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Social media makes us the star of our own reality series. Blogging does too, but most blogs lack the kind of immediate feedback mechanisms of social media platforms. The marmot doesn't get "likes" or "re-" anything, so most of the...
I was recently featured on Hidden Voices, a website that celebrates indie authors. Source
The 250th anniversary celebration of the US seems like as good a time as any to think about how the US stacks up globally in terms of this blog's focus of urbanism and transportation.To be clear, by "globally" I mean here against other...
Sundry Sunday is our weekly feature of fun gaming culture finds and videos, from across the years and even decades. From Random Encounters fifteen years ago, it’s a four-minute musical starring people dressed up as Sonic the Hedgehog...
While updating an old hacky audit-follow script to do more long-term monitoring recently, found that I wanted to add a filtering mini-language/DSL there, and after trying a couple options with having blacklist/whitelist and such, quickly...
Every post we make about the bad thing is one less post about the good thing. For every post about how bad Spotify is, that’s one less post about a tiny indepednet musician. For every post I make about Gmail, that’s one less post about...
This came in the email from the U.S. National Institutes of Health: How Would You Measure and Reward Scientific Impact and Replicable Research Practices? As NIH continues efforts to strengthen rigor, reproducibility, and public trust in...
This came in the email from the U.S. National Institutes of Health: How Would You Measure and Reward Scientific Impact and Replicable Research Practices? As NIH continues efforts to strengthen rigor, reproducibility, and public trust in...
No idea of the author, but thank you. Feel free to reach me publicly in the guestbook or privately via email. Warning: I will eagerly answer!
Love these guys.
Again, the world brought me closer to delayed plans, leaving no room for fear. In Saturday, I found out that my local chapter of urban sketchers would meet up the first Sunday every month, which just happened to be today. Very...
My biggest win in June is being able to read at least a chapter a day and reaching half of my 2026 reading goal! 🥳 I feel so happy about it since I’ve struggled to get back to reading over the past couple of months. Now, if I can just...
FrameFitChecker — Make sure your print fits the frame. Where this shines is the option to check the fit of IKEA frames. Jim's TrueType QR Code Font — Ridiculously cool way to render (bracketed) text as QR codes. ClickDose — If you are...