The last Korean review I did involved a spicy and sweet noodle served hot I kind of think might have been better cold. Well, here’s a cold noodle. Sounds good – let’s check it out! Woobool Restaurant Cold Buckwheat Noodles – South Korea A distributor / import sticker (click to enlarge). Detail of the packaging (click to enlarge). Contains fish. To prepare, boil noodles in 500ml water for 2 minutes. Rinse with cold water. Take sachets and add to 180ml cold water and stir. Finally, combine and…
Cosmic Summer No. 13, paper collage, 2026 I love retro-spacey beach art. For that reason, whenever I find vintage beach imagery, whether in magazines or on postcards, it’s pretty much a foregone conclusion that I am going to pair it with a spacey sky. Indeed, I have a rather sizable collection of retro-futuristic summer-themed collages […]
When we examine what types of films were trendy in the silent film days, we’ll find the era well-stocked with Civil War films, WWI propagandistic adventures, tales from the pioneer days, and of course an abundance of Westerns. But what … Continue reading →
AI disclosure – I used AI to write this blog post. I figure having an AI blog post is better than not writing it at all. I will always disclose though if I use AI to heavily write any content on this blog. (I use it for minor copy editing all the time.) For the tech details, I used gemini flash 3.5 with medium reasoning in the Antigravity IDE, using the same advice I said in this blog post. (Minor preference to Claude Code for writing blog posts for those who care.) It is the outline of the…
This is a short aside in our virtual memory series. We have talked extensively about the size of a virtual address and the virtual address space, but we haven’t yet looked at the size of a physical address.As you might expect, physical addresses on x86-64 are smaller than 64 bits. But they are also not necessarily the same size as virtual addresses. In this video, we look at how big physical addresses are, how you can check this on your own machine, and why different processors may expose…
This one took a long time to get out, but it is finally out. #100 was recorded and will come out next week 🤞 .We chat about how developer experience affects delivery speed, happiness and morale. We also chat about how a lot of problems with team dynamics are self-inflicted. At the end of the day it's all a wire act where balance is crucial, but the more skilful people you have, the easier it is to maintain that balance.
🐑🐑🐑🐑 4/5 Real Animals - I got a lot out of re-reading this! The post Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick appeared first on The Wallflower Digest.
Biked in Zuid-Kennemerland National Park with a distance of 31.34 kilometres. Zuid-Kennemerland National Park sits on the North Sea coast in the province of North Holland, between Haarlem, Bloemendaal, and IJmuiden. Its dunes, woodland, and open grassland are grazed by European bison and Highland cattle, and a web of cycling paths threads through it within easy reach of Amsterdam. Ride report Map Details DataValue Distance31.34 km Duration2h 09m Speed14.4 km/h Max speed29 km/h Elevation gain208…
In 2023, I ordered a cheap piece of crap USB to HDMI adapter. From time to time, I dabble with computers, but I don’t always have a convenient display at hand. Capture cards aren’t anything new, but the good ones a bit expensive for a hobbyist like myself. The adapter sucks, and somehow it’s been one of the most useful tools that I own. The way that it works is also brilliant: the adapter acts like a webcam on your machine. This means that you can open any app that can show webcam output, such…
A history of the Jewish Labor Bund, Here Where We Live Is Our Country plots the arc of the organization from the tsarist Pale of Settlement, to interwar Poland, into war-torn Warsaw and somehow, barely, out again. Crabapple writes in her own voice and interweaves family history with the wider historical scene. The book’s chapters have no citations or footnotes — they’re all relegated to endnotes indexed on page numbers and short phrases — which helps the book read more like a novel while…
The polder model is a method of consensus decision-making, based on the Dutch version of consensus-based economic and social policymaking in the 1980s and 1990s. It gets its name from the Dutch word (polder) for tracts of land enclosed by dikes. The polder model has been described as “a pragmatic recognition of pluriformity” and “cooperation despite differences”.
I have been reflecting today on making mistakes. The following quotation is attributed to United States President Theodore Roosevelt: “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”Theodore roosevelt I’d quickly like to say that I believe this to be true of both men and women, so today we might substitute the word ‘person’ for the word ‘man’. To be human is to do things – and make things – and we will inevitably make some mistakes as we go. I had lessons in…
Walking through Brockley in South East London this morning, my eyes were drawn to the rubbish that was collecting - but not being collected - near the station. However, this wasn’t what grabbed my attention – it was the street art (graffiti, vandalism – what you will) that adorned the remnants of a piece of shelving that had been unceremoniously bound and dumped by the bins. It must have looked so forlorn that a would-be Banksy took (no more than a few seconds, in my judgement) the time to…
A Swedish word meaning ‘just the right amount’ or ’not too much, not too little’. The word can be variously translated as ‘in moderation’, ‘in balance’, ‘perfect-simple’, ‘just enough’, ‘ideal’ and ‘suitable’ (in matter of amounts). Whereas words like sufficient and average suggest some degree of abstinence, scarcity, or failure, lagom carries the connotation of appropriateness, although not necessarily perfection. The archetypical Swedish proverb “Lagom är bäst”, literally ‘The right amount is…
I’m pretty sure the best answer to every problem can be encapsulated in one simple dictum. You can use this dictum to meet all your problems, regardless of what they are, and create the best possible outcomes. You’re not going to like it. It has different forms, but here’s one: Do what has to be done, when it has to be done, and do it that way every time. This is truly infuriating advice. The mind sputters and objects. Objection 1: This doesn’t tell me anything! How do I know what has to be…
Cat portraits that are set up in low trees are destined to be the next big thing this summer, just as a challenge to novice photographers everywhere.Fake BBC news via tightly controlled social media sources: Every breakfast is of course a freakfest in this backwards freakin' country where some people actually buy and then drink tea out of cups with the image of a so-called king on it. Please grown up and out of doing these dumb things whoever you are. The markets don't need this. I know it's a…
We've seen these for Batman, Superman and the Justice League before (I posted about the latter here), and now, in this so-called "Summer of Supergirl", Superman's cousin from Krypton has got her own over-priced, magazine format collection of four comics stories available outside of comic shops, just in time for her new movie. I heard about the magazine online, and so when I found myself in a Walmart, a place I avoid ever being as much as possible, I figured I might as well see if they carried…
The latest Commando and British Weekly Comic Swap Meet took place on Saturday. June 20, at Wolstanton Methodist Church in (the clue's in the name) Wolstanton, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, although it is known amongst the organisers as the Stoke swapmeet, as Stoke-on-Trent is nearby.Last year, we took a trip into Hanley and it was a disappointment; this year we (please welcome to the stage Mr. Karl
Olive Wreath Cold Warm Green Blue Opening with layered instrumentation, Cold Warm Green Blue unfolds like a collage. Percussion and guitars are roughly assembled with overlapping edges. From this textured picture emerges Olive Wreath’s gently processed vocal. Like a forgotten photograph fluttering out of a well thumbed paperback, it lands in our laps. It feels like a memory we had forgotten, yet one that instantly puts us back in a previously forgotten emotional state. Based in London, Olive…
Greg Cello: Marriage has a way of exposing the parts of us that solitude allows us to hide, and fatherhood intensifies the exposure. The home becomes the place where a man discovers whether he is capable of giving himself without first calculating what will be returned to him; it becomes, at its best, the place where God steadily removes the illusion that a meaningful life can be built upon self-protection. The work is not glamorous, and it will not always feel triumphant, but it is the work by…
Freelance NFT staking projesi kılığında bir sosyal mühendislik saldırısı. Zip dosyasındaki typosquat npm paketi (pretie_x1), tarayıcı şifreleri, kripto cüzdanları, SSH anahtarları ve işletim sistemi parolalarını çalan çok aşamalı, AES-şifreli bir info-stealer indirip çalıştırıyor.
A social engineering attack disguised as a freelance NFT staking project. The zip file contained a typosquatted npm package (pretie_x1) that drops a multi-stage, AES-encrypted info-stealer targeting browser credentials, crypto wallets, SSH keys, and OS login passwords.
After yet another push from senior leadership, I’m finally getting around to trying to do something more interesting with our internal AI resources than just chatting with Gemini. Specifically, I’m using Antigravity and writing agent skills to query various databases, read my meeting notes, read the news, and smash it all together in the hopes of surfacing something interesting that I may otherwise have missed. The results so far are encouraging; and, the effort is making me appreciate all the…
The ACM’s proposition to redefine the software engineering profession sounds a bit like the Systems Engineer Development (SED) program of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) that hired in to in 1989. Unfortunately I don’t think such a long term vision is compatible with the U.S. short term culture, so I doubt many companies nor the industry will take this approach.
Read the full post at - Best American Short Stories 2015 I picked up The Best American Short Stories 2015 at a used bookstore sale. The price was right, the premise was appealing – a curated collection of the best short fiction published that year – and I’ve always been curious about the short story as a format. It was good. The stories were fine. But walking away from it, I had a clearer opinion about the format of the collection than the collection itself. What I Liked The short story form is…
Have you ever opened Google.com and entered site:your-domain-name to see if any of your blog posts have been indexed? Or do you look at your analytics and get a twinge of excitement when you see Google referring traffic to your blog? I'm guilty on both counts. I like the idea of the "small web" but this need to be loved by Google is probably antithetical to what the small web movement is about. Yet as a former digital analytics analyst in a past life, I have a hard time not craving organic…
It was “Bjorn,” who along with 12 others, correctly guessed that the Ohio-native mammal I was thinking of was, indeed, the Prairie Vole. As promised, I used a random number generator to pick a number between one and twelve, and Bjorn was on the lucky number. An ARC is being mailed to him forthwith. If you did not win, condolences, but also remember you can order a signed copy of the hardcover from Subterranean Press (and I will even personalize it, if you like), to arrive when the book comes…
i've signed up for the 30-day free trial for BFI. i still find it absurd how you subscribe to a streaming platform yet you have to pay for premium plus plus plus to access more films or music... anywho. i will be watching a lot of films and make most out of this free trial. since i'm basically done with uni i have time to get back to my hobbies. reading books and watching films. tried to get back to reading when i bought the novel repetition by vigdis hjorth. the cover was pretty and the first…
It appears some hosters only support docker webapps with one volume mount #til
Maybe it’s just me, or perhaps it’s the song itself, but I find that the inexpensive Czech Delicia accordion shown at the start sounds the best. It might be the high-sounding reeds (which means its sound really travels) and my history as a busker that make me think that the Delicia’s sound is the one that most evokes “sidewalk cafe on a sunny spring afternoon” for me. The post What increasingly expensive accordions sound like appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.
