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Monday Sunrise: 5:40am Pay last weekend’s sunshine tax with a litter pick. A row of stationary cars builds steadily beside me as they wait for temporary traffic lights to change. I feel self conscious. Am I weird? This is weird. I hold...
I spent the last two months running a Polymarket order-book collector. The collector runs on a small VM, subscribes to the public WebSocket feed, and writes one Parquet file per UTC hour. By 2026-04-15 the archive had grown to 1,262...
From France 3: Un feu de végétation a provoqué l’incendie de l’église de Montenach en Moselle à la frontière Luxembourgeoise ce jeudi 30 avril 2026. Une partie du clocher s’est effondrée, la charpente a été entièrement brûlée, 60...
Weekly round up of Discord discussions, blog posts to read, projects to download, reports on what I'm working on or playing, and a poem for you!
why firsthand observation beats secondhand knowledge
Our illustrious Chairman takes us through a recent game of Chain of Command. Picture the scene, Linton Village Hall on a sunny Saturday morning, a gathering of War Gamers at one of the oldest clubs in the UK and a game of big CoC. Me,...
The best of this week's blogs - the ones I follow, anyway.
So some weeks ago I wrote that I was single again, but things have changed over some Matcha 😂. It all started with me casually texting her that I was going out to chill and “might bump into her”. She immediately saw through the disguised...
The English-speaking world has largely missed out on the story of Timmy the humpback whale. I’ve been having to follow German twitter updates to get news. English media picked up on the privately-funded rescue mission but it was not...
There comes a time when you’re starting to run out of storage, so you look to buy some more but look at those flash memory and hard drive prices! Yikes! I was fortunate enough to buy a brand-new 18TB Seagate Ironwolf … Continue reading →