It's a weird feeling to have a game you worked on be re-released and to see your translation revisited 11 years later. I'm not gonna lie, there are a lot of things I would've changed if I had, at the time, all the knowledge I currently have, but I guess everyone would do the same if they could. The original translation is still in the game, and it's from a time when gameloc was just being restarted in the Brazilian market so, for many of us, we were going blind and just trying to do our best…

Here’s a bunch of stuff: I was just checking the mail and I heard a woman yell, “PUT YOUR POOPOO IN YOUR POCKET” and I kind of just froze because I don’t even know how to respond to that? It seems like an insult or a threat but turns out it was an elderly womanContinue reading "PUT YOUR POOPOO IN YOUR POCKET."

So here’s this concierge service for billionaires that can arrange pretty much anything for their clients. Our heroine looks after a number of them and has moved to New York to avoid the fallout from a failed romance with the company head based in London. She ends up caught in the crossfire in a commercial dispute between two billionaires. It would be easy to dislike this book — everyone is rich, successful and beautifully groomed with much name dropping of luxury brands. Fortunately Ms Swan…

Kirkwall, capital of the Orkney Islands, was a delight, and was our first port of call on our recent cruise, after one day and two nights at sea. The skies were overcast when we arrived and the temperatures much colder than we'd been used to back in Kent, for much of the summer. It was also was nice to see plenty of bright green grass after weeks of looking out over parched and burnt lawns, roadside verges, and sad, bare-looking hedgerows. Kirkwall, itself is a lovely little town, untouched and…

You really have to see this cross-platform player to believe everything it does. Apart from all sorts of technical music listening tweaks, it can act as a headless music server on your own network, or you can let friends listen by sharing your friend code with them. It will also scan your network for any mDNS discovery. It seems to use peer-to-peer connections, but bootstrapping through the Veilid network, so you don’t give out any IP address. Your node joins Veilid’s distributed hash table…

Wow. Just… wow. Yesterday, I’d prepped as much as I could in advance of my brother and SIL coming out with haskap bushes they managed to acquire. My SIL estimated about 30 pots. I marked out 36 spaces to plant them in. My brother arrived first, having come out after he finished work, getting their … Continue reading Twenty one – for now!

.au Domain Administration (auDA), the organisation that administers top-level domains in Australia, is proposing changes to the rules governing the registration of .com.au and .net.au domain names. If the changes are adopted, people wishing to hold a .com.au or .net.au domain name will need to have a registered business matching the .com.au or .net.au domain they wish to use. For example, so I can continue to hold disassociated.com.au (which redirects to disassociated.com), I may need to…

Sneak peek of the new @hypertexting.dev landing page (coming soon). 🚧 I feel like it's pretty unusual to place a terminal window alongside an iPhone screenshot. Is that intriguing or distracting? Does seeing an HTTP preview server running on iPhone pique your interest as a developer? Is it immediately recognizable as a static-site generator? 📐 Let me know: comments@calebhailey.com 💬

You may wonder whether I sometimes go a week or so (a week in this case) without publishing Pook-Emu Bee links because I lack links. Not so. I collect links every day. That makes getting back to Pook-Emu Bee all the more urgent. An out-of-control link backlog is a scary thing. AI (or SI?) and Tech 1 | Daily News Stuff 29 September 2026 (Ambient Irony. Sep. 29, 2026.) Incisive analysis of the “rogue” agent phenomenon in four words (“Because they are idiots.”) 2 | Heads of AI firms tell UN…

I forget now how I originally discovered him, but some time in the late 2010s Louis Zocchi, Air Force Technical Sergeant, magician, and—most relevant to me—manufacturer of polyhedral dice appeared on my radar. I was just about to play in my first D&D game as a player and I was shopping for dice. I stumbled upon this YouTube video of Zocchi at a convention selling his dice. If you can, give it a few minutes to get a sense of the man’s passion and nerdity. I noticed that his t-shirt had Biloxi,…

Chatbots answer prompts and leave the work to us. AI agents can own a problem and keep working until it is solved. Why I think that changes how we work.

in wanting there is fear clinging on tightly the what ifs and the buts and the things I refuse to say but I won't let go of the wanting the yearning, the dreaming I won't, I won't, I won't

I’m super excited to announce the RPG Dice-Shaped Shoulder Bag Crochet Along (CAL) hosted by me and perfect for geeks everywhere! The post RPG Dice-Shaped Shoulder Bag CAL — Let’s Roll for Crochet! appeared first on Jessie At Home.

People talk about these novel multiplayer games as though they're reinventing human communication or uncovering some obscure truth about our species, and I think that's a lot of hyperbole. Sorry if I'm raining on anybody's parade here. But Journey was not that deep. I mean, I don't think we do it a favor by acting like it was. It did tell us something about communication, but in a narrow sense--it demonstrated what you can do with your online experience when you don't provide a means for…

Ben Yagoda posted on FB: Pronunciation question: How do you say the word “housing”: A, “howzing” or B, “house-ing”? I had always said A, and feel that I exclusively heard it. But on an Ezra Klein podcast several months back, he kept saying B. (And also “house-es.”) Since then I’ve heard it on quite a few occasions. Preliminary research suggests that it might be an example of linguistic “regularization,” and it’s indeed on the rise, particularly in the U.S. and among younger speakers. What have…

With lyrics by Sammy Cahn and tune by Jule Styne, the song Time After Time was written in 1947 and rapidly became a jazz standard. Trumpeter and singer Chet Baker certainly took a shine to it and recorded many versions over the years. I already posted one version from 1956 here. Here’s another excellent one, from Belgium TV in 1964. Chet Baker had an unusual vocal style for jazz: smooth and with little vibrato, rather like his playing on the trumpet. There’s quite a long trumpet solo in this…

Finally landed back in Toronto. The only way I got through it was by watching season 1 of Succession. Just piled through the entire first season.

Anto Lonappan and Brian Keating, made with AI assistance Visualization of the rotation of E-modes to B-modes by cosmic birefringence. We are bathed in light from the ancient cosmos. It began its journey when the Universe finally cooled enough to be transparent, and it has traveled for more than 13 billion years to reach us. We call it the cosmic microwave background (CMB), and it has much to tell us. One of the more subtle bits encoded in the cosmic background is polarization. When the Universe…

Recently I played Genma Taisen, published by Pony Canyon in Japan in March 1983 to coincide with the accompanying film. It was an official conversion of an animated film to a game; the “first” from Japan, maybe, although there were Space Battleship Yamato games (like this one and this one) and I don’t know if any were “official”. In the same month, Pony Canyon released another game, Happy Bushman. It was based on the live-action film The Gods Must Be Crazy, from South African filmmaker Jamie…

Just for a little while. And then I might decide I want it back on, full throttle... but I would really like to see what a couple of days of no ideas, no plans, no scheduling, and no feeling like I have to do something would be like. I might hate it. I have so many projects started and not finished. So many of them are great ideas (at least, that is what I think) that are, more than likely, just a dopamine rush. I have a full-time job, I am going to graduate school, I have band gigs, and…

Another "Outbreak Day" has come and gone with the biggest piece of news being about a game not even associated with The Last of Us. There was no new merch, posters, music, board games, etc. There were some sales, Ghost of Yōtei DLC, a Youtooz thing, and dedicated social media accounts—very thrilling stuff. The highlight was a charity stream conducted yesterday that raised over $11,000. The cynic in me can't help but wonder though if more could have been raised if this was promoted at all before…

In last Friday’s newsletter, I wrote about helping my sixth grader with homework: I’ve been inspired lately by how many people I admire have moved to an analog notebook-based method of teaching. I really believe that in 2026 plain ol’ paper and pencil is the killer app. For example, my 6th grader needed to memorize the countries in the Middle East for a quiz and his dad got, erm, rather involved… A reader on Instagram suggested we should try out MapTap, a daily geography game, but I think…

The latest typewriter interview is with artist Roman Muradov.

I got kicked off of Noah's Ark I turn my cheek to unkind remarks There was two of everything But one of me And when the rains came tumbling down I held my breath, and I stood my ground And I watched that ship go sailing Out to sea Sweet Revenge, John Prine John Prine (1946-2020) is probably my favorite country-folk artist. I only started listening to his work after his passing, but he has been incredibly important to me since. One of my favorite parts of his music is the fully-realized…

I get fan mail, which I think is awesome. Also, in the world we live in, which includes “AI”-generated scams and other phishing expeditions, it’s necessary to set some expectations as to how I handle fan mail and also requests from fans. Here’s how I’m going to manage it going forward. For the purposes of this document, mail from folks I don’t know with general queries (about writing, publishing and other topics) will be handled similarly, even if they are not precisely “fan mail.” 1. I am…

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Lavander goes through phases of digging and we’re happy to encourage it. Then we fill in the hole so she can start over again. Psychotherapy day today, alongside a need to rest, so mostly pottering in the garden. Sister came over to borrow something from the shed so we had a brief catch-up. I mentioned my therapy had moved onto some quite specific family stuff and she reacted in a way I couldn’t quite pin down, so I guess a chat is on the horizon! A friend with Long-Covid emailed about my CFS…

After visiting the Dove a couple weeks back I was pretty keen to get back on the river and try to track down a double figure Barbel, that task ten years ago may have been deemed a simple task but the Dove has had it tough in those intervening years and now a double off here will require some more time, how much time god only knows. On Sunday morning I woke up at 4am and out the door by 0420 after loading the car the evening before, I set about breezing through the 180 miles of tarmac that lay…

Remembering Peasants is an intriguing book. It is a study of peasants and their culture, mainly through a sort of comparative study of Irish, southern Italian and Polish peasants and agricultural communities. Patrick Joyce places himself at the heart of the story - he is a "London-born child of Irish rural immigrant parents" and the book is his "homage to my own".It is both a personal and a