My world was spinning in 2008. After finishing school in Boston and going on a cross-country road trip with my friends Chris and Ty, I moved to a dusty suburb to live with my brand new wife in my brand new life. Yes, we got married young, we got married quick, and after living on opposite sides of the border we were finally moving in to get busy living. So I slapped on a crisp, fresh shirt and started a new office job while trying to settle into a brand new town where I didn’t know anyone. My…

I feel pressured when I write about 5-Minute One Piece, because I feel reading my post should not take more than 2 minutes. This is a real-time game that is played in 5-minutes when you have four players. With a different player count, the time limit is adjusted. Your goal is to defeat all enemies in the enemy deck before time runs out. Every player picks a

1979 was the year I got into buying and studying fanzines. That had a lot to do with Maximum Speed, the main mod publication, which that year was particularly high-profile and prolific. I recall a time when I should have been studying for my Mock O Levels but was sat reading Issue No. 9 of Maximum Speed instead. My copy is long-gone but one thing that stayed with me from that fanzine was a piece about a new group whose reference points were the Velvets and Television. For all sorts of reasons,…

obliterated tired quietly fulfilled thinking strategically and poetically That isn't meant to be a poem. They're just words. It's all just words. Words are like long balloons. Sometimes I twist them into a Kenny shape. Other times I twist them into letters I schedule-send to my partner in the middle of the night. Today I am using them to remind myself —— and the rest of you, incidentally —— that this stalled and largely stupid moment in history, the one turned the internet from a library into a…

Read: Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson ★★★★ 📚 Great fun as the author plays with the conventions of the country house mystery. The characters in the big house are particularly awful and often laugh out loud funny.

Painting lozenge pattern disruptive fabric in 1:144 scale isn't actually all that difficult. The trickiest part is getting the size and spacing of the first colour of the array right; once that's sorted, the rest of the painting is just a question of putting blobs of the appropriate colour in relation to blobs that are already there.I've 3d printed this airbrush stencil I made of the gold lozenges in the array (I use Vallejo Middlestone for this). I built it in Blender using an SVG I made in…

So, a bunch of my services run, or rather, ran, on an old Intel NUC 8 that I bought back in 2020 and have mostly used as a “random stuff goes here” server. A year and a half ago the fan on it died, so I bought a cheap replacement fan on Amazon and all was good. And over time I started hosting more and more stuff on it, such as my owncast and PeerTube instances, and a few things for my home media streaming setup (which are also now accessible while traveling).This morning while preparing for a…

So, catching up on some published volumes that I haven’t discussed yet in much detail… #139 – The Center for Social Presence #140 – The Eleventh Watch The Center for Social Presence arose out of a collision between a few different things, one of which was attending my first Quaker meeting (one of the attributes of which is sitting in expectant silence for a period of time as a group), and then thinking about what if there were like a mega-church that was all run by AI, but what if they had no…

Muddy roads changed our plans, but a little map reading led to a memorable overnight among water-filled potholes and canyon rim views close to home. Read More ... Continue reading Potholes and canyon rims at PMags.com.

A dog is a dog. It's exactly as dangerous as any other dog of a comparable size with comparable training and socialization. When a dog attacks a human being, it's because that dog is untrained and unsocialized at best, or at worst has been abused until it either sees humans as threats or believes aggression will please its owner. Not because that dog is the Designated Evil Kind Of Dog (which, if you're too young to remember, used to be Dobermans or Rottweilers or German Shepherds depending on…

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Put your mothballs and steel wool away. They don't deter mice, no matter what you've read on the Internet. Here I lay out what you really need to do to keep mice out of your house and how to get rid of them if they're already in there. I speak from experience. They've always arrived...Read More

A couple of weeks ago, some crackhead threw a bottle at one of our second floor windows. We have no idea who this assclown is. Does he have some kind of grudge against us? Against that window in particular? Who knows. Long time readers may recall that those Above DNA windows are crazy complicated. On the outside are the original warehouse panes (which might, for all I know, date back to 1920) and directly inside those is a sheet of double-paned ¼" laminated glass. Then there's an air gap, then…

There were 32 different kinds of apples for sale at Volante Farms in Needham last weekend, roughly tracking the 30 varieties listed on their dedicated apple web page. ¶ (They were out of Cosmic Crisp, at least temporarily.)

A Familiar Design, a Different Kind of DuoWhen I finished reviewing the Retroid Pocket Duo Lite, I found myself in a slightly unusual position. There were plenty of things about it that I could criticize, and its modest hardware certainly made some of the things I wanted to do more difficult than they needed to be, but I still really liked the little thing. Retroid has always had a knack for making handhelds that feel like toys in the very best sense of the word, and the Duo Lite was no…

The Internet is having a bad few days. One of the many recent security issues is a compromised certificate authority that -- get this -- used "4" as one of its keys. Some browsers including Firefox have applied mitigations, so I updated Firefox. It came back pink and full of rounded corners and visual crap. That was unexpected. I was able to fix the pink sprawl by installing a theme in the appearance settings, but even though the preview image showed square tabs, they were still oval. An oval…

Lawrence Abrams, Bleeping Computer: In an advisory published Tuesday, the PHP development team announced that it plans to release security updates on Wednesday, October 21, at 14:00 UTC (10:00 AM Eastern), to address two vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0. The PHP security team also sent a notice to its ANNOUNCE mailing list, urging administrators to prepare to install the security updates as soon as they become available. Word on the street is that these exploits have leaked, and…

Times Square Glow – New York, New York I made dedicated solo visits to Times Square and even blogged about it at the end of August. Those photos were in black and white, shot with the Leica M Monochrom. Today’s is a bit different, not only because it’s in color, but also because of the way I made the picture. My wife and I were experiencing some of the Times Square magic at night after our Broadway show. Times Square can be exciting in the daytime too, but I think it comes alive at night with…

This is the written version of my talk at the TypeScript Meetup Munich. Last year I gave an AI talk at the same meetup. Since then the models and tools got a lot better. So the question I wanted to answer was simple: how much better did our workflow get? My answer comes from studying one plugin, pstack. You don’t have to adopt it. But it shows what a reliable agent workflow needs, and you can copy the most valuable part into your own project today. The perfect AI coding workflow Meet Carl. Carl…

It's Dancing with the Stars 35's Dedication Week, and for Marshal Knight, that means "we all have to buck up and allow these performances to be used as a therapeutic outlet for the celebrities." But there were some standouts!

Robbie and I chin wag and sip on a tasty dram with Denver Cramer; industrial designer, distiller, photographer, and creator of Denver and Liely glassware. Dude, Denver is coo. Watch the full episode on YouTube whiskey.fm · spotify · apple The dram # We enjoyed a sweet n' peaty Starward single malt finished in a Lagavulin cask 😍 Red wine barrels, Melbourne's four-seasons-in-a-day climate, and grassiness fading into sweetness. Plus we dig tons into other whiskeys, like why Octomore 8.3 is the…

around about and therapy this week and turned out this time: the problem is that i am myself again other things said well, Yesterday :: Tuesday, 20th October 2026

Why I Decided to Upgrade My C10 Cooling System Last summer, while driving my truck to car meets, I noticed it was getting fairly warm when we were moving very... The post Budget C10 Electric Fan Conversion: A DIY Upgrade first appeared on Anthony the Tinkering Explorer.

The landing page for the Rubenerd Show hadn’t been updated since 2015. We were still using iTunes back in those days. Whoops. I’ve updated this with a link to the Overnightscape Underground, as well as BSD Now which I now co-host with a small team of brilliant people who entertain my ramblings every couple of weeks. I’ve also updated the landing page with the following clients: AntennaPod Apple Podcasts Castbox Castrow Podcast Addict Pocket Casts Overcast Let me know if you use a client that…

There are really only three contenders for the most popular spreadsheet software: VisiCalc, the first computer spreadsheet and a system-seller for some home computers in the late 1970s, Lotus 1-2-3 dominating early PCs in the 1980s, and then Microsoft Excel (preceded very briefly by Multiplan). Excel dominated the market since the 1990s – so long it’s easy to assume it has always been there, but even hiding within Excel are some quirks of its predecessors. One of them is documented in an…

No one has ever asked me what I’ve learned making a blog entry a day for a year. And I hate that this dangerously flies very close to a LinkedIn-style post, but it’s what I’ve got to say today, which is… It’s much easier for me to get my point across when I know that every day, I’ve got to say a little something interesting or tell an interesting story about something generally connected to music, usually, but not always, because there’s no rules. There is one rule. Don’t sound like LinkedIn.…

A spooky one for the spooky season, Through Familiar Eyes is in pre-launch over on Backerkit. It's a kind of fairytale horror piece, self-contained with pregens with their own tiny tiny system. It's a number of things that might be of interest.The tiny tiny system will be the first public appearance of Applesauce, the house RPG system I've been running for the past couple of years now, finally ready for curtain call. It's a hundred words long, so it's the kind of chonky crunchfest you probably…

Ugly (UK) “In Samphedoo” Ugly (UK) are very polished, precise, and mannered in ways that don’t often overlap, which means they often sound sorta like modern musical theater crafted by people obsessed with American Football and Radiohead’s In Rainbows. The results are intriguing – moments that feel achingly sincere coming in songs that also seem prickly and evasive, lyrics that resist narrative yet hit the ear like a sung-through show. They’re at their best when the contradiction is essential to…

Joel David Hamkins and Atticus Stonestrom, “The pattern of consistency strength for membership in a computably enumerable set,” preprint. arxiv:2610.24919. Abstract. Every computable preorder relation on the natural numbers is the order of consistency strength for the membership assertions “$n\in … Continue reading →

Remember that death is the best form of reinforcement learning. A scenario where mutable rogue software exists, and 99.9% of it is successfully caught, is one where we’re guaranteed to get highly capable, persistent software pests in short order. These pests will learn to evade whatever controls we or our AI masters try to impose on them. And it’s not clear that AI, even assuming superhuman coding ability, will be smart enough to defeat them. FROM: Idle Words Cloud Rats and Software Roaches…