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In April, I bought a bike, dusted off my Apple Watch SE (2020), and got active. My workouts were walking and bicycling (easier on the knees). All the metrics were tracked. But with a nearly six-years-old fitness/smart watch and a barely...
“Earlier in May, the Texas Attorney General’s office sued Meta for deceiving users on the level of security offered by end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp. E2EE is used as a catch-all term to describe secure messaging features across a lot...
Hello, loves! I see one more thing that needs doing. And then I propose that we have a little fun. What am I saying, programming IS fun for me. CW: Brief LLM excursion. Begin with a digression … In fact, I do this simple programming...
WACs relaxing after a day’s work * What you answer to is something else. – Lucille Clifton Citizen Ratified in 1868, three years after the abolishment of slavery, … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
For me, the American Bicentennial celebrations in 1776 came and went without leaving much of an impact. I was not yet four years old, so am unsure of what I do remember, though certain impressions (crowds, heat, loud sounds) persist. I...
Dear Constant Reader, Almost exactly six years ago, I filmed this reading and then abandoned it. Yesterday, I decided it should finally see the light of day, filmed a new intro, and edited it. As usual, Scratch gave me a hand, finding...
Lately I've been checking the ol Donyo Lodge webcam in the mornings. It's nice.
On this day in 1976 America celebrated its Bicentennial birthday. And my family had moved to a house that was less than a year old. We had moved into the house in the late fall of 1975. Today I am living in that house after having left...
for the month of june, i tried my best to engage with as many pieces of queer media (either characters depicted are queer or the author/director are) as i could to celebrate pride month. i unfortunately didn't get to finish the goal i...
“That is the most terrifying ride on the planet Earth” – so exclaims one of the young men who I have just watched riding Dinoconda at China Dinosaurs Park. It’s a roller coaster with a twist – it’s 4D. So, while the track throws you...
This article shows how to build an Autonomous AI Agent with Absurd.NET
I feel proud of myself today. Not because I've been working out, cleaned my apartment, or done the dishes and laundry. I haven't. I feel proud because of what I said. I was going to have dinner with a friend. We've known each other for...
I was a ‘pocket-constitution’ kind of fellow in college, but one is regularly shocked by how little the average American citizen understands about how their government functioned or what the ideals of the framers were and one is...
Moving along well for now. Footer drains and backfill this week, followed by stacking the basement walls. Weather permitting, we may pour the basement this week. It was Florida hot this week. The guys would be on site at 0600 and...
I’ve been learning French for three years now. When I’m reading French comics, I always have an Ipad Mini with Google Translate going, so that I can just wave it in front of the page when I encounter a word I don’t know (and can’t...