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I suppose I can say that I am in a holding pattern.I am waiting and facing a temporary moment in time. But then again, I understand that all of this and all of what we see, and all of what we think and what we feel is temporary.Well,...
ic: this creator on pinterest Over the last few months, I have been surreptitiously attempting a new project, which I have named the "what if" project. To be honest, I am somewhat reinventing the wheel here, it's not a new concept (for...
Schematist is a general purpose JSON Schema DSL that emits Draft 2020-12 schemas. Describe an API payload, a config file, a contract between two services, or the structured output you want back from a model. Trapping that inside another...
I spotted Bubbles in my basic referrers this morning, and my heart lit up. A little directory, surfacing blog posts from actual bloggers, what in the old web is going on?! This isn’t the first time I’ve spotted a resurgence in indie /...
I had an email today from the roaster I buy coffee from, with their new price list for September. The decaf I’ve been enjoying for around a year is going to rise by around 35%. Thankfully I get a 10% discount and a loyalty cashback which...
Hey, want to know what someone besides me thinks of the forthcoming book? Corners of the Deep Dark‘s tenacious antiheroes pulled me along on a brainy puzzle journey that left me wanting to read their next adventure. That blurb comes...
★★★★: On its surface, it's sort of a doofy movie. The typing scenes are overwrought and there's an undercurrent of casual misogyny that probably fit right into 90 hacker culture. I didn't really get it at first (and my early reviews...
Today's been a bit of a rollercoaster, and it's only 1pm! Welcome visit to the kitchen from a large moth, though. Glad Charlotte was out.168 words · 1 image
Suppose you were able to go back in time, to an era before computers, and give someone contemporary cryptography. Encryption methods that are essentially unbreakable now would certainly be unbreakable then. But there’s a catch: not only...
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - Ralph Waldo EmersonHello friends! Monday has been a whirlwind; I’m hoping the rest of the week slows down, just a little....
Florida-based KelTec announced last week that a major Pacific Rim maritime agency has once again selected the company’s tactical bullpup shotgun for use on patrol. The South Korean Coast Guard has long used the well-reviewed (once you...
With the sunsetting of the AV-8B in USMC service in May, it is refreshing to see these images from the recently concluded Neptune Strike 26-3 of Spanish AV-8Bs (the world’s youngest Harriers) of Novena Escuadrilla (9th Squadron, the...
Harry Dean Stanton - SNAP/KCRW, Santa Monica, California, June 24, 1987I watched Partly Fiction, Sophie Huber’s Harry Dean Stanton documentary, last week and it was a beautiful, intimate portrait of the late/great character actor, who...
For a time, the children gathered together around the workbench where they made things with junk using glue guns. Others chose to create using construction paper, tape, and staplers. They talked quietly amongst themselves as they worked,...
The British Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) is roughly akin to the U.S. Military Sealift Command (MSC) in that they man naval auxiliaries with civilian mariners on contract. While the MSC’s CIVMARs kinda “go native,” the RFA wears a very...