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Above a planet shrouded in fog lies the infinite Palace. A city-state, an archive, a woven diamond space station. Forget Starlight is a science fantasy roleplaying game set on an infinite feudal space station. Reveal and explore an...
I just wired this up for my own build folder—where Xcode quietly piles up derived data and archives that eat gigabytes—and figured it was worth writing down. The same trick works on any big codebase, a pile of assets, or a crowded...
Photo of my laptop in Chrome tent before we opened. My laptop is showing the opening slide of the presentation. ~ Mid May, at this year’s Google I/O, Una and I gave a talk “What’s new in Web UI” live at Shoreline in the Chrome tent. The...
What a busy June, good heavens! This month been quietly productive on the Honeybees front. I completed a first (and instantly obsoleted) draft of Queen Bee Ambitions and Temperaments at the beginning of the month in order to snap a...
This is a very recent Emojico SAD Scheme enforcement (filed last week). I’ve blogged a few Emojico cases before (see the link list below). Indeed, my interest in the SAD Scheme started with an Emojico case, so I pay a little extra...
Good books about gargoyles aren’t easy to find but this one, edited by Lester Burbank Bridaham, is better than many I’ve seen. Gargoyles, Chimeres, and the Grotesque in French Gothic Sculpture was published in 1930, and is mostly a...
I've often wondered if an electric vehicle would be a good choice once my current hybrid is has reached the point that I want to sell it. I'm getting closer to thinking a Tesla would be a great alternative. My friend called me to check...
A specter is haunting elf-games… the specter of WORKER PLACEMENT! (Please, God, don't let people read this as if I was suggesting this was actually a manifesto and am not just playing to the theme.)Many years ago, I posted about an...
By Michael Grasso / July 1, 2026 “Even apart from my intellectual convictions, there was this whole matter of California. As a transplanted Easterner, I felt duty-bound not to take anything in California very seriously. I certainly felt...
Christopher Jeffrey interviews “Mervyn King on his career and big ‘mistakes.’” The subtitle reads: “The former BoE governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery about the value of transparency, lessons from the GFC [global financial crisis],...
The cognitive bias codex from wikipedia; if you want to print it out so it’s legible and useful, print the original over four letter-sized pages and paste them together (my printout is taped, tellingly perhaps, over my rarely-used TV)....
The Lost Art Press storefront, office and warehouse will be closed on Friday, July 3, 2026, for the Independence Day holiday. Normal store hours will resume on Monday. (And those are, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 a.m.-2...
W.M.D.: Against all WarningsOut 5th June, self-released Tempers the legacy of Vektor into a tighter, more focused entity of progressive thrash. An earthy punk immediacy and even some hints at party metal a-la Municipal Waste are offset...
I live in the middle of the country so I seldom see the sea. To make up for this, I spend July in my “mermaid month”. I seek out art, films, books, colors and anything else that feels like ocean breezes, sand dunes and salty hair....
A classic red-string wall appears in Past Life (dir. Simeon Halligan, 2026). ▲ Past Life (dir. Simeon Halligan, 2026) ▲ Past Life (dir. Simeon Halligan, 2026) ▲ Past Life (dir. Simeon Halligan, 2026) ▲ Past Life (dir. Simeon Halligan,...