ComicHawkgirl Vol. 2 No.1 Cover date: September 2023Release Date: July 18, 2023Script: Jadzia AxelrodArt: Amancay Nahuelpan Colors: Adriano LucasLetters: Hassan Otsmane-ElhaouCover: Amancay Nahuelpan (art), Adriano Lucas (colors)Editing: Dave Wielgosz Bird's Eye View Kendra Saunders (Hawkgirl) has resettled in Metropolis and is fighting alongside the Justice League. During a battle against some cute gas-fireball villains, she meets Galaxy, an "alien princess" who is "kind of a hero." Galaxy is…

Our Composer vendor cache is keyed on the composer.lock file, which means every time a dependency changes, the cache gets thrown away and Composer downloads every package from scratch. With Renovate opening merge requests all day, that's a lot of downloading. To speed things up, I wanted to add a second cache for Composer's download cache to our shared GitLab CI config - but no matter what I did, one of the caches kept vanishing. It took me far longer than I'd like to admit to work out why -…

Double check your website’s alt texts with a bookmarklet — This is so handy. I had a stretch of time where I kept messing up the alt text in Markdown, putting it where the title goes, and I know I haven’t cleaned up every image on my blog yet. This will help. The man hiking the world in search of rare cheeses — I always wonder about how much more of this kind of stuff we could have if UBI were a thing. One Balaclava After Another — Articles of Interest is, as always, interesting. This time a…

§ Autumn’s arrival is suddenly undeniable. Everywhere leaves are changing color and beginning to drop. Yesterday I spent part of the afternoon bringing all our our houseplants back inside. Sometime last night we had our first freezing temperatures of the season. § After posting last week’s note, I took a trip to our local orchard to try to track down my favorite apple variety I discovered last year (“zestar”). Well, apparently that variety is known for its early-season ripening so looking for…

Updated October 2026 After spending more than six years cooking every single Ina Garten recipe, I’ve narrowed down the best of the Barefoot Contessa to 50 dishes I think everyone should try. I started by picking my 10 favorite recipes from each of Ina’s first 13 cookbooks, then somehow managed to whittle those 130 dishes down to my 50 favorite Ina Garten recipes. This is by no means a definitive list. My favorites are always changing based on cravings, mood, season, and sometimes revisiting a…

A new set of weeklies means a new set of links to explore! watching . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁Video Games! Animation! Comics! The holy grail of my media diet for the majority of my lifetime. 💖 1.19 Minecraft Let's Play Survival series by zaypixel Ep 1 of S3 The Sims 2 Asylum series by Antisocial Bunny 💖 S2 The Sims 2 Asylum series by Antisocial Bunny Ep 2 of Knights of Guinevere (series) Watch me illustrate the final Puppettes cover by Savannah Alexandra Art listening . ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . ݁A modest list of bops.…

Shortly before Enter the Dragonfly exited its tumultuous development, Universal started making plans for another studio to develop the next main Spyro game. They ended up going with Eurocom, a much more experienced developer with plenty of work on licensed projects, and it would eventually release after a relatively healthy production as Spyro: A Hero’s ...Spyro: A Hero’s Tail was first posted on October 18, 2026 at 8:21 am.©2017-2025 "Hardcore Gaming 101". Use of this feed is for personal…

As you probably noticed, for the last few weeks I have been focusing on autumnal or spooky stories in keeping with the season. This one isn’t a romance, rather a horror story about a young woman who realizes her best friend is actually a predatory monster, published way back in 1872. Most people already know Carmilla as a precursor to Dracula (published 20 years later), and credit it with establishing the idea of a vampire in popular fiction. It is also known for being extremely sapphic. That…

In March I announced Burrow as my go-to framework for personal web projects. Now it's October and I have archived the project, built a media player with Elixir and Phoenix and released a library for this stack to handle passkeys.Why, you might ask? Or at least I've asked myself.A few months in I realised I had lost track of the actual projects I wanted to build. Basically I went all in on building a framework that a) includes all the things I ever wanted in a web application framework and b)…

Well. What a bunch of self-pitying bullshit that was. ::snicker:: While there was truth to it, a day later it feels like writing that isn't more than empty calories, as it were. It felt good to articulate the notion, elaborating a bit on it, and — this is key — concealing the coagulant particulars. But at the end of the day (yesternight, and 24 hours later) I can see how truly dimwitted it was; I suppose it validated its own damn self, one might say. [ self-flagellation, ironically, in…

It is time the time of year where I update my lolita questions. I am actually a bit late. Do forgive me.

Clear and still, the yard silvery with frost. Each morning the woods are more open, the patches of sky more numerous. The sun-flooded forest of winter doesn’t seem so far away now.

A spiral in stone can stop you in your tracks. Follow its curve and the questions arrive almost immediately. What lived inside? Why the ribs? And how can a shell tell us anything about the age of a rock?Ammonites reward that curiosity. Their fossils preserve clues to ancient animals, vanished oceans and the passage of geological time. Here are ten questions to start your exploration, with a

While I have enjoyed much of what Bogost has to say about stopping to enjoy the physical experiences of the little things that happen to you every day1 it's easy to fall into an idealized memory of the past2, often a past that didn't really exist. Foreverism talks specifically about this, our societal tendency to look back to the ideal past and keep it in our current conversation as something we should be striving for today3. This ideal physical past when we all interacted with the machines…

Kids' shows get some of the cutest cakes, you guys. I don't even have kids, and I had a blast looking for these!Just look at this adorable Doc McStuffins cake: [By Valentina Pollicino in Italy]Squee! When I Googled the most popular kids' shows of 2018, I was amazed to see Pokémon still on the list. Good thing, though, since that means I get to show you this jaw-dropping Pikachu: [By Le Delizie di Kicca in Italy]The shading makes it look more like a ceramic sculpture than a cake! Also loving all…

Take a few minutes to watch the video above or, if you’re more of a written word person, keep reading. It’s not uncommon for me to come home from a trip with thousands of photographs. On a wildlife trip I can average 1,000 photographs a day, which is really easy to do when you’re in a moving boat, excited about bears and your cameras are set to shoot 10 frames a second. Even when I’m not photographing wildlife, if I’ve had a good day out with my camera I can come back with hundreds of images.…

2026-10-18Hello!Being such a strong light source, the sun overpowers everything else if it gets itself in the frame. That could be a desirable outcome, for sun stars giving a bright, warm glow. Otherwise, I try to hide its dominance.I could have kept my camera in the exact same position and it would be random luck whether the sun poked through or not. The wind in the tree leaves let sun poke beams of light through to my camera.Before moving on, I took that idea and simulated a shadow as if it…

When I started writing The Neo-Luddite Handbook to Surviving the Digital World in the Age of Tech Billionaires, I wasn't sure if you would be interested in it. Well, it turns out that you are. It's my second most popular newsletter after Japan Art Islands!💡By the way, since we're on the topic of newsletters, I'd like to remind you that:1. If you found this post on social media or elsewhere, know that this blog doubles as a newsletter. You can subscribe for free and receive blog posts, and…

Since my recent return to gaming, I've picked up a few games that I've been enjoying. Dave the DiverI would say that this was the game that started my rollback into gaming. The concept is straightforward: You're Dave. You become associated with the entrepreneurial Cobra to begin a sushi bar by the beach. During the day, you dive and catch—or try to catch—a wide array of fish, from the humble Blue Tang to mighty Hammerheads, Barracudas, and more. What I enjoyed about the game was managing the…

On 18 October 1910 Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen’s trial commenced, for the murder of his wife Cora. Lasting only 5 days, the jury took just hours to reach a verdict of guilty. He was executed at Pentonville Prison on 23 November. His notoriety stems from being the first suspect apprehended with the aid of wireless telegraphy as he made his escape to Canada. Cora’s body was found under the basement floor of 39 Hilldrop Crescent. On 18 October 1660, a proclamation forbidding Hackney carriages to ply…

An end-of-week, start-of-the-next madcapper in place of my usual recapper “One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.” – G.K. Chesterton (All Things Considered) I’m back. Sort of… A day late, somewhat dishevelled and without a wind up to make amends, but I do at least have a few bookish bits and bobs to share with you. In the USA, it is National Chocolate Cupcake Day and, from today until 24th October, it is National Friends of Libraries Week. Meanwhile, in these…

I’ve struggled with finding one passion and niching down. Until I find out it’s OK to have multiple interests. It was reassuring to learn there’s nothing wrong with me, I’m just driven to multiple interests. Recently, to avoid the niching down trap, I’ve switched to “umbrella” all my interests under a mission or projects. One of them is writing books. A book is a perfect project to combine talents. Design for the cover. Research for the content. Storytelling for making it compelling.…

Translated from German into English by Ilse Lasch. This is a reread for me. I originally read this book 10+ years ago and thought it was just okay. Because this book gives a lot of people strength, and I didn't get much out of it, I though maybe it just wasn't the right fit for that phase of my life. Maybe I should reread it once I was older. More than a decade passed by, now I've reread it, and I'm surprised to find that I liked it even less this time around. The author survived the Holocaust,…

We’re wrapping up an incredible week watching the grandkids who have so much on their minds, including the approaching Halloween festivities, so Sunday Morning Reading is taking another hiatus. Sunday Morning Reading will return next week. Hope to see you then. Thanks for reading. Feel free to subscribe if you want. It’s free. If you’re interested in just what the heck Sunday Morning Reading is all about you can read more about the origins of Sunday Morning Reading here. If you’d like more…

Marcel Duchamp, étant donnés stereoscope views, and related objects at the PMA, : Wayne Bremser greg.org hero and Duchamp Philadelphia advance team leader Wayne Bremser has excellent photos of the exhibition, and a deepfield, multidimensional look into Duchamp’s experiments with stereoscopic vision, which culminates in a set of handmade stereographs of Étant donnés the artist kept in a Dom Pérignon gift box. Which is in the exhibition. Previously, related: Los Ladrillos de Étant donnés, the…

What does being free in the digital world look like? Here’s my fork of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s song Imagine, extending their utopian sense of freedom to digital technology.Imagine there’s no Meta,it’s easy if you tryNo copyright chains below us,above us a free skyImagine all the people,sharing all the books… aha-ah…Imagine there’s no Microsoft,it isn’t hard to doNothing to upgrade or wait for,and no blue screen tooImagine all the people,using computers in peace… you-hoo…They may say we’re…

In person research I visited the NHS England offices in Canary Wharf again a couple of weeks ago. I was planning on going up anyway, but we decided to spend one of the two days doing user research at community pharmacies around London. It was great to finally get some in-person research done Accessibility lab On the second day, both of the RAVS (Record a vaccination service) teams spent some time working together from the same meeting room. It was good to catch-up. I also spent some time in the…

Terence Eden asking on Mastodon what people's setups look like. Here's mine - 38" ultrawide LG monitor that docks to my Framework 13, Fully standing desk, fish tank and motorbike helmets on the wall. I love my home office, but I do like heading into the office too. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.

Closed the long weekend and opened the short week with a reunion lunch in Nakame including references to Se7en and what we suspect was Froyo, before heading to see band club play live. They were pretty great! Remember to bring hearing protection lxds. Leant on some of my CliftonStrengths™ mid-week to pull a plan out of many loose strands for a new assignment. That was particularly enjoyable. Meetings are getting easier to follow, but are still incredibly hard. This is to say that grammar study…

The first leg of our campervan life from Sydney to Hunter Valley ✒️ Written by: Abbie We flew from Perth to Sydney overnight, leaving behind our base with family in Fremantle and ready to take on a whole new adventure: eight weeks in a campervan. While we saved one night of accommodation costs by travelling overnight across the entire country, we ultimately paid for it over the next three days in Sydney as we walked around feeling like zombies. Neither of us slept on that hot, uncomfortable…