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This is my 14th blog post for the Blaugust 2026 community blogging project. Join me all this month for more blogging. Q: How many home technology nerds does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: You’re asking the wrong question. Screwing...
I recently went through the laborious and frankly insane process of statting out all 151 original (Kanto region) Pokémon for Into the Oddish, complete with default movesets for each.I felt compelled to do this as I was putting more work...
Mugwump (mŭg´ wŭmp). An Algonquin word meaning a chief; in Eliot’s Indian Bible the word “centurion” in the Acts is rendered mugwump. It is now applied in the United States to independent members of the Republican party, those who refuse...
A friend has mentioned the legend that German students of philosophy would learn English to be able to read Norman Kemp Smith's translation of The Critique of Pure Reason. Last week, in reading Foucault's Discourse on Language, I...
Spotted Hyena, Crocuta crocutaThis charming fellow with the questionable dental hygiene is a Spotted Hyena, Crocuta crocuta. As a whole, these lovelies have been terribly misrepresented.For generations, the hyena has been portrayed as a...
4-star hikes • 3 to 5 mile options • Moderate | Gain 730 to 1040 feet • Amherst & Granby, MA | Western Region . Views towards Long Mt, from Rattlesnake Knob. Mount Norwottuck rises in Mount Holyoke Range State Park, nestled between the...
Ben Nadel discusses his transition from programming as a four-way win to programing as a hobby....
linkding is one of the best self-hosted apps you can run. Stores links forever, API/full control over your data, tags, full snapshot exports if you want them, FF extensions, iOS apps. Less fussy than read-it-later services since...
Red is the original color for Ixora flowers, but these days pink, white, yellow, and orange variants are found in Hawaii. Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here.
Today, I'm using a prompt from blogprompts.fyi: Write a blog post about moments in your current or past life that you would classify as sublime. Many moments with Danny come to mind, of course. We've had lots of times together that I...
Today I want to talk a bit about how a city shows you the expectations you should have about what existing in that city will be like.In other words, how do I see the built environment setting up expectations about what the city is...
Many simplified, intro, or “plain-English” WCAG re-interpretations frame Success Criterion 2.1.1 Keyboard as ensuring a control or widget or thing can be operated with a keyboard. Some go further and also ask you to consider...
Finished reading: Song of Susannah by Stephen King 📚 Two weeks ago, I wrote about finishing Wolves of the Calla. Things are really heating up, and boy does King go hard. If you know you know. I made a mistake; my thoughts, above, were...
This is a work of fiction. Deep thanks to Claire, Paul and Pete at Good Day Mockingbird, for the prompt that provoked this story, and for their enormously helpful editorial review and fact-checking of the piece. I used AI to brainstorm...
It was less than a month ago that I blogged about having listened to a documentary about Dolly Parton, writing “What an icon!”. Now she’s gone. So sad, so strange. This Friday it’s three years since my dear dad passed away. It feels like...