I saw this on AliExpress, and I may be more than a little obsessed: The entire case is made from 1.2 mm-thick steel, with support for the following features: Full ATX motherboards 120 × 25 mm front fan behind a removable panel 7 expansion slots 1× 5.25 drive bay, and 2× 3.5 drive bays Two cutouts for RS232 serial ports That classic serif font The position of the power supply over the motherboard would limit you to slim CPU coolers, unless you installed an SFX power supply with an adaptor,…
During some downtime at work I wrote up a little R script to generate Classic Traveller1 planet UPPs and then made a dataset with one million worlds.2 The StatsIn this set of 1 million planets, there are 876,000 unique UPPs. The number of possible codes is vast and this dataset barely covers it. The most commonly-repeated UPP only appears 28 times. In general, the most common UPPs are variations on asteroids with 0-1 size, 0 atmosphere, and 0 water. This is a result of the way the rules…
My notes on configuring Emacs for web development.
Collage cut out, arranged, and glued by yours truly. I’ve been using AI in limited ways more frequently—mostly at work, where the expectation that we leverage Copilot (in all its guises) wherever possible is very, very high. At home, I use it sparingly, mostly as an aid to learn specific technical topics a little quicker (Apple development topics, in particular). I don’t use it to write any sort of prose, generate art or music, or speak on my behalf in any way, shape, or form. Which leads me to…
Greg Wolanski (@gregwolanski.com) believes in [OPML] files: I follow various websites using RSS. The list of sites I follow is a single OPML file that I can import to any RSS reader. Thanks to this single file, I don’t have to worry about being forced to use a specific app or painstakingly import my list of followed sites into a new one. Subscription lists are an excellent example of the evergreen "File over app" principle by Steph Ango (@stephango.com), the CEO of @obsidian.md. If you have…
Just submitted the first @hypertexting.com app update since the public launch. It’s full of fixes to issues reported by the initial wave of users, many of which were papercuts in the onboarding process. Hoping to get this through App Store Review before the next big press coverage and subsequent wave of new users! 🌊🌊
CDs are the new vinyl (again). The Verge:→ The Verge
I've been reading a lot about ancient Mesopotamia. Over the winter I read Weavers, Scribes and Kings, a book about Cuneiform, and what we know about the people who used it — both directly from the words we wrote, as well as the "metadata" of where we find tablets. For instance, we know quite about about how people learned to write, and how schools for scribes were organized, not because anyone wrote about the process and the schools directly but because we've been able to find collections of…
I have to say I wasn't a fan of GNOME at all, I strongly preferred Pantheon from elementaryOS and XFCE as a second option. However with the PaperWM window manager extension the windowing workflows are top notch! Had to shorten the switching animation, and have removed the maximize (instead double click the title bar) and minimize controls (instead super+h to hide), and it's a tidy look. #linux #opensuse
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I’ve been feeling sheepish about that last Emacs post. I wrote it when I was frustrated and used language I regret (“TRAMP sucks,” etc.). My apologies. I toned it down.
In this edition:Mobile market analysisOne NZ wins worldwide AI awardTuanz talks of national AI strategyA closer look at the 2degrees challengeRecent New Zealand mobile market data paints two distinct pictures of 2degrees’ relative performance.Telcowatch, the quarterly device-based tracker from Datamine, says 2degrees is the standout performer. In its recent June quarter report, Telcowatch says 2degrees’ market share is up 4.4 percent year on year after four quarters of growth.2degrees has…
I consider myself quite lucky to have seen the time when computers were still pretty basic and the internet was almost unheard of. The first computer I interacted with had a small monochrome display and two 5.25" floppy drives. The family story goes that I broke its keyboard by hitting it very hard when I was just one year old. A few years later we got a slow modem which made it possible to connect to bulletin board systems (BBS), but the world was still simple with no Web, no search engines,…
OpenZFS Mastery is starting to roll lunch again. Hoping to get some intertia with it. But create a dataset for each team, and give each site its own dataset within that parent dataset, and possibilities multiply. A team needs a copy of a web site for testing? Clone it. With traditional filesystems, you’d have to copy the whole site directory, doubling the space used and taking much, much longer. Clones use only the amount of space for the differences between the datasets and can be created…
Google AI found some interesting bounding requirements and I wrote a new program to generate solution for the convex shapes of hexagons problem.
Thank you to everyone who answered the call for good software updates from last week. I received so many nominations that the list below is severely narrowed down, but I appreciated every response! I grouped the answers in sections I saw emerge organically, I included links to apps, and did some light editing for clarity. (You can always explore more answers on Mastodon and Bluesky.) I hope you find this inspiring in some way – I know I did! – or at least enjoyable. Something I asked for People…
This week on the show: Myke has a new laptop, Federico has thoughts on Siri AI, and Stephen has been graded. Also: Apple vs. OpenAI and a big day for Mario fans with feet.
That feeling when you get to the point where can tell what a company’s compliance regime is going to be like based on the layout of their trust center. “Oh, standard Vanta format. It’s probably fine.” And then you realize that this is not an S-tier superpower.
By Bryan Sheffield, Wonderful Machine Each month, we analyze a recent cost estimate, contract, or purchase order and present it in the form of a Pricing & Negotiating article. Redacting the names of the photographer and client allows us to share useful information that would otherwise be confidential. You can learn more about how we can help you with Pricing & Negotiating on theConsulting Services page of our website. Concept: Still-life and lifestyle photography of talent wearing athleisure.…
Noticed that the comment form was not working here since my last upgrade of Kirby and the komments plugin. Fixed it now.
Hey. I owe you an update on what's going on with superpowers-rails - my plugin for Claude Code (and other agents). The plugin is the Rails AI Harness: conventions the agent must follow, plans I review before any code exists, and automated review on every diff. The March post has the full setup this builds on; the story below stands on its own.Short version of this update: implementation plans used to hit 4,000 lines. The last one was 129 lines of vertical slices, and I actually read it. (The…
There is a particular kind of person who, upon meeting a champion racehorse, immediately asks how fast it can run a quarter mile. Magnificent animal. Tremendous lungs. Genuinely the fastest thing on four legs you will ever stand beside. And also, if you hand it a field and a plow and ask it to feed a village, completely useless until somebody invents the harness. We are all, collectively, standing in the paddock asking about the quarter mile. For three years the entire discourse around…
this all started when my friend gave me a surprise care package at 8:11pm on a Thursday evening while i was practicing soldering in their garage, after I’d had an exceedingly bad mental health day. “here’s a lil usb module. you should make it into a rubber ducky” A Digispark USB/microcontroller Module now, i didn’t (and still don’t) have the power to turn circuit boards into plastic approximations of adorable semi-acquatic animals (although that would admittedly be epic), so for those of you…
Signboard 1.6 has shipped. It is so fast.
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. WikiCity. One more creative way to browse (or fly over) Wikipedia. Every entry is a building in a city made up of the encyclopedia’s 100,000 most-visited entries. For the war-minded among us, there’s an alternate mode where you pilot a plane and can destroy (?) the buildings/entries. This page was intentionally left blank. A print-world convention carried…
Photo taken with Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max Camera: Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max Lens: iPhone 17 Pro Max back triple camera 6.765mm f/1.78 Settings: f/1.8 • 1/2400 • ISO 80 • 6.764999866370901 mm
The Most Likely Person to Read a Book? A College-Educated Black WomanMost of this article is copied below. Bold added.In its look at the adoption of electronic book formats, Pew Research stumbled onto an interesting data point. The most likely person to read a book — in any format — is a black woman who’s been to college.Slate’s Jacob Weisberg spotted the data point buried in Pew’s report, “E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps.” When asked Pew asked people if they’d read a book over the…
Handwriting was always problematic for me. My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Cloud, placed a high value on well-formed cursive strokes that she flowed smoothly onto the blackboard. At my desk I struggled to copy her examples and failed miserably. In middle school, with no one judging my handwriting, I abandoned cursive in favor of printing my letters which was slower but at least I could read what I wrote. In college, needing to take notes faster than I could print them, I forced myself to relearn…
