Half a year down. Wow. We finally got a dumping of snow, but it's disappearing quickly with the sun beaming. White caps from around the block 🏢 Work I finished up at my previous job. Instant weight…

How I built and run Reframe, an AI product-photo app for Shopify merchants: the architecture decisions that let one person operate a GPU pipeline in production, how session recordings drove churn…

A bright and breezy Monday.

Last week, Aldi ran a sweepstakes called Aldi Blind Box promising to give away mystery boxes of groceries each day for four days at exactly the stroke of noon. It sounded like such a good deal that…

A lovely sunny day. Hoed all the gravel path. Cleared Bernard’s bins. A lot of stuff in to burn. John from next door cut his head on swing last night. Went to hos.

We traded the physical boundaries of dedicated rooms for the convenience of our always-on digital lives -- but recently I've been building those walls back up.

The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon…

"Ever since I was young, I wanted to transform unstructured marketing data into actionable insights." This was in the farewell email I got last Friday. It was from a colleague who was let go due to…

June 29, 2026 Happy Birthday To Me! I should be sitting in a cafe in Paris when you read this… It seems from your emails that traveling in September is very popular – except for that…

it is, in their minds, the natural next step to prove they are still ahead of the curve against their peers in elementary school you were ahead if you were invited into the gifted program in middle…

As will be apparent from this morning’s posts, few of them relate to the events unfolding in the world right now. I have not speculated Read the full article...

As always, thanks for considering joining my Patreon, where you can get early access to comics and exclusive commentaries; and for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada). As…

A lighter set of links as I was travelling - but for more, check out the huge set from the previous list found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival . Bloggie-nominated.…

Why Do My Partners Fall Out of Love With Me? The answer may be partially explained by a difference in emotional intelligence. Key points Generating closeness is not the same as sustaining closeness…

A sequel to the last one, but a bit longer.On Leaving SlackAfter nearly 6 years, I left Slack in August of 2025. It was for a combination of reasons that added up to "it's time".The…

The plan is to write daily posts until I reach the six-week mark (the end of the “full recovery” window), or 42 days, which will be six days hence. After that, I’m going to just…

It's been a while...Man, a lot has happened. Earlier this month, I got to visit San Francisco. It ended up being a pretty long trip. I still had a lot of fun and got to eat some really good…

My dearest OB, It's hardest to be torn between loving someone and hating them, at the same time. Imagine your hands and legs tied to two horses running in different directions. They pull at the…

Almost missed a week of blogging. I have been feeling an elevated amount of ambient stress and I think it all stems from AI in various ways. Can’t wait for this fucking bubble to pop! Come on,…

Unwinding after a long night of patrol

🗺️ Map tinkering: Overpass and gravel paths 🔊 The Steve Mason Experience archive 🌡️ Worth keeping: weather forecast for the past weekend ❄️ Portable air conditioner: is ok 🎲 Random findings in the…

One thing I didn’t like about being a YouTubeTV subscriber is that I couldn’t find a plan that worked for me which included the History channel. I’ve forgotten how much I’ve…

You don't build a reputation in the future. You build it today, in the choices when no-one is watching

Weekle #19 29th June to 5th July The following events all took place in this week in history in the last 100 years. In which year did they occur? Answers go back in order from most recent to oldest…

I’ve been sick allll weekend. But don’t worry about a thing… because an all new Bullet Sunday starts…now…    • Greed Hike! After record-breaking…

end of tvl is going to kill me i just know it

It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. My former employee blocked me from getting a new job I previously worked at an institution in a middle management role, 17 years ago. As a…

I'm working in my office downstairs but am laughing because I just heard my Secret Numbering System working from afar.For a couple of years now, Naveen (11) and I have a system of generating numbers…

To hear her tell it: Not a damn thing . Me? I agree.

the typhoons turned out to be lots of rainthankfully no wind, just lots of rainthat in itself did its own damage in several areas, we were okay thoughFriday, we did have this big earthquake from the…

I've been doing this march for 4 years now and even I can't do the official city one, I want to still continue in the community, open to all marches across the city. This year I handed out stickers…

This week I finished: Plastic Inc.: The Secret History and Shocking Future of Big Oil’s Biggest Bet, by Beth Gardiner: I read this book for the book club of alumni of my workshop. I watched and…

Today's pic from the archives was contributed by Andjelija B. in May-2009. Red Converse high-tops with white & black trim laced with multi-colored “Army Lacing”.

I ended my week of Monday 22 to Sunday 28 June 2026 with back pain from a rather nasty series of spasms, which kicked in on Saturday and are kinda still with me as I write this on Monday. I’d…

I relate to the struggle of juggling hobbies and the guilt that comes with not dedicating enough time to them, as reflected in Ludalx's video.

I spent the summer of 1974 researching my dissertation in London, and a lifelong love affair began. The World Cup started in Germany shortly after I arrived, and I saw at least half of the games. The…

I'm a dreamer. I always have been, but after years of hustling my ass off and only receiving the Temu version of those dreams...I have kind of turned into a cynical asshole. The reality is, I think I…

I know how reality works. I know that everything I want already exists. I know that the universe is always bending toward me, folding time and space to support me, that Source loves me without…

For as long as I've been doing my own laundry, it's always the same show over and over again. I have no problem sorting it. Whites, lights, colors, darks, whatever. Lugging it down to the laundry…

We don't skip yoga lightly, but today was the graduation party for K, who is the granddaughter of/lives with one of my oldest, dearest friends — and we were NOT going to miss it! K and K being the…

Deaths linked to London air pollution fall 40% | GuardianClapham Junction's Battersea eats & backstreets | Hungry PassengerManchester's successful transport incrementalism | Mobility…

Avatar and SNL wouldn’t exist without Canadians. As in, the highest-grossing movie of all time and one of North America’s most culturally-defining TV shows. How this could be true and Canada could…

Your greatest successes will come from some of the smallest actions in terms of meeting people. You will cause a “stacking effect” the more you meet and connect with people; conversely, people cannot…

Goat and Sheep Mineral: Our Experience When we started raising Dairy goats and American Blackbelly sheep in 2021, we knew that providing loose minerals for goats and sheep was essential for their…

I've been trying to show this for years with maps of car-free households, but there was a great example recently that used voting patterns directly. Last Tuesday was the date for party primaries in…

The performance cult wants everyone to be exceptional. The data, and basic organisational reality, suggest otherwise.

Checking in! Some zines and jams I participated in, a bit of website housekeeing, and This Week in Links!

Upwards and outwards.Published on 2026-06-29

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6.29.26 - The Melancholy of Mr. Bean Boredom and relaxation is incredibly important. I've been chilling a lot this summer (will resume bar prep) and my brain is healing in some ways. You remember…