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Robert has a lot of stuff up his sleeve for connecting bloggers around the smallweb. After an amazing Junited 2026, now it’s time for JulyReply 2026! I really enjoyed participating in Junited. Thanks to that, I connected with a few...
I saw this trailer parked in one of the small cemeteries in Hawi and immediately wondered what they were putting in there. It’s not refrigerated so I hope it’s not what I first thought of! Posted for Bushboy’s Last on the Card. See more...
Remember the reported UFO sightings at Malmstrom Air Force Base and other sites associated with nuclear missiles? One way of understanding that phenomenon is as some kind of manifestation of our collective fear. How long until we start...
Yesterday I published some benchmarks of Hardwood 1.0 on my Threadripper. Someone suggested I run the One Billion Row Challenge too, to see how it does, so here it is!Gunnar Morling ran the original benchmarks on an EPYC 7502P, Zen 2, 32...
This week Apple released updates for iPhones, iPads and Macs with the version numbers all ending in 26.5.2. Mostly targeted at security fixes. That’s nothing new. Apple periodically does that. What’s new is how the timing of...
For ages, psychological addictions have led to both mental illness and social maladies. Gambling, binge eating/food addiction, compulsive body modification and tattoos, risk/thrillseeking, pornography, and chemical dependencies... the...
I'm working on some new additions to Cache Out that I hope to release soon. The first is a setting to relaunch all browsers that were open before cleaning, and the second setting lets a user bypass their choice of options when clicking...
This comes from Étienne de La Boétie, boyfriend of the essayist Montaigne: You can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask...
Making Book will be dormant for most of July.
The finished results As can be seen, it was never my intention to make an entirely new binding, so it maintains the patina of an old book. I just wanted to stabilise the original one and make the book useable and considerably less fragile.
Final assembly begins with gluing the edge of a piece of Japanese paper to the original purple paper. This was done with just a thin line of glue (about 5 mm wide). (In this photo, you see the back of the Japanese paper that will be...
Since May 26, 2026 I’ve been walking at least 10 miles per day. I started this because I’m 50 now and it’s never going to get any easier to “lose weight.” But also because I hate that it’s so easy for my phone SCREEN TIME to creep up to...
A sixku... Source
While the underdog supporter in me was rooting for Sweden to miraculously oust France, the latter’s quality was just too high. What goals: 3-0! And then soon after was Mexico v Ecuador, which Mexico won in style, 2-0, breaking through a...
The first step was to prepare the spine reinforcement with gauze and bookbinding glue. The gauze is about 3x the width of the spine. The extras on the sides will form part of the hinges when they’re finally glued to the inside of the...