I really like the Halo Glow Filter from E.L.F. Cosmetics. It’s a cheap alternative to one of my favorite complexion illuminators so when I want some lit-from-within glow, it’s become one of my options. However, since it’s been hot these days, the thought of adding another hydrating layer on my makeup doesn’t seem like a […]

I think I'm going to learn Astro and rebuild my website in that. Anyone have experience with this, any tips?

8707/21626When will there be a Nobel Prize for Podcasting? What a great town Hitchin is. For well over a month now there has been a sign in the middle of a small roundabout that we walk past on the way to town which says "Iced Coffee. Add Vanilla, Hazelnut or Caramel."You might think that it's an advertisement for a nearby cafe, but no, there is no cafe named on either side of the sign. If it is an advert it's just one for the concept of Iced Coffee and a recommendation of what you can add to…

Margaret Hamilton: It helps to know what it was like back then for those of us building the Apollo on-board flight software. During the early days of Apollo, software was treated like a stepchild; it was not taken as seriously as other engineering disciplines. Considered a mysterious “black box”, it was regarded by many as an art, not a science. To me it was both. Understanding the subtleties of developing real-time asynchronous flight software was left up to the flight software’s systems-…

Reward of Merit issued to a student who successfully completed a program or lesson at Sunday School late 19th Century. Frequently tinted by hand in color, rewards of merit were issued by many educational institutions and are today collected for their variey and color. This is a big one (8.5 “x 4.5”). Most were about half that. Interesting this one is signed possibly by a parent to his child. Collection Jim Lindernan / Dull Tool Dim Bulb

A colleague told me a lovely story recently. His toddler goes through fits of complaining, one thing after another. So they started a ritual: when it happens, they ask him to pause and name one good thing, one thing he’s grateful for. What they’ve found is that once he starts, it’s easy for him to find a second thing, then a third. The complaining just stops. It’s a good reminder that we’re all capable of spiraling down a negative path once we get moving on it. And sometimes all it takes to…

Flock cameras are everywhere. They're anti-human (the term is misanthropic), they're anti-freedom (oppressive), and given this site's predominantly US-based audience, they're un-American (unpatriotic).Flock cameras are everything the conspiracy theorists incoherently yammered on about with microchips in vaccines. Flock cameras are the highly visible, hyper-local infrastructure of oppression.But what if I told you that Flock cameras are only an evolution of that infrastructure? Your Amazon…

Veterinary nutrition brand Hill’s Pet Nutrition announced its official expansion into human groceries this week with the release of “Science Diet for Adults,” a complete kibble formulated to meet baseline biological requirements in two daily servings of dry brown pellets.The product line, available in Chicken & Barley, Savory Beef, and Roasted Salmon, is designed to eliminate meal preparation and target the exact, medically recommended quantity of food. According to the feeding guidelines…

Monstervision - The Comic Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy are bringing back Monstervision, as a comic. Okay, that's not exactly true, the comic isn't going to be anything like the 90s TNT show, it'll just share the name, but slap Joe Bob Briggs in anything and I'm there. So I'm anxiously awaiting this release in December. Midnight X-Men This fall Marvel is launching a series called Midnight and as part of that series they are producing some variant covers that homage old horror films. I was…

I was inspired by museum of me's post on having a favourite of everything. Here are a few of my favourites: Favourite mug: My graduation mug Favourite season: Spring (big fan of autumn, too!) Favourite pencil: Faber Castell, grip plus 0.7 Favourite ice cream flavour: Blueberry 🫐 Favourite song to play when it rains: Fast car, by Tracy Chapman What's your favourite?

I have been wondering why the past couple of years have been so much harder on me even than Trump’s first presidency, and this is exactly why. There is just so much happening, all at once. (Beware: image and link heavy post below the fold; both the images and discussion of government violence rape may be disturbing–if you are in a vulnerable place, please skip this one) ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ ICE constantly detains U.S. citizens for the crime of not looking white enough. 1 ICE has deported over 500 U.S.…

I’ve been mining the digital collections of the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress for over ten years for dramatic pictures of NYC. Here’s one you won’t find in a library, taken by Tim Michiels: I have not changed anything from the way Tim’s phone recorded the view (looking south along Central Park West). The air-quality index was good the last few days, so I think that glow was “golden hour” sunset rather than pollution; there’s either a bit of fisheye distortion going on, or…

Over the course of this year I’ve been running some research on how well LLM models understand Kubernetes security and how well agents can secure and attack Kubernetes clusters. It’s been very interesting to see how this has developed over the year so I thought it was worth writing up. Dearbhadh I started this project in January 2026 as part of research for a talk at Kubecon EU 2026. The initial idea when I submitted the talk in late 2025 was to focus on knowledge based tasks, but with the…

Table of Contents The diaeresis and em-dash Acronyms, contractions & brands Translation Formatting Conclusion One of the things I find surprisingly interesting is reading the style guides of different publishers or newspapers. Style guides generally cover how written content should be structured and presented. They help make single organisation seem coherent and help writers present what might otherwise be ambiguous. At the same time they can often be overly detailed, attacking the creative…

Water flossers are great dental hygiene product but, for what they are, they can be pretty expensive. Spending over £100 for something that sprays water through a nozzle is steep – whichever one you buy, it’s just a pump and a water container. Normally, though, you get what you pay for in terms of better design but, recently, I’ve had an experience of, well, this not being the case. My first water flosser, from a few years ago, was a Waterpik brand. It was mid-priced but, after my wife knocked…

Over the past few weeks I've posted a couple of times about There There, the helpdesk we're building at Spatie. After two decades of running our own customer support, we decided to stop compromising on tools and build the one we actually want to use. A lot of the fun is on the AI side. We're not using it to replace support agents, we're using it to make them faster. The human reads the ticket, thinks, and clicks a button. The model pulls up relevant history, drafts a reply, tags the ticket,…

Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias‘ striking 1954 mosaic “Genesis, the Gift of Life” stands in the forecourt of the Dallas Museum of Art. The post Gift of Life appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

In August I was a discussant on a panel about Steven Luke’s recent book, The Diversity of Morals. Here’s an extended version of what I said. A PDF version is available as well. The Diversity of Morals asks the questions philosophers ask about morality: what is “the moral”? How wide and deep is its diversity? Is there a standpoint from which we can make our judgments? It then refuses to answer them by philosophical methods alone. Instead, it draws on the resources of both social theory and the…

Anybody who knows me will know that I love to try and make people laugh. At school is was predicted I’d be a comedian. Computers came along and changed that path for me. But, it’s still within me. The thing about humour is that everyone has lines in the sand where humour doesn’t land with them – topics that are unacceptable. People often making sweeping statements that particular jokes aren’t funny, but that’s never true – a joke is always funny to at least one person, if only the person…

I have written before about my Swedish Colemak hack, but I never explained what makes it so good. This is a better image what it looks like: If you’re struggling to find the difference against normal Colemak, look at the cluster of five keys next to the return key. This layout makes room for the three Swedish letters Å, Ä, and Ö, by only changing five keys in total, and they have changed very thoughtfully: (Continue reading the full article on the web.)

It was a hot afternoon, on the last day of June, and the archives were full of Mr. Benn, Now That's What I Call Music!, Melanie Williams on Looks Unfamiliar and more...

First, so as not to bury the lede: It went great, there’s nothing in my colon they are the least bit concerned about, and I don’t have to come back for another colonoscopy for a decade, which I think is an optimal state of affairs. Second, I’m 57 and really should have had a colonoscopy before this date, and I don’t really have any excuse for not having done so, other than laziness and procrastination. It took a one-two punch of a couple of close friends my age having (thankfully eminently…

I treat notifications on my phone as a task list. I have my phone at my desk and I see the screen light up, and at the back of my mind I know there’s something up I have to look up later. Since I have notifications trimmed down to the essential, this is a good heuristic for me. For most of my communication needs with friends/family, I use iMessage, and the biggest annoyance, starting from (I think) iOS 16 for me (or the last time I set-up an iPhone from scratch), but I found references of this…

11:52 - Wore my knee brace and I made it to my appointment without crutches! But now my disability isn't visible and people on the bus aren't giving me their seats. Ah well.

OTD in 1892, my great aunt Ida Mahler (1892-1971) was born at home in a tenement on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Chaya (as she was named on her birth cert, above), was born at 105 Allen Street, in a heavily immigrant neighborhood. By 1900, the family had moved six blocks away to 88 Chrystie Street, also part of the Lower East side where immigrants often lived.By 1905, however, Ida and her family had relocated way uptown to a newer apartment in Jewish Harlem. That was very fortunate because…

Traditions change. This is transparently obvious as otherwise we’d still all be sitting around campfires telling stories. Wait, bad example. We do, though, often take for granted that while our traditions may change, others are simply not questions by those who adhere to them. So, the annual culling of whales, for example, had to be stopped by external forces rather than from decisions made within a community. Perhaps that is the modern way of doing things, but I would have to question that…

Io vorrei dare soldi a Bonelli, ma non ci riesco. Voglio recuperare Mercurio Loi, vado sul sito e clicco personaggi: non c’è nella lista principale. Ci sta, è una cosa minore. Clicco “tutto personaggi” che immagino dovrebbe essere “tutti” ma passi. Su https://www.sergiobonelli.it/personaggi/ ci sono solo immagini quindi non è che puoi usare la ricerca testo del browser, devi scorrere la pagina a mano e cercare se c’è. Non c’è, o non lo vedo. In realtà una pagina per il personaggio c’è…