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I bought two boxes of these spice jars: STORFEX 24-Pack 120ml Glass Spice Jars. Then I used my Silhouette CAMEO5α cutting machine to make some vinyl labels. I used the Caveat Brush font from Google Fonts.It took a little while to figure...
My 3D printer broke.No matter what I tried, I couldn't get past this error: "Extruding filament failed. The extruder might be clogged."I took apart the extruder gear assembly to check for clogs:I inspected the little magnet on the...
I read ‘A Fine Balance’ while I was on holiday. I’ve not actually written a full book review before so let’s have a go at that and see how it goes…
The European Commission has published its new Tech Sovereignty Plan. On the surface this sounds promising. Europe talks about reducing dependence on foreign tech giants, strengthening digital autonomy, and supporting open source. These...
May Recap I was thinking of May recap but not feeling up to it. Missed April recap because all I had to say for myself was that I was sick, but I can recap May like this: Put in a new garden bed, gave away saplings to friends, raising...
As anyone who has been following LH for any length of time will be aware, I am no fan of “AI,” but this seems like a situation in which large language models could be of great use; the Austrian Academy of Sciences reports: The Austrian...
Ela Przybyło Under Review:Portalmania. Debbie Urbanski. Simon & Schuster, May 2025. Debbie Urbanski’s weird and whimsical short story collection, Portalmania, begins with an attentiveness to portals as elusive doorways to other worlds....
Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Microsoft just announced Scout at Build 2026 — their new "always-on personal agent" built on OpenClaw and baked into Microsoft 365. Another AI assistant, another keynote. Normally I'd...
I keep getting floored by people saying programming as a job is “over”. I was jelaous of engineers my whole life for having the ability to speak code with which they create software. The ability to speak code has never been more...
I have gotten out of the habit of commenting on the news of the day here, mostly because, as I have said before, when it comes to the current governance of our country, there’s only so many times I can yell “it’s because they’re...
One of the few things which truly scare me is the—for some reason very new to me—notion that it takes so many things to go right for you to succeed. The compounding effect of good decisions can not be ignored. You need to not only make...
One of my most exasperating traits — or, perhaps one that makes me ideally suited for this space I invented, coincidentally, to suit my collection of traits — is that I have a terrific amount of random ingredient preparation ideas in the...
The new film Backrooms directed by Kane Parsons has everyone talking about ‘liminal horror’. As someone who writes stories which might fit into this bracket, I’m excited to have a new sub-genre to ponder. Here are some initial thoughts –...