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FAIR WINDS AND FOLLOWING SEAS: French DJ ​and electropop ‌musician Kavinsky found dead aged 50. Sometimes known as the “father of synthwave”, his track “Nightcall” played over the opening credits of Ryan Gosling’s 2010 Drive, and was performed at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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 Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Sarai...
I’m still pottering around in the Coptic martyrology area, especially with regard to the Great Persecution of the church under Diocletian. I have a translation of another version of the Acts of St Colluthus to upload, although a valueless one. I’ve been looking for the other texts about the same saint – two...
Samuel from 3×5 Arcana usually plays OSR games and reads OSR blogs, and wanted to know about the theory of “trad” gaming, a style that I follow blogger Kreggar in calling “Destined Heroes” gaming1. This is a hugely popular style, and however you entered roleplaying games, you’ve probably run across it. Samuel was...
Toaplan invented the bomb. In the now-defunct company’s first shooter, 1985’s Tiger-Heli, the limited-use bomb was introduced to the genre, with the idea being that it gave players an aggressive and exciting way to attack enemies. Instead, something unexpected happened: as players got better at Tiger-Heli, they...
In my previous article, I explained how I implemented browser-side and server-side tracking for a Shopify store using Google Tag Manager, GA4, and Meta CAPI. Once it was done, the next step was making that data useful. This article covers the dashboards I built in Looker Studio/Data Studio using BigQuery as the data...
A postmortum on the 44KB canonical tag that took down my web crawler
Letting an LLM write one small program that calls your tools in a loop beats round-tripping every call through the model. Here is how I built that for UC AI with Oracle MLE, and why the sandbox was the hard part.
I've published a new video about how I've made my procedural mountain forest bigger, better and faster over the past two years: Links to things mentioned in the video My previous video about my procedural mountain forest. My LayerProcGen framework and my talk about it at Everything Procedural Conference 2024. My...
Your writing needs a permanent home—a domain that you own and control. Every few years, the internet convinces writers that a new digital paradise has arrived. First, it was social media like Facebook. Then blogging networks like Tumblr. Then it was Medium. More recently, it’s been Substack. Platforms promise us an...

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