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After two solid half-marathons early this year, I was excited for the start of the 10K season to see whether I could keep improving my times. I had mixed results. Cap10K On Sunday, April 12th, I awoke at 5:20 before my alarm, had a cup...
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Quinn's Quest season two covered Stonetop, a fantasy TTRPG that tackles the classic lore-gap problem where GMs know everything and players know nothing by baking collaborative world-building directly into its rules. Rather than slowly...
Here comes the AIRSTEPPY! (via JetPens) It looks like the new LAMY Safari neoncolor pens are set to officially launc...
I’ve been meaning to write about one piece of writing for some time, but thanks to two others, I don’t need to. The first is Frances Wilson’s biography of Muriel Spark, which I read in the fall and thoroughly enjoyed. I’d say more about...
I will give my first public astronomy talk at TU Chemnitz's Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften on May 9th, 2026 — a journey from comets and auroras to distant galaxies — alongside the Astro Stammtisch Chemnitz booth with solar and deep-sky...
A couple of years ago, I wrote some code to display my archive of images from ffffound, an image bookmarking site, with the ability to filter by date and generated tags. That’s not the only place where I have a huge archive of images,...
“There are the moments I love most often when traveling: the gentle, rhythmic jolt of train wheels on rails; the long, mournful blast on the locomotive’s whistle way up ahead; the feeling of being taken inexorably on a journey, heading...
Soon everyone will be watching Netflix’s new 4-part Lord of the Flies. So let me repeat what the great Peter Gray says about that story: IT. IS. FICTION. We can’t use it as a reason to give kids less freedom because “this is what...
I was planning a trip to the northwest of Scotland, close to the part of the Highlands where I’d grown up. I’d travel on public transport to locations from three favourite films. First stop: the lonely rail station at Corrour, as...
Laying off engineers, designers, and PMs because you think AI will replace them is a real “tell me you know nothing about AI without telling me you know nothing about AI” moment. You have it so comically backwards it’s more sad than...