Aaron Winborn
The moment you share your work, the opinions start flooding in — and not all of them deserve a seat at the table. Learning to separate useful critique from well-intentioned noise might be the most underrated skill a creative can develop. Here's how to protect your vision without becoming defensive...
thekelvingreen
Reverse Medusa. A rejected image from an upcoming project. #KelvinDrawsThings
jen-guardiner
Returning to writing once more, I have also found that my ideas have moved on from 2019, when I first started The House of the Mind. New ideas have been inspired and old ideas have percolated for longer and developed in new directions and reached new depths...
Southern Fried Science
How the Trump Administration has yet again hobbled the Endangered Species Act. The Trump administration has officially finalized a rule stripping habitat destruction from the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In a joint announcement by the Department of the Interior and...
Leon
A collection of upcoming CFPs (call for papers) from across the internet and around the world. The post Call For Papers Listings for 7/17 appeared first on Leon Adato.
4gravitons
I don’t think people who argue about reductionism are really arguing about reductionism. Reductionism is the idea that the behavior of big, complicated things (people, economies, ecosystems) boils down to the behavior of their smallest constituents (molecules, atoms, subatomic particles). It’s...
The Cheap Vegetable Gardener
The post 17 Zucchini: What to Do Before They Escape appeared first on The Cheap Vegetable Gardener. It’s July in Redmond and I have a problem. Specifically, I have seventeen zucchini on my counter, three more hiding under leaves the size of a kindergartner, and my daughters have stopped making eye...
Jeff
My look at this year’s RAGBRAI route might be light on highway content, but it is heavy on ranting about infographic design and map directions. Among my concerns is how static maps were not updated when a late change in the route was made.
Aeoli Pera
Re: https://aeolipera.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/barriers-to-training/ Chat GPT’s elaboration in the comments.
nolitethoughts
Join me on my journey to fight a seemingly never-ending writer's block and rediscover the joy of writing through one short fiction at a time.
Timothy S. Brannan
Good morning from EGG Con III in hazy Lake Geneva!Hope you dressed for the 80s!
J D Lowe
From left to right: 6", 5" (the HO equivalent of the tightest TTC curve), and 7" radius curves.I'm having some trouble settling on a design for my Taronna layout. There are numerous problems. One significant one is figuring out what the minimum radius curve I can use that will not cause a problem...
Adam Rowe
Alex Schomburg stands out for the sheer length of time he spent as an active science fiction artist: His first work for the genre was in 1925, and he kept creating new art up until the mid-80s.
namvastum
Sean Kleefeld
So a bit of news from Marvel yesterday, right? Stephen Wacker will be taking over as editor-in-chief, C.B. Cebulski will begin overseeing a new division of "APAC-originated graphic fiction and manga, based in Japan," and the Marvel Comics headquarters is being moved from New York City to Burbank,...
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; We never gave our daughter chores to do around the house when she still lived with us. This runs against the current of most of the parenting counsel out there. Her school officially recommended it for all families. Even our pediatrician...
Mr. Karswell
I promised you something cinematically different for today's post, and here it comes, via the April 1939 debut issue of DC's Movie Comics #1-- Basil Rathbone! Boris Karloff! Bela Lugosi! Lionel Atwill! And Josephine Hutchinson in-- SON OF FRANKENSTEIN! This is a fun, condensed photo comic...
kristoyanova
A little bit about the person behind the writing
Abhinav Bhatt
I recently watched the movie “Disclosure Day” (and also watched “Don’t Look Up” and “Project Hail Mary”) and also read the book “Contact” and here is what I feel about them. Not sure what is it with media content these days, one cannot remember it for a longer duration. Everything feels...
Undine
Welcome to this week's Link Dump!And greetings from the Strange Company mail room!A teenager who died in the American Revolution has finally been identified.An ancient Roman fossil collector.The strange case of the "Leavenworth Look-Alikes."The legend of what may have been the first underwater...
george tannenbaum
Not too many minutes ago, I got off the phone with a prospective client who had called me somewhat unexpectedly. Sometimes that's the best kind of call. Sometimes lack of preparation and background forces you to answer questions in a "reactive" or limbic way, the way your head might react when...
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Earlier this week, I went to the studio of a neighborhood friend. She wanted to make cards out of cut paper, and I was happy to try my hand. She had the supplies, including papers we painted earlier in the year for a retreat. If you look closely, you can see the hymnbook print behind the...
Ralph Boumenot
two of threeForgot that I had these. Made 3 jigs for holding stock to plane the end grain flat and square. The 3rd one I tossed because the stop had warped and flattening it would not have been worth the effort and calories.hmm.....Almost clear and empty. It had been a long time since so much...
Richard MacManus
This week I published 5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026 on Latent Space. As previously noted, I attended the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco earlier this month — where I learned that the state of the art in AI engineering looks a lot like the state of the art in...
Manuel Moreale
Kevin sent me a link to this email from Linus Torvalds the other day, and I found that to be a great example of something that has been bothering me for a while now. It’s about AI—everything is about AI these days, so damn boring—and, more specifically, Linus’ position when it comes to the use of...
kristy bowen
Almost two years ago exactly I was listening to T. Swift's Tortured Poets Department on repeat and it occurred to me, one line from "So High School" would be a great title for what was then just an amorphous and incomplete manuscript which included a couple of series that centered around the idea...
Dave @ Accidental FIRE
Welcome to “Thank God I’m FI” Friday, Volume #176 Here are some things I really like and that you might too! Financial Independence/Work Life/Retirement Articles & Content It Just Got Harder to Make a Financial Complaint (And Get Relief)... The post T.G.I.F. Friday: Volume 176 appeared first...
Challenger Tom
The Klamath Tour Thru Tree is a Coastal Redwood tunnel tree located off California State Route 169 in Klamath Glen. This particular tree is 167.54 feet high which makes it far smaller than the more famous Chandlier Tree in Leggett. The Klamath Tour Thru Tree was carved during May 1976 which...
Jonathan Green
The Kingsport Metamorphosis, my third Arkham Horror Investigators Gamebook, has been out for over five months now, but I only came across these reviews the other day.The Witty and Sarcastic Bookclub loved it:"I’m pretty sure I say this every time, but this might be my favorite Investigators...
dignitybydesign
RetirementInvestingToday
Around this time last year, I raised a couple of questions in my update post:On the topic of the work I was doing I asked “Will I give it up and ever fully FIRE?”; andthen in conclusion I reflected “…I’m now starting to wonder whether I actually needed the FI bit to make it happen or whether I...
Michael Hanscom
Book 30 of 2026: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: This was excellent. Funny (many bits had me quite literally laughing out loud), but with an increasingly serious undertone as it goes. A valet robot kills his employer for reasons he does t understand, and embarks on a quest to figure...
Blog Author
This is my first piece of AI-assisted technical writing. Rather than talk here about giving credit to which-LLM-did-what (and date the C++ content itself to the AI boom of 202X) I put some thoughts in another article: https://ae1020.github.io/ai-writing-when-to-stop/ I found myself having...
82MHz
You know what, I was kind of busy last week with my OCC project, and I was also building a website for a friend who is opening her own doctor's office, and so I completely forgot that my blog turned three years old last Thursday! Well I actually didn't completely forget, but I was convinced that...
adammiceli
hey my friend :) I have a secret to share with you today !! this is one of the most powerful ideas that you'll hear all year... and it's EXTREMELY POWERFUL for completely transforming your life... so that you feel WAY MORE fulfilling, abundant, and expressive in your personal life. It's actually...
Chris Townsend
Chris Weigant
The midterm congressional elections will happen in early November, which is now less than four months away. Trump has already been making drastic moves (such as firing all the members of a federal elections security board) seemingly designed to sow chaos (or worse) when the ballots are cast....
cparker
Bill Sanderson is a freelance illustrator with a long career in editorial and comercial illustration as well as book publishing. Sanderson works in the fascinating method of scratchboard, in which a specially prepared board is coated with ink, and the image is created by scratching white areas...
Diary of a Confused Dragonkin
bristling-nest:I’m realising we might be teeming with the desire to interact and engage with alterhuman community. But we’re not experiencing in it… We’ve heard that one of the ways to do it is to write posts. Even if they are just about your own experiences. Idk how it might help and what...
Barbecue17
I ordered three of Big Bad Workshop's Soldiers of Fortune figures when the preorders went up and while I reviewed the first two back in May (The Agent/ The Spy- Black Tuxedo and The Agent/ The Enemy- Light Blue), it's taken me a couple months to get to the third: The Saboteur! The cool thing about...
Blacksteel
As much as I am enjoying the DCC campaign - and being a player for a change - I did commit to running NE as the next big game so it's time to start digging into it. I have tried to run it twice before - my notes say 2010 and 2014 - though we did not finish it either time. The first one we made it...
aaron.axvig
Arista serial number date code aaron.axvig Thu, 07/16/2026 - 13:41 There doesn't appear to be any information online about Arista serial numbers containing the date of manufacture. Extreme, Cisco, and APC are examples of ones I have seen well-discussed online.After analyzing a fleet...
J D Lowe
The Mount Lowe Railway is featured in the latest issue of Voie Libre, #126, July / August / September 2026. I've only seen what you see over there on the left, which I saw in an ad that popped into my Inbox today. I submitted 46 photos - photos not seen here ! - so I'm curious as to which ones...
kristy bowen
The first copies have arrived of my strangle little boxy book about murderous women, vampires, bird-girls, and wayward governesses. You can pick up a signed copy here:https://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/marry-kiss-kill-kristy-bowen(or, you could subscribe to my Patreon $13 tier and I will...
Mark Rogers
[This post is for RSS Club members only.] RSS Club was started by Dave Rupert as a way of providing RSS-only content. I took it as both a technical challenge and a thought-provoking way of talking about the pros and cons of RSS. One of the things I like most about RSS is that the app usually has a...
Laura
As is tradition here, I'm pausing for a moment to note that today, July 16th, is the anniversary of the founding of this blog.Laura's Miscellaneous Musings began on July 16, 2005, and has been going steadily ever since!It's been several years since I did a celebratory blog giveaway, but I have...
Jacob Wren
. WIELS calls for applications from Canadian artists (Canadian nationals, or those living and working in Canada) for a 6-month residency in Brussels. More info here. .
turbodb
TL;DR - My 26-year-old door handle finally broke, and I've replaced it with a metal one. Years ago, I started seeing a trend on TacomaWorld. There, in the What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition thread, people were starting to talk about their door handles breaking. I have no idea...
Jeff
As possibly the person who carried the news about Traer Pizza Palace’s passing the farthest (non-Facebook category), I have to pass on an update: Pizza Palace is back! A poster says the restaurant will have its grand reopening Friday from 4:30 to 9. The concern, with the previous owners as now, is...
Paul W. Homer
A long time ago, I remember someone trying to convince me that sufficient testing would prevent ‘all’ bugs. All you need are tests.That’s never been the case for me, even after all of these decades. At the very best, with a gifted team, we were super careful, had strict standards, and...