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As you might have noticed from the lack of posts this week, I'm skipping Blaugust this year. I enjoyed the process of refining posting to a daily task last time, but frankly it's been an absolute shitter of a July and I'm starting August...
On our way towards Alaska, we entered Canada! Oh, so full of hope and plans for the next three months. We drove our coach 238 miles / 383 km, about five hours of driving, from Lynden / Bellingham KOA in Lynden, Washington, USA to a...
How important is it that a city have a rail link to the airport?Well, frankly, it's not that important, in the sense that there are lots of cities that don't, and the world has not ended.But how important is it that a city have a high...
First, to recap The newsstand cover of Loadstar #1. Way back in 1984, having had success with their first product Softdisk, the nascent Softdisk Publishing released the first issue of Loadstar, a “magazine-on-disk” for Commodore 64...
To be read in conjunction with the astrophiz podcast #239https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz-ep239-august-sky-guide-ian-musgrave North-Eastern horizon on the morning of Tuesday, August 4 as seen from Adelaide at 5:41 ACST (90...
Learning the State Machine Behind a Modal Text Editor: The (Neo)Vim Case Study Pierre Ganty SPIN 2024, 30th International Symposium on Model Checking Software, 10-11 April 2024, co-located with ETAPS 2024 in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg PDF
Kanasfest, the annual get-together of Apple II enthusiasts, was a couple of weeks ago, so I've been seeing various reports here and there. Somehow, somewhere, I learned of a new product for the Apple IIc, the MegaFlash for Apple //c. The...
Cashbox April 15, 1954 Mary Jane Johnson starred in the early fifties with Bob Atcher in the Faultless Starch Show, a radio program diffused on NBC.In 1954, along with Elaine Rodgers, the Meadowlarks and the Villagers, she was on the...
I should probably start marketing piclaw as “Cloudflare OS on your own hardware”, given the amount of convergent evolution agentic workspaces seem to be enjoying these days–persistent chats, tools, generated apps, terminals and guarded...
Here is a niche tip: if you’re tired of correcting the word “Emacs” whenever you dictate on your iPhone, Add Emacs to your contact list.
Since it’s now August, the first month of the 2026 Season of Scenery community painting challenge is now over. Despite a lack of posts here though, I’ve been fairly busy during July and got a few buildings finished. I’ve been tending to...
Big ideas in tiny boxes. Today I rekindle my interest in LEGO® Technic with a look at Series 1 of the new blind-box collectible series: 42233 Mighty Machines. Childhood Me would've gone mad for these: they're super-duper inspiring,...
Big ideas in tiny boxes. Today I rekindle my interest in LEGO® Technic with a look at Series 1 of the new blind-box collectible series: 42233 Mighty Machines. Childhood Me would've gone mad for these: they're super-duper inspiring,...
If only...Written by VetinariNot to put too fine a point on it, this game sucks. But – how much does it suck? Let's find out with the final rating.Puzzles and SolvabilityThis game has been misconstrued as being an adventure game, where...
Last year I first discovered HTML day, though this event has now run for the past 4 years! In a day and age when vibe coding is becoming a new reality, the celebration of hand-coded and intentionally built apps and sites is more...