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There are strange things here in the WordPress sphereBy bloggers who chase some praise;Where the half‑done drafts leave a mind half‑daft And the nights stretch into days;The laptop's glow has shown odd shows,But the oddest it ever...
Sovereignty Is Engineered, Not Procured Europe often asks whether it can build a company like Palantir: a software champion capable of serving intelligence, defence, law enforcement, crisis response, cyber defence, and public-sector...
For years, running PHPStan at level 8 on a CakePHP app meant making peace with a wall of missingType.generics and missingType.iterableValue warnings, or quietly silencing them in ignoreErrors. The ORM knew the entity type. The query knew...
Happy Friday! Today is National Gingerbread Day (in June? That seems very Decemberish), National Doughnut Day (again? Didn’t we already have that?), and most importantly, Summer Friday number two of 2026. Today I went to the gym, picked...
I used to be interested in Ladybird . Independent browser engine, built from scratch, no Blink/WebKit/Gecko code. On paper, exactly the kind of project the web needs if we don’t want Chrome to become the new IE. In July 2024, Chris...
The psychologist Robert Bjork called them desirable difficulties. Learning sticks better when practice is made harder, rather than easier. Students who have to struggle to retrieve an answer remember it longer - and clearer - than...
Currently reading: Eight Million Ways to Happiness by Hiroko Yoda 📚 Japan is a deeply secular country full of shrines, temples, festivals and ceremonies. This book unpacks the paradox by exploring spiritual life in Japan as it’s actually...
La Famiglia is a little unusual. It is a game for exactly four players (like mahjong!), and it is played in teams of two. You are mafia families in Sicily, and you compete to control the most regions. You win immediately when you control...
In April I went town to the Atlanta area to chat with Brandon Sanderson, and we talked about writing, of course, but also about kids, about our early days in the industry and how it was I became Brandon’s official nemesis. It’s an...
After driving out from Tokyo, we spent our first night on our Izu roadtrip camping at the Kusamakura Camping Ground (くさまくらキャンプ場). At first glance it doesn't look like much - it's basically a grassy field on the corner of a suburban...