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AsumSaus is probably best known for their Smash Bros. Melee videos, and it was they who made the terrific video (54 minutes) about aMSa, the Yoshi player who won major tournaments. And hey, we linked to that back in 2023. They’ve been...
I've been entertaining the idea of doing a beauty blog over at my more private weblog, but I decided to go ahead and post my skincare routine here on the main blog. It's taken me a while to find a good regimen that works for me, but the...
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In the past, new PhD students would ask how they could succeed when they had to compete with the likes of say, Richard Karp or Avi Wigderson. I would say Karp and Wigderson have limited bandwidth and you can work on problems they don't...
I've been tinkering with data sources for doing Sumo analysis, from two main sources (well, one really): SumoDB - Specifically the Yusho page for a quick overview of winning performances. A database created by Ryan McCorvie from SumoDB...
I found the advice from an Enlightened Unix Master about arranging input text for the the venerable troff typesetting system that seems to be ancestral to Semantic Line Breaks.
The story of Fray: In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; this was the website that made me want to make websites. adactio.com/links/22723
I’m not sure if this is just my devices but a couple native Android apps on my Tab S9 tablet feel less reliable and perform worse than PWA versions of those apps.
Unattributed Navigation Overhead exposes the part of Time to First Byte that Navigation Timing cannot explain, including hidden cross-origin redirects.
Hitchcock (2012) is a surprisingly fun little peek behind the curtain at how Alfred Hitchcock
Break the glass: Buttercup Festival 3-394Latest on PatreonAug 14th: Summer painting
Long-time reader Antonio R. sent me to this thread about plummeting subscriptions suffered by a Substack user. Her last sentence was: "what good are followers when follower growth seems correlated with losing paid subs??"While stated as...
Do you ever feel that some fountain pen and ink combinations work especially well together? Have you found that switching inks can make a pen write better? Today we talk about how to pair fountain pens and inks to optimize your writing...
Written by MichaelIn the first Kyrandia game, we played young Brandon, a self-entitled prince who needed to save the land of Kyrandia from a psychopathic court jester named Malcolm. In the second game, we played a mystic named Zantha...
One man designed all of it. The fridge, the cigarette pack, the bus, the logo, the locomotive, the car. His name was Raymond Loewy, a French engineer who stepped off the boat in New York in 1919, and by mid-century you could live most of...