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WebKit, to quote its website, “is the web browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store, and many other apps on macOS, iOS, and Linux.” Obviously, Safari uses WebKit to display web pages, but did you know that Mail app uses WebKit to...
Nolan Royalty (@eieio.games), writing without the assistance of generative AI, in a post entitled "Legibility of Effort": What software (and writing, to an extent) is missing now is legibility of effort - the ability to tell at a glance...
From The Flamborough Review, January 5, 1983, by E.B. Kennedy:“This little business developed out of difficulties we encountered in trying to find the most suitable computer for our use at home,” explained Norm Rukavina of Carlisle, in a...
Read the full post at - Redwood Grove On my visit to Redwood National Park, I learned that Redwoods generally grow in a grove around a “mother tree” – so you’ll often get this cluster of tall trees around a mega tall tree…or a giant...
Hello, once again, and welcome to my fediverse hi-jinx! This is going to be somewhat of a shorter post, mostly because I need to make sure the couple or handful of people on my Mastodon instance at null.mkultra.social see this, but my...
Roaring AC mono block in the room but having to attend video conferences with talking? #EasyEffects makes short work of background noise. Just run that neat little app, it’ll plug in right into your #PipeWire (default on most modern...
This post could also be called "the curse of 'recreational' paths." Basically, we had some bad rains and flooding in Davenport recently, and so when I tried to bike home from work I encountered this: And this was just the one that I...
From the Desktop apps section of the Deno documentation: deno desktop turns a Deno project (anything from a single TypeScript file to a Next.js app) into a self-contained desktop application. The output is a redistributable binary that...
Guest Post by: David Tonaszuck A reflection on the Gospel of Matthew 10:26-33 Dear Friends in Christ, Imagine a man named Jose, standing at a crossroads in his life. After years of hard work, Jose suddenly loses his job. He’s anxious...
My phone will ring some time in the next hour. It will be my Dad. He will be having a problem with his television. He will probably be pretty cross about it. He won't ask me to fix the problem. He will just blurt out "It's not doing...
Sharing my favorite images from my archives. Source
I’m taking a break from blog posts for a week or so. See you in July!
Would you like to know what it might feel like to be very rich, to be able to do whatever money allows you do? Perhaps the best way I know is to visit Sotheby’s in New Bond Street, London. Sotheby’s is a broker for art, jewellery,...
Abraham Grace Merritt, also known by his byline A. Merritt, was a new name to me when I was reading through Appendix N for the first time many, many years ago. Not a surprise, really. He was a contemporary of Howard and Lovecraft,...
I've been following WisdPi's development of various 5 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet adapters for the past couple years. They use newer Realtek Ethernet chips, which sometimes have performance quirks—most frequently encountered under Linux....