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I got off to a later start this morning for reasons (I swear I wasn’t being lazy), but still managed to begin my run in the morning, which was important because it was yet again going to be warmer than usual and my body is still...
I was asked today how to make square crops in Acorn while keeping the aspect ratio when you resize the square. It’s pretty easy to do if you know a couple of keyboard shortcuts. First, press the 'c' and 's' keys in quick oder (this is...
Yesterday the Open Journal of Astrophysics published a paper by Porredon et al which will feature in the usual Saturday round-up. That paper, which is based on the First Data Release from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)...
Achen is a vibrant city. I didn’t expect that. Unfortunately I’m now in a hotel 1.5k from the vibrant center and the pizzas located therein. The nearest pizza is a 20 minute walk over a hill. I’d leave now but the laptop is dead and...
i'm here to see you code, not tell something to code for you
I’ve put together a slightly-but-not-really eclectic edition of The List today. It features some Vehlinggo stalwarts, along with a wild collab, some horror bliss, a song that isn’t exactly new but about which I haven’t yet written, and...
I found a little command line program, ftb, to align markdown tables. Very useful. I use it as a Neovim filter, as I recently blogged about. 💽
I happened upon this post from David when browsing Bubbles and thought it was an interesting question, so I figured I chime in. Who knows that I blog? Of the people I know and interact with regularly in person I can think of exactly two...
Under normal circumstances, it might seem a bitter irony that Paolo Mori and Alessandro Zucchini’s partnership will be lauded for Toy Battle over the supernal Battlefields of the Napoleonic Wars. But these are no normal circumstances....
AUTHOR RICH CROSS is the guest on the latest edition of the always unmissable Punk Rock Creatives podcast. Host Marie Repulsive discusses with Rich the history of Poison Girls, the new PM Press book on the band, and the new seven-CD...
That’s a wrap on The First Annual Bullpen Inc. Blog Prompt Challenge Extravaganza 2026! It was fun and challenging to get the blog posts out each week. I’m glad I was able to get something out. I liked seeing how different everyone’s...
Listening to a 1970 Love bootleg at the Fillmore West, that Paul of Albums That Should Exist cleaned up. It’s the seventies, so Arthur Lee is heavier, more Hendrix influenced than the insurmountable “Forever Changes”. The show is pretty...