I loved Lee Lai’s first graphic novel, Stone Fruit, so when I heard that her newest book had won a lot of awards I determined to keep my eye out for it at the library. I finally got it the other day, and it is really good. It’s about a cook in Montreal who is heading to a nervous breakdown (no spoilers; you see the...

Space Battle Lunchtime Vol. 2: A Recipe for Disaster ~ Natalie Riess I read the first Space Battle Lunchtime years ago and thought it was cute. The second volume is just as much fun! It picks up directly after the cliff hanger ending of the first volume and follows the main character as she competes in a...

This is the third China Miéville novel I’ve read, behind The City and the City and Railsea. One thing I really like about Miéville’s work is that he manages to make every novel so different from the others, and all so very good. Embassytown continues his streak, though it does have some parallels with The City and...

My first web presence was in sixth grade on this website called the express page. It was one of those websites where you could make your own little html page, like an off-brand geocities I guess (I never used geocities). They had some stock gifs too: I remember I really liked this one juggler guy. My biggest...

I think that noa makes a great point about the nascent “choose European!” trend going on over there. While moving away from American hegemony is a necessary step (and not only in the tech or services realms), replacing one hegemon for another is a mistake humans have made again and again throughout our history....

Of course I found this in a Hacker News comment. Some background “AI tells” have been a thing for nearly as long as this heLLM-scape has, and they’re just about as bad as the actual machines they supposedly unearth. The whole problem with AI writing is that it imitates—badly—human writing, so I don’t know why anyone...

My mom does not really “keep up” with pop culture. However, she does have great taste—which means that when she recommends a book or movie, I pay attention. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series is one of those recommendations, so it’s been on my list for some time. Lately, it came up again in a podcast I...

Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey My mom does not really “keep up” with pop culture. However, she does have great taste—which means that when she recommends a book or movie, I pay attention. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series is one of those recommendations, so it’s been on my list for some time. Lately, it...

I’ve been really getting into the independent web lately. Instead of doomscrolling reddit, I’ve been reading through bubbles and powrss. Doing so, I run into a lot of community-building-type posts, like the Junited one by Robert Birming.I like his idea, so here’s a collection of all the pages, posts, and articles...

Gordon’s note caught my attention, then I disagreed with most of his points. Here are my thoughts on his five minor peeves with “many websites.” Comments are good, add them. Yes, I know it opens up things like spam but if you are posting to spark a conversation then why not have them? (and if you aren’t open to...

Unraveling AI’s ‘Knitting Bullshit’ CommaFeed Emacs: decent defaults I shared with Sacha Chua Clojure Camp 4Clojure awesome-katas Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain clj-org: A Clojure Org Mode parser A Modern CSS Reset Kelvin Versioning

I am now generating this website with Clojure (yes, right after rewriting it in GNU Make and shell; I have a problem, ok?). In a personal tradition, I used writing a static site generator as the project to play with and learn Clojure as a new language. While I’ve long scoffed at Clojure for its copious syntax (three...