Yes, of course I'm starting on a new project while I still have some other unfinished ones. But look, there's no deadline and I don't care about quarters. Factory system for Transport Game Europe My biggest priority, on paper, is finishing this system titled "Factories" for my live-game Transport Game Europe. It's going to be a system that players can interact with in the mid-game, where they'll be able to interact with factories, manage the input and output, complete chains (wheat into flour…

Read the full post at - The Philippines by Lonely Planet I grew up in the Philippines. I last visited about 20 years ago. So when I saw the latest Lonely Planet Philippines on the shelf at my local library, I picked it up on a lark. Part of it was practical – I want to get back there in the next few years and figured I should start thinking about it. But the bigger reason was that I wanted to see how the country has changed, and specifically how domestic tourism has changed. I got both. But I…

The server of a friend got hacked. Vulnerable web application, so the attacker had a local shell as the user the webserver ran under (www-data). Ok, but how did the attacker get root? Well.. Let's say that this line in /etc/sudoers.d/some-tool didn't help: www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/apt-get It was for some self-crafted maintenance tool to allow updating of the package lists via a webinterface. The attacker did run sudo -l listing all sudo rules for www-data and there the line above…

For a few nights, 12 places in Braunschweig (Brunswick) are specially illuminated in the evening. Interactions & Comments

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Lucas Ropek, writing for Techcrunch, quoting Johny Srouji, Chief Hardware Officer, at Apple: During manufacturing, we use AI algorithms to precisely match each individual hinge with its best-fit housing to ensure perfect alignment, and a confocal laser progressively scans the topology of every single unit and 3D prints up to 25 micro layers of a custom photopolymer to eliminate residual waviness. But since launching, some users of the the foldable phone, called Duo, have reported the appearance…

FAREWELL, MY CAPTAIN: Patrick Stewart Dead: ‘Star Trek’ Captain, ‘X-Men’ Superhero Was 86. His publicist’s statement notes his brief battle with Alzheimer’s and lewy body dementia ended yesterday.

(note: I spent way too much time trying to think up a pun on “Pachelbel’s Canon” for the title of this post. I apologize in advance.) So anyway, last weekend, the Toronto Argonauts invited me to light the cannon that’s fired at the start of every game (and after every touchdown.) Of course I accepted! How could you not? Did I care that I had to cancel a train ticket and book a replacement flight to Halifax because we already had a complicated weekend! No, of course not. Look, I’ll never get to…

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Spent pretty much the whole day in bed. Meh…

Yeah, it's another post about AI and no, it wasn't what I originally had planned but it continues to infest what feels like all discussions like a bad rash so here we are again. Keep reading to the end though because I think there's hope for this problem.Steam Slop FestSince relaunching this blog in 2025, I've done a round up of my top demos from each Steam Next Fest. Three so far. Those posts take longer to put together than most and get by far the least interest so I was debating skipping…

Just a lovely little movie. I always like their animations and stories. And it featured a few nice little references to other movies, which was extra fun. Recommended!👍 Recommended!

For the better part of the last year (and longer, actually), as the country has navigated the turbulent waters of the Trump administration and the weak and ineffectual Congress and Supreme Court, our attention has been focused on the U.S. Senate races as a salve to save us from the chaos. Yet, while changing the ... Read more The post Crunch time: A chat with Hannah Pingree and a need for a blue wave appeared first on Shay Stewart-Bouley.

With my kids I’m currently building a little dungeron crawler and we’re trying to learn a bit about game development along the way. However given that we live in the modern times of increasing capabilities we wanted to get a narrator and voice over. But we also wanted it to not sound like everyone’s standard AI voices so I looked into what options there are on the table. After some investigation I narrowed down to using Qwen3-TTS which uses voice embeddings for custom voices. With a bit of…

Bursts of inspiration are all a writer can ever hope for, but how do you flesh that inspiration out into a coherent story? Not just coherent, but a good story. Author Sharon Shinn shares some of her personal experience with this topic in the Big Idea for her newest collections of short stories and poems, Tropes: Stories and Poems of the Fantastical. SHARON SHINN: In my 9th-grade creative writing class, my teacher walked in one day holding a small potted plant. “I want you to write a story about…

I had someone ask me the other day why I collect all the music data that I do and I wasn't sure how to answer. Some of it's an interest in my own listening patterns, and another part of it is nostalgia for the last.fm I used heavily during its heyday. I guess I like quantifying those things. It's become a bit more than that too — I curate artist bios, I pull in genre descriptions from Wikipedia, and I fiddle with metadata. I also put some of this data to work. I use Navidrome to listen to…

If you've visited my site recently you might have noticed some illustrations I've done appear on some pages, notably the home page and my 404 page. I wanted to use this brick drawing I did for Inktober but on the dark mode background is doesn't look good: My first thought was to just get rid of dark mode completely and just have light mode. I spoke to a handful of people about it and came to the conclusion that this was an extreme solution. Also, I like dark mode in general so it seems stupid…

The storms over the weekend have brough most of the pears and a lot of the apples down from the trees and into the house. One pear fell into the still amazing cosmos flowers, looking as if it was growing on the plant. The apples will keep for several weeks but the pears not so long so I had another go at dealing with the fabulous pear glut last night. I tried making another gluten free pear cake, based on a conventional apple cake recipe, which you can find here: Pear cake (gluten free) 115g…

I did end up doing weird web October, and technically I'm still doing it although I've been derailed by several other October activities: Moving house Finding out I needed a root canal and going to what feels like endless dentist appointments to get the root canal My other October challenge, where I aim to watch 31 horror films during the month (I'm currently at 26/31). But anyway, for WWO you can find all my entries here. I've managed 12/31, which is a little disappointing. My favourite is…

Who signals a landing before anyone has asked to land? What does a city under glass already know about who is coming in, and does the hand on the deck care what carried her, or only that she arrived? Something landed on me a couple months back the same way, unannounced, and it took me a while to read what I had been waved into.

I signed in to the App Store but not iCloud on my iPad. When I opened the Settings app and tapped iCloud in the sidebar, I was greeted with the blank screen shown in the attached screenshot. OS version: 27.0.1 (latest as of now). I reentered this page / reopened the Settings app / restarted the device many times and it always behaved the same. Thanks Fuchen for the submission!

This morning I found myself outside waiting for the kids to get ready for school. I could have spent the time obsessing over how the kids were running late, again. Rather, this time I chose to just experience the moment of time/place I found myself in. I chose to just take in all the sensory input around me and saw a small white butterfly going from violet to violet. I thought it would be wonderful to capture that moment, but initially I thought, “No, it will be gone by the time I get close…

Gave the site a bit of a refresh as well as the toolkit site, new header, theme schemes, breadcrumbs and video embeds for YouTube. All my apps have micro/marketing sites now and all support the Duo with minimal intervention. Still looking for work but not having much luck getting a response so interviews seem well off. I’m enjoying dev/null site - dev Twitter but for real this time. Still wishing Netflix would allow me to filter out things I’ve seen or rated already. I don’t consume alcohol…

Avoid Public Functions Calling Other Public Functions Oct 29, 2026 A small-scale rule of thumb. This article will land much better with a concrete example, but I am drawing a blank here, so you gotta just blindly trust my say so! When implementing a software module, it’s often a case that you are writing a public function foo, and at least part of what foo does is already handled by another public function bar. The DRY instinct encourages you to call bar() from within foo. This usually creates…

Sailboat at Nyhavn – Copenhagen, Denmark – Fujifilm GFX100RF – Vivid Velvia Velvia is Fujifilm’s most vibrant Film Simulation. It was named after the legendary Fujichrome Velvia line of color reversal (slide) films, which were especially popular among landscape photographers because of its bold, sometimes over-the-top colors. I used a lot of Velvia 50 back in the day. Fujifilm wanted to bring that same aesthetic to their digital cameras, so they enlisted some of the people who developed the…

I absolutely love the Great British Bake Off so, when I saw this book challenge I though 'yeah, sign me up for that one.' ON YOUR MARKS – A Book You Can’t Wait To Read I can't wait to read The Last Mandarin, a fast-paced, all-too-real thriller co-written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny and award-winning journalist Mellissa Fung, global politics become personal for two unlikely heroines. The Last Mandarin is an electrifying study of absolute power and voracious greed,…

Last day. I realised this morning I've spent a lot of these days trying to be near water.247 words · 4 images

This week we had our CoSocial AGM and it came off just fine. I regularly tell the world that Mastodon is the only good choice for social media going forward, and I think it’s worth a few extra words on why the CoSocial model is interesting, and what it teaches. What’s CoSocial? The long story is here, but in brief: CoSocial is a registered Canadian nonprofit co-operative that operates the CoSocial.ca Mastodon instance. It’s limited to Canadian residents and citizens, and membership costs…