Tattooed Tree Books, Fort Atkinson, WI( Like The Indie Bob Spot on Facebook and follow The Indie Bob Spot on X)If you’re anywhere near Fort Atkinson and haven’t discovered this indie yet, move it to the top of your to-do list. The experience I had here is exactly WHY you don’t go online and just click to get a book. Dena T. is the effervescent and enthusiastic owner of this new bookstore only 5 months old and located in the heart of downtown Fort Atkinson. My time here was like a mini-course in…

. My new novel Desire Without Expectation is now available for pre-order. You can so so here. The Air Contains Honey Sings Quotes is also available for pre-order here. .

Eyeshot is an independent publishing project for street and documentary photography that was founded in Italy in 2018. They publish books and magazines, host exhibitions and a podcast, and run an annual Open Call. The focus is, ultimately, on serving the photographic community and putting photographic work into print. This year I submitted a set of images that I’ve made over the past few years to their Open Call. While I also had the option of submitting at least nine images as a body of work…

The most common follow-up question I got about the post I wrote on Django last month had nothing to do with Django at all. It was about a comment I tossed off about React and Vue, and my regret in choosing Vue all those years ago.1Which is a far cry from 2017, when I called Vue pragmatic and meant it as the highest compliment. I don't want this to be a particularly harsh or negative essay, so let me start with how I made the decision — which was, in retrospect and given how Buttondown has…

Greg wrote about the Cirqa which is a device I've been looking at. I wear a Garmin Enduro normally but really want to wear my analogue Tissot Tour de France edition watch. If I do that I miss any extra calorie counting which is important this off season as I try to drop a bit of weight for next cycling season. The Cirqa would track the daily movement I do so keep track of the calories burned. I'd still use my watch or the bike computer for any actual workout. That's why I've looked at the Cirqa.

A few months ago, I kept coming back to a very small annoyance. I’d be reviewing an iOS pull request and want to try the change. Not inspect the diff or look at a screenshot, but actually run it.Doing that usually means stopping whatever I’m working on, stashing changes, fetching someone else’s branch, checking it out, waiting for Xcode to index and compile, dealing with DerivedData or package issues, launching the app, then eventually switching back and rebuilding my own work. On a large…

Just another addition to my ever-growing collection of headphones: the new Anker (soundcore) Liberty Buds 2. Just available for a few days, but just in time, the battery of the charging case of my Liberty 3 Pro starts to show its age and doesn’t want to charge fully anymore. I’m not yet 100% sure if I will keep them. But I heard so many good things about the noise canceling (finally on a level or above other premium in-ears) with Anker’s new Thus chip that I just need to try them. I mean, I am…

The trouble with working from home is when I’m sick I have to deliberately ask myself “if you were working in an office, would you go in today?” and if the answer is no, then take a damn sick day. But the work. It’s like, right there…

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. II, Chapter 22, § 260 (tr. E.F.J. Payne): Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking. When we read, we allow another to guide our thoughts in leading strings. Moreover, many books merely serve to show how many false paths there are and how seriously we could go astray if we allowed ourselves to be guided by them. But whoever is guided by genius, in other words thinks for himself; thinks freely and of his own accord and…

Last Saturday, I joined Rey Rey, Brian, and their friend Sam for pro-wrestling in Zhubei City in Hsinchu County. I met them by taking the TRA train and a YouBike to the sports center where Puzzle Pro-Wrestling was hosting a DEATH MATCH show, with their talent competing against several wrestlers from Japan. What is a death match you may ask? It's an extreme genre of pro-wrestling that usually ends with the wrestlers fighting with weapons and seeing red. It originated in the U.S. with the Texas…

All that remains of the Twin Bridges retail center in Dallas’ Vickery Meadow neighborhood. The post Twin Bridges appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Why I built Timebar, a free, open-source Mac timer that shows time left as a thin line below the menu bar.

Morning comes with a light overcast and mild wind. Gusts roll through the anchorage now and then. The forecast calls for strong winds and rain in the afternoon. Looking at the charts, I am already in the perfect spot for the weather. But I've got time for a visit to Stonington before the rain arrives.An easy sail, wind on the beam, makes for a short commute. 4.3 into the harbor. Tie up at the town dock, just a couple of boats there on a grey day.Ice tea and catch up on email at 44 North. Then a…

Last year the World Bank made news when it announced that all its outputs would include a reproducibility package, which contains all the data and code needed to reproduce the figures and tables in the report. In this regard it is following the lead of major journals in economics. Compared with some other fields, such as clinical trials (Avenell & Bishop, 2026), the widespread availability of data and code in economics publications is impressive. Nevertheless, the confidence given by…

It is ages since I last wrote a post in the Frantic Antics series - namely this sorry tale about my brush with the arcane postal service in Slovenia, back when swapping and RAOKs were a big part of the international perfume scene. I was moved to take up the theme of fumehead favours again following an elaborate operation to transport a package of perfume samples from Wales to Stafford

I was reading an old short story by Byatt yesterday, and I came across this — which is totally correct. It’s not that the people in the “Scandinavian North” (i.e., the north of Norway) are better at English per se — far from it — but the prosody of the dialects matches up with English much better than the sing-song dialects of the Scandinavian South. (And we’re not even going to mention the general unintelligibility problems that Danes have even when speaking their own language.) So I thought:…

Traffic stopped where it should flow, and got absolutely jammed on the diverted sidestreets where it should have trickled, and I assumed Xi Jinping was on the move to or from the Chinese Embassy, which is in the neighborhood. Just the opposite. I went down the street to see, and it was a huge protest march for Tibet, larger than I’ve seen in years. So I stood to watch. Then this guy walks by with this rad beanie, and so I wade in, and ask him where to get one, and he’s like, “you want this…

How are the drops of rain suspended like that? Spider webs. Lots and lots of spider webs. Honestly, even after 25 years of living out in rural America, I am constantly surprised at how many spiders (and webs!) there are in just about every possible place. It does allow for some pretty neat photos, though. How’s your early post-equinox period going? — JS

Lots of the ivy was alive with hoverflies wasps & bees on Tuesday. Lots of buzzing!

by George Pritchard Among the Galactic Journey staff, I have gained a bit of a reputation for reviewing the more “sexually weird” horror films. Initially, I protested at this label, but I have grown to embrace it; especially upon realizing that, out of the ten films I have reviewed for the Journey so far, six … Continue reading [September 24, 1971] Boys Like Me (Someone Behind the Door) → The post [September 24, 1971] Boys Like Me (<i>Someone Behind the Door</i>) appeared first on Galactic…

OpenZFS Mastery uses FreeBSD and Proxmox as reference platforms. Here’s a bit about why. Proxmox is a Debian variant focused on virtualization, developed by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH. It integrates ZFS as a primary filesystem and can install all the Debian packages. As we write this, Proxmox is the easiest way to get ZFS on Linux. While Proxmox is designed as a virtualization platform, it’s Debian plus other tools. You can install a desktop environment or any other Debian packages to tune…

The Late Cretaceous is hotter than the other periods I’ve visited. My dossier says it’s because of all the volcanic activity. I can’t see any volcanoes from my campsite, which is on the shore of the prehistoric Pacific Ocean, but the air is thick, like a bad smog day in Los Angeles.I’m queasy from the jump. Time travel is like being shoved through a kaleidoscope made of light, sound, and terror. I’m told it’s so painful because it’s not just time travel. It’s also something like time…

CLONE LIEUTENANT STAR WAR: CLONE WARS (HASBRO) “Through the creative vision of Lucasfilm Ltd. and the Cartoon Network, the Clone Wars are brought to life in an exciting new series of short animated chapters. A unique animation style captures the drama of this epic period in galactic history along with its outstanding heroes and adversaries. Noble Jedi warriors lead Clone Troopers into battle against the evil Separatist forces and their droid armies. Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda and their comrades…

I got to interview Scott Chacon on stage at Turing Fest yesterday, talking about "Why GitHub Won". What a privilege, and what a super-cool guy Scott is. Total legend.

In my first student job, my team was responsible for scanning any incoming bills for the company. A software then detected all the different positions and numbers, and then our job was to verify the text fields and if necessary, correct them manually (a 6 could sometimes become a 0 or 8, etc.) before sending them off to whatever finances/controlling SAP setup they had. So was it very similar to work in the TV Show “Severance”? Yes. I was validating numbers for four hours a day. In my current…

On my recent trip to Japan 🇯🇵 I’ve noticed many things that in Japan are different than here in Europe, and very often… better. Here are the AI co-hosts discussing my finding which you can also find in detail in my original post. 🎙️ Listen to “Is Japanese better?” 📝 Show notes: My essay on the Japanese “better” tech 🎧 Subscribe to “The Podcast FM”: 🟣 Apple Podcasts 🟡 RSS 🟠 Overcast

As you may have noticed, the site has a new look. I don't think of it as a new version of the site, in no small part because the structure has not changed at all. This is mostly a very messy conglomeration of two template files and a bunch of JavaScript and CSS applied to the same underlying build script and content taxonomy that I've been very happy with for quite a while. There was a very oblique reason for this change, which was my friend Ryan asking for a blogroll of folks whose writing I…

[Epistemic Status: Speculative unifying theory of biology.] I don’t know about you, but I greatly resent having to be a biological organism and subject to all the poor engineering and design decisions that entails. This has many manifestations. A recent one is often wondering, why is the entire body such garbage except for the liver? Take the kidneys. Once you reach adulthood, they start to slowly decay. You can damage them through not-obviously-dangerous stuff like taking too much vitamin D or…

A week and a half ago, I made the trip out to Schaumburg, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago if you’re not familiar) to attend the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest. I was only able to attend on Sunday, and wasn’t quite sure what to expect. In my head, I had planned on documenting the entire experience for an upcoming episode of Magical & Revolutionary, but was basically gobsmacked the minute I walked in the door—there was so much wonderful vintage tech and people simply enjoying both that and the…