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“Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger…” — Ephesians 4:26 Today’s devotional talks about anger between people in a relationship. Anger happens. We’ve all felt it before. I like the scripture above that...
In spring 2025 I had a crisis of faith. I thought about what the technology I'm helping to create might do to our future, and got scared. My worries kept intruding on my daily activities to the point where I needed to seek professional...
This update covers Sunday 08-16-26 through Saturday 08-22-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 This week’s musical theme: Devo, “Big Mess." 📕 Most of the week has been overtaken with thoughts of my friend A., as he is hospitalized in...
obligatory one month without social media on my phone substack essay (contrarian edition) (Apologies for a substack link but this one is worth it.) Quit your phone and change the nature of time and the universe! What amazes me so much...
St James' Church in Tedstone Delemere Herefordshire We are the Village Green Preservation Society (Ooh, ooh, ooh) The Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society. When researching churches, sites like National Churches Trust and...
This is part 8 in a series of posts on writing concurrent network servers. In this part, we'll switch to Go and see how it tackles the challenges described earlier in the series. All posts in the series: Part 1 - Introduction Part 2 -...
John Gruber links to an interesting story about Dutch regulators fining Uber almost $1 billion for suspending dishonest drivers “without warning or human involvement.” Say what you want about Uber’s practices, dishonest drivers, scams,...
Developer: Coktel VisionPublisher: FindusYear: 1995Genre: AdventureSystem: DOS After issuing a challenge to folks to blog about an obscure game, I figured I should probably engage with this as well so I pulled a game that has been...
for a player in my biweekly B2 game stat progression as Fighter unarmed damage: 1D6 listens/smells successfully on a 4,5, or 6 no thumbs, inventory1, or speech2 Instead of a stronghold, gets a pack unless holding sack in mouth↩ unless...
If you're creeped out by butterflies and flies, maybe skip this one.111 words · 15 images
It’s tough to survive in corporate life if you don’t have someone who makes your day. It gives you a reason to wake up and look forward to going to a place that seems designed to keep you demotivated. Wage labour is perhaps the most...
I just finished The Inner Game of Tennis [ad] by Timothy Gallwey, which has been on my reading list for over a decade. I happened to see a copy featured in a bookstore and bought it as a plane read. It’s short and sweet at under 200...
This week, I had to write CSS for a design where a list of elements got a bit of extra design treatment if there were at least three nested items inside it. <!-- Base design --> <ul class="magic-list"> <li>Item 1</li> <li>Item 2</li>...
Part TwoQuoteThe realm of poetry does not lie outside the world, a fantastic impossibility, the product of a poet's mind; it wishes to be precisely the opposite of this, the unadorned expression of truth, and must for that very reason...
I’ve been talking with my friends and partner about this sort of thing. Often I’m not even the one to bring it up. There’s a preponderance of hustlers lately and it sucks seeing both suckers and bad-faith agents eating it up. These are...