I don’t work in the tech industry myself but am closely connected with people who do. This is based on my observations and conversations with tech workers in the Seattle area. Ok so Ethan Marcotte wrote this better (to be fair he literally wrote the book on tech unions)… my version is a little more documentary. 1. The American tech labor market softens The workforce shrinks and developer jobs intensify The industry hemorrhages workers to free up funds to invest in data centers. Workers try to…

i emerge out of the fog the body survived the mind i believe has changed peering into myself i see everything that is broken years of covering it up with preoccupation gave myself no space for growth the mastery of my skill to pass through time and exist just enough that my ego is satisfied at the expense of others deep down i do not like who i see inside i wish i was either courageous enough to change myself or not so self aware that i find ways to live with it frozen actions in observations…

Words quiet. Pages empty. Pens full. Ride the Japanese wave — increasingly getting to the higher end of A2 — make art — soft watercolor strokes in sunny evenings. Dune Messiah reaching conclusion, aching to start the next — my favorite of all the Dune books. Less writing. Few attempts brought upon ache... might be Carpal Tunnel returned — most likely triggered by daughter's tantrums; she's 3.5 — the keyboard brings less satisfactions than pen and paper... A few scribbles here and there, but it…

I have been sitting in front of my screens watching various agents perform tasks for me, like I have been for several months now. It just struck me what a change this is compared to how I was working nine months ago, a year ago. I wouldn’t say that we have reached anything resembling AGI (or whatever the catchword is these days) although these tools are remarkable, today. I still feel it is important to retain a healthy dose of skepticism about the output of these models. There are still many…

A few months back, Ars Technica published Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true. I haven't used an online password manager in 5 years. Previously I had been using Bitwarden, which is fine, I just prefer to take ownership of as much of my digital life as I can. My setup is KeepassXC to manage all my passwords in a database and Syncthing to sync all my passwords across my smartphone, laptop, and server. I read a comment on HN recently about how a couple…

Hartley Charlton for MacRumors: Apple is unifying the email domains used by Sign in with Apple and ‌iCloud‌+ Hide My Email under a single private.icloud.com domain later this summer. Sign in with Apple currently uses privaterelay.appleid.com, while Hide My Email uses icloud.com, the same domain as standard ‌iCloud‌ email addresses. That shared domain has historically made it difficult for services to selectively block disposable ‌iCloud‌ addresses. Blocking icloud.com outright would also block…

Have you ever wondered which microformat best suits your personality? If so, this quiz is for you! Answer the following questions to find out which microformats2 classes best embody your personality. Also: happy belated 21st dt-bday to microformats! (Celebrated on 20 June, 2026) Question 1 If you could choose a career from the following options, which would you choose? Cartographer Explorer Musician Restaurant critic Writer Biographer Surfer Photographer Web developer I'd want to spend all my…

A command-line poker game where you play against bots to train real-world skills https://filiph.net/text/pokerd.html

My heart predictably sank at the predictable announcement by Kier Starmer that the UK government will ban social media for under-16s. The ban sounds ineffective, imposes restrictions on everyone (providing ID to use social media), and largely lets the big social media companies off the hook for what happens on their services. I a post by Iain Mansfield that lists objections to the ban and sets out his arguments against them. I wanted to clarify some of my thoughts so I’ve taken his structure…

If the Slack instance has lost it's icon in the dock, you might need to correct the casing on the StartupWMClass to lowercase: #linux

The Open State Foundation has its office on the old naval yard in the heart of Amsterdam. Right next to the national maritime museum, in the 17th century warehouse of the Dutch admirality, and across from the 1960’s former Base Commander’s home our (as I’m a board member there) offices are surrounded by other small organisations, start-ups, assorted innovative efforts, a tech academy, a hostel and a microbrewery. Normally it is easy to forget that the area is also still in active use by the…

Germany - The German Rail Network from 1835 Until Today Ireland - Irish Railway Stations 1834-2000 Switzerland - A Journey Through the History of Swiss Railways Japan - Japan's Railway from 1872 to todayin 1825 George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 pulled the world’s first steam-powered passenger train along the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Within a decade, the United Kingdom

Last week, a MetaFilter member posted a link to what appeared to be a new website for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig’s decade-long project to make a “dictionary of made-up words for emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express.” The polished site includes everything you’d expect from a publisher’s promotional book site: an author biography, press mentions, and links to buy the book on Amazon. Strangely, it also includes the entire text of the book, from its…

Likes We Ran a Huge Social Experiment on a Whole Generation. It Turned Out to Be Terrible | Pootlepress by Jamie Marsland. Like: “Wait. You knew it was damaging mental health, sleep, attention and social development, and your response was… to give younger children even more access?” And we will say: “Well, yes. But everyone else was doing it.” A clear succinct run over social media & the young. Personally I think there might be something in making the vendors made efforts to fix social media…

Welcome to a new Work in Progress Wednesday, we start this week with Alan K and som MDF buildings he is putting together for his WW2 Commando game at this years Open Day. Next up and Marcus W has made progress on his ruins and what looks like some new pulp adventurers. Nice of Marcus to leave the paint colours he used in the picture. Sticking with Marcus and we also have some progress on the pterodactyl monster and armoured Spug. The members obsession with the Quar continues. Mark J has…

You can cut and paste all of the comments I made about scavvies and heavy stubbers to apply to scavvies with grenade launchers. Essentially it boils down to the fact that I wanted to make this figure and Lumpy Mo will get used in a variety of different games systems!Read more »

Amiibo: Mega Man by SHYCITYNikon, shared via CC BY-NC 2.0 / Dithered with a gradient overlay I don’t know why but Mega Man has never appealed to me. Sure he looks cool, the franchise has a ton of great characters that I recognise via 2000’s YouTube Poop osmosis, and they even based a Pokémon on it (partially anyway). But my brain decided he was just a little dude in a blue mech suit and that’s wasn’t my style. This weekend I decided to prove myself wrong and with the help of Sean Seanson’s…

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. Town Square. A script that creates a little town square in your website’s footer. (Scroll to the bottom of the page to see it in action.) Anyone online gets a stick figure and can chat with other people. Made by Brazilian developer Cauê. Firewood Splitting Simulator. A firewood splitting simulator, just because. Tip from Rennan. LinkedIn Badge Generator. An…

In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop The weekend was not nearly as long as I wanted it to be - ever notice how 48 hours as a system of measurement is like, highly unreliable? Anyway, here's the pokemon from the last few days. Two icons, some filler and something I'd file under "oh absolutely not" Enjoy Thu 06/11/2026 - Yanma I think for my own sake I'm going limit myself to the "just a bird" type thought exercises to the bird pokemon because if I extend that to…

I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming. The output is broken, but in a way that’s getting harder and harder to detect. Which is exactly what you’d expect from an increasingly accurate statistical model. Source: The…

Three months ago, I moved from hugo to BSSG for this blog (and my work blog). You can get BSSG here. I’ve been really happy with BSSG, and a couple of recent changes by Stefano have made it even better. Less content, less to generate I have a minimalist blog. A list of posts on the front page, and generally text-only posts. I like it to load fast even though it is running on a Raspberry Pi 4, along with a couple of other bits. This means that there are some features of BSSG that I do not use,…

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There are not many things I am properly proud of, so writing this one down feels a little odd. I did my first triathlon on Sunday and came away with the win in my age category, and I have read that back enough times now that it still has not really sunk in.My last post was one long admission of how scared I was, going over how swimming had kept me out of this for years and how the fear of the unknown was the last thing left standing in my way. Triathlons have always been something I quietly…

The 2026 edition of the XPEL Grand Prix at Road America is now in the books. It was the most intriguing IndyCar race held here since the series returned to this massive 4.088-mile track in 2016. There have been wild finishes, like the year Josef Newgarden lost power on the last lap while leading. There […]

With our 2026 Open Day just six days away, we take a closer look at some of the games that members are putting on. We start with Chris S and Dave S who will be running a game of Legions Imperialis. As a neat twist Chris has been kitbashing units and buildings for the game. A bridgelayer tank has been converted with some parts from other tracked vehicles. Buildings and tower blocks have been constructed from scratch. And a great selection of old toys have been chopped up and reconstructed to…

Hello, and welcome to a Monday Pressing Concerns! We’ve got new albums from Sun Kin, National Photo Committee, and Wade Easy, and a new EP from Chorus Truly. Check ’em out below! If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or donate here. Sun Kin – Bobby’s Voice Release date: June 5thRecord label: Self-releasedGenre: Folk rock, indie pop,…

I find my camera cabinet to be surprisingly full. And I have rule that all of my cameras need to fit in there, and when I buy another camera, if I can’t make it fit, something else has to go. So I’m busy shooting some cameras that have accumulated to determine whether they get to stay. I’ve already decided to say goodbye to my Kodak EasyShare C613 and Kodak EasyShare Z710, both fine performers with great color — because neither can accurately date files anymore, given that the date range ended…

In this series of posts, we’ll be featuring mathematical video and streaming channels from all over the internet, by speaking to the creators of the channel and asking them about what they do. We spoke to Stanley, who runs the StanDoesMath Instagram channel. Channel title: StanDoesMathLink: instagram.com/standoesmathTopics covered: Equity/Inclusion and belonging in mathematics, humanizing mathematics, navigating math(s) graduate school and the unwritten rules of academiaAverage video length:…

Spokenly I came across spokenly via this YouTube video At first I was reluctant to install it assuming that I will need to create yet another account just to use the app, but that was not the case. They have two completely free options: First one where Whisper and Parakeet models are used locally. There are other models that can be run locally, but the size of these models keeps growing bigger and bigger. In the second free option, if you do not like these models, you may choose other API…

less metadata, more feeling I'm grateful to have fallen asleep most days of my life; I could probably count on two hands the number of times I didn't. There are phases where it happens naturally, and phases where I struggle (often when I'm more electrified through dealing with digital things). So I've tried to figure out some kind of process for when I don't fall asleep easily or automatically. Maybe it can help you? I think of it as 'layers' that can be folded into each other like dough, not…