Paints to clean up and brushes to wash. The roof is now so wet, that any more paint is going to cause colours to start blending where want I was is layers. Brushes down and I tease myself for uncharacteristically... Read More ›

I am one week into two weeks off and I am bored out of my mind. I wrote in Never Satisfied that I don't know how to be a person who isn't in training, that I am just a bloke who is tired and I don't like him much. I have now spent a week with him and I was right.I was looking forward to a couple of weeks to relax a little and recoup, as my body was really tired after the 70.3 and then the Robin Hood Half. Every plan I have ever followed has rest in it and I never want to do it. There are no…

The website Players, based in Kyiv, recently posted an anniversary retrospective of Prince of Persia 3D — the game published by Red Orb in 1999. I thought I'd contribute a bit of the back story behind this often-overlooked POP title. In the summer and fall of 1993, with Prince of Persia 2 on store shelves and selling well, Broderbund was eager for another 2D sequel. This fit my plans: I was launching my own game studio, Smoking Car Productions, to make The Last Express, and having a development…

I wasn't overly bothered about going fishing, but Sam had got his fishing mojo back and fancied a trip to the syndicate stretch in search of a chub or barbel, with the added bonus of perhaps catching a pike or zander. Naturally, this meant we were going fishing, and naturally, all the gear needed sorting out by me because, well, it always bloody is! After dinner, with everything packed and the Jimny fired up, we headed off to the river. The jungle drums had been beating for a while, as Neil…

There's something wonderfully nostalgic about a classic Boston Cream Pie - that beautifully moist vanilla layer cake filled with thick silky homemade custard and finished with a glossy semi-sweet chocolate glaze.Despite it's name, it's not a pie at all, but a timeless dessert that's been loved for generations and still feels special every time you make it. This version inspired by the trusted Fannie Farmer Cooking School Cookbook is one I have relied on for decades. Its simple, reliable and…

The more I look into little unknown women photographers that have risked or lost their lives to show what was happening in the world, the more I’m in awe of them. One such photographer was Camille Lepage. She worked as a photojournalist for about three years. In those three short years, she made about sixty thousand photos. Mainly from Sudan, South Sudan and the Central African Republic. Of those sixty thousands, she curated herself about a thousand before she was killed in May 2014 at…

By the time we realised, it was obvious that we were too late. For decades at least, philosophers — and scientists, latterly — had been warning us. You can’t have one thing without the other, they said; no upside without downside. They were of the opinion that there was a single trajectory, inevitable due to the nature of human beings and by extension their work, that would lead inexorably to a single outcome. They were wrong. About the outcome, but not the process. We ought to have seen it…

Preorder Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster! Session zeros help you and your players get on track to play a great adventure or campaign together. They help your players understand the specific game they're playing in, how their characters are involved, and help you all agree about the content you're all bringing to the game. The topics covered in session zeros may be even more important for convention games or one-off games with players you don't necessarily know because you may never have played…

This is the King's Road, Chelsea's classic cultural artery. Here are ten mini-posts about the famous street and what I saw there yesterday. 1) The King in question was Charles II who had it built as a private road to speed his passage to Kew Palace. Access was later extended to the nobility but only if they were in possession of a special token, with plebs forced to travel via the parallel Fulham Road instead. Only in 1830 was the King's Road fully opened up to allcomers, kickstarting wider…

We're back now. Sorry for the interuption. If you like the site, please tell your family and friends about it. This is the time. Democrats Are Rethinking Their Mail-in-Voting Strategy Absentee voting never used to be controversial—until Donald Trump got a bee in his bonnet about how banning it would help Republicans. It is true that Democrats use it more than Republicans, but Trump can't even think a half-move ahead in checkers, let alone win at 3-D chess. Democrats often use it to avoid…

My work’s slack is filled with messages that start with “here is what my Claude said” followed by a long vomit of text. This is a cry to stop it, please. There is an assumption that your LLM produces better output than mine. That your prompting skills are so advanced that mine pale in comparison. I should be honored to read the slop your AI generates. No, just no. I can ask the tool the same question to have it return the same answer, without needing to read your garbage.

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With AI writing more of our code, I keep coming back to the testing discussion. Are unit tests still useful? How much confidence do they give us when an agent writes both the implementation and the tests? I still want unit tests for business rules. But I also want to open the application, add something to a cart, and complete a checkout. An end-to-end test checks whether those pieces work together, through the interface someone uses. The problem is the waiting. If I change checkout validation,…

It wasn’t my idea, my city or my band. The post Not My Band, Not My City – Gorillaz in Montreal first appeared on Correr Es Mi Destino.

Autumn is here - though you wouldn't believe it. Bright sunshine and low, clear rivers. Far from ideal conditions for pike - but an 18lb 9oz beauty eventually slipped up (lean fish, definitely be a twenty in February). Cracking fight and a great start to the season.

I’ve always wanted my own workout tracking app. Something I can use at the gym and change whenever I don’t like how it works. Last weekend I started building it with AI, using Codex to do the implementation while I decide what I want and review the result. I think this could become a small series about the things I learn along the way. The first one is about exercise icons, because that part surprised me. A workout tracker needs exercises. And once you have a long list of exercises, you want…

Serial killers exist despite hour of the day or political temperament of a country. However, their sordid crimes do illuminate the underbelly of society. During the Nazi occupation of Paris in the late 1930's and early 40's, Marcel Petiot used the cover of the Holocaust to murder dozens of people and then the ensuing collapse of the city to evade arrest (read the excellent book "Death in the City of Light"). Of course, there's also German killer Peter Kurten whose crimes have spawned a variety…

I’m hopeful I’ll have an official v0.1.0 of Wattle soon :)

Speaking of string interpolation, I loved this recurring gag in BoJack Horseman: #humor

I think of Edwin Arlington Robinson as an autumnal poet, just as certain others are vernal. Even when the ostensible subject is elsewhere, the fall shows up in his work as setting or mood. His was a sensibility sensitive to time’s passage, endings, sundown, the imminence of winter and death. But he’s seldom morbid or maudlin. The title character in “Mr.Flood’s Party” says to himself one night: “‘Well, Mr. Flood, we have the harvest moon / Again, and we may not have many more . . .’” On October…

Memory or Dream? Reykjavík, October 31, 2025 24 Days to Iceland!

Hey friend! Welcome to a fresh new edition of Stuff. It's good to see you!Stuff I've WrittenWho you would stop being. The last barrier to career change is almost never the one you say out loud.From the Archive: Why this manager is still learning: my new Coaching Journey. Where this started, a while before it became the plan.Stuff I'm ReadingPeople who can endure boredom are more productiveOur brains are gambling addicts. Why we don’t see reality, but we spend time trying to predict it.The…

A little reorganisation of the storage boxes vacated some space for my Army of the Solemn League and Covenant. Here's the second of two new units.A return to painting after a very Scottish-centric focus for most of last year, sees a Covenanter commanded shot unit come to life: Sir Alexander Fraser of Philorth's Firelocks. Philforth's served in the Bishops' Wars and on the Preston campaign in the Second Civil War.Sir Alexander Fraser was born in 1604, the grandson of Alexander Fraser of…

Only in its 5th year of operation, the Le Guin Fiction prize has already become something of a critical darling, with very interesting shortlists and winners that rarely overlap with other genre awards. Critic and reviewer Roseanna Pendlebury returns to the podcast to share opinions and insights on the nine books on this year’s list. Credits: Guest: Roseanna Pendlebury Titles: The Ursula K. Le Guin Fiction Prize Shortlist, 2026 Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press) Sunward by William…

sourcewidder writes about how blocking is merely used for disagreement rather than a proper moderation tooland, having been on the other side of that way too many times i 100% agree with thisi think people are way too trigger happy to completely cut people off and its terrifyingit feels like theyre just completely denying your existance or that you have any valueand theres no chance to ever improveexcept on the off chance they maybe unblock youliberal blocking can lead to worrying way too much…

The seventh spread, a week about what comes along with you, and a new name for the series.

Time to hit that other center of teen action outside of the high school in the 1980s; the mall. Oh. So, I decided that this year, even when I watch multiple movies on the same day, I am going to give them each their own post unless they are obviously related by theme or sequels and the like. It makes it easier for me to come back and find a particular movie if I need to. Chopping Mall (1986)Ok. I'll admit it. I like this movie. It is goofy and weird. Plus, it has a strong cast, including the…

Mauricius and Giovanni Galbaio were the seventh and eighth doges of Venice. Together, they ruled the duchy for almost four decades.

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