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Todoist's Head of Product posted on Reddit that they're retiring the Goals experiment on July 13th: The short version: Goals didn't clear our bar of simple and powerful. […] We could have kept patching, but I didn't believe that was the...
Millipedes on a tree stump with fungi, Schenley Park, 28 June 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 30 June 2026 Last Sunday in Schenley Park we discovered that right now it’s Millipede Mating Season in southwestern Pennsylvania. Millipede...
I wrote about hierarchy in tables a while back, and deliberately avoided talking about clickable table rows; well, now’s the time to tackle them! Clickable table rows can be used for all sorts of things: opening a modal, revealing more...
📚💬 “Ancient history… shines a troubling spotlight onto the here and now, too, asking us to face what the judgement of the future on us will be.” Mary Beard, Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
31,536,000 seconds and counting... Today is a milestone date. One full year since heart surgery. Life has returned to normal for the most part. The only real lingering issue I have is the occasional swelling of my left ankle. I'm...
I only discovered the joy of bread salad in adulthood. If I’d known that was an option as a kid, salads with dinner might not have been such an issue! Panzanella screams summer: juicy tomatoes, golden toasted bread cubes, and a punchy...
⏪ Week in rewind🔥 Just like in most of Europe, the weather was too hot for what we're used to. I'm not a fan of hot weather, but until 30°C I feel it's ok. Anything above is too much. And that's what we got. We tried cooling down the...
This is Prism, a proof of concept functional compiler I've been working on for the last three years, built around modeling effects with modern types inspired by the intellectual lineage of OCaml 5, Haskell and Koka. The big idea of the...
I expected bats in the countryside. I did not expect bats (yes, plural) in the house on consecutive days. Yet here we are. We had a heatwave last week, which meant we left windows wide open at night to cool the house off. One flaw in...
On the early morning of 2nd September 2012 Ervin McKinness proved that you do indeed only live once after being killed in a fiery car crash just minutes after drunkenly tweeting ‘YOLO’. McKinness, an aspiring young rapper from Southern...
Hello friends! I’m feeling rushed tonight, and I don’t have a quote, but I do have some early June photos I finally got processed to share. So without further introduction, here we go:I still haven’t made it out the door before the sun...
Alabama-based Kimber went double-stack 1911 in 2024 after at least a 30-year run in the field of making single-stacks. We have reviewed a couple of these excellent pistols since then and are past the 3K round mark on our original test...
Today was an exciting day for a neutral like myself. To see Paraguay defeat Germany to go through to the round of 16 was unimaginable. Then comes Netherlands being toppled by Morocco and 2 European (and world) powerhouses are out, just...
The 67-page Summer 2026 edition (Volume CXXXVIII, No II) of Armor Magazine: The Mounted Maneuver Journal, is online for free download. TOC: Link here. Enjoy!
There are many things I was wrong about, early in my career. When I posted just recently about my discomfort with “done is better than perfect” advice, it reminded me of one of those things. For at least the first half of my career, I...