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Only a few weeks ago I was singing the praises of vertical tabs and specifically threw praise at Firefox's implementation, when coupled with Tab Groups (for combining tabs into a collection that can be moved together, folded-away and restored later) and Multi-Account Containers (which allows tabs to have isolated browsing contexts, which is great for privacy and also helps a lot with logging into multiple accounts simultaneously). At the time, my tabs looked a bit like this: But this week…

Newspapers are such a wonderful window into the past, often with articles about surprising elements of family history. Case in point: My husband's great-great-grand uncle Train Caldwell (1810-1887), born in Ohio to James and Mary Caldwell on this day 216 years ago. The Caldwell family soon moved to the town of Posey in Fayette County, Indiana, where Train became a farmer. In 1831, he married Jane McClure (1810-1869), and they raised a family on their farm. According to the Richmond (Indiana)…

JANUARY. IT WAS all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was moments, and January was a year. January rained the moments down, and froze them in her memory: the woman she saw peering anxiously by the light of a match at the names in a dark doorway, the man who scribbled a message and handed it to his friend before they parted on the sidewalk, the man who ran a block for a bus and caught it. Every human action seemed to yield a…

Today’s TDC says Canyon Groove is a site that allows you to create songs out of mountains, by imagining those lines as grooves in a vinyl record. The download button didn’t work for us but there is a share button. See what songs are singing in one of the mountains. I played around with the settinga and recorded my tune using the built in Windows snipping tool and uploaded it to Youtube – it’s a bit quiet, so apologies for that!

I know some devs who have multiple Claude Max 200 subscriptions, and have a swarm of agents working for them all the time. I don't really like that, it feels too overwhelming for the level of code review I want to do myself, and how much control I want to retain over the codebase. What I do have is what I think of as a very effective flow, however. My recent addition has been a few snippets in Alfred that allow me to quickly insert often-used prompt snippets: Typing ^impl outputs this:…

A lobby card promoting 'The Scarlet Letter' (1926) starring Lillian Gish.You wouldn't think 'Banned Books Week' offers much in the way of silent film accompaniment opportunities.But ah, there you'd be wrong. Before tackling that topic, here's a brief report from this year's Silent Movie Day, which was celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026.To celebrate the occasion, I was honored to provide live accompaniment for a new version of 'Sunrise' (1927) screened that evening at the legendary Brattle…

Checked in at Hector MacDonald Monument — Dingwall, Scotland

Folks sometimes forget that OpenZFS Mastery has a co-author. Here’s a bit Allan Jude originally wrote. But what if Lucas is incompetent or evil? You give him access to take his own snapshots and he will try to create a million “just to see what would happen.” You know people like that. ZFS has your back when dealing with these difficult users. The snapshot_limit and filesystem_limit properties allow you to restrict the number of snapshots or child filesystems that can be created under a…

I am working on a project I can’t say much about, except that it involves the systematic testing of Claude Opus as a coding agent. I got onto the project based on my background in software engineering. Although I identify as a tester, I was once a production coder, and I’ve kept up my coding […]

A selection of quotes and pictures to represent September’s reading: commonplace book noun a book into which notable extracts from other works are copied for personal use. ~ She was a spirited girl last night and a pensive young woman tonight. Seventeen was the age when they tried on various poses to see which one they liked best, I recalled. The Heiress of Northanger Abbey by Nancy Bilyeau (2026) ~ The word willing is one of the most useful words in the English language. It’s so easy for…

This past Monday might, I was getting settled in to watch some football. I had not been on social media for a few hours when I got a text from a friend of mine telling me that two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Gordon Johncock had passed away at the age of 90. First of all, I […]

This Thursday Pressing Concerns covers new albums from Wishy, TV Buddha, and Greg Freeman, plus a retrospective compilation from The Cadets (all of them are out tomorrow, October 2nd). Read ’em below, and if you missed Monday’s Pressing Concerns (featuring Name Names, Buttchug 69, Poem Rocket, and Flower Show), check that out too. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can…

I was five when I learned what happened when you crossed my father. I’d left my Big Wheel in the driveway. It was by far not the first time, and Dad had always made it plain that he wanted it put away when he came home. This time, Dad came in the back door calmly, and asked me to follow him back out. He walked me out to the garage, picking up my Big Wheel along the way. He carried it to his band saw and made me watch while he sliced my Big Wheel in half. Stolen from an Internet forum about…

Veracruz wren (photo from Wikimedia) 1 October 2026, WINGS at Veracruz: Day 3, quiet beach roads, lowland areas, and savannah hotspots Today and tomorrow morning we’re visiting hotspots in the lowlands near metro Veracruz. As you can see in this eBird screenshot the best lowland hotspots are near the coast and include beaches, marshes and migratory flyways. screenshot of eBird hotspots in the region of Veracruz city and Xalapa, Mexico In our travels we’re expecting to find three kinds of birds:…

I need to buy a 'special occasion' dress for a very fancy bday party, and I found two really good options yday. and, on top of that, the shop had a sale going on. but bc I was sick, I didn't buy anything and now the sale's off and everything's more expensive. o the pain 🥲

Now that I am six months (yikes!) into retirement, I am moving into a bit of a more organized approach to doing nothing. My plan is to really really achieve a state of active non-achievement and, so, on Tuesday I spent the morning an hour and a half to my east to meet up with an old pal who drove an hour and a half to his southwest. He retired on the same day I did by pure co-inky-dink. We had coffee in Prescott, Ontario and looked across the big river at downtown Ogdensburg, NY as we talked…

Being around someone who's struggling is challenging. It's mentally and emotionally draining. It feels like walking on eggshells, trying to be careful with every word and every move. Just a few days ago, I was talking to someone who's not okay. I could feel the weight. I really wanted to help, even if I had no idea how. I just listened and carefully offered my words. I even considered asking for professional help. I tried comforting even though I was a mess myself.\ They survived the night. I…

Bert Spaan has taken Mapterhorn's global terrain data to create an interactive global Relief map. What is particularly interesting about this new map is that, unlike traditional topographic maps with a fixed colour-to-elevation scale, the map's colour spectrum adapts dynamically to the specific region or bounds currently in view.As you pan and zoom across different landscapes, the colour grading shifts to highlight local topographic variations, producing a striking and constantly changing view…

Daily Drawing 1005

It’s the start of spooky month! Let’s celebrate with a design challenge. One of the horror movies that caught my attention in 2025 is Get Away (Sky, 2025). It’s not sci-fi in dressing, but key to the events in the movie is a speculative service that is never shown. It is discussed and accessed by the main characters throughout, and enables everything in the plot. It might even be indirectly causal to the events, but that’s only hinted at, not stated. Since the interfaces are not shown, the…

Dear friends, Autumn lovers and loiterers There’s some good psychogeography / loitering / Feminist Art of Walking stuff happening in October 2026 and I would love to see you along the way Sunday 4th October Manchester 2pm LRM First Sunday meet outside The Didsbury Pub, Wilmslow Rd M20 2SG By popular demand The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement) are wandering in Disbury this month. Our un-guide is Matthew (thanks Matthew) and all are welcome to join us. The direction and pace will be set…

Make it make sense, please

This week was the start of month 6 as Head of UCD in Digital Screening in NHS England. Here are some things I am thinking about: The NHS is not one place, it’s a network of businesses and trusts held together by a common understanding of risk. The closest I ever came to this was in banking but it’s still not quite the same. Almost piece of design work is deeply shaped by reputational, clinical and cybersecurity risks. What it does to design teams, I think, is that it creates a sense of unease…

This is my first time hosting the IndieWeb Fiction Carnival, and I am also hosting the IndieWeb Blog Carnival. It was an impulse, inspired by the itch for creative writing, while noticing no one had claimed the October spot. So why not? I noticed participation in the Fiction Carnival is less intense than in the Blog Carnival, so I hope to be able to manage both. Here we go! sunflower in the sky, why do you wish to fly? is earth not enough, the sun worth the fright? Prompt: Sunflowers in the Sky…

Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the field is currently undergoing a rapid transformation, unlike anything that we have ever seen before. Language models are solving hard problems which humans could not, and mathematicians are reacting very differently to this news. I personally am extremely excited about the future of our field. However it is becoming clear to me that my views are not shared by everyone in the community: indeed,…

2026 romance and more. Roxie Mitchell is happy working temp jobs to save up for wild excursions, and reading romance novels with her book club between times. But then an unwise wish leads her into a sideways world…

While I didn’t post too many reviews in September, it was a most enjoyable reading month, with several great new reads and a few cheeky rereads going on in the background, too. I also managed to add a couple of posts to my ongoing chapter-by-chapter journey through The Tale of Genji, even if I only covered one chapter, in addition to managing to make a dent in my backlog of review copies. Lots to enjoy in the month that was, then, but we’ll begin, as is usually the case, with quantity, not…

RA-7 PROTOCOL DROID Silver Star Tours Droid Factory Customizable Figure Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney? Number: n/a Includes: n/a Action Feature: Removable limbs Retail: $12.95 Availability: April 2017 Appearances: n/a Bio: The RA-7 protocol droid, also known as the RA-7 inventory droid, the RA-7 series protocol droid, the "insect droid" due to its large photoreceptors, and nicknamed the "Death Star droid" due to its use aboard the first Death Star, was a model of protocol droid…