Now that we have installed bun, Anthropic's package manager, and scaffolded a Playwright framework and closely examined the results, we are going to explore with our Bun-Create-Playwright project ways to check if our code is correct. The first method we will be exploring is typechecking. Why Typechecking? As the Playwright.dev / Node.js Introduction mentions:"[...] Playwright does not check the types and will run tests even if there are non-critical TypeScript compilation errors. We recommend…
Between bad apps that try to scam customers, and good apps that are rejected for seemingly wrong reasons, shouldn't Apple deploy more and better reviewers to their App Store to justify their high margins? ~ Links: Browsers have standards, the App Store has judgment, by Terry Godier App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours, by John Gruber, Daring Fireball
As part of my quest to optimise my energy bills, I’ve been looking into power stations and building up my arsenal of energy storage. Whenever I spot a reasonably priced power station (and budget permits), I decide to grab them for my own needs and run them through tests along the way. When it comes to big-brands in the charging world, Anker is definitely well-recognised and their products usually carry a premium price-tag, up with the likes of Bluetti and Ecoflow. But just before the financial…
This is one of the most infamous computer games from Japan ever made. You can mostly blame the 1967 film The Graduate. I’ll explain along the way– From the first issue of Genma Taisen, the original manga. Genma Taisen, the manga, was first serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine starting in 1967, with writing by Kazumasa Hirai and art by Shotaro Ishinomori. By then both men had established careers, with Hirai writing the 8 Man series (1963 – 1966) and Ishinomori launching Cyborg 009 in 1964; both…
Dave and I went for an early Saturday morning walk. Afterward, we went back to the hotel to meet with Dave’s family and then to the konbini (convenience store) for breakfast. Though still early in the day, it was already getting quite hot, so I quite enjoyed the frozen mango slices I picked up there. We squeezed our way onto a bus and headed over to Nijo Castle. A bit of history about this world heritage UNESCO site from Wikipedia: In 1601, Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa…
First, there was the issue with Hide My Email exposing your actual email. Now, we discover that Apple's iCloud Private Relay may not be private sometimes. Not a good couple of months if you are relying on Apple to protect your anonymity. ~ Link: Apple's iCloud Private Relay Isn't Really That Private by CybersecKyle.
This is the first half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va) of our apparently five-part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are organized, in particular exploring the principle that armies cannot help but recreate their civilian social structures on the battlefield. Last time we looked at the importance of generating cohesion in these armies and the ways cohesion could come either organically from the underlying society or be manufactured as part of…
POSSE, in the IndieWeb world, stands for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. It’s the idea that you post content to your own site first and then post copies or share links on other sites (for example, social media). I like that as a concept, but sometimes I want my site to be the only place for the content, and I don’t necessarily want to share it everywhere. One, I don’t want to feel like I have to broadcast everything I post here. Two, there are lots of times I’m tired of social…
Bit of eye candy for the lovers of low-brow, low shelf kaka from the former colonies of the Far East, and these are out there now, with Peter Evans having provided some, while I found the others locally. We've seen Red Deer before, but these are further branded, or ascribed to an OTL of Leeds . . . and Poland?! Hing Fat Japanese Infantry clones (and that's funny in itself!), in pink, with a
JACQUES MESRINE – The Death Instinct. Originally published in French as L’Instinct de Mort. Filmed as L’instinct de mort (released in English as Mesrine: Killer Instinct) is the first part of a 2008 French biographical crime film about Jacques Mesrine, a notorious real-life French gangster. Directed by Jean-François Richet and starring Vincent Cassel. Autobiography of a French bank robber. Mesrine lives for thrills. His favorite is the double bank robbery. You rob one bank, and when the cops…
Truly has become unbearable. Losing efficiency and my patience with it. Perhaps it’s time to try Codex. _ Reply via email
ECM Autumn Highlights is a sampler curated by Manfred Eicher and released in collaboration with the Italian magazine Musica Jazz. Drawing from ECM’s late-2017 catalogue, it covers a broad expressive range while retaining the sense of a single, carefully plotted journey. The Vijay Iyer Sextet opens with “Poles,” also the first track on Far From Over (ECM 2581). Saxophonist Steve Lehman enters with fierce momentum, pushing against a rhythm section that never settles into mere support. Stephan…
After Rails’ Dear Leader DHH once again espoused far-right views on his blog (which I’m not going to link to here), some of the Ruby community said “enough is enough” and decided to fork Rails into a project called Amiko. I don’t want to mince words here, so I’ll talk straight: I think this is a vain attempt at virtue signalling, and will ultimately end up achieving very little. The Amiko project has started out this fork by renaming all the Rails things into Amiko flavoured things. They have…
The last one was called panic ep 2. Today's didn't involve panic, but it did exhaust me, and it did cause some symptomatic behavior to surface. Today's productivity wasn't an intentional time block like the last two. I meditated, then blogged about it, then got myself motivated. I got new books from the library - I had started another romance-fantasy The Foxglove King. It's far better than a Court of Thorns & Roses (a terrible book), but it's still not my style. So I got new books. I went by…
A couple days ago, I wrote the blog post titled "Five Interesting Indie Platforms You Might Not Have Heard Of". I was really happy with it—being able to share the work of others that deserve support and can help foster digital indie communities. But, regrettably, I had to rescind one of my recommendations. Let me explain. As I mentioned in the post itself, BlueDwarf's "rule enforcement is informal, and I admit I've stumbled upon some... peculiar opinions and takes during my time on the…
So the past couple of days have been SO much better, it just blows me away! Yesterday, I was not only well enough to go into the city for the stock up shopping at Costco, but felt well enough to keep on going after everything was put away and we’d had supper. I headed outside … Continue reading Catching up
Recently, I have been thinking about something and I had to decide between two options and this situation reminded me of the concept I read about a few years ago. Things and situations in life come in a package. When you decide to do something, you are basically agreeing to the whole package despite not acknowledging it consciously. Indeed, It is not possible to grasp the complete sense of everything that we do, due to our own weaknesses, yet anything that we do in this life comes as a package.…
I haven't been inspired to post on august morning for quite some time now, even though I have a bit of a backlog of photos I would like to share one day1. Recently, I came across Inventory Full's Blaugust Class of 2025 post again, where my photo blog was mentioned. It reminded me that I do, in fact, miss sharing some of my just day to day photos. Maybe until I'm ready to commit to posting on august morning again, I can share a few photos here occasionally instead. This photo is from a visit to…
My Flow utility class was applying margins around invisible elements like <style> and <script> tags, throwing off the vertical rhythm around them. Here's what I did to fix it, and why I also swapped em for lh while I was in there. This article uses some custom styles that may or may not work in your feed reader, so I recommend checking out the web version instead: https://chrisburnell.com/article/ghost-wrangling/ If you’re not already familiar with the Flow utility class in CSS, I recommend…
Does anyone else want a portion of easygoingness? I mean, it's not like I have a whole lot of it myself right now. But I'm happy to share what little I have. 🤗 Reply by email
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 27th March 2026 Kentucky trio Highgate have taken to expressing their feelings about the state of the world through a particularly abrasive and blackened take on sludgy doom, and their new full length record ‘Prophecies of Eternal Horror’ seems to be the focal point of all that rage and fervour. It has been their first full length release since 2013’s ‘Survival’, although there has been a little life in them since then. It is out now through Horror Pain Gore…
I have a program that shares files between my laptop and my phone. It works well, except for apostrophes. When I type an apostrophe ' on my laptop, it becomes ’ on my phone. And when I type 's on my phone, it becomes 痴 on my laptop. Apparently the phone turns the apostrophe (U+0027) into a right single quote (U+2019), then bungles bytes in the UTF-8 encoding of U+2019 as three Windows-1252 characters. The bytes E28099hex are interpreted as â (E2hex), € (80hex), and ™ (99hex). When I type 's…
My grandparents owned a classic 1960s Volkswagen camper. I don’t know why they ever had it – they didn’t strike me as camping types. The VW camper was a classic hippie road trip vehicle, so it was fitting that when my father and I returned to the US in 1972, my grandfather gave it to … Continue reading The Red Volkswagen Camper → The post The Red Volkswagen Camper appeared first on Countries Beginning with I.
Fuller’s first great war movie. Fellow WWII vet Gene Evans plays a cigar-chompin’ slang-throwin’ tough guy, picking up a South Korean kid and a stray medic before linking up with a troop with an undercooked commanding officer. The men die off one at a time to traps and snipers and spies, then they die all at once during an all-out shooting battle at the temple where they’re camping. Medic James Edwards is resourceful: Our tough guy, through the clearing smoke: Survivors:
Travel has kept me from the early apples this year. I've missed the local farmers market where it is likely at least one vendor has offered Lodi or Vista Bella, or maybe even Pristine. Left to right: Vista Bella, Yellow Transparent, Puritan. This week, my wanderings took me past Red Apple Farm in Phillipston, Massachusetts, which did not disappoint. About a minute after I took the above photo, I was eating one of those Vista Bellas. So fresh, so tart, so local, so good.
I did a spoiler-free post about Regicide Legacy in April, giving a quick overview and showing the basic game components. This post continues from there. The first part of this post will contain no spoilers. If you have not played the game and you are thinking about it, it's safe to proceed. I played the Regicide Legacy campaign with younger
I'm just glad it's the weekend. posting the time lapse is some kind of torture
Brooklyn NY We’ve visited the Maman in Alexandria, but I realized I hadn’t logged that visit; so I’m logging this one. We were visiting DUMBO in Brooklyn and it’s severe heat advisory, so we decided to enjoy a drink, cookie, and air conditioning. I ordered a cold brew and their Martha Stewart salted caramel cookie (to share with the group). The cold brew was good with a well-balanced coffee flavor and no bitterness. The cookie was tasty, but almost too thin. The caramel had broken through the…
My freezer is full of Mountain Fresh Plus tomatoes, which is irritating to my wife because there’s little room for other items. But I think she’ll forgive me in the winter when we can pull out quality tomatoes to make salsa and sauces and more. Over the past eight summers, I have played with a […] The post ‘Mountain Fresh Plus’ tomato variety: a profile appeared first on Greg Alder's Yard Posts: Southern California food gardening.
Kalshi and Polymarket are the big names in the new sector of "prediction markets", and other established names like Robinhood and Crypto.com are getting in on it too. They claim to be the most accurate way to predict future outcomes, but what are they really? They very specifically avoid the language of "bet" due to legal implications, but that gets closer to the heart of what is happening here. Are people really trading futures about who will be the presidential nominee in 2028, or would it be…
