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So, to the stuff on the day, as the saying goes, and because we'll be looking at everything again in future posts, we can keep the blurb light, just a few lines to keep the bots happy and give them something to trawl!...
Why the heck didn’t I hear about this movie before? It is… Well, I wouldn’t know how to define it. But I liked it, its weirdness, its meta, and its story. And the cast, wow! Rating: ❤️Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed!...
In a million years People say thisAll the time.In a million years People say how they never thoughtsomething would happen….Not in a million years Maybe a million years is not so longor maybe a million yearsis just “the here and now”and...
my love of (addiction to?) rss outweighed my loathing server maintenance, so, I plugged a screen into my 11 year old Mac mini and got it cooking again. A power outage a few weeks ago rendered it kinda dazed and confused enough that I...
The catalyst for the 1189 tragedy in York after the coronation of King Richard I was three men who wanted to criminally erase the debts they owed to the Jewish moneylender Aaron of York. Richard Malbysse, Robert de Turnham, and Robert de...
Oof, it’s way too hot here once again! And humid, at least here in my office, despite having had the portable air conditioner on dehumidifier mode for most of the last 24 hours. Still, I’m surviving and very lucky to have the air...
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A short post on fixing cryptic JavaScript errors in Safari caused by trying to hydrate components dealing with top-level await simultaneously in Astro.
Just a brainfart here, but it's odd that even though we have wildcard selectors throughout CSS, and even partial selectors (I'll explain in a bit) we don't have partial wildcard selectors on top level elements. I'm not talking about the...
A short story of doomerism, ignorance, and poetry. At least the coffee is good, unlike the arguments I'm reading about the future. The Missing SubjectSomewhere inside Oracle's 2026 annual filing, a sentence is trying very hard to look...
The fundamental nature of macOS enabled these new use cases without Apple needing to do anything at all. Not everyone is interested in this kind of cutting-edge software, and that is fine. But if you are someone who is interested in what...
Anthropic and OpenAI have legacy software media in the blender because they are playing a new game. They are legitimately racing to build God. The products they release are one-off fundraising vehicles to buoy the next training run....
Indulge me for a moment in a personal reminiscence. It was the summer of 1971, the year before we moved to the World's Worst Town™, and we were on vacation at a lake resort in Alexandria, Minnesota. We were often in the area during the...
If you don’t have a headsail furler, a downhaul line is one of the easiest and least expensive control lines that you can add to your sailboat. It adds major convenience and safety for around $30. The line can be used …