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While the Vortex M1157 Fire Control System is the electro-optic of record for the Army’s 250,000 Next Generation Squad Weapons in rifle (M7), carbine (XM8), and LMG (M250) variants to the tune of a fantastical $2.7 billion, Big Green is...
Martin Cahill Under Review:The Demon Star. Jesse Aragon. DAW, July 2026. Science fantasy is tough to get right. Right has multiple meanings, but in this instance I mean: crafting a story where these two specific genres are not only...
I discovered Fabric, a Python-based automation framework. It’s a wrapper of Invoke and Paramiko (the Python SSH client). It’s thing is to run commands and automate tasks in remote servers. What’s the difference with Ansible? Ansible’s...
DaVinci: Fight between a dragon and a lion The coldest Christmas Eve on record and it was hands down my biggest order ever. I’d been driving for almost a year since The Daily Witness fired me. I used to be a features writer. And married....
When OpenAI dropped the minimum $50k spend on their ad platform, I thought I should give it a try for my seating planner app. Perhaps I can get some cheap and well targeted clicks, before all the corporate behemoths lumber in and push up...
One of the (many) things that makes me feel like a dinosaur at work is my stubborn commitment to the principle of ‘make things open, it makes things better’. I mean I literally had it tattooed on my arm. My advocacy and support for it is...
The Go-Betweens - Baroona Hall, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, December 6, 1983The Go-Betweens catalog always seems to drift in and out of print. But Beggars Banquet is reissuing a few of the band’s records in a couple months, so...
The Go-Betweens - Baroona Hall, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, December 6, 1983The Go-Betweens catalog always seems to drift in and out of print. But Beggars Banquet is reissuing a few of the band’s records in a couple months, so...
I mentioned yesterday the links between the three men who hatched the Southampton Plot to assassinate Henry V and put Edmund Mortimer on the throne. Two of the men made a close tie with each other through the arranged marriage of their...
It never ceases to amaze me how consistently I underestimate the effect tiredness has on my demeanour and mindset. When I’m running on low battery, everything tilts to the wrong end. The small annoyance becomes a grievance. The neutral...
Just after I talked a little bit about my adventures with YouTube this year, and my quiet hopes to maybe one day earn a little bit from my work, YouTube drops the bomb on all small channels by increasing the requirements to unlock...
I dream about being the type of cook who wanders through a farmers market, gets inspired by whatever is in season, and runs home to make something simple and delicious without consulting a single recipe. The reality is that I am...
This is a disappointing and frustrating book - not least because it so nearly hits the mark. The subtitle is "How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing" - but it never gets close to discussing that topic, let alone deeply examining...
Odd lighting, and a cool bit of lens flare at the bottom of the photo. I thought there would be a good gathering at the seafront in Brighton. It was way beyond that. The beach and Hove Lawns were full of picnickers, with eclipse glasses,...
Given the state of things in 2026 and the two "next big things" that preceded generative AI, this is by no means a trivial point.The metaverse was next to nothing. Web3 effectively was nothing. In both cases, an astounding and profoundly...