Walking the England Coast Path Birchington → Reculver (5 miles) In my very long-term attempt to walk the coast of Kent, yesterday I plugged a five mile gap on the north coast. In 2014 I'd got no further east than Reculver and in 2019 no further west than Birchington so in 2026 I've connected them together. I actually walked all the way from Birchington to Herne Bay because the intervening miles are marshy nomansland with no stations, but today I'll just blog about the gap. Thankfully all the…

Hey everyone!This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of October. Wiki, added taxes, and updated . Donsol, fixed some bugs. Note that we plan to release a Playdate build on itch.io next month. Rabbit Waves, finished a new comic page, added a section on monochrome signal flags(scroll to bottom) and updated the zine to include them. Over the summer, we looked around Pino and tried to make a list of all that had changed since we sailed back from Japan and…

It’s not as bad as it looks! Body fat is down, muscle mass is up, and BMI is only up marginally. Still, I did go up and I did not eat nearly as well as I should have this past month. It’s been hard, really. I know I can do it, but food is one of the few go-to comforts I have. If only I had an insatiable appetite for celery sticks or something. But as always, I strive to do better. Stats: January 1, 2026: 169.4 poundsCurrent: 172.6 poundsYear to date: Up 3.2 poundsOctober 1: 171.1 poundsOctober…

I‘ve written before about how useful Pull Requests (PRs) are when it comes to content creation, so no need to go into too much detail here again. Basically you can use PRs as content quality gates, a place to house changes before incorporating them into production, work on them collaboratively whether that's with humans or LLMs, run automated processes on said content, and finally safely merge the content into the main production branch. You want to make content creation as frictionless as…

I finally started playing Lunacid - a "King's Field like" from 2023. As far as I can tell, it's the game in this small genre that helped it kind of break out into the mainstream (in the way that indie games have their own mainstream). I like it! It's easy and heavy on the vibes. The vibes are very, very good. One of the reasons I hadn't picked up Lunacid previously - or any games in this tiny genre - is that I was under the impression that their combat was deliberately hard or annoying. I think…

Source In 2005, an ecologist named Crow White drove to 12 locations inside an elk hunting zone in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and fired a .30-06 rifle into the air. Before each shot, he counted every raven within 100 meters. Then he pulled the trigger, waited ten minutes, and counted again. On different days at those same spots, he ran the exact same test using an air horn, a whistle, or silence. The ravens only came to the rifle shot. They ignored the air horn, the whistle, and the quiet controls.…

The ghost set her down and followed her in. The man on the deck has questions on his face and asks none of them, and she stands there with nothing on her head and one arm half raised, as if the landing were the easy part. I had three landings of my own on Friday, all of them rough, and one of them is worth the page.

Our goal for this summer was to get out of the city and into nature more often. We thought that a car might help us with that, but we weren’t sure. To find out, we rented a car for about five months. A couple of weeks ago we returned the car, thereby concluding our little experiment. Here’s what we learned: The good: Long road trips: the car enabled us to travel for over a month, driving all the way from Berlin down to the Alps and back again in a big circle, giving us several days in each of a…

Here is a collection of things I liked and bookmarked during October 2026:

October was all about switching from track to the road, from short distances to marathon training, and from shorts & singlets to long sleeves. I could do with a bit less autumn winds, but that's what I get for signing up for a winter marathon.By The NumbersWeek 1: 78 km in 4 sessionsWeek 2: 8 km in 3 sessionsWeek 3: 78 km in 6 sessionsWeek 4: 59 km in 5 sessionsOverall:19 runs for a total of 260 km2 sessions in the gym (2 hours total)2 indoor bike rides (1h15 total)3 blog postsTraining FocusWe…

Man your battle stations, grab your fedoras, and don’t forget your smokes . . . It’s Noirvember time!!! That’s right, femmes and hommes, according to the ol’ calendar on the wall, it’s time for another 30 days of deceptive dames, supreme suckers, and more gats than you can shake a stick at. The creation of author Marya Gates, who coined the term back in 2010, Noirvember celebrates all things film noir, and around these parts, I’m ready to take on my 13th consecutive year of daily posting from…

The ghost set her down and followed her in. The man on the deck has questions on his face and asks none of them, and she stands there with nothing on her head and one arm half raised, as if the landing were the easy part. I had three landings of my own on Friday, all of them rough, and one of them is worth the page.

In which we discuss giant tongues far more often than we should… Image by Author, created in AI. Click here to read this story from the beginning… Tupper Ware turned her attention from her phone to her friend Plexi Glass, who was semi-consoling her undead husband, Tinted, as they crouched on opposite sides of the iron bars of a wine cellar/impromptu prison. “I’m on hold right now while they go get Irony Skillet, who has apparently changed her name to The Hexorcist. I guess I should pay more…

As you know, we here at MPorcius Fiction Log are reading stories from 1927 issues of Weird Tales. The cover of the August 1927 issue of the unique magazine promotes a three-part serial by Otis Adelbert Kline, "The Bride of Osiris," and today it is the subject of our examination. This novella would resurface in 1975 in a 96-page collection of Kline stories put out by Robert Weinberg, first of his Lost Fantasies series, and in 2018 in a 240-page(?) hardcover edition by Fiction House. Over three…

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The ExplorateurThis issue marks the third year of The Explorateur. That means three things. New cover image. New naming system. New nothing else. (For now.) Thanks for reading ✋Did you know this post gets updated? Sometimes I miss something and add it later. Don't forget to check out the web version.Explorers' LootDesign Hireling: Pricing Models. Last month, I wrote this piece on the different ways freelancers can charge for their commission-style work. Design Hireling: Your Rate. Keeping on…

It was VERY late, for various reasons, but there WAS a posting yesterday, and a substantive one. This posting is the sequel, in a manner of speaking, as we explained yesterday. Also, we have put together a survey, so that readers can predict which candidate they think will win the 18 Senate races that are plausibly in doubt, how many House seats the Democrats will win, and which candidate they think will win the 17 gubernatorial races that are plausibly in doubt. There is also a space to make…

I overestimated the number of kids that would show up tonight. Last year we had three kids. I thought we would get two kids this year. We got zero. I did see a group of kids walking down the street at dusk, but they weren't in costume, and it seemed they were headed towards a party at a house down the street. And that was it. Great. More candy that will go to waist. Sigh.

I‘ve been using LLMs now in coding for many months, both for writing code and for writing commit messages. Overall it's tremendous, but there are things to remember. The code it writes is much better at the function level, than the code I write by hand, because it has been trained on so much code that it can anticipate all the annoying syntax errors that typically can trip you up, but it also has a much better repertoire of the latests and greatest best practices, so it's always coming up with…

Final Fantasy Resonance I don't need no staggers to beat this zombie. Went through the shrine dungeon some and then had about 10-15 minutes wiped out by a gamenative crash on the Thor. That's the first time that's happened, it's been pretty rock solid, but it was annoying. Got back into it and got to the next save point quickly, I was at least helped by knowing where the missable items were so I was able to minimize backtracking. Fought some tonberries, that's always a bit of a frightening…

Paternoster sardine - 4 runs; 1 dropped, 2 hook-pulls and one pike landed. Not ideal - but every trip that sees a pike on the bank is a good one, and a double at 13lb 7oz makes it a great one. Plus 8 perch on the lures - I'll take it - especially as upcoming November is traditionally a tough month for me (only one pike last year and two the year before) - time to try and break that trend...

It is a new month! This weekend is Undas - a time when traditionally, Filipino families go to the cemeteries to visit their departed loved ones. As you can imagine, the cemeteries are very crowded on these days. Lots of people also travel home to the provinces. But for our household I think it has been quite a few years since we observed this tradition on the date. The World RIP Sir Patrick Stewart, a great loss to the world. On Oct. 30, 2026, 10:34 p.m. I wrote: My favorite Picard quote: "It…

Welcome to my stand at the GBMRS. As usual, it's a selection of projects that I've built for magazines and on this blog. It's not a BRM event, so the tables are full of the contents of my head!Since losing my Dad, it's a show I have to do on my own. Fortunately, the stewarding is carried out by members of the L&WMRS, so there's no problem with a short comfort breaks, tea delivery, or the chance to collect my lunch. As an added bonus, on Saturday, my boss Debbie, and colleague Steven turned up…

352 photos, ten carousel slots. I used my Apple Photos MCP server with Codex to find candidates, revise the shortlist and build a travel film.

November has somehow come already. Where is it that time goes? And why is it in such a hurry? Once upon a time there was something called Nanowrimo, in which people challenged themselves to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November. Nanowrimo is no more—at least as an organized community. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to look up the details of it’s fall, but suffice to say it was entirely self-inflicted. I made a few half-hearted attempts, but never got very far.…

Perhaps it’s age but I find growing satisfaction in resolution. I like stories that conclude satisfyingly, often ending where they started, with the distance covered in between being the important part. I feel the same way about most music. You can keep the dissonance, chords that leave you hanging. I’ve grown more aware of cycles. Not cosmic. More prosaic than that – the migration of birds, the hustle of squirrels in the fall, kids returning to school. There’s a Scriptural subtext to Bill…

Ormstunga (Worm’s tongue/sting) is a modernized rock/rap opera based on the Icelandic saga. I caught the matinee show yesterday, and was suitably impressed astounded. A nineteen piece acting ensemble plus: a four piece band, acrobatics, a multi-level stage, extremely well-sung lyrics, and dramatic solo turns for all the principals, made for an unforgettable experience. The woman next to me

Recently, John Gruber linked to a prior rant about how much he dislikes Apple Notes using a single-story lowercase a, despite liking Futura (which I also like). It doesn’t bother me, and though I’d like to try switching from San Francisco to New York, I may even like it. But a font detail I have developed an aversion to, is a lowercase g with an conspicuous “ear.” While it’s moslty a serif problem, as a typical sans-serif g looks like: There are exceptions. A serif g with an inconspicuous ear…

The latest book from Chris Harte's Sports History Publishing is an anthology of over 100 stories from the pages of Men Only, the magazine for men launched by C. Arthur Pearson in 1935. Within a year, the magazine was selling 800,000 copies a month and soon added colour plates to the regular black & white photos and cartoons. Men Only survived the war thanks to its popularity

How Valve's VTF spray format works, and what it took to build a spray maker for Source and GoldSrc games that runs in the browser.