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In the last post, I described my glee at receiving a very competent Sony Optiarc AD-7280S. As it would turn out, in this post, I give it some torture as I relive a bit of a hobby from my past, while trying to set a new record – the most...
Boone as David Wilkerson.Based on the 1963 autobiography, The Cross and the Switchblade (1970) tells the true story of David Wilkerson (Pat Boone), a small-town Pennsylvania pastor who moves to New York City to minister to gang members...
Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted after trying Claude Code for the first time. “Overnight, it changed the way I do my job,” he...
It’s Monday, right? I drove from Wilmington, Delaware to Jacksonville, Florida yesterday which was overall pretty pleasant (except South Carolina). I was able to get in some quality listening on my drive and enjoy 12 innings of...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC asks us to: For this Daily Create, you are tasked with imagining the image that is described by the alternative text below....
Last year, Ancestry announced "Smart Search" in beta, intended to be a more intuitive search form with "enhanced logic" for focusing on more relevant results. It has shown up on my family trees and last week, I tried it for several...
Being a bilingual speaker, Joel wrote about his struggle to read books and their translations: I just can’t decide what to do when it comes to translated works at all. Be it old books in English translated to Spanish—or modern ones to be...
I recently decided to leave Codeberg and run my own Forgejo instance instead. After finishing the initial setup, I realized that a forge I host myself is a forge that I get to shape, and that I no longer have to settle for whatever...
Drift Zero syncing while sitting in a coffee shop The last few weeks, I have been beta testing the Drift DJ and its getting a lot more stable. The hardest part I have found is my tunes are from all over, going from Rave stuff from the...
Python A-Z is a blog series about Python. Each day, I share insights, ideas and examples for different parts of Python development that match with the letter of the day. Blaugust is an annual blogging festival in August where the goal is...
Has everyone recently started vibe-coding their personal websites? The number of blogs in my RSS feed that have suddenly started spamming dozens of old posts all at once is getting a little suspicious. But hey, coding is a solved problem...
I've been diving a bit more into this map, angling specifically towards using it to run a Bookholm campaign. Enromous caveat: I am an Anglo gamer chud with no archaeological or historical background; what follows is a repository of my...
What do you get when you combine a track with a history of one good race per decade, and a driver with talent we haven’t seen in more than a decade? A sleep-inducing race, that’s what. Despite what I wrote Friday, I had great hopes for...
It’s time for my annual roundup of film-photography blogs. Some blogs last for a short time while others last for decades. But the film-photography blogging community remains strong. There are 120 active blogs here! Since last year, 14...
Current stage of pregnancy: week 12 GA; week 10 FA; 12,5 cigarettes since the beginning of pregnancy Baby update✴We're almost done with week 12. I think I finally have a bump. The fold between the belly and pubis area is filling up, my...