Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module design. They’re stream of consciousness and unedited critiques. I’m writing them on my phone in the bath. Blackout is a 15 page module for Mothership by Martin Orchard with art by Zach Hazard. In it you venture deep into an industrial colony to restore its power supply; but you’re not the first team to…

Keep an eye on Move Tab to Another Window – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) as I just submitted this extension which... moves tabs to other windows! Works well with Window Titler #projects #firefox

Anyone who’s ever shopped at Aldi is well familiar with what those of us in Australia refer to as the isle of shame, where the weekly specials are placed. You’d expect a supermarket to stock food, sundries, or maybe even kitchen accessories, but Aldi regularly places everything there from toys and linen, to power tools and entire washing machines. You’ll go to buy some simple ingredients for a salad, and leave with two beach towels, a light-water reactor, and a Commodore 64. What is it with…

Huge milestone. We have finished getting the acres of wood on the walls of the main house. Although we still have the front porch to do it’s not water tight yet so we may leave it until later. So that frees D up from months of wax on wax off to start decorating outside. She’s starting on the cabin and is painting the first coat of the chassis in matt black.

You can’t make this up! I was checking out a documentary called The Lynchpin of Bensonhurst.[1] It’s a long story why, but I was brought up in that neighborhood. It was the story of Dominick Santamaria aka Dominick Montiglio, an important member of the Gambino crime family who was brought up by his uncle Nino Gaggi. Nino was arguably the most notorious capo of the Gambino family. I only needed to check out something in the first few minutes, but something caught my eye and that impelled me to…

A tower crane reaches into the sky in Downtown Celina, Texas. The post Under the Towering Crane appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of Custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous. [...] Am I to view the Stupendous with stupid indifference, because I have seen it twice, or two hundred, or two million times? Some notes on Sartor Resartus, Thomas Carlyle's "Satirical Extravaganza on Things in General:"1 I loved it and eagerly recommend it to anyone who might be on the fence. I…

I’m convinced that AI will not destroy our need for personal connection, humanity, stories, and expression. The reason I’m so convinced of that is because of one word. Culture. When people talk about AI, they underestimate the power of culture. As in common values and thinking. The slow, invisible force that decides what actually sticks in our lives and what doesn’t. Here’s what most people miss. When something new arrives, it has to pass through culture before it changes anything. And culture…

Yesterday I found out about a site called intheweights.com , which reveals which people are “stored” in the weights of large language models. Those “weights” are billions of numerical values by which these AI models encode their knowledge. If you show up in them, the model considered you relevant enough during training to recall without tools such as web search. The site queries several models to figure out who a specific person is, combines the results, and assigns a strength score. According…

Monday 7 September 2026 6.30pm Crazy Coqs, Brasserie Zedel Comparing Notes brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Crazy Coqs, Live at Zedel. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation host Edward Seckerson will be getting up close and personal with these musical theatre luminaries and emerging stars, exploring the stories behind the songs and the personalities behind the artistry. French-born performer Lily Kerhoas is recognised as one of contemporary musical theatre’s…

"Wonder Woman" by John Legend Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. What song would you use to describe your current relationship? - Wonder Woman by John Legend As if there was another possibility, LOL. View Lou Plummer's Crucial Tracks profile

After reading Flamed’s post, I took James’ quiz too about your character as a member of the blogging community. Here are my results: You are a Author You love writing and have a growing backlog of posts on your website! Words are your best friend and you're always thinking about what to write next. You are also a Culture maker You love to help push the blogging community forward by starting discussions, encouraging thought, and sharing what's on your mind. Other archetypes Explorer To you, the…

I’ve been a GrapheneOS user for years now. Back in 2022 I switched away from /e/OS on a Samsung Galaxy S10 to a Google Pixel 6a that I had bought, because at the time it happened to be one of the cheapest devices on the short list of officially supported Pixels. However, my history with Google phones goes way past the 6a and ever since I got my first Nexus, every single piece of Google (branded and manufactured) hardware that has passed through my hands has eventually broken on a hardware…

I’ve been moving our CI off GitHub-hosted runners onto our own arm64 hardware. The plan was straightforward: a pool of ephemeral runners on a dedicated CI box, and each test shard spins up its own MySQL, Redis, and ClickHouse as service containers, all under rootless Docker.

Nice backpack! Yesterday we saw an ad for a free spot in a shared living community. It was a spot for a tiny house in a big land shared with 10 other families. We applied right away but unfortunately they already had found someone. I lived in a tiny house village once in the past and I miss it deeply. I loved being able to connect with my neighbors at the shared kitchen. This lost opportunity made my heart sink. I'm unemployed and somehow disabled at the moment, I'm feeling a bit lonely. I…

From The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy (Basic Books, 2017), Kindle pp. 151-153: Up to that point, developments resembled those of previous Cossack uprisings, but Khmelnytsky changed the familiar pattern. Before marching northward, capturing towns, and confronting the commonwealth army, he went south in search of allies. In a dramatic reversal of established steppe politics, he offered the Crimean khan his friendship and an opportunity. The cautious khan allowed his…

There were two clients who basically were paying for ChatGPT…to argue against itself. – Rob Freund My friend Chester Brown, the well-known comic book artist, plays Merlin in this video from Sook-Yin Lee‘s new album. The links above the video were provided by Jesse Walker and Dan Savage; IncarcerNation; The Onion; Mike Masnick; Ryan Marino; and IncarcerNation again (x2). R.I.P. Joe Negri and Gene Shalit. “Never” really does mean “never”. The best satire cleaves close to the truth. Another great…

Percy Montgomery "Monte" Barrett was an American author, newspaperman and cartoon writer from Mitchell, Indiana, who co-created with artist Frank Ellis the original "spunky girl reporter" character, Jane Arden – cited as the prototype for similar characters like Lois Lane. More importantly than having co-created an internationally syndicated daily comic strip, Barrett had a brief stint as a mystery novelist during the early 1930s.Barrett wrote three novels, The Pelham Murder Case (1930), Murder…

Imagine, for a moment, the following scenario. The Ford Motor Company releases a slick whitepaper making the alarming claim that they’re concerned their popular F-150 pickup trucks might soon spontaneously burst into flames. The report features a fancy animated graphic depicting a line of vehicles catching on fire, one after another, and concludes by acknowledging that this “possible future” would be bad, but that there’s nothing they can do about the issue so long as “less cautious” automobile…

Rajasaurus narmadensisIn the humid, fern-thick forests of Late Cretaceous India — about 67 million years ago — a flash of red moves between the tree trunks.Think oxidized iron and dried blood — deep crimson-orange broken by pale white striping and bold black bands along the flanks and tail. In dappled forest light, those stripes would fracture the animal’s outline, a trick modern tigers use

Avengers The movies, overrated with the exception of Infinity War/Endgame which was some of the best movie experiences I've ever had. The comics, underrated. The stories from the comics is where it's at but it's not a medium that everyone can enjoy. There are so many great Avengers and Avengers-adjacent stories available if you're willing to give it a try. My recommendation is Kelly Thompson's West Coast Avengers run. Weeknotes Underrated. I love reading people's weeknotes and I've found it a…

It’s 9.16 on Monday 22 June 2026, the day after Midsummer’s Day, and everybody is expecting Keir Starmer to resign as prime minister. The excitement has caused me to reflect on my personal links with British prime ministers. Winston Churchill was the prime minister when I was born in 1952. I have no personal connection with him, but my father, whose father was at Gallipoli, who fought at El Alamein, and was in Colditz with Churchill’s nephew, didn’t like Churchill. He had the working class…

Thanks to James over on the Coffee Blog for this pure noughties nostalgia quiz — Blogger Archetype Quiz. I answered the ten simple-ish questions and was duly informed of my archetype; shared below. What I love about these quizzes, as I have said before, is discovering the similarities between people of such differing demographics. Thanks, James! You are a Author You love writing and have a growing backlog of posts on your website! Words are your best friend and you're always thinking about what…

This weekend, I attended my first artist expo at Jackson’s The Sparks summer open house. Jen Dixon from my Artists In Jackson 2 project asked me to join. A free table around a bunch of artists and community members provided a great opportunity to promote my portrait projects and sell a few prints. And that’s […]

Let's start from the basics: can you introduce yourself? I'm a developer and dad to two girls living in Portsmouth on the south coast of the UK. By day I work for a SaaS company and in my own time I work on my many side projects. In a previous life I worked at a certain clown's restaurant which is where I met my wife some 15 years ago. Although developer is what I get paid to do I'm trying to move towards more making; websites, stickers, shirts, art, whatever. I have no idea what that looks…

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…

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…

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…

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

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