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(It's been a long time since I posted. Moving apartments and the awful heat threw all my habits off the rails and it's taken me a while to get back into the swing of things.) 1When I was a teenager, I read a book called The Gospel...
We can almost see the mountains again. in: notes tagged: montana nature
The 2026 Partial Solar Eclipse, from my perspective
Current status: “Hi $vendor, I confess thatI’ve never seen a vendor explicitly state that their encryption-at-rest policy doesn’t cover servers. That’s a new one.”
Use Xcode 27's headless MCP server and Apple's agent skills to build, preview, and verify an iOS app
I knew it was coming.I knew we were close.By the end of last year, the rumblings were getting louder.And now ... it has happened.Break out the champagne!As of today — August 13, 2026 — the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)...
Emacs pinky is becoming a thing for me recently. I’ve been a happy user of CAPS as control, but recently my pinky started rebelling. My keyboard is non-standard. Time to think of other solutions :(
I’ve been using various IndieWeb ideas here for a fairly long time now, this is a great summary. It was a movement with concrete ideas, protocols and an active community! As I read through their wiki, I understood their position and the...
Revisit of the last two weeks, really. Life's been exhausting and I simply didn't have the time last week. In fact, I think the next revisit of the week is going to be another 2-week stint as well as I want to write some other blog...
Last night I slept pretty well. I did wake up this morning after having a very strange dream. It was not good or bad, but it was one of those dreams that will linger in my head. My mind has been so full of clutter the past few months,...
Tonal eclipse of the sun - as seen at Knocking Hoe - projected through a kitchen colander onto a sheet of white card. I didn't want to buy a pair of special glasses (or go blind) so this simple variation on a pinhole camera did the job....
I'm a Dumbo Octopus! A Graphic Guide to Cephalopodsby Anne LambeletGenres: Children's, Graphic Novels Pages: 72 Rating: Synopsis: Meet Grimpy! He’s a dumbo octopus, and he’s taking us on a tour of the whole cephalopod class—underwater...
Are menopausal women hot? It is often said that pornographic actresses move straight from "barely legal" to "MILF" without so much as moment in between. Unlike the fringe's other burlesque shows - which seem to exclusively feature...
We can almost see the mountains again. in: notes tagged: montana nature
Having just finished another page on my sketchbook with acrylic paint markers, I flipped back to the first page I did when the markers were new. It seems that a lot of people like to diss their own past works, especially if they're...