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Time for the latest compilation of old school Dungeons & Dragons threads; all of the compilations can be found in my Dungeons & Dragons blog tag. I’ve been more in a mood to do these posts on Bluesky, so this post came pretty quickly...
Is there color in raw files? This question comes up over and over. It’s the purpose of this post to provide a more-or-less complete answer to the question, so that I can refer people to it when the topic surfaces in the future. Before we...
Also elegantly minimal. Yesterday’s (8/25) Wayno / Piraro Bizarro cartoon: An Etch A Sketch drawing of an Escher drawing; /ɛšǝ(r)/ Escher (rhotic for me, not for most BrE speakers) vs. /ɛčǝ/ Etch A, so primarily, fricative vs. affricate...
Written in response to Bevy's Sixth Birthday. Introduction It's the sixth birthday of Bevy, which now makes it 4 years in total that I've been contributing! It's been a pretty packed year, so unlike past years, for this blog post I'm...
NB dear reader, tests of this email have revealed persistent chunky font weirdness that I hope to solve before the next issue. Apologies. If it’s more comfortable you can always read on the web. Hi, hello, how are you? This is Adam,...
I would take you to the spot by the lake where I used to sit smoking as a teenager hiding from the world and on the walk back to town I would show you my favourite playground in my childhood neighborhood the house I wanted to live in and...
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Yufka is a versatile term in Turkish: yufka is a thin unleavened flatbread; or the dough used to make that flatbread; or a pastry sheet similar to filo but just a touch thicker; or is sometimes used as another name for a sheet of filo...
I found this shared by the moderator of r/asimov sub-reddit. This gives a great insight into working style of the great explainer, Issac Asimov. This was a common pattern for him, as he got more into writing non-fiction: he would...
New book added to my reading list 🤓
View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run: Very similar to last run, but a bit cooler (which was nice). Today’s run was different for a few reasons. First, I didn’t run on Wednesday, because air quality was bad, then I didn’t run on Friday because...
Frederic Van der Meer (1904-1994), Augustine the Bishop (London: Sheed and Ward, 1961), p. 139 (notes omitted): He knew the rich, their bad taste, the self-indulgence which ultimately made them its slaves, and their meanness, which often...
A coding agent can bootstrap itself. Starting from a 926-word specification and a first implementation produced by an existing agent (Claude Code), a newly generated coding agent re-implements the same specification correctly from...
It would be an indecency, a stupidity, even a betrayal to find fault with such peaceable, honest work. By Patrick Bringley. It's a memoir of his time working as a security guard in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book is very good,...
Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past couple weeks. I bought another one of these DC collections of 70s comics for nostalgic reasons — I vaguely remember reading some of these when I was, like, ten. What I remember most is Jim...