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Late weeknotes this week due to getting back late last night from a weekend away to Nafpaktos, a town on the Corinthian gulf 2.5hrs west of athens. What a trip that was! An important birthday to be celebrated (not mine) so four of us...
After a month of shipping and another one on customs, Ultraman Zearth–made by Bandai's S.H. Figuarts sub … label–arrived. |
The AI story of the summer should probably be the uncertain financial position of the AI labs hoping to launch record-breaking IPOs shortly. Technology news, however, has instead been dominated by tales of AI agents “going rogue” by...
Newsletter subscribers have already seen this, but now everyone can gaze upon the cover for Corners of the Deep Dark. Addison Smith was great to work with and did a fantastic job. I heartily recommend him for all your human cover design...
Again summarizing several weeks, but with good reason. I’ve been off for a week, and work was crazy busy. I’ve also started migrating my blog here due to issues that came up with Pagecord. ⏪ Week in rewind 🎥 As it’s still school holiday...
John Stossel's latest column -- and video, which I'm embedding below -- are worth your time and are both incredible for two very different reasons.Let's start with the positive side of the ledger. Stossel's six minute video will be an...
Next weekend is going to be the State of the Map 2026 conference in Paris and i am going to present a talk and a poster there. Do maps have a future in OpenStreetMap? The talk is going to be about if maps have a future in OpenStreetMap....
Hand and Knife observed her thriving People and wished to tamper their deeds. She meant them no harm but ‘twas her nature to enjoy healing and death. Without pestilence, there’s nothing to heal and death came only with age. The Children...
I feel an immense sadness. I’m grieving the loss of a pillar of my self-identity: my career as a software developer. Although I’m not sure if this grief is rational, or whether software development is really doomed for good. But it’s...
For the last twenty years I haven't paid much attention to my State Senate race: Pat Jehlen hasn't had a close race since she won the seat in 2005. I think she's done a lot of good work: while allocating credit is hard, more people want...
At the northeastern edge of La Línea de la Concepción, on a scrubby Mediterranean beach called El Burgo–Torrenueva, there is an old battlement-tower, La Torre Nueva, and not much else. It was part of the system of coastal watchtowers...
Noch bis zum 13. September 2026 zeigt die LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen die große Fotoausstellung Anja Niedringhaus – An vorderster Front. Mehr als 250 Fotografien geben einen Einblick in das Werk der deutschen Pulitzer-Preisträgerin...
Gia Festa is a digital producer and writer based in Sydney, Australia. She is a 2025 DNR Bootcamp alumni. Down the rabbit hole:Mark Leckey’s 2009 thesis, “Mark Leckey in a Long Tail World”, is a futurist theory on the revolutionary...
Wikipedia Mini-Server, part 30 Recipe Bread Again Other Scrawls Entropy Arbitrage Library Updates Next August’s most important anniversary, as everyone definitely already knows and has out their party hats, celebrates the carving of the...
A few thoughts on friction and a buncha fresh tracks. I am finally getting around to going through a box of 45s my mom gave me. Ostensibly, this was “payment” for helping her downsize her house a few years ago. Really, I think it was...