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It’s another website, this one a review ‘zine of small indie games coming out of Japan. It has slowed down in its updates recently but still sometimes brings news of a pile of interesting things to learn about, and maybe someday to play....
My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute. Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—Apple's not...
I feel the need to publish something new on rodents, and with no time to produce anything lengthy or new, here are brief thoughts on one of my favourite rodent groups: voles!
I didn't like any carousel/slider library, so I built my own
Aki, Richard, Lizzie, and I put together a special issue on Statistical Workflow for the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. I guess “royal” isn’t as impressive as it used to be, but still. Statistics and data analytics play...
Never mind that the Manchus ruled China for 268 years (1644-1912), the last dynasty in the whole of Chinese history. Now another ethnic group, the Han, are complaining that the Manchus were not Chinese after all. What’s Driving Anti-Qing...
Did you know that Elon Musk’s “DOGE” project — the misnamed Department of Government Efficiency — ended up costing the government four times more money that it saved? My favorite talk, by far, at this year’s joint meeting of the …...
A few days in Paris for the Mistral AI Now Summit: open models, on-prem deployment, agentic harnesses, and why Mistral wants to be the European full-stack AI partner.
I built a simple little Mastodon bot that I’ve automated with n8n and the Podcast Index API that publishes some statistics about the podcasting ecosystem each day. If you have any ideas for what pieces of information you’d like to see it...
A great third-party Monster Manual for D20. Minions is a little pricy for its content, but the quality is high. Recommended. Review Originally Published March 13th, 2002 CONTENT Minions: The Fearsome Foes is a third-party monster manual...
Another perfect morning, the air still so clear I can follow the progress of sunlit gnats on the other side of the yard. A pileated woodpecker drums a quarter mile away. A vireo says “vireo” once and stops.
A double weeknote with another holiday break. We did manage to start a few new projects and wrap-up a few others.
So now, I am reading Winnie the Pooh stories - for the first time in my life.