I’ve been ranting about the teens for a while now, so I figured it was time to share my thoughts: And by teens, I of course mean the numbers 10-19. I mean, wtf is an eleven?! And why are 13-19 pronounced in the opposite manner we’d say the rest of the double digits? The post The Case For Onety appeared first on Doc Pop's Weblog.

In the spirit of Spooky Season, we are raising the dead. 🧟 Not humans, of course, but dormant or once forgotten about web projects! 💻 In the past week or so I have breathed a much-needed breath of life into two old side quests of mine and I can’t wait ...

Welcome once again to the weekly-Wednesday-post-thing, though I’m starting this way later in the day than I wanted (busytimes at the day job), so it may become a Thursday-post-thing (edit: it did). Whenever I do share it up, it’ll include a few paragraphs on about-to-occur Boston-area shows of interest (to me, you, daves we know, […]

In this edition Objectors idedntify joint venture risks Telecommunications Development Levy figures Phone booths set to go One NZ-2degrees joint venture faces oppositionFive submissions opposing the proposed One NZ-2degrees Radio Access Network (RANCo) joint venture argue that combining active mobile radio infrastructure risks reversing hard-won telecommunications reforms and harming consumers.The opponents range from overseas-based competition economists to local regulatory pioneers and…

it feels like my body is black hole covered in skin. i wish i knew physics better to draw up a better metaphor than a banal "black hole", but that's what comes up. it's like this darkness that sucks in light and everything good. impulsively, bad things appear in my mind whenever anyone says or does anything. it's like people are trying to play tennis with me, and i'm supposed to hit the ball back, but instead, it drowns in me. there is a lack of a desire to do anything, which includes reading,…

I’d been to Glacier in 2003 and zipped through the park because I was short on time. It still stuck with me as one of the most beautiful places. I remember passing these Red Buses thinking how neat it’d be to be a passenger. Pretty darn grateful that it eventually happened, and it was indeed neat. When the Red Bus arrived this morning, the rolled canvas top was closed. I figured it was so chilly we’d forgo an open-air adventure on this day. But the top got rolled back at our first stop on the…

A sentimental backstory# Somewhere around the end of 2012 — after I have been working for a good couple of years in the tech industry — I have noticed something I didn’t expect. Despite having a good salary, I wasn’t saving that much. At that time, I was just planning to rent my first apartment and leave my parents home. If I wanted to pull it off without getting into debt, I had to do that one thing — start to track my finances. As any sane person, I started with the ultimate personal finance…

There’s a secret, a beautiful secret, hidden behind the lips of most of us who write about music: our ears are magnets for fingerprints. We rarely notice them until a sound has already gone, leaving something of itself behind. In the music of PIANIKA, a New Zealand electronic producer, such elusive contact becomes a compositional principle. Acoustic sounds retain traces of their origins within electronic arrangements, where the organic and synthetic enter into an unusually sympathetic…

For those of you who chart the weather by my watch band: I switched from nylon to leather today so now it is cold

Seen at the corner of Polk and Broadway the other afternoon: No further comment necessary.

To improve my sleep, I ran an experiment before going to bed. It was from one of Bryan Johnson’s videos where I learn to reduce my heart rate before sleeping. That’s why I did for a week. I measured my heart rate every 30 minutes: After some breaths to find my baseline. Then after some relaxing activities, like journaling, meditation, and reading. Guess which one lowered my heart rate the most? Reading a book. I read fiction in my native language, to be precise. There’s a reason why that I…

Ton writes, in The PHP Interruption:This site, and my other ones, and my business ones (including our NextCloud), were offline as precaution since yesterday afternoon. I was at LegoWorld in Utrecht with E and Y, when I realised what was going on, and left for home to take my stuff down.The “precaution” was a notice from the maintainers of PHP, the programming language that powers this Drupal website, and much of the web, that there was going to be a critical security release of the language at…

I posted this to my statewide librarian mailing list yesterday and I figured I’d share it out here now that my website is back up. Thank you, ibiblio, you are a great web host. I usually don’t give any unsolicited tech advice but I wanted to share some information about the two issues that, separately, each pose some security risks and are worth attending to. 1. “The PHP thing” This is a good explanation in the vulnerability which was discovered in PHP yesterday. PHP is a programming language…

One PHP Apocalypse later, here’s OpenZFS Mastery on NVMe. The slowest, most complicated, and most error-prone part of an SSD is the Flash Translation Layer. Pretending to be as stupid as a 1980s spinning disk is hard labor. Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) uses very similar hardware but drops this clumsy pretense, instead offering an interface designed for fast flash memory. NVMe itself is a physical interface specification like SATA or SCSI/SAS, but designed for extremely fast access. Where…

I doom scroll and document the clusterfuck to help me focus my nourishing fury through futile action but understand those who reasonably don't doom scroll don't want to and won't click the links in my grids, I said to a friend who tells me he no longer can. My daughter can't, won't, my wife, who concedes that while I'm angry I'm not mad, can't, won't. I have a another friend who can't, won't, who tells me she just wants the midterms to be over, thinks a resounding repudiation of Trump and…

I think I have!It's been quite a challenge because each of the song has a very different mood. Today I even sang one for about the fifth time. I spent ages getting things in time and listening out for 'holes' in the sound.I will have to have another couple of listens, but it really is finished. Now what shall I do?

Here’s a little sideproject I’ve been spending my tokens on: https://gtajs.wtf/ It’s a reimplementation of the 1997 Grand Theft Auto engine in JavaScript and WebGL. The project is not entirely finished, but since I am leaving on vacation right now (I am currently at the airport), I might as well just publish what I have — and it’s already quite a lot I think 😀 Note that because this is a reimplementation (it’s not a DOSBox wrapper / emulator / decompiled version / …) there are differences…

Bummer of a news. Even thought Mass Effect: Andromeda wasn’t the best, usually that would only mean that the team would’ve been motivated to succeed with Mass Effect 5. Will fondly remember you - Mass Effect series.

I've always trusted preschoolers to make their own rules, or rather agreements, for the classroom. If you're interested in how this happens, here's a link.I like this ongoing process of making agreements through consensus for many reasons, but not because it necessarily 'works' better than the typical method of adults imposing and enforcing rules. Just as our adult rules and laws are no guarantee that everyone obeys them all the time, our agreements are likewise no guarantee that everyone will…

I’ve never read the comic from which 30 Days of Night is adapted, but I could still tell pretty quickly that the movie is a strong adaptation. Especially during the first half, so much of it feels like a comic. Not in the same sense that Darkman feels like a comic book, but in the way that “mature” comics from Dark Horse or Vertigo tell their stories. (The comic was published by IDW, but Dark Horse Entertainment was one of the production companies for the movie, and it’s more about vibe than…

Neither an ancient tablet nor Cicero is responsible for the quote Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. It is funny though. I can see why people like it. It's true that people have always been very "young people nowadays!" That society is in decline, the world is ending. Times are bad. Why a book though? Why do books draw particular ire? Is it really on the same level of moral degradation as children disobeying their parents? Why not write a book?…

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I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. — Office Space I was watching a video where a guy said he has 8 agents working in the background. He was stressed out and was trying to "get shit done." At one point he said "I have no time to myself." That was very confusing. Let's assume for a second that the AI agents were doing all the work for him. Maybe it was some tedious work that would have taken him so much time to do manually. Now, he doesn't have…

How I spiraled into a new summer hobby

Well, the Flamin’ Hot thing has touched the ramen world now. Very curious how flamin’ hot it’s gonna be? Let’s cook it up and I’ll let you know. Maruchan Instant Lunch Flamin’ Hot Chicken Flavor Ramen Noodle Soup – United States Detail of the packaging (click to enlarge). Contains chicken. To prepare, fill to line with boiling water. Cover 3 minutes. Finally, stir and enjoy! The cup! Detail of the lid (click to enlarge). An instant noodle block. Loose bits and seasoning from the cup. Finished…

When Apple introduced the iPhone Duo in September I called it “the ultimate wait and see device.” Folks have waited, and now some folks have seen, fondled, written and talked about it. Those who got lucky in the preorder lottery will see iPhone Duos tomorrow and quite a few will be waiting a bit longer given supply and demand issues. From most accounts I’d say there’s still a bit of waiting and seeing to come. Generally reviewers were excited by the new device. Even if their comments about…

I enjoy the etymology of technology words. Understanding it can be a handle into using the tool well. One example: sudo. sudo comes from “Superuser do”, allowing you to run a program with the security privileges of another user, usually the root superuser. Here’s an example from a terminal near you: $ <dangerous-command> dangerous-command: NOT super-user $ sudo <dangerous-command> Doing a dangerous thing... This is why programmers say “su DO” (pronouncing “do” like “do”) rather than the softer…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Sometimes, coincidences are too great to seem like coincidences.A perfect example of that occurred this week in 1976 when the Mississippi River ferry MV George Prince was struck by another ship, causing the deaths of 78 people.At that very moment, Number One on the UK singles chart was the song Mississippi by Pussycat.Fortunately, no such tragic synchronicity was to be found on the…