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Just click RND() and some song I posted one time on my music blog will appear. I made it because I could not decide what I was in the mood to hear. If you want to know how I did it, I shared the code on GitHub. It is rather simple. Just...
Another couple of very hot days this week, made bearable by knowing it wasn’t going to last long this time. I did have to walk the 4km to the next village in 30ºC heat because Mary was away in one car and the other, the Panda 4x4, was in...
There’s a couple of different ways to use social media. There’s obviously a big dichotomy between posting and scrolling. Some people only care about posting and don’t care as much about the scrolling. Lots of people (probably the...
Each week in Refill, the Pen Addict Members newsletter, I publish Ink Links as part of the additional content you receive for being a member. And each week, after 10 to 15 links, plus my added commentary on each, I'm left with many great...
Here are my thoughts on Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Spoiler-free first, and then spoilers tucked away below. Overall, it’s a solid Spider-Man story. The focus is on Peter living in a world where no one remembers him, so he’s Spider-Man...
A great critic, but one whose work I have not read much ofAnd when I have read it, more often than not I disagree. But that's fine - I don't need to think you are right to get a buzz from how you make your argument. Whether it's...
A few days ago I mentioned playing around with local AI models, despite having low strength hardware for the task. Yesterday I was trying our some new models - tinyllama and smollm2 - and I asked each model the same question to compare...
I love that people are writing on Substack, because it is almost a return to what blogging originally was: openly sharing connected and linked learning and insight with the world. A couple of things frustrate me about Substack though and...
I had an old Kindle sitting in a drawer for years. It still charges, the battery seems to work, and the screen is perfectly readable in daylight. Throwing it away felt wrong and at the same time I kept opening Proxmox or Uptime Kuma in a...
Bridgy Fed is roughly 20k lines of code. If you add in all the other parts of the stack that we own – granary, arroba, lexrpc, etc – it’s 51kloc total. (Excluding tests; those add another 81kloc.) I’m not really proud of this, or...
Three and a half millennia ago, the people of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization revered the double-headed ax, which is conventionally known today as a labrys (plural form: labryes), as a religious symbol associated with powerful...
I've been practicing photography seriously for about as long as it takes to get a fine art degree. Looking back, I can see real growth in how I approach editing. These two versions of the same photo illustrate the shift: In the original...
DC has posted several preview pages from next week’s issue of Absolute Flash, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features Wally and Linda back at the Mission and recovering after the events of last issue…but...
ThanKs to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for Their Sponsorship of This Post, via The Magic of Patreon. ***Who remembers Glenn Medeiros?I certainly do.And July 1988 was doing its best to make sure it stayed that way, as he spent almost...
Having both very much enjoyed the dam at Thompson Falls more than I thought we would - and having already completed two stages of the Montana Backcountry Discovery Route over the course of the day - we had no aspirations to make it deep...