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I spent Monday doing nothing, watching TV series, taking a nap, and by the evening I felt mostly recovered from the previous weekend’s exertions. Tuesday was wasted waiting in for a delivery that was postponed, and a Royal Mail...
This is the weekly visible open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. ACX has an unofficial subreddit, Discord, and bulletin board, and in-person meetups around the world. Most content is free, some is...
We didn’t get to clarity on safety reqs with Lemons folks which was essential to have time for a real cage, so focused on some other projects over the summer and the M3P will keep going to track days for R&D. 1. Oli’s 968 2. Max’s 1353....
Read the full post at - The End of an Era [for Writers] via Hugh Howey I thought this post was an evergreen take amongst the white hot discourse -> https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/ His outline on how writing is changing has...
Henry Miller’s old typewriter with an unusual key placement. An American deserter fleeing to Laos. Beckett and Lucia. A heroin smuggling syndicate. A missing Swiss student. and Madam Petroin sees all.
I spent the last three weeks in the north of Ireland. Myself and Jessica flew to Belfast where we spent the first night. We managed to get to a session that evening where we were warmly welcomed. The next day we travelled to Donegal. A...
I first noticed web scroll areas had scroll locking behavior when making 2D scroll snap demos; I couldn't scroll diagonally without getting hijacked and locked into an x or y axis. Even on a touch device, where a diagonal gesture is so...
Having barely visited Berkshire in the past year, I found myself making a flurry of trips to the neighbouring county to tick off the 2026 Beer Guide pubs I hadn't previously visited.Even though the new edition will land on the doorstep...
I got off the 22 at Fillmore and Union, thinking to walk down to the SFPL branch library in the Marina and do some work on IM there. On the ride up from Japantown, I'd sat in the front, where the seats are reserved for the elderly,...
JUNKPILE X-MEN 2099 (TOY BIZ) “With a bad attitude and the brawn to back it up, Junkpile is one mean machine. Once aligned with the mutant outlaw X-men, he turned against his teammates and helped arrange the attempted assassination of...
by Jason Sacks The Omega Man starts in such a promising way. Charlton Heston is driving around Los Angeles one sunny morning in a shiny Cadillac convertible. It’s a beautiful day, but we soon realize something is wrong. There are no cars...
Over the last week I've been working on replacing imladris, the server that does most of handwaving gesture this. I first installed the ur-imladris on November 5th, 2011 from a Debian 6.0 (squeeze) iso into a KVM 0.12.5 VM. That system...
Bad things have upsides, bad things have downsides. Good things have upsides, good things have downsides. — Jerry Wise
The terror of AI has come to comedy. There are a dozen shows this year about the threat that technology poses to the way we live, laugh, and love. In this case, AI stands for Austrian Imperialism and the fight is for Switzerland's...
Nine years ago, I wrote a blog post about my ideal novel writing tool called NEO. You can read that original post here. The problem I was trying to solve was replicating the clean, crisp workflow I’ve always had in Apple’s Pages, before...