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"Grave Brigade," is an indie comic that has already had successful Kickstarter campaigns for the first two issues. One of the writers, Tim Radecki (who co-writes the series with Mike Dean), reached out to ask if I were interested in...
The chart tweeted out by Oxford Economics is made for a Junk Charts post.Let's address the visual design in a future post. I’d like to focus instead on analyzing the analysis.Let’s take a tour of this scatter plot.The two variables being...
Last Friday I ran a session of Frydheld sector that was just kind of frustrating and didn't really match the expectations I have for myself. It's been some time since the session so I wanted to write a session report about it as I think...
I have a history of investigating things, finding out what they’re all about, and then deciding for myself if I feel like there’s anything worthwhile in it, or if it’s complete garbage all-around. For example, my experimentation with AI:...
Some security issues, Steam as a monopoly, and some blog posts. Start of a new week and I once again have had a bit of time to catch up with my rss feeds. Unfortunately the time I was going to use on putting together this post on Monday...
I live around the corner so this is my test subject for new film I trying out, especially black and white. This is the side service entrance to Government House, home of the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. This was my first roll of...
Spielberg saladDavid Robert Mitchell's The End of Oak Street is a bowl of Spielberg movie parts (ET, Close Encounters, Jurassic Park to name an obvious few) torn into bitesized pieces and tossed together, with a dash of Robert Zemeckis...
One of many, many details at Meow Wolf Denver. As our teenager — the one pretend-holding this house — noted, it’s like being dropped right into the robot city level of Stray. Parts of it aren’t too far off from Planescape: Torment...
npm init is a nice tool for initializing a package.json. Today I learned that you should not use it on an existing JavaScript project!
The closest coffee shop to where I lived in Venice, (the Los Angeles Venice) back in 2020. I miss it.I'm planning on taking a break from Good Rectangles for at least a few weeks after the sixteenth image in this series, but if you want...
The means used by people who can't code to accrue their cognitive debt and their impostor feeling. The latest means used by companies to accrue technical debt and to create online popup stores.
Wouldn’t you just know that I’d get a better idea for the scrolling code? Let’s try it. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Let me be clear: in the real world, I think I’d be in trouble with someone for taking so much time on this simple and...
📥 I already had a complex filtering setup in my Proton inbox to distinguish important items from updates, but guess that’s no longer needed with this update. Thanks Proton! https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-categories
I have no proof that the above story happened, but I have had my own “Gary” experience back in the early 2000s, back when I lived in Toronto. And yes, I’ll name the person and place: Joe Sacco, then-owner/manager of the pub Smokeless Joe...
Remember when I wrote about a session I was at in Belfast where I was sitting next to a fiddler who it turned out had written a book and then I ended up reading the book? Quite an unusual occurrence, right? Definitely not the kind of...