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Protected: Colour in Architectural Drawings
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Fred Sez
Recently, the Senate narrowly approved a resolution invoking the War Powers Act. The headlines said that it had commanded Trump to either stop fighting to the Iran War or seek congressional…
Keeping Things Moving, Even When the Week Felt Heavy (Week 26, 2026)
A heavier week personally, but still one with site polish, privacy page work, practical security how-to posts, hiring thoughts, AI liability writing, and a little macOS 27 beta weirdness.
Reconstructing My Faith: Postmodernity, Bullies, and Uncle Carl
Well, you knew we'd eventually get to Mark Driscoll if we started talking about deconstructing and reconstructing my faith, right? [insert heavy sigh here] Postmodernity In the spring of 1997, I…
nikitonsky is being grumpy
nikitonsky: Things I learned today: - Websites can override Cmd+R - Google Sheets uses it to replace current cell with the cell on the LEFT #GoogleSheets #Shortcuts
Does my magical girl transformation sequence, and when the fireworks clear the genre of the show has…
Does my magical girl transformation sequence, and when the fireworks clear the genre of the show has transformed into a gritty technothriller with light psychological horror elements just never…
The Complete Kubrick: The Ultimate Box Set for Lovers of Film Design
The Complete Kubrick is coming, and for anyone fascinated by the relationship between cinema and interiors, this may be one of the most exciting home entertainment releases of the year. Released on…
Way Up Waucoba | Sky High #3
While Tacoma troubles may have prevented me reaching the summit of Waucoba Mountain on the first day of my trip, my failure to reach the top of Mt. Tom on the second day had me hoping for a bit of…
.NET 11 Preview - Get Random Integral Numbers
In a previous post, “Generating Random Values For Other Integral Types In C# & .NET”, we looked at the additional gymnastics needed to generate random values for other integral types, given that…
Yes, all of the characters in this serialised web novel are named after alcoholic beverages, but,…
Yes, all of the characters in this serialised web novel are named after alcoholic beverages, but, like, they’re alcoholic beverages nobody outside of France has ever heard of, so it’s…
Reflections on 1,000 days of math
I finally hit 1,000 days of doing math daily! Early on in my journey I was a lot more aggressive with my XP targets, but settled into a low-volume rhythm as my goals evolved. I worked from MF1 (Math…
Monday links, science, medicine, and a bit of something extra
Max Kozlov for Nature: Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants. The plot to murder American science in the style of Rasputin (poisoned, shot, shot again) is well under way, and…
RC Bulletin ~ June 29, 2026
IN THE NEWS … ALSO OF INTEREST … RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS … AT THE MUSEUMS … FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE … FRESH PODCASTERY… STREAMING MEDIA … BOOK REVIEWS … CFPS, CONFERENCES, AND ONLINE TALKS …
Ox eye spiral
Don't get dizzy The Leucanthemum vulgare is considered in some places to be an invasive species. That does not prevent one from taking a closer look at the spiraling floret of the ox eye daisy.
An update on the Assembly District 66 race
The race for Deborah Glick's seat was too close to call, with unofficial results showing Jeannine Kiely barely eking out a victory ahead of David Siffert.
(89) wishing, is to want, is to live
i wish i may, i wish i might...
We Have a Good & Loving Father
When Jesus taught his disciples how to pray in Matthew 6, he began with these important words: “Our Father.” Consider that very carefully. Why “Our Father”? Father is…
Curiosity Mars Rover: Honeycomb Features Explored – Clues for the Red Planet’s History of Water?
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Miscellaneous videos: Samsung vs. Sony; Eric Fossum interview; Eyeo webinar; Gpixel
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Making Eraser Carving Design Transfers with a Plotter and a Pencil
Exploring an overly-complicated way to transfer designs to an eraser for lino-style carving using a plotting cutter and a pencil. The post Making Eraser Carving Design Transfers with a Plotter and a…
Power BI Date Picker
The June release of Power BI Desktop includes a preview of a new Power BI slicer configuration – Date Picker. It’s meant to solve two issues with report design. The […]
On being an ass
The kindness that's aware of itself is usually a performance.
Day 26: Novigrad to Rovinj
After writing my previous blog post, I ended up walking around the town center of Novigrad and met up with Ervin at the Fish Food Bila stand for dinner. Ervin was so nice and paid for my fish and…
Welcome to the AI-cybersecurity cold war
Our best cyberweapon is unavailable as open Chinese AI models forge ahead. The post Welcome to the AI-cybersecurity cold war appeared first on Cautious Optimism.
Europe at the Crossroads: Will the Law Strengthen Authors’ Rights or Surrender the “Crown Jewels” of Human Creativity? @Helienne Lindvall’s ECSA Keynote
ECSA President Helienne Lindvall argues that Europe's AI future depends on protecting authors' rights, transparency, consent, and the value of human creativity.
The Mythical Agent-Minute
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Not Fully Digitally Sovereign Versus Increasing Cost of Leaving
In a session earlier today the deployment of a tool was discussed in an organisation’s information environment that is otherwise fully dominated by Microsoft products. After a presentation a…
Words from Eleanor Roosevelt
From You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life (New York: Harper & Row, 1960): Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become…
RocketLab flips the table…
Today’s announcement that RocketLab is acquiring Iridium represents a bolt from the blue, not because Iridium is being sold (which had been the subject of speculation for several months), but…
Don’t Solve the Wrong Problem: How to Trace Outcomes Back to Culture
This. “If you’re not looking to culture as the foundation and the root cause of much of what ails you and your organization, then you’re not looking deep enough – you’re not actually thinking…
Everything is the way it is because it got that way
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Charley Crockett Signs with Atlantic Outpost, Plots Return of New Album “Clovis”
The saga continues for Charley Crockett and his 2026 album Clovis, with the plot thickening from a new label signing, and a promise for the album's return on 4th of July weekend. The post Charley…
Seamless Crash Protection That Symbolicates Native Crashes
Friday's release post introduced the new crash-protection system. This post is the detailed version: why it exists, what it does on the device, and how to turn it on. What is Codename One? Codename On
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Heat dome inbound, hot and sultry or is it sultry and hot or is it both (yes): a desire, again, that words dwell in this space, somewhere – small syntheses of somethings, Montaigne’s “grotesques,”…
Victorian Thames stones transformed into permanent benches outside St Paul’s
A row of stone benches that appeared outside St Paul’s Cathedral a couple of years ago as a temporary idea has been refurbished into permanent benches.Read more ›
Green supply matters
Companies hoping to reduce the environmental impact of their purchasing should tailor relationships with suppliers to different types of products, rather than relying on a single procurement…
Rethinking Figma in an AI world
Figma's own Config 2026 recap makes its strategy clear: it shipped code layers that bring editable, inspectable code onto the canvas; Figma Motion with timelines, keyframes, exports, Dev Mode…
The Three-Fish Starter Kit for GLP-1 Users*
* You don’t need cooking skills. You don’t need much of a budget. You need three fish and a reason to start. Sardines come in a can, cost almost nothing, and deliver more protein per…
The Bleeding Edge: 6/29/2026
If last week on the Bleeding Edge was a busy one, this week the pendulum will swing about as far as it can in the opposite direction. As of this writing, there is only one event to take into account.…
Chomp
The more I think about it, the more I think it was self defense. The post Chomp appeared first on nerd's eye view.
Does a Piece of Energy From THE FRONT Get Trapped Near the Coast? Maybe, Small Possibility. Thoughts on "The Blob" N of PR. And High Pressure On the Move....For July 4th!!! Gonna Be a Hot One!
Why the odd look for this area of interest with the 10% X on the edge of the yellow circle? Simple, its in the process of fully coming off the coast of NC as the front plops into the water near the…
Chen On Red Squiggles
All of us are familiar with the red squiggles that appear under spelling errors when we’re writing text. They appear in Emacs buffers and probably most other applications as well. One place…
The Wasp's Nest
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Built my own smart home panel – Tessera
Some of my projects end in disappointment, but this one is a nice success. I was scrolling AliExpress, as one does, when I came across a little 4-inch touchscreen with an ESP32 built right into the…
Eaten From the Bottom
A Beijing lab just shipped the #1 open model on Earth at a sixth the cost of the frontier. The closed labs own the top of the index and are right that they own it. In 1969 the steel giants owned the…
Rolling Against the Universe
As I have been playing a lot of Classic Traveller lately, I have been reading over all the interpretations of various mechanics that changed over the editions. One that seems to be fairly entrenched…