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Anyone who dabbles in Apple history probably has EveryMac.com bookmarked, and today it celebrates a milestone: On July 2, 1996, EveryMac.com launched. Thirty years is a long time – and a great deal has changed since then – but what has...
I am certainly a witness and a watcher and above all else, I admit that I am someone who participates in the oldest sport of all time. This is a little and special game known as people watching. I cannot say how I look or seem or appear...
A few years ago I was misdiagnosed as a type 2 diabetic. This was after going years of no diagnosis despite having an average A1C of around 7.2 since ~2017.Around that same time, my mom passed away of complications stemming from her MS...
Jon Greenaway Under Review:The Red Sacrament. Sara Hinkley. Titan, July 2026. If, as Fred Botting famously wrote, the Gothic represents a writing of excess, then Sara Hinkley’s The Red Sacrament fits that description perfectly. Densely...
by Gertrud U. Rey On June 18, 2026, the top advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unanimously recommended Moderna’s new mRNA influenza vaccine, mRNA‑1010 (mFlusiva), for adults aged 50 and older. The vote marked...
George Bancroft, letter to Francis Lieber (October 29, 1862), quoted by Bruce Catton, Never Call Retreat (Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1965), p. 25 (our President = Abraham Lincoln): How can we reach our President with advice?...
This morning I noticed this in the logs after doing some pkg upgrade. I was mainly updating openvpn, but in that operation, fail2ban was removed (because I went from python312 to python314). I noticed it missing on one host: Can't exec...
Fable’s back. Back again. Fable’s back. Tell a friend. Use your free week to its fullest. This is excellent news. The blip only lasted a few weeks. It was still a fiasco, and we have to deal with the fallout. Our system remains fully ad...
Our Q&A discussions are a lot of fun, and we’re grateful to everyone who submits their questions. If you missed any of our live shows, the full streams are available here on Substack.This week’s Q&A is tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern on our...
With the arrival of fall on the horizon, here is a round up of David Lynch and Twin Peaks-themed events taking place around the world from September to December 2026. DAVID LYNCH AND TWIN PEAKS-THEMED EVENTS IN FALL 2026 Below is a list...
The number of times I still see “Loop Engineering” popping up in any of my feeds is truly upsetting. The amount of effort you spend on meta-engineering is an illusion of a return on investment that will allow you to build the product...
Despite what I said the other day about not wanting to analyze what I love, I’m listening to a podcast where David Benjamin Blower and Lydia Catterall discuss his new album. He’s just confirmed my suspicion that “The Boot is on the Other...
Hi. I’m back from my summer break that I spent traveling and tinkering. Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.This week, I wanted to do something a bit different. Instead of deep diving into one specific idea, I’m going wide...
Some stats: 24 posts written 123 links (not counting links to my own blog or fedi account) 76 links to actual blog posts (not counting links to things like fediverse accounts, wikipedia, git repos, and other "general information" links)...
If you live in the Southern New Jersey/Philadelphia area, isn’t this one of the happiest road signs you can see? The Atlantic City Expressway opened in 1964 and connects the Philadelphia side of South Jersey to Atlantic City. It also...