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To quote absolutely no one, piping mistakes happen. A slip of the wrist, a miscommunication, a minor earthquake - for whatever reason, sometimes things go wrong with your order, and that's when many bakers get to practice their most...
This is a YA novel only available in Dutch. The title means something like 'out of the blue' or 'out of nowhere'. My Aline Sax completionism has failed me this time. I think this is her only non-historical title, and I really disliked...
A mixed set of links from my trying to catch up after more travels - for still more, check out the chonky set from last week found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired...
It turns out that the real secret to longevity is to live in an area with poor record keeping. Something is very wrong with modern longevity is a nice New Yorker piece questioning the whole “Blue Zone” idea. Our tendency to fetishize...
Don’t you want to play something nice? Do you wanna forget that summer is almost over, meaning that the heatwaves will end finally but also it will be time to go back to work? Do you wanna be a cute ghost running around in a ghost town,...
I behold London; a Human awful wonder of God! William Blake (1757-1827), Jerusalem
I'm apparently doing it wrong. According to Andrej Karpathy, There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding', where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. You just talk to the AI and...
It was good fun last week to share my experience of unpacking my new book, The Spiritual Imagination of C.S. Lewis. The front-porch video got a few thousand spins on social media and hundreds of comments from friends. It was … Continue...
I’ve been sharing notebook images from this blog on Pinterest for quite a while (as well as re-posting lots of other people’s notebook images). Over time, I’ve built up a surprisingly large following there, but in recent months I’ve...
This week I kicked off our Hanakai sponsorship drive for 2026, and shared an exciting new stretch goal — if we can raise another $15k for this year, we’ll be able to pay an honorarium to our active maintainers.The response so far has...
Built a small tool jotta-canary which alerts your phone when a machine's Jottacloud sync folder stops syncing. Private repo for now, unless there's interest.
The Regicide Report came out in January 2026. Traditionally I wait for the paperback before writing one of these spoiler-laden crib sheets, but there won't be a US paperback edition and the UK one isn't until the end of the year: if you...
For this week’s AI Skeptics episode we talked to Daron Acemoglu, economist at MIT, about his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Apple Spotify YouTube
The day is August 16th, the time is 6:42 am, and the temperature is a very enjoyable 16°C. The sun is about to rise over the mountains, and I can see it appearing behind the car I just parked at the same parking spot where we ended our...