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Content warnings: climate chaos The smoke is so thick you can see it in the air. Not a haze in the upper atmosphere, or an unusually orange sun, but like a white sheet spread over the middle distance. A dry fog. You can feel it in your...
Hello, loves! A surprise requirement challenges me. They want the minimap changed substantially! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. Having looked at the mini-map, performing as requested, my Product Definition Personality has decided to change...
This is not a photographic post, but I consider it photography-adajcent, since all us digital photographers use keyboards. I’ve been spending way more time messing with keyboards than makes any sense. You could say that it’s become a...
It's an app that looks like a social media client, but is driven by RSS. The cute part is that it supports comments and posts. At least conceptually. Timeline view Profile view How they do the posting & commenting, I do not yet know. I...
A bit of background in case you’re wondering IndiWeb Carnival. The month’s (August 2026) topic is “purpose” and is hosted by Chris Shaw at uncountable thoughts. Purpose A single word that evokes many different interpretations. It can...
The strangest thing in the Cloudflare OS source code took me a while to understand. When an agent inside Cloudflare OS wants to do something with a side effect (merge a pull request, send an email, write a row to a system of record), it...
Executive Summary: Despite not yet serving passengers, the second airport in Australia's second biggest city has better public transport access than the main airport in Australia's biggest city. Described is a way to cost-effectively...
In this episode I will explain why I believe Whiteboards are far superior to PowerPoint decks
“The TV remote isn't working again!” “You need to really smash that select button.” “I am! See?” “Hmmm. Let me try … oh. There you go.” “The remote hates me!” “It seems so.”
This will be one of three postings on U.K. author John S. Glasby (1928-2011). Glasby, surprisingly, had two parallel careers. After graduating from college, he had a long career as a research chemist and mathematician. At the same time,...
We rightly celebrate rebels who were initially contrarian on key claims, but then got the world to later agree with them. Many seek to achieve this status by backing various contrarian claims. Of course, as the usual consensus beliefs...
Headed over towards Stroud Brewery with Stroud Valleys Project to deal with the Himalayan Balsam on a new stretch of canal. We started off on the opposite side to the tow path where it was pretty dense. There were quite a few of us, and...
In 2023, Bloomberg Businessweek asked TikTok for comment as it reported out a story about users who were recommended videos about self-harm and suicide, particularly teenagers like Chase Nasca. It is a difficult read. As a result of this...
The Economist’s Big Mac index, a PPP analysis hitting its 40th year of kicking ass, demonstrates just how difficult it is to track the timely parity of global currencies. …for as long as currencies remain unmoored, and the Big Mac...
Hello you fine Internet folks,NVIDIA has published a 45-page whitepaper explaining Vera, its first server CPU built around the company’s own Olympus core. On paper, Vera is a fascinating chip with an 88-core monolithic compute die,...