Each morning is a bit colder than the previous. Five degrees yesterday, four today. The sun lumbers up into a clear morning sky, scaring off a light mist that had been loitering over the distant strawberry field and honestly getting just a bit too comfortable with itself. A group of geese has congregated there. “It’s a cold morning,” one observes. “I can see my breath,” says another. This causes several of them to make huh-huh noises so they could see their breath, too. “Is it time to go?” “Not…

Oh wow. Việt Nam has my favourite coffee culture in the world now, but Australia is an easy second. He says, as he drinks cold brew from South America. You know what I mean. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2026-09-25.

My Tokyo Game Show 2026 CoverageTokyo Game Show isn't Tokyo Game Show without a new demo from RGG Studio. Last year it was Yakuza Kiwami 3, the year before that was Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, and in 2023 we got both Gaiden and Infinite Wealth, which made up for 2022 being Yakuza-less. Covid ate up 2020 and 2021, but we were treated to Like a Dragon in 2019 and, well, you get the picture. RGG Studio demos are a fixture of TGS.This year, we got Stranger Than Heaven, a spin-off-slash-prequel to the…

Heck, K., Hatz, K., Cattaneo, M. et al. Six-Month Real-World Data in Macular Edema Due to Retinal Vein Occlusion Treated with Faricimab: Swiss Retina Research Network Report. Ophthalmol Ther 15, 2643–2657 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40123-026-01442-w Originally FDA-approved in early 2022 for wet AMD and diabetic macular edema, the indication for faricimab to treat macular edema secondary to retinal vein occlusion was added in late 2023. Heck et al set out to prove if the drug was effective…

I occassionally look at the Google Analytics for my blog in the slim hope it might tell me something about the level and nature of interest (or lack thereof) from my audience.Until a few months I thought the data was somewhat meaningful and believable. It gives data on the number of views for the whole blog and for individual posts. It also provides information for specific countries.Until a few months ago, there were (supposedly) about one thousand page views per day. A typical post would…

AI has moved the bar. Writing code is no longer the hard part of the job, so testing only for code tells you less and less about who will do well on your team. The Perfect Hiring System is how I hire software engineers now: for judgement, ownership and teamwork. It’s built from over a thousand interviews. There’s a guide you read once, and worksheets you use on every hire. What’s inside: The guide: the whole approach, start to finish Question Set: questions that show how people think, not what…

by Cláudio Alves Everyone gets to vote for the TIFF People’s Choice Award, even the press. And while I can’t reveal some personal award votes later in the season, I can safely tell you my pick this one time. I voted for Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Franco-Japanese production of All of a Sudden. The best film at TIFF, it’s also my favorite world premiere so far into 2026, a masterpiece that feels like a return to basics for a director whose early works owed much to the likes of Antonioni and Rohmer.…

In the fall, not only do the leaves turn, but the light from the setting sun turns the mountains to a red color. This is a shot looking east from the street in front of our house. The best time for leaves in central and northern Utah is from the end of September to the middle of October. The weather is lovely this time of year. Also

week two of intro to drawing at the Toronto School of Art. we practised drawing the negative space: an iron, an upside-down stool, and a teapot.

It’s been quite the week here at T.G.S.! We launched our updated storefront on Sunday, and we’ve been overwhelmed by the positive reception. Thanks for all the kind comments, and know that we appreciate them even if we haven’t been able to respond to each one. The best part about updating the website? We’re no longer limited by the number of products we can offer at any single time, so we’ve been listing new arrivals all week. Of course, the headliners are our exclusive inks with Tono & Lims:…

It's Fall now and I'm getting overwhelmed again with new G.I. Joe: Classified Series releases! My Snow C.A.T. was just delivered, I recently received Sgt. Slaughter and the Triple T, Grand Slam and the H.A.L,. and the Fatal Fluffies, I found the latest series of figures (Mistress Armada, Iceberg, Synapse, Duke, & Toxo-Viper) at retail, and it seems like the retro carded Flash and Falcon, hooded Cobra Commander, and the Legacy collection avalanche rescue skier are on their way, too. And guess…

You’ve already been introduced to this dumbarse, but you have yet to meet the others. So in no particular order I present! The Arisen Fion The face of a hero? A half-elf whose merchant parents settled briefly in Melve before one of the attacks upon it incinerated them both. Needless to say, that was enough for the young man to join the local guard and eventually end up as one of the chosen Arisen. He has a calm and heroic nature. He summoned Astella entirely by accident. And he will likely…

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I never know how to announce new projects. Do I go for the cheeky nod? Do I just drop it and scamper into the bushes? Anyway, here’s every meme I thought was funny in the last two decades.

This most recent issue of Arena all about Software looks really good. So much to dig into.

I’ve opened a shop at shop.thechels.uk. For years I’ve made free things: iPhone apps, open data sites and a fair bit of writing about managing engineering teams. The shop is where I’m putting the things that took a lot longer to make, as instant downloads. Right now it has two sides: For engineering leaders: The Perfect Hiring System, a guide and set of worksheets for hiring software engineers. More on that in the next post. For families: printable maths workbooks for Years 1 to 7, built around…

Open source is, at least in part, about you, where “you” refers to the user. Open Source Is Not About “Open Source Is Not About You” In other words: Rich Hickey was wrong when he wrote “Open Source Is Not About You” and I’m tired of pretending otherwise. Of course he’s not completely wrong, or his famous post would not have resonated quite so much in the first place. Obnoxious users who demand their personal use-cases be immediately addressed by volunteer maintainers for free should indeed be…

I honestly don’t know where the best coffee is at in Sydney (other than the places I used to visit nearby my office when I worked here). So, similar to Single O, I only found out about Headlands Coffee via living in Japan. Specifically, I had visited this cafe in in Koenji called Porta which was selling Headlands beans. I thought its Platypus logo was really cute and I ended up buying two packs, so I figured I better make a visit to the shop itself at some point. I’ll admit Headlands conjured…

Dear People, I’m entering my third year with this blog; Geder Media.https://geder-media.pika.page/ I like it pretty much as it is.No need for a vanity domain name; I’m too long in the tooth for all that. I want to thank my subscribers of the past two years as we continue this journey together. We communicate mind-to-mind and heart-to-heart via e-mail.We also connect spiritually; humanity-to-humanity. I feel you. I’m interested in conversation, community, and sharing thoughts and ideas.Going off…

I’ve invented a game called “Find The Most Unhinged Google Alert”. This is a challenge to discover the phrase that will get you the craziest news stories from your monitoring service of choice. The rules are simple: no proper names, no topics, nothing particularly targeted. A generic phrase descriptive of the most possible chaos, as complex as you like. I’m testing them on Google News. High scores so far: “been taken down” “since been removed” “was removed after” “received an unusual” “ordered…

I’ve written about AI enough. I like AI. However, pushing digital abstraction disease as a product is obviously miserable. Here is a great heuristic for your personal agentic AI: anything you would have it do for you, simply don’t do that thing.

Since the passing of my son's friend, my son has not said much after he got back from the wake. We discussed about how he feels when attending the wake and shared some stories about his friend. He feels the pain of his friend's family. Many years ago, he once told me that his mind is not in the right place. He had therapy that lasted a year. Since then, he has walked out from his bad period. To me, his bad experience still keeps me up at night. I always fear it will come back and the family…

oh, get me away from here, I’m dying play me a song to set me free I had the incredible good fortune of getting to see Belle and Sebastian live on their If You’re Feeling Sinister 30th Anniversary Tour this past weekend. They played through the whole of that album for the first half of the show, then did a set of fan favourites in the second half, complete with audience going up on stage to dance to ‘The Boy With the Arab Strap’. nobody writes them like they used to so it may as well be me It’s…

A month ago, The Tinkering Dwarf wrote that writing is hard when stressed. It was a small post, one of those “life happens” vents, but it resonated with me. I was just before my vacation to Maine. I haven’t been sleeping well, which isn’t new, but I’ve started connecting a couple of dots with my physical health as well. I gained weight, and for the first time in my life, some of my pants stopped being comfortable. The RSI issue I wrote about occurred around the time I had an annoying eye…

One moment he was briefing his staff...then he saw me sneaking up for a shot.

On the day the old me died, I ate an egg salad sandwich for breakfast. I had been craving one, it had been my 10th wedding anniversary, my husband had been dead for exactly 2 years and one week. I ate my egg salad sandwich in the gas station parking lot on the way to work, and that is when I realized I was dying. When I was a teenager, I had been diagnosed with diabetes and I have been in physical turmoil ever since from that particular disorder, but this had nothing to do with the body that I…

I think Meta is a perversely interesting company which means this week I watched, as I do every year, its Connect presentation. It is once again a glimpse into what Meta aspires toward — Apple-quality hardware matched with Google-quality services — compared to what it actually does: track users’ digital and physical activities to sell ads. Said hardware this year was interesting. In addition to a whole smattering of eyeglasses that look like slightly chunkier versions of classic glasses styles,…

I’ve attempted to log in to, or change my password for, LiveJournal several times in the last 15 years or so. It’s never worked right. My account url: artlung.livejournal.com Mostly all I used that site for was as a POSSE and PESOS target. I reposted my blog posts, and reposted summaries of my tweets there too. My understanding is that this site remains owned by an entity domiciled in the Russian Federation, and I suspect the things I’d want to say and write about would be unwanted by such an…

This week on the podcast: Federico has an M5 Ultra Mac Studio review unit and shares what local AI looks like on macOS today — and in the future. Myke has advice for buying iPhones in countries other than your own, and Stephen is old. We will be off next week for the Podcastathon, but will be back on October 8.