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While the weather is stewing here and there’s no desire to do anything, I suppose this is a good occasion to talk about two formats with the same extension that I’m not going to support. The first TWV format comes from Reality Pump games...
Weirds are elemental quasi-constructs created by the Izzet League to … well, to see what they could get away with, it seems. They involve mashing together elemental energies not usually found in combination with each other, giving them...
Vite’s default port, 5173, is leet code for the project’s name: 5 = “V” (Roman numerals 😉) 1 = “I” 7 = “T” 3 = “E”
Spending a week here in Belgium.
Already??? I had one post which had a moment on the trending page and suddenly there is this unconscious need to make every post count. When I started the blog I just wanted to write whatever, and now I'm already stuck in a metaphysical...
Developers and nerds have seemed satisfied with Markdown as a plain text format for a long time. Now, I see Markdown approaching the edges of the mainstream. I casually mentioned Markdown in conversation with some of my schoolteacher...
BBQ
I recently acquired a 2009 Citroen Relay van. Driving it home, though, I discovered that the cab cooling fans didn't work. Turning the switch to 1, 2 or 3 did nothing, going to 4 led to a whiney fan noise with very little output from the...
The temperature of 36.7C recorded at Merryfield, Somerset, represents a new June maximum record for the UK. It is also now the 7th= hottest day ever recorded, matching the 1911 record at Raunds, Northamptonshire, that stood for nearly 80...
I've been using Reeder… for a long time. Maybe the longest running app on my phone… records say 2009. I admire Silvio so much, and Mela is now one of my most used apps. 100% the most used app on any mobile device… for almost a decade!...
A friend just told me he can’t listen to Radiohead anymore over Palestine. As the death toll in Gaza climbed, the band stayed mostly quiet. And the guitarist, Jonny Greenwood — married to an Israeli artist — kept playing shows in Tel...
"The vast, terrible enity from beyound time and sapce who waits brooding in his cyclopean home in sunken R'lyeh symbol and actuality of inimaginable nightmare - the greatest creation of H.P. Lovecraft. The Cthulhu Mythos inspired many...
Today's interview is with xtinak, (who also uses the handle msquixotic). She blogs at Ms. Quixotic Talks About Games and has an itch page at xtinak.itch.io/ Her WIP region, the White Wastes, has (I think, so far) the most "vertical"...
When this book was first announced, I wasn't interested. I'm not a fan of the character, I wasn't familiar with the creators, I didn't recognize the other characters on the cover, the apparent sci-fi setting (Kandor? Outer space?) didn't...