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Happy Paris Liberation Day! And Happy Birthday to yours truly! In my previous post, I introduced and surveyed three separate passages from The Wealth of Nations in which Adam Smith refers in one way or another to the concept of...
A guy’s dog finds a severed hand by the river, the guy says “ow my balls” and jaunty TV theme music starts. Fulci in TV detective show mode, it almost looks like a proper movie but all the dialogue and human behavior is wacked out in a...
Originally a series of Tweets published June 14, 2019, probably during a tech conference Dear women engineers: I am truly, deeply tired of hearing you complain about how terrible it is to be mistaken for anything other than an engineer....
My workout buddy. He sometimes comes by for scratches when the sunshine is on my yoga mat. Selfie a day for a year, day 6: Aug 24, 2026 edition.
In early July, Cassie Pritchard argued on Twitter that liberalism had failed; it bet the farm on economic progress making people happier, but although it delivered impressive economic progress, happiness had failed to follow.In late...
Convert Apple Music playlists into shareable website using AppleScript, Markdown, and JavaScript—no database, no API, just simple scripts and HTML.
⭐⭐⭐ — nothing special and not the greatest Star Wars novel by any means, but provides some context to the video game on which it's based (and also some spoilers for how the game ends). Reply by email Share this post Mastodon Bluesky
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(NB: this piece was written in 2017) In the early days of CD recording, Incat Systems –- a small company in Milan, Italy –- captured most of the OEM CD-R software market, but also wanted to sell directly to consumers. This required us to...
talk of the moonlight without a last gasp, the violence i could commit against my neighbour's television other things said spool Yesterday :: Monday, 24th August 2026
My C->Zig port of the Janet programming language is passing Janet’s test suite without any .c files!
Investigating RS-422 and RS-485 for Modbus with the ESP32-S3.
The Ape that Understood the Universe, by Steve Stewart-Williams (2018)
Zsh modifiers are a family of suffixes that transform words as they’re expanded. Several of them are dedicated to slicing up filenames, replacing fiddly calls to dirname, basename, and friends. Let’s take a look at them now! The filename...
No, no, no, I’m not talking about the SCTV soap opera The Days of the Week although it’s pretty funny. Quick, what day of the week is August 24, 2026? Monday! Er, yeah, it’s today, I kind of knew that, but want if you got a slightly...