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...
Andrea Fortuna
Most macOS infostealer writeups follow a predictable arc: fake CAPTCHA, paste command, credentials gone. ClickLock Stealer, first documented by Group-IB in June 2026, adds a twist that should make any DFIR analyst sit up. The malware locks the victim out of their own desktop, killing every visible...
Andrey Lukyanenko
Book Review: Time Series with PyTorch Amazon Packt Code on GitHub Lei Ma’s website I was offered to read Time Series with PyTorch by Graeme Davidson and Lei Ma in exchange for an honest review. Time-series forecasting is one of the most challenging areas of machine learning for me, and...
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
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All Things Linguistic
lingthusiasm:118: Using tech to chat with bonobos, dogs, and whalesCan we teach dogs to express their needs better by pressing buttons? What about the studies trying to teach bonobos and other primates to communicate through buttons or signs? What have we learned about whale communication from the...
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...
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...
Tim Carmichael
The blade moves through the work with a confidence that comes from decades of repetition. Every cut has a purpose. Every motion has been refined over years of practice. The person holding the knife knows what to save, what to remove, and how to complete a task that fewer people today have ever...
alexcox.com
This is just a short note regarding US distribution of Dead Souls. I attended the first screenings in Seattle and Portland. Both were well attended, and our film enthusiastically received. The Kino Lorber distribution site lists our upcoming US screenings. On 22 July Dead Souls opens at the...
Adrian Vila
Oregon, March 2026.
AlabamaYesterdays
In 2023 I posted an item related to my visit to Huntsville Hospital in 1958. That admission for a tonsillectomy was documented in a Huntsville Times newspaper article published on June 10, 1958. I was listed along with numerous other individuals who were admitted, born or discharged at Huntsville...
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...
Andy Wightman
The first CLAN (Community Land Academic Network) conference took place at UHI in Perth on 16-17 June 2026. The lead organiser was Dr Bobby Macaulay from UHI Centre for Mountain Studies and co-ordinator of the CLAN network of researchers. You can read a summary from Bobby here. I was delighted...
anondev
Do you know how it feels to be in the sideline, always watching as the event happens and see the others take action while you are there reflecting and thinking one day or some day? It is how life has been for most of the time. Mostly because of skill issue and next is accessibility to the...
Jim Fenton
Thursday, June 25, 2026 Kenna and I woke up extra early today so that we could have our bags packed and placed outside our cabin door by 7 am. We beat that schedule by a few minutes, which gave us time to take a final stroll around the Sea Cloud II and get some coffee. Breakfast at 7 was with...
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...
Lou Plummer
TL;DR - Turn just about any collection of audiobook files (FLAC,WAV,MP3) into a single iPhone compatible M4B complete with metadata and chapters. Mac, $9.99, Solo dev I've been listening to audiobooks since they were called books on tape. I progressed from there to CDs and then to miscellaneous...
andrei
Discover a reborn Mortal Kombat™ Universe created by the Fire God Liu Kang. Mortal Kombat™ 1 ushers in a new era of the iconic franchise with a new fighting system, game modes, and fatalities! In case you didn’t know, at the end of the story mode in MK11, some things happen which lead up to the...
John McIntyre
Note to the reader: This post is entirely personal; you may well choose to skip it. Subsequent posts will return to issues of grammar, usage, editing, and journalism.A year ago, traveling with my wife, her sibs, and their spouses through Central Europe, I put in 18,000 steps or more a day in...
Timothy S. Brannan
Day 1. Let's do this!
Teacher Tom
var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Growing up, family dinners weren't exactly sacred, but they were our default mode. Most evenings during my first 18 years of life involved the five of us sitting down around the dining room table and talking.Much of what we talked about...
Annemieke
Much of what I do comes down to one thing: consciously choosing and supporting what gives life, over what dims it. Moving away from what diminishes potential. That sounds big, and while it can be quite the hassle at times, it lives in small things. When you see it, you can’t not see it. It’s in...
Sean Kleefeld
With a bit of renewed interest in Thundarr the Barbarian thanks to the new comic (which I reviewed here) I thought I'd bring up this absurdly small, but amusing, detail from the original cartoon. The series as a whole, for those who don't know, was set in a post-natural-disaster Earth and...
Andrew
advertisement, baudrillard, meaning, podcast, politics Ben Shapiro addresses the death of U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham before transitioning into a sponsor advertisement for ZipRecruiter, July 2026. pic.twitter.com/oJ7MBU6rpX— Future Adam Curtis B-Roll (@adamcurtisbroll) July 15, 2026 I...
prasangika-matters
rsmudge
Another Crystal Palace and Tradecraft Garden release is now available. This release fills some gaps from recent releases and rounds out the feature set (aka, stuff I wanted to ship, but didn’t get to in time). Language-specific Handlers Two releases ago, I added stack unwinding meta-info...
uzwi
BookHaus, Bristol, Tuesday 14th July. Warm & sunny, crowds watching the football late into the evening. I had a glass or two of wine to celebrate to myself the changes of the last few years.
Michael
And the Oscar goes to...Written by MichaelOkay, this game was short, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to score in the single digits. Remember, this was a children’s title aimed at those barely starting to use computers at the time, and this game is so well designed in that regard...
robotkinz
Cracking ourselves up. But not necessary with laughter.
Unknown
Remember a little over three weeks ago when we ran a post about CNN's report on the oil reserves in Cushing, Oklahoma. We used this as an example of how highly important aspects of a major news story like the war in Iran, while not ignored, are covered only sporadically, while relative trivia runs...
abhi-writes
There are probably thousands of songs written about love, and I definitely know hundreds of them, along with all the lyrics. But John Lennon's "Love" seems to me the most minimalist, raw song ever written on the subject. He wrote it right after the chaotic breakup of The Beatles, stripping away...
Sheryl
Organizations often compile and then sell cookbooks as a fundraiser. A cookbook with an especially fascinating story is the Pennsylvania State Grange Cook Book. The Grange is an agricultural advocacy and social organization that was founded in 1867. The Grange is organized into four levels:...
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
Today is an important nuclear anniversary. On this day in 1945, scientists exploded the first nuclear bomb at the Trinity test site in New Mexico.I hadn't remembered until doing some Internet wanderings that the explosion was scheduled for this date because Truman had an important meeting with...
george tannenbaum
I was a kid at a time before there were a lot of "organized sports" for kids.Sure there was Little League in the Spring, and Pop Warner football in the Fall. If you were so inclined, there were probably swim teams at the Y and even hockey leagues here and there.But for the most part, sports just...
trE
chronic pain…not a thing one thinkswould become a partof living. the grinding of teeth, gnashing the heartand increasing palpitations–blotting vision.unbearable painthat comesout of nowhere,we suffer, then wemove on.stretches, the bodyneeds them the olderwe get, the morewe need flexibility. joints...
Ralph Boumenot
The sky looked weird here in my part of the universe. They are a sickly grayish color with a yellow tint. I thought there were some thunder boomers coming or maybe even something stupid like a tornado. Turns out there are wild fires in Canada and the smoke is drifting south. I had seen it a few...
TomCat
Some months ago, I reviewed a short story from Edward D. Hoch's Captain Leopold series, "The Rainy-Day Bandit" (1970), which Alessandro favorably compared in the comments to the subject of today's review, "The Jersey Devil" – originally published in the October, 1971, issue of Alfred Hitchcock's...
Alan
Wednesday morning news said that Toronto had the worst air quality on the planet. Around here at the other end of the big lake, Tuesday at 11:30 pm was a bit nuts, too. Getting out of the car after picking up the kid from work, it was like I was leaning right over the BBQ as I was smoking ribs....