★★★★: I liked the jump in complexity as compared to its predecessor. The story offered meaningful choices and engaging puzzle gameplay. There was the occasional dud where we had to guess, but most of the clues felt fair. It was fun to be able to pull items for customers without needing the reference material by the end of it all-- we really had learned all this stuff. It set a perfect spooky October tone, too! FYI: My reviews are scored out of 4. Also, thanks for subscribing to my RSS feed and…

Here’s the video of a lightning talk at I gave at DevRelCon NYC on Thursday, July 24, 2026 at Industry City in Brooklyn: The talk gets its material from my 12-month developer relations job search that took place in 2025. I kept a diary of my search, kept records of every resume and cover letter I sent, compiled email exchanges between me and prospective employers, and whenever possible, made recordings of conversations and interviews throughout the process. If you’re looking for developer…

New high temperature record beating previous record of 22.4 degree in 1977.

I’ve ordered the wrong pizza at dominoes. It has no tomtato sauce. Therefore its pizza status is in question. I’m sitting at the tiny table in my non-suite room in an F1 budget hotel (€35) eating my pizza and drinking my beers. I’m concerned that the medium pizza is too small and I only have a supplementary bar of chocolate. I’m about 130 miles away from Mannheim. The chocolate will probably make me stay awake and give me weird dreams.

We’re just past the middle of our peak foliage display here in Colorado’s glorious San Juan Mountains! What is considered ‘peak’ is usually the last two weeks of September through the first two weeks of October. So far, so good although I’m sad to report that many of the aspen families have suffered from the … Continue reading Mid-Fall Post

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Meta: Drive people directly to your website, shop or latest offer by adding a clickable link to your Instagram posts and reels. People can visit the website from your post or reel. If you subscribe to a Meta One plan, you can add links to a set number of posts and reels each month based on your plan: […] It seems utterly bananas to me that Meta is pitching links as a feature people need to pay for, but here we are. Instagram has never supported links of any kind in individual posts, so that is…

North of North is the best! With season two wrapping up earlier this week, I have to say I'm a little down that I'll have to wait until next year to watch Siaja continue her journey of self-exploration and connect with her greater family.Catch it on CBC, APTN, or Netflix.

a.k.a. Argumentum ad verecundiam a.k.a. Argument d'autorité Whatever the language, it sucks. As far as I can remember I always considered arguments from authority as the crappiest things I could ear, because as a child, it often meant I was too inquisitive, too logical, and therefore impertinent for the adults around me. At school I would be put in the dog box. At home I would get a slap or two in my face to teach me that being curious is naughty and definitely not a trait of character I should…

I got a chance to try PlayStation VR2 and tested it on two games: Horizon Call of the Mountain and Gran Turismo 7. Horizon Call of the Mountain Let’s start with a headline game of the headset, a new story in Horizon universe, which I like so much. And I must say the opening sequence is mind-blowing. After a few first missions, the Machine Safari is unlocked, where you ride a boat and see the full variety of machines, from Watcher and Grazer to Thunderjaw and Stormbird. Seeing them as if they…

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The Hollywood Heritage Museum in Los Angeles, Calif., 2026. For more of my photos, follow me on Instagram.About I My Book | Consulting I X I Instagram I LinkedIn I Email

https://www.bram.us/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/ie-page-transitions.mp4Recording of the demo showcasing all 23 RevealTrans effects. ~ Back in late 2024, I started working on a fun end-of-year side project named ie-page-transitions. It”s a CSS + JS library that brings back Microsoft Internet Explorer’s proprietary “Interpage Transitions” to modern browsers, powered by the View Transition API. After sitting unfinished for a while, I finally got all 23 classic effects over the finish line…

On the first day of October the sun was still shining and London was calling (to the faraway towns).My main aim was to visit the 2026 CAMRA Greater London pub of the year. The Cockpit in Chislehurst claims that accolade, one of the 16 winners throughout the country which get the chance to be beaten to overall winner by the Tamworth Tap.A direct train from central London would whisk me to Chislehurst too early for the pub, so I instead caught the non-stop service from Victoria to Bromley, from…

The Victorian Liberals did not win the 2022 Victorian State election. Indeed, especially in terms of seats, they were trounced by Labor. But they did present a substantial, though underpromoted, bus service upgrade agenda (largely developed by BusVic). To refresh your memory, Labor promised ambitious bus network reviews for Melbourne's north, north-east and Mildura, only to ditch that after the election before funding some more modest bus improvements in 2025 and 2026. Meanwhile the Victorian…

Philemon, fragment 31 Kassel and Austin (tr. T.F. Higham): I serve my master: you, and countless others, Are governed by convention. Some, again, Obey a tyrant, ruled himself by fear. Kings have their servants, but submit to gods: God, to Necessity. Considered well, All things in their degree give place, the small By nature's law made subject to the greater. ἐμοῦ γάρ ἐστι κύριος <μὲν> εἷς ἀνήρ, τούτου δὲ καὶ οοῦ μυρίων τ᾽ ἄλλων νόμος, ἑτέρων τύραννος, τῶν τυραννούντων φόβος· δοῦλοι βαοιλέων…

Last night my 9-year-old son was taunting my wife, complexity theorist Dana Moshkovitz, as follows: “mommy, I heard you got cooked! I heard that a robot solved the math problem you worked on for your whole career! OOF!” While my son was being a brat, he also wasn’t wrong. Whether you’re thrilled, depressed, angry, or whatever else about it, yesterday was surely one of the biggest days in mathematical history. And yes, among the 372 huge results released yesterday by OpenAI, on the…

(Sent to the Times Colonist – October 7 2026) Dear Editor, I must respond to Les Leyne’s column where he suggests Eby is betraying British Columbians by accusing one of the richest men in Canada, grocery and media tycoon Jimmy Pattison, of price gouging. I would like to add historic union busting and alleged … Continue reading "Re: Eby targets wrong billionaire, undermines Buy B.C. message"

Capitalism isn’t working.

Lots of people have been asking, and it’s finally here. In Beta, anyway. If you install Apple’s TestFlight software on your iPad (it’s the app they use for allowing you to beta test Apple apps), you can then use this link to join the NEO Pocket iOS testing group: https://testflight.apple.com/join/TWBXgyAa That should download NEO to your device, and then you can start testing! If you want NEO Pocket to share files with your desktop version of NEO, set the library location on the desktop version…

My new (October 2026) article on this question is here! In it, I try to address the issues that come up over and over in campaigns. I hope it will be useful not just for this US election season, but for many in the future. Read it here. The post Should I Vote for a Tax to Fund Public Transit? appeared first on Human Transit.

I’ve been listening to podcasts for over 20 years (and have had a couple of my own in that time) and honestly, these days the format is beyond saturated. In one sense, there are a lot of high quality, very well produced podcasts, but there is so much sameness out there. I subscribed to 34 movie podcasts and they all fall into two or three styles or topics. Poetry and book podcasts? 18. Lots of overlap. Shoot, there are no fewer than nine podcasts I follow just about The Golden Girls. Yet, even…

Every generation of management produces an instrument for turning intention into action, and every generation watches its instrument harden into ritual. Management by objectives was meant to replace supervision with purpose, and in a great many organisations it became an annual form. The balanced scorecard was meant to rescue strategy from the tyranny of the financial quarter, and it became a dashboard in four colours. Objectives and Key Results arrived as the corrective to both, and stands…

[This is a guest post by Raghu Meka. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “This problem has been tried by several famous mathematicians.” “There is a heuristic argument for why these methods cannot work.” “Getting this algorithm would give new circuit lower bounds.” Observations like these can take on a life of their own, almost like a game of telephone. A limitation of a particular approach, or an implication whose difficulty we do not…

📷 Joining in on the Photo page fun of @birming, sharing a single photo and updating it from time to time. https://bits.gobino.be/photo

In reading about John von Neumann, I was reminded that I've never found a PDF-reading system that's truly comfortable to me. So I made my own Web-based PDF reader. It is far from perfect, but is already my favorite PDF reader. Notes: There are many fine PDF readers out there, but I've never found one that (i) is very fast, (ii) handles note-taking, bookmarking, and highlighting comfortably, and (iii) makes file navigation easy. I also want keyboard-driven navigation and highlighting, so I…

I’m using neatstats for my blog as a beta tester (it’s a service from omg.lol and I love it!). Today I was not feeling well and I needed to write something fun but had no idea. I saw the link to the stats in my bookmarks bar, and was curious to see what posts were clicked on the most. I needed a little confidence boost, I guess. And boy, did it deliver! Here are my most visited posts since I started tracking on neatstats. Who I blog for Let go of your fantasy self Start using your hands, a sort…

Cover version of the month #124Harry Nilsson covers Badfinger ... and so does Mariah CareyI always thought that Without You was a Harry Nilsson song, and ... it kind of is. I guess I came to this conclusion because his name was mentioned regularly back in 1994 when Mariah Carey took the song to number 1. In fact, the song was written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of the Welsh band Badfinger who released albums via Apple and received huge support from Paul McCartney. Macca wrote Come And Get It for…

So Hormizd IV was dealing with a civil war when a successful military leader decided he was destined to lead the Iranian Empire. Hormizd asked his general Farrukhan to leave the army and put down the rebllion. Before setting out, Farrukhan requested that Hormizd release a political prisoner, Zadspram, a military leader whom Farrukhan considered important to success. Zadspram was released.The armies of Hormizd under Farrukhan faced the army of Bahram Chobin across the River Zab. Neither wanted…

Last time, the agents were escaping sandboxes and frightening everyone with visions of runaway AI. Now they’ve come home, put on the butler uniform and started keeping notes on Brenda. If you missed the first episode, start with https://thecynicalnerd.bearblog.dev/please-consider-using-bartholmew-to-defend-your-systems/ Well, apparently having an AI agent book flights, answer email and rescue us from the administrative sewage of modern life was too normal. We have now reached the stage of…