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Yesterday (Friday), I checked into Vancouver General Hospital for my first-ever surgery at 8:30 a.m. I was to undergo about a two-hour procedure to remove a fatty mass my surgeon described as the size of a “big marble.” The mass had to...
Most image codecs you know about such as JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XS, WebP are like layer cakes. You have transform sitting on top, entropy coding at the bottom, and rate control floats somewhere in the middle. And then there's a metadata...
This is a terrible solution for running Windows software on your Mac through Parallels: Lowering the resolution of the virtual machine seems to speed up every element of the virtual machine itself, from opening files, to improving button...
Kitty Catt & Suzie Q …..
When SensorTower acquired AppMagic earlier this week it got me thinking about why. AppGoblin and many other tools offer many free and open resources for what SensorTower and AppMagic charge thousands for. Take a look at the paid vs free...
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share the far and wide! The post Sunday picdump for Sunday, May 24...
These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 sliver An ‘archival sliver’ of the web. A bit like a ‘data lifeboat’ for making or replicating web archives of small sets of pages. Uses shot-scraper to drive a web...
Excitement was in the air leading up to the second season premiere of Twin Peaks in September 1990. Countless newspaper articles recapped David Lynch and Mark Frost’s wonderful and strange show and made predictions about what might...
For years I was tired. Not the kind of tired sleep fixes. The kind that’s just there, behind everything. Doctors never found anything so I kept gaslighting myself into thinking it was me. I’m too stressed, I’m not eating right, I’m not...
A deep dive into the font of the “Dead Test” diagnostic cartridge of the C64, including an Easter egg, a look into the implementation, and, finally, some Commodore 8-bit character ROMs for download.
Mice Times Japan just published an article about the Asian Board Games Festival in the Philippines, which happened earlier this month. I was a little shocked to find my face on the cover photo. I was just one of many exhibitors...