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Listen: we all loved Bottlebright and Krag, and The Jade Regent was a blast; unfortunately, it was also a Pathfinder 1e adventure path and William had to do a LOT of shoe-leather behind the scenes to convert it all1 to 2e so it would work with our characters and there came a point, familiar to any reader of...
Don’t tell my boss, but I am thinking about vacation. I am thinking about spending creative energy making something that will not convert or have any business value whatsoever. I am thinking about running off into the metaphorical field of flowers and playing with toys. The standard disclaimer: the job is fine. I...
What a Super Bowl halftime show. I teared up from the middle during the wedding celebration to the end. Bad Bunny, NBC and the NFL just made a giant statement about humanity and love to those that are doing such bad things to our country. Reply by email
“I was in bed and fast asleep when it pleased God to send the Bulgarians to our delightful castle of Thunder-ten-Tronckh; they slew my father and brother, and cut my mother in pieces. A tall Bulgarian, six feet high, perceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, began to ravish me; this made me recover; I...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Both yesterday and today were selections by the kids after loading up a random 6 and them selecting two and I gotta admit I don't think I was on my game for these. Sat 02/07/2026 - Naganadel An Ultra beast for Saturday which AFTER I'd finished was...
I’d be hard pressed to imagine a more perfect concept for a vendor at a market. #leebrotherspotatomerchants #BoroughMarket #london #potatomerchants #potatoes
Our breakfast on Christmas day 2025 This is a family classic breakfast recipe, great for holidays and birthdays. Typically we make it the night before and bake it im the morning. Also checkout the Breakfast Casserole recipe made by the Hoesterey family for a more savory recipe. Summary Prep Time: 20 minutes. Cook...
I’m slightly suspicious of this story (and the video inside) that Unix commands were made so short (cp instead of copy, mv instead of move, ls instead of list, and so on) because the console keyboard had really unpleasant keys. I imagine it must be a confluence of many things, not just this one. Shorter means faster...
Al final, ante la falta de un portátil operativo, he configurado mi ordenador de sobremesa para programar, así que he tenido que configurar Git para trabajar con múltiples plataformas de control de versiones. El proceso para hacerlo es bastante sencillo y similar en sistemas GNU / Linux y Mac OSX. Control de...
Can you “learn any language fast and never forget it” thanks to the Fluent Forever method? I’ve read Gabriel Wyner’s book and intend to find out. Instead of focusing on grammar, it emphasizes early mastery of pronunciation with deep immersion and intense acquisition of vocabulary with spaced repetition. I can vouch...
Oftentimes I have a little gripe with my ARM Mac – It lacks the resources to run a Virtual Machine with the apps I need it to run, which exclusively run on an x86 machine This is HORRIBLE if I want to run something like Windows or a Linux distribution – Emulation is REALLY SLOW because of how memory accessing works...
February 2026. Pavia. For those bored of foreign muck, here’s a Bass mirror from Turin last night. Quite a bit of travel to go before we get there, though. A week in Italy was enough to confirm the greatness of Genoa, tick a new country, finally see what Turin is all about (food) and revisit a small city that...
The traditional "shift left" strategy in software is about how we move testing, security considerations and quality assurance to an earlier stage in the architecture and development process. This strategy is a useful one which can be adapted to what we code, and where we code. Something that's always been the case...
Inspired by how Obsidian names Markdown files by title, I put together a small Python script which couples with a VS Code workspace task to achieve the same. Because tasks need to be manually run, a key-binding can be used to quicken the flow. The assumption is that the file is a Markdown file with the trigger flag...
You might have heard of Size Five Games, they’re the creators of other silly entertaining point-and-click games like Ben There, Dan That!, Time Gentlemen, Please! and Lair of the Clockwork God. I played the first two ages ago, and the last one is still on my to-do list. We’ll see when I get round to playing that...
It's time for another fun, get-to-know-me, blogging challenge. This one was set by Zachary Kai I love the versatility of the humble sandwich and it's my goto lunchtime meal. How Many Sandwiches Do You Eat Per Week?When I worked in an office, I'd say seven. One every weekday at work and then two at home during...
I'm not really a fan of New Years Resolutions. CGPGrey's idea of a yearly theme is appealing, but it isn't for me. I'm more of a "do it as you go" kind of guy, and I'd rather make/break resolutions on the fly. One such resolution was my (I'll admit, impulsive) decision to delete all social media, according to the...
2nd February - 8th February I am nursing a hot cup of tea while I wait for the decongestants to kick in, allowing the steam up my nostrils and into my swollen aching sinuses. I don't know if it helps but it feels like I'm doing something and that's better than nothing. Alice shared Matthew's Sunlight Optimism...
This February is a 'perfect' or 'rectangular' month — a calendar layout where the month’s days form a complete neat block. It only happens for February in common (non-leap) years and only when the first of the month falls on the first day of the week. This last happened in 2015 (on calendars that start on Sunday)...
I love sandwiches. Earlier today I was thinking about how you can eat a sandwich at any time of the day. I have eaten sandwiches for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. When I saw Zachary’s “Sandwich Questionnaire“, I thought I have to respond to this!I have been thinking about responding to the coffee questionnaire on...
Offpunk 3.0 "A Community is Born" Release For the last four years, I’ve been developing Offpunk, a command-line Web, Gemini, and Gopher browser that allows you to work offline. And I’ve just released version 3.0. It is probably not for everyone, but I use it every single day. I like it, and it seems I’m not alone!...
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A little bit of a Listography update that I'd like to share here as well... as a list, of course. Listo laundry list: Done Set up a different type of calendar for the year. I think it looks pretty cute if I do say so myself. Also decided to keep all months there instead of deleting them. It'll literally be my yearly...
We live in a bipolar epoch — on one end, the blamethirsty finger of cancel culture and politicized othering; on the other, the zeal for designating people, real human beings with real human lives, as secular saints expected to give us unremitting consolation, inspiration, and encouragement. Both are cages that...
I love that The Guardian has this as their main story on their homepage. There are so many newsletters that I would pay to subscribe to, if they weren’t hosted on Substack. The intent of the USA’s Section 230 was to allow them to refuse to host content like this. It’s a choice.
As a kid, I always wanted a set of Walkie Talkies to chat with friends. We got cell phones as adults, but that desire remained. A few years back, I took the HAM exam, but then COVID hit us, and I didn’t apply for a call sign. Now I have to retake the exams online, as the system now doesn’t allow me to apply for a...
OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. Alan Kay, the father of OOP Poem: Objects everywhere My adapter needs a service To adapt to any purpose, And that service kinda functions As a helper at the junction Between builders;...
In the UK we are used to the rain, we get a lot of it. We put up with it because it makes us such a green country, makes stuff grow and we like to potter about with our trousers rolled up in a cool river on a hot sunny day. But even us hardy brits have had enough now, it seems to have been raining continuously since...
When you're reading this, you may already know what has happened at the Super Bowl on Sunday. Hopefully, the Patriots lose and ICE doesn't do anything idiotic like try to detain Bad Bunny—or anyone at the game... but they are just crazy enough to try some stupid shit like that...February's LLoN went out right on...
Welcome to a little series I'm starting, where I ask people working in the privacy field 7 questions about their work! This includes Data Protection Officers, Managers and Consultants, and other members of Privacy & Compliance teams. I find career advice and more specific information about the field to be lacking...
On this day three years ago, I bought my first mirrorless camera and started my journey into digital photography. Perhaps it is better explained as me “getting back on the horse”, because I did own cameras back in the day, but they were point-and-shoot devices. Nothing fancy. But none of that seemed to matter to me...
En estos días me he enfrentado ala sensación extraña de no saber que estoy haciendo, rodeado de personas que parecería que sí. I have no idea what I'm doing Chamba En el trabajo me pidieron apoyar a otro equipo que usa C++ (lenguaje de programación). Aunque desde hace más de 20 años he tenido el interés de...
Quick reminder our second novelette came out on the first! Go get it! Or you'll have bad luck for seven years.Faceless by Ellie Montemayora 44-page print novelettefoofarawfoofarawThis weeks story from Gio Clairval captures the feeling of self-isolation—whether due to living a solitary life of an artist, or I'm sure...
TIL via Ashik Nesin: Claude Code now has support for /insights commands. […] When you run it, Claude Code will read your message history from the past month. It’ll summarize your projects, how you use Claude Code, and give suggestions on how to improve your workflow. Let’s try it: ▐▛███▜▌ Claude Code v2.1.37...
Are you a pile of masks and over drawn accounts or drawn to the unbright twilight drawn to shades, drawn. In a hall ? ?? Long ago they told me, Sit with ambiguity. I've been looking for them everywhere.
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Isso começou a pouco tempo, pelo menos eu acho. Ou sempre esteve presente e eu nunca reparei. Mas entre todas as coisas que eu faço, uma que me atingiu hoje enquanto jogava Trails through Daybreak é o quanto eu gosto, ou minimamente faço a questão de poder jogar todos os jogos das séries que eu gosto. Nem sempre foi...
Some thoughts having watched a bit of the coverage.[1] ice hockey What a bonkers sport. I love it. I wonder how far the puck travels over the course of a single game? I like that they can go behind the goal. The goal appears to be very small. Quite how the players (and camera operators) can track the puck during a...
Ready to be deployed at an ice planet nearbyBuilt our first Lego set this weekend. An Imperial AT-AT. Complete with Luke's snowspeeder and the tow cable around the AT-AT's legs. I have friends who are obsessed with Lego, and I have bought sets as presents in the past, but this is the first set I bought for myself....
These are some of my favourite albums I listened to in 2025; not all I listened to, just some highlights for me. Quite a few were new releases in 2025, but not all by any means. I use the music streaming app Qobuz which doesn't have any 'wrapped' or 'most listened to' features (I like that it doesn't) (more on Qobuz...
Sunny days means art daysThe sun starts to shine, my hands are not cold, so I automatically want to draw more. It seems I'm an artist only half of the year 😅 #art #urbansketchingThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.
These are my minimalist themes. They use few colours and will appear mostly monochromatic in many contexts. Styles involve the careful use of typography, such as italics and bold italics. If you want maximalist themes in terms of colour, check my ef-themes package. For something in-between, which I would consider...
Meteorologist John Aitken maybe looking resigned at the thought of having to read dry research. Public domain image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Well, friends, this weekend’s homework—which I’ll have to get back to after tapping out this little missive—has confirmed suspicions that have been growing over the past...
"Nobile al Ridotto" (Nobleman at the Ridotto) from the Gli abiti de veneziani (1754) by Giovanni Grevembroch, translated by René Seindal.
Today is the birthday of the great Victorian critic John Ruskin (born 1819). The last time I marked his birth was way back in 2009, when this blog was in its swaddling clothes. I wrote then about the Ruskinian notion of 'illth', the opposite of wealth, creative not of well-being but of ill-being. I was writing when...