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RegexPilot by developer Kristof Polleunis, is an app designed to protect you and your work from the hallucinations and miscalculations AI can inject into the regular expressions you ask it to build. Not Voodoo It took a while, but I...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest...
If you ask Tomohiro Nishikado, the first-ever original Japanese video game was 1973’s Soccer. And you could ask Nishikado — or look at his career history on his website — since he was the one who developed it for Taito, and did so at a...
Bubbles is “Hacker news for independent blogs.” I love it! A place where interesting blogs can be discovered without any trickster algorithm behind the curtains.
How effective was that treatment, I don’t know. (It definitely felt more thought through than the trash where the skeuomorphism undermined the function itself.) But it is all interesting to me in the larger context of the tensions...
Posted on: Apple, Hardware.Tagline: It turns out fixing the unfixable only takes fifteen minutes and a bit of patience.Last week, I wrote that my AirPods Pro case was dead. The battery wouldn't hold a charge, and Apple's only solution...
The inevitable end came on Monday morning, when Keir Starmer resigned as leader of the Labour Party and as Prime Minister of the UK, saying he’ll stay in office until the party decides a new leader. Andy Burnham, former mayor of...
A rule of good manners, perhaps good morals: those with options should not criticize those without them.
A musician recently died, and there is testimonial after testimonial about how he was the kindest, most wonderful person. I've read a number of books about spies. Their trade secret is homework. Every action that seems to go right with a...
I believe most people who are somewhat interested in fashion and beauty are aware that being thin is making a comeback, but of course it never really went out of style. And if you've noticed the trend, you've probably also noticed the...
There have been 50 Ice Ages over the past 2.6 million years, and scientists refer to these Ice Ages as Glacials. Ice Ages alternate with warm climate phases known as Interglacials, like the one present day earth is experiencing,...
I find it baffling just how poorly documented most big projects are. Auth0 by Okta has a fair bit of cash, lots of customers, and almost completely absent documentation. Here's how to successfully authenticate a JWT supplied by Auth0....
Abandoned. U.S. 27, Rhea County, Tennessee. Over the years this blog has had maybe 5,000 hits, more or less, per month. Ten thousand hits in one month was cause for celebration. Recently, that number has increased radically to 15,000...
Yellow at the nest on Tues 23 June 2026 (photo from the National Aviary falconcam at Univ of Pittsburgh) 24 June 2026 This morning the motion detection photos from the Cathedral of Learning showed a juvenile peregrine near the snapshot...
I recently started building products focused on healthcare affordability in the US. As I was ramping up on a new space, the biggest question that sparked my curiosity was: how did we get here? This question is the inspiration for this...