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Tue Oct 01
A quick update - The European Commission and EU member states have been pondering, for years now, if they should force WhatsApp/Apple/Signal/Telegram to scan all our private messages for suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM). For...
Yesterday I was thinking about how long it took me to get a colorscheme in my terminal that I was mostly happy with (SO MANY YEARS), and it made me wonder what about terminal colours made it so hard. So I asked people on Mastodon what...
Being a puzzle editor is fun, but incredibly hard, thankless work, and it's time to move on.
Even though the missus and I weren't feeling all that well, we decided to go on a weekend trip to Frankfurt. After all, if staying there helped my back, so there was no reason to think it wouldn't help to banish the rest of the flu....
Random photographs from my phone's camera roll in September 2024.
Me at our first NYC event, in June 2010. Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid. It was another late arrival coming into New York — near midnight on Sunday, June 6 — but this time I had booked a hotel in Manhattan. It was a fifteen-minute...
I've finished a new tool to add to the site - I made this one to "do the counting" for my daily physical therapy exercises...
There is also the other side of this. Let's not put everything on C-level people; we can build some empathy. In the recent event I joined (CTO Craft Con Berlin), Füsun Wehrmann mentioned how the CTO role evolved and how expectations and...
For this year's bike tour, Meg and I rode our ATBs from Littleton, New Hampshire, in a loop around Vermont, and back to New Hampshire. Along the way, we checked out some new spots, and visited some old favourites. We connected it all...
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been using LibreWolf as my daily driver browser. It’s been about two weeks since then, and I had some thoughts. I originally tried to compile LibreWolf myself, which is how I found out 16GB of RAM...