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Datassette presents a series of mixes intended for listening while programming to focus the brain and inspire the mind (also compatible with other activities).
I appreciate that The Trustees of Reservations exists, and I appreciate the work they do to safeguard nature and historic sites throughout Massachusetts. But I’m just so tired of how badly run their membership program is, of how poorly...
It's time for another update on the DC Finest books that include stories with Hawkman and Hawkgirl/Hawkwoman! If you haven't been collecting these books, you are really missing out! They are beautifully put together, easy to read, and...
The 2026 Cinecon Classic Film Festival will take place at the Landmark Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles from September 3rd through 7th, 2026.This year's 62nd festival will be a bit longer than last year's, opening on a Thursday evening,...
Just a quickie, these are probably one of the last packaging changes/variations from Starlux, and were produced in 1994, for the commemoration of D-Day, and the 50th anniversary of the worlds largest ever, pretty much everything! Largest...
Two notable things happened this weekend:I received beautiful an email from a reader of the blog telling me that they’d spent a week reading through the archives here, and providing a lovely summary of my zeitgest. It warmed my heard....
Passage Qaqortoq → Cartwright Distance 576 nm (190 nm under engine) Duration 5 days and 7 h (44 h of engine) Wind B0 B2 B4 B6 B8 B10 Calm Storm Comfort 🌫️ 🥱 🐋 🐦 🌅 🙂 44 hours motoring. This was the first long crossing of its type for us....
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
CUDA is a giant for GPU compute, which includes machine learning applications. So far, CUDA supports x86-64 and aarch64 CPUs. Now, Nvidia is looking at extending CUDA support to RISC-V. This move opens the door for RISC-V CPUs to feed...
Let's be clear about something. Large media consolidation is always harmful. There is no real debate. There's 50 years of indisputable evidence that massive U.S. media mergers always result in mass layoffs, higher consumer prices, and...
Having a miscommunication can be annoying, or even cause some real tension, but rarely does it lead to something as severe as losing your life. Author Carolyn Ives Gilman is taking the miscommunication trope and putting a life-or-death...
As is our annual tradition, Myke and I have published a Q&A to mark Relay’s anniversary. We took on listener questions about podcasting in general, changes at Relay over time, and whatever happened to B-Sides.
Why, regardless, of what chud intellectuals may be telling you, you probably should go to college.First. There’s this common idea that the elite education is going to become ‘irrelevant’, ‘because of AI’I am expecting the oppositeWhat is...
In preparation for teaching my Japanese Empire module this fall at St Andrews Claude Code and I put together an online interactive map of the Japanese empire. I hope it may be useful to others as well. I made use of various GIS sources...
Someone recently asked me what advice I’d give to a young developer today. My answer had surprisingly little to do with code. Here’s what I’d focus on: Learn How to Build Products Even if LLMs write most of the code, there is still a...