States built specifically…

On May 19, the US Department of Justice announced that it had settled a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump, two of his sons and his real estate company against the US Treasury and the IRS. The…

In case you missed my other post about this, I've been beating all the mainline Final Fantasy games in order of release. And, I just now got done beating the third one! First of all: This is by far…

Regular readers of this blog will be aware of the efforts that Alan Brown and myself have made to ensure that people who flout transparency rules are held accountable before the law. You can read the…

TL;DR: During a migration across a few dozen repos, “looks done” failed me three different ways: stale code search, stale local clones, and an auto-merge that quietly reverted my changes.…

It is my privilege and an absolute pleasure to have been announced the Guest of Honour with the Tolkien Society Unquendor (Netherlands) with this year’s Lustrum, a spectacular festivity that is…

W hile waiting to receive the printed circuit board for the MSX cartridge, I started working on making a compatible USB card for the AKAI S5000/S6000 samplers. The reason is that I know someone who…

Age of Transformation is... transforming. We're becoming Phase Shift, and we're moving home. Stay along for a ride that, we promise, will be rewarding.

Comcast NBCUniversal officially revealed the name for their first theme park built from the ground up in Europe, targeting a 2031 opening

I planned on posting an essay on a different subject today. In fact, I had another essay all written and revised, waiting for whatever fame and fortune a weekly blog post by a writer well out on the…

> Evil people never believe that they are evil. Instead they believe everyone else is evil. — David Foster Wallace Flip that statement > Good people rarely believe that they are good. Instead they…

Scratching the surface on C++'s decltype specifier

A common issue that we've probably all faced at some point is having a component that includes a heading, which sometimes should be an H2 and sometimes maybe an H3, depending on where it's used. We…

For my birthday last year, I dipped into a batch of network TV ads aired two days before I was born, on June 1, 1999, and picked out ten favorites to show you in particular. I really enjoyed it, and…

Trying my hand at distribution for my app AuraTracker: Habits & Goals and man, it’s hard. I’ve been an engineer all my life, and all I knew was how to build stuff. Now, suddenly, I find that in…

IntroA light breeze passes through the valley, carrying a sweet fragrance of wildflowers speckled among the hearty grass covering. In the distance, mountains suddenly rise up from the fields, framing…

° Food is never anything but a collection of fragments, none of which appears privileged by an order of ingestion. 1 To produce writing that is served like a plate of food. ‘A collection of…

Boards of Canada “Father and Son” This is my best attempt to summarize the themes of Boards of Canada’s fifth full-length album Inferno after less than a week of obsessive listening: It’s…

This will be a confused post, because I am confused.

My laundry is piling up. I keep it in a bag under my bed but the bag is so full it’s hard to pull it out so I can stuff more dirty laundry inside. It’s such a pain in the booty to do laundry in the…

crypticamanita:anyways first pride themed drawing of the month, with Berith (she/her) and Eve (she/they)Berith (the tall one) belongs to my friend @voidlitost !

I’ve been wanting a household whiteboard for a while now. I’d actually like a few of them around the house for various things, but at least one for leaving notes or whatever. But everytime I looked…

Robert Birming, who has a pretty great blog himself, is running a little thing called Junited , where participants give shoutouts to fellow bloggers they think more people should know about. This…

I'm writing an article series on Free Threading internals to learn more about Free Threading, explain how it works, and explain how it solved the "remove the GIL" issue where previous…

Photo by Anders Jildén on Unsplash In 1941, Mervin Kelly designed the new Bell Labs building at Murray Hill with a single, deliberate constraint: one long corridor. Not separate wings for physics and…

Pascal’s Wager is an argument that it is prudentially rational to engage in theistic belief promotion practices (TBPP), namely practices apt to promote one’s belief in God. My interest this post is…

After a very long time, the ATX Power Supply (Corsair CX430) of my primary workstation has died.

Oh a whim I applied for an iOS dev job with Starbucks. I’ve always liked the app because it’s super easy to use and gives me exactly what I want from an app: a way to order and a way to pay. Simple.…

Good links I have collected recently. Metro Pretzel M is for… Metro (Calvert typeface and the Nexus Tyne and Wear public transport visual identity), this blog is a lovely treasure trove of transport…

Geiler neuer Track von Milano Constantine zusammen mit Morlockk Dilemma, „How it all started“! Krasser Beat, hört euch das an! Die kommende EP „Foreign Exchange” könnt ihr übrigens…

Inter-dependent change tracking in Collabora Online was mostly a topic last year, see the post from November for more info about the feature in general: this is the case when you create a change on…

Usually I write at work, but down time has been limited, so I've been writing less. Today I'm writing a short thing about how valuable stepping away can be. I'm working slowly through a new release…

Show me insight. Don't tell me people want healthier alternatives. Tell me what you discovered about the customer that nobody else saw, and walk me through how you got there. This customer needs a…