Preface. This is a book review of Urbina’s “The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier.” So many fishermen are enslaved for years, yet another reason to pay more…

When we first announced the transition to Plasma Wayland, one of Martin's slides from stated, "It's done when it's done!" That talk was 15 years ago! Nothing in software is never truly…

suppose you're developing a theory of how the world works. if you're a software developer, you might be familiar with a concept of a game loop . you have some state and update function. you call the…

TIL of “sargable” conditions in SQL queries, which just means that an index can be used to speed up the query. One of those “you already know the concept, but the handle is useful” sort of things.

30 May 2026 in Melbourne, supported by Chris Brokaw and Fancy Weapon.Tortoise is one of those bands where it's an automatic 'yes' when you see they're touring. Okay, it's…

You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced…

a large part of the human experience is growing numb to the experiences that had once made us ridiculously happy…we just tend to take the things we have for granted, like they are a piece of…

A (curated) selection of music I personally discovered in Spring 2026. Featuring: Pebbles&TamTam, underscores, horsegiirL, Teen Suicide, Yazida, Cece Natalie, Onew, Billlie, Sakurazaka46, She Wants…

A write-up walkthrough on how to solve Bellingcat's After the Blast Charge Size open source challenge with answers.

Many autistics feel better after rest or time off, but crash again when life resumes. This article explores why rest alone may not be enough to recover from autistic burnout.

Surveyor 1 was the first lunar lander of the US space program. It lies in the Sea of Storms (Oceanus Procellarum).

There was a time when production Ops could be under the CIO. That time is over.

I graded four frontier coding models on 50 real merged PRs in Go and Rust - not just whether tests pass, but craft, equivalence, and cost. Opus 4.8 led on craft in both.

Save the date! Terra Umida, both the comic and the EP are finally coming out on June 13th! (Previously, previously and previously) Terra Umida EP by Kurodama The comic has been unofficially out for…

I’ve never read so few books as I do now. After 15 minutes of reading, my mind races back to my projects. So, I’m having to pick the ones I’m really interested in. I’ve…

I recently saw this Reddit post about a man who retired early (FIRE) only to be called a "loser" by his wife go viral. In the man's own words: 41m, $2mm liquid, $650k retirement and I get a $75k/yr…

I drew this week’s cartoon on a paradox I keep seeing in innovation. Henry Ford famously said: “I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were…

Race for the Galaxy BoardGameGeek rank: 94 rating: 7.7

I’m heavily biased, seeing as Spider-Man is my favourite superhero 1 , but Spider-Noir is doing everything right. The cinematography, the soundtrack, the fight choreography, the smoking-hot femme…

I just exported my Instagram information... my 2014 Instagram account was pressed into a 1.07 GB file. The app that once connected me with my classmates outside of school is now a burden on me. I no…

Well, that title is clickbait for Hacker News. The honest title would have been “using AI to tackle long-standing WebRTC issues.” Posts on webrtcHacks are rare these days, and in German…

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On Sunday, Shawn Tomkin has released a first, VERY early draft of the second Edition of Ironsworn, just around 25 pages and only the barebones of the mechanics. Shawn has also written down a number…

Has this ever happened to you? You’re suddenly aware of an itch you can’t scratch and you’re not even sure you’re actually itchy or if it’s all in your head? There's a feeling there, something,…

I was looking at my list of The Long Play games, a list I've "curated" from my actual backlog, and noticed that none of the farming games I own made the cut. How interesting...Not Fields of Mistria…

The rise of China in the global biopharma ecosystem has led to fear and hysteria in some corners of our ecosystem. Apparently there have been too many deals with Chinese players by both venture…

[On Sunday, Shawn Tomkin has released a first, VERY early draft of the second Edition of Ironsworn, just around 25 pages and only the barebones of the mechanics. Now, being the Ironsworn fanboy that…

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A write-up walkthrough on how to solve Bellingcat's After the Blast Shattered Glass open source challenge with answers.

Before I jump into the main focus of this post, I want to make it very clear that I try my best to be reasonable on my blog. This is where I can place my thoughts in a more precise manner than I can…

Sun Siyam Iru Fushi Review; Our Family Experience I recently spent 8 days across both Sun Siyam Iru Fushi and Siyam World in the Maldives. After four nights of waterslides, go-karts, floating water…

Haven’t seen this style of ad for a while. Love it (even though I don’t recognise anyone)

This month featuring: the perfect folk horror, a Brazilian mistake, Stevie Wonder stealing John Lennon&#8217;s show and road-trip horror going off the rails (plus why the &#8220;big light&#8221;…

A routine backup that should have finished in minutes was instead dragging on for hours. The culprit turned out to be a tiny menu bar clock app that had quietly sprouted a million empty folders.…

During my Bengaluru trip last month, I came across a significant disadvantaged with my then Macbook setup. It’s a 14” M1-Pro top of the line with 32GB of RAM. For my day-to-day work, it did a fine…

Completing my own Ruby community triathlon I just returned from a wonderful weekend in Vienna, where the initial edition of RubyConf Austria took place. I got back physically exhausted and a bit…

Good Morning. I am feeling brighter than I have for the first time in YEARS, after fully clearing my sinuses and eliminating all head, tooth, gum, jaw, neck and eye pain. If you have any of these…

At work, we made a decision to go with a table per tenant approach and we have been running that setup for a couple of years now. I thought this would be the right time to share what we have learned…

By Greg Laurie When I was younger, I had the privilege to get to know the great evangelist, Billy Graham. And when he asked me to help him with illustrations in his sermons, I felt like I’d been…

Welcome to ​​One Thing Better​​. Each week, the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine (that’s me) shares one way to achieve a breakthrough at work — and build a career or company you love. Please…

About Me I like writing about expertise, using computers to solve problems, and bringing novel ideas into existence.

If you are moving your devices to Intune, then at some point you will want to migrate your Group Policies as well. Group Policy Objects work great in an on-premises Active Directory environment, but…

One of the best frames for thinking about AI.

If you are new to the Equibit story, please read The Assassination of Equibit, originally released in 2023. In December 2020, shortly after beginning to document what he believed was coordinated…

Loren Eiseley's The Immense Journey is a collection of personal naturalist story-essays from the 1940s and 1950s. It's hard to classify, but I would describe it as a highly imaginative intersection…

This meme has been around for a while. On September 19th, 2019, Twitter user @PetrichorCrown posted artwork of a cat tasting a lemon, causing their face to retract, with the caption &#8220;Am I a…

I set out the idea for my Daily Prefab Sprout in this post. Here is the process for making it. Step 1: Curating the Lyrics As good a lyricist as McAloon is, you still don&#8217;t want everything. I…

So much of the critical infrastructure that we all rely on contains open source projects that are under-resourced and struggling. One (of many) ways to help these projects is by funding development…

Boy, that last one was heavy, huh? Here's something light and silly! Oat milk! I've never been much of a cow milk drinker. I just never really cared for the stuff. I quit drinking it at a certain…

Trading cheap guesses for expensive forward passes