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Adolf Hitler once sent Margery Booth 200 red roses wrapped in a sash printed with a swastika. He'd just watched her sing at Bayreuth and told her she was perfectly charming. What he didn't know was that the same woman was smuggling...
Some lovely Spisula praecursor (Dall) fossil clams from the Skonun Formation of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, captured from the Miocene when this coastline looked very different from today. These fossil bivalves belong to the surf clam...
The BBC Bridge Companion has RF video output from the factory, but that’s not good enough for its cutting-edge pastel graphics. In order to get things looking their best, I spent a really long time making a composite video mod for the...
This is my 6th blog post for the Blaugust 2026 community blogging project. Join me all this month for more blogging. Bellingham, WA is a lovely town. It’s the northernmost city on the US west coast – just a half hour from the Canadian...
“That’s how it is—we’re literate. And we’re word processors now too, since information theory and the computer are hooked up together. That’s dandy. But why do we lock ourselves into one mode? Why either/or? We aren’t binary. Why have we...
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 In the Renovate project, we use the Merge Queue to merge PRs. If a PR fails its status checks, it will be pulled out of the Merge Queue, and a maintainer will need to re-queue it, if it is...
🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 In the Renovate project, we use the Merge Queue to merge PRs. If a PR fails its status checks, it will be pulled out of the Merge Queue, and a maintainer will need to re-queue it, if it is...
Keep it safe, at all cost. At any cost. No matter who knocks on the door, no matter how safe it seems. If you loose the bird. Game over man.
MacBook Neo uses iPhone chips instead of the regular M series chips, so as to lower the price. And now there are rumors Apple is considering screen-less wearables for your wrists (or fingers) that brings Health and Fitness ecosystem to...
"Wild, irresponsible, arrogant, defiant." ~ Link: To Write As If No One Will See What You’ve Written: Why the Short Story Won’t Go Away, by Jess Row, Literary Hub
This week, I released Remarc - a macOS-native way to provide contextual feedback to AI agents. You can highlight any text in any app, annotate a screenshot, select a web element, and have your agent pick it all up and resolve it in a...
Brevity is underrated.
I was reading a blog post on boat names because it was on Hacker News this morning. The post contained a link to a data set on dog names in NYC and I poked around the data a little. The top names were not at all what I expected, but then...
“Obsidian is probably one of the best note-taking apps out there, but it’s not open-source, which is fine, there are perfectly good reasons for that. But a part of the Obsidian user base has always wanted a properly open-source...
This is a response to: https://jola.dev/posts/no-cost-no-value I agree with… the first half of this post. You can mass produce software using llms, and a lot of this software does get abandoned the moment it’s finished because the...