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Nice moment in Slack and Medium – when logging in, the login code that arrives via email is already there in the subject, in addition to hiding inside: This feels good for two reasons. One is the obvious one: you see the code earlier, it...
View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Cloudy and cooler. Today it was all about the differences in conditions: It was cloudy (not sunny) It was only 18°C (not 25°C) It was humid as all get-out (85% to start) The humidity prevented dry mouth...
Another day of work out in the beautiful Swedish archipelago. Days like these always make me kind of dizzy. Not because of the sea, but because it's almost "too beautiful". It's impossible to take it all in. You want to preserve it, but...
Happy Observation Monday. Here’s mine. As you know from reading this blog here, I’m in a dad band that turned into a fairly successful local Grateful Dead band. We’re country-tinged in that we have a mandolin and a fiddle. It’s a super...
Not sure I've ever seen a praying mantis outside of a terrarium before today. (Second image taken with the phone, because wrong lens (for macro photos) on the proper camera…) 👉 View one more image
I’ve been keeping a sort of commonplace book for a while now. It’s almost entirely for my online reading, a place to keep quotes from blog posts and articles that strike a chord with me, along with links to the entire article. The very...
The post “I’d not buy a LG monitor” by Beko Pharm drew my attention to this recent video by Gamers Nexus. Beko sums the video up nicely: It reports about LG’s latest practise to add blatant spyware to a monitor. Or to be precise to the...
A man does not get himself killed for a few half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify the man. Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon, who once persuaded several hundred thousand people to march...
Another milestone weeknote! I’ve managed to publish a weeknote every week for 300 weeks, getting close to 6 years or ~16% of my life. Sometimes I hate it, other times I love it. I was recently talking to a friend about why I write. I’m...
I just installed the wordpress-rss-chat plugin. Linked it to my test rsschat site. This post should appear there and any comments returned here.
There’s a tagline on the box of The Witches of Willowspur, the latest game by Jenna Felli, that I appreciate deeply. “Doing their best,” it reads. It’s a reference to the titular witches, the daughters of wicked witches who, as a clique...
The obvious question is: why write json2xml again in C when the Rust version was already fast? The Rust extension was—and still is—a successful part of the Python json2xml package. It made the common conversion path dramatically faster...
Tim Sanders’s Love Is the Killer App makes a bold argument: the best way to succeed in business is not to become more aggressive, secretive, or ruthlessly competitive. It is to become more useful to other people. Sanders calls this...
There are many reasons to be watchful of AI. Some are concerned by its environmental impact, others by the ethical quandaries we’ll be faced with because of it, or the economic effects of mass job displacement. Others still feel above...
A sudden, violent clap of thunder, a jump in my chair, and the pasta falls on my trousers, staining them. Instinct takes over and I rescue the mouthful, but the stain is there. I smile. It was 2010, an early summer day. It had rained...