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The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 246. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Call of Duty on the Nintendo Wii sounds kinda ridiculous until you actually play it. Revisiting Black Ops and the wider Wii releases in 2026 revealed nothing but surprisingly solid ports, enjoyable motion controls and a side of the...
Recently I have been spending a lot of time analyzing and optimizing memory usage in our Rust reverse-proxy, agentgateway. One thing that repeatedly came up was a surprisingly large amount of memory allocated to innocent-looking Tokio...
Are you getting it? It's not two apps...
The named plaintiff is a professor. The defendant is a website, Academia, that helps professors share their works publicly. Academia heavily promotes its “Mentions” service that tracks a professor’s mentions and citations. [Historically,...
A few days ago I saw several bugs introduced by a well meaning dev who wanted to heed the UIEvent.which deprecation announcement and use the .key property instead. But even if .which is deprecated - that's actually untrue for every...
When it comes down to it, all humanity really has at the end of the day is our stories. Telling stories around the fire is a tale as old as humans themselves, and author Ada Hoffman expresses the importance of these stories, and the...
Fair blows the wind . . . the vessel drives along,Her streamers fluttering at their length, her sailsAll full; she drives along, and round her prowScatters the ocean-spray. What feelings thenFilled every bosom, when the mariners,After...
Our building is under assault. It’s not just annual maintenance time. It’s emergency repairs time due to excess flooding. Flooding because we’ve had so much rain this year water has...
“The man with an experience is never at the mercy of the man with an argument,” said the Holiness preacher. This line keeps coming back to me this year. It can and did indicate anti-intellectualism. I prefer to frame it, however, in...
The Rhododendron’s are popping.
Projects I eliminated a little bit of noise from my GoatCounter dashboards by filtering less interesting pages. I finally transferred this domain from GoDaddy to OVH. A concrete step to move my “assets” closer to home. I received another...