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Built a small tool jotta-canary which alerts your phone when a machine's Jottacloud sync folder stops syncing. Private repo for now, unless there's interest.
The Regicide Report came out in January 2026. Traditionally I wait for the paperback before writing one of these spoiler-laden crib sheets, but there won't be a US paperback edition and the UK one isn't until the end of the year: if you...
For this week’s AI Skeptics episode we talked to Daron Acemoglu, economist at MIT, about his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Apple Spotify YouTube
The day is August 16th, the time is 6:42 am, and the temperature is a very enjoyable 16°C. The sun is about to rise over the mountains, and I can see it appearing behind the car I just parked at the same parking spot where we ended our...
From the New Yorker issue of July 6 & 3, 2026, under the heading “A critic at large” (on-line, 6/29/26, “What happened to your face: How the human countenance become something to study, edit, optimize, and scan”; in print, 7/6/26,...
Kill ShotsA shooter can choose to give up movement and evasion to get a +1d damage bonus for their successful hits. Attacks against shooters going for a "kill shot" are at +2 that round. GrenadesGrenades can be used safely at a distance...
From a history book I’m reading: He drew charcoal portraits for extra money, but talent didn’t save him from [unpleasant work in] the tannery. After work, he would lie down in a corner of the shirt factory where some apprentices slept....
There’s a lot of propagandist idiocy in that regard, so I want to sort it out Read more
Spotify, it seems, will be adding a button to skip all the ads in a podcast — except for ads sold by Spotify. I have no idea how good a podcast player is Spotify. I have no desire to find out. ~ Link: Spotify's Unskippable Podcast Ads,...
A deep dive into immutability in PHP, from readonly properties and interior mutability to immutable value objects, collections, dates, cloning, boundaries, and testing. Read more
Q: The word “works” (meaning “factory”) is a hard nut to crack. It looks plural but acts singular. Can it be used to speak about two factories? And how did it come to mean a factory in the first place? A: The noun “work” has been used in...
This article: Love red wine but want a more refreshing sip for summer? These 6 reds at the LCBO are delicious served chilled, had me thinking about beaujolais this week, since it was one of the wines featured. While a big bordeaux fan,...
The Aleste series of shooters wasn’t actually named such in North America, not until near the very end of its time in the shoot ‘em up space. Most of the time, that led to annoying changes: Aleste to “Power Strike,” Super Aleste to the...
Spalding Rockwell Gray (June 5, 1941 – c. January 11, 2004) was an American actor and writer. He is best known for driving autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his...