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Just You Wait, by Chris Shiflett is a fantastic read. While I'm slightly younger than Chris, his description of the journey of growing and evolving with technology feels very familiar. The whole article is well worth a read, but really...
I’ve really been enjoying this new YouTube show, One Question with TK. I don’t know many of the guests but the premise is so interesting and the conversation so fascinating it doesn’t matter. Highly recommended.
I just learned something fun this weekend. The seminal videogame Pong from 1972 looked like this: But there was a problem. Here’s Al Alcorn, the designer/engineer of the machine: The paddles on the original Pong didn’t go all the way to...
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We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone’s civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services. This was the quote of the quote of the former Danish Minister of Justice, when speaking on online...
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This NY Times article about how Trump was spirited out of Turkey reads like a real-life spy novel in places:President Trump hid in an airport catering container and was taken to a military jet for a secret flight out of country after the...
There is a problem that I have struggled with for years now: comparing someone’s final version with my first draft. The cycle is endless, and even though I know the solution to this problem, it never goes away. Maybe I love feeling...
If you ever feel like you have too many sections within a page on your site or too many links you want to categorize in a stylish way, then these might be of use to you. I wanted to create some simple, copy and paste codes that cater to...
I am not sure how universal this is, but when we get older, do we all focus more on the age of death of people we read in the news? Do we silently calculate -- if the reported age is older than our current age -- how many more years...
Adolf Hitler once sent Margery Booth 200 red roses wrapped in a sash printed with a swastika. He'd just watched her sing at Bayreuth and told her she was perfectly charming. What he didn't know was that the same woman was smuggling...
Some lovely Spisula praecursor (Dall) fossil clams from the Skonun Formation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, captured from the Miocene when this coastline looked very different from today. These fossil bivalves belong to the surf clam...
The BBC Bridge Companion has RF video output from the factory, but that’s not good enough for its cutting-edge pastel graphics. In order to get things looking their best, I spent a really long time making a composite video mod for the...
This is my 6th blog post for the Blaugust 2026 community blogging project. Join me all this month for more blogging. Bellingham, WA is a lovely town. It’s the northernmost city on the US west coast – just a half hour from the Canadian...
“That’s how it is—we’re literate. And we’re word processors now too, since information theory and the computer are hooked up together. That’s dandy. But why do we lock ourselves into one mode? Why either/or? We aren’t binary. Why have we...