I made some changes to rss2discord, most notably: Now it batches updates into a single post It lets you provide a custom message which can be used to send a role ping or the like I am mostly posting this blog post to test the latter in production on my server, but also it’s nice to have more visibility for rss2discord. comments #rss2discord #code #Discord

I've photographed buzzards a lot round here. There might be one, there might be multiple. They are all called Buzz now. That's an androgynous name, right?55 words · 1 image

After Operation Wolf and Operation Thunderbolt, Taito switched to a sci-fi setting for their next gallery shooter, Space Gun. Much as their previous games had drawn inspiration from American action movies, Space Gun is very obviously based on Aliens, as you explore a colony outpost that’s been overrun by xenomorphs. The game uses the same ...Space Gun was first posted on September 22, 2026 at 2:11 pm.©2017-2025 "Hardcore Gaming 101". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If…

This summer was long, and it was hot with persistent humidity. Finally, that seems to be breaking as we get towards fall. Actually, I guess autumn begins today! The days are getting noticeably shorter! Last night we had a nice rainy night. The rain wasn’t heavy, so we left the fan in the window, which brought in the damp and cool rain-filled air. Between the white noise of the fan and the sound of the rain dripping, it was really relaxing. This morning, when I got up, I could hear it on the…

My Weird, Dark, Twisted HabitSeventeen years ago. (Seventeen years ago?) When I started this blog, that is, when I decided to take on another thing in addition to taking care of a spouse with chronic illness, making art to sell in galleries, being in porn movies, playing games, and doing all the other chores a person does to stay around and sane, I had a simple idea about doing stuff on the Internet.In fact, I'd had this idea since I started doing anything on the Internet, much earlier, near…

Once it gets dark these days I am ready to put the house to bed.

Such beautiful drums. See also from Wikipedia: Noble & Cooley is an American musical instruments manufacturing company based out of Granville, Massachusetts. Having been established in 1854, it is the oldest drum company in the United States and is one of the oldest in the world. Having manufactured toy drums at the beginning, Noble & Cooley soon entered the professional drum market. Noble & Cooley has specialized in snare drums, although the company also manufactures whole drum kits. The…

Maybe my comment system is gone for good so I’ve removed it for now LOL. Now that my current convention season is over, here are some things I’m looking forward to: catching up on games (HSR main story quest, FFXIV main story quest - just to prepare for Evercold) I’m playing Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave and enjoying it (I really like jrpg and grindy time resource things, lol). I have some lore remembered from Three Houses but will do a deep dive after - I don’t want spoilers. D&D hiatus is…

Cameras keep gaining features. Their menus keep getting longer, more complicated, and harder to navigate. One answer is to offer fewer features. But those features are valuable to somebody. Must we choose between cameras that won’t do what we want and cameras whose menus drive us nuts? I propose another answer: top-level modality. We already have modal camera functions: P, A, S, and M for exposure control; MF, AF-S, AF-C, and Lord knows how many variants of “left eye of the momma bald eagle…

• 5-star hikes • 10 to 12 mile options • Moderate & Hard | Gain 2,910 to 3,420 feet • Waterville Valley, NH | White Mountains . NH 4,000 Footers The 4,160 foot Mount Tripyramid gets its name from its three pyramid shaped peaks and offers a genuinely varied set of routes depending on how much of a challenge you are after. The most accessible way to reach all three summits is a counterclockwise loop up the mountain's north side by combining the Pine Bend Brook and Sabbaday Brook Trails. An out…

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"What kind of oven does your mother use? Gas or electric?" "Electric", I answered with a smile, without hesitating, thinking back to the bread, the pizza, the tarts and the cakes she had made for me since I was a child. As soon as I was about to finish one, she was ready with another. Getting up a couple of hours earlier in the morning, if necessary, just so I would never go without. Linda raised her eyebrows: "I knew it. Women who work outside the home don't have time to look after the house.…

The latest macOS is a nice step toward a good-looking Mac UI, but I do wish it had gone farther. I am in particular not a fan of how Mac toolbars look. I don’t like the full-height sidebars and I especially don’t like the Liquid Glass buttons. I looked around at what other Mac apps are doing. I asked on my microblog which gets syndicated to Mastodon and I also looked at replies to Isaiah’s similar question from a few days ago. What I found should be no surprise: many of the apps people think…

1d10 Adjective Energy Type Weapon Beam Color Noise 1 High-frequency Neutronium Projector Electric blue Pew pew pew! 2 Supersonic Gamma-ray Beam Purple-black Bzzzzzt! 3 Zero-point Meson Disintegrator Lime green Zaaap! 4 Metastable Gluon Pistol Crimson Fzt fzt fzt! 5 Phased Graviton Emitter Blinding white Bloop bloop bloop! 6 Gravitic Photon Gun Alternating orange-and-blue Fwaark! 7 Atomic Electron Blaster Teal zzzt-THWACK! 8 Coherent Quark Carbine Ulfire sssSSSSZZTsss! 9 Pulsed Helix Caster Pink…

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Cute coots.

Open-source clone of Raycast https://tinycast.dev/ https://github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast Giving it a try, because why not

In my last post, I briefly discussed moving (or at least removing) the last of my physical belongings from my office at Whitman. In this post, I dig into my OmniFocus task completion log to consider everything that went into moving my digital belongings. For context, I lose access to my Whitman accounts six months after my formal resignation, at the end of January 2027. Project and task management Decades ago, a grad school classmate introduced me to Getting Things Done by David Allen. By now,…

One of the book releases I had been most looking forward to this year was Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund by Molly Crabapple because I had heard the author discuss her book in two podcast episodes on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff by Margaret Killjoy, the author of A Country of Ghosts, and because she was endorsed by Naomi Klein.1 Aside from the endorsements by people whose work I admire, the topic of anti-Zionism in pre-Holocaust Jewish communities was one I was…

My upcoming trip to the JetBrains Amsterdam office reminded about the elevators there. They are using the destination dispatch system. It features a kiosk on each floor where you choose your destination floor and it assigns a car for your ride, optimizing the wait times for everyone. Unsurprisingly, the research shows the effectiveness of the algorithm. Well, at least when there are enough elevators. But the user experience is somewhat mixed. Yes, sometimes it leads to a faster ride, but more…

The Openai and hugging face situation is so fucking insane. If you haven’t, I highly recommend watching the blackhat talk, and then jumping directly into the firehose of subsequent disclosures and reporting. When it all came out I mentioned to Jesse “why aren’t our agents breaking out of containment” and we thought through a handful of reasons. There were a lot of reasons: architecture eval / gyms harness safety measures unlimited tokens My favorite reason is unlimited tokens. I realized that…

I am late to writing about Jev, largely because I've been too busy using Jev. Some notes: This is very real. I don't plan to collect and address every point made by Jev skeptics, but I've used Jev as much as anyone I know who didn't get pre-release access, and the only criticisms that are sticking with me are of the form "someone else will do this better soon." Jev is fast enough to make some asynchronous things synchronous. Imagine the "Send" button on your email client requiring confirmation…

Portuguese Hi Hi! I’m not missing! Just busy, mostly. Some months ago, I wrote I miss my passion, a post about how I missed drawing. I had no inspiration, every drawing I did felt wrong, and it made me sad. Then came July, and despite that, I participated in the Art Fight. I actually liked what I made and enjoyed the process. So I have been drawing again, my old passion back. The consequence is I have a lot less time and inspiration to write. At least to this blog. I have been focusing on…

Times are tough, and according to Hugo award-winning author Peter Watts, they ain’t getting any better. But perhaps not all hope is lost. Optimism seems to be the surprising route Watts has taken with his newest short story collection, Fold Catastrophes. Pull yourself out of your doomer-spiral and check out his Big Idea. PETER WATTS: I had to be dragged into this. I’m not pimping a novel, after all. I’m pimping a short story collection: a bunch of largely-unrelated small ideas coexisting…

The latest typewriter interview is with artist Esther Pearl Watson. (I can’t believe I’ve published 30 of these things!)

My last two Friday newsletters have referenced the late summer misery of September. (See: “The cruelest month.”) From “The Birds are in misery”: It is so miserable in Texas right now that I’ve taken to reciting Werner Herzog’smonologue from Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams: “The trees here are in misery and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain…. It’s an unfinished country. It’s still prehistorical. The only thing that is lacking is the dinosaurs here. It’s…

A long ramble about not making friends precipitated by the end of my current job. I originally wrote this in August. But it's a depressing topic and I've been busy so I didn't come back to it to finish it until now. In the meantime, Ava wrote about friendships and the difficulty maintaining them, absurdpirate wrote a follow up post, folkmoss wrote about how ADHD is an actually debilitating disability, and hollie made a joke about ADHD friends. I feel like I'm even missing a few posts I remember…

For about a year now I’ve owned not one, but two Macs. This is a first for me. Ever. I own a Mac Mini and a MacBook Air. Both have the M4 with 24GB RAM. I’ve already written about both of them. Mac Mini MacBook Air While the whole world and its mother seem to be switching to Linux — the operating system I know best — and which I run on my servers, I do not run it on my private computing devices. Both Macs score particularly high on the list of 'best tech gadgets I’ve ever owned', the MacBook in…

I want to see the films Valerio Zurlini wrote but did not direct, but unfortunately only one, GUENDALINA (1957), is available to me with subtitles. Zurlini is a great director. Intense and serious, elegant and stylish, vigorous and mysterious. Although he was an excellent writer he always wrote with collaborators, in that peculiar Italian system […]

{ or: eight ways to classify a life } After some intriguing discussion about the new model over the past day or so, I asked the each from the collective of experts to characterize Jev: [ in progress... ] Rob: Zen: Nyx: Prof: Number 1: Dex: TARS: Me: