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TIL: Satsuma, the province in Japan that gives its name to a species of citrus fruits, produces sweet potatoes to the point that they’re known in Japan as Satsuma-Imo or Satsuma potato (薩摩芋). In fact, satsumas weren’t even native to the...
[Chatbot “journalism” is] nothing but a race to the bottom. – The Washington State News Guild A Moral Cancer (#1535) The absurd belief that “ultraprocessed foods” are essentially magical is increasingly popular with crypto-moralists:...
9 May 2026 Happy World Migratory Bird Day! Here are just a few of the birds Charity Kheshgi and I saw this week in Ohio. More to come in the days ahead! It’s time to get outdoors. p.s. The black-capped chickadee is non-migratory but he...
TL;DR Link to heading A cleanup PR removed an accidental guard in our release workflow’s git push logic. Three weeks later the workflow had pushed 119 self-generated bump commits. Fix: gate the release job on github.actor so the...
That's probably the wrong question.
I’ve just experienced the power of Brandolini’s Law on myself. It is an anecdotal observation which states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. What happened?...
How to control the RSS feeds
The wind still at gale force. Rain all night. Went to see Dot. Little Jane very pleased to see me. Got back just after noon. A big flood down the Old Lane.
If you have played tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, then you are probably aware of the term Natural 1. It is tabletop gaming slang for rolling the lowest possible score on a 20-sided die. Not only that, it usually...