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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...
Most Fridays, I share a handful of pieces that caught my eye at the intersection of technology, media, and society.Did someone forward this to you? Subscribe for free.Chicago Public Media launching community website — chicago.com — in...
A Kicking Ass. Primitive handcarved wired motion toy late 19th, early 20th century. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb
The barbershop that I usually go to employs two barbers: one who plays oldies, and the other who plays no music when the one who plays oldies isn’t around. Today, both barbers were present, and there was a customer in each chair, so I...
Link: Chicago Public Media launching community website, by Amy Yee at the Chicago Sun-TimesIn an increasingly AI-dominated information landscape, real trusted communities and relationships will be the way to build trust and loyalty — I’m...
At Web3 Summit this past month, I gave probably what was one of the strangest presentations I’ve ever given. Over the past year I’ve been mulling over some big concepts and trying to put them all together in one coherent narrative. What...
A Friday Hodgepodge Screen capture by the author. 1. If you like Wordle, one "pompomsheep" at Hacker News is developing a timed word-solving game called 18 Words. As of this morning, the game gives you 30 seconds to solve words of...
You asked for it, so here’s an occasional open thread to bitch about anything tangentially
Remember when the internet was young, there was a finite (but quite large) set of personal sites, personal contact actually mattered and you had trouble keeping track of who blogged where, who you corresponded with and what their social...
I was cc-ed on a message sent by 18 members of the board of the journal Statistics and Computing, quitting their posts because the publisher (Springer) has announced a new policy whereby all authors will have to pay publication charges....
The Last Starfighter (Mad Cave) #1A Taurin Clarke Regular Release: Jul 01, 2026 Mad Cave Creators WriterDeric A. Hughes | Benjamin RaabArtistWilli RobertsCover ArtistTaurin Clarke Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the...
I subscribed to The Atlantic for quite awhile, but recently let it expire when I decided to limit my consumption of "political news." I don't have the time or bandwidth. I'm too busy playing with children and reading books.That said,...