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Book title: Good Writing: 36 Ways to Improve Your Sentences Author: Neal Allen Rating: 4.25/5 I don't know what I prefer: Neal's writing rules (which I added to my editing tool), or Anne's complaints and pushback on her husband's rules....
I'm in a mood and that mood is hot air balloons, steampunk time travel, The Mummy (1999, obviously), discovering Atlantis, mild peril, clunky submersibles, lost jungle temples, cursed relics, accident-prone botanists and their...
I was going through my old files on my external and found some old digicam pics from 2006. At first my sister and I had to share a desktop computer, but eventually my dad got me my own since my sister took over the shared computer (for...
This was a super interesting and SUPER LONG week. I learned a lot about this two-faced world, not just from work, but also from a friend, and finally a refurbished fridge dealer (you already know where this is going 😂). I finally moved...
I've been writing versions of this guide since 2008. The most recent big one was the 2019 update, which covers the full tactical ladder—education, building a lab, projects, bug bounties, certifications, conferences, networking—and I...
This case naturally raises some questions that Musk might choose to pose to Grok, like: “Grok, is it bad when TOS formation fails?” “Grok, what are best practices for TOS formation and does our current TOS formation process satisfy...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. From what I’ve read about this week’s challenge, it seems that this was originally aimed at giving appreciation for games developers. Well,...
Every time Claude Code uses the Chrome MCP it adds a new tab group, but it never cleans up after itself. This was of course already reported many times in the 5000+ open issues Claude’s GitHub.
I spotted this kind of a keyboard shortcut pattern the other day. Here it is in Photoshop: Here it is in DevonThink: And here in Linear: Those “ordinal” keyboard shortcuts feel nice and orderly, and look so elegant, too. But beware! The...
Here I am reading (very incoherently) the opening of my work-in-progress, Leviathan, for the European Graduate School podcast.
In the beginning was the name; or, one supposes, that has always been the way of things. When was it anyhow that we started giving them to one another? Or taking it for oneself, perhaps the way one would a pelt or tanned hide, to ward...
Some time ago, I fell out of the habit of doing old school Dungeons & Dragons posts on social media, but recently I’ve been trying to get back in the game! This is the latest compilation of threads; all of the compilations can be found...
Privacy and compliance theatre, with its endless acts and elaborate productions, is getting exhausting, to be honest. The latest performance comes courtesy of Amazon:“As customers shop with us more frequently, including on their phones,...
“These days, buying a charger requires you to be familiar with USB PD, PPS, GaN, and a handful of other acronyms, on top of having to check wattage, making it surprisingly difficult to figure out which specs actually matter. The good...
For as long as my children can remember, I have told them that they are students at Hurst University. It has no campus, no accreditation, and no admissions process. Joining the family is enough to get you enrolled. Graduation is another...