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June 2015 I had a bit of a dilemma planning this walk. I could do a short walk from Almwch to Cemaes or I could, as I wanted to do, try and find a longer route. The problem was a lack of public transport, there are few settlements along...
Bloatware is not a recent invention but recently, I see so many products "just like X, but with 100 more features". Now that AI agents make it cheap to add features, removing them is the real value.
happy and rotund we'd be, you say plump and pleased a naughtier sound, I respond unable to find words to acknowledge a future where we cook for each other
A design trap is when you start off with what seems like a good idea, then cling to it even when it obviously isn’t working. It appears that happened with this sign. I have obscured the name of the local body that made it because they...
Across this Autumn ’99 sampler, ECM offers a varied excavation. The label’s familiar spaciousness becomes an instrument of light caught under glass. These tracks are drawn from different points in time and space. Some are lit by candles,...
This post is from Bob The sausage So as not to bury the lead (or “lede” if you want a mid-20th-century newspaper vibe), check out the this 3D HMC animation generator. It can render regular animations or produce anaglyph 3D encoding...
Japan’s largest volcano lies hidden. It can be found, if you know where to look, by starting from the southern island of Kyushu. Find the active volcano Sakurajima. (We will come back to it later. But this is not that volcano.)...
I can’t really say anything about this, but I wanted to record it anyway, because id Software had a profound impact on my early career. Some of the most fun I ever had at work was running Quake servers at Portuguese ISPs–which is, quite...
I started reading Witch Hat Atelier, a manga by Kamome Shirahama.
There have been several security incidents lately that involved compromising GitHub Actions workflows. This has led some to say "GitHub Actions is the weakest link" in publishing and to GitHub publishing a GitHub Actions security roadmap...
I am a tiny bit sorry for all the links I am posting regarding age gating. As I have written before, it is something I am still trying to work out for myself. After all, it seems straightforward why age verification is an easy way to...
Power Cat 2026-07-07 Mail fraud!
Being a temp worker is always entertaining. Recently I got a short-term contract at an organization that will go unnamed. Mystifyingly, they assigned me to do the entire front end of a project by myself, despite the fact that I have...