It’s another day, another new package day here. Say hello to django-msgspec, a package of drop-in replacements for Django and Django REST Framework (DRF) components backed by msgspec. msgspec is a C-based serialization library covering JSON, MessagePack, YAML, and TOML, with optional schema validation through typed Struct classes. Its JSON encoder and decoder are several times faster than the standard library’s, which makes django-msgspec a cheap performance win in the parts of Django that…

The space was filled with tributes to Ben, his favorite foods, memorabilia, flowers, photographs and steady streams of people — relatives, friends, sports buddies, coworkers, and some who fit into all those categories.Currently Listening: John Lennon “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”Reply via email

Sleepy day. The short visit from my son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter wore me out. We spent much of our time indoors so that my mother could enjoy the wee one’s company, but we also managed to spend a little time in Swift River at a small public beach.

Tura Satana is best remembered as Varla, the merciless leader of a girl gang who kills a man with her bare hands in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! It's one of the most iconic performances in exploitation film history. It's also, by a wide margin, the tamest thing about her actual life. Long before she ever stood in front of Meyer's camera, Satana had survived an internment camp, run with a street gang, danced burlesque under a false name to hide the fact she was...

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This case involves two competitors in the vehicle-battery charger industry. The plaintiff calls its offering “Battery Tender” (based on the analogy of a ship’s tender) and claims trademark rights in the term. Believing that the term is generic, NOCO began using the term in reference to its own products. The plaintiff sued for trademark infringement and more. A jury found for the plaintiff and awarded $1.3M in actual damages and $5.75M in punitive damages. The judge added another $12M of…

Wrexham Lager’s name and brewery have been revived, and the story is a rather fascinating one. The revival began in 2011, when the Roberts family brought the historic brand back to life after its original brewery closed in 2000 and production ceased entirely in 2002. The historic Wrexham Lager name was rescued, the brewery rebuilt, and production restarted using original recipes. But what about the history of the original Wrexham Lager Brewery, and its pioneering beer? Wrexham Lager isn’t just…

I feel ya Trio. I feel ya. 😒

Foto is a photo sharing platform I should really use more often. I originally signed up just over a year ago, but haven’t really used it much lately. Possibly because of my attitude at the moment to apps, and anything that is too much like social media. Nonetheless, I ought to post a little more. But Foto is the place to be if you want to escape the clutches of older photo sharing platforms, namely Instagram. More so if your interest is primarily in photography, rather than been held captive to…

doll legs dangling from the top shelf of the closet childhood favourite watching over heirlooms no one dared let go the fake fur coat grandma wore waiting for a real one the painting everyone deemed ugly while I learned every detail the memory of grandpa seeped in every brush stroke anchors for their ghosts to feel at home when they visit

We all have that friend or family member that believes in the most ludicrous things, convinced of a conspiracy that doesn't fit into the reality shared by the rest of us. I don't think an empirical mindset is the default for humans, but is something that's built over time, usually through education (though I wonder how much of our bullshit-detector calibration arrives with us at birth). I also don't believe that an empirical mindset is with us at all times. In fact, I'd estimate that we are…

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Brownie and Roach with Rollins. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Completely nuts that I haven’t acquired this one earlier. And it’s even more nuts that it’s only my second Brownie title. I have a lovely original of Study in Brown, so looking for the other ones, like Incorporated for example. Very happy to have found this at a local shop a couple of days ago.…

Quite a large turnout today with the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust to scythe one of my favourite meadows. The quarter acre field at the end of the species rich grassland is kept closed to cattle during the season which allows the corky fruited water drop wort to flourish (among others). Now that the seed has turned, it was a good time to cut the hay while it’s so dry. And rather than just pile the arisings within the field, it was also an opportunity to spread green hay to other parts of the…

Here it is being largely ignored.

Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new releases or old favorites, and respond to each other. The perennial theme is fragrance, but we can interpret that broadly. This is meant […]

Luke Owen from Death Is Not The End has launched into a run of releases reissuing electronic music put out by CRI - Composers Recordings, Inc., originally co-founded by Otto Luening in 1954 and active right up until 2003. This is an obsession close to my heart, having picked up a lot of CRItronica as vinyl over the years, chased down others through the Cal Arts record library, and found still more on the internet. CRI put out an even larger amount of non-electronic music, 20th Century…

I’ve been talking about time-travel stories recently, so here’s another one, this time a book. Time Travel for Beginners, is the latest novel by Sydney based Australian author Jaclyn Moriarty. If you can find a shop called the Time Travel Agency, located somewhere in Sydney, then you too may be able to travel through what some people call the fourth dimension: The guidelines are simple: you can go whenever you wish into the past, and there’s no fear of altering the present. Have tea with Jane…

i'm sick again... for like the third time in the last month. i'm tired of not getting enough sleep and constantly battling illnesses. intern year is going tougher than i expected and pediatrics was supposed to be one of the easier rotations. maybe i will to get used to it, eventually.

Porto at night. View from our Airbnb.

Raoul Vaneigem is one of those thinkers whose thinkige had a massive effect on me for a while - and then dropped away almost completely as other influences came along and my thinking grew more complicated. Having initially believed The Situationists were a rock band, the ultimate subversive rock band (I first came across their name in a Melody Maker profile of Malcolm McLaren), I found Leaving the 20th Century: The Incomplete Work of the Situationist Internationale in Blackwells, the Oxford…

Episode 40 of the Ted Dabney Experience podcast is available now for your listening pleasure! If you enjoy reading ArcadeBlogger.com, you’ll love the other project I’m involved with: The Ted Dabney Experience Episode 40. Click to listen! John Ray joined Atari Inc in 1977 as a hardware engineer, learning the ropes with 1978’s Fire-Truck, arguably the first truly co-op arcade game and a distinctive arcade presence due in no small part to his analogue circuitry audio. Ray was also involved with…

I got another commit merged in Git 2.55 (2026-06-29), yay! The release note reads: "git stash -p" has been optimized by reusing cached index entries in its temporary index, avoiding unnecessary lstat() calls on unchanged files. Here is the story of this change. Patch mode slowness The -p (--patch) option makes git stash interactive. Instead of stashing everything, Git walks you through your uncommitted changes hunk by hunk, asking whether to stash each one, using the same interactive machinery…

View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Calm and warm again. Today’s run was mostly a replay of Wednesday’s, with almost every stat and condition being very similar to the last run: Similar temperature and humidity Similar pace and BPM It was marginally better overall (and air quality was much better), but mostly it’s a rounding error. I started out stronger with an initial pace of 6:09/km, but that dropped off after the 2K mark. I detoured to the Nature House and got a drink at the fountain. This…

“A nostalgia é um sentimento permanente. Em outras palavras, sentimos nostalgia mesmo vivendo em nosso próprio país, ao lado das pessoas que mais amamos. Apesar de um lar feliz e de uma família feliz, um homem pode sofrer de nostalgia simplesmente porque sente que sua alma está sendo limitada, que ela não se desenvolve da maneira como deseja. A nostalgia é o sentimento de impotência diante do mundo, a dor de não conseguir transmitir sua espiritualidade aos outros.” Andrei Tarkóvski Se você…

I realize that I didn't review the three previous Masters of the Universe Origins playsets I own (Snake Mountain, Eternia, and the Fright Zone) and I didn't preorder/ crowdfund the Snake Lair, but I definitely wanted to check out the Slime Pit. Excuse me, I mean the Fright Pit. Yes, the 1986 vintage toy was called the Slime Pit because it used Mattel's own Slime (which they created and introduced to the toy market in 1976), but over the years Nickelodeon has somehow ended up with a trademark…

Here are some more (mediocre) photos from various things I've experienced recently around LA, including my experience in the secret tunnel, an experience attending a live Pokemon Go event that I haven't yet written up, and some other random shit I've done lately. I stand by my often-reiterated claim that if anyone living in LA is ever bored, they are simply stupid. It is impossible to be bored in this city if you ever leave your house. Half the fun shit you can do here is free, even!! Here is…

— I’ve been thinking about the dead a lot lately. Trying to count them up, in a way. You get older and you have more of the dead around you than the living most days. You know them better and you keep knowing them, the dead, even though they don’t know you back. Sometimes I forget who’s gone, and my writer friends, I talk to them in their books where they live on. — Last week I talked about reading Franz Wright’s last book which was published posthumously. Nick Cave’s book of interviews. This…