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One thing that Safari does well is its Reading Mode. The people who built it are brilliant, and no other browser can truly match the beauty and seamlessness. But I prefer Dia (or any other Chromium-based browser to Safari, really). They don’t have it. Chrome presumably got an update, but so far, I’m still not seeing...
This is the first visit of the All the Adventures project to Ireland. I can’t fully say “this is the first adventure game from Ireland” due to the possibility of something slipping through the cracks (and also the fact I haven’t finished 1983) but we can still assert 1983 as a general starting point; anything […]
You may remember that last month the Scalzi Compound was hit with 80mph winds and as a result part of our porch railing was blown out, which was the excuse we needed to replace it entirely with something more robust. That replacement is now here: the new post are thicker and heavier (6 inches by […]
We have a Google Drive folder with documents needing review. It’s a little hard keeping track of our progress so I got some help from Gemini in creating a checklist. It worked out pretty well. I’m also happy to have a starting point for learning more about some features of Apps Script that I haven’t […]
At the London C++ meetup last month, I participated on a panel where each panelist gave a short introductory presentation. My 7-minute intro (aka “lightning talk”) just got posted — you can view it here. The one-sentence blurb: “C++ is accelerating, and C++26 is built for what developers need now.”
Recommended Lying about Money (Book by Dan Davies) — This book on financial fraud is great (assuming you want to read about that). Found this from an article on “Bits about Money.” It’s more about institutional aspects than con men (although con men make plenty of appearances). Here’s a “Today I learned” style...
(This is my comment re CFTC call for comments on prediction markets.)
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