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Since it’s now August, the first month of the 2026 Season of Scenery community painting challenge is now over. Despite a lack of posts here though, I’ve been fairly busy during July and got a few buildings finished. I’ve been tending to...
Big ideas in tiny boxes. Today I rekindle my interest in LEGO® Technic with a look at Series 1 of the new blind-box collectible series: 42233 Mighty Machines. Childhood Me would've gone mad for these: they're super-duper inspiring,...
Big ideas in tiny boxes. Today I rekindle my interest in LEGO® Technic with a look at Series 1 of the new blind-box collectible series: 42233 Mighty Machines. Childhood Me would've gone mad for these: they're super-duper inspiring,...
If only...Written by VetinariNot to put too fine a point on it, this game sucks. But – how much does it suck? Let's find out with the final rating.Puzzles and SolvabilityThis game has been misconstrued as being an adventure game, where...
Last year I first discovered HTML day, though this event has now run for the past 4 years! In a day and age when vibe coding is becoming a new reality, the celebration of hand-coded and intentionally built apps and sites is more...
Every two weeks or so I am publishing an essay from an emerging writer. This week, we are publishing “Unfinished Canyons” by Chelsey Reid. Chelsey is a Kentucky-based writer whose work explores public health, harm reduction, and...
Suffering is something I thought about throughout my life. Certainly, it's not only me: all the religion in this world have some thoughts about suffering, for a start. But personally, I didn't classify suffering by their usefulness, so...
I’ve written before about the discovery of a fascinating work by the 2nd century physician, Galen, describing the loss of libraries and his own research collection in a fire in Rome. Now an edition of it, with English translation, plus...
Josh Ginter, in his excellent Sunday Edition from mid-July: We spent five days camping in a one-bar-of-LTE-but-still-won’t-work area last weekend, so this is the first installment of the Sunday Edition in a few weeks. The days off were a...
I am appalled that it’s taken us this long to feature the incredible Melanie Lynskey
I love loathe seeing breaking news and big statements on Substack Notes with massive engagement without a link to a source. “Senator grows horns and spiked tail!” 2.4K likes “AP reports plastic in newborn eyeballs!” 5.3K likes “Studies...
Part 4 of my investigation into "Hobbits have a Roadside Picnic." Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here.Dragon gold We must away ere break of dayTo seek the pale enchanted gold.One of the primary reasons burglars brave the...
I recently revisited one of my favourite towns in the Midlands where there are 5 pubs listed in the 2026 Good Beer Guide within its attractive and fairly compact town centre, making it an ideal spot for a leisurely Saturday afternoon...
We are back home after our two-week trip, and having a little trouble with re-entry. Part of it is that we are dropping right into the middle of so many more things than are usually going on: 1. One of the cats (it’s one of the younger...
Please help if you can: I am working with some students who are studying programmers’ beliefs about software engineering folklore. If you can spare a few minutes to answer the question in https://survey.bth.se/survey/2545, we would be...