In one of my previous articles, I said how I migrated from plausible to Liwan to Umami. But in the spirit of vibe-coding, I have decided to ditch Umami to a custom-made analytics. In Rust. It runs on DuckDB, uses 130MB of RAM, and ingests non-stop my caddy access log. So now, I get to see not only JS verified visitors, but also all the bots (in addition to RSS subscribers). Neat! I turned on rotating Caddy logs around June 2026, when I was playing with GoAccess, and since then I have recorded…

Four sketchbook shoutouts for my $10 patrons, as always some really fun requests! Always happy to draw my boys Mikael and JP for folks~ $10 patrons get a request like this every month! Requests are open until the 25th of each month. You’ll also get access to my entire archive of either SFW ($5) or NSFW ($10) art, comics, and… over 100 sketchbook PDFS?!

Recently I’ve been indulging in a little nostalgia. As a kid, I loved Polly Pocket, which shouldn’t be surprising given how many miniatures I make and how much I love dolls and tiny things in general. It’s probably in a large part responsible for my artistic inclinations as an adult, and I always think back on playing with my old sets as a child fondly. That said, I can’t really justify having any now. Unlike the dolls I collect, I can’t really make anything for them, and they’d just be sitting…

After much thought, consideration, and wasting of time, I’ve come up with a pretty inspirational little turn-it-on-and-go jam station at the house. What’s included? Roland SP-404MKII, which seems to be my most used piece of gear outside of a bass. It’s full of samples, full of a bunch of random stuff that I can’t remember doing. The ever-trusty Roland System-1, 25-key, from the mid-2010s. A beautiful instrument. And the Cyclone Analogic TT-303, which I don’t know well enough, but I’m trying to…

Rockin' Country Style has no location for this label which issued two records both by Del Swade in 1959 and 1960, "A Sound Production Recording, released through Fajam Enterprises " on both labels. Del Swade was a member of Local 10-208, Chicago , Ilinois, certainly the location (of his own, no doubt) Production label.Francis E. Shimandle (his real name) was active in Chicago at least until 1965, when he performed backed by The Key Notes. The group included Dennis Nix, durmmer, formerly with…

First off, I think I just coined a phrase! YaMCP, “Yet Another MCP” … Is anyone else using that yet? LOL There are a couple of used HPE servers in my homelab: a DL385p Gen8 and, newest, an ML350 Gen10. Every time I want to change something in one of them, I end up in… The post YaMCP – HPE ProLiant Docs MCP Server, Gen8 Through Gen13 appeared first on Justin's IT Blog.

European Starling This will be the last post in my Birds of Marche series, which started with a species highlight of the Black Redstart. Among the birds I was most excited to see during my visit to the Marche region of Italy are the Eurasian Blue Tit, Great Tit, and Blue Rock Thrush. The Eurasian […]

Your brand is like a bank account you share with your people (including customers, advocates, competitors, peers, neighbours, and more). The currency is trust. If a person enjoys your product, you’re making a deposit of trust. If a person finds your product confusing or disappointing, you’re making a withdrawal. Trust builds true fandom. The main business goal of accumulating trust is so that people can see the value in paying more for your products. On top of this, other brands will want to…

It’s been 13 years. Our favorite Taj West End was busy (I tried late), so we stayed at Windsor Manor, which is designed like a Regency manor but was built in 1980. A bungalow and estate called Baqarabad stood on the land before Windsor Manor was built. It belonged to Aga Ali Askar, grandfather of Mirja Ismail, who migrated from Iran to sell horses and stayed in Bangalore. It has a really pretty, big, old rain tree (apparently 100+ years old). The building is pretty and soothing to the eyes. I…

I have been the Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives since the first issue in Summer 1987. The JEP is published by the American Economic Association, which decided back in 2011–to my delight–that the journal would be freely available online, from the current issue all the way back to the first issue. You can download individual articles or entire issues, and it is available in various e-reader formats, too. Here, I’ll start with the Table of Contents for the just-released…

We are still working our way through the pears, trying to savour each one, as they feel so special. I thought I’d try another pear cake, basically an apple gingerbread with pears, or one big pear actually and a handful of walnuts. Pear gingerbread Pear puree made from one large pear or two small pears – or, in fact, apples 75g butter 75g sugar 1 tblsp golden syrup 1 tblsp treacle 175g gluten free self-raising flour* Half a tsp xanthan gum* Glug of green ginger wine (or 1tsp ground ginger) 1 egg…

In the second episode of the Steven Universe series, the heroes must find a long-lost laser light cannon so they may defeat a destructive eye that has appeared floating in the sky. The episode introduces key elements of character backstory and begins to set the overarching plot in motion, but as a laser scientist, I'm more interested in the laser light cannon.The laser light cannon is, specifically, long-lost in the back of Steven's dad's storage unit, and is being stored upright without any…

10 observations, nice things, and little ideas that made Madrid pretty pleasant for a week-long trip last spring: You can’t make a city like Madrid with token spend. You probably can’t even make Madrid by gathering numerous friends in an underdeveloped grass plain and deciding you’re going to make a great city. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Extremely related to the previous: Madrid has many nice things because it’s a lot older than most American cities. It necessarily evolved and was built at human scale. It was…

by Cora Buhlert The State of Fantasy in West Germany Outside the Romanheft world, science fiction, fantasy and horror still have a hard time getting published in West Germany. Particularly fantasy is usually viewed as "for kids" and relegated to the children's section of the bookstore. What is more, fantastic children's books are frequently criticised … Continue reading [November 6, 1971] Folklore, Black Magic and the Power of True Love: Krabat by Otfried Preußler → The post [November 6, 1971]…

Chris Ainsworth’s Crazy Wall app for Mac and iOS lets users organize cards on various boards, which can then be connected by yarn. According to one of the project’s blog posts:“The whole idea of Crazy Wall is interesting pins that you can interconnect with yarn and tags, on a big canvas, so you can organize your thoughts the way you want to. And yes, it can get kinda crazy. If you’re looking for some inspiration for fictional, yet cool, “string walls, walls and floors littered with paperwork by…

A week after getting their vaccines, the cats got their yearly deworming pills. Millimeter, smart as she is, somehow managed to eat around the pill hidden in her treat. I didn't think she was capable of that, since she's normally eager to devour absolutely anything and everything. I had to bring out the big guns and hide the pill in some liver sausage. They love that stuff so much that they don't care what else is inside.

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Dear Constant Reader, As you see this, I am in Kansas City. It’s bringing back memories of when I performed at the Jayhawk Theatre fundraiser in Topeka during the Before Times. Here’s your tip! When flying, put an Air Tag or similar tracker in your carry-on bag. I used to always recommend putting absolutely anything vital in your carry-on, but these days it’s likely that there’s no more overhead bin space and you’ll have to gate check your bag. And then you have to trust that the airline does…

Last week I went to a concert with two of my best friends. We were there to see singer-songwriter Nick Carpenter, who goes by Medium Build on stage. Carpenter has been in the music industry for more than a decade. He comes across as relatable and charming, a person who seems at ease singing deeply personal songs to rooms of 500 or so. Medium Build tells stories about people who have messed up, who loved and lost. He sings about the yearning and mistakes and sparks of growth that dot the lives…

Happy Fountain Pen Day! Thanks for being a reader of The Well-Appointed Desk! We love this community and are so honored to be a part of it. We are offering a special coupon for our shop for Fountain Pen Day 2026. Receive 15% off any order over $25 with the code FPD2026 all day Friday, Nov. 6, 2026 (through 11:59pm CDT). Orders over $75 qualify for free shipping but I cannot coupon stack so you have to choose which discount is better. Domestic shipping only. Sorry! Thanks so much for all your…

I confess, I underestimated Americans this election cycle and am happy to have been wrong. I still maintain that if this had been a 51% - 49% percent Democratic victory that starting Wednesday Trump's every third word would be "rigged" and the chaos I and others predicted would already be rampant and surging. If pre-election internal polling predicted a dead heat there would have been intimidation, arrests, and violence at polling stations election day and post-election every Republican who…

Have you ever wanted to display all variants of a Button next to each other in your Storybook like your designer did in Figma? But then you come to a screeching halt when you realize :hover, :active, :focus don’t work without user-interaction? Blergh. Whatever can we do? I got nerd-sniped by this problem in the ShopTalk Discord when Nils said he was trying to build a simple state machine demo for his components. A handful of immediate options came to my head: Style states using .is-hover…

My lovely wife on [where to get a good coffee around here(https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2026/11/i-love-java-sweet-and-hot.html).

This is one of those herbs you can find in most British kitchens. Whilst it is heavily used today, I thought I could talk a bit about some of the amazing folklore surrounding this herb! Old Sacred HerbThe ancient Greeks used thyme as incense in their temples. In fact, the name is thought to come from a Greek word meaning sacrifice and incense. Symbolising BraveryOne of the most fascinating folklore points about thyme is how it has been associated with bravery over a long period of time. It was…

I decided to do #WritingMonth all of like three days ago, and am already regretting it. I have spent today avoiding writing as hard as I can. Apparently, I don't WANT TO write, I just want to do the research and the thinking about writing part 😂 Will I persevere? Who knows

SEEMS TRAGICALLY LIKELY, BUT I’M NOT AN NTSB INVESTIGATOR: How an Invisible Enemy May Have Sent a Learjet Into a Deadly Nosedive. I’m sure we won’t know for sure for many months.

My point in going to the Walker’s Every Jasper Johns Print collection yesterday was to figure out which prints Johns was using for the recent drawings he just debuted at Matthew Marks this week. Jasper Johns, Untitled, 2019, intaglio and chine collé, 37 1/2 x 26 3/4 in., AP 7/8, a gift from the artist The main two are Shrinky Dink 3, from 2011, which has this “[self-]portraits all the way down” quality to its various nested motifs, and Untitled (2019), in which a skull-wielding skeletal figure…

This article tells part of the story of Warren Spector. A slight shift of focus, and the future could still turn out like Deus Ex after all… — Deus Ex lead writer Sheldon Pacotti, speaking in 2014 The reviews that greeted Ion Storm’s Deus Ex upon its release in June of 2000 ranged along a continuum from cautiously to wildly positive. Computer Gaming World, the Gray Lady of the hobby, came with one of the most nuanced takes. Reviewer Thierry Nguyen spoke of “loving” the game in the abstract, but…

I don't post about coffee half as much as I post about alcohol on this page, but I really do love a good coffeeshop!Lately, my top tier places to meet up for a coffee are:- Take Care Coffee in the old Kopplin's space — Lee is lovely, and his coffee is incredible- Lowboy - a labor of love by Michael, a cool vibe, and the skillet rolls are to die for as well as good coffee- Catzen - even if you sit outside the cat room and just observe them through the window, always a good time (and I think…