I thought the last book was terrifying, but this one is way, way worse. Although both books involve both mankind making bad choices as well as supernatural forces, this one is one that is more likely to happen in real life. Because it is mentioned in the first paragraph or two, I do not feel like it is a spoiler to say that this book involves Cleric Chih going to gather stories from a town that suffered from an incredible famine some 11 years prior.Full post

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Another week has come and gone, and it's time to check out the handful of links sitting in my Raindrop.io "For Consideration" category.Welcome to the second ever, Lyte Bites.🛠️ First Timers Only from Scott and KentAs someone who's definitely a #CodeNewbie, or maybe whatever the stage before that would be, I'm definitely intrigued by the possibility that I might be able to still find ways to meaningfully understand what it would take to contribute to an open source project or two.🧭 Go Make…

Philocoffea is a coffee shop founded by Tetsu Kasuya, winner of the 2016 World Brewers Cup. Even if you haven’t heard of him, you may have heard of his famous “4:6” method for making pour-over coffee. Their first branch opened in 2018 in Chiba, and they have since expanded to five stores, including this Omotesando store which only recently opened in 2025. The store is tucked away down a flight of stairs. I visited around midday on a Saturday, but surprisingly it wasn’t too crowded. The interior…

Usually I just review toys and action figures but right now I'm a very proud dad; my daughter, Adora, just showed me this piece of art she's been working on. I'm pretty impressed by it! Her talents have doubled since I last showed them off, right?

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours The kiln Brick Lane takes its name from the brick works that once filled Spitalfields and I always wondered how it was in those former times. So you can imagine my delight to visit Bulmer Brick & Tile Company in Suffolk, where bricks have been made since 1450, and be granted a glimpse of that lost world. My guide on this journey through time was Peter Minter who has been making bricks in the traditional way for seventy years. He began by taking…

the latest typhoon is typhoon 27 "choi-wan", still going...at least it didn't come too close to mainland Japan, though we did have clouds and drizzles some daystyphoon 28 "nolo", this one was started in Mexico, passed by the Big Island of Hawaii and turned from a hurricane to a typhoon...and is still going..."just in time" for our next 3-day weekend...boo!typhoon 29 "koguma", still kinda far away

A Taste of Terror: October Begins with Vincent Price October has arrived, which means the ordinary rules of the kitchen are officially suspended here at The Last Drive In. This is the month for the smell of freshly fallen leaves in the air, strange candlelight coming from the uncanny shadows, and black cats in the … Continue reading The Porch Light Is On: October Has Arrived at The Last Drive In!

Server chips traditionally offered less single threaded performance than contemporary client parts. Higher core counts translate to less power per core, and the complex interconnect required to connect many cores often suffer from higher latency as well. However, that trend has been narrowing. AMD’s recent server chips have been pushing higher frequencies over the last couple generations. NVIDIA’s Olympus is another aggressive move to push server single threaded performance forward, but…

I went to the #Oxford event tonight with a slightly awkward position in mind. Before going, I wrote that the #mainstreaming people would probably be idealistic about cynical politics, while I was going to be cynical about idealistic politics. My aim wasn’t to pick a fight. I wanted to stay positive, avoid the usual political trench warfare, and try to build a bridge between idealism and the messy reality of power. The event was “Democratic Resilience: What Do We Need to Know?”, a panel at the…

krakenartificer:Higgledy piggledy,olden French bakerystoring its loaves in adouble-doored shed.Inspector approachingthe inner door op'ningto find a cow casu'llylicking the bread. Okay I love this poem so much but I need to point out that a double dactyl has quite a complicated fixed structure, and this poem doesn’t quite meet it. In particular, one line (preferably the second line of the second stanza), must be a single double-dactyl word. Also, while rhyming extra lines isn’t exactly…

The rocky shoreline of California’s Muir Beach. The post Rugged Edge appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Title stolen from jedda's series. I like her description of it - not quite week notes, more intermittent, but still a little bit of structure. Not too many links or photos or things that add friction to the act of posting. Who knows if there will even be a second post of this. I'm not officially making this a Thing or anything. I just wanted to dump about how I've been doing recently. September was long and short. It feels like it's been eons since Blaugust ended, and yet I also feel like the…

Yesterday, Toucant Sam shared a very funky post called Roll to Move HP where they made a convincing argument: ...if 5e’s HP system was turned into a stand alone racing game, every space on the track would be blank In this post, they meditated on converting a very popular roll-to-move game into a first-person shooter RPG - you should already be reading their post instead of mine, but when you're ready to report back we can get to my point. I want to posit a hypothetical more "traditional"…

Making an attempt to build live-bootstrap up to and including the Tiny C Compiler 0.9.27.

I got an email from Dawn Patrol (dawnpatrol.cloud) HERE IS YOUR MONTHLY SURF SUMMARY SEPTEMBER 14 sessions That makes 3.3 sessions per week 363 waves That is an average of 25.9 waves per session 378 feet was the length of your longest wave this month. On Fri Sep 11 2026 at Ocean Beach. Your total distance surfed this month was 5.5 mi I like knowing I’m in the water 3.3 times per week. Even though that average doesn’t really mean 3.3 times. On any given day I can go or not go. 1 or 0. But when…

A few months ago I set out to learn how program verification works. I tried Lean and Dafny, but kept wondering how verification actually worked. To find out, DeepSeek and I built Frml, which is a very simple imperative language with its own verifier. This post walks through the Frml verification engine, explaining how a Frml program becomes Boolean logic that the Z3 solver can check, and what Z3 does with that logic. The language and its verifier are layered: the scalar level handles…

Today the Warner Archive Collection announced their late November releases.Titles coming to Blu-ray on November 24th:*BOMBSHELL (1933)*THE DEVIL'S BROTHER (1933)*DOUBLE WEDDING (1937)*BACHELOR MOTHER (1939)*BABES IN ARMS (1939)*MY FAVORITE WIFE (1940)*JOHNNY EAGER (1941)*THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS (1947)*THE BELLE OF NEW YORK (1952)*THE CHARGE AT FEATHER RIVER (1953)*THE YOGI BEAR SHOW (1961-63)There are a number of "must have" discs here!Post

Started rereading the Dune universe a week ago, in chronological order.Halfway through entry 2 of 37. This could take a while.Hoping the Xteink X4 helps me kick the doomscrolling habit.

Guten Tag! Guten Tag! 👋Do you know that fetch has two phases? Are you wishing for a better way than CSP to control outgoing network connections? And should you ship import maps in your sites? Turn on the Web Weekly tune and find some answers below. Enjoy! ::: song by="Ellen" title="Joshua Idehen - Mum Does The Washing" youtube="PS9Bc_GQBEs" The first time I heard it, I laughed out loud. The second time, I laughed quietly. The third time, I got up and hung out the laundry that had been sitting…

I joined the Green Party of England and Wales in 2014. It was good to have a political home again. I had once been a member of the Labour Party, but left in 1994 after Tony Blair became leader; it was immediately clear to me that a Blair Labour party was nothing I wanted to have anything to do with. That was not a choice I ever came to regret. While my politics have always been broadly socialist, it was by 2014 very obvious to me that the single most important political issue facing the world…

Edie doesn’t know it, but two days after this photo was taken she’ll be riding in a car. She’ll get to sit on top a padded box instead of inside a cat carrier so she can look out the car window — this makes the experience one thousand percent better. And she’ll land at a place with nice wall-to-wall carpeting and two kind souls to ensure she may continue to manifest bliss. Bliss being: food, sleep and the occasional but specific scritches, rubs and warm laps. Currently Listening: nabeel - نبيل…

The clock strikes Midnight — 12 o’clock. Mind screaming, body a rock. Too tired to wake, too awake to sleep, frightened of tomorrow’s beep-beep. WHAT THE FUCK!? My mind is racing like a bike, like Road Rash, where I did strike opponents with a foot or chain — WHY WON'T YOU JUST SHUT UP BRAIN! Struggling, but losing the fight. The boy needs fresh clothes tomorrow for sports, so he doesn’t have to borrow. Also what about the broken box? Rubber band or — OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE, WHAT A HORROR? Little…

Just over a year ago, I resigned from my position as a staff software engineer and left the industry for about 6 months, during which I substitute taught public schools. It was a great break and much needed after building a startup from 5 to 50 engineers and taking another one through an acquisition. In February I accepted a software engineering position and I’ve enjoyed it. However, the company is very much “in” on “AI”1, as it seems most every company is these days, so I’ve been making heavy…

A very walkable block!For most of its one mile length, Washington Avenue SE is the very model of a walkable residential street. It's a little out of my way, but on such a pleasant day as this, it's a nice way to walk from my home to my church or my office. It has houses close to the street, fronted by windows and doors not blank walls, and such trees that survived the 2020 derecho provide a comforting canopy. It's not long on destinations for a purposeful walk, but along my way there's an…

Douglas Lyons' Table 17 opens with something of a personal theatrical nightmare for me: An announcement informing the audience that any time a character in the play asks a question, we are very much expected to answer it. The effect this has probably varies from performance to performance but, combined with the glitterball and pre-show soundtrack of hen night favourites, tonight it resulted in an evening of whooping, heckling, gasping, shrieking and yaaaas queening to make a 1980s American…

My first tabletop roleplaying game was D&D 4th edition. I would wager most folks have a dragon game as their first, but mine was one of the crunchiest, most-hated editions. In many ways, 4e is closer to a skirmish wargame than a roleplaying game. Creating characters and optimizing builds is emphasized more than actual play in the community. The main 4e Discord server has a build-chat channel that’s more popular than most other channels combined. The looking-for-game channel sits quietly,…