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Another day at the beach. We had some light rain, but nothing our beach tents couldn't handle! I am in the process of finalizing the images for the 10th anniversary zine! It is currently at 132 pages and 90+ photos, which span across the...
A terrace gardener's descent into sanctioned bug murder When invasive stink bugs turn your peaceful tomato sanctuary into a crime scene, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands (literally). Meet Nezara viridula. Also known...
The 2026 Fibrations Festival in Fernwood, Victoria BC. Being tempted to buy more yarn is never morally offensive! It’s hard for people to know this until they get there, but money has such diminishing returns. Once you can buy dinner and...
Sometimes it feels like the world is being rapidly overtaken by AI, but author David Ebenbach is here to remind us that this a world of humans, not robots. In the Big Idea for his newest poetry collection, The AI Suspects It Might Be a...
The Valuable News weekly series is dedicated to provide summary about news, articles and other interesting stuff mostly but not always related to the UNIX/BSD/Linux systems. Whenever I stumble upon something worth mentioning on the...
The New York Times recently published an absolutely dogshit op-ed from Celeste Marcus titled, "Cutting Off Your Parents Isn't The Answer." Inside, Celeste essentially generalizes parents as being similar to her own, rather than...
📚🗨️ “Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.” Stephen King, It
Lord Acton (1834-1902), Selected Writings, Vol. 3: Essays in Religion, Politics, and Morality (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1988), p. 620: Resist your time — take a foothold outside it — see other times and ask yourself whether the time...
A new post from ben.balter.com · Read it on the web →import BookCta from ’../../components/BookCta.astro’; My book has a linter that yells at me for hyphenating “open source.”1 It runs ~5,500 automated checks, rebuilds five formats on...
First, a warning. This post contains pictures of spiders. Big spiders. If this worries you, perhaps consider reading something else - I suggest my previous post: Borneo - No Spiders.We...
📚🗨️ “Now he had to go back to being himself, and that was hard—it got harder to do that every year. It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.” Stephen King, It
against the storm, exocolonist, heaven’s vault, gemcraft
The tags in this blog are a mess. I know. It bothers me. I've been told I'm a messy person as many times as I've been told I'm obsessed with order, to which I can only come to a conclusion: I love sorting things, but when I slip up it's...
While I do take care what games I pick up during Early Access, I have a weak spot for crafting survival games in particular. This year, for whatever reason, we’re seeing a bunch of the big hitter survival games coming out of early access...
As I write this on Monday, August 17th, there’s two more “selfie of the day” posts left for me to do before wrapping up the project. I thought I’d do a bit of a review of my thoughts about this project, as well as write about my plans...