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We drove our coach 255 miles, about five hours of driving, from our home base near Shelton, Washington back to Cummins Coach Care in Coburg, Oregon. Here’s a map showing our route, heading south: An interactive map, with potential stops...
With Advanced Witches & Warlocks, I have had in mind a certain goal: to give the witch traditions the weight of actual occult practice. I do not want it to be a matter of "this witch has fire, that one has healing." There is more to it...
In the midst of our AI slop revolution, traveling to the West coast for Open Sauce this past weekend was the perfect antiseptic for rising costs, summer heat, and online divisiveness. It's ironic, then, that I used Claude to vibe code my...
Displaced Gamers‘ Behind the Code series, and its companion Talkin’ Code, are probably the best technical examinations of NES games on Youtube. They take games that were the bread and butter of the Famicom/NES in its heyday, products of...
Went to another baseball game this week, this time more centally at Taipei Dome, and with my coworkers. I again got to see the Wei Chuan Dragons, which makes them my official favorite Taiwanese baseball team. They took on the Rakuten...
A lot of my examples on this blog come from larger cities. This is natural, because density is one of the major components of successful urbanism, especially both walkability and transit, and even more diffuse large cities often end up...
Want: The Light Flip.
Read: Astronauts returning from six-month missions describe a persistent ‘observer’ sensation. “Others compare it to jet lag of the self.”
We had our CAMRA Rochdale, Oldham and Bury committee meeting at the Baum in Rochdale last night. It used to be our main branch venue until changes made it too small for our needs, but it was good to be back. The beer there is always...
Worried we’re going to run out of good, reliable Future Years. 2000 was a big blow, and we just lost 2019, 2020, and 2025 in rapid succession. 2050 and 2070 are in reach in our lifetimes. I don’t think anything starting with a 21- has...
This is a monthly newsletter about the current state of Radicle CI, what has happened recently, and near future plans. Current status Radicle CI is in production use. There are several CI nodes, and Lars runs a public one for open source...
Canadian actress Alison Pill broke through as a child performer on stage and in television.
CAMRA have brought out a new, words-based, beer scoring system, about which I have my doubts. But alongside that I have just enjoyed what has been almost certainly the best weekend of music in my life. And what's even better is that it...
I found there wasn't any good SSRF prevention libraries for Laravel, so I built one. Very comprehensive tests based on this paper: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/wessels...