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I love what Colorverse has done with their Colorvent series, especially putting out a set of the most popular colors after each event. The 2025 Top 3 Ink & Fountain Pen S...
The full inside story of the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege: six hostage-takers, 26 captives, one policeman who starved himself for six days, and 17 minutes of live TV history.
This was previously published in the Artificial Divide anthology I remember the first out-and-proud fiction book I read that included an openly gay character. Actually, this book had gone above and beyond. It was a gay utopia for me because some of the characters are also openly trans and proud of who they are. What made this book so special to me was the fact it was a safe space before I knew what a safe space was. The book is Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan. Growing up...
We’re fans of fineliners around here, mainly because they offer a softer writing experience that - like fountain pens - requires very little writing pressure. The pr...
By Ben Miller Creating distance and disorienting your audience is usually not what a filmmaker strives for, especially in their feature-length debut. Luckily, director Sophy Romvari is able to utilize her own fractured memories to tell a deeply personal story in her devastatingly exceptional debut Blue Heron, now playing in limited release. In our current entertainment landscape, plot points need to be reiterated, all needs to be revealed, and catharsis must be achieved....
Picked up a smaller sling bag for those days where I just need the phone, earbuds or MP3 player and card wallet. Denim/kapok blend long-cut…
A Claude Code skill that helps you design and generate event-sourced domain code for Laravel using spatie/laravel-event-sourcing Read more
For the past six years, I’ve been using Proton Mail for my email, along with other privacy related services from Proton. Recently, Proton introduced an optional post-quantum protection feature (part of OpenPGP v6 (RFC 9580)). I immediately enabled it, as it’s important to prepare to make sure that my current data remains secure.
I’m a great fan of GTD - Getting Things Done methodology by David Allen and as the founder of Nozbe, I love my simple structure of projects, tasks and comments. However, there are tasks that don’t even go there, because if getting them done takes me less than 2 minutes, I just do them without even adding them to my system. Recently, I’ve been taking the 2-minute rule to a whole new level and you can read all about it in my essay at michael.team/2min or you can just listen...
Today's links The three armies fighting for the post-American world: Hippies, investors and hawks. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: NK dictator's son v Tokyo Disneyland; Mainstream press and Bushies v Colbert; Taliban v Pakistan's first McDonald's; Norwegian sovereign wealth fund v exec compensation; Copyright v cheerleader uniforms; Dishwashers are Iphones. Upcoming appearances: Guelph, Barcelona, Berlin, Hay-on-Wye, London, NYC, Edinburgh....
According to shipping manifests, Valve's importing some 50 tons of consoles just one day after the Steam Controller sold out!
I definitely think @tangled.org is very cool but I’m thinking I don’t really want a social network attached to my code hosting. I’m experimenting with boring old HTML files for a web-based repository explorer.
OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber program interrupted my Codex session. Five minutes and a driver’s license later, I was back to work
Also the null hypothesis