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Failure, Forgiveness, and the Dare to Run
Maybe I should play more adventure game demos. I almost never do because I figure that if an adventure game looks interesting to me and people like it then I’ll probably get it at some point and playing a demo would just spoil a chunk....
Pushing 15 weeks into Operation Epic Fury, with over 1,000 TLAMs, 1,100 JSSAMs, and 1,400 Patriots burned up (and more launching every day), coming on the heels of firing untold SM-2/3/6s expended during Operation Prosperty Guardian to...
Some 85 years ago today. How about these great shots of an Australian-manned Vickers Light Tank Mk VIB in Syria, 11 June 1941, dressed in British Caunter camo, a staple of the Desert Campaigns. Created by Colonel John “Blood” Caunter of...
The ex-USCGC Decisive (WMEC 629), a B-Type Reliance-class 210-foot gunboat/cutter, is now in active service as SLNS Samudravijaya (SLS P 628) in the Sri Lankan Navy. I guess SLS P 629 was already taken or something. Note she now carries...
In 2025, ARB contributor Roseanna Pendlebury arranged a series of roundtables with SFF reviewers, originally intended for Nerds of a Feather. For some involved publishing reasons, this wound up being a better fit at ARB, and so, thanks...
One thing I love about the blogging world right now — and by “world” I mean the “webdev tech blogging world” that I live in — is that there are very few, if any, substantial monetary incentives. All the incentives to make a living...
I do understand that this gameification of breaking even that our capitalst world is enticing, but you need to be aware that at the end of the tunnel, you’ll just be left with pocket gravel of no real word value. Hobbies cost money, you...
Disliking the EU, China, or any other large government should not make us forget that true democratized access to technology including AI is in all our interest. Some temporary product pain, including delayed Apple AI features, will be...
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use the "name:" attribute in Docker Compose to collocate all docker assets under the same project umbrella....
This book coincided nicely with my renewed interes[...]