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This week, after a little under two years of having adopted the practice, Buttondown has minted its 200th decision log. This is a practice very similar to RFCs or ADRs, but I prefer the term decision because it's both A, used for a...
Hello, loves! We improve some code, reduce overall size and breadth of interfaces, make things better. CW: Brief LLM-“AI” remarks. I’m beginning with a review of the code around the new Connection idea, to see what can be removed and...
Imperial Watch Company entered the microbrand arena in 2022 with the release of the Royal Guard 200. In my review, I praised its retro charm and declared it to be… The post Imperial Watch Co. Rangefinder appeared first on The Time Bum.
(RD) Riddles No Why persist in parley with a slug A sewer being, always filing Oh another, self-riling, sipping idiocy from jug Consummate fool many times over, worsening as You’re older, more shapely in vexation and tangible...
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Probably the biggest fear of politicians - thinking citizens. An adaptation of The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. Imagined by me, rendered by ChatGPT
Heatwave 2.0 has been and gone, Prime Minister 9.0 appears to have been (amicably?) decided {{1}}, and the newspapers have instead reverted to saturation coverage of the 'soccer' World Cup. In the hope of also attracting some errant...
FUNLAND ROBOT SCOOBY DOO (EQUITY MARKETING) It’s Friday once again everybody. Welcome to Friday. Hooray. For my Flashback Friday Figure Addendums, I’m more often than not dealing with Marvel or Star Wars, but today I’m changing that up a...
This week was Amplitudes, my old subfield’s big yearly conference. This year, it’s at Queen Mary University of London. I’m too busy to attend these days, now that nobody is paying me a salary to do that sort of thing. But it’s still a...
Welcome to The Film Noir Files, the noir series here at Shadows and Satin and over at Speakeasy, the blog authored by my pal Kristina, where each month we recommend a film noir feature for you to watch on TCM. We never know what the...
A speculative theory: Current politics is making people increasingly miserable because at a participatory level it has become for many people, on the margin, a more national, more electoral, and more passive activity. All three of these...
THE GROW YOUR Own Records label releases a new album by Icons of Filth today (3 July 2026).Time of the Signs brings together eighteen tracks by the band – and is available in streaming, limited edition CD and limited edition vinyl...
Over the course of building and painting this army, I’ve found myself completely taken by the history of Prince Tancred. Though he technically marched in the shadow of his uncle, Bohemond of Taranto, during the early stages of the First...
Yesterday at work, a customer spotted a typo in our UI: “you can use the use the Tailscale CLI”. After the typo was fixed, I wanted to find other cases of accidentally repeated words or phrases. I used two regular expressions to search...
(photo from U. Berkeley, with the caption: “New study reveals the brain mechanism that makes rats feel empathy for other rats, yet refrain from helping rats they deem to be ‘outsiders’. Photo by Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal”) Chris Hedges is a...