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In 2019, I reviewed and adored David Ely’s science fiction thriller Seconds (1963), the source material for John Frankenheimer’s similarly brilliant 1969 film. I did not know that Ely got his start in genre magazines under the editorship...
A return to form and function Image: Apple. In 2009, at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Bertrand Serlet walked onstage and presented an audacious claim: “Zero New Features,” the slide read. Serlet, Apple’s then-senior vice...
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Sol is finally here, along with the cheaper Terra and Luna. We’ve seen the early hype as reported on Thursday, but as always that is biased. As usual, the bulk of this is collecting a gestalt based on reactions. I...
Like many other projects, CPython is experiencing a huge increase in security reports. CVEs per year #Last month, PSF Security Developer-in-Residence Seth Larson posted a chart of CVEs per year, showing a large increase in 2026: But this...
At work, we use a standard Git workflow: develop on a feature branch, push to GitHub, and open a pull request to main. Once somebody else approves the PR, the changes get merged. At least once a week, I forget to branch and commit...
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It’s 2026 and people are still searching for answers on the Raspberry Pi 5 vs Raspberry Pi 4.. Well, the Pi 5 release was the biggest generational leap in Raspberry Pi’s history. That said, the Pi 4 is cheaper, and still very capable. So...
A hundred death metal albums not from the USA This is essentially a housekeeping exercise I decided to inflict on other eyeballs. A broad sweep through death metal’s classical era in a hundred albums, from 1985 to 2000. If anything, the...
Give me a minute…….I would like to tell you why “I” believe we need to be thankful! We live in a society that is focused on everything bad, evil and corrupt about this country. I will give you that there is plenty of that in the world we...
We have a little bunny visiting our back yard. Cute little dude.
A pet peeve of mine is seeing flags with the wrong dimensions. Maybe I should learn to move on, but I can’t help it. Designers with a love for visual consistency are quite happy to show you every country’s flag with the same length and...
The rumor has led you far into the wild, to a stone temple guarded by robed monks and venomous snakes. Two blind women, one ancient, one yet a girl, sit cross legged on an ornate rug. Incense fills the room, choking and cloying. A monk...
Read the full post at - A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk is one of the Top 5 best novels I’ve ever read. I don’t say that lightly. And I almost missed it entirely. I was browsing a vintage...