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Some time ago I wrote about a new-ish feature of Node where it parses .env files (dotenv-style) itself. Today, I’m going to mention a feature which has been in Node for some quite time, but somehow I’m not sure many people know about it.
Autumn – On the Hudson River, Jasper Francis Cropsey, oil on canvas, 60 x 108 in. (152 x 275 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Aart, DC, which has both a zoomable image and a downloadable high res file available. Cropsey...
If you’ve ever used Gemini Live, you may recall it does/did not store information from previous conversations. Today I was I just had the weirdest conversation with Gemini Live in which it knew some info from previous conversations by...
The Design & Play (DNP) game design competition is back! This is a competition open to all Malaysians. It is organised by Malaysia Boardgame Design (MBD). This was first held in 2025, so this is the second year we are doing this. We have...
by Amber Dubin It's installment six of the Night Gallery, and the show takes an even darker turn as if paying homage to the mark of the Beast that the number six is usually associated with. We are presented this time with three short...
My review of the literary fiction novel Upward Bound by Woody Brown. I read a hardcover edition published in Hogarth in March 2026.
Movies 36 Hours to Kill (1936) D: Eugene Forde. S: Brian Donlevy, Gloria Stuart, Douglas Fowley, Paul Fix, Jonathan Hale. Relaxed cheapie thriller about gangster Fowley taking a cross-country train to escape a dragnet, only to run into...
I’ve been running Ollama on my Mac Studio for local AI experiments. I followed advice to try oMLX instead and it’s ludicrously faster, like maybe 5-10x for both time to first token and completing the response. I haven’t benchmarked it,...
putting the module back in...uh, module
If fossil fuels are made from fossils, are oil, gas and coal made from dead dinosaurs? Well, no, but they are made from fossils. We do not heat our homes or run our cars on dead hadrosaurs. Instead, we burn very old plants and algae. It...
There was a cold breeze early on this Free Comic Book Day as I stood...
Shower and a meal before flying to Tokyo
Started reading: One for the Money by Janet Evanovich 📚
The Kaweco Sport Fountain Pen is one of the best pocket pens on the market, and one of this year’s hottest releases has been the Lunar Shadow model. I have one to give away this week, with an Extra Fine Steel nib, and the winner is: ...
To find the path to the disk, run lsblk. Let’s say, path to the disk is /dev/sdc. To check if the disk is compatible with smartctl, run: $ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdc | grep Enabled SMART support is: Enabled Then to print a health report:...