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TL;DR: Lore is a free Mac app that follows YouTube channels over plain RSS, no algorithm, no Google account, then archives what you keep as a permanent offline file with transcript search, highlights, and SponsorBlock built in. The...
Four cases I’m currently using, in a mix of leather and fabric, clockwise from top left: Craft Design Technology Pen Pouch, Soolla Studio Pouch, Nagasawa Kip Leather 10-Pen Folio, and a Rickshaw Fillmore. Though it initially struck me as...
This little dude was on the doorstep of my garage around 4am (i.e., when the dog told me she really really had to go pee). That’s not a great place for a smallish amphibian to be, considering there are predatory mammals who patrol the...
Error correcting codes are most simply described in terms of the errors they can certainly correct. For example, the Hadamard code used for the Mariner 9 probe to Mars encoded each 6-bit pixel to a 32-bit codeword in such a way that the...
Two nil, Kavanagh twice, and a league table I intend to look at every single day this week.
Myself and my wife had some time to ourselves today with our eldest at work and our youngest at a music festival with friends overnight until tomorrow. That means after dropping him off at a friends house we had a day to do with as we...
My time here in northern Illinois began with utter chaos when a tornado hit shortly after arriving. Handling the repairs and dealing with Auntie M’s insurance company has taken a lot of my time this summer - and I’ve lost count of how...
i would say i havent been writing because life has been unfunny but in truth it is because i am spending all my energy on other pursuits. one of them is eradicating the bedbugs from my house. i have yet to see this as a humourous task....
I was talking to my partner the other day about how I am becoming an analog person: paper notebooks, pens, highlighters, etc. And right off the bat, he told me: “You are not becoming a paper person, you are just getting back to being...
The visible element of the HAL-9000 computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Definitely can’t tell that this computer is untrustworthy, no sir. I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave. HAL-9000 computer to Dave Table of ContentsWhy 2001: A Space...
The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted that I've add an upvote button above the comments section. Don't worry it's an IndieWeb thing not CorpoWeb thing. If you haven't heard of bubbles.town then where have you been this past few...
"I wonder what Mark Fisher would have thought about the spread across all the end-of-year lists of what is effectively (regardless of genre or sonic specifics) a new singer-songwriter ethos... recordings approached and analysed and felt...
I was in Germany last week for a week which was my first trip out of the country by myself. It was an adventure that I wish lasted longer, although even if I hadn’t bought train tickets in advance, I couldn’t have stayed longer as I’d...
We recently sped up our integration tests by a factor of ten by running many of them in parallel. There were several flaky tests in the new test suite. Claude was really useful in getting rid of almost all flakyness, but I made some...
This morning while I laid in bed relaxing on my day off, I opened up my RSS feed app to play catch-up after having not read anything in almost a month. There was a lot, and I skimmed or skipped most of it (which tells me I need to thin...