Looking at lots of new blogs during Blaugust and Robert Birming's SepThemeBear and his blog theme building guide has got me thinking about themes, blog design, and such. Back in May I wrote about how I was having too much fun with CSS. And I really did, styling up my pages. Gridranger, Tabitha and JetGirlArt have a desktop style. re: nyman is an email inbox. Angry Bunnyman has a striking boxy layout. Sylvia at departure.blog and Olu have very vertical column styles. The Satyrs’ Forest has a…

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🏃‍♂️ Run completed, but not completely according to expectations 😬 3 laps. First one good and strong, feeling completely destroyed in the second, and hanging on and speeding up in the third. Not exactly 10km, but it'll do as test for the marathon. No pictures 🫤 I loaded the wrong camera recipe and everything turned out like crap.

Ho SC-H, Lee IXY, Liu C, Yu M, Tan HC, Tan GSW and Liu Y-C (2026) Fenofibrate in ophthalmology: therapeutic efficacy and mechanisms. J. Pharm. Pharm. Sci. 29:16995. doi: 10.3389/jpps.2026.16995 I have genetically high triglycerides, and I have taken fenofibrate in the past. I think that’s what drew me to this article. There is some evidence that fenofibrate can have benefits in diabetic corneal neuropathy, dry eye, corneal injury, Fuchs dystrophy, diabetic retinopathy, and AMD. Fenofibrate is a…

This is something I’ve been thinking about recently. First, let me clarify that when I say software being done, I mean a particular feature. I don’t mean an entire package of software. A standalone application or SaaS software package is never actually done; there’s always new desires and demands from human beings, and all pieces of software must expand until they either send email or build their own messaging inbox because they can’t be bothered to interface with email. The most successful…

Lots of our software needs queue-like behavior. So, for example: Suppose every new user needs to be registered in four subsystems. You might do the registration synchronously in one subsystem, enqueue the information necessary to do the rest, and let asynchronous workers process those events. More generally, suppose you process user requests that don't need to be handled synchronously. Those requests tend to come in bursts, so you might enqueue those requests and let workers handle them. Your…

[Previously published at MeisterAchive.com. Published here with the author’s permission. For more of Meister’s work, visit MeisterArchive.com] September 15, 2026 by David J. Meister Damon Landor is a practitioner of the Rastafarian religion and decades-long adherent to the Nazarite Vow which requires him to “let the locks of his head grow.” Holy Bible, Numbers 6:5 … Continue reading "Supreme Court Deals Body Blow to Prisoners Religious Protections: Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections"

The University of Illinois, the University of Bologna, and Johns Hopkins SAIS regularly sponsor a conference series on Constitutional History: Comparative Perspectives. The next conference will be held in Champaign, IL on March 8-9, 2027. The theme of this conference is Constitutional Moments. The goal is to draw on experiences from around the globe to shed light on the theory of constitutional change famously articulated by Professor Bruce Ackerman. The conference keynote speaker will be…

Last winter I wrote a discrete event simulation framework in Python to keep myself busy, have something to put on my CV, experiment with LLM-assisted coding, and learn how async and await actually work. Over the summer, for similar reasons, I played around a bit with Lean and Gleam, thinking that I might translate the Software Design by Example books from JavaScript and Python into one or the other. Lean defeated me, and I quickly grew frustrated with the gaps in Gleam’s standard library, but…

Lately I've been playing classic World of Warcraft to get a feel for it and see if I like it before I try and go head-first into WoW Forever fairly blind with some friends. People have told me that World of Warcraft is good, but I haven't personally played it (or really any MMO outside of Final Fantasy 14). I've wanted to see for myself, so I dug in. I've been leveling an undead warlock and recently I've gotten my way to The Barrens. My goal was to kill some planestriders and collect their…

With lionfish in mind, one of my target new species for the trip, we headed to Ladiko Bay, a spot where many swimmers have seen them whilst snorkelling. After parking the car and making our way over the rocks, I spotted a few fish in a large rockpool and set about catching them using tanago hooks baited with tiny pieces of prawn. This quickly produced three species. First out was an incognito goby. The easiest of the three to catch. Next out was a small peacock blenny, a little bit trickier as…

On the Photowalk Podcast, listeners regularly comment that they have lost their inspiration, no longer want to make photographs, or feel that they have somehow fallen out of love with the experience of pressing the shutter. In response, I wrote to Neale James, who hosts the podcast, to suggest that it can be helpful to think more broadly about what constitutes a photographic life. Making photographs is obviously part of that life, but it is not necessarily the whole of it. A broader conception…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Thinking about it, I'm fairly certain that every cinema I'd been in as a child was no longer standing, by August 1988, with Sheffield's Gaumont and ABC having recently gone the same way as the Classic, Rex and Odeon cinemas.Still, that's not to say that picture houses didn't exist anywhere.And that was good news because films were still being released and still needed somewhere to be…

Detail of the abandoned El Charro Cafe in Tyler, Texas. The post Cafe appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Blustery afternoon on path to Greenside, mostly blue sky. Despite the wind a few butterflies, peacocks, painted lady, red admiral & a few speckled woods. Goldfinch in the meadowsweet. A raven circled high in the blue. The news reported less speckled woods this year, but I’ve seem more than ever.

The game of the day is Gunwitch. Now with a name like this come a few expectations. And I am pleased to announce the game meet all of them: There’s a witch, she got a gun, and she shoot her way out of problems with magical bullets. This is announced to be the “chapter 0” with more to come but there is already plenty to enjoy, with an original type of turn based gameplay where you choose which kind of bullet to use. The rest of the game is a beautifully drawn visual novel following the…

> LINK ·Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s still mysterious to me that I was angry for so long’ New interview with Franzen to promote a twenty-fifth anniversary edition of 'The Corrections'. Nice to see him being so frank. In 2010, following the publication of Freedom, Franzen appeared on the cover of Time magazine, a rare achievement for any writer. The piece described him as the “Great American Novelist”. He says it was his suggestion that he should be the cover. He got his publicist to contact Time to…

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CVE-2024-27763 (CVSS 5.3): BasicSR 1.4.2 ve öncesi, SLURM_NODELIST environment variable'ını doğrudan bir shell komutunun içine koyuyor. Lokal saldırgan keyfi komut çalıştırabiliyor.

CVE-2024-27763 (CVSS 5.3): BasicSR 1.4.2 and earlier interpolates the SLURM_NODELIST environment variable into a shell command, letting a local attacker run arbitrary commands.

Flighty doesn’t always understand quick turnarounds; I slept at home last night, but it registers as an absurdly long layover.

Lately I started an unnecessary argument with someone that I really care. Frankly, it is all due to my ego. This incident has affected my daily life. I could not let it go. Not that I am angry at that person but I am angry at myself. If I have just focused on living my life, it would not have happened. There is no need to get involve with things that has nothing to do with our life. Right or wrong, it is still another person's life. Just focus on living our best-self and that's all we can do.

I was a bit afraid that talking to Alex Morris would be a disappointment. I've been reading Strat_Scraps for years and I've loved it all that time. But part of the thrill is how eliptical it is. It's a compendium of strategic detritus - offcuts he calls them - that sometimes seems random and sometimes seems as carefully curated as a Lagerfeld ipod. I was worried that peeking behind the curtain would spoil the magic.I didn't need to have worried. Alex was lovely. And smart. And chatty. I'm…

by Gideon Marcus Religious matters The Moon looms large in our minds these days, closer than it has ever been. Humanity has visited its surface four times in two years, and even as we speak, a Russian robot is prowling its surface. Indeed, U.S.S.R.’s Lunokhod lunar rover had successfully completed its 11th lunar day of … Continue reading [September 20, 1971] The Autumn Land (September 1971 Fantasy and Science Fiction) → The post [September 20, 1971] The Autumn Land (September 1971 <i>Fantasy…

Camellias My super amazing wife first learned about the Charleston Tea Garden when she was in China. China is a great place to learn about tea, but an inconvenient place to learn you hadn’t even needed to change continents to see it farmed. Visiting the Tea Garden was going to be the centerpiece of our whole trip to Charleston, and that being the case, we felt no need to rush into it. She had waited nearly a decade after all, so what was a few more hours? (what was going on here is we had…

I’m sure the iPhone Duo will be a perfectly fine device, but having reviewed my fair share of two-handed foldable phones, i just don’t get the hype. You might believe iOS will make all the difference, and i have to admit that the incredibly smooth opening animation might push people to actually unfold their device, something that Samsung Galaxy Z Fold and Honor Magic V6 owners might not do every single day. But i believe books, both paper- and silicon-based, have something to teach us about…

The Forge Wars 2026-09-20 No fate but what we make Lately I’ve been experiencing forge fatigue. Most of my projects are hosted and mirrored across Codeberg, Sourcehut, and GitHub. My main issue has been trying to determine the best “home base” or deciding which one to be the real git forge. It’s annoying. The problem is that some developers will shame you for using GitHub, some will disagree with Codeberg’s ToS, and others will complain about Sourcehut’s email-based workflow. It’s impossible to…

Located on the flank of Yunlong Mountain (雲龍山) in eastern Keelung, Eighteen Arhats Cave (十八羅漢洞) was established in 1971 as an outgrowth of the nearby Shengji Temple (聖濟宮), and likely occupies a former World War 2 bunker once manned by Japanese troops. Both initiatives were funded by Guo Yushui (郭玉水), a member of the local gentry from a family of Chinese medicine practitioners who later moved into local politics. It was a popular spot for domestic tourism in the 1970s, enshrining the eponymous…

📷 236/365 - Flying back home (earlier this week)

From Stay Alive! Berlin 1939-1945, by Ian Buruma (Penguin, 2026), p. 133: Perhaps Moltke was not just thinking of German victims, but it was difficult to disguise the toll the war was taking on German soldiers. Death notices of men who had “fallen for the Volk and Führer” increased in the newspapers. And bitter strains began to be felt between the men who had to do the fighting and the people at home. The Wunschkonzert for the Wehrmacht had been stopped already in May, for reasons that are not…