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On Tuesday, after the resignation of Jacinta Allan followed by a long Cabinet meeting, Ben Carroll emerged as Premier. Current transport minister Gabrielle Williams is his deputy. Election analyst Antony Green noted that that long-term three leader governments typically end in landslide victories for the opposition....
View from the Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Sort of cloudy, but calm. I figured I was ready for another 5K, so I attempted one today and succeeded, woo. Also good: my training status is productive, which pleasantly surprised me, and my BPM was a nice 149. I was slower, but deliberately so. The first two km especially were...
What does it mean when people talk about a "self-asserted" BIMI logo, and should you set one up? That's the topic of my latest Valimail "Ask Al" video.A standard BIMI record does two things. It publishes a link to an SVG file, which is the logo you want displayed in the inbox. And it publishes a link to a PEM file,...
Thrilled to celebrate a year of the TBR blog with a live playtest! Last July I caught the mechanical design bug and today you can role play as a mechanically designed bug - specifically a honeybee! Check out the itch page here: https://dadstep.itch.io/the-wax-marches Let me know if you have any issues - there is a...
Hey people! In todayās āBibiel Hears Thingsā post, Iād like to feature a song which I have really good memories of. The song itself is great, but what has made it special to me is that I happened to listen to it for the first time during a really nice moment, and the two seem to have been forever connected with each...
This one's a bit of a ramble, but I mean to get it out quick. I want to thank the people who emailed me and wrote in my guestbook regarding my recent post; both supportive and challenging messages have prompted me to think about free speech, codes of conduct, and what it means to be a fair-minded person. I also want...
Today I ran cliffcrawl v0.0 for the very first time at the Ancient Robot Workshop's monthly playtest night. Many thanks to the intrepid playtesters Fred, China, and George. scenario: PolyniaFor the scenario, I bashed together a quick concept based on the short story Polynia by China Mieville, in which icebergs...
From Raymond N. MacKenzieās LRB review (9 July 2026; archived) of David Coward and William Butcherās new translation of Jules Verne, Journey to the Moon, some passages about how his publisher and his translators treated him: By the last decadesā of the 19th century, Jules Verne was less a writer than a brand ā one...
Some of my recent experiments have combined almost every major theme of this blog: I've put a bunch of work into expanding, documenting, and testing the Zippyflash API. This has been useful for creating sets of flashcards based on a document: I now frequently ask a fast model to make me cards according to certain...
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