Covers sell, whether it’s books or magazines. This was just as important for pulp magazines as it was for men’s adventure magazines. One of the best of the MAM artists is Mort Künstler (1927–2025). The folks behind Men’s Adventure Library — Bob Deis and Wyatt Doyle — have been putting out several collections on various […]

Coming late to adamgryu’s Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival this year, that community experience where you can carve pumpkin models with simple tools then upload them to a display for people to enjoy. The festival is open for a while around Halloween every year then goes offline until the following year, with all the old pumpkins discarded at that time, so enjoy it while it lasts. Just a plain ol’ Jack O’Lantern here, but you’ll find much fancier ones at the festival. I’m sure this is fine. Ghost…

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This series covers prompt patterns for agents that run in a loop: the agent builds something, measures it, improves it, and repeats the cycle the next day without a person supervising. Across this series I cover: How to grow a long prompt without it contradicting itself How to keep an agent from damaging the machine it runs on How to hand an agent a loop it can run without approvals How to let real usage tune an interface How to get creative output you don’t have to babysit How to make the loop…

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Spent seven glorious hours at the Miniatur Wunderland

Starts insane, goes fairly grounded for a bit, then goes bug fuck nuts for the final stretch. Feels like a good DP shot a student film.

Apple Newsroom as a part of the Pro and Tell news this week: "Final Cut Pro for Mac now integrates MotionVFX directly into the app, giving editors access to thousands of elements, including templates with unique themes, stylish graphics, titles, and transitions, as well as tools for rotoscoping, tracking, and color grading. Editors can also tap into the Content Hub directly within Final Cut Pro and access a library of Apple-curated stock videos, photos, and backgrounds to fill gaps, add polish,…

Patronius, Satyricon 57.3 (tr. J.P. Sullivan): Some fly-by-night from god knows where — not worth his own piss. larifuga nescio quis, nocturnus, qui non valet lotium suum. On lotium and similar words see J.N. Adams (1943-2021), The Latin Sexual Vocabulary (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982; rpt. 1993), pp. 245-249. What was urine good for? For whitening, of clothes and teeth.

The design for a difficult-to-interpret monument that was never intended to be built.

Neither as cold nor as clear as recent mornings, with the sun thinly veiled by atmospheric murk. The golden-leaved tulip tree in the yard looks duller now than it did in the full moonlight at 4:00 a.m.

A professor of philosophy at the University of Denver last year was found “responsible for sexually harassing a graduate student,” according to The Denver Post. The University of Denver’s civil rights office had recommended that the professor in question, Marco Nathan, a full professor who had served as department chair, be fired, the Post reports, however, he is “now a part-time employee working off-campus who ‘does not have interactions with students.'” Dr. Nathan had appealed the findings,…

The National Monument of Scotland on Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Taken in 2015. I still like how I captured the sheer scale of it all: how small people look sitting on the steps and standing next to those huge, dark columns.

Source files are available here: Download Curved and Straight Knitting Needle Model Story My wife has some medical conditions that make doing some detail work with her hands very difficult. She was expressing to me recently how she would love to finish knitting this yarn blanket she has been working on. However, the detail work involved in this particular design is very hard on her hands. She knits often, and typically this is not an issue. I asked her about it and she said she had been looking…

In 2015, I wrote “So you want to build an App..” because a few times a month someone asked me… The post So You Want to Build an App, Revisited: What Changed and What Didn’t appeared first on Caseysoftware.

Peeps, I have FEELINGS about the recent adaptation of the Steinbeck novel East of Eden (2026)

Last Saturday I was at Linux Day, giving a talk about alternatives to Linux, drawing on thirty years of experience. After many years, I met Renzo Davoli again and we had a chat. I felt that old spirit come back. Back home, I kept thinking about that period, about those days. About FreeOSZoo, which I ran with so much passion - the same passion I put into BSD Cafe and illumos Cafe today. And I felt the urge to look back, digging through old emails and old photos. Old texts that could bring old…

Docker's third summit was held in Mexico in between Cancún and Playa del Carmen, here's how it went.

In theory, theory and practice are the same thing. In practice, they’re not. That’s sort of the same problem with emulators – even the best ones are not always the same as real hardware. Although MAME is very robust and useful for development, eventually you have to buckle down and get your stuff sent to a real system. Initial test: Soggy v3 Because I knew it would involve the least amount of work, I pulled my clone SG-1000 motherboard from the “loose pile” side of the desk to the “testing”…

Nick’s piece on the strange longevity of the command line is such a good read. It makes you feel like this method of computing isn’t strange at all, which of course it’s not. Even now. It may seem arcane in today’s GUI-dominated world, but it’s funny how much of my work and play is pulling me back toward the command line. The part that made it click for me when I first started digging into this stuff as a kid was the idea that commands are really building blocks, and that it’s our ability to…

I know. I know. I post so rarely these days. I’m not on the release cycle or probably everyone else’s timeline. That said, I still listen to music and still want to show folks said art. This time around I’m recommending five albums that are rather different from each other. What binds them together is their impeccably high quality. (Natch.) Dive in, friends. Nat Walker — Soft Sculpture You’ve heard Walker’s music in films, TV shows, bar jukeboxes, car stereos, advertisements, and all points…

California's Proposition 40, a one-time wealth tax of resident billionaires is on the ballot. Economists and conservative media outlets argue, correctly that this is a terrible idea from the standpoint of the government increasing its tax revenue. (We'll set aside our disappointment that none express any degree of moral outrage at this brazen violation of individual rights.)Megan McArdle takes this line of argument further, considering what dueling economists are saying about the potential…

A couple of weeks ago I quietly removed the upvote count from the discovery feed on Bear. The upvote button is still there on every post, and upvotes still decide what ends up on Trending. You just can’t see the numbers next to each post anymore. I made the change for two reasons. The first is that visible counts make the popular posts more popular. A post with a lot of upvotes looks like it’s worth reading, so it gets read and upvoted more, and the quiet posts with no audience stay quiet. One…

“Academic philosophy is generally healthy in most respects relevant to the work of the Commission.” That commission is the group of ten scholars (including three philosophers from NYU and one from Princeton), who, at the request of the Chancellors of Vanderbilt University and Washington University, this summer produced a “Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences,” which came to be known as the Vanderbilt Report. Despite the generality of the…

Rog was in love with Marian, who loved him back. It was one of those cute preschool romances where children were exploring the loving adult relationships they see in their lives by acting out one of their own. But one day, Rog arrived to find that Marian had changed her mind. She was, she informed him, going to marry Titus instead.Rog was frantic. He spent his morning gamely drawing pictures for Marian, offering her snack foods, and otherwise striving to convince her to change her mind. By…

📷 283/365 - Tiny cars. I’ve never seen as many of these as in Amsterdam.

This site allows you to compose a giant message, which occupies the entire screen, directly in the browser, editing only the URL. (It has a visual, easier editor, too.) In addition to words, you can also put QR codes, regressive counters, images…

Jason Miller as Fr. Karras in The Exorcist (1973) Vitals Jason Miller as Fr. Damien Karras, Jesuit psychiatrist and—according to at least one demonic entity—”faithless slime” Washington, D.C., Fall 1972 Film: The Exorcist Release Date: December 26, 1973 Director: William Friedkin Costume Designer: Joseph Fretwell III WARNING! Spoilers ahead! Background Progressing deeper through spooky season toward Halloween, let’s look at some understated style in William Friedkin’s 1973 horror classic The…

Lead photo by Joao Canziani Confidante Angie Smith Heidi: After 25 years working in photography, what inspired you to launch Confidante, and what gap did you see in the way creative teams find images? Tell us about the name, too. Angie: I moved to Mexico City in late 2022 and that set off a number of monumental life changes. I moved to an entirely different country, got married and then helped my husband beat cancer. Before moving to Mexico, I had been an editorial photographer for about 20…

Guys, if you ever want a 3D sculpted cake like this: ...and your baker claims she can make a cupcake cake (patooie!) look just like it, DO NOT BELIEVE HER. On the plus side, I hear hippo skin rugs are all the rage now in child therapy sessions. *** They asked for a book cake of The Great Gatsby: NAILED IT. *** You know, when *I* was a kid they didn't have all these new-fangled flavored fillings: *** "Ok, ma'am, your cake has room for three lines of text.""Great! I'd like 'Mazel Tov' on the…