By Dinko "Salty Nick" Galeti?Salty Nick's TavernGeneric/Universal/D&DLevels 5-6 Strange phenomena plague the land: saltwater rain, shared dreams of a tide covering the land, shallow puddles reflecting deep, strange oceans. Some people have even fallen into puddles and disappeared entirely. The epicenter of the phenomena has been traced to the mausoleum of an eccentric who believed the whole land was once under the sea. Whether to stop this, explore it, or just to loot the tomb, the players have…
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A big piece of technology that redefined the world has issues attached to it. Huh? No, I’m not talking about AI crap, but good god am I waiting for something beautiful to happen. No, in this fictional world, everyone has BitPhones, an advanced technology that people integrated in themselves. Unfortunately, there are hackers going around causing people to act out of sorts. Wow, intrusive technology opening the way for people to do fucked up things, never could have expected that. While the world…
Chinese local congresses rarely reject the projects their governments put before them. On February 4, 2026, one did. At the fifth session of the Huangyan District People’s Congress, in Taizhou, Zhejiang (台州黄岩区), 267 representatives voted on sixteen proposed investment projects. Two were rejected on the spot, each budgeted at more than a billion yuan: a sports complex and a water-control project. The representatives also voted to add a national highway that the government had not put on the…
My cousins had two games that never stayed on the shelf for long. One was Hungry Hungry Hippos, which everyone has heard of. The other was Mr. Mouth, which people remember less, if they remember it at all. We would rotate between them on the floor of their basement, and the noise level was about the same no matter which one we picked. We all played to win. The version of Mr. Mouth we played was the yellow head version, not the frog that came later. I didn’t think about it then, but both games…
Fitness wearable company Whoop announced a major software update Tuesday that will finally allow users to learn the time while preserving Whoop’s core commitment to not making a watch.“We know our users want to check the time,” said Whoop Head of Product Ty Ming. “But we also know that they have chosen a product whose entire brand identity depends on not helping them do that.”The new Whoop 5.0 will feature a tiny, high-fidelity speaker that tells users the time out loud whenever its onboard AI…
In this week’s issue of The Savvy Diabetic: Medicare Advantage plans denied prior authorizations at high rates Nurse Educator Shortage Threatens the Future of the Workforce Why exercise snacks are good for health American Diabetes Association Consumer Guide Abracadabra: Why Insulin Sparks Awe and Wonder Comedy, Character, & Crop Tops: An Interview with Gina Pillina News from T1Dto100 Webinar: Let’s Talk T1D & Mental Health with Jenna Eisenberg, Tuesday, 30 June 2026 Interview – Diabetes in My…
The oldest religious building in New York, the Friends Meeting House in Flushing, was originally constructed in 1694, and greatly expanded by 1719. So even the big alteration was some sixty years before the American Revolution. It is a fairly simply wood-frame building and both physically and in its current use would be recognizable to the early-1700s congregants, although I assume the electric lights would surprise them. While we’ve never worked on the building, it makes up a surprisingly…
Someday real soon, most of us — starting with young adults — will carry an always-on AI. This agent will help us navigate our journeys, answer our questions, tutor and teach us new skills, remember people we have met before, remind us of what we once knew before, offer advice and recommendations, do simple errands, and remember everything we say and do. Before long, it will know us better than we know ourselves. It will be our exoself. While we will use more than one agent, we’ll primarily…
Bill Buxton’s “long nose of innovation” is the standard antidote to breakthrough mythology. A technology that seems to arrive overnight has almost always been gestating, quietly and invisibly, for decades — a long flat nose — before it reaches the steep cliff of adoption that everyone mistakes for the invention. The mouse took roughly thirty years from research curiosity to ubiquity. The rule of thumb that follows is sobering: anything with real impact in the next decade is already at least a…
It’s true at work as much as it is at home – model the behavior you want to see more of, fight for what you believe in, and hope for the best. ✊
Entropy Arbitrage Newsletter Mini-Server, Part 26 Entropy Arbitrage Scrawls Library Updates Next Again lacking a real holiday, today marks the 413rd anniversary of the fire that destroyed the original Globe Theatre. About a year later, the replacement on the same site opened its doors, which the 1997 reconstruction down the road mimics. And with that, on to the week’s projects. Entropy Arbitrage Newsletter For those of you interested in such things, I’ll have the June issue of the Entropy…
This is a blog about RPGs, but I want to talk about something else and I have no other platform for long-form content. If you’re looking for an RPG article, skip this post. Check out the root ring, it has a vast bounty of great RPG blog posts. This is going to be a blog post about a piece of visual media. It might be more entertaining in the form of a long-form video essay, but to my surprise nobody has made that essay, so I’ll try to talk it about it in my way. This is a blog post about that…
The vibeThis week still felt heavy in a lot of ways. I was not really feeling like myself for part of it, and the stress and anxiety from everything going on has definitely been hanging around. At the same time, I kept trying to move things forward where I could: writing, site cleanup, the how-to series, and a few small quality-of-life fixes around the site.Sometimes that is what a week looks like. Not amazing. Not terrible. Just trying to keep going.Highlights🧠 I shared a little on Mastodon…
I hope most of you read my last post “My Association with the Gambino Crime Family”.[1] When I grew up in Brooklyn, my brother’s best friend until they were ten years old was Dominick Montiglio whom we recently found grew up to be a hitman for the Gambino crime family. We were shocked that such an apparently normal child became so corrupted. The post tried to briefly explain the reasons why. In this post I wish to expound on one of those reasons that I didn’t have time to elaborately discuss…
We watch websites for a living at Oh Dear , so I figured I knew roughly how often things break. The data set me straight on which outages are worth worrying about.
Last night was the first one since the surgery that I slept through the night. I didn't wake up until 0750. It felt wonderful waking up refreshed and not tired and wanting to roll over and go back to sleep. Posted the blog a little after 0800 which is a wee bit late for me. I think the blog posting may be erratic until I am mended and feeling 100%.I am feeling better. The cough is up and down - some days I cough a lot and others I don't. The burning sensation from coughing is almost all gone.…
Book Review – June 2026 To paraphrase Rod Stewart, Wrexham is in my heart, it’s in my soul, it’s my best friend. It shaped me and continues to be a dominant influence in my life – despite the fact that my current house is actually on the border of Flintshire and Cheshire. Wrexham is where I live, if we take ‘living’, as the council did during the City of Culture bid, to mean wherever you ‘work, rest and play’. The ‘Real’ series is a collection of books by the Welsh independent publisher, Seren.…
A week ago, I was thinking about how I might be feeling in one week, when I was back from travel, back from my first time at a TEEM intensive. I am feeling the way I hoped I would be feeling. I am feeling relieved and hopeful--and not too exhausted.A week ago, I was getting ready to pack. One of the benefits of driving is that I can overpack. I ended up with three extra tops and sweaters/overshirts, which was fine with me. I decided not to bring long pants or skirts; I assumed we'd be in a…
Let’s just say, I’ve been quite productive as of late … as I’ve been reviewing yet another keyboard. Since my last review of the Epomaker TH99 Pro, Epomaker have been generous enough to offer me another review opportunity, this time addressing one of my qualms about the TH99 Pro – its weight. For productive people that travel about, we often compromise on keyboard comfort when we’re not at home. Mushy membranes seem to be the only thing on offer normally, as a mechanical keyboard is physically…
A Downtown McKinney, Texas, water tower in the process of being repainted. The post Tiara appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Do you remember what a "normal" software team looked like?A product manager, an engineering manager, a designer, and six or seven engineers. Weekly planning meetings, a backlog to groom, a sprint to run. For most of the last decade, that was just... how teams worked. It was the water we all swam in.That was my daily life as an software engineer and then an engineering manager for most of my career. That shape was so familiar it felt like a law of nature rather than a design choice.I recently…
For almost ten years now, we’ve sworn by Mariage Frères when it comes to shopping for high quality loose tea leaves. The nearest shop, however, is in Lille, which is almost three hours away. Their webshop is crude and doesn’t allow for a taste session before buying hence we did buy our fair amount of misses. Yet we remained faithful: the few times that we diverged from the brand ended up in a disappointment. And then I saw someone claiming that London-based Postcard Teas is “even better than…
Today’s TDC is to design a pencil: Design and draw your own pencil. It doesn’t have to be a standard No. 2 or anything like that. Give it a unique exterior design or give it 3 contact points. You decide! Here’s mine – a six pointed pencil so I can draw from 6 directions at once. Hexapencil flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license
[1992]Back to the good ole days when I was twenty. Me and my mate Tony would stay up late, drink and smoke, listening to all the new and groovy sounds on cd. I'd totally forgotten the epic grunge-gaze and kaleidoscopic ambient sax haze of Never That Feeling/Never Learn. What a jam. Glorious.[1993]Unbelievably this tune, one of their greatest, was exclusively tucked away on the import only US version of The Last Train To Satansville cd EP.Cars Converge On Paris might be Swervedriver's most…
🗓️ 22 to 28 juneThe weeknotes are back! I was sitting down to edit my now page, looked for my notes for it, and found some old weeknotes instead. I realised I missed some parts of it, so here we go again :Dfavourite thing this weekSuch a great talk with my ergo therapist. She was so kind and showed me a great new tool to make my life even better!writingNot much writing due to the heatwave. I did write some blog posts I'm really happy with!blogging on the 22nd I wrote about taking the blogging…
TOFI not Tofu (the food). Read first about it in The Diabetes Code BMI is not a good predictor of T2 diabetes. A waist circumference is a better indicator. Visceral fat accumulates inside and around the intra-abdominal organs - like kidney, liver, etc. In contrast subcutaneous fat is fat deposited under the skin. Waist to heigh ratio should be less than half. So, for me waist should be under 89cms or 35 inches.
Have you ever walked out of a 1:1 and realised you can't quite remember what you agreed on last time? Or spent five minutes before a catch-up scrolling through Slack threads, trying to piece together a conversation from three weeks ago?I've been there more times than I'd like to admit. That's exactly why I built Meeting Notes - a lightweight, local-first desktop app for keeping organised notes with the people you work with.Why I built itMost of us are using the wrong tool for this. Notion is…
In my RSS reader, I stumbled upon this code-golfed (i.e. minimised to death) snippet that's fairly clever, but from the code, utterly opaque. I couldn't immediately see how it worked, and since Copilot autocompletes most of my code for me - whether I want to or not, I figured it was a good bit of practice to decompress and understand. First things first: snooze the little copilot bastard for an hour! Side note: because I got this post through my reader, I didn't happen to clock the link right…
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