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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us to Make a silly solage A silly solage is a happy poem of three lines, two of them as long as you dare, the third is one...
Having been away from home for a bit, and with nobody here to keep the crows coming by, it took a few days to reestablish our relationship. Truth be told, I'm still not that good at identifying individual birds to be able to say with any...
I reckon it’s a good sign that one of the buds of my magnolia has already opened, considering that I only planted it two weeks ago. Though it has been unusually cool this summer, it has also been sunny, with an unusual number of rainy...
I‘ve read many personal finance articles that claim you can save big by ditching your car and jet-packing, hover-boarding, or *shudder* walking everywhere instead. Monevator published a good one recently, which prompted car-swerving...
Ah, rain. We’ve had rain on and off all night, and it continues now. Long may it last. It won't,...
Does your AI work for you or is it the other way around? Whenever you’re pasting the output the AI gives you into another application, you’re just acting as a meat proxy (the next Times Word of the Year?). By all means, prompt AI. But...
On our way home, a co-worker mused about the future of humanity. «Maybe we'll join the dinsoaurs in extinction, and others will dig out our bones?» After that sentence, i toured one of the museums of natural history our successors could...
Jean’s 80th Birthday and a Big Party at Forty Acres. The Marquee is up at Forty Acres Green Shed clear out. ASHP installation starts. Still nice and cool on Tuesday morning. Army camp shooting practice got going at 9am sharp. LED admin...
Been wanting to try and start running a lot recently, and I have two friends who are super into it.109 words · 2 images
I’ve been reading more about AI lately trying to get my feet set in the rapidly developing conversation. On my flight to the east coast I read Emily Bender’s and Alex Hanna’s The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future...
Trust Me #121Primitive Painters by FeltPrimitive Painters by Felt is six minutes of pure, shimmering perfection. Released in August 1985, it is completely timeless. This is a song that always stops my in my tracks. The first few seconds...
I figured I’d better write down how things are going right now, because who knows what my health will be like in a little while... I quickly forget how things were a few weeks ago, how symptoms were and how it all started. So this is...
➜ last Saturday we drove up North for a short family vacation and our week started on Monday still at the holiday park. we planned some fun things for this day, since this would be our last full day here. ➜ it was a bit cloudly with some...
A bumper crop this month. When this happens I always think about moving my 20-year cutoff out to 25 years. It would eliminate some of the most common older rolling stock I document. But then I realize it’s important to document it,...
In this post, I take a look at the new Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection added to ASP.NET Core in .NET 11 preview 6, which relies on the Fetch Metadata HTTP headers, instead of the "traditional" anti-CSRF tokens used in...