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By Michael Grasso A couple of years ago, a canny and intelligent friend referred to the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons setting of the Forgotten Realms as "post-apocalyptic." I thought for a moment, ready to dismiss the fictional world’s...
One of the key takeaways from my recent Japanese trip was how even the public toilets have built-in bidets that clean your butt. I mentioned in that article that I installed one of these bad-boys in the toilet adjacent to my home office...
CAUSTIC – s/t E.P. by Caustic Caustic releases July 1st via Slow Death Records.
DUH by NightFreak
Here’s a short round-up of maths news stories from the last two months that we didn’t otherwise cover on the site. Thomas Dieterrich, a representative of the arXiv, has clarified the site’s AI policy – in a Twitter thread (non-Twitter...
Suppose you run across the power series for the exponential function and decide to code it up. Good idea: you’ll probably learn something, though maybe not what you expect. Maybe you decide a tolerance of 10−12 is good enough, and so you...
See how I added a pre-build step using a Bash script in my Hugo deployment workflow to check for the draft status of Markdown content. By using stricter linting rules than Hugo’s default draft behaviour, it can catch and prevent drafts...
I’m listening to the Italian audiobook. It will take a while. *Still in progress* 🏃Hey, thanks for reading my blog via the RSS feed! Feel welcome to get in touch!
Advice in old-timey books was just plain weird, man. The post “And THAT’s why they cancelled my gym membership.” appeared first on The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century.
The world isn't full of critics, it's full of quiet kind people who don't get nearly enough time or attention from us because we're born with a negativity bias. We need to proactively choose to be lovers and proactively grease the quiet...
A new feature allows the creation of a sub-blog, which means I'll be able to keep my original "Northern Folk" blog for contemporaneous photography and use my new "Northern Folk Archive" for selections from back in the day.There is a link...
What good looks like for accuracy, usability, and observability.
image by AI; my own prompt — ‘me’ imagining worst-case scenarios Every day, something happens that gets me anxious or upset. Technology failures, news about outrageous events, abuses and other horrors, meanness and unfairness by people I...
It’s been a long, long time since I read Daredevil comics. I had a good chunk of (one of) Frank Miller’s runs, but I don’t recall all that much about them. I watched part of the Netflix series and I do remember both Foggy and karen from...