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I built zmx as a multi-faceted learning exercise. I wanted to learn more about zig, posix, daemons, ptys, libghostty, and terminals. Creating a program that fits into my core dev toolchain was merely a side-effect. While researching...
That horse is false advertising. Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse United States Cyberlore Studios (developer), Strategic Simulations, Inc. (publisher) Released 1994 for DOS Date Started: 23 June 2026Date Ended: 24 July 2026Total Hours:...
Open-weight models are now good enough to make self-hosting a financial question rather than a capability one. I modelled four options, an office rack, colocation, rented GPUs and per-token APIs, to find where each one actually wins. The...
I’ve struggled for a number of years with how, or even whether, to approach this subject. Way back in 2015, when I was researching an Italian sausage sandwich from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan called a Cudighi–which was similar, I...
This is a short post about the building of mechanical bodies using ball-and-sockets joints - a practice and obsession specific to some of my favourite artists in the world: Hans Bellmer and Heinrich von Kleist. I have recently become...
"Since you are volunteering at the refugee school. You should also volunteer here by buying us drinks. We too are refugees." This is a remark by one of the regular customers from the bar that I visit each Monday and Thursday. This is a...
ZACH HOLMAN: The Cold Email.
Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into the USS Indianapolis and sank her in twelve minutes. Almost 900 men went into the Pacific Ocean. Nobody came looking for them for nearly four days. By the...
LinkedIn is a network, not an audience I’ve been on LinkedIn for almost twenty years. I was one of the first million users in the UK. When I joined, it wasn’t a social media platform. It was a professional networking site where you kept...
Hugo is an open-source static site generator. Building websites with Hugo is much easier than creating dynamic websites that are far more complex.
An eye to eye encounter with a Gold Dust Day Gecko.
At long last, our shipment of the latest Kaweco Sport fountain pens has arrived! We have the new Kaweco “Collection” Blue Marble, as well as the Lunar Shadow Blue and Lunar Light Blue - two new variations on the current Lunar Green pens....
Ever since I finished reading the last volume of Haikyu!!, I've been casting about for a replacement series of sorts. In part, I've been curious about how typical Haruichi Furudate's volleyball manga might be of sports manga. Like, is it...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***This week in 1976 gave the world a stark warning of the dangers of warm, undisturbed water in a large building when delegates...
If you told me you had never heard of Keet before, I wouldn't be surprised. Keet is the kind of technology that runs contrary to everything the modern tech industry – not to mention regulators – want. So it's no wonder there isn't a ton...