Launched the new Jinny Street Gallery website. Not going to lie, I’m quite proud of it. Redesigned ttvl.co again. This time it actually looks different. I switched to IBM Plex throughout and made the dates and labels consistent. Built an interactive 3D twin of the Rome studio for Studio Humane and started documenting my ambient computing experiments in a new research journal. Started building Hank for OpenClaw, a native OpenClaw client for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and gave it its own stream in…

↬nadjabester.com/blog/indieweb-book-club-october-2026-a-psalm-for-the-wild-built I got the book as epub and found its Libro.fm link in case an audiobook would make things better. I didn’t read the book. The thing is, I read one book by Becky Chambers, four years ago, because she was hailed as the ultimate solarpunk writer and I would have to love it, and, well, I didn’t love it. I was bored to death, in fact; not as disappointed as I was in The Dispossessed, but enough that like with Ursula K.…

hey, i'm breaking my silence after a long while. it's always hard to come back after a break. to be honest i've been struggling for the past couple of months. i do not know how transparent i want to be and how much i want to reveal myself but it's been rough to say the least. i have been dealing with the stress of the hospital, long work hours, dogshit pay and constantly being scolded. i don't mind the work hours but i can not handle the stress and the reprimanding. my medical knowledge is at…

We return to the “Book at Bedtime” themed series which, is now in its eighth incarnation. Reading a few pages, or perhaps even a whole chapter, of a book is a great way to relax and unwind, especiallyafter a busy day, and where better to come back to earth after a hectic day, than lying in bed. This edition features a couple of biographies, two action packed, and rather violent thrillers of the type I wouldn’t normally be interested in, plus an old favourite author in the guise of Ernest…

Ten months of photos, one every day. Reminding me to pause and breathe while I appreciate my surroundings

Hello from my home in Helsinki! This is NordLetter #129, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. To follow the series, you can subscribe here. A new NordLetter will land in your inbox every Sunday. Not a fan of newsletters? No problem! You can read previous editions here. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed. You can reach out to me by replying to this mail. I am also posting on Mastodon. The route that I take every day takes me past the highway to a nature trail next to a large…

As someone who grew up in this city, I saw the South Indian Breakfast joints or darshinis go through a huge change in perception. They always had their cultish fanbases, but to a vast number of Bangalore's immigrant populations, they were often seen as unattractive.But the food was always cheap, fast and really really good. Dose and medhu vade dippu eaten in a stand-up darshini is an integral part of my childhood.To me, these places had a huge change in perception ever since the enterprising…

USS Reuben James in the Panama Canal in happier times, 19-N-10982. National Archives Identifier 496085338 Some 85 years ago this week, just after 0530 on 31 October 1941, the “Red Devil” boat, German Type VIIC submarine U-552, Kptlt. Erich Topp, commanding, was less than a week out of St. Nazaire, France, on her sixth war patrol. By that point in the war, Topp, 27, had already sunk 18 enemy ships. He had just joined five other boats of Wolfpack Stosstrupp, combing the North Atlantic for…

I’ve not been doing so hot this year. Because I am a huge nerd, I can quantify this. I’ve been using Daylio to track my moods for about eight years, and this year I’ve already had more “bad days”1 than I’ve had in any year since 2021. This is kind of unsurprising. 2026 is the year that generative AI really came for programming, and an ongoing existential crisis about the state of what is both my career and my hobby is pretty disruptive. I’ve had more crashouts since I wrote that blog post. It’s…

After months of long, hard, and at times tedious and controversial activity, Campaign '80 is at its conclusion. And TV Guide tells you how you can pick the winner!But first, a word from our publisher.l l l"TV GUIDE has never before taken a position in a Presidential election and as head of the company that publishes the magazine I intended that it remain silent in this one. I, cannot, however, as a matter of conscience, refrain from speaking up when the result of this election is so critical to…

Earlier this month we celebrated the 19th anniversary of Double Fine's Brutal Legend with a retrospective article. For Halloween, I wanted to talk about another of my favorite Double Fine games. And, appropriately, this one is Halloween-themed!Costume Quest was released for Windows on October 14th, 2011. That feels like another lifetime. Wild.RPGs really aren't my thing. It's with with rare exception that I get enjoyment from that genre of game. Yet, at the time and even to this day, I find the…

forty~sixth credits What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: MTF Sigma-5 Pumpkin Punchers Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club listens to forty~sixth. To give this series some sense of organization, check out some basic facts without much in the way of context. For Clarity : You can best think of these posts like their titles suggest, as the seed of a discussion group (“book club”) to spark conversation about a Free Culture…

Sarah flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says Arguments rage in poetry circles about the merits of the Acrostic Poem (where the letters of the name of something, written vertical, form the first letters of words for each line). Use this Acrostic Poem generator to create your own, and if time, maybe transform the lines of the poem into a piece of art (what that means, is up to you, per DS106 ethos). I made a couple – one for me…

The single biggest myth around advertising in public spaces and in public transit is that “it generates money for the municipality”, “it pays for the busses and trains”. The truth is that they do not generate resources. They only use resources and quite a lot of it. Oh, they move around money alright. Into the pockets of the viewscreen company that put them up. Never let them say that the screens make money or fund our transit. That is a scam. Now, I’m sure quite a lot of folks are thinking…

It may come as a shock to you, dear reader, that I have quite a lot of gadgets. Gadgets are often a bit wonky. This is just a blog post about how much has changed these days, because I just find it kinda… OK, “mind-blowing” might not be the right word, but it’s a pretty big shift. In the olden days (i.e., before spring 2026), when a gadget was slightly wonky, you either lived with it, spent hours and hours and hours to get it to work, or you ditched it. Much wonkiness is of the kind that it’s…

I will resume my “Adam Smith, Commissioner” series on Monday. In the meantime, did you know that Halloween actually refers to the solemn Roman Catholic feast of All Hallows’ Day: a holy day to mark the beginning of Allhallowtide, a time to remember the dead, including martyrs, saints, and all faithful departed Christians? Bonus link: “Ten Spooky Classical Music Favorites for Halloween” by Terez Rose, a ballet and classical music critic who blogs regularly “The Classical Girl“. Below, for…

I really struggled this month, probably due to my health being a bit worse than normal. I've definitely noticed a correlation between my physical wellbeing and energy levels, and how I feel about my drawing. Looking at the pages, however, I find myself a lot more charitably inclined towards a few of the sketches, and thus happier on the whole with what I made during October. Maybe next year I'll dare to join Inktober.

<2026년 10월 작은배 월간 보고서>에 담긴 편지입니다. 안녕하세요. 강단입니다. "아기 키우느라 많이 힘드시죠?"라는 질문을 받을 때마다 "아뇨!"라고 답하고 있습니다. 아기를 돌보면서 글을 쓰고, 팟캐스트를 편집하고, 모임을 준비하느라 정신없는 건 맞습니다. 그래도 꽉 찬 하루를 보내고 '오늘도 해냈다'라고 생각하면 피곤함보다 뿌듯함이 큽니다. 돌이켜보면 아빠가 되기 전, 특히 퇴사하고 제주로 내려온 뒤 몇 년간은 시간이 너무 많아서 문제였습니다. 시간이 많다 보니 코딩 공부를 할까, 대학원에 갈까, 에세이를 쓸까, 소설을 쓸까 고민만 하는 날이 참 많았습니다. 세상에 보탬이 되려면 무엇을 해야 하지? 내가 글로 하고 싶은 말이 정말 의미가 있나? 나에게 가장 중요한 가치는 뭘까? 사라진 물건을 찾느라 온 집안을 뒤지듯, 손에 잡히지 않는 소명을 찾아 헤매다 보면 어느새 하루가 다 갔습니다. 하루가 그 어느 때보다 빠르게 흘러가는 요즘, 무엇을 해야 할지 고민하는 시간은…

Power Cat 2026-10-31 happy Halloween!

I have been surprised by the lack of critical discourse around the politics of artificial intelligence. More specifically, what could be called the politics of expectation - our underlying mental models of how the social and economic world works, and how we think it ought to work or be organised. The capitalist class and those adjacent to them are salivating over the possibility of the massive returns that are expected from automating away large shares of so-called knowledge work (i.e.…

This book was a fun read. The story itself was entertaining – made me chuckle at least a few times – and I enjoyed the clipped way that the narrator talked. The whole idea of how we feel about our lives at the end of them is interesting to think about, too. I’m not sure what to make of the whole determinism idea (“elevation” in the book). I couldn’t figure out if Saunders was pushing it as something he agrees with or trying to poke fun at it or if it was just part of the story. I dislike…

Welcome to the weekly newsletter! This week on the blog I published Making Villain Actions in 5e, a guest post from Nik, and Timelines and Events: Prepping an Investigation. Most popular posts otherwise were: Twilight Sword, A First Review, Running Red Dragon’s Tale, Dungeon Inc., A First Review, Dolmenwood Resources for You and A Dolmenwood Retrospective. As always, if you enjoy the newsletter, subscribe to get it in your inbox every Saturday! Table of Contents Discord discussionsBlog posts to…

For reasons completely unrelated to the number 4, I have been having a hard look at this site. Like the rest of the Internet, it has received a large amount of undesirable traffic in the last couple of years. To counter that, I have been using a couple of WordPress plugins to help identify and hinder bots. First Blackhole bad bots, which sets booby-trapped links and bans the robots that follow them. More recently, I also added JTZL’s bot maze, to offer them some delightful LinkedIn-grade…

It’s time for another Saturday update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further seven papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 256 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 704. I continue to include the posts made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience); these announcements also contain a clickable form of the DOI for each paper. Our Mastodon account has regular updates and other announcements from OJAp too, including posts…

Nelson Relics, Secret Doors, and Hauntings: A Fresh Look at 34 Albury StreetLord NelsonNote from Andy: Regular readers might remember that I have visited the legends of Albury Street before on this site—especially since my own Auntie Jeanie lived right behind the doors of No. 34! However, with a massive influx of new visitors to the archive this week, I thought the property deserved a refreshing, deeply investigated historical look. New archival details have shed fascinating light on the…

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Ben Nadel adds Grafana Cloud to his ColdFusion blog so that he can monitor scheduled task health (via StatsD metrics)....

Album of the Week, October 31, 2026 So we come to the end of this thirty-six-album-long set of reviews of Peter Gabriel, his collaborators, and his label Real World—and in some cases records that include all three of those items. As I wrote on the last few reviews, this is a body of work that continues to grow, certainly with Peter’s forthcoming album o/i, but also as new tapes are found in various archives and released. Such is the case with today’s recording, a lost studio album by the great…

Had a good day in the shop if being confused with what was at the top of the A list. I wanted to work on the bottom stretcher details and that quickly went south on me. I think I spent twice as much time scratching the bald spot then I did doing anything constructive. By the time I killed the lights I was looking forward to heading topside. I think I figured out how this puzzle of a console table will go together.step oneI got the bottom aprons dry fitted so I could mark the inside/outside and…