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Another 1950s movie about an underpaid, overworked guy who neglects his wife in favor of his job. This time instead of a newspaper man, he’s a US health guy trying to save the country from a deadly outbreak, slightly more excusable. Our...
Andrew Côté: So then why would Terafab need a Free Electron Laser, and why wouldn’t they just use what ASML does currently, laser-tin droplet ablation? To answer this we should start at the beginning: the fundamental physics of...
Connor came to visit this week!!! Hello Connor if you’re reading this lol. It was fun to hang out!!! It’s been a couple of years(????) which is crazy. Delton came down to visit too and we made plans to visit them in Maine which will be...
Andreas over on 82MHz has written about how you can’t expect giant tech companies to change if you keep buying their products: Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change. And I agree. I realized some years back...
For years, I’ve scoured online auctions looking for unique ephemera from my favorite David Lynch film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. It’s a great day when I find gold such as this German film program from Austrian editor Rudolf J. Maly...
Rewatching this (in a theater this time) I'm just struck by how much of this movie is Kati Outinen's face. I don't think I've ever seen a movie that is more carried by a single actor. And she's doing it here in a performance where she...
Meadow Gold Mack – Tulsa, OK – Fujifilm X-E5 – Retro Slide This new Fujifilm Recipe began with a stack of slides. Some were mine from the late-1990’s and early-2000’s (captured on Kodak Elite Chrome 100 and Elite Chrome 200), some were...
I’ve never worked with another person who knows Markdown. Is it too much to ask? I despise having to put shit into a Word document.
Power Cat 2026-08-10
Where We Left Off Part 18 was a Friday-evening update to Vaultwarden's version, making sure I was ahead of a Bitwarden app update before it could cause me any issues — one service, one box, a couple hours. This one is not that. This is...
Every time a new open-weight AI model is released, people say that local models are the future. Why spend billions of dollars building out datacenters when everyone will just be able to run AI models on their laptops or phones? I think...
(man-on-man sex, riffed on in street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) I have tons of news, much of it truly wonderful, some of it just eccentric bits of stuff I’ve come across, but all postponed after an...
Jolt now provides opt-in support to run go blocks on fibers instead of OS threads. This post will discuss how that works along with the different trade-offs made compared to other implementations, and why core.async turns out to be a...
Now that we've installed bun, Anthropic's package manager, scaffolded a Playwright framework and closely examined the results, and added typechecking with TypeScript's compiler, it's time to add ways to check the code with lint, and...
Desert Brat 2026-08-10 dog music