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Holy shit, I didn’t know what I was missing out on. The other day I was setting up a new home-server for a friend, they’re technical, but I don’t think they will tinker too much with the media stack I got them started on. Before I started setting up the server, I knew I wanted to use Docker to run stuff, simply because it’s simple and convenient. But I wanted to see if there were any better alternatives to what I was already using, Dokploy. I found Dockge and Komodo. Both look minimalistic,…

I'm writing this blog post on the same day as the eMudhra Intermediate CA compromises news was published so the memory of what was required from me and unfortunately volunteer maintainers today is still fresh and top-of-mind. Fixing the systemic issues that many open source projects faced today takes longer than a day of hurriedly patching everything and publishing advisories, so I'm leaving these as notes for future us. I'm only writing from the perspective of the Python ecosystem, although I…

What’s going on, Internet? Just got back from seeing Hilary Duff at the Spark Arena (on a Tuesday night, whooo). Great show. I wish I knew her music more as I would have loved to be belting out the lyrics with the rest of the crowd. Definite millenial energy in the crowd. Loved it. Hey, thanks for reading this post in your feed reader! Want to chat? Reply by email or add me on XMPP, or send a webmention. Check out the posts archive on the website.

I have been dying (ha) to write this post, and definitely meant to do it sooner considering I first saw the newest and greatest Resident Evil (2026) in theaters the 25th of September. But, better late than never, as they say. If you don’t feel like reading this whole post, I’ll just come right out and say that you should absolutely go see this movie ASAP and definitely catch it on the big screen if you can! Whether you’ve never seen a Resident Evil movie before, hate all of the ones you’ve…

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Bradley Sides’s novella The Volcano Keeper is a moving fable of family and love. The Southern review of Books wrote of the book: “Beyond clear-eyed descriptions of the world Charlie…

Atelier Dallas, Museum Tower and 1900 Pearl rise into the sky over the Dallas Arts District. The post Three Dallas Towers appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

A post on Bluesky got me thinking about the origin of the word “oyster”, which I shall bore you with shortly, but the post asks an interesting question about the well-known phrase “The World’s Mine Oyster”. This comes from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and is spoken to Falstaff by Pistol, a swaggering soldier, in the line: Why, then the world’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. The meaning it has there is that Pistol thinks he can get whatever he wants by force of arms. In…

For the fourth year in a row, the foursome of Luke, Nick, Walsh and I hit the road for a Vikings road game. After successful trips to Las Vegas, Nashville and Detroit where the Vikings won all three games, we put our heads together and landed on New Orleans for 2026. Of all the possible […]

We continue to enjoy fantastic weather, it’s hard to believe Halloween is only a week away. Some of the leaves have turned but there is more color to come.

I was doing follow-up research for a previous blog post about JSON-LD when I made a typo whilst searching for a specific entity. As well as a normal search, Google also lets you search for entities by "Knowledge Graph Machine ID" - or kgmid for short. For example: the kgmid for Ethan Hawksley is /g/11m62cgdtf, and the kgmid for a cheese sandwich is /m/0520n6f. In my search, the kgmid was invalid and didn't correlate to any specific entity. However, instead of a "No results found" page, I was…

Described in simple terms, Wicker sounds preposterous. A fisherwoman in a Medieval village falls in love with a man made of wicker created by the village basket weaver. Though made of wicker, this lover has a human-like physical presence. He’s even able to make bed-breaking love — vigorous enough to raise village eyebrows. Yes, it’s silly, but Olivia Colman, as the Fisher Woman who’s a bit of a village pariah, and Alexander Skarsgard, in an impressive wicker costume, make the situation real…

I’m good at putting things into Todoist, but I’m awful at actually looking at Todoist. Sure, it’s right there in my Dock, and sure, there’s notifications via my phone and in my email, but then I discovered split tabs in the Brave browser. Again, sure, I could just load Todoist in its own tab, but again, then I’d have to actually click on it to view it. But my email inbox? Oh, I am in there often. Which now means that as often as I’m in my email throughout the day, well, I am in Todoist. It’s…

For this week’s post, I visited Maastricht. Although the calendar clearly said October and autumn, the temperature reached 24 degrees that day, with an abundance of sunshine. No wonder Maastricht looked at its best. It was a joy to see …

I can still remember a few years ago when people were claiming the cost of SSDs were going down so fast, that they could reach parity with spinning rust “within a few years”. This may end up proving true, if only because the cost of both classes of storage have been going up! For the servers I maintain for us and our broader family, I’ve had a policy of “downgrading” drives older than six years for non-critical data, and ten years for complete removal. The prices on drives at the moment have…

This is a 1:144 scale Aviatik C1, a German reconnaissance aeroplane of the early part of WW1.Like its British contemporary, the BE2c, the observer sat in the front cockpit, giving him a severely restricted range of fire with his machine-gun. Unlike the British, however, the observer in German aircraft was usually the senior officer and the commander of the plane.The overall grey-green paint is speculative, but reasonable I think for the 1915 period. It was a standard military colour for German…

“I’ve Got a Kid in New York” As usual, my wife does a far better job of telling people what we’re up to than I do.

Took a stormy but scenic route up from Helena and stopped in Bigfork, Montana for lunch. We were told in so many words to have bear spray on hand if planning any hikes up in Glacier. We lamented the cost of bear spray and the person behind the counter said there was a shack along the way with free supplies. And that’s how we found The Sharing Shack (3130 Hwy 206 – Columbia Falls, MT) — It was chock full of camping supplies, food, water, and yes, bear spray. The Sharing Shack A sign inside gave…

Statins: Established, Effective, Cheap, and SafeStatins are a class of drug that lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (the bad kind) by reducing the amount of cholesterol that the liver makes and increasing the rate at which the liver removes LDL from the bloodstream. (LDL content is primarily a function of genetics and dietary saturated fat content, which is unfortunate because we evolved to greatly enjoy foods high in saturated fat, such as butter, full-fat dairy, and red…

This is so good! Little Simz and Michael Kiwanuka, with Ms Maurice on trumpet! ,

Regular readers of this blog may both recall that while I rate Anne-Marie Duff as an actress, as far as her taste in plays goes it's fair to say we don't see eye to eye: Based on most of the shows I've seen her in I suspect she's the sort of person to cite the word "harrowing" as the main, if not only, qualifier of a play's greatness. So I approached Helen Edmundson's Some Woman with my usual trepidation, as Duff plays Julie, a mother of two who, after her divorce from Richard (Geoffrey…

IntroMission ControlTouch Some Forest PleaseSong of the WeekReading LogOutro Intro I’m in my “Embrace the #1000mphClub life” phase these days. Focusing on my work and the things I want to create is the most reasonable option these days. I was already cutting down my social media time and now that NBA season is starting this week, I can replace the most of the time wasted on those platforms with some quality basketball. In other news, someone gave Deepseek 4.1 a Bluesky account and it decided to…

Are you using the most useful and privacy rich browser?I have been using Vivaldi (which TBH I have been quite happy with). After watching this video, I am now taking Brave out for a spin…. Take home: Recommended browsers in order of privacy+utility: Brave Librewolf Zen | Firefox Vivaldi.

A few days ago I stumbled on a gemini capsule whose author discussed the numerous technical limitations of the Collapse OS endeavour. Indeed I went to collapseos.org to get a first hand account of what it is about. The premise is that given a not to big, nor too small, collapse of the electronics supply chain before 2030, the project may help communities keeping a leading advantage on others in the field of electronics. Given the provided terms of the problem, the rationale for the project is…

Aha. Today I see — just in time for Halloween — that Amazon has knocked an eldritch 13% off the $40 retail on Arkham House Ephemera: The Classic Years. Or, as I call it, Eph Book. Published on Halloween night in 2024. For reasons I’ll never understand the last two or three weeks Amazon has been toying with the price. First it was something like 4 cents off (yes, 4 cents). Then another cent scraped off now and then until finally they went down to $39.50 or so. Water torture stuff. But now at…

The 27-28 Role Reversal refers to a transitional period between 2027 and 2028 during which a role reversal occurred between computers and humans in terms of drive and control. While historically, humans have programmed computers to execute computations and actions on their behalf, this period saw a shift where humans became increasingly passive and dependent on their AI assistants, culminating in a state where most humans are considered programmable by their “assistants”, and need to be done so…

The 27-28 Role Reversal refers to a transitional period between 2027 and 2028 during which a role reversal occurred between computers and humans in terms of drive and control. While historically, humans have programmed computers to execute computations and actions on their behalf, this period saw a shift where humans became increasingly passive and dependent on their AI assistants, culminating in a state where most humans are considered programmable by their “assistants”, and need to be done so…