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You are most probably already familiar with uBlock Origin, but you might not be aware that besides blocking ads, trackers, and page elements, you can also create filters to block things which are not always there... such as posts on the discover page. I will preface that I had to use Claude to do this1, because I...
I was walking around a housing development adjacent to my cousin’s location and noticed they’re big on STOP signs at every intersection. Not only does every intersection have a stop sign, they have an “all way” stop. As a guy that studied traffic engineering in college, I was able to ascertain these stop signs were...
With a mere two weeks to go before the 2026-27 National League season kicks off a few of our group of Halifax Town supporters went on an away day to discuss our prospects and sample a few beers in a wander around a number of pubs in and around Manchester's Northern Quarter....We were coming on a number of different...
So, I went shopping at the IKEA and ran into some really neat home automation gadgets. The Grillplats plug especially interested me as I would like to track power consumption of devices, and I did not yet find a good solution for that. One impulse buy later I was home with my new Grillplats plug. Of course I did a...
Spotted lanternfly adult at Herrs Island backchannel, 25 July 2025 (pohto by Kate St. John) 29 July 2026 This week usually begins the peak of Pittsburgh’s spotted lanternfly season but I’ve seen only two red nymphs and two winged adults despite actively looking for them. What a relief that the invasion we...
A few favorites from The Sayings of the Desert Fathers - Trans. by Thomas Merton (and because it was tucked in the book, a salsa recipe featuring chile moron from Tlacotalpan Mexico circa 2012)
A couple of years ago, skepticism about the AI boom was something of a fringe position. Today... not so much.From FT Alphaville [love that last line]: Over at Jefferies, head of equity strategy Chris Wood has for some time been offering clients a sum of all fears in one simple, easily ignorable package. His latest...
Old Ford pickup in auto graveyard, U.S. 27, Troup County, Georgia. One: The Thing Is the ThingThe one essential thing without which no photograph can exist is the thing itself -- the subject. As the late, great Bill Jay wrote: This immediate emotional or intellectual response to the subject matter is at the core of...
Via Newspapers.comThis account of a particularly lively poltergeist appeared in the “Edmonton Journal,” August 15, 1939:The Germans have a word for it; so have the Africans of the West Indies. The disciples of Herr Hitler call it "poltergeist"; the children of Mother Africa speak of it in awesome breath as "duppy"...
Agent coding tools need to make their work reviewable, not just generate more code.

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