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The login screen of any web application is the equivalent of that application telling you “In order to access YOUR data in MY database, prove you are who you say you are.” You’re authenticating with the application so that you can have...
I shared about the vision and evolution of my website so far in a show and tell in Dec 2025
I have a new open access journal article out in Democratic Theory, “The Last Argument for Democracy: The Unsettling Reliance of Embedded Democracies on Authoritarian Specter Regimes.” As it’s open access, there are no paywalls. You can...
We start our journey back home today. Today’s leg takes us from Avila Beach, California to Gallup, New Mexico. Looks like 811 miles with an estimated time of around 12 hours. 🚙 It will, of course, take longer. 😃
ideas for things i'd like to try: making a frame loom and weaving on it (but what?) a big one or a little one, to then sew the pieces together? more sewing but more flexibility on what to make try sprong (with store-bought, maybe...
An intersting guid for archivist wanting to create disk images of floppy disks with the intention of preserving them for the long-term.
I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec. But... I want more. I upgraded my rack and my...
Late last year we had an issue where our inverter panel reported an “Unknown Fault”, showing garbage on the screen. I reset the inverter, and the fault went away. Recently, I had the same “Unknown Fault” and garbage display… but...
Project Runway's producers came up with a decent challenge! And then piled several hats on top of each other. One of those hats, Stassi Schroeder, didn't show, nor did Nina Garcia.
It’s a hot one this summer, and I’ve got some even hotter updates for you as we make our way into August! My newsletters are always free and here’s where you can follow ’em: RSS | Mailing List | Patreon Want to see archived newsletters?...
I just opened youtube to waste a few minutes, as one does when their coding agents are hard at work, and a video caught my eye: "Buenos Aires accent in the 1990's". I don't speak Spanish, but I do speak Portuguese and I know that the...
Julia Evans talks about her learnings from using SQLite in production.
Nowadays, at least online, across the internet, and pretty much any social platform you can fathom, bullying is a virtue. It’s funny when someone does something that isn’t socially acceptable, or morally impure, because it gives you a...
The Guardian: “A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online.” Not…...
The ugly underside of knitting flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Today’s TDC says that: ‘Like an evil twin or a twisted pair, happy places can have an ugly underside’. Is your happy...