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Adam Wunn: FileMaker could be a simple database, with a friendly user interface, for someone’s recipe collection and similar needs (I used it for my CD collection at the time). [Yet another recipe collection trope – they used to...
D. Griffin Jones: Now, Liquid Glass includes a new effect that blurs the content beneath it very heavily, but makes that blur mostly transparent. This adds contrast while keeping the glass clear and sharp, not fully frosted. However, it...
[Good for the Steiners.] Back in 2024, I wrote about the intimidation campaign eBay executives waged against David and Ina Steiner. The monstrous actions undertaken on behalf of eBay were unconscionable, and no one should go through what...
Our new “Smalls” pocket book contains plans for 18 on-the-wee-side projects that will help use up nice offcuts from your scrap bin. And if you ever need to whip up a last-minute handmade gift, “Smalls” will be a big help. A few beginning...
It’s 2012. I’m late for my 8am marketing class. I’m running out the door of my tiny apartment, scrambling along the the sidewalk to campus. I’m 10 minutes away. Can I grab a coffee before class? Surely I can make it. I pull out my shiny...
The problem with making an edge case of yourself (in any respect) is that it becomes painfully obvious when people lapse into framing specific "You" as a generalized "Them." People very often are not interacting with a specific you. You...
For the last few years, we’ve been using Apple Music for streaming. It’s great to have access to a gigantic catalog of songs, but it come with its downsides. Kevin Kelly is a big proponent of Access over Ownership. We tend to agree that...
Link: Leaders Are Leverage, by Corey Ford at Point CI’ve often shared Corey Ford’s pieces. I find his frameworks and thinking genuinely useful, and he’s been a friend and mentor to me for well over a decade.This piece outlines his...
It will be some stuff for WordPress that does cool things with the ActivityPub plugin. The first test is called Global Tags. Follow hashtag #APWPGlobalTags for updates on that little thing.
This post is dedicated to the lovely PRIME. Out in the western islands around the Lantern Berth there are many stories of the strange beings and monsters that make their homes in the dreaming, sun-drowned seas of the Barony. Some of...
tag(s): #failures #link-post #random-thoughts I was reading Reasonably Rocky on Nico's blog (highly recommend). This line hit close to home: I can't emotionally afford this kind of comfort. My wife says I can only allow myself to enjoy...
It is an odd time to be a Canadian, located north of Trump’s America. As in previous months, Trump has stepped up his attacks on his neighbors to the north. And as before, he’s slamming more tariffs on Canadian goods, this time due to...
I began the day, the outside of the house part of the day, at the dentist's office yesterday morning for an 8 a.m. appointment. I brought a book, Francine Prose's Five Weeks in the Country. By the end of the visit, after 29 pages, I...
The U.S. 328th Infantry Regiment was a war baby. Initially stood up at Camp (now Fort) Gordon on 25 August 1917, it made it “Over There” as part of the 82nd (All American) Infantry Division, back when they were “legs” and fought in the...
From Submarine Group Ten: After 42 years of silent, steadfast service, the Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Georgia (SSGN 729) returned to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay for the final time on July 27, 2026. Commissioned during the...