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A lifetime has passed since my mother died, yet fragments of memory, old photographs, and unanswered questions keep her presence alive.My earliest memory of my mother is at home while my father was out — probably at work. She struggled...
Claude Code talks to Slack over MCP, but out of the box you only get 1 workspace. Here’s how to run 2 or more at once. The trick: every workspace beyond the first runs as its own token-based stdio MCP server. stdio servers don’t collide...
Raininess without much actual raining. The low motor of a hummingbird somewhere in the garden. An aborted black walnut crashes down on the back roof.
A summary of post-quantum certificates and the TLS / web-PKI ecosystem as of June 2026.
Digital sovereignty is currently the order of the day. It seems European leaders suddenly opened their eyes and realized they were living in a fairy tale. Many practitioners and organizations have been alerting to this need for years...
No WeakNotes last week, and pretty limited this week.  Hot weather has been horrible. Top tip if your landing is hot, open the attic hatch as hot air rises this can cool your upstairs area. I’ve also now built a template repo for some...
Pimsync v0.5.11 is out, with the following set of improvements. Incremental sync[permalink] When watching a storage (e.g.: watching a filesystem for real-time changes), instead of executing a full synchronisation, a more focused and...
1. It’s hot in London so I’ve been seeing a lot of handheld portable fans, usually with a strap so you can hang it round your neck. My faves are the ones with thermoelectric coolers in the middle of the fan: a small plate that is so cold...
Om didn’t sell suitcases for long. But I’ll bet while he did, he was pretty fucking good at it. He didn’t wait for his future to arrive. He made it happen. Careers — hell, our entire lives — are like those suitcases. They don’t sell...
But then real-world examples of annoyance pile up around you and nobody talks about it, so you finally just have to say it in a post and bring receipts. You feel like someone gone mad: “Is anyone else seeing the same thing I’m seeing?...
The big event this week is the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales, broadcast live and in color via satellite from Caernarvon Castle in Wales on July 1, 1969. I wonder, even given that his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, was...
Bumblebee at obedient plant, 23 June 2026 (photo by Kate St. John) 27 June 2026 This week I was in Blair and Allegheny Counties where I found late June flowers, busy insects and urban deer. Beauty Obedient plant (Physostegia virginiana),...
Neon Northern Lights, Part 1 What Works Well? What Works…Less Well? Opportunities What’s Adaptable? Six Years Hence: Won’t You Come In? Coming Attractions This week, our Free Culture Book Club wraps up reading about Neon Northern Lights,...
One thing that often gets missed in debates around the internet, particularly now that governments are locking everything away behind an age-verification wall is how our relationship to the internet has changed. In the early days, our...
Pimsync v0.5.11 is out, with the following set of improvements. Incremental sync[permalink] When watching a storage (e.g.: watching a filesystem for real-time changes), instead of executing a full synchronisation, a more focused and...