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How did you feel when Stevie witnessed what was happening in the pool house? Were you surprised by this turn of events? In what ways did this witnessing fundamentally alter Stevie? Is there an experience you’ve had that’s served as a...
Part 2 of my investigation into "What if the Desolation of Smaug was a Zone from Roadsic Picnic?" Part 1 is here. Maybe I should have called this series "Hobbits have a Roadside Picnic." Hmmm.Dungeon ZonesInns are the haunts of...
So much in my mind and notebooks. It’s good. Last week I started a page with rough ideas which I might implement at some point. It’s at /ideas/. Comic-Con was so great. Still a few more days to get in an entry to this month’s IndieWeb...
To mock a classic trope in your own story, one must first unabashedly love that trope. Author Alex Shvartsman is a die-hard sci-fi fan, which gives him the perfect angle to write his own take on things. Follow along in the Big Idea for...
One category that’s been trending over the past few months is the mini pocket notebook (alternatively referred to as “card-sized,” or mini-A7). Smaller than a standard A7 notebook, these business card-sized notebooks are designed to be...
[It is correct and right to kink-shame this.] Last week, Wired published an article with the headline “People Are Getting Off to Porn About ICE Raids”. I have not read this article. I do not intend to read this article. I’m not even...
We decided to publish my last webinar as a podcast episode. Whether you’re a daily Nozbe user or a long-time supporter, see how our apps have evolved over nearly 20 years — created with passion and a clear goal: to make productivity...
I just started reading Barbara Tuchman’s “The Proud Tower” and, while I’m only in the introduction, I’m already enjoying it. I read “The Guns of August” after hearing that JFK read and re-read it and thought it was indispensable. I too...
Hosting a static site on Netlify while keeping its domain managed by Cloudflare, with the DNS records to make it work.
Originally published on Rails At Scale. We recently enabled a really cool feature in ZJIT that makes it feel like a Real Compiler™: the inliner! We’ll write more about it soon. In this post, we’ll talk about one excellent concrete...
You know when you talk to someone else with ADHD when you realize you juggle 3 conversations in one, going from one layer to the other, and you’re both able to keep track AND connect the layers when needed all while having lunch walking,...
A bit of good news for Illinois residents in this follow up about Electronic Shelf Labels. I wrote about Electronic Shelf Labels a bit ago, and the problems I had with not only reading them, but the problems I could foresee them being...
When you're with someone for a long time, whether through a relationship or marriage, it's natural to feel saturated, bored, even unsatisfied. Every issue takes on outsized proportions, every minor argument spirals out of control, and...
I have read this book so many times. This is one of the most common things you could say about Silent Titans, though I suspect my reason differs from most. The module’s opening scene places the party, immediately post memory-wipe, on a...
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana...