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Note: This review was originally on July 6, 2022 at the collective RPG review blog, Bones of Contention. If you want to read more in-depth criticism and analysis of TTRPGs by the absolute top-notch bloggers in the field, there is no...
When I wrote Why Go? in 2012, I was struggling to get a Ruby on Rails web app to handle more than 3 concurrent requests. 😅 Go was a revelation! And it continues to be one of the top choices in that space. Today I’m retired from web...
Two boats docked behind a berm. Introduction Many years ago (over a decade) I wrote an article about RSS Feed reader alternatives after Google announced they were killing Reader in March 2013. That article attracted a fair amount of...
24 HRS IN PHOTOS by Kessel Kramer Asking AI for personal advice is a bad idea, Stanford study shows Personal Encyclopedias — this has blown up my mind, really. When Marketing meets HR
I have the idea. I'm almost there. I can almost connect it, but the sentences don't come together, and my mind feels fragmented. I wish my hands could convey it better, but it's been a long time since they last didn't disappoint me.
This recipe gave me a newfound appreciation for just how much work goes into some of my favorite restaurant dishes! Hup to Ha, or shrimp and walnuts, is our go-to appetizer whenever we order Chinese food, so Calvin Eng’s version in Salt...
Nighttime and all is right with the world. I am dialed in and smooth at the moment, or even better, I am like the softness of good music smooth as ever beneath a starlight sky in the cobblestone section of our Downtown, New York City...
[I'm shocked, shocked to find that cats are being jerks.] A new study posits that sometimes cats groom each other specifically to be annoying.Link:...
Link: A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance, by Andy Greenberg and Dhruv Mehrotra in WIREDI’m not sure I agree with this article’s implication that the problem with SFPD’s drone...
Boy, that article about AI-generated images I wrote yesterday, the several blog posts, comments and opinions I have read here and there about that controversial topic… it sticks in my mind. Since yesterday, it’s like I’m having a...
(timelapse photos of Photinus pyralis in flight. fly left, fly right from Wikimedia) 14 July 2026 Last night after sunset I sat on a park bench and watched fireflies (a.k.a. lightning bugs) in my city neighborhood. I could tell by their...
The heat broke briefly before closing back over New York City last week. It felt like watching a gift being tendered, in reverse.During the reprieve, it rained, deliciously. The steadiness of it commingled with throaty birdsong, which...
Temperatures are approaching ridiculous levels here in the greater Oslo area these days. We’re having multiple days in a row with a high above 30°C. When it gets like this my brain starts to lose certain critical functions which means...
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali My rating: 5 of 5 stars The book did not leave me crying but FUCK did my heart hurt. Massively."I shall hide it all away, in a place no one will find. Everything, everything. But especially my...
Is this the beginning of the decline and fall of OpenAI and their leader Sam Altman? I thought that recently, when I read how Apple was suing OpenAI for supposedly stealing its secrets. And that’s not the only lawsuit against them: the...