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Years ago, when I started the old blog1, I discovered Solarized. I liked it. The colors were beautiful and worked for me, but eventually I switched to the Gotham theme in Emacs, which, if you take a look, is not much different — just a...
now I'm fucking grieving and crying — Stephen Petrey (@stephen.nyc) 2026-08-12T14:03:32.176Z The post appeared first on stephen.nyc.
This is my 7th blog post for the Blaugust 2026 community blogging project. Join me all this month for more blogging. Like every other asshole, I have an opinion about generative AI and LLMs. I think they can be helpful for certain tasks,...
I have previously posted on the excellent juvenile series starring The Three Investigators. Created in 1964 by Robert Arthur Jr., a former pulp author, this series had Jupiter Jones, Peter Crenshaw, and Bob Andrews, all living in...
How are you feeling about the year?It's happening. It isThe best wayI can put this. And it keeps happening.Where do you see progress in yourself so far this year?Hard to say.But if I includeThe little, less grand thingsIt becomes easier....
A timelapse of driving our RV, a Tiffin Allegro Bus motorhome, 263 miles / 423 km, about five hours of driving, from MamaYeh RV Park & Campground near Prince George to Mile 0 Park, Dawson Creek, British Columbia, Canada.
We linked to a Skawo video yesterday, the one about flash card rumble motors activating when playing Link’s Awakening DX. Well I happened to have this one open, so here’s another: the last gasps of a failing PPU chip, shown off in...
I was thinking recently about underrated elements that make for a pleasant streetscape for me to walk through, and I decided I should give some love to some things I experienced in Lincoln, Nebraska--a city I've given some attitude in...
Cry contagion, or contagious crying, amongst human infants is a well documented phenomenon, one that anyone who has worked with groups of young people has learned about first hand. One infant's crying triggers nearby infants, especially...
YouTube will always need more. More viewers, more time spent on the site, more more more. Some folks want to “monetize their channels,” meaning, get a cut of the ad revenue from views. Before you had to 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch...
I recall reading this story some years ago, but it was fun to read it again today. It's the story of how the mouse came to the Apple II, and it relates to how Bill Atkinson didn't think the Apple II could host a graphical user interface....
Here at MPorcius Fiction Log we are reading stories from 1920s issues of Weird Tales, the widely beloved pioneering speculative fiction magazine. Today we are going to tackle four WT stories from the era by an author closely associated...
August is my favorite month for the farmers market. Yes, I’m sweating through my clothes while shopping, but all that fresh, bright, in-season produce more than makes up for the brief (and very damp) discomfort. My late-summer survival...
I missed a Blaugust post yesterday! I took off work and went with my family to Dollywood, Dolly Parton's theme park. It's close to where I live, so going there is far from a new occurrence to me. It had been a few years since my last...
Paulo successfully defended his PhD thesis this Monday. Throughout his PhD, Paulo studied the challenges that arise when writing modular robotics software using ROS. To help detect several types of misconfigurations, Paulo developed...