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Happy Sunday, dear friends. We are nearly at the halfway mark of the 2026 year, marking what feels to me like the fastest pace ever. Where has the time gone? I am nearing the final days of a 13th completed tax season. I have close...
It's hard to write a whole book. So for now at least, I've turned the prologue of my book into a short video. I hope you enjoy it.
(Continued from my previous posts.) One thing to keep in mind with mainframe adventure games is they were often experienced by players of that period in a state of “under construction”. This started directly with Crowther who left a...
"The Serpent of the Sea," is a new comic by writer Finlay Miles and illustrator Lyndon White. It's a highly enjoyable one-shot story with a delightfully unreliable narrator who might be suffering from madness or could have simply...
Looking for a place to grab lunch while walking around the neighbourhood of Kuramae, we came across Genraku Ramen. Now I’m not usually a big ramen person - partially because for some reason there’s always long lines outside the good...
Took a wonderful drive through wine country this evening on an errand. Was properly annoyed to have to do it, but the views totally made up for it. Sun was setting an fun music was playing in the background.
THE TEXAS RANGERS (1936), directed by King Vidor and starring Fred MacMurray, has just been released on Blu-ray by Kino Lorber.Vidor also produced and teamed with Elizabeth Hill to cowrite the story; Louis Stevens wrote the screenplay of...
The characters in the current Krevborna campaign recently earned their second advance in the Novice tier. Here's what everyone grabbed:Dario: the Feint edgeJohanna: the Savagery edgeAnastasia: the Two-Gun Kid edgeVarro: increased Spirit...
I relate to the struggle of juggling hobbies and the guilt that comes with not dedicating enough time to them, as reflected in Ludalx's video.
I spent the summer of 1974 researching my dissertation in London, and a lifelong love affair began. The World Cup started in Germany shortly after I arrived, and I saw at least half of the games. The great Dutch team led by my exact...
Few months ago Cloudflare introduced Markdown for machines: As a business, to continue to stay ahead, now is the time to consider not just human visitors, or traditional wisdom for SEO-optimization, but start to treat agents as...
AI-generated poetry is preferable to human-written poetry? Oh, we are actually done for. The authors describe the reason in the results: The AI poems are more accessible. My house is full of cowards and I can’t stand it. Your only crime...
Every time an article goes viral, the Pangramguy appears. He tags Pangram and asks for a score, or he pastes away and smugly takes a screenshot of the output, watching the number climb toward “100% AI generated” with the satisfaction of...
Take that, Shtetl-Optimized haters of the world! With longtime friend and colleague Salil Vadhan, as well as Luca Trevisan’s widower Junce Zhang, at the STOC banquet on Tuesday, before I was given half an hour to try to make people laugh...
I’ve recently completely revisited my Neovim config and took the extra mile to also streamline how it manages LSP, linting, and formatters. I had enough to remind myself to maintain and sync three different files every time I want to add...