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Hey people! Today I’d like to share with you a song which is six years old, but I’ve only discovered it recently. More precisely, the original by Cezinando is six years old and Randi Oline’s cover is three years old, but both are...
Let’s Talk Bookish is a monthly bookish discussion meme created by Rukky @ Eternity Books and co-hosted by Aria @ Book Nook Bits and Dini @ Dinipandareads! It’s recently moved to a lower-frequency posting schedule which you can check out...
Read the full post at - Miracles & Wonder by Elaine Pagels I was a Religion minor at UGA, grew up in the Bible Belt, and have never really stopped being fascinated by the history of Christianity and the ancient world. So when Elaine...
This year marks a number of anniversaries: 130 years since The Argosy became the first pulp magazine; 100 years since the first science-fiction pulp, Amazing Stories, hit newsstands; 30 years since ThePulp.Net first appeared online as...
Since we had an unplanned weekend stay in Albany due to coach issues, we decided to make the most of it with a drive to the Oregon coast. Here’s an interactive map of our driving route, heading clockwise: Newport, Oregon is a fishing...
League of Legends (LoL) is an iconic video game that has become part of modern esports culture. Developed by Riot Games, League of Legends has become one of the world's most popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games. Many...
Advanced Witches & Warlocks by Eugene Jaworski I have spent the better part of this week talking about my witch character, Larina. Mostly about where she has been and who she has been. Today I want to share the next Larina. A little bit...
We’re mostly games here at Set Side B, the whole “retro, niche and indie” thing ya kno, but what is a game really? This is to say, we’re not against linking to other kinds of computer, and even electronic, entertainment. That’s the...
The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming. It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight....
Zine (github) A Zine site is a collection of content files and layouts. Zine turns your content into HTML, styles it using your layouts, and finally copies the result into an output directory that you can then publish on static hosting...
It’s hard to believe that a whole year has passed since my book Lifelines was first published in May 2025, but there’s a paperback edition on my desk right now telling me that it has. Published in the UK by the wonderful team at Elliott...
About five years ago, I migrated my project management from JIRA to Gitlab. There were some initial teething problems but, over the last half decade, Gitlab has served my needs pretty well. The urge to replace it, though, has been...
I'm with my in-laws this week, and they like their classic television. One of the shows they've added to their "rotation"1 is MacGyver, the classic 1985 TV series2 starring Richard Dean Anderson, created by Lee David Zlotoff and Henry...
Ohhhh, I had several years that are “annus horribilis”, but the 2016-2018 and 2022-2023 are the ones that come up to mind. Lots of health related issues during those years, as well as personal issues encountered those years made it so...
Some quick housekeeping: several of my websites now have a Zenodo DOI, so they are easier to cite. This currently covers fanography.info, grassmannian.info, hyperkaehler.info and mgnbar.info, with more to follow. Each site's "how to...