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When I first started cooking, I turned the stove top on first. I figured it was an easy first step and would help me build momentum. Heating the pan would take a few minutes, so that was enough time to do everything else. I thought this...
Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order. (Patrick Winston)We humans have norms that are anti-domination, but pro-prestige, and it is...
Our free ink sample promotion runs through tonight at 11:59pm (8/2). Wanna Go to a Show? Pen Show Calendar Updated! (via Well-Appointed Desk). Ana and here team maintain one of the most comprehensive pen show calendars available. Guess...
As everyone at this point knows, the games industry is in an incredibly rough spot right now and thousands have lost their jobs and are looking for work. A new bundle has launched on Itch.io to try to help some of those folks out. The...
If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had, during a cybersecurity evaluation with its safeguards lowered, successfully hacked outside companies, I would have two...
I'd like to share my favorite way of measuring the value delivery of engineering organizations. It's something I've used at a lot of companies. I call it the ValueSum metric. Why the ValueSum metric? I like this metric because it has a...
I don't want to talk about AI any more. I had a post prepped for today inspired by recent furor over use of AI in the Blaugust community, but I pulled it. Why? Because it's such a boring topic. I hate talking about it. Too many people...
A physicist built a mini-universe out of cold atoms and used it to test where time comes from. It made big headlines a few weeks ago, and I almost skipped it, as most "universe in a lab" stories are nonsense. But then I actually read the...
Merit Badges Child Mara is in Girl Scouts and can acquire badges throughout the game. These include: * hiker * artist * making friends * cookie shill * cabin camper * computer wiz * good sport * friend to animals * bug explorer
Every year for the last few years, Mark Temple (Belghast) has prompted us to join in and write throughout the month of August as part of #Blaugust month. I was sorry to read yesterday that Mark sadly passed away on July 2, but cheered to...
Over the last two weeks, we've had many fun articles and exciting changes. Let's dive into them!And make sure you check out the end of this article where we drop some sneak previews of upcoming posts and break down this week's analytics!...
On the eighth day of my trip to Japan, I ventured out to the Hoheikyo Onsen located about an hour-and-45-minute ride south of my homestay. April was nice enough to walk me to the station so we could chat a little before I headed out (and...
Here we are in August already! I can’t believe it’s my birthday this month: I feel like I’ve only just got used to saying it’s 2026. But yep, here it comes: on 20th August, I’ll be turning 37. …But we’re not there yet, so let’s take a...
Now, let me just preface this with a disclaimer: … and get used to this puppo, as you may see this a few more times in this post :’). In light of continuing my bumbling foray into the hardware hacking landscape, I bought a...
It seems some ne'er-do-well hacked into my X account and put up some posts that break the X rules and so my X account has been suspended. Many of my blog posts here include links to my X posts, and I have no idea if those links will send...