I'm not generally one to be paternalistic in how we treat our employees. My mantra's closer to: "We're all adults here, folks." But we're also all humans here, folks. In today's post, we'll have a delicate conversation about why you might want to split your new business sales team from your expansion and renewals teams.I’m sure your company has spent plenty of time discussing who owns what across land, expand, and renew. You’ve probably approached it from first principles, learned from recent…

They could take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay. Trump suggests he would let Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles or San Diego (As a person who resides in San Diego, I disagree) Sign my Guestbook | Contact Me

A sensitive mind is a curse sometimes. You remember everything. That remark someone made. How they made it. How much emphasis they placed on which word. What their expression was while saying it. How many jokes they made at your expense. How much they were relishing it. How many people were genuinely laughing at it. It feels like a curse. It affects how you deal with people too. You notice them more deeply. How they say things. Whether they meant them. How much they want you. The gap between…

When I was a college sophomore, I had four roommates. We'd all been randomly assigned to the same dormitory floor as freshmen and liked each other enough to give it a go in a large two-bedroom house just off campus.Many of our other friends from the dorms had joined fraternities, but none of us saw ourselves as the frat boy type. Our house was located to the west of the majority of the frat houses, so we mockingly called ourselves Frat West. Our joke caught on. One evening, while I was there…

On Mastodon I try to write a list of 3 good things every day. It’s such a great habit to have and I decided that, instead of attempting to update my now page, I’d make this post, wildly inspired by this post by cygnoir! I’ve finished a headband in nålebinding and I love it so much! Just look at the beautiful pattern it creates. detail of my headband in purple wool I went to Amsterdam, hitching a ride with my husband. It was SO nice to have a couple hours in the city centre. I brought the…

Times have changed. The old rules no longer apply. Our foes have grown in strength. We must adapt. Don’t worry. I gotchu. In Remonstered! The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, every monster’s tactics are updated to reflect the recent changes to their stat blocks in the 2025 Monster Manual and accompanied by brand-new tips to […] The post Now Available: Remonstered! appeared first on The Monsters Know What They’re Doing.

Last night I dreamed that Earl and I had moved into an apartment outside of Boston, in a somewhat rural area somewhere along the 495 corridor. I’m familiar with that area; I lived there in the late 1980s and early 1990s when I worked for Digital (DEC). It’s a pleasant area, especially the rural bits near Stow, Littleton, and Acton. It’s just close enough to Boston to make the big city enjoyable, but it provides a retreat from the hustle and bustle. I woke up with a smile and a pleasant vibe. As…

Now that we have a functioning Forth interpreter on the Sega SG-1000, it’s time to actually finish hooking up the keyboard input. Because I considered this task to be a little mind-numbing, I’ve put it off for years. How long do you think it took me to figure out? About an hour. One day, I’ll learn. The story thus far A few years ago, I was playing around with the Sega version of BASIC for the Sega SG-1000 game console. It was sort of the celebratory lap after adding keyboard support to the…

I was watching this video from the Google IO on all the new web UI features that are coming to the web platform and I was blown away by how many of these features are already available in modern browsers. In this article, I want to highlight 7 of these features that I think are game-changing and that you can start using today (of course, in some of the modern browsers). CSS Text Box CSS Scrollspy Contrast Color The hidey bar using @scroll-state query Gap Decorations The light-dark() function…

[This is a guest post by Thomas Bloom, crossposted from the Erdős problems forum. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] AI is changing everything, for better and/or worse, and the rate of change is dizzying; in recent months this has been particularly evident in mathematics, where AI has gone from being essentially useless to helping solve some of the hardest problems in mathematics in less than a year. The website…

Well, today is National Noodle Day and so I figured I ought to do something, so here I am, doing something for a day with no origin story other than it started showing up in calendars at the turn of the 21st century. As far as for me, my origins figure into this one. I got it at Uwajimaya recently; the place where I initially saw my first ramen aisle many, many years ago as a child. Times have changed; import rules have pushed varieties we might have seen in the 80s disappear. It’s sad. This…

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Several challenges lie ahead of me, which is why I'm giving it a lot of thought. This includes reviewing some of the tools I use to see if they will still meet future requirements.A key tool is the RSS reader, which works reliably but repeatedly reaches its limits. This means that at least one more service is needed to implement what I want to achieve. Although I already have more than enough projects and unfinished business, this topic occupied me so much over the weekend that I decided to…

Louie Mantia has a great post about how app icons are converging towards the squircle on iOS and macOS. His post reads like a history. If you’re wondering, “How did we get to a place where all app icons are becoming squircles?” Mantia’s post answers that question by starting at the beginning. It’s hard to walk away from Mantia’s article without a sense of empathy for Apple’s position, like “Oh ok, I get why they’re doing what they’re doing. It makes sense.” Apple’s direction is kind of a tacit…

This week’s theme: Jazz versions of songs that celebrate the autumn season, inspired by the beauty of the leaves changing here in lovely Berkshire County, Ma. Featured artists include Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, Hank Jones, Sam Jones, Art Blakey, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Johnny Hartman, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Anita O’Day, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Phil Woods, Billie Holiday, Flip Phillips, Oscar Peterson, Barney Kessell, Ray Brown, Isaiah J. Thompson, Dexter…

Micheal Wade argues that, in the age of AI, it’s time to get rehumanized. I agree.

I wrote macOS Tahoe silently sabotaged the login keychain on September 10 and macOS 26.4 silently enabled login keychain data protection on September 21. These blog posts necessarily included some conjecture, because Apple itself was silent on the issue. It turns out that nobody outside of Apple fully understood the technical details. On September 24, six months after the release of macOS 26.4, Apple finally provided some documentation by adding a new section Backing up a file-based keychain to…

BOUGHT: Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham—The Deluxe Edition (DC Comics) Mesmo Delivery and The Dark Knight Returns: The Golden Child artist Rafael Grampa's Batman epic is an instant classic, a must-read masterpiece of a graphic novel that is the best Batman comic, perhaps the best superhero comic, in recent memory. The book began life as 2023-2026 four-issue Black Label miniseries (when you see Grampa's art, you'll understand why it took years to publish four issues), and is now available between a…

I ran a half marathon on my birthday for the second year in a row and nobody in my family was surprised. They are used to it by now, and me doing something stupid to mark the day has become a bit of a running joke in our extended family.Birthdays have never really been my thing. At the same point every year my wife wants to buy me presents and we have the same circular conversation, where no amount of telling her there is nothing I want or need seems to matter. To me it's a celebration for…

The midterm elections are less than a month away in the United States. Where I live, early voting is possible beginning on October 13th. One week from today. I’ve printed the ballot and plan to vote my dissatisfaction with the Republican Party. The Legislative Branch has abdicated their duty. They have failed to defend the Constitution by allowing Trump to set policy. He has used this allowance to issue arbitrary tariffs. Start trade wars. Announce annexations of foreign allies. Create goon…

Code as Art I covered this before in Art or tool? If you think of software as artistic output then generated software isn’t real because it doesn’t have the creative ineffability that’s a sign of true art. There’s no argument against this one except that the people who want software typically aren’t paying for artworks, they’re paying for outcomes. And the outcomes of using a given artefact are the same regardless of how the artefact is made. That also means there’s no argument for this one,…

This is a very traditional dish that I have had countless times since my childhood, although I’ve only recently started making it. I’ve made all the different parts in other meals, so nothing was particularly surprising. For the base you’re aiming for a thick, rich gravy and a deep umami flavour. The recipe isn’t prescriptive, red wine would work, maybe a little soy sauce. Growing up I had only ever heard of cottage pie, shepherd’s pie wasn’t really a thing. Years later I was told that the…

My Clearleft colleagues have made this tool to check if your colour palette has enough contrast to be accessible. But let’s face it, the best part is the name—chef’s kiss! This hue shall pass is an accessibility tool that helps you review and refine your brand’s digital colour palette. It shows you a matrix of all possible colour combinations and which ones pass or fail your accessibility criteria. It then helps you make adjustments to unlock more usable combinations. adactio.com/links/22788

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by Joanna Sodeman-Taylor Forget spectacle, forget box office, forget IP and star power. Digger? I hardly know her! The biggest, most epic movie of the year is Julia Loktev’s six-hour documentary My Undesirable Friends: Part II - Exile, a continuation of last year’s Part I, subtitled Last Air in Moscow. That film followed roughly a dozen journalists, most of them women, at the independent reporting outfit known as TV Rain. These folks had already spent years operating as “undesirables” or…

October 7, 1998 was the premiere of Charmed on The WB. Just seven months after the premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the show would be most often compared to. By this point, I had been writing about witches for a decade, but hadn't published anything yet (one more year). But I want to talk about what Charmed taught me about witches, specifically, what Charmed taught me about witches in NIGHT SHIFT.Charmed (1998 - 2006, 2018-2022)Charmed was about witches. But this was a different take than…

‘@Play‘ is a frequently-appearing column which discusses the history, present, and future of the roguelike dungeon exploring genre. The opening to NAQBU, a free web game, certainly makes all the right references. Its name first shows up as MORIA, and its similarities to Robert Alan Koeneke’s early roguelike are obvious. If you sit at its title screen, it also shouts out to the makers of Rogue, Hack, Larn, NetHack, Omega, Angband and ADOM. I feel like this game was made for me directly: I’ve…

I've run out of houseplant ideas so now I'm on to produce. 41 Apricots These are a really beautiful orange color. Some apricots on a plate

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