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John Gruber, writing about Apple’s pending price increases: I won a steak dinner from my Dithering cohost Ben Thompson, betting that Apple would not raise the prices on RAM when they introduced the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros in...
If you looked at collages of photos of the "older brother core" aesthetic, you'd get a pretty close approximation to my lifestyle. Even though I fit really heavily with this, I'm a bit too old to really identify with it. It doesn't...
Dread Delusion is a difficult game to correctly describe. A quick peek at some of the many screenshots in this playthrough log will no doubt trigger happy Morrowind memories because of the otherworld giant shroom foliage. Yet the...
The next entry in my Supernatural Writings of Stuart Palmer series is the first of two (possibly three) stories about Max Brandt, “ghost layer.” A Sleeper Bewitched: Mr. Crane has been asleep for a month. No one knows why; no one can...
Making the rounds last week was this magnificent article on the complications of Arabic typesetting, An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt. The author, Saleh,...
It’s been a long time since a ‘regular’ update but life has continued pretty much unabated. I’m fully in the home straight when it comes to my parental leave and have only got two weeks left. Let’s go with one of those big...
It's a history of emoji. Quickly moves past early pictographic writing on up to little pictures on early Japanese pagers and smartphones. I was kinda famililar with a lot of this history. For a fews years, Unicode emoji changes would...
Why don't I go there? Yes, nobody stays there long enough, as if she cared, maybe she sill thinks about the things I said, the words she said to me were so banal and yet in my memory they glow bright like embers in the darkness of a...
Really this is just notes for myself, but maybe someone else finds it useful.
Part of the "FreeBSD on a Laptop" series. The FreeBSD Handbook has an extensive chapter on installing FreeBSD that covers a wide range of scenarios with descriptions of each possible choice. Its an invaluable resource maintained by...
Some skepticism of vitamin D skepticism
Hiring engineers is like deciding what kind of system you'll have. This seems obvious but surprised me to see first-hand.