Logo and symbol for the band Fleshbrand from Bellingham, USA. Their music is a blend of hardcore and death metal with shades of industrial. The logo was sketched in pencil, then in ink and cleaned up and textured digitally. The brief was: ‘Industrial, gritty, and kind of imparts that old school Survival Horror vibe with the look, while also being “hard af” as the kids say and pointy.’ White logo on dark background White symbol on dark background Dark symbol on light background Dark logo on…

Logo and symbol for the small game publisher MVRMVRS, which curates adventure and RPG indie video games with lo-fi or occult themes. The logo was sketched in pencil, then in ink and cleaned up and textured digitally. The brief was: ‘Folk horror meets black metal in the forest for a D&D game’ White logo on dark background White symbol on dark background White alternate logo on dark background Dark logo on light background Dark symbol on light background Dark alternate logo on light background…

I’ve got an upcoming eye appointment, so it’s time to review. Remember: you can choose any of these routines. Trust me, they’ve never heard ANY of them. The one where you say you’re seeing spots in front of your eyes, and they say “Have you ever seen a doctor?”, and you reply “No, just spots.” The one where you ask if you’ll be able to play the violin after the cataract surgery and they say “Of course”, and then you say “Great! I’ve always wanted to play the violin.” The one where they ask if…

Working a little bit recently on restoring Pantheon desktop on top of OpenSUSE Leap instead of Ubuntu 24.04. Out of date version for both, but it was the most stable fix. Ultimately I hope to get the desktop environment of elementaryOS running on top of the rolling Tumbleweed, and have a rolling system that works and looks the part. Some photos: At the start, the pantheon pattern couldn't be installed on Leap 16, and after a manual install the login screen crashed, so you could never reach a…

I find myself in a very interesting predicament where as my two favorite hobbies often compete for the same periods of free time. I have done very nicely without much planning involved so far until the Summer Game Challenge, and since that worked quite well, I thought it may be useful to write down a list! For now it’s just for October, but we’ll see if it sticks. A while back I saw a fair amount of YouTube videos and advice on dealing with the backlog, and they kept mentioning how planning…

The long-used FreshPorts subversion repositories have been converted from subversion to git. The process I used is documented in https://github.com/FreshPorts/git-conversion. Today, I’m moving the working copy subversion checkouts to git working copies. The original code is retained and any local changes will be available for check-in / diff after the conversion. Here’s an outline of that process. FreshPorts left Subversion on 5 October 2026, but the hosts didn’t. The ingress code on each…

If I ever send a picture of text in an email or documentation, please remind me that I’m now part of the problem.

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What’s going on, Internet? If you don’t follow my Bookmarks through the feed, then here’s the bookmarks from September. Enjoy. MVNDY — THE POWER OF VISION Spend more time on the idea than the tooling. Craft on its own doesn’t change much. I don’t like passkeys I’m not a big fan of passkeys either. I’ve tried them and don’t particularly care for them. Rubenerd: Ban infinite scrolling I’ve never liked infinite scroll. I prefer pagination. I always lose my place in infinite scroll websites. This…

For several minor updates across my different projects. One, I have updated my Crime De-Coder store where I sell my books and software. Before, it was a WooCommerce site, which worked ok (pure GUI integration). But it was time for me to upgrade and have it directly integrated into my site. It was a WooCommerce site before, which worked ok (pure GUI integration). But it was time for me to upgrade and have it directly integrated into my site. So now it is using the direct print API from LuLu for…

Another car show from over the summer. This was a city centre one here in Sheffield - Moor Classics - and the vibes were really good. Perhaps because it was free and on a main shopping street, it turned out to be really busy and wildy successful. I really just wanted an excuse to keep trying out my Canon VI-L camera. The viewfinder is still a bit cloudy but I’m getting into a bit of a groove with it. The first few shots on the roll were pretty dark, then I seemed to get the hang of metering…

The capitalist man has a tendency to complicate (and charge for) everything around him. Want to go running in 2026? Buy a pro running shoes, drink whey protein every day, sign up and pay to run with other people and receive a banana and a cheap tin medal at the finish line. For a long time, I regarded the electric toothbrush as one of those low-return, almost useless advances, even though I had never used one. It didn’t help that, until a few years ago, it was an object I only saw in American…

I’ll expand on this another time, but wanted to jot down this idea that with the lorecore books, I am not possessive about them from an “authorial sense.” Did I “write” them? Some yes, very much, some less. But there are myriad choices, branches, possibilities, taken or untaken. Much of it is merely the result and record of what is explored, discovered, provoked, or simply noticed. I think of myself more than anything as being the First Reader of one of these new works. And then I apply my own…

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Thanks to a quick, gracious reply from the GIS Mapping team at County of Santa Clara – Registrar of Voters, I have a shapefile with the precincts for Santa Clara County. You can ask for it too. I’m struck by the beauty of it: # In R library(ggplot2) library(sf) > precincts <- read_sf("~/Downloads/Precinct_Boundaries/Precinct_Boundaries.shp") > ggplot(precincts) + geom_sf() A combination of artificial and natural, driven by people’s choices — where to live, how to draw the map — and the…

In my deep study of both Catholicism and Mormonism over the past year or so, one question that seems to keep coming up is: how can I know when I have been forgiven of sins? Latter-day Saints believe that we can know we have been forgiven of our sins when we have truly repented and we feel peace and joy through the Holy Ghost. Forgiveness comes only after repentance. (Repentance is a whole other topic in and of itself, perhaps for another blog post.) With Catholics, repentance is also a factor…

Wired thinks the Alexa tablets could be a prelude to Amazon trying again to sell a phone. Given that Panos Panay led Microsoft’s efforts with the Microsoft Duo, I wonder whether Amazon would be willing for their phone to be a foldable at a price that seriously undercut the competition. What if Amazon called it a foldable tablet rather than a phone? Either way if foldables are really the future for smartphones their price needs to come down and more big competitors are needed to make that…

https://geometrydaily.tumblr.com/ Lovely tumblr of daily geometrical art posts. I found it via Tom MacWright's reconstruction of one of the pieces on Observable

Johan Jarnestad/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Stylized illustration of a neutrino hitting a block of ice. This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francis Halzen for “decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.” This is the fifth time the Nobel Prize was awarded for work on neutrinos. In 1988 it was awarded for the discovery of the muon neutrino, in 1995 for the detection of neutrinos, in 2002…

I was putting together a Word of Trade for Godbound the other day (I just kitbashed it from existing Gifts) and it made me think about fantasy currencies.Fundamentally, currency is an abstraction that makes barter easier. If I have a bunch of chickens and want to trade some of them for a goat, currency makes it so we don't have to figure out and agree on a chicken:goat conversion factor every time. Instead, I know how many dollars a chicken is worth and a goat is worth, and that gives us a…

I see that Amazon is replacing their Fire brand of tablets with “Alexa tablets” of 8-inch, 11-inch, and 12-inch sizes. The largest appears intended to be the most premium of the group. A big difference is that the Alexa tablets will have the Google Play store, although it appears Amazon has their own launcher that puts Alexa front and center. I wonder whether launcher alternatives can be installed to make Alexa less visible. Of Amazon’s hardware products, I am most interested in their Scribe…

Much of “The Infatuations” by Javier Marías consists of intense and tense conversations between two people about death, murder, friendship, guilt, love (indeed, something stronger, infatuation), and betrayal. The “Guardian” voted it one of the best hundred books of the 21stcentury. The passage below describes what time can do and illustrates well the intensity and tone of the book. It is a “prudent young woman” who speaks, to an infatuated man who has engineered his best friend’s murder in…

Another release (4.5) of Zavala is now available. This release provides support for the iPhone Duo and Siri AI integration. apps.apple.com/us/app/za…

I've been riffing on a new Pagecord theme today as part of an improvement I'm making to the 'Cards' layout. I think it's pretty cool. What do you think?

Rest in peace, Grandpa. I love you. Yesterday, I received a call from my dad that my grandpa had passed away. He was 91. I can't say that any of us were too surprised. Over the past four years or so his health had been steadily declining. He suffered from Alzheimer's for a number of years and it slowly started to impact his memory. For a while, it wasn't even all that noticeable, but eventually he no longer could live alone. It really began to impact his quality of life in the final year. In…

Skuka says they barely share good things online and I understand why. I understand it's a big, vulnerable leap. The void is infinite and cold and the silence is deafening. They are talking about personal stuff but I thought about it more broadly. My take, though, for myself, is that this is all the more reason to. There's so much negativity online, and in life generally, that I feel like I actively want to try to redress that balance. I'm not saying I can but I want to. I certainly don't want…

Last edited 1 minute ago. I have nothing to do on my phone anymore. I feel that urge during the day to take out phone so I'm either not bored or procrastinating something I don't wanna do and... I have nothing to do on it. Without social media on it anymore, and now without my main game I used to play on Apple Arcade, there's literally nothing to be staring at. When I left big social media platforms a few years ago, I wasn't doing it because of "phone addiction". It was more out of a sense of…

Always have the agent prove their work.

I still use Orbs quite a bit as well, but mostly for automation or set and forget type of work (go fix X and do Y).Access to my Anthropic subscription would probably tilt this a bit more.