I think over the next few months we are going to start seeing a massive wave of new software releases. It's been a good number of months now that AI agents have been of a high enough quality that many software developers are using them extensively. While so far we have mostly seen vibe coded, interesting, but nevertheless hobby projects, what we are going to start seeing is devs who have been working on much larger projects start to release things. I'm talking about software projects that would…

Today I typed node -e <string> to see what happened. Answer: it evaluated my string argument.

Detail of lifting mechanisms of the Junction Bridge—a retired railroad lift bridge converted to a park that spans the Arkansas River near Downtown Little Rock, Arkansas. The post Mechanicals appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

I have, finally, started playing part 3, so now I feel like I can write a post about my brainrot so far. By the way I always love seeing timeskip character designs get updated LOL. Unserious brainrot that has nothing to do with the gameplay or story and everything to do with what I’m enjoying. Fabio: a freak that i loveI started with Dietrich’s route - I really ended up liking that choice since he’s a foreigner character so we were discovering Dagda at the same time (but I also had to replay…

Corpus Parisinum 342 (tr. Denis Searby): New wine, new friend. When it grows old, you shall drink it with pleasure. Οἶνος νέος φίλος νέος· ἐὰν δὲ παλαιωθῇ, µετ' εὐφροσύνης πίεσαι αὐτόν. Related post: Proverbs on the Preference for Old Things.

Around the workshop The Wonder of the Word templates – I worked on the episode template for the three different podcasts that will be part of this initiative. I had worked on the template early on and went back last week to make updates based on the direction that the other templates had taken me. Most of the work was modifying HTML, refactoring CSS, and adding in dynamic elements into the templates. I also added new images. Wonder of the Word Hub – I am starting to get feedback from our…

At the end of eight grade, my mom had a painting I did in Mrs. Schmidt’s art class framed. “I love this painting so much,” she said as I held it out in shame before me. The only problem was I didn’t paint it. Nor did I have the courage to tell my mom the truth. I had no idea how long this one little white lie, meant to cover my tracks from a single missed assignment, would follow me throughout my life: from my teens to my twenties, thirties, and beyond. To back up for a moment and reveal the…

Looks like Apple isn’t done with new products this month. Tyler Stalman shared this over on Threads: I think the MacBook Pro is about to enter its touchscreen era.

In the Open Media Network (#OMN), the commons represents both the foundation and the destination of the native #openweb. Rather than relying on #closedweb corporate #dotcons or top-down state power, re-framing the commons as a practical, lived alternative – what you might call a “quiet” form of collective ownership and mutual aid grown into daily social infrastructure. The OMN makes a distinction between native and non-native technology paths. A native path starts from the commons: open,…

I have no hopes to convince anyone of my point that may or may not surface in this post, but heck this is my blog home, and here I am right! Or welcome to be told how I am wrong, Just visit, ok? So I came across this post — er newsletter thing by a Matthew Guay titles “What we lost when we lost comments – Comments require commitment, but they’re worth it.” And I land in agreement with the call to come back to our blog homes, to stop spending all day harking at the social media malls. You can…

Amend 4.0 has been released: amend-4.0.sit (StuffIt 3 archive, includes source code and THINK C 5 project file) SHA256: c838ee34931c00c03869affe7f9d6b85c0bbc51dd1242d11e8682a3774fdd0e3SHA1: 040059d0b3302f1bd6ec0207b9a2f12dccdda374 Changes in this version: New repository format that tracks author e-mail in addition to name; existing repositories are migrated automatically on open Add inregrated resource file support; .rsrc files can be added directly to a repo and files are converted to…

Tokyo’s Hammer Head Shark are gearing up to release a new EP entitled Air next month, but beyond that they haven’t offered up any more information like a track list or precise release date. They’ve released three new songs since their debut full-length 27℃ came out last Summer, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be on […] The post Hammer Head Shark / Close to Void #5 appeared first on Space Echo.

Guitoro | Online Virtual Guitar Play a free virtual guitar online with your keyboard or by touch. Slow songs down and see every chord, string and strum. Acoustic, classic, electric and bass. [ 📌maroonblazer ] The Baronet - Free chess program (Windows, macOS) (Android and iOS coming soon) A 100% free chess program, for Windows, macOS, mobile phones and tablets. Play against the computer at the level you choose, review your games move by move, and learn the game from the first lesson. No account,…

CHAMBER GENERATION X (TOY BIZ) “The privileged life of Jonathan Starsmore was shattered forever when his mutant ability emerged for the first time. Most of his chest and lower jaw was blown away because he couldn’t control the powerful psionic-biokinetic energy that exists within him. Chamber is the oldest of Banshee’s new pupils, but he’ll have to emerge from the shell that his injury has forced him into, before he can emerge as a leader of his fellow students.” What’s an X-Men team without a…

You're so vain, you probably think this game is about you. Grinding has proven unnecessary in this game, at least so far, but I start this session doing a fair bit of it anyway, just so I can get my new cleric, Mischa, up to Level 5. I start with ghouls in the Cemetery, but it turns out they only deliver 44 experience points each, so I'd have to kill 100 of them. (Vampires are worth more but apparently do not respawn.) Darklings in town and werewolves in the Wooded Area West of Barovia are…

Breaking up with cold emails: a three-part blog series, by Nout Boctor-Smith and Erin Andress, who have graciously consented to allow the series to be republished on Spam Resource. Why? Because I think it's very important that we offer options to those asking the question: If not cold emails and bulk outreach, then what? Their guidance is particularly valuable, and timely, given the issues companies are having with bulk outreach tools, and spam filters and reputation systems catching on to…

language has become a collective hallucination in which consumption has become the dominant mode of production. this has rendered language more or less meaningless. we live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. jean baudrillard language has been subsumed by capitalism. nearly everything has become an advertisement. our languages, how we communicate, have become public relations speak. we are fellow victims of the vitiation of language into pr speak. to…

We need to incurage people to better balance personal coping with collective power to challenge the #DeathCult as we are living through a time when the world is becoming harder to live in, yet the dominant message is that we must learn to cope better as individuals. #Climatechaos accelerates, inequality deepens, and the #nastyfew accumulate wealth and power while communities struggle to meet basic needs. Democracy is hollowed out, public services are weakened, and the institutions that should…

This post is part of Prismatic Wasteland's blog bandwagon on the topic of player advice.At the end of the AD&D PHB, just before the Appendices on psionics, bards, alignment, the planes, and suggested divisions of treasure, is a section titled SUCCESSFUL ADVENTURES, though it would perhaps be more aptly titled PLAYER ADVICE:While this advice pertains to AD&D play specifically and will illuminate what exactly Gygax felt made someone a "good" player, perhaps some of the advice will be germane to…

Currently reading: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 📚

I’ve been meaning to write something, anything, about my experiences over the last, like, five months–holy shit, it’s been nearly five months since I left the US. Holy shit! I thought just now, sitting on the couch, wondering what I should do with myself, since my wife is traveling for a few weeks and I have essentially nothing going on that doesn’t involve walking and feeding and cuddling with my dog... Today marks four months in Poland. Exactly four months ago I was boarding a train from…

Breaking up with cold emails: part 3 of 3: A solution-driven guide to smarter lead generation strategies, by Nout Boctor-Smith and Erin Andress, who have graciously consented to allow the series to be republished on Spam Resource. Why? Because I think it's very important that we offer options to those asking the question: If not cold emails and bulk outreach, then what? Their guidance is particularly valuable, and timely, given the issues companies are having with bulk outreach tools, and spam…

For quite some time, I have been keen to try an Android device with an eInk screen, particularly a colour one, but I had not found one at a price that I was willing to pay. I saw the BigMe B6 on AliExpress. It was £134.00, and seemed to meet my requirements - including a pocketable 6” screen, and a USB-C port - and I was willing to spend that to give it a try. It arrived quickly, and came with a nice folding case which holds the device magnetically, and turns the screen on and off when opening…

CES S3 Performance: Round-Robin vs. Bucket-Sticky Routing

I finally restored this old Sheaffer “School Pen” that I’ve had for a few years after buying it for a few bucks in a small baggie of pens (which included a Parker 61!). It had probably sat unused for multiple decades. The ink feed and original cartridge were all gunked up, but I was able to flush it out and put ink directly into the clear pen body. I love how the ink sloshes around as I turn over the pen in my hand!

Self-portrait (1650). Weeds and briers reigned, and furtive wild things rustled in the undergrowth. Upon everything was a haze of restlessness and oppression; a touch of the unreal and the grotesque, as if some vital element of perspective or chiaroscuro were awry. I did not wonder that the foreigners would not stay, for this was no region to sleep in. It was too much like a landscape of Salvator Rosa; too much like some forbidden woodcut in a tale of terror. HP Lovecraft, from The Colour Out…

There is a great deal of foolishness in deciding how much suffering one ought to endure for God, especially when the person making that decision has very little understanding of what he is doing to his own body. Penance is a serious matter, mortification is a serious matter, and the body must be disciplined, but it is entirely possible to become so concerned with offering suffering that you neglect the ordinary obligation to exercise good judgment. i have been reminded of this rather…

I just moved into a new apartment, and I’ve been building a lot of IKEA furniture. I just finish a bed frame and dresser, both made of cheap raw pine, and stained them with Mr. Cornwall’s Super Duper Everlasting Oil, which is food safe and expensive. An exorcise in contrasts. I’m 40 years old, and this is the first time I’m ever living alone. I’m really enjoying being the only person I need to consult in decorating the apartment. The space is still in progress, but it’s already molded to me.

VMPal is described as “Virtual Machines built for Apple silicon and AI agents”. Straight from Apple, installed in minutes, with Metal on your Mac’s GPU. VMPal Tools add the clipboard and drag & drop. On macOS 27, setup takes no clicks. I’ve used it briefly to setup a new MacOS install, and it worked great. I haven’t tried it yet, but I have dreams of using VMPal to automatically setup a new install for me, run some tests, and tearing everything down. The angle the VMPal developers are taking,…

Inspired by Matthias Pfefferle, I also just implemented JS-based rendering for the sitemap.xml, which was using XLST until recently. XLST broke when I made the Content-Security-Policy in GoBlog more restrictive. Given XLST is deprecated anyway, I switched to CSS, but that’s more limited. JS-based rendering works great, though. I didn’t know using JavaScript on XML-based documents was even possible. I also applied it to the blogroll.opml while I was at it. With the new DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017…