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For a project I’m working on I had a need for a Codable object which could be represented as a basic text string, and specifically not a JSON string. I was eventually able to find a solution so I thought I’d document it, partially to help anyone who has the same need but also invite anyone to correct me if there is...
Read the full post at - The Counterintuitive Way To Get Better At Anything via Barking Up The Wrong Tree Love this -> https://bakadesuyo.com/2026/05/get-better-at-anything/ I’ve read a lot of books about habits, self-improvement, etc. But sometimes a well-written blog post is all you need. Here’s how to get better...
Natalie Kaufman, in a Wall Street Journal article headlined “Young Adults Are Letting AI Do Their Talking for Them — Even in Person”: [Niharika] Abbaraju, 20, is part of a growing cohort of young adults outsourcing deeply human tasks to AI. Many, struggling with social anxieties great or small, will seek assistance...
Allan Pinkerton has been busy once more, preserving World Geography 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993 editions which you can check out with full scans here: https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=commodore+bobco&sort=-publicdate These are the English editions, and there are other language versions out...
The people of Blip are, if anything can be said about people at the end of the world, superstitious. They cling to their beliefs, daedal and shapeless like sea foam, to the exclusion of all else. Like sea foam, these beliefs are often washed away. When the gnoll cult arrived in Blip thirteen years ago, they found a...
The latest issue of Paged Out! has an article by Stephen Hewitt “An off-line backup of your cryptographic key using playing cards.” The idea is to use a deck of 52 to store a 128-bit cryptographic key. To erase the key, shuffle the deck. In principle you could store a 225-bit key as a permutation of 52 cards because...
# Kev Quirk links to a couple of posts on the topic of using feed readers vs visiting the actual sites, the first of which has the rather inflammatory title _"Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You". The argument is that if you only read posts in a feed reader then you are not seeing the post as it was intended to be...
Perfume PosseIn the Woods: Naomi Goodsir So, there I was, minding my own business, rifling through Carolyn’s newest LuckyScent sample order (with her permission but without my reading glasses on), giving things a nice anonymous low-stakes spritz. And then it happened – that all-too-rare moment of:… Continue Reading...
Click to book tickets for The Gentle Author’s Tours St Augustine’s Tower I wonder how many people even notice this old tower, secreted behind the betting office in the centre of Hackney? Without a second glance, it might easily get dismissed as a left-over from a Victorian church that got demolished. Yet few realise...
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