The app I miss most from my Mac when on Omarchy is @FluidVoiceApp - VoxType is not bad, but Fluid is great, especially the post clean up model.

I’m a university teacher by profession, and so perhaps judging things and setting up criteria comes naturally. I wrote down my criteria for good and great adventures. You may disagree, of course, or have your own, but here are mine, and they are organised like a checklist. Maybe they will help you evaluate how to fix an adventure you have or one you are making. Good adventure A good adventure provides a solid framework for play and is a help to the GM, giving them scaffolding, inspiration, and…

It has been one week since I announced the Spooktober play along and I thought it would be fun to share updates along the way. First of all, I finished playing Doki Doki Literature Club. The game takes some time to show its true (horror) colors, but when it does…!!! I don’t want to spoil the game, so I’ll leave it at that. When I got to the end, I didn’t want it to be done. I’m glad that they released this “plus” edition where you get some extra content and I want to dive into that for sure.…

When I was younger, my blood coursed blazing hot. I would run my mouth afoul in forums, made my opinions known as loudly or hurtful they could be. I resented the kind of adults who would look at us neutrally, saying, "It would be alright." A proof of cowardice sitting on the fence, neither encouraging or discouraging. A proof of not caring enough, for how could they fail to see how important the matter was to us? You have seen it play out multiple times. You know the plot by heart. I cooled…

Looking forward to seeing IndieWeb-curious folks at the meeting (and the regulars of course!) I might be travelling later this month or next, so might be playing it by ear for the following HWC: AP. Subscribe to IndieWeb Events ICS to get the latest events in your calendar! [For up-to-date content, visit BurgeonLab directly (XML feeds don't fetch updates in real-time). For topic-specific feeds, visit /subscribe. Thanks for reading my blog using a RSS reader!]

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***If you were in a hurry, this week in 1976, you were likely to be happy indeed.That's because it was the week that saw the introduction of British Rail's InterCity 125 high-speed train, initially serving London Paddington, Bristol and Cardiff. Obviously, it went nowhere near the north. Such a thing would have been madness.When it came to the charts; for what seems like the millionth week…

The AT&T Long Lines Adams Tower silently towers into the overcast sky over Frisco, Texas. The post Send/Receive appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Here is another poem by Dick Davis – and why not? He's one of the best (and still living). This one is a rare excursion into something very like free verse, and I think it works beautifully. The Departure of the MythsNow that the series ofTottering bedizenedEdifices goes topplingAnd tinkling intoThe distance, surroundedBy singers and saltimbanques,By outriders who curvetTheir horses and flourishBright, fabulous weapons –We cannot deny that The silence is (asThey grinningly warned usIt would be)…

A few photos from the weekend taken while passing through the fields of Wisconsin. I imagine soon enough there will be more than just the golden color on the fields as the leaves start to turn. Thanks for reading. You can subscribe to this blog if you care to. You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. This site does not use affilate links.

Preparations for next week’s 24-hour strike by members of the Irish Federation of University Teachers are well under way at Maynooth University. Hi-vis jackets, armbands and megaphones arranged, legal briefings delivered, and a picket roster being organized. The one thing not under control is the weather, and my memories of past experiences on picket duty are strongly linked with cold and rainy weather. I’ll be leading the morning shift on Wednesday so will just have to see how it goes.…

I've come back to this spot again and again, starting in 2017, here. I never did get a model to pose on the tree, with or without spines. We tried one day, but I wasn't going to ask her to wade through hip deep water to get there. Now, with nearly a decade of weather, and probably kids breaking off the spiky branches for fun, it's not nearly so interesting. Easier to pose on, but not so interesting. Such is life.Some photographers return again and again to a place, a person, or a particular…

I don’t develop pull requests in stacks. Never have. I shun stacks because I think they sequentialize parallelizable work incentivize building in horizontal slices rather than vertical slices make people feel more invested in a PR (because it has dependents/dependencies) than they otherwise would be Anyway, no one should really care about this anymore (now that we have agents that can manage this complexity for us). But this argument comes up from time to time1 so I figured I should write out…

Blogging has taken a bit of a back seat for a while, as I deal with the seemingly complex issues regarding my future financial position. These seem to revolve around Pension Consolidation and Pension Drawdown. Having now done much of the groundwork, there does now seem to be some light at the end of the tunnel, so with any luck I shall soon be able to set a firm date for my retirement. In tandem with this I’ve been sorting out various areas of both house and garden, with the aim of making life…

In my introductory computer science class, students can come to reattempt audits1 without penalty by trying a new, related problem. My goal with this policy is to force students to engage in the feedback loop. Students only progress in the course if they have mastered the concepts, not if they've met an arbitrary points threshold. In this course, nested for loops2 are a perennially challenging topic. Today, a student of mine came in, attempted a nested for loop problem, struggled, and finally…

by Gideon Marcus Toward an all-volunteer army? On September 28, nothing happened. Well, that's not strictly true. Congress approved a 2.4 billion dollar raise for servicemen, doubling the pay for many ranks and ratings. In addition, Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield of Montana managed to attach a rider to the bill calling for a mandatory … Continue reading [October 8, 1971] Starcult (November 1971 Galaxy) → The post [October 8, 1971] Starcult (November 1971 <i>Galaxy</i>) appeared first on…

All crows are smart, but Pimavanserin is the smartest. It was she who long ago domesticated the fierce coyotes of the desert. Now, she perches atop the highest spire of their roost, the most splendorous cactus in this land of red clay, and waits⁠—every day⁠—for Flanders, George.Crows have no equals except, perhaps, for the great apes. The beasts seldom bother the flock, confined instead to their shiny white building, transported away and back again by the metal boxes they’ve tamed.…

FENN RAU STAR WARS: ROGUE ONE (HASBRO) “Fenn Rau was a former fighter pilot instructor who fought for the Republic during the Clone Wars. Once the Empire cam to power, Ray became leader of the Protectors of Concord Dawn, an elite Mandalorian warrior group patrolling the Concord Dawn system.” Would you believe I’ve already gone through all of my 2D Clone Wars figures? Well, I have. So, I guess it’s time to move onto the next thing, which, in this case is actually a jump forward about a decade,…

What would change the judgment people have to make about images?

The Mirror of Civilization: Nina Paley, All Creative Work is Derivative, 2010, music by Todd Michaelsen, via youtube The Mirror of Judgment: Michelangelo Pistoletto, The Mirror of Judgment — Buddhism, 2011, installed at the Serpentine, image via Guardian The Mirror of Poor Judgment: Jordan Wolfson, (Female Figure), 2014, installation shot from The Broad

Once upon a time, there was such a thing as American Exceptionalism. That’s the faith, first mentioned by Alexis de Tocqueville about two centuries ago, that America’s position among democratic nations was “quite exceptional” and therefore it had a “Manifest Destiny” to grow from sea to shining sea.Since the beginning, the core requirement and highest embodiment of that Exceptionalism and Destiny has been the Rugged Individual “self-reliant, independent, and fiercely committed to personal…

With daylight savings, HWC Eastern is a bit early for me at 6am HKT instead of 7; which is why it’s been a while since I attended one. But I’m really glad to co-host with Thomas this morning! I got to do a little demo of my latest new feature on my site too (it’s the comments / responses which deserves its own post ⁂). Thoroughly enjoyed the discussions at the meetup, thanks everyone for coming! [For up-to-date content, visit BurgeonLab directly (XML feeds don't fetch updates in real-time). For…

The big drop of this week was not a new AI model. It was instead the biggest day (so far!) in the history of mathematics, as OpenAI dropped solutions to 90 of the top 500 open math problems, along with many others, reached on an average budget of three hours of Pro-level compute per question. This was kind of a big deal and I plan to cover it tomorrow. We did see Claude Haiku 5.5, which looks promising given it is only $0.10/$0.50. My week was largely spent at The Curve. The entire conference…

New out in Summer 2026: 300+ pages covering music, radical politics, sports, spirituality, pubs and much more. Price £15.You can now buy the book from the following bookshops: The Word, New Cross Road SE14 Crofton Books, Brockley Road SE4 Books Peckham, Mantle Road SE1556a Info Shop, 56a Crampton Street SE17You can also order online here: https://transpontine.sumupstore.com/[At the moment there is free delivery if ordered online for people living in the following postcode areas: SE1, SE4, SE5,…

That was my wake up call: This company is different. Shipping fast is not just something we say, we ship fast. Every day, multiple times per day, even Fridays at 5pm. You might think that's cute but for a 21-person engineering org we ship with a velocity I wouldn't think possible 2 years ago when my young whippersnapper boss told me off for writing code the old fashioned way. We now auto-approve and merge 16% of all pull requests, perform big-bang migrations, ship a few hundred PRs every week,…

I have always been a bit obsessed with serving static web content that is portable, cheap, maintenance-free, and easy to distribute and mirror. My reasons are practical. I often work on non-profit projects in my spare time, with little or no budget. The web is also changing fast: hosting and server prices are rising, and crawlers are devouring resources, making it harder to keep dynamic applications running. There is a political side too. The governance of the web is fragile, and content can be…

We played the twenty-fourth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as follows:Llombaerth, CG elf thief 4 (Adam)Mirkle, N human fighter 3 (Maya)Rhonodel, NG elf cleric 1 (Jack)Zommernar, CN elf fighter 2 (Nael)Egbert, human necromancer 1 (NPC)Brazile, halfling hound master, his dog, Ripper, and the party's three war dogs, Huey, Dewey, and Phooey (NPC)Bilodeau, man-at-arms (NPC)Graves,…

It’s been a very long time since I screwed up a roll of film this bad, but it kind of works so I’m going with it. This was a new-to-me film I was trying out while I was in Montreal a few weeks ago. I don’t normally shoot high ISO film because I don’t like the grain, but I wanted something a little more flexible with varying light. A friend and I took the Metro to Verdun where one of my favourite coffee roasters has a café. Saint Henri makes an espresso called God Shot that is absolutely divine.…

by Gertrud U. Rey Throughout history, scientists have developed classification systems to organize complex fields of study. Linnaeus classified plants and animals, Fedorov catalogued crystals, and Mendeleev organized the chemical elements into a framework that laid the foundation for the modern periodic table. Virology is no different. In 1971, Nobel Prize-winning virologist David Baltimore proposed […]

The Starburst bush (Clerodendrum quadriloculare) gets its name for fairly obvious reasons. It is native to the Philippines and Papua New Guinea and has the potential to be very invasive, though that’s not the case in Hawaii, at least currently.

It’s hard to whittle down this day. After breakfast I squeezed in a virtual work interview before we hit the road for a hike — heading up, up, up into Shoshone National Forest with a landscape dotted by vibrant gold foliage mixed with pine. Wyoming Highway 131 Had a trail entirely to ourselves as we continued our upward trajectory into the Popo Agie Wilderness region. It’s pronounced puh-POE-zha and means “beginning of the waters” in the Crow language. I’d find myself whispering puh-POE-zha out…