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Tangled are in the process of migrating to the new knot implementation, knot2. As a quick reminder, the knot is a self-hostable server capable of serving git repos that uses atproto to share information with the ATmosphere, and the...
I vibe coded my web site, not bothering to examine the code generated by the LLM, but giving it specifically directed prompts to generate a `secure` web service. I cracked open the code today to see how it did. There was the usual `AI...
In many ways, despite their background against mass carnage on enormous scales the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki constituted something entirely new. The earlier fire bombing of Tokyo had likely killed more people (mostly...
Tomorrow is my annual check-up at the Retina Clinic. Nothing major, just making sure everything’s still holding up after having my left retina lasered back together 8 years ago. I block off the whole day so my eyes can readjust. They...
2026 Washington DC Fountain Pen Supershow (via Olive Octopus Ink). Many thanks to Lisa for helping out at the show (and of course with everything else around here)! A great DC Supershow recap.DC Show Recap…and a remembrance (via Figboot...
Long Gone Daddies32 tracks+booklet For tracklist, date and labels see Rockin' Country Style Hot rock'n'roll and rockabilly including previously unissued material from the Modern label, one of the leading independant labels of the 1950s,
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I’ve been alerted to The Speakers of Indo-European and Their World (ed. Sergio Neri and Michiel de Vaan; open access) twice today — by David Marjanović in this comment and by Matthew Scarborough in this blog post, where he writes “My own...
Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***It is time for me to spin my Steve-Does-Destiny Wheel of Fortune marked "August 1976" and see what random DC comics appear on it...
A while ago, there was a screenshot circulating on online spaces, of someone blatantly saying you guys might be thinking about yourselves too much. Personally, I enjoy introspecting, and I've based most of my writing on Bear on lived...
Every time I encounter a map of New York City’s trees, my first thought is that I must have covered it before, but no, each time it’s bigger in scope and covers more trees. First… More
I don't have a lot of comments for this session, it was very cool, very fun, and we made a lot of plans that are likely to bite us in the ass. Here's the log I made for it. As a reminder, our characters are: Dingo "Wild Dog" Wells (Deft...
I recently sold something on eBay UK. The buyer was in the Channel Islands. And apparently that means you need to affix a customs declaration to the parcel. Handily, eBay provide a customs declaration label for you. And so I wanted to...
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Summer insects.’ See more responses here. In addition to their vital roles in the world, insects are also food for other creatures. Here, a House Gecko snags a good-sized moth.
From Comparative Literature As Core Need In Desk Research and AI As Tool by Ton Zijlstra:Put together it spells to me that when I am doing some deskresearch shining a better light on literary ‘dark matter’ becomes much more important....