I often could not remember little things about my tags, like is it "#book" or "#books", SO I made a plugin. Your available tags are listed under the "Attributes" dropdown on your new/edit post page. So as you type a tag, the plugin pulls from that list and compares what you typed to what's in the afformentioned list. By default, as long as the typed-word is IN the tag, the tag will be suggested. Like "blog" will match #blog, #blogger, and #bearblog (and will be sorted in that order). There are…

Amidst all the policy proposals, claims, and counterclaims about energy use and carbon emissions, it’s useful to touch base from time to time with basic current facts. One of my starting points is the Statistical Review of World Energy, published annually (free registration needed to download the report). The report is full of figures and tables, with some text sprinkled in. Here, I’ll just pass along a couple of big-picture fact patterns. This figure shows sources of energy for regions around…

For the longest time I've wanted to make things. I am a very creative being and I want to make!!! I want to write and paint and build and assemble compose and design!!!! I want to CREATE! A while ago I started writing fanfiction, I never got really far, I kinda burnt out really quickly. That was over a year ago, I have drafts and outlines last edited September 24th, 2025. I started writing it because the fics that I wanted to read didn't exist and I figured I'd just do it myself. Even now, a…

I've been a bit worried lately. Of course, my friends will tell you that's my norm. But more specifically, I've been worried about my coding skills. As I use AI to generate more and more code, and it does that job well, I kinda miss actually writing code. I've also had a bit of writer's block in terms of topics to cover, and especially in the area of the web platform. A few days ago it occurred to me - I've never really dug into TypeScript. Sure, I've used it, many times, in the fourteen or so…

by M. John Harrison Space Opera about the only person in the galaxy who can arm the Centauri Device, a bomb left hidden by an alien race just before they were destroyed in a battle with Earth. The book, written in 1975, pokes fun at the earlier space opera novels whose heros were always positive action figures saving the earth from bad aliens. In this book the hero is an unwilling drug addicted loser with no interest in being an actual hero, and Earth are not protrayed as the good guys. From…

Raymond Love just wanted to publish his children’s book with a trustworthy self-publishing company. Instead, he found a scam that took his money and delivered nothing of value. For most authors in this situation, lost cash and lost dreams are unrecoverable, but Raymond Love’s story has a different ending. He sued–and won. The legal documents in his case provide fascinating insight not just into the techniques scammers use to bleed their victims of resources–manipulating them with constant and…

Here's some ideas for a storage Rack... 3x4 rack with a vertical bin on the right. Three across, four down. Get 12 bins that are the smaller 24 inches long black bins with yellow lids Count Type Code Size 24 Runners 2x4 or maybe 2x3 and 24" long 8 Legs 2x3 or 2x4 and like 6 feet 4 Width boards 2.3 - 8 feet long - extra for a vertical bin 1 RED PAINT gallon red paint and brushes I can build for 4 wide, and just use the empty vertical one for stacking solar panels or chairs/tables, etc. This post…

One thing I believe is that the current, publicly accessible frontier models are already sufficiently powerful to radically change the working world. I expect it may take years to figure out how to use all this power. Today, I already come up with more outputs than I can process. My outputs are are complex, everything needs review and human feedback integrated, and judgement to put into use. I don’t have the bandwidth to do that for everything right now, so sometimes side projects get set aside…

My attention was drawn yesterday to an article in New Scientist with the following introduction: You would think I would have known about the fact that men with older brothers are more likely to be gay, but this was news to me. The Fraternal Birth Order Effect does seems to have been well established since its discovery in the 1990s. The explanation proposed at the time attributed the effect to a prenatal biological mechanism, as the association is only present in men with older biological…

In the mid-2000 teens, when I finally started playing bass more professionally, I showed up at a very small gig with the very top-of-the-line equipment. Aguilar everything and a Lakland bass that I could barely play. Many thousands of dollars. Pretty showy, and as I don't like relic instruments, or pretend aging, as I like to call it, it all looked sparkly and brand new. The guitarist commented on my equipment when I walked in, and then while we were setting up, again commented on it, and…

an early video poem from SEX & VIOLENCE (Black Lawrence Press, 2020)

We came past the graffiti practice wall again. Briefly talked to the guy working on a piece there and found out that, with ~4.50 € per spray can, this is quite an expensive hobby/way to express yourself creatively. (He needs at least 3-4 cans for a wall of this size.) That is almost as expensive as film photography! 😂 👉 View one more image

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Tomorrow is Software Freedom Day (SFD), a time of celebration around the world for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). On this day brings opportunity for a time to be together united in building a better future where our digital freedoms are protected in all sectors such as education, government, home, and business. It’s a time that also brings people together with similar interests and fosters building connections. So please consider taking this time to attend one of the events around the…

Takes practice, and a bit of audacity. Read here.

If you're writing Dockerfiles that install packages using system package managers, such as apk or apt, you might be pinning your versions of packages, to make sure that you have more reproducible builds, or if you're on a rolling release distribution like Wolfi and Chainguard Images, you want to make sure you only get package versions you want. When these system package manager versions are pinned, it can then be a little cumbersome to keep them updated in an automated fashion, as most tools…

Increasing a UTM virtual disk's size does not automatically expand the guest's APFS container. If a Recovery partition lies between the container's partition and the added free space, it blocks direct expansion. This Codex/Astra-crafted script uses Python 3.9+ standard library and macOS diskutil, cp, and lsof; no pip packages, Go, Homebrew, or QEMU are required. It targets macOS 26+ with diskutil image support and an APFS host filesystem for copy-on-write backups: #!/usr/bin/env python3 # Grow…

Autocorrect on my text messages is making me look even more unhinged than normal lately, so if you ever feel bad about your texting issues, please enjoy these two examples from just the last week: What I thought I wrote: “I need to start being more kind to myself. I’ve been really getting down onContinue reading "Mortifying myself without even leaving the house"

We've added new stickers to the St Jude fundraiser including a sparkly Jimothy. You're gunna want this one. Donate here. We've got a new garage door going in next week which means I'll be able to actually use the space to it's full potential. I'm more excited than I should be. Alex has been abusing ID3 chapters to make "video" podcasts by setting chapter art every few seconds. This is glorious and terrible and I love it. I like the look of the Platinum Komono as a pen, but I am not a fan of any…

Velar Prana Tonight The latest single from Velar Prana, Tonight opens with a lush wave of sophisticated sound. Slithers of brass instrumentation weave in and out of themselves, soaring and fluttering, as warm and crispy bass establishes a feeling of sun-kissed movement. Having spent endless nights at turntables through his years at school, Velar Prana now writes, records and produces music. His focus is on what you hear on Tonight — a kind of warm electro-pop that glitters and captures the…

Last week, Lillian and I were supposed to fly to the Greek island of Rhodes, but our flight ended up being a casualty of the chaos caused by an issue with the UK’s Air Traffic Control System. A full day at Edinburgh Airport, checking in luggage, going through security, waiting in departures, being boarded, sitting on the plane for two hours, being removed from the plane again, waiting around in departures again, finally finding out our flight had been cancelled and waiting to collect our…

Eighteen-year-old Arsa lives alone on a sparsely populated island off the coast of Sicily. Arsa’s independence anchors a story about a young woman whose attention seems to have drifted away from the outside world. Directed by a pair of visual artists who go by the name MASBEDO,* the movie depicts the life of a teenager (Gala Zohar Martinucci) who shows little interest in connecting with others. Filmed on the volcanic island of Stromboli, Arsa — named for its main character — moves slowly as…

On the Mappery site we have almost 2,400 posts on WordPress and we had never used the Category feature to sort them when we were adding posts. When we built the new Mappery Map Plugin for WordPress we included the option to only map posts in a specific category which we thought would be useful to some users in the future.Yesterday afternoon I wanted to see if there was a smart way to categorise 2,400 posts without stepping through each one in the WordPress edit interface which would have…

Whilst I haven’t binge read 26 Elizabeth Ferrars mysteries in 2026, I did finally reach this total number of reads, tapping into three of her series and many of non-series books, spanning six decades. It therefore felt timely to release a new ranked list. After all, who doesn’t love a good list?

I added a “copy to clipboard” button to my site’s code blocks back in February. It works as you’d expect, except for one detail. Instead of the usual icon or color change to communicate when the copy succeeds, it mimics those tear-off tabs you sometimes see on paper flyers stuck to telephone poles and bulletin boards. Here’s a video: You can try it out in any post with code blocks, like this one, this one or even this one. Oh look, here’s one now: Language: HTML<blockquote> <p>I am just a copy…

Info Date: 2026-09-18 Distance: 33.1 km Elevation Gain: 845.0 m Moving Time: 3:29:45 Elapsed Time: 5:19:20 Grit: 99.71 Flow: 3.34 Jumps: 2 Surface (OSM estimate): Paved 36.4% · Gravel 1.9% · Dirt 46.6% · Unknown 15.1% Map Tap map to interact Description Tretji kolesarski dan nas je vodil na skrajni sever otoka. Coop pod Rio nell’Elba je bil sila kooperativen in je služil za izhodišče, kjer sva parkirala. Izgledalo je sicer, kot da bova najmanj ob ledvici, ampak kvarnik alarm, vse štiri felge so…

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There has been a lot of talk about “AI doom” or “AI crisis”. My position is the same now as it was years ago: despite exponential progress in AI, society remains mostly unchanged: No mass-unemployment, no collapse of social order. Over the longer-term, productivity goes up, but society itself does not change structurally aside from AI playing a large role in it, much like smartphones or personal computers. As of September 2026, AI has not produced mass unemployment in the United States.…

“You have as many options as you give yourself.” –Kasie West The latest Battlefield 6 season released to warm reception for good reason: from the moment players set foot on Tsuru Reef, they found themselves immersed in combined-arms gameplay set amongst a tropical archipelago with turquoise waters and brilliant blue skies. As aircraft soar overhead, […]

Documenting my mishaps. In my efforts to cook once a week, I started thinking about what to make. Yesterday, I was craving a chicken casserole. The last time I ate this was during my childhood. Our neighbor, Micky, brought it over twice and it was the best thing I'd ever eaten. I still think about it from time to time. When I try to imagine Micky's casserole, I remember there was chicken, celery, and rice. You could cut a square of it and it was layered like a lasagna. But since I've never made…