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Every day is a good day. Yunmen gave a teaching, saying, “I’m not asking you about before the fifteenth day of the month. Why not say a word about after the fifteenth day of the month?” He answered himself, “Every day is a good day.”1— Koan #6 from the Blue Cliff Record. I have not taken any fresh photos for a few days now….because life. So today I am packing my camera and a picnic lunch and taking my girl and my dog for a spring drive out to visit a tulip farm (Location:…

After using iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 for a few days, I can easily say that, indeed, everything runs snappier and smoother (especially on the A16 iPad sporting only 6GB RAM). The liquid glass is noticeably far more fluid as it morphs around and animates dynamically — no more slight hesitation, glitches, or flickers. It’s delightful. That’s how things are working. As for how things are looking, the glass is even more clear and glassy, which I’ve set to max-clear for a week. Then I’ll try max-frosted…

This week has been a pretty variable one. It has gone from me living on the floor of my friend’s sublet, to somehow, within around 16 days start to finish, having found my own place to live, which in Berlin is a pretty notable achievement, especially one that resulted in me: not getting fucked over on cost, not having to deal with nightmare landlords, not having to travel halfway across the city or into the middle of nowhere to have somewhere to sleep, and it being an unlimited contract. I…

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Nicholas Russell richly evokes the haunting Nevada desert in his debut novel Observer. Lincoln Michel wrote of the book: “In Observer, Nicholas Russell makes the sun-scorched, desiccated…

In the afternoon, I visited the various locations of the GOGBOT Festival.

DC'c Comics' solicitations for December 2026 are out. The issues that have Hawkman and Hawkgirl are listed below. Detective Comics No. 500 Facsimile EditionRelease Date: December 2Silver Age Hawkman (Katar Hol I), Hawkgirl (Shayera Hol I)500th Anniversary Issue. Starring Batman and Robin. Guest-starring the Phantom Stranger, the Elongated Man, Hawkman and Hawkgirl.JSA Vol. 4Release Date: February 23Feb 23rd, 2027Hawkman (Carter Hall III), Hawkgirl (Kendra Saunders II)The Justice Society of…

Welcome to the weekly Perfume Chat Room, perfumistas! I envision this chat room as a weekly drop-in spot online, where readers may ask questions, suggest fragrances, tell others their SOTD, comment on new releases or old favorites, and respond to each other. The perennial theme is fragrance, but we can interpret that broadly. This is meant […]

So, I've made it a point on this blog that I don't have any social media accounts. I occasionally use Reddit for some niche fix-it questions and to scroll r/corgis or r/trees when I'm bored as hell at work. However, the funniest thing happened... Reddit started getting a little ballsy. It's not blocking me from the using the app with the most audacious text, "Join the most real place on the internet!". This is like those dudes that feel the need to remind everyone what a nice guy they are. If…

DC has posted their full complement of solicitations for December 2026, and here is everything related to the Flash. It’s a quiet month for the Flash Family, although the Flash and Absolute Flash solo titles continue. Plus, there are several collected editions of older material to read, including a Bronze Age Justice League omnibus. You can see the solicitations in their entirety at Adventures In Poor Taste. THE FLASH #40 Written by RYAN NORTH Art and cover by GAVIN GUIDRY Variant covers by…

Introduction Bevy 0.20 is going to release soon, so it's time to talk about all the improvements I've been working on for Solari, Bevy's realtime pathtracer. Whereas last cycle was mostly incremental improvements, this cycle was the complete opposite. Solari 0.20 features nothing less than a complete rewrite of the renderer! Lots to cover, so let's get started! Zero Day rendered in realtime via Bevy Solari 0.20 Reducing Shadow Lag This section is going to start off with a good bit of math, but…

At work right now, I'm putting the polish and juice into our current project (a video game for kids), and it got me thinking about juice in tabletop games. If you're unfamiliar with the term juice, it's something that's easy to spot but difficult to communicate. My working definition is: Responsive feedback that provides a satisfying execution of play in increments. Juice can reinforce and highlight key systems but if the devs squeeze right, then even smaller sub-systems have a bit of juice.…

In Mason Curry's Substack, he talked about a recent interview with fashion designer Colm Tóibín. In the interview, Tóibín talks about a secret recipe for endless creative energy recommended to him by filmmaker Pedro Almodovar: "Yeah, he told me that this thing really worked. I think he was talking about actors. That if you gave it to an actress and then turned on the camera—I think that’s what happened. So just after I saw him that time, I was going to teach at the New School. It was a…

My right triceps insertion on my elbow was hurting at the start but after warming up it felt good. The rest was unremarkable. Unknown location (probably inside)

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Jev feels like the perfect model offering for CloudFlare to own. Fast, effective, and focused.They have stayed out of the model race, but this one feels like it fits them.I have zero clue if this is even possible.

So there are pros and cons to using generative AI when writing briefs. Pro: The chance to save entire minutes when creating work product! Con: The possibility of career-ending sanctions. Flip a coin, I guess. Whatever the decision process may have been in this case, if any, it came out the wrong way. This can be gathered from the first page of the opinion below, which says it it is issued in the matter of In Re [Attorney Name] and has the title, “DISPOSITIONAL ORDER OF DIRECT CONTEMPT.” As…

As I get older I find using the smart phone less and less attractive, I also find apps more and more superfluous and annoying; They are not intuitive, they assume you understand the latest IT fads, they have too small fonts for my eyes, as well as this most are just badly written, intrusive, lack privacy, inefficient and drain my battery so I need to keep the phone constantly charged. Yet the world keeps pushing apps to me; There is rarely an option NOT to use an app, after all who in 2026 does…

by Eurocheese One of the top reasons to attend festivals is to find surprises, films that far exceed expectations and become unforeseen favorites. I had no plans to write up Leah Nelson's Tangles, though I knew it was getting good reviews. When I stumbled out of the theater, unable to keep tears from streaming down my face, I knew it deserved a reaction here at The Film Experience. This animated gem is not only for those who have been impacted by Alzheimer's directly, but for anyone who has…

comfort is your hand in the dark slightly touching mine you whisper sweet secrets in my ear and worry leaves my body in a blink comfort is your hand in the dark tightly holding mine

Me, rocking the old school Duo 2 today 😆. I loved this device size and form factor. Didn’t love all the baked in Microsoft nonsense. Selfie a day for a year, day 30: Sep 18, 2026 edition.

Opening with my favourite character introduction of all time, Jackson sets the tone for this odd thriller that defies expectation. Young Mary Kate Blackwood lives with her sister and uncle in the spacious family pile. The actual location and time are largely irrelevant; this book is deliberately timeless. They pootle through their offbeat but pleasant existence, Merricat (as Mary Kate os affectionately known) dropping enticing breadcrumbs of backstory as we go, until a visit from their…

Max Wilkinson's Night City, which premieres at Southwark Playhouse Borough's Little Theatre, follows three London workers in the gig economy, and opens by warning us that one of them will wind up dead by the end of the story: Jack (Jack Ambrose) works for a fictional rideshare company, and despite finding out he has a congenital heart condition is, at the start of the play at least, the one out of the trio who most embraces the stressful, intense conditions of working on a zero-hours contract.…

I often skip the fiction in the New Yorker — so much to read, so little time — but I read the first few sentences of Hisham Matar’s “New Shoes” (archived) and was hooked; by the time I finished I was thinking of Proust (it even features memories of Venice). But what brings it here is a Cairene place name: The other day, he said that I had been spotted sitting alone in a café in Zamalek, that old and illustrious neighborhood he and I admired as young teen-agers. I remembered us walking through…

I don’t once ever regret being weird in public. I perpetually regret not being weird or not-being-weird in public.

A day is short, a life is longby Kevin WammerKevin talks about some of the stuff he's figured out in his life now that he's turned 35.Read post ➡ Really enjoyed this post because it's honest, level headed, and real. Since stepping down in work myself, I too have realised that good enough is...good enough. Funny, huh? Kevin talks about a lot more than just his career, but I won't ruin a great read for you. Go check it out. Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You…

Sat in a 2026 Subaru Outback today and was pleased that many controls only accessible by screen in the last model have moved back to physical knobs and switches. (I’d previously complained this.) Hyundai and VW are also showcasing future models that will employ more traditional switchgear. Yay. Currently Listening: This is Lorelei “Billy Came Back”Reply via email

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Thank you, VSCode FAQ. How can I remove Copilot from VS Code? You can disable the built-in AI features in VS Code with the chat.disableAIFeatures setting, similar to how you configure other features in VS Code. This disables and hides features like chat or inline suggestions in VS Code and disables the Copilot extensions. You can configure the setting at the workspace or user level.