If I have a book coming out, then I must be going on tour to support it — and indeed I will be this November, supporting my new and critically acclaimed novel Monsters of Ohio! This time around we thought I should take a turn through the US Midwest for the tour, and so, you can see me in: 11/3 — Beavercreek, OH11/4 — Franklin, IN11/5 — Chicago, IL11/6 — Ferndale, MI11/7 — Hudson, OH11/8 — Nashville, TN11/9 — Louisville, KY11/10 — Kansas City, MO11/14 — Cincinnati, OH11/15 — Austin, TX…

Whenever Apple or any of the other major platforms release their annual operating system updates there’s always a period of adjustment for users and developers. Developers have to contend with the changes and sometimes that leaves users fumbling around trying to get back to what they were used to prior to the OS update. Thaw splash screen That’s certainly the case with Menu Bar Managers on the Mac. For some time Apple has been trying to steer developers away from placing apps in the Menu Bar.…

This wasn’t supposed to be my life. Remember that part in “Once In A Lifetime” by Talking Heads where David Byrne starts yelling about how this is not his beautiful house? And this is not his beautiful wife? Yeah… I had some trouble recently. Kinda with everything. Definitely wrestled a lot with this question: “Why do I feel like my life is completely out of my control?” I thought I’d had my midlife crisis at 39 when I suddenly couldn’t stop myself from undergoing a complete gender transition.…

Read When To? now!Do you have any “Tim’s” in your life who maybe get hyperfixated on something, ignoring the things that need to get done around them?Myself. I’ve had to set aside a day each week for laundry, dishes, and other household chores and then hold myself accountable to following through. Fictional worlds are just so much more interesting!If you ended up in a situation like this, who in your life would you most trust to get you home?I would most trust my closest friend and roommate who…

• 4-star hike • 1 mile part-loop • Easy | Gain 340 feet • Woodstock, VT | Southern Region . Mount Peg has the best view of Woodstock's hills. Mount Peg sits right on the edge of Woodstock village, making it one of the easiest hikes in the area to walk to and knock out on a whim. The trail is mostly easygoing, winding through quiet woodland on dirt paths before finally breaking out of the trees into a sweeping summit meadow. Here, a panoramic vista opens up across the rolling hills surrounding…

Swick & King Doudou – Haloumi Drums An absolutely giddy little heater from Melbourne’s Swick (Danny Omerhodic) and Lyon’s King Dou Dou (Hugo Douster). Both of these guys have been hustling for many years and used to make regular appearances in my sets — and on the blog — in the early and mid-aughts. Both handed in excellent remixes for releases on Palms Out too; unfortunately, Swick’s never ended up coming out (because the release was unfortunately pulled and released in Sweden only on…

There’s a common saying in discussion of fractals that the length of a coastline depends on how small a device you use to measure it. I thought this was a hypothetical, say as applied to the steps in the construction of the Koch snowflake. But the saying has its roots in actually surveying. Lewis Fry Richardson discovered in 1803 that the length of the coast of Scotland depended on a the size of segments used to measure it. And he found that the length followed a power law, i.e. that there’s a…

I'm pretty certain that this wasn't my first trip to Tobermory, as back in the mid-1970s I took part in a two-week botany, field course on the island of Mull. This was at the end of my second year at Salford University. Our accommodation during our time on the island, was a large, rented country house that had probably seen better days, although it was ideally suited for the purposes of the course. The accommodation was divided on strictly gender lines, with female students billeted in the…

James Turrell is a US artist who works primarily with light and architecture. He's designed an extremely large number of installations and physical spaces which use LEDs, smooth white surfaces, or windowed views of the sky to create bizarre, illusory color experiences. Gamers are probably most familiar with him through Bubsy 3d: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective, a completely perfect videogame made by the Arcane Kids. It features Bubsy attending a highly specific 2013-2014 LACMA…

Source ​ I heard it on the radio yesterday. I read some of her work but memory fails on the specifics now. She was mentioned frequently in the past. We could use more talent like hers, especially now. When I saw the picture I was uncertain if I had ever seen an image of her before. I didn’t know she looked like a model. I am not sure if Steve knew her personally. He may have. There were some prior posts on her.

Another quick update: I’ve been diagnosed definitively with lupus. I’d been toeing that line for a long time, have had symptoms related to it for at least 15 years, but things properly went wrong starting around the middle of last year and a recent biopsy made it definitive. Anyways, send me all of your hot-weather recommendations for long sleeves and pants that don’t make me feel like a boil-in-a-bag meal. And hats, all the hats. Did Carmen Sandiego have lupus? (Genuinely, related to the…

In a previous article, I claimed that there were no good alternatives to the RP2350-USB-A board. To accept a USB keyboard or other device, a USB board has to present itself as a USB host. It does this by pulling down the two USB data pins. The USB device then signals itself by having a […] The post The USB interposer appeared first on Quentin Santos.

Last Wednesday we flew from Paris to Minneapolis via Amsterdam. It was a during-the-day flight traveling West so I (attempted to) stay awake for (most of) the whole flight. Neither of us really had too much trouble with jet lag this whole trip! A blessing. I frankly didn't have high hopes for Minneapolis—we were headed there for an event Amy was invited to attend, it was convenient to attach it to the end of this Europe trip, and we figured we'd make the most of it. But it was kinda great! A…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***This week in 1976 saw the end of an era for the people of China, thanks to the death of Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong who died in Beijing, following a series of heart attacks.I can declare that I recall that event well.But how well shall I recall the events portrayed within the following comics?John Romita continues to fill the vacancy left by Jack Kirby and does it in…

An agave—often called a century plant—in bloom at Alcatraz Island, San Francisco. Despite the name, century plants don’t usually live for 100 years; many flower after a decade or two, producing a spectacular stalk before the parent plant dies. The post Agave Stalk appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.

Yesterday was the four-year anniversary of my iPhone Xs Max Exit Review. I gave it a read this morning since I may be on the verge of writing a new iPhone exit review (👀) and one of my footnotes caught my attention. "Just glancing at MKBHD’s top 20 videos (out of 1,464), seven of them are iPhone specific. They total a cool 84 million views. Also, his most viewed video is about the Game Boy with 39 million views. The second most viewed has 23 million and is about the first Samsung Fold." I was…

Tending the tree of Life by Hildegard of Bingen The 17th of September is the feast day of Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, a remarkable and prophetic woman, who described herself as ‘a feather on the breath of God’, and whose many works in theology, music, visual art, poetry and drama are still inspiring people today. Indeed she is coming more and more into her own, as one of her key ideas ‘Viriditas’, or the greening and life-renewing work of the Holy Spirit, seems especially apposite for our time.…

From Stay Alive! Berlin 1939-1945, by Ian Buruma (Penguin, 2026), pp. 23-24: Kennan, as an American diplomat, was vastly more comfortable than most Berliners, especially when winter set in. In Kennan’s description: “Canals were frozen. Fuel was short. Whole blocks of huge apartment houses could not be heated at all and had to be evacuated in zero weather.” (Jews were deprived of coal, and left to freeze in their “Jew houses.”) People also lived in constant fear of busybodies who could have a…

I keep seeing people talk about herdr, so against my better judgment, I searched up tmux vs. herdr. Search hit: Herdr: One terminal to rule them all (herdr.dev) on Hacker News. I wanted to mention that zmx is a beautiful piece of minimal software that basically has gotten rid of my tmux and zellij use. 🤨 Now searching zmx. Search hit: Zmx: Session Persistence for Terminal Processes (github.com/neurosnap) on Hacker News. If you like this tool, you might also be interested in reptyr, which lets…

About Nick Hayden, an Australian software engineer and technology leader writing about software, AI, leadership, business, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

I have a lot of conversations about the fine details of software process, because the software that I work on, is a lot like Pivotal Tracker in some ways and very different in others, and we're very deliberate about those differences. For instance: Points. We don't have them. We do all our velocity calculations and predictions with raw story counting. If we're going to add them, I want to be able to articulate very clearly why. So I talking with people a lot about why we haven't added them yet,…

I designed a new granny square! It's possible someone else has already come up with something similar, but I arrived at this particular pattern through trial and error, inspired by the crochet heart garland I shared in my Makes of the month - January 2026 post. I'm calling this pattern the Heart Center Granny Square, which is literal, but also a nod to my love of yoga.I kind of wish I had selected a different color palette because the neon pink does not photograph well, but ultimately I was…

The thought process behind the first two photo pages. After a busy few weeks, I finally sat down and worked on the website. It's always difficult to start, but once I get into it, I'm here for hours. I worry that if I stop, I'll forget what I was working on. It's been a month or so since I did some hard CSS work, and I did feel rustier. As a CSS maximalist, I have a lot of rules, and I tend to forget what I've already set up. Today, I built the photo album. Here's what it looks like: I even…

Just had a great time and lots of good conversations at OpenCoffee Club here in Austin at Houndstooth Coffee in The Domain. Lots of kindred spirits both old and new.

Carla couldn’t say she was surprised when her husband dragged her out to the barn to show her the sheets of metal he fused together into a large box. Nor was she surprised when he told her this box was, in fact, a time machine.When he urged her to climb in through the small opening on the side; she obliged. After all, what harm could come from it? She’d play along, nothing would happen, then she’d get him to finally fix the loose leg on the kitchen table. For months, he pushed it off, telling…

PAZ VIZSLA STAR WARS: EPIC FORCE (HASBRO) “A descendant of the esteemed house Vizsla, brawny warrior Paz Vizsla is protected by the strongest Beskar armor.” Would you believe I’ve finished up all my Saga reviews? Well, I guess I haven’t *really*, but I’ve finished all the reviews of figures that are ready to go, since all the ones I have left are pretty woefully incomplete. I’m past the days of incomplete figure reviews…mostly. Anyway, I’m actually jumping a fair bit further ahead for today’s…

Conclave dryads are fey beings whose home forests were felled or hemmed in as the city of Ravnica encroached inexorably around them and who now serve as clerics, consultants and consiglieri to members of the Selesnya Conclave. They’re also formidable spellslingers that ride into battle on cervid-shaped steeds made out of phloem and xylem. They […] The post Conclave Dryad Tactics appeared first on The Monsters Know What They’re Doing.

At one point I held a thing against the wall for like five seconds. Anna did everything else herself. We're living the beginning of the end of the patriarchy over here!

Like many others, I discovered Anohni and The Johnsons through 2004's phenomenal I Am a Bird Now. You know when you sometimes hear a song that simply arrests you in your place and completely overwhelms you? That was "Hope There's Someone", and a chance purchase of the album itself turned out to be one of those teenage Flint whim shots that paid unexpected dividends - hearing an album so unashamedly queer (though in a very somber manner) proved to be quite important when I soul-searched the ins…