I've been following WisdPi's development of various 5 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet adapters for the past couple years. They use newer Realtek Ethernet chips, which sometimes have performance quirks—most frequently encountered under Linux. In today's video, I tested the new WisdPi 10G Ethernet Expansion Card for Framework computers. It fits in any available Framework Expansion slot—even on the Framework Desktop. But Expansion Cards use USB-C for their connection to the mainboard—and therein lies…
We love it when we find weird and unique indie games to tell you all about! Our alien friends to the left herald these occasions. sylvie’s Games Don’t Have To Be Good To Be Good is an interesting little browser game where the point is figuring out how to play, then what to do. It’s really short! You can probably finish it in five minutes. The description calls it a manifesto, and I can see that, and also agree with it. (And it’s an entry in Manifestø Jam 2026 too.) My belief about game worth is…
Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as one of the "godfathers of AI," famously said, "The jobs that are going to survive AI for a long time are jobs where you have to be very adaptable and physically skilled, and plumbing is that kind of job."People who write for a living, especially those who are creative writers, like novelists and screenwriters, are, rightfully, concerned that these new tools will take their jobs. And they aren't the only ones. The jobs of anyone who works with their mind is…
John Stossel's report on the latest attempt by central planners to "fix" contract work contains the following incredible passage:The Democratic Socialists said they had a solution. Seattle's city council imposed a $26 delivery driver minimum wage.What could go wrong?Two years later, we know the answer: Gig workers make no more money, but prices went up.Apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats added a $5 fee for consumers "to help cover the costs of these ... regulations."Now Seattle residents complain…
There has to be something said about the need and the ability to go absolutely crazy.Love this idea.There has to be something said about the freedom to lose oneself and to lose your mind and go safely insane.If there is such a thing.Even if this is not safe, then . . .Oh well. So be it.There has to be a way.is there?I don’t know I only know that there is a purpose. I know that no matter how old we are, there has to be a part of us that yearns for more and to be younger and stronger than the…
I must really be in the mood to bake this week because I am back with another recipe that I decided to give a whirl! Today we have some Blueberry Cornbread Cookies with honey butter buttercream and blueberry compote from Eat at Maude’s, who I stumbled upon during a nightly Instagram reels binge. View this post on Instagram I wasted no time making these. I saw them and knew I had to have them immediately, but I was lacking blueberries and cornmeal. Funny enough, I had cornmeal but it was…
Drew Taylor / The Wrap: “Conan the Barbarian” is coming to Prime Video via a new animated series from animation legend Genndy Tartakovsky and Cartoon Network Studios. Tartakovsky first pitched an animated version of the character, created by Robert E. Howard in 1932, in 2008. Various networks and streamers were interested in the project, but now it has a firm home with Prime Video. It just entered development, so it will be a while before we see anything from the series. In a pre-taped video…
We're sharing a car while the other is in the shop. An unexpected benefit is that sometimes I'll drive Casey to work and experience the city in the morning.Currently Listening: Masakatsu Takagi “Marginalia #48”Reply via email
John Gruber writes about those annoying popups every website seems to have now and while he does a great job tearing into these ubiquitous, user-hostile patterns, one of the things that stood out to me about his piece was this meta commentary on blogging. Here’s John: If you visit a website you should ... see the website. See its content. Be able to read the article whose page you are attempting to visit. Showing a “subscribe to our newsletter” or “accept our fucking cookies” dickover to…
Absolute Hawkman / Carter Hall in Absolute Superman No. 20 (August 2026) SPOILER ALERT! As a Hawkman fan, it has been very difficult to like what DC Comics is doing to the character in their Absolute Superman series. Hawkman first appeared in Absolute Evil No. 1 last year, and there is absolutely nothing to like about this character as a hero or a person. He is a murderer and a traitor, and he has become the muscle for the villains of this universe's Earth. So when this issue kicked off the way…
The name of this post comes from a swap I made with Zachary Kai, a thoughtful writer and blogger who kindly explained how his Title Traders directory works and agreed to help me try it out. (This is such a great idea, and it originated at Kami’s Corner.) As you might glean, “Tend To The Small Things” is the name of a draft post that will one day appear on Zachary Kai dot net. If Zachary’s name is familiar to you, that may be because he pops up in lots of indieweb places, including the Good…
Link: Journalism's Logical Fallacy, by Shirish KulkarniJournalism is in crisis, and it’s really easy (and lazy) to say that making a technology or process tweak will fix it: we just need to use AI to fill capacity gaps, or build stronger comments into our site, or we need a better business or distribution model.None of those things address the underlying question of why we need journalism, why it’s important, and what it should be. By addressing innovation at the edges, newsrooms are avoiding…
Dame Dorothy Tutin (1930-2001) studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and started in
Emptying the kitchen cupboard for the electricians' arrival, I found a black mug I had lost track of a long time ago. I smiled. It still looks brand new, even though it's 22 years old. Never used, always carefully kept, it has preserved its lettering in perfect "Movieland" style, a name that no longer exists today. Not the only one. The park had opened a year earlier, and the visit was a coincidence: we drove past, noticed it, and it sparked our curiosity. It was small back then, but full of…
Can you imagine kids flying out the door after school, going to a field or playground and put together a pick-game? Probably not. But I know some of you readers did this as kids. But today, it seems almost fantastical It is by now a truism that we have turned sports into a faction of […] The post Reimagining Sports first appeared on Hinesight....for Foresight.
A very crunchy, very useful supplement for D20. Like, Minions, Arms & Armor suffers from a price tag just a little too high for its content. Review Originally Published March 13th, 2002 CONTENT Arms & Armor is Bastion Press’ second D20 supplement. Like Minions, Bastion’s first offering, Arms & Armor is a 96-page soft-cover book featuring full-color printing on glossy pages. As the title would suggest, it focuses on weapons and armor: Simple, martial, exotic, magical, and more. There is also a…
In a post about possible corruption in the government and finance sector, Paul Campos points to a news article entitled, “Howard Lutnick gives top Cantor Fitzgerald jobs to his sons Brandon and Kyle,” that features an adorable photo of the three Lutnicks standing next to a fashion model. Campos labels this as, “The Meritocracy!”, and clearly he’s being ironic: his point is that it seems unlikely that these two twenty-somethings are really the people with the most merit needed to run this…
It has been a while since I have sat down and wrote a blog post that is not directly related to programming or self-hosting. If I look back to 2023 I used to write about all sorts of different topics. I was reading the post 📦 Don't put yourself in a box the other day and I realised I have been doing something similar. My website doesn't get that much traffic at around 8000 visitors a month, so it is not that I am feeling pressure for my posts to be meaningful, but I have stuck myself in a genre…
Blowing bubbles: This is an S-tier coping skill honestly. My hands are occupied. Breathing in and out has a purpose. I watch the bubbles float away and pop! Going "Louis Theroux mode": Louis' awkwardness, curiosity, and dry wit is his superpower, especially during his early days. I have this particular strain of awkward - except I talk more instead of less. To prevent myself from rambling and oversharing, I use the phrase "I'm going Louis Theroux mode"1 instead of beating myself up for not…
Long-time reader Chris P. pointed me to this informative blog post by the Energy Institute at Haas (link) that compares different ways to plot time-series data with clear seasonality. The "canonical" plot for this data set is a column chart. This chart is made by CAISO, the California Independent System Operator. The data concern the amount of energy that is "curtailed" at solar and wind power generators for each month of each year. Curtailment is a measure of "idle capacity," the amount of…
About weather records and heat wave where I live.
Three years ago, the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) started formal programming for Love Data Week with workshops and panels to highight the critical role data play in teaching, research, and careers. Penn State and the other institutions that make up the Big Ten also host an annual Data Viz Championship for students and faculty/staff. Each year, I look forward to the announcement of the theme and the friendly competition across universities. The BTAA 2027 theme announcement came early! On May…
Recreation of a Conklin Crescent Filler fountain pen. (Photo by Unattributed, Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Introduction I don't recall any point in time where I had any interest in fountain pens. I was born well after the time of the fountain pen, and there weren't any relatives in my family that had any special attachments to fountain pens. Then, there are some questions to answer: What drove my initial interest? How long have I been interested in them? Do I have some objective in collecting…
https://dominicroye.github.io/blog/spain-temperature-normals-openmeteo/ The author goes through his many choices for building the above chart, and gives the code and shows how they gathered the data for it. Thoughtful and thorough.
Life has been a little hectic lately. I've been spending most of my time finding someone to take over my apartment, packing, and getting ready for my move back to the Boston area. I'm excited to start my new job, and even more excited to be around my family again. I think I shared a little bit about my ambivalence in taking this job, but I'm generally glad that I did end up accepting it. It may not be what I want to do for the rest of my life, but it doesn't have to be. The deeper I get into…
On a gorgeous morning, it would seem incongruous to read the news about last night’s elections were it not for the incessant begging of crow fledglings up in the woods, two of them, competing to see who can sound the most pitiable.
This article is part of my ‘Big Ideas’ series, in which I help readers understand complex issues within the world of film. Today’s article includes a bonus report for paying subscribers, titled “Predicting Movie Hits” (download link at the end of the article).In the past couple of months, two films made silly amounts of money. Obsession was made for about $750,000 and has already grossed $297 million worldwide, and Backrooms earned $257 million worldwide on a $10 million budget. This is the…
I predicted what was going to happen the whole time, and I was happy to be right about most of it. Great to see Dustin Hoffman. I liked Leo Woodall, but there was this low-grade smirk on his face too much of the time. Anyway, thumbs up.
What connects cross-dressing sex workers, three embattled groups of nuns and monks, soldiers, a roller skating rink, feral cats, lucertole (lizards), a bridge of many names and the sea women of a river?This is an attempt to explore these odd but real connections.Bartolomeo Coghetto detto Medoro (1707-1793). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The author's apartment was located at the site of the building on the left, and the sex workers congregated toward the right.During the mid 1970s I…
