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I've given my website a bit of a refresh! There's a slightly updated layout if you're on desktop, plus I ditched the etc page and I've revamped my links page to be powered by raindrop.io. The minimalist theme is still minimalist, but a...
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Resurrected my Bluesky account, using my domain name as my handle. Testing my Drafts > Website > MicroBlog > Bluesky flow here!
My world map at the end of this session. Guest post from AlphabeticalAnonymous: I start this session with mixed feelings. On the one hand, The Search for Freedom continues to serve up decent CRPG fare: a main quest, equipment upgrades,...
Notice only one of the clocks is real. This day was potentially the highlight of the whole river cruise. It was, you see, the day with the most river cruisin’. We woke up cruising and went to sleep cruising. But in the middle there we...
We had a pleasurable 4th of July weekend with a visit from our nephew, Dan, and his family. Fireworks thundered all along the Strip and elsewhere in town; booms, snaps, crackles, and pops could be heard for hours. The night sky was...
The latest Recomendo newsletter recommends you check that your favourite brand has not gotten enshittified. How? By seeing if it is "Approved" here: Worse on Purpose rates 215 brands — tools, bags, apparel, eyewear, and footwear — as...
This week's bookshelf is a small one, and thus a relatively simple one. Here we move to a new wall, and start a new shelving unit, this one being one I found in my mom's house and turned into a place to hold books; I'm pretty sure it was...
Post by @carnage4life@mas.to The billionaire co-founder of AirBnB wants you to blame the babies of undocumented immigrants for starter homes being unaffordable.
Armin theorizes that this is because more recent Anthropic models have been specifically trained (presumably via Reinforcement Learning) to better use the edit tools that are baked into Claude Code. This has the unfortunate effect that...
This is a copyright infringement lawsuit among pro se litigants. The dispute sideswipes YouTube, but YouTube is able to exit on a motion to dismiss. The plaintiff claims a copyright in a book, Drug Lords of Oakland. The defendants...
Back to the hotel for a short siesta after spending most of the day at Tate Britain, where there is a special exhibition of works by and about James McNeill Whistler. The main collection at Tate Britain is free, but the Whistler...
image by Mike Licht on flickr, CC BY 2.0 Facebook and Xwitter are dying. Their membership is shrinking, their usage is dropping, and satisfaction with them is at an all-time low. Copycat “social media” have arisen, but they lack the huge...
“We are not suggesting this is attainable on the first try, but we think we know how to get there.”There are no new ideas in software engineering, only ones we’ve learned and then forgotten. In 1989, the Zero Defects memo at Microsoft...
From Nilay Patel, a recommendation for the best printer of 2023: Here’s the best printer in 2023: the Brother laser printer that everyone has. Stop thinking about it and just buy one. It will be fine! The Brother whatever-it-is will...