TomCat
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the permanent shuttering of our beloved, dearly departed Rue Morgue Press following a string of disasters from flood damage, health issues and financial problems to the death of Enid Schantz – severely reducing their output. Rue Morgue Press limped on until...
beaver
https://youtu.be/fIrpLBShe1A?si=z8Dz1fJ7P-zLHMF0 this is about this song. i don't remember when or how i came across it. but boy i love this song and this album. there is something that resonates to me with rap songs that have layers and layers to them. the more i've listenend to this one the more...
ricardoavega
The Grey Literature
Spoilers for Backrooms (2026). You've been warned. Also, I use some cuss words. In the following, I'm going to tell you why my first reaction to Backrooms (2026) was "This is all about AI, wasn't it?" The opening and closing monologue from Backrooms (2026) is a perfect description of the...
Belghast
Good Morning, Folks! Today I turned 50, and it is all sorts of surreal to be that age. The 40s did not seem too bad, but the 50s… that is starting to sound a little old. I swear internally, I do not feel older than maybe my thirties. I have been juggling back and forth between Path of Exile II,...
Steve Saideman
It does not take an IR scholar or an historian to note the significance of Donald Trump signing onto a "deal" with Iran while he's at Versailles, site of the treaty that temporarily ended WW1 and set up WW2. I have a few thoughts to add to this perfect illustration of how dumb and tragic this war...
prasangika-matters
4q
What is Dave wearing today? Dave is wearing a white T-shirt, black shorts, and running shoes. He is also wearing white socks that he didn't realize until about half a mile into his run had holes in them. How does Dave feel today? Dave is tired but functional. What are the factors affecting Dave's...
André
Apparently on Oct 28, 2025 at 11:40am, I ordered a book … from Japan. I don’t remember the moment. Truth be told, I had completely forgotten about placing the order. Until, on May 1 … over six months later, I received an email: Dear AndréIt’s CRAZY but I have received your book back in Japan ......
Alessandrina
Recently, in the Machine Knitting Facebook Group, a post by Jeannette/eKnitter describing her method with an associated YouTube video on Transforming a Brother Stitch World Lace Pattern sent me down a new-to-me, what-happens-if-rabbit hole. Results for any lace designs vary considerably based on...
Richard Bartholomew
The i Paper has a useful overview by Lizzie Dearden of how the Keir Starmer “rent boy” conspiracy theory spread on social media following acts of arson at properties linked to the prime minister: Less than 15 minutes after [Roman] Lavrynovych was arrested, and before the arrest was made public by...
A. P. Howell
Yep, it’s another Pride-themed book bundle. $40 for 40 books, running from June 18–30. “The Relative Positions of Dead Things in the Dark” is in this one.
robotkinz
An introduction to two possible antagonists who are very antagonistic towards each other. (Either that or someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed.) We then go to Michelle, who has a narrow brush with the Earth military police "goons," as she calls them.
Zack M. Davis
BOJACK: Hey, I wanted to talk to you about—you know—I feel bad about what happened. HERB: So, you're apologizing. BOJACK: Yes. I'm sorry. HERB: Okay. I don't forgive you. BOJACK: Herb, I said I'm sorry. HERB: Yeah. And I do not forgive you. BOJACK: Uh, not sure you …
beyondborders
You finally reach a place you have dreamed about for years. It is exactly as beautiful as promised, yet a quiet disappointment settles in. Here is why this happens and how we can meet places more gently.
Alan
We need a new anthem: Let’s root root root for Cape Verde If they don’t win it’s a shame… Actually, that tie will do just fine. Just fine. Still, Uruguay has have the best strip. We remember the Graf Spee after all. Isn’t it fun how many old simmering bigotries and grudges come out during...
miquel-tort
Una exploración del concepto, sus dimensiones estructurales y las vías comunitarias para sortear el doble callejón sin salida que bloquea la transición ecológica
michael-graeme
Andrew Spittle
This essay about how we’ve gotten the ancient Greeks all wrong was fantastic. Many of my favorite college courses were in the Classics, yet this strain of study never came up.1 The essay’s gist is a discussion of the role the Greek alphabet played in the culture’s development of thought. The...
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kristy bowen
People often talk about "emerging" and "midcareer" poets, though one might ask what determines these categorizations. If you've never written or published poems before, you can easily be "emerging" into late life. Similarly, of you start early, you can be mid-career much earlier on. That moment in...
agentpalmer
An asteroid, Perses, is on a collision course with earth. It’s the size of Texas, and you’ve been hearing about it and seeing it coming for many months. Survival is doubtful at best, and humanity is coping by collapsing - as you would expect.
soplepel
a treatise on being and not in or out, rather than here and not-there
Bart Wullems
This post is part of a follow-up series to my GitHub Copilot SDK blog series. After wrapping up the main series I was left with a list of features that deserved more than a passing mention. First up: SystemMessageConfig, and specifically the mode that most tutorials gloss right over. The...
bacist
After a wonderful time in Vilnius, we moved on to Tallinn. The bus ride took around eight hours. Quite long, but in a comfortable bus it was manageable. We were actually very lucky with the weather on this trip. All the Baltic capitals welcomed us with good conditions. Even Vilnius, despite...
Byron Knoll
I have created a dungeon crawler game: https://byronknoll.com/dungeon-coaster.html
theMan
Five or six winters ago, a long cold spell killed our large California Lilac. In the summer bees by the thousands used to buzz around the bush, feasting on the flowers which bloomed all summer long. We waited two years in vain for any growth to appear on the bare stems. It was a sad day when we...
Ash
Bet On Centaurs In 1996, IBM's specialized chess supercomputer, Deep Blue, faced Garry Kasparov, arguably the greatest chess player of all time. The world champion and computer played six games. Deep Blue won the first game, Kasparov won three, and two ended in draws. Although Kasparov won the...
desiintotheunknown
angelgrowsup
Hands free baby! I just learned how to put picture up. I was having struggles before because I was trying to upload RAW images like a dummy just switched them to jpeg and voila. Be easy on my I literally know nothing I’m learning as I go along.
alterick
Around 15 minutes ago I finished excercising. Why this matters to me: I was feeling guilty for not attending my calistenics class yesterday. Most of my night terrors are health related. I mean, not really like something's happening but more like my mind shouts that we should be worried. It is...
adumbrate
arnold-gamboa-dev
I do not think pastors need AI because sermons should become faster content. That is the worst version of this conversation. A sermon is not a blog post with a Bible verse attached. It carries prayer, study, people, grief, repentance, hope, and the weekly pressure of standing before a congregation...
Alexander R Pruss
In the case of non-epistemic goods, it’s an obvious feature of life that someone there is a choice to be made by an individual between their own first-order good and the first-order good of the community—each requires the sacrifice of the other. In the case of epistemic goods, this is less...
BD103
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Axlefublr
I've been using this neat task scheduling program called pueue for a while. With it, you can queue up shell commands to be executed in sequence, and/or in parallel, without “living” in a terminal window. After my recent niri ricing improvements, the no-terminal-required benefit isn't as large...
Dan O'Leary
I kept rebuilding the same little secret resolver. The first version was not a package. It was just a helper tucked into whatever script needed it that week. Try 1Password first. If that fails, try an environment variable. Do not print the token. Do not write it to disk. Report enough provenance...
Andrey Krisanov
Published: 2026-01-28 Updated: 2026-06-18 Version scope: This guide targets vLLM 0.23.x and its default V1 engine. Metric names and semantics change between releases, so verify the /metrics output of the exact version and serving configuration you run before copying...
82MHz
This week, the new Commodore under CEO Peri Fractic (actor turned Youtuber Christian Simpson) announced the release of their latest product, a flip phone they called the Callback. And people online went nuts. Some love it, but most seem to hate it and the feedback has been overwhelmingly (very)...
Not Entirely Stable: Continued Reflections on AI This is Not Entirely Stable: Continued Reflections on AI—a semi-regular discussion of the recent emergence of generative AI and its impact on design, technology, and life. My design process looks completely different than it did five months...
Erik L. Arneson
I have worked on a quite a few WordPress projects lately that use Elementor, which is a website builder with a drag-and-drop interface and some other user-friendly bits. In the past, I have typically avoided these kinds of tools for WordPress, because they caused more problems than they solved,...
anditosan
Penpot WebGL and Bugfixes Penpot and WebGL Penpot released their WebGL rendered (beta) for all users to test. This brought speed gains in rendering content on page and less lag when navigating. Frame rate was worked on and the overall interface appears faster. Pages load much faster than...
Allen Hutchison
I was on a video call last week with a mentee who had just finished laying out her plan. She wanted to change her role, change her team, and change her country. All at once. All within the year. She had this energy that I recognized immediately, the kind that comes from finally knowing what you...
benjamin wil
Recently, I implemented JSON Feed support for my static site generator, Lifer. My impression is that, in 2026, JSON Feed is still not widely used, while people continue to rediscover RSS1 thanks to the indie web resurgence and an appetite for re-decentralization. Bluesky supports RSS; Mastodon...
Innes
Want to learn how to make a scrunchie without any complicated sewing techniques? This oversized, frilly version is a beginner sewing project that’s absolutely gorgeous! This page contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through one of them, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to...
Susan Stepney
The moon and Venus were close in the sky this evening. Given the time of year, even though it was past 10pm BST, the sky was still quite bright.Canon EOS R7 with 400mm lens, f/5.6, 1/60s exposure; 22:19 BSTSqunting at that pic, it looks like the whole disc of the moon is (just) visible; it seemed...
Chris Weigant
The text of the "Memorandum Of Understanding" between the U.S. and Iran was finally made public today, and it's pretty easy to see why Donald Trump wanted to keep the whole thing under wraps for as long as possible. The deal is incredibly tilted towards Iran's objectives, while America's...
alecm
What could possibly go wrong? One key recommendation in the 2026 report is the mandatory use of shared infrastructure, and that governments must move away from siloed agency projects by legally requiring or strongly incentivizing ministries and other public entities to use common building...
Mike Farley
Perhaps the most notable overall change [in the awakening mind], though, is a general sense of well-being. In the same way that the taking for granted syndrome inevitably leads to frustration and dissatisfaction, ongoing gratitude leads to contentment and fulfillment. You will no longer crave...
Robert Denerstein
Toy Story 5 manages to keep Pixar's animated franchise from slipping into irrelevance, no small feat considering the first Toy Story movie appeared 31 years ago. This edition renews the franchise by expanding the role of cowgirl heroine Jessie (Joan Cusack) and also presenting her with a love...
Kai L. Chan
As I sat with my wife on the stone bench in front of my childhood home in the village of 𝐴𝑎𝑤𝑢 (鸦湖 = “Crow Lake”), an elderly lady walked by us and without pausing asked if I was the boy from that house who left nearly fifty years ago. She finally stopped 15 metres away ...