After Rails’ Dear Leader DHH once again espoused far-right views on his blog (which I’m not going to link to here), some of the Ruby community said “enough is enough” and decided to fork Rails into a project called Amiko. I don’t want to mince words here, so I’ll talk straight: I think this is a vain attempt at virtue signalling, and will ultimately end up achieving very little. The Amiko project has started out this fork by renaming all the Rails things into Amiko flavoured things. They have…
The last one was called panic ep 2. Today's didn't involve panic, but it did exhaust me, and it did cause some symptomatic behavior to surface. Today's productivity wasn't an intentional time block like the last two. I meditated, then blogged about it, then got myself motivated. I got new books from the library - I had started another romance-fantasy The Foxglove King. It's far better than a Court of Thorns & Roses (a terrible book), but it's still not my style. So I got new books. I went by…
A couple days ago, I wrote the blog post titled "Five Interesting Indie Platforms You Might Not Have Heard Of". I was really happy with it—being able to share the work of others that deserve support and can help foster digital indie communities. But, regrettably, I had to rescind one of my recommendations. Let me explain. As I mentioned in the post itself, BlueDwarf's "rule enforcement is informal, and I admit I've stumbled upon some... peculiar opinions and takes during my time on the…
So the past couple of days have been SO much better, it just blows me away! Yesterday, I was not only well enough to go into the city for the stock up shopping at Costco, but felt well enough to keep on going after everything was put away and we’d had supper. I headed outside … Continue reading Catching up
Recently, I have been thinking about something and I had to decide between two options and this situation reminded me of the concept I read about a few years ago. Things and situations in life come in a package. When you decide to do something, you are basically agreeing to the whole package despite not acknowledging it consciously. Indeed, It is not possible to grasp the complete sense of everything that we do, due to our own weaknesses, yet anything that we do in this life comes as a package.…
I haven't been inspired to post on august morning for quite some time now, even though I have a bit of a backlog of photos I would like to share one day1. Recently, I came across Inventory Full's Blaugust Class of 2025 post again, where my photo blog was mentioned. It reminded me that I do, in fact, miss sharing some of my just day to day photos. Maybe until I'm ready to commit to posting on august morning again, I can share a few photos here occasionally instead. This photo is from a visit to…
My Flow utility class was applying margins around invisible elements like <style> and <script> tags, throwing off the vertical rhythm around them. Here's what I did to fix it, and why I also swapped em for lh while I was in there. This article uses some custom styles that may or may not work in your feed reader, so I recommend checking out the web version instead: https://chrisburnell.com/article/ghost-wrangling/ If you’re not already familiar with the Flow utility class in CSS, I recommend…
Does anyone else want a portion of easygoingness? I mean, it's not like I have a whole lot of it myself right now. But I'm happy to share what little I have. 🤗 Reply by email
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 27th March 2026 Kentucky trio Highgate have taken to expressing their feelings about the state of the world through a particularly abrasive and blackened take on sludgy doom, and their new full length record ‘Prophecies of Eternal Horror’ seems to be the focal point of all that rage and fervour. It has been their first full length release since 2013’s ‘Survival’, although there has been a little life in them since then. It is out now through Horror Pain Gore…
I have a program that shares files between my laptop and my phone. It works well, except for apostrophes. When I type an apostrophe ' on my laptop, it becomes ’ on my phone. And when I type 's on my phone, it becomes 痴 on my laptop. Apparently the phone turns the apostrophe (U+0027) into a right single quote (U+2019), then bungles bytes in the UTF-8 encoding of U+2019 as three Windows-1252 characters. The bytes E28099hex are interpreted as â (E2hex), € (80hex), and ™ (99hex). When I type 's…
Polishing the pearl in my chest with this breath, I know that the silence of my heart is God, the glow is Christ, and the river of unborn stars that flows through my body in every inhalation is the Holy Spirit. Then what is the soul? The delight of Lover and Beloved dissolving in the shimmer of pure awareness, "I" vanishing into "Am." Art: J. Kirk Richards @font-face {
My grandparents owned a classic 1960s Volkswagen camper. I don’t know why they ever had it – they didn’t strike me as camping types. The VW camper was a classic hippie road trip vehicle, so it was fitting that when my father and I returned to the US in 1972, my grandfather gave it to … Continue reading The Red Volkswagen Camper → The post The Red Volkswagen Camper appeared first on Countries Beginning with I.
Fuller’s first great war movie. Fellow WWII vet Gene Evans plays a cigar-chompin’ slang-throwin’ tough guy, picking up a South Korean kid and a stray medic before linking up with a troop with an undercooked commanding officer. The men die off one at a time to traps and snipers and spies, then they die all at once during an all-out shooting battle at the temple where they’re camping. Medic James Edwards is resourceful: Our tough guy, through the clearing smoke: Survivors:
Travel has kept me from the early apples this year. I've missed the local farmers market where it is likely at least one vendor has offered Lodi or Vista Bella, or maybe even Pristine. Left to right: Vista Bella, Yellow Transparent, Puritan. This week, my wanderings took me past Red Apple Farm in Phillipston, Massachusetts, which did not disappoint. About a minute after I took the above photo, I was eating one of those Vista Bellas. So fresh, so tart, so local, so good.
I did a spoiler-free post about Regicide Legacy in April, giving a quick overview and showing the basic game components. This post continues from there. The first part of this post will contain no spoilers. If you have not played the game and you are thinking about it, it's safe to proceed. I played the Regicide Legacy campaign with younger
I'm just glad it's the weekend. posting the time lapse is some kind of torture
Brooklyn NY We’ve visited the Maman in Alexandria, but I realized I hadn’t logged that visit; so I’m logging this one. We were visiting DUMBO in Brooklyn and it’s severe heat advisory, so we decided to enjoy a drink, cookie, and air conditioning. I ordered a cold brew and their Martha Stewart salted caramel cookie (to share with the group). The cold brew was good with a well-balanced coffee flavor and no bitterness. The cookie was tasty, but almost too thin. The caramel had broken through the…
My freezer is full of Mountain Fresh Plus tomatoes, which is irritating to my wife because there’s little room for other items. But I think she’ll forgive me in the winter when we can pull out quality tomatoes to make salsa and sauces and more. Over the past eight summers, I have played with a […] The post ‘Mountain Fresh Plus’ tomato variety: a profile appeared first on Greg Alder's Yard Posts: Southern California food gardening.
Kalshi and Polymarket are the big names in the new sector of "prediction markets", and other established names like Robinhood and Crypto.com are getting in on it too. They claim to be the most accurate way to predict future outcomes, but what are they really? They very specifically avoid the language of "bet" due to legal implications, but that gets closer to the heart of what is happening here. Are people really trading futures about who will be the presidential nominee in 2028, or would it be…
The first recording starts with the end of Jakers: The Adventures of Piggley Winks. Then it’s a repeat of Shaun the Sheep – Mountains out of Molehills. Media Centre Description: Children’s animation. Set on a remote rural farm, Shaun’s flock lives a peaceful life under the watchful eye of their sheepdog Bitzer. The flock are enjoying a boogie when a freshly dug molehill interrupts their fun. Shaun has to resort to ever-more extreme attempts to get rid of the pesky mole. Recorded from BBC ONE on…
Yes! Finally! I felt well enough to go the Costco stock up trip! In fact, I was up quite early and feeling rested. Did the morning routine and prepped the truck. We even remembered to grab the ice packs from the freezer before we left. We postponed leaving long enough to go to the post … Continue reading Costco stock up shop: this is what almost $790 looks like
As the title says. This one is a mix of bugs, birds, and scenery, with a few horses thrown in. Original post here. One more clutch of Barn Swallow babies before migration.A barn swallow yawning. Or screaming? Scream yawning.Barn Swallow sitting pretty.A bumblebee getting its pollen on.Honeybee in zany portrait format.Pollen is life.A very shiny blue wasp grooming itself.The Black-capped Chickadees are appearing more.A Cooper's Hawk lands on the trail ahead of us. Very odd.The Cooper's Hawk then…
A UI shouldn’t lose your inputs.If you are typing, each and every key should result in a letter in order. No characters should e mssig or rerodeerd.If I switch windows with Alt+Tab and then type, the events must always go to the newly focused window.If I close a tab with Ctrl+w and then type, the events must go to the newly focused tab.This may seem obvious, but I often see applications that behave incorrectly if your inputs come too fast. One common situation where I see interfaces falter is…
Thus far this week (see here and here), we have seen Adam Smith’s survey of two historic overseas trading firms organized as joint-stock companies: the Royal African and Hudson’s Bay companies. Today, we turn to Smith’s survey of the ill-fated South Sea Company. Smith devotes four paragraphs to this infamous chapter in the history of mercantilism: paragraphs 22 to 25 of the last part of his 1784 pamphlet (Part #13). Smith begins his survey of the ill-fated South Sea Co. (para. 22) by telling us…
Opens with convincingly real and unrehearsed news interviews, which they empasize are real and unrehearsed, but is the interview guy not aware that he’ll be in a movie? Why’s he gotta be so dry? From this drab beginning, the movie gets increasingly brutal, as the local casino runs a terror campaign against the voters, press, and church. Edwards stops John from killing a casino boss, too bad: John (Pickup on South Street) comes home to Phenix with his girl, has been there a half hour before…
This is such a niche topic, but can we combine our knowledge about the drinks packages on cruises? For those of you who are where I was ten minutes ago: it seems that cruises charge extra for drinks such as soda, interesting coffee (anything other than pouring it from a Church Fellowship Urn and adding your own cream and sugar), and booze. You can pay for those drinks individually, again and again all day long, or you can buy a “drinks package” where you pay a lump sum per day to cover a whole…
The “Yentervention” is the key to understanding everything at stake: Matt Dines takes us through the carry trade, Treasury demand, Fed liquidity tools, and Japan’s role in the next U.S.-aligned AI and industrial system.
It’s pretty rare for me to find an anthology in which I love every story, but this one really hit it out of the park! Here are my per-story reviews: Intro: Getting Martha Wells to write the intro is an amazing get! She also does a great job pointing out what we are saying about ourselves (humanity) with our AI/robot stories. (Mostly related to slavery) It reminds me A LOT about recent discourse about alien invasion narratives and what that says about collective guilt about colonialism.…
⚠️ This review contains spoilers! Book review for Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. I rated it 4 stars. Yesteryear follows a woman named Natalie who is raising her six children on a farm, while broadcasting her family's more traditional way of life to millions of Instagram followers. The book kicks off with her in the middle of a wildly successful social media career, with flashbacks to her college days and the events leading up to her marriage.
A little nostalgia ramble and a tidbit about today's song.Currently Listening: hey, nothing “Arteries”Reply via email
