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This was inspired by the dessert we enjoyed at Verjus is Paris the night we ran into Ina and Jeffrey but we’ve turned the volume up for this not-too-sweet layered showstopper. The post The Ultimate Summer Dessert: Lemon Cake with...
We’re in uncharted waters. Fujifilm has never waited until beyond May to announce at least one X-series or GFX model. Typically, the first half of the year is busy, with at least one and oftentimes two new cameras. For example, last year...
Not too long ago, I translated/retold a Mexican fairy tale called “Ya mero la besa un pobre” (A Poor Man Nearly Kissed Her). As I mentioned when I introduced the translation, Ya mero la besa un pobre is a Mexican saying similar in...
A state-mirror rule that updates the relay but never the dedup key guarantees an infinite echo, the same failure shape as replication storms and webhook retry loops. I found it live in two MQTT-linked light switches.
★★★★★ - A pitch-perfect adaptation of All Systems Red. Alexander Skarsgård is dead on as the socially-anxious security cyborg who just wants to be left alone to watch its shows, but has to protect its humans from alien creatures, their...
We’ve featured companies here before (like Adventure International and Sierra On-Line) that started their main development in games, with a few extra utilities being sold on the side. When Mark Pelczarski formed Penguin Software, their...
Having fun with the new @claude.ai ultracode mode. 🤖 There goes my tokens! 📈
Inferno was released on Friday, and I really like it. It’s definitely an evolution of the BoC sound, but still works within the soundscape they pioneered 2+ decades ago. This album features drums on select tracks in a way their previous...
Things all programmers should know
Awww, doesn’t it look like they’re cuddling? They are not, about a tenth of a second later they were rolling about in a full-blown tussle, as they are wont to do. Don’t worry, it’s all in good fun; Smudge actually enjoys his wrestling...
It's June the first and has been for the largest part of today. It's also Monday, so that's cool, I guess. Today has been a day of catching up from the weekend at work, doing some reading, watching the kiddos do their thing and just...
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A shootout decided the Champions League final on Saturday, with PSG defeating Arsenal by one penalty kick (my photo of the TV coverage). Michael Roloff translated the title of Peter Handke’s early novel, Die Angst des Tormanns beim...
📚Still reading Inventing the Renaissance, and Lorenzo de Medici’s brother Giuliano of course had a mention. Still, I wasn’t prepared for his bust being quite so metal. This is at the (not Smithsonian!) National Art Gallery in DC, which...