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Waiting for Pulp at Live in Wythenshawe Park tonight.
I first set this up at the end of March in the middle of a hypomanic state. And I mean TAIL END of March, so maybe we can just say April. April is 04/12 in monthspeak... apparently now it's the end of August so now it's 08/12. I guess if...
A week ago I was in Washington DC for the National Book Festival and I somehow got asked to be one of the five speakers at the opening ceremony in the actual Library of Congress. I suspected this was a mistake and this seemed even more...
Welcome to the Milwaukee Mile! It is currently sunny and 76°. It’s a strange schedule today. The media bullpen was the first item on the agenda at 11:00. We usually don’t attend those, as they are normally much, much earlier than that....
In a previous article I got local DNS up and running so that I could connect to all of my self hosted services via their names instead of their IP address and port numbers. Today, I’m going to setup what’s known as “Split Horizon DNS.”...
By the way, here’s an excellent essay about game design that I don’t think I’ve contrived an excuse to link yet: “Bomb Sense,” by danbo. (Danbo being the auteur behind Blue Revolver and, uh, apparently Scrandle.) I think about this essay...
[This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll...
Last week on my birthday I issued a blog challenge for folks to write about an obscure game of their choice. As the challenge states, what is “obscure” is incredibly subjective and I just wanted folks to pick what they thought was...
CSP policies regress silently — someone adds 'unsafe-inline' to unblock a widget and nobody notices until an XSS report lands. Here's how to make CI catch it, why the gate exits 3 instead of 2, and what to actually gate on so the check...
Ronbun 論文#Ronbun (paper) is currently the content management system (CMS) powering this website. It's build with the golang programming language, uses sqlite for the database, and Kaku for the markup.Ronbun has evolved a lot (it started...
It’s been a good but busy week. Lots of work got done. Though I think I am still lagging according to my TODO list. On a side note, I have been fairly active, with standard two days of P.T. and two days of pickleball. I have not made any...
I mentioned Atari’s Pong recently, a game often considered to be the first videogame ever. It wasn’t, and as a matter of fact, it was a clone of one of the games from the first home console Magnavox Odyssey, released earlier in 1972:...
Farmhands pledging $1 or more over on patreon got to read this a week early! Howdy, Farmhands! This post is a parody of Deities and Demigods and it's later rewrite/reprint Legends and Lore, a resource for AD&D that statted up...
A month of live conversations from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, moving from dark matter and the mysteries of the universe to music and cognition, environmental politics, and the writing life. Hosted by Farha...