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Today is the anniversary of my appointment to Ambricourt. Already three months! I prayed hard this morning for my parish, my poor parish—perhaps my first and last parish, because I would like to die here. My parish! I can’t speak … Continue reading →
Caring indiscriminately at work exhausts you—the real skill is directing your energy toward what's strategically important and letting go of minor frustrations…
CDM.link, the long-running website from Peter Kirn, calls itself “a home for people who make and play music and motion.” CDM is a required-reading part of any electronic musician’s RSS feed, covering music and performance technology, as well as the highly creative work that people do with such tools. And so, it was great this […]
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I’ve heard a version of the phrase “This isn’t what I signed up for” a few times this week, from vastly different folks in tech. People in very different companies of different scales and in different disciplines. But all were expressing the same basic sentiment, which was more or less “Working with AI all day and not other humans is not what I wanted to be doing, but here I am.”
Plan a food-focused trip through Mid-Coast Maine with this guide to Brunswick, Bath, Harpswell, Wiscasset, Boothbay, Alna, Camden, and Rockland. From old-school donuts and seafood shacks to destination restaurants, bakeries, Thai food, and cozy stays, here’s where to eat, wander, and plan next. The post Where to Eat in Mid-Coast Maine: Restaurants, Seafood Shacks & More appeared first on Store-Bought Is Fine.
A redraw of an old pizza face.
The other day, my youngest brought a self-made journal home from school. Their teacher assigned the class the task of drawing some pages about how they imagine the future. Simon...
Am I the only one who feels like changelogs aren’t what they used to be any more?
...This whole week has been fascinating! Everything started with [Anthropic acquiring Bun.sh](https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-bun-as-claude-code-reaches-usd1b-milestone). Some within [the bun community raised some concerns](https://wwj.dev/posts/i-am-worried-about-bun/) due to Anthropic's taste for the experimental, which is generally a good thing for innovation but it goes against "if it is not broken, do not fix it". Suddenly, a PR to port bun from zig...
I saw this post by Jake Seliger, which went viral, “I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and the treatments that might save me are just out of reach.” He describes what Alex Tabarrok in a 2015 post calls an “invisible graveyard,” due to the FDA being too cautious on potentially curative cancer treatments, “Alex… Continue reading Debunking the claim that the “FDA is holding back cancer cures”
Today we went to local National Trust property Portland House. A 1930’s Art Deco “Hollywood Spanish” design. Commissioned by a Geoffrey Henry Bushby tragically he died only a few months after it was completed. His wife and daughter contemplated selling it but ended up staying their whole lives, with the daughter donating it to the National Trust in the 70’s under the proviso that she could live there as a Tennant until her death. Since then, the National Trust has spent...
While I’m cautiously optimistic about the future of FFXIV, it’s been a tough time to be a dedicated FFXIV player during the Dawntrail era. I didn’t write a whole lot about my feelings during this past expansion because I don’t like to pile negativity on top of what was already out there. But given the recent change of tone, I feel like now is the right time to come clean.
The 13th edition of BSides Tampa is happening tomorrow, Saturday May 16. It’s not too late to get tickets ($45 for general admission, $30 for students and military), and you can save 20% by using Tampa Devs’ discount code, TampaDevs20_BSIDESTAMPA_2026. There are plenty of reasons to attend BSides Tampa, a cybersecurity conference that brings in […] The post Go to BSides Tampa, because 80% of success is showing up appeared first on Global Nerdy.
A few months ago, I had the displeasure of trying to use the modern web without an ad-blocker. Even though it's is ubiquitous among computer nerds, ad blocking is quite rare even in other technical fields. This got me wondering how search engines perform without all the tricks people do to get better results. As a test, I wrote a few queries for... common software: ad blocker ... obscure, but easy to find information: What is the lowest K-alpha emission energy of...