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My copy of Red and Black: Hollywood Left and the Blacklist, edited by Ehsan Khoshbakht, just arrived! I’m in here, blabbering on about Bernard “Mad” Vorhaus, the New York-born filmmaker who made a name for himself on British quota...
Forlorn Encystment posed an excellent question on Discord. Would you rather do 1 or 2? My knee jerk response was to choose 1, but as I thought about it more, I found it varied based on the system I was running. If I was running D&D, I'd...
Most software is judged on whether it works. The software that stays with us carries the presence of people who cared how working should feel — taste becomes style, style becomes voice.
Real rain this week; not yet biblical, but sustained and serious, with dark clouds on the horizon. No less busy, no less frustrated, making steady progress regardless. I’m not sleeping well and can feel the flames of burnout licking at...
And now, for something different: A Violonchelista de Fene.
Book 28 for my 2026 goal of 36 books for the year! Still comfortably ahead with my reading. My link to the book is through my bookshop.org affiliate account, which means I may earn a small commission if you buy from there. Yeah I had to...
tarot of the cat people and the ancient italian (soprafino) took these out a week early as well. they don't really "go together" - the italian is more of an end of summer deck while the cat people are fully autumn, so they match the...
april-august almost killed me, but i'm choosing to believe it's bc my autumn is going to be perfect and full of whimsy.
In this second Forgejo Hack installment I'll tell you how to connect a git repository that lives in your self-hosted Forgejo instance to Read the Docs, so that commits to the repository automatically trigger documentation builds, exactly...
One of the places we were excited to visit upon our return to DC was the Folger Shakespeare Library. Both me and my super amazing wife have a deep connection to Shakespeare and the Folger library, despite neither of us having been able...
The #deathcult is selling the void, turning meaning into a market, in this post we cover the normal themes of #stupidindividualism, commodification, atomisation, trust and community. One of the deeper tricks of the #deathcult is that it...
I was catching up on my RSS feed and saw this post from The Pen Addict. In it, Brad Dowdy mentions some updates to his Analog Defaults page. That’s a cool idea, so I set one up, too. I also thought this would be a good excuse for me to...
Deciding that an experiment has failed, and throwing away the work, can feel bad. I suspect that it often feels worse to throw away a day of work than a year of work. Why might this be true? There are some psychological reasons: A...
Last year I wrote a blog post Apple in China, Ripoff in Amazon about a copycat book in Amazon search results. Sadly, it appears that Apple Books is no better than Amazon. I’m currently rereading Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and...
(images that aren’t actually XXX-rated, but get as close to the line as possible while serving WordPress modesty — so some readers may choose to avert their eyes) Briefly noted. For charging up the senses — big jolts for someone of my...