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My workout buddy. He sometimes comes by for scratches when the sunshine is on my yoga mat. Selfie a day for a year, day 6: Aug 24, 2026 edition.
In early July, Cassie Pritchard argued on Twitter that liberalism had failed; it bet the farm on economic progress making people happier, but although it delivered impressive economic progress, happiness had failed to follow.In late...
Convert Apple Music playlists into shareable website using AppleScript, Markdown, and JavaScript—no database, no API, just simple scripts and HTML.
⭐⭐⭐ — nothing special and not the greatest Star Wars novel by any means, but provides some context to the video game on which it's based (and also some spoilers for how the game ends). Reply by email Share this post Mastodon Bluesky
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(NB: this piece was written in 2017) In the early days of CD recording, Incat Systems –- a small company in Milan, Italy –- captured most of the OEM CD-R software market, but also wanted to sell directly to consumers. This required us to...
talk of the moonlight without a last gasp, the violence i could commit against my neighbour's television other things said spool Yesterday :: Monday, 24th August 2026
My C->Zig port of the Janet programming language is passing Janet’s test suite without any .c files!
Investigating RS-422 and RS-485 for Modbus with the ESP32-S3.
The Ape that Understood the Universe, by Steve Stewart-Williams (2018)
Zsh modifiers are a family of suffixes that transform words as they’re expanded. Several of them are dedicated to slicing up filenames, replacing fiddly calls to dirname, basename, and friends. Let’s take a look at them now! The filename...
No, no, no, I’m not talking about the SCTV soap opera The Days of the Week although it’s pretty funny. Quick, what day of the week is August 24, 2026? Monday! Er, yeah, it’s today, I kind of knew that, but want if you got a slightly...
Yup, you read that right. I had mentioned in my "as of writing this" in my last post that on Tuesday evening my mom informed Mrs. Pirate and I that she has stage 3 carcinoma. I.e. breast cancer. The news came as a massive shock, and I...
Danmei Web Novel Review: Guide on How to Fail at Online Dating by Jiàng Zi BèiThe StoryJing Huan is a handsome young university student whose favorite cousin, Liang Ran has encountered some problems. While dating in an online game she...
Harry bakes the cakes for my tour to recipe of 1720. Tickets available for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields this Saturday. Click here to book Lew Tassell at the Mansion House . Lew Tassell, formerly of the City of London Police,...