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[This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll...
Nau maiYesterday we rested in the arid city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Its usually a pretty good rest day if nothing much happens. We were all still heavily jet lagged from our 9hr timezone shift so much of the day was spent relaxing in...
Nau maiYesterday we began our co-headline tour with Chicago band Beach Bunny. Denver lured us in with beautiful weather in the morning. I couldn’t see the Rockies silhouetted against the cornflower blue sky but the downtown skyscrapers...
Scribed by Sandre the Giant What do you do when you released the biggest rock album since ‘Back in Black’? Well, if you’re Metallica, you follow that up with delving deeply into your mental and personal struggles, as well as your grunge...
[F]or the entire time Plaintiff was employed by the Defendant, Defendant had a policy that the highest-ranked Retail Sales Consultant for the prior month was instructed by his or her supervisor … to tie the lowest-ranked sales consultant...
Deepa Seetharaman and Raphael Satter, Reuters: OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expands its investigation of the hacking incident at tech firm Hugging Face that...
Finally on the shelf. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Here’s another Blue Note title that have been so hard to find for me. Been looking for...
So, today didn’t happen as planned, but it sort of happened as expected. For all that I felt so well yesterday, I had a mostly sleepless night. I finally just got up, fed the outside cats, and did my morning routine. I made sure to bring...
I recently learned that NetNewsWire supports opting-in individual feeds to “always use reader view”, so I’ve been noticing more closely which of my feeds provide the full content of their feeds versus just a summary, and opting in the...
Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica: According to [Judge] Engelmayer, it would be impractical to expect partners to update licensing deals every time a company rolls out new security methods. Additionally, Engelmayer found that “the Google...
Blaugust 2026 is here!
What I would do (for the web) if I could retire. Or, more accurately, what I would do for the web if I could afford to quit my dayjob.
# The first wave of CSS tweaks are complete. I was getting a bit bored (no surprise there) so wanted to mix things up a little bit. Cue user selected colour themes: Choosing an option from the menu simply sets a key-value pair in the...
Over many years, if I’ve wanted avocados to ripen fast I’ve tried the method of putting them in a paper bag or box with a banana or apple, but I never saw them clearly ripen faster. I became curious to test the method properly. The...
I just added several new dates to my Apple History Calendar, including these: July 23, 2026: Apple and Ford announce MapKit for Automotive to power navigation in future EVs July 2028, 2026: iPhone Upgrade Program replaced with broader...