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“Destroy every living thing in that room – every living thing, no matter how small. Abner Whately’s grandfather wrote in the strange letter he left after his death. Abner did not understand until he saw the prints in the dust of the...
I’ve decided to restart another series of blog posts I started on my old blog but never got too far with. I’m calling it ‘From the crypt’ in honour of the now defunct Ken’s death metal crypt and also because it just feels right. I’ve...
Two of my favorite people on this planet happen to also be two of my favorite photographers, and both are instrumental to how my life has unfolded. From the left we have Christopher Michel, Kevin Kelly, Sophie, and myself: Yesterday, we...
Have you ever seen something that has immediately made you do a double take? Valonia ventricosa is one of them – and that is even before you discover how truly strange this organism truly is. At first glance, it looks like a green...
Today a new guy at work tagged along on my home inspections. He’s where I was when I started doing this job eight years ago. To him, I’m an expert, just like I considered everyone to be when I got employed back in 2017. That’s not...
GitHub has been having enough outages lately that people are starting to ask whether it makes sense to look elsewhere. Ever since Github got acquired by Microsoft it started getting bloated and enshittified - it lost its direction and...
Oxymoron: is a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction. Source: Wikipedia Lately, I have added an Amazon link into the blog. Instead of buying me a...
With GitHub down once again, I decided to write this long-overdue blog post. This was the top comment on Hacker News when I started writing this: For a variety of reasons, we had a centralized place where everyone of a particular set of...
A warning up front: this is not particularly edited or crafted. It's more of an ejection of some pent up feelings and thoughts and I'm spewing them into the void to get them out of my damn brain. It's kind of a bummer, so move on if...
An unlockable class for Spuk's Ocean D&D. Attribute Requirements: Dex 7 or lower Alignment: Neutral Weapons: Latch onto an enemy Armor: Spiky Shell - AC 1 Communication: Reef, Wiggle Spikes Movement: Slow Crawl 5 m (15 ft) Sea Urchins...
For a while now I have been waiting for the "AI bubble" to burst. I don't want it to happen, but what the hell is one supposed to think when companies that make up a large portion of the U.S. economy invest hundreds of times more than...
After following every pre-release milestone that deary set leading up to the release of their debut full-length album Birding back in April, I’ve not checked back in because following a Spring UK/Europe tour to promote the record,...
I often give the same tip to startup founders going into Y Combinator interviews, to my kids when they face an opponent in a BJJ competition, and to myself whenever I am about to do something stressful. I start from the mindset that I...
This is my 9th blog post for the Blaugust 2026 community blogging project. Join me all this month for more blogging. Back in March 2026, my router died. I did not have a recovery plan. So, I had a paniced scramble to get a replacement....
Three more science fiction/fantasy books for you this month of consistently higher quality than the last batch! By Mx Kris Vyas-Myall The Forest of Forever, by Thomas Burnett Swann Cover Illustration by George Barr Cast your mind back...