Philadelphia, PA After visiting family in town and walking all around old city we needed a little boost. We found this place just off South Street. It's a cute little shop with a few tables inside and two out front. We both ordered a cold brew and I got a chocolate chip cookie. The cold brew is a little weak but still refreshing and has a good flavor.

Running Claude Code on a remote machine via ssh. Due to still-unresolved feelings of how-much-of-this-work-is-really-mine when using AI tools, I’m trying to make it as obvious as possible when I use them, and give away as much of the output as possible. I also like what I get out of the tools, but I don’t trust the tools themselves. As Apple is beginning to allude to (or… perhaps outright states) with their Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS article, AI tools with unbounded access on end user…

It's fair to say that if I didn't have my planner, my life would fall apart. This year, I've been organizing my life with a Cavallini Papers & Co. pocket-sized weekly planner, which I bought for about $11 at Barnes & Noble. Every single year, Hobonichi season comes around and nearly sweeps me up with their beautifully delicate designs and promises of a more organized (if not aesthetically pleasing) life, and every year I decide the cost isn't worth it. 2027 will be no different. But I only…

I have a test that I used to give my vertical salespeople: if I dropped you into an industry cocktail party, how long could you last before someone figured out you didn’t work in the industry?The A+ outcome was that, after 20 minutes of talking with (for example) a group of senior publishing executives, someone would ask, “So, Larry, what publisher do you work for?” Larry would reply, “Oh, I don’t work for a publisher. I work at a software company that serves the media industry.”That was the…

hello all my lovelies! to celebrate the turn of the month, we bring you a new lavender (aka "all things queer!") carnival, with a rather eggcellent topic to sink your teeth into. (do not take this as a directive to sink one's teeth into a raw egg, i repeat, do not–) anyway. the question for october's lavender carnival blog post: "who was your purple egg-crack character(s)?"beyond just the traditional defintion of "egg crack", this topic encompasses and could mean any fictional/non-fictional…

Things I did Finished a bunch of tickets so I can focus on the major projects we have going on at work. I’d much rather work on projects this time of year. Began an upgrade project to adjust how we run some backups. Found I’ve been using some outdated modules and time to upgrade a few things. Enjoyed the massive amounts of rain we got. Things I read I didn’t expect USB-C AA batteries to be this good, but here we are IndieWeb Fiction Carnival September 2026 - Moonlight Eavesdropping Does Not…

Unfortunately I had to miss the opening concert of the 2026/7 season by National Symphony Orchestra Ireland at the National Concert Hall, especially since it was Mahler’s epic Resurrection Symphony. That was three weeks ago and last night was the first time I managed to make it to a concert at the National Concert Hall this season. Earlier this week I was thinking that, although I’ve been walking to and from the NCH on Fridays quite frequently since I moved to Ireland almost 9 years ago, I’ve…

Album of the Week, October 3, 2026 The last studio album Sheila Chandra released on Real World was rather different than its predecessors. While Weaving My Ancestors’ Voices explored the intersections among British folk song and traditional South Asian ragas (among others), and The Zen Kiss added in themes of the lived experience of women across multiple cultures, ABoneCroneDrone strips away much of the experience, as well as language. What’s left is drone and pure melody. In some ways ABCD is…

Oh my god, the release of this game has always seemed to be some far off nebulous thing in the future and now I go into Early access with Ridiculous Space Battles NEXT MONTH. Argghhh. To put that into perspective, the last time I released a ‘new’ game was Democracy 4 and that was (checks steam…) January 2022. OVER FOUR YEARS. Oh my god what happened? Well the short answer is that this happened: I built a solar farm, and it took forever, and it was stressful, but its mine and I love it :D. But…

Friend Fabian writes to tell us about a German law allowing for a prisoner’s right to escape. Sure enough, Wikipedia explains: Escaping from prison isa criminal offense in countries such as the United States and Canada, and usually results in time being added to the inmate’s sentence … In Germany and a number of other countries, it is considered human nature to want to escape from a prison and it is considered as a violation of the right of freedom, so escape is not penalized in itself (in the…

People are people, and they will always disappoint you. Sooner or later, they will find a way to do so. There are no exceptions. You will be disappointed by your parents, your partners, your children, and almost everyone else you encounter in life. That disappointment will hurt. It will force you to reassess your understanding of the world. Every such experience will trigger a sense of hopelessness within you, making you question whether there is anyone out there with whom you can truly be…

Steve Schickel CP-1333 - Don't Lie Williams-Hart, Windy City Music CP-1334 - What A NightWatts-Trace-Bohme Foremost FM 115 November 11, 1957, Billboard Location : Chicago, Illinois Note : this is NOT the Kansas City Foremost label. Steve Schickel was record editor for The Chicago Tribune, deejay for three years on WGN, free-lance promotion man, music and coin reporter for The Billboard, Mercury public-relations director (1960-1962) and WGN newsman from 1962 This Foremost release is his second…

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[This is a guest post by Jennifer Taback. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] Recently I have read a stream of articles questioning the future of mathematics: what constitutes a proof, what we value, how we retain the human enterprise of creating knowledge. Many of these articles are written by mathematicians making significant progress on the conjectures that shape their fields, whose work is now imperiled by the capabilities of…

Book Riot notifies us that Libro.fm and Silent Book Club are, for the second year, marking Banned Books Week by organizing read-ins of banned books from October 4th to 10th. More than four hundred libraries and bookshops will be hosting these read-ins. At this link there’s a map which will enable you to find a nearby event. Attendees will be encouraged to take local action: for example preparing for school or library board meetings, writing postcards to representatives, and signing petitions.…

I don’t know what this post will be, a trip report? For background, maybe a month ago I found myself spending too much time on the unproductive side of the web, the feeds and algorithms have a way of creeping up on you, taking over your whole existence, and so again set up my system of task-specific user accounts and PWA:s to add friction between work, social media, and other tasks.

If the Iranian Empire under the Sassanian Emperor Khosrow I (531 - 579) had an official religion, it would be Zoroastrianism. In fact, Khosrow's older brother was deemed unsuitable to succeed their father as emperor because he supported an offshoot of Zoroastrianism (called Mazdakism after its chief proponent).Khosrow's interest in accepting "the good" in other cultures extended to tolerance of other religions. (Unless, of course, it was the "heretical" Mazdakism.) Sassanians were aware of…

August Lamm, the anti-tech artist we interviewed in the still-just-about-available Issue 18, has a new book out called You Don’t Need a Smartphone. And you know what? You probably don’t need a smartphone. Personally, I’ve made peace with having one, but it repays to rethink these things. The considered life and all. In August’s latest newsletter, she explains that publishers no longer send authors on book tours, so she’s decided to cross the USA on her own terms and at her own expense. For a…

CompleteTheHaiga is a haiku, senryu and tanka prompt project with images created by Josiah. All haiku by Cendrine Marrouat. Source

Yesterday I accompanied Mrs N – who is rather keener on this sort of thing than I am – to an event in the cathedral titled 'Keeping the Faith: Can Christianity Save the West?' Three good guest speakers were lined up – Jamie Franklin, author of The Great Return: Why Only a Restoration of Christianity Can Save Western Civilisation; Bijan Omrani, author of God Is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England; and Nick Spencer, author of Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of…

Skawo over on Youtube explains a lot of early 3D Zelda weirdnesses well, and they have a new video (8 minutes) explaining a great strangeness in Ocarina 3D on the 3DS. Here it is, a basic summary follows: The scene: Lon Lon Range. The time: Adult Link’s period. The event: rescuing Epona from farm usurper Ingo. To do it, you have to beat Ingo in two races, each two laps, around the pasture. The basic gise is that, in the 3DS version only, for some reason walking away from the race while it’s…

I bought this from an earnest young man outside a university campus. It was freshers week. I was just leaving a poetry writing workshop at a local bookshop, when the red caught my attention. It asked me to join the revolution. But I just felt tired thinking about it. I thought my husband would appreciate it, as I paid £2 into the young man’s card machine using my iPhone for the newspaper. Now I feel positively radical walking around with such incendiary ideas tucked away inside my bag. For…

There are lots of skills involved in being a successful engineer at a big tech company. Running effective meetings, writing good design docs, fleshing out tickets and epics, improving team processes, tech leading small groups of engineers, and so on. But all of these rest on the foundation of being able to ship. In Dota 2, the early game involves “laning”: competing with an enemy player to collect resources from a small area. There are many, many strategies and considerations involved in…

Following my recent post about not checking Mastodon, a reader raised an interesting privacy concern regarding Webmentions. They explained that they had stopped using Webmentions altogether because Fediverse users often don't realise - or explicitly consent to - their replies being republished on an external blog. This surprised me, as I'd never considered that Webmentions could be a privacy concern. To my mind, a public post on an open platform like Mastodon is precisely that: public. The…

From the journal of Amsir the Crippled, written in sprawling, loopy letters. Spattered with blood and sweat. These old ruins are filled with deadly sorts. During the action today I took a shot. Scribbling this down to try and make sense of it. My ribs hurt. The day started with Artorias, Merlin, and Vennkat searching ruins for anything worthwhile. They uncovered a snake, some old books, and a building with a chained up spiritless. I called to the creature, checked to see if it was capable of…

An antique herb useful as a decorative plant, as well as for its cucumber-flavored leaves. Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) has been used by humans for at least 2000 years, gracing the gardens of Ancient Greece, Rome, Victorian Britain, and Mount Vernon. Today we'll take a look at its background and history, and go over how... Read More The post Salad Burnet appeared first on Forager | Chef .

This is my daily post #701. This last 100 posts felt like crossing the final line in a marathon, without realizing how you got there. It was just one foot in front of the other—or one post after the other. My daily writing started in Nov 1st, 2024. I was recovering from burnout and writing was my way of bringing joy back to my life. I knew writing would take me somewhere else. And I was right. It’s one of the habits has changed my life. In these last 100 days, my blog turned 8 years, I finished…

Over the last few weeks, largely in an attempt to inject some whimsy in my life, I've managed to visit 3 free book swap locations (4 if you count Tesco). One of the many joys of living in a fairly rural county is such things are possibly and all blessing go out to those people who maintain them. Two were converted former phone boxes (the classic British red phone box) and the other is a shack on the edge of someone's garden. The shack is the closest and would be fairly easy to visit again. I…

I only read three books in September, but they were all great! Writings from the "New Yorker", 1920s-70s by E.B. White (1989) My goal of reading everything E.B. White has written continued with this collection of his writings from The New Yorker. For most of his time with the magazine, he wrote "Notes and Comment," the opening piece that guided readers into the pages to come. He used it as an opportunity to make astute comments on the world around him. Sometimes they were serious if current…

If you submit an app that does nothing except for a compass that points to Olive Garden in Times Square, will Apple reject the app because (Section 4.2) "your app is not particularly useful"? ~ Link: Olive Garden Is the Real True North, by Zach Helfand, New Yorker