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I recently started building products focused on healthcare affordability in the US. As I was ramping up on a new space, the biggest question that sparked my curiosity was: how did we get here? This question is the inspiration for this...
Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Dennis the...
The mirage of "AI" reaches us through a narrative centered on inevitability, productivity, and efficiency. It is therefore at loggerheads with the values of a healthy academia, which questions narratives of inevitability, prioritizes...
By Dan Collins, Paul SiegelWandering DMsOSRLevels 3-5 Long ago, a secretive cult promised salvation through sacred waters said to heal any affliction, wounds, curses, even madness. Pilgrims came from distant lands to seek their aid,...
Read all the Star Trek: Section 31 posts in chronological order. With the fascist-billionaire media-capture tactic underway in the United States, entertainment that smells at all “woke” to them is being summarily lined up against a brick...
For the last few months I've slowly been iterating the lidar data viewer from a static HTML/Javascript thing with a few manually built JSON files to indicate where the point cloud data is, over to a "proper" service where I have an OCaml...
Ben Nadel demonstrates how to use ColdFusion's built-in functions (BIFs) as callbacks in the 2025 update 8....
When Abby Dawson and her husband Phil decided to convert the back room of their Brooklyn, Michigan property into a ceramics studio, they ran into a minor structural reality: someone had built the room around a hot tub. “We had to...
May was an enjoyable month. I kept reasonably busy, as well as doing a bit of travel around the UK. I visited King Charles’ Poundbury for the first time, as well as the south coast and the Cotswolds for a weekend. Meanwhile, the news has...
FileZilla is still a robust, powerful FTP/SFTP app after 24 years. It still impresses me.
Abigail Nussbaum Under Review:Nonesuch. Francis Spufford. Faber & Faber, February 2026. In 2021, Francis Spufford published Light Perpetual, a novel that was, in a somewhat roundabout fashion, about the effects of the Blitz on the people...
Kami was on site and saw some interesting buildings across the street: Every place has a feel to it based on the local architecture and things like signage, street paving, and street furniture. These four small apartment houses don’t...
Bikes don't age.
A storm at dawn has left everything sodden. A small pale spider dangles half-way between the eaves and the banister, slowly turning, occasionally waving her legs.
Storied Colors is a catalogue of named colors — pigments, dyes, lakes, glazes, and a small number of digital hues — each accompanied by the documentary evidence required to call it by its name. The launch corpus opens at two hundred and...