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I’m feeling awfully spry going into the new school year. I’ve used basically the same course plan for the past three years. My very first year of Human Geography was a disaster, and I thought I would never teach the course again. When I...
From the August 19, 2026, issue of my This Week in Sound email newsletter: 70,000: Estimated number of pickleball courts in the U.S. 22,000: Cost, in $U.S., of acoustic barrier mats placed at one Braintree, Massachusetts, pickleball...
Henry is allowed to take one extra college class per semester for no additional cost—but if you want to take the Extra Class, you can’t sign up for it until everyone else has completed their own normal course registration, which is fair....
I told you I was struggling, existentially you said: being an adult means doing things that you don't want to do you think I like doing laundry? -- It's 3 AM and I'm feeling sick, emotionally I woke to vertigo, to racing thoughts, to...
More and more code is written by a model. Tests still tell you it works. RuboCop still tells you it’s tidy. Nothing tells you it still follows your architecture. I released ArchSpec 1.0 today. It’s an architecture linter for Ruby and...
...to make up a Silver Ball Century. We are back with some more amazing 90s pinball, from an era so beloved that a majority of the tables have high-quality recreations by VPin Workshop. We start with Bram Stoker's Dracula, a game I am...
Content Warning? This is not an actual trauma dump. At least, not intentionally. But what it is, is a discussion of the practice as it relates to me. This is MY Buddy. That’s his name and this is what he looks like after I’ve trauma...
Earlier, we went over how we could create scripts in the package.json file of our Playwright framework to add typechecking, linting, and formatting your code with prettier. Want to see the entire bun-create-playwright project? It is on...
Back in March I made a lot of hay about the decline of GDC. I didn't confidently predict that GDC'27 would be cancelled, but cancellation wouldn't have surprised me. Well, GDC'27 isn't cancelled. Which we knew. They would have had to...
I've been working on a 1:144 scale DH2 in Blender, to provide some period-appropriate opposition for the Fokker E-III I printed a little while ago.The struts and booms are all a bit chunky, but that's for the sake of printing. If they're...
It's 2026 and people are shoveling features from AI into their software every day. Barry is excited to share the latest paid feature for the pros in Pika. Hot on the heels of our site-wide Custom Code announcement, we're excited to share...
Book review for Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance. I rated it 4 stars Hillbilly Elegy is a memoir written by JD Vance who is, of course, the current vice president of the USA. The book was published in 2016, at which time Vance was not yet...
A few weeks ago I was stuck in the white-hot edge-of-suburban July, back in my hometown and struggling to hold on to my sense of reality. My hometown and the surrounding areas within which I used to romp are not inherently bad places....
Walked up Grouse mountain and back down to the parking lot. It took a long time. I walked there from my hostel. My Apple watch died near the top of the mountain. Hope it recorded the workout. Doing hard stuff like that makes life more...