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One of my favorite characters in all of Twin Peaks is Chris Isaak’s Special Agent Chet Desmond in David Lynch’s 1992 prequel film, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. For more than three decades, I’ve been mesmerized by his dreamlike...
sharing cool food things, maybe you could try them, too! caffeine free coffee. i love drinking coffee, but i hear too much caffeine is bad for the heart or something, so i am drinking caffeine free coffee! it is really delicious,...
A couple of months ago, I put together a post—not entirely serious, but also not entirely joking—about how corporate personhood might provide an opportunity to wipe out almost every exploitative organization. I won’t rehash that blog...
This is a continuation of Elixir Cluster 101. So let's talk about putting what we learned into practice using the case of ratelimiting. Many implementations default to running in memory, meaning that they don't synchronize across...
You are most probably already familiar with uBlock Origin, but you might not be aware that besides blocking ads, trackers, and page elements, you can also create filters to block things which are not always there... such as posts on the...
I was walking around a housing development adjacent to my cousin’s location and noticed they’re big on STOP signs at every intersection. Not only does every intersection have a stop sign, they have an “all way” stop. As a guy that...
With a mere two weeks to go before the 2026-27 National League season kicks off a few of our group of Halifax Town supporters went on an away day to discuss our prospects and sample a few beers in a wander around a number of pubs in and...
So, I went shopping at the IKEA and ran into some really neat home automation gadgets. The Grillplats plug especially interested me as I would like to track power consumption of devices, and I did not yet find a good solution for that....
A couple of years ago, skepticism about the AI boom was something of a fringe position. Today... not so much.From FT Alphaville [love that last line]: Over at Jefferies, head of equity strategy Chris Wood has for some time been offering...
A few favorites from The Sayings of the Desert Fathers - Trans. by Thomas Merton (and because it was tucked in the book, a salsa recipe featuring chile moron from Tlacotalpan Mexico circa 2012)
Spotted lanternfly adult at Herrs Island backchannel, 25 July 2025 (pohto by Kate St. John) 29 July 2026 This week usually begins the peak of Pittsburgh’s spotted lanternfly season but I’ve seen only two red nymphs and two winged adults...
Old Ford pickup in auto graveyard, U.S. 27, Troup County, Georgia. One: The Thing Is the ThingThe one essential thing without which no photograph can exist is the thing itself -- the subject. As the late, great Bill Jay wrote: This...
Via Newspapers.comThis account of a particularly lively poltergeist appeared in the “Edmonton Journal,” August 15, 1939:The Germans have a word for it; so have the Africans of the West Indies. The disciples of Herr Hitler call it...
Agent coding tools need to make their work reviewable, not just generate more code.
Last summer, I noticed an insect bringing a bit of leaf to plug the hole in a bit of bamboo that is part of one of those folding director’s chairs. Huh? A leafcutter bee, how interesting, and thought no more about it. I particularly...