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Hey, Bear. It is such a weird feeling: I ate a great burger at Dnipro center and now I am laying here. Like jumped through a portal from tons of civilian people, actual girls, no explosions to everything opposite. I returned. Never liked...
Bought an app because on paper it had all the features I wanted. Opened it and key areas didn’t work. Sloppy, obvious use of non-standard (e.g., AI generated) UI. Website looked like a Claude artifact. 1.0 was released a few weeks ago...
Something that comes up a lot in fiction writer circles is finding community. Beta readers, critique partners, writing groups. I'm very lucky in these regards! There is however a little niche missing. I have an excellent beta reader and...
I haven’t been posting lately, and I realized last night that is because I don’t know how to talk about what is happening in the world anymore. I don’t know how to solve the world’s problems, so I’ve been afraid to give others false...
Mostly a rest day today though I did get out on the scooter before the next heatwave hits. I’m enjoying photographing the same trees in the park and hope to have a good series across the seasons by next summer. I remember when I took the...
Item #1. The attention bottleneck. This is an astute observation: Nobody wants to hear this, but the biggest moat in business right now is attention. 40 cents of every venture dollar raised goes to Google and Facebook for ads. As a...
Welp. My Forgejo instance got popped with an RCE two days ago by CVE-2026-60004. Luckily, I noticed the following morning and had the day free to figure out what happened. Let's dive in! The IncidentI woke up on Saturday morning to...
OMG! If you remember A/S/Ling your way through MSN to fill in your MySpace top 8, then you'll love this show. You're also over 30 and, therefore, old. Ew. The stage is littered with a Nokia 3310, Bliss Magazine, and Charlie Red. Katie...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. There’s two apps on my phone that I really like, and use a lot. The first is Merlin, the app from Cornell that helps people to identify...
The so-called “rules” of photographic composition are, in my opinion, invalid, irrelevant and immaterial—nothing but obscurations between the spirit and the revelation of the world of nature and of man . . . It is affirmed here that...
Review from: Assembly Hall, Edinburgh Festival Fringe; 7th August 2026 Expectations ran high for GOM’s Ten Thousand Hours at the[…] The post ‘Ten Thousand Hours’, by Gravity and Other Myths appeared first on The Circus Diaries.
Charles L. Harness — Firebird July 20 So I was talking about Mina the Hollower and I managed to surprise bzedan (who was already background-discourse aware of the game) by mentioning that Mina is an anthropomorphic mouse. This is part of...
This is nearly a 75% board with the width of a 65% one. That welcome reduction in desk area is offset somewhat by the big round touchscreen that projects from the upper left corner. I’d be happier if the display were removed and replaced...
July was quite the month! D had her last days of school and then her 6 week summer holiday started. The weather was great! Almost every day 25+ degrees and some outliers up to 30 (and sometimes more). As far as my health was concerned,...
The task manager app Linear does something interesting I have not seen before. In the keyboard shortcut tooltips, it highlights the modifier keys you already pressed, to give you confirmation you’re on the right track: I think this is...