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Hypnolovewheel - Parallel UniverseReintroducing Hypnolovewheel! This excellent band made several albums worth of impeccable indie pop from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, sharing stages and labels with that era’s cream of the crop, from...
Could I have had a more relaxing week & a half? Probably not. Wednesday June 17th (Week 25) my wife and I left for a wonderful vacation to Prince Edward Island, getting there via Maine on the way there and then New Brunswick on the way...
I had a great time at the 2026 Saint Louis Pen Show, and I will be recapping all of the things this week. But first there is unpacking to do, and shipping to manage, so that is the plan today, and we will get back at it tomorrow. Stay...
Video essayist Kohana joins Max to have a retrospective chat about the June 2026 Nintendo Direct before diving into the differences between a review and a retrospective, good/bad thumbnails, and then their own reviews of Mina the...
Brandon wanted a Bunko-themed cake with three dice on it. Danielle asked for "Linda" in white icing. Francie ordered a 50th birthday cake for a friend, noting that she wanted to pick it up "today." Kristin's friend ordered a cake that...
If you look up Neo-Luddite or Neo-Luddism in Wikipedia, Chellis Glendinning, who is considered to be one of the major influencers of the movement, wrote in her paper Notes towards a Neo-Luddite manifesto that Neo-Luddites are: 20th...
Get stories like this sent to you every Friday: Subscribe for free.Link: The Ghost Paper That Ate Alabama: How a Media Startup Killed 47 Weekly Newspapers and No One Noticed, by Elena Marchetti in The EditorialThis is a horrifying story:...
And there is London! – England’s heart and soul. / By the proud flowing of her famous Thames, / She circulates through countless lands and isles / Her greatness; gloriously she rules, / At once the awe and sceptre of the world. Robert...
“How many tables did you use?” “One or two…I don’t know.” A coder said that while demoing a feature to a client. C’mon! You wouldn’t forget that detail unless you had memory issues. While screensharing, I noticed he had Codex...
Om Malik’s family: Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. I’ve linked to Malik numerous times over the years, first at Gigaom and...
Most AI apps started from a reasonable fear. Models were unpredictable, prompts were fragile, and nobody wanted production behavior living inside a magic paragraph. So we did what engineers usually do when a system feels unsafe: we...
There are so many things to love about summer: The long, long days, with the mid summer sun rising at 4.30am and setting just after 10pm. These 16 ½ hours of daylight (roughly double what our day length is in midwinter) are energising...
Shelley and Joseph walk through four picks apiece from Q1 and Q2 2026, followed by a discussion on a couple of the bigger releases of the year thus far, Darkthrone, Immolation, fanatics, and the limits of a viable career.
gonna rank from worst to best song ranking system 😇- need to have a looong conversation with whoever made this song 🥹- teared up a little 🥰- i love love love 😊- very good 🙂- good with some issues 🤔- i would let it play in the background...
AI-generated image of a man presenting “Web App Using SwiftNIO” to an audience Recently, I’ve been experimenting a lot more with Swift as a language for web applications. I’ve primarily been focusing my efforts on the web framework Vapor...