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I’ve recently changed RSS tools again. It wasn’t because my old setup stopped working, but because my RSS client of choice, Reeder, has pivoted to be, well, something else. There’s still Reeder Classic but it’s not being well maintained...
I remember very distinctly hearing "Crewcabanger" from Chelsea Grin's self titled EP in 2008, and the excitement surrounding the announcement of their debut full-length, Desolation of Eden, in 2010. Between those releases, there was a...
While work has kept me from doing a lot of thinking on BX D&D, it hasn't kept me from exploring a latent hobby of mine very close to D&D, which is miniature wargaming. Below is not a review, but first impressions of a game whose energy...
The time was sunset during an early August moment just before the sky changed.All was quiet. I was sitting in a small beach chair in a field of green grass and looking around at a small park known to me as Eisenhower.And this place...
by Dustin Mierau There’s a lot of websites that mimic retro desktops nowadays (they’re cool!), but this one feels truly special by having its own aesthetic, and it feels so fun to explore! I love ghow you can draw your own stamps and...
Hey there, I’m excited to announce the biggest release of Ruby Native since launch: Android support!v0.12 officially brings Android out of beta. If you already have a working iOS app with Ruby Native, then you’re ready for Android. Few...
There's a comment on Hacker News about Netflix that I keep coming back to: Company starts Makes things better to get a larger market share Gets a mini-monopoly (large enough share that inertia and name recognition can preserve its market...
LLMs have totally transformed the way I work and create new products. What used to take me months to get to an MVP now takes days, which means I can run experiments and actually look at the results instead of arguing about them in a doc....
I drink a lot of coffee and I keep forgetting which bags were worth reordering. So here's the list. I'll keep adding to it as I work through more roasters. Ratings are out of 10 and entirely my own taste. Blanks are ones I've tried but...
In the final comment on my most recent CT post, John Q strategically grants a premise from an earlier comment by poster Matt: John Q grants that “it’s perfectly plausible that the number of US golfers exceeds the population of...
I'm at JSM, which is always a fantastically rich event. One is awed by the variety and breadth of topics over hundreds of sessions of talks. Each year, someone will mention a pet peeve. The other day, a speaker explains why...
In a flash, I was 16 or 17, at my friend’s house round the back of King’s Cross, and trying to work out what in the world to do next. A link from Gwern had sent me to The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds, in which David Hill took his...
I've been deleting images from Photos trying to recover some disk space. That inevitably brings to mind various cameras I've owned and enjoyed. For reasons that are unclear to me, I've always just enjoyed the jpeg renderings from the...
🖼️ I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 4/hopefully 31 posts in August, about a visit to an art exhibit I started in June 2026. Back in June I got the train to Cardiff to visit Strange Beauties, an exhibit of the artist Gwen John's work...