Albert Sikkema
Over the past year I have been working on tooling to improve code quality. That starts with one question first: what constitutes good code? I am a pragmatist, not a purist. Good code in my book is code that the user is happy with (it does what is expected both in use and in function), that is...
Cael
Why we wrote honest comparison pages for Inkwell instead of SEO chum, and the four axes that actually decide which Markdown editor is right for you: ownership, where your files live, runtime weight, and feature depth.
michael-graeme
prasangika-matters
Bret Devereaux
This is the second part (I, IIa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. While I hope this will be of great interest to the history nerds out there, I’ve opted to structure this...
Budget, Offbrand, DIY
20dollarlolita:Since it’s been a year since Joann closed, I’m trying to get some data about how people are shopping for sewing supplies. Local sewing store questionnaireHere’s a google form with a lot of questions on it. If you don’t have the time, here’s a tumblr poll with one question on it.I’m...
Ethan
Capes are awesome, full stop. Every dude can recognize its enigmatic flair, even if they don’t wear it themselves. Some have questioned this paradox, as a quick perusal of Reddit will show you. Whether it’s 2026, 2019, or 2016, hopefuls have been asking how to wear this accursed thing or how they...
Barbecue17
Mattel is releasing quite a few figures from the Mike Young Productions/ 200x cartoon in the Masters of the Universe Origins: Cartoon Collection subset and I recently picked up Tri-Klops, so I figured I'd take a look at him. How cool is it that we're getting so much product from that era? Remember...
Hels
ARTNEWS assembled a list of 11 must-haves books that cover art history, from classical antiquity to now. Art history is a flexible discipline, subject to revisions as things change. Below I have included the books I know and found excellent.GombrichThe Story of Art1. Penelope & Davies et...
Andy Maleh
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kristy bowen
It's been a rainy and stormy week, which last night, culminated in a brief power outage in the storefront theater where we were seeing a production of THE LAST 5 YEARS. It was touch and go for a minute, but they did manage to get up and running again despite having to reset everything. The other...
Ashley Rolfmore
When numbers become meaningless5? 9? 2450?Have you ever had to debug an issue without sufficient logs or visibility? Or tried to get a decent case study out of a customer? I've done both and trust me, they can be extremely difficult. Turns out, these are actually the same problem. You need a...
alex-evers
I recently released my claude code plugin, Storytime(github). It's been underwhelming to say the least, but its more of a relief than a joy to put it out. I harbor a lot of ideas at any given point, and they turn into "what-if" more than "this will be amazing". I think thats better TBH. Storytime...
Denny Carter
Only in the surrealist hellscape that is capitalist accelerationism in the third decade of the 21st century could people – everyday working people – be expected to fear free childcare and a livable wage and affordable groceries. But that's exactly what is expected of fear-mad audiences of...
anureet
Jasmine & twine moonlight beckons will you be mine
John Connors
Words: Chris Arnsby Jakki Brambles: “Hello. Good evening. And welcome to Top of the Pops. It’s a little bit different tonight but you can still hear us in stereo on 1FM. First up, tonight’s show, we have probably the only ever artist who scored five top twenty singles off her debut album and...
inkblotsandintuition
thekelvingreen
Hungry ghost. I've just read Bat Eater by Kylie Lee Baker. It's quite good! #KelvinDrawsThings
Jimmy Maher
Although there is much that we don’t know about William Shakespeare the man, we can say confidently that he was not an individual who liked to be typecast. Right after completing his Comedy of Errors, a play so thin it threatened to blow away on the merest spring breeze, he embarked upon the...
4gravitons
You ever read something and suddenly a whole classification scheme lights up in your head? A thread on X from “stringking42069” showed me a combination of opinions I hadn’t seen before. stringking42069 is a pro-string theory commentator with a macho gym bro memer gimmick. He’s openly...
alecm
Kids are not allowed to have privacy in Keir Starmer’s Labour Britain. The “othering” of teens is complete: https://www.politico.eu/article/ministers-to-ban-under-16s-from-social-media-livestreaming-disappearing-messages/
anarchaeopteryx
Another short digest for a long work week. A very long work week. Worked Fri/Sun/Mon/Tues/Wed and continuing Friday/Sat/Sun so I'm not actually done yet. I took last Saturday off work to go to TCAF and picked up a bunch of prints and zines and comics. I also attended a panel with manga artists...
Aphyr
On 2026-05-30, the Mastodon server I run started getting a flood of implausible signup requests. We think these are likely bots because our server rules and signup form clearly tell users to talk about their interest in gay leather. Most people sign up with something like “42 yo levis enthusiast...
anubiarts
I still remember by November through February of last year just how much I've wanted to get started in transitioning via hormones, it was something I've been wanting to do for a while but around that time it intensified, as the gears finally started moving for it to happen. Skip forward more than...
jeaux carroll
this is a collaborative post: concepts and words by jeaux carroll and josh martinez.(josh) It's Saturday morning. I'm heating up tortillas on the comal I've carried with me for years. I hear the sound of fat from the tortilla sizzling against the hot cast iron surface. As the fat renders it heats...
Adam Rowe
Part 3 of my notes on Anthony Frewin's 1974 art history 'One Hundred Years of Science Fiction Illustration.'
Jonathan Green
100 Aker Wood - which is soon to become the ninth ACE Gamebook - funded on Kickstarter last Thursday. Since then, seven people have joined our trek into the Ashdown Forest by placing a Late Pledge, via Kickstarter.If you would like to place a Late Pledge, and receive a set of art postcards along...
Vincent Iannelli, MD
As measles cases in England continue to rise, it should be no surprise to anyone that children are dying. “Two measles related deaths have been reported to date in 2026: one was an acute measles death in a child, and another is a death in a child due to late effects of measles.” Confirmed...
Alex
J’ai rencontré une étudiante en traductologie qui travaille sur la traduction du non-binaire en français. Elle cherche des gens pour répondre à son étude, pour son mémoire de Master : https://ucc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eXOodSkXpqdKemW Toute réponse de personne francophone est appréciée,...
Belghast
Good Morning, Folks! I’m in the recovery cycle after my last round of chemo. I got my pump disconnected yesterday and then went to sleep around 7 pm and stayed that way all night, with a few brief wakeups here and there. Normally, I crash after coming home from disconnect, but I had someone ring...
Dennis
Accessibility Test Engineer at Cognizant in Manchester area, England, UK Accessibility Program Manager at Project Management Institute — USA, remote Digital Compliance and Accessibility Analyst at University of Florida in Gainesville, FL, USA Accessibility Specialist — UK, hybrid Sr. Accessibility...
Steve Saideman
I have been arguing that the heart of NATO, Article V, has been dead for since January 2025. It took a while for the Europeans to believe it:Anton Hofreiter, a German lawmaker, said: “NATO’s main problem is that, as long as Trump is president, there is no longer any faith that the U.S. would...
Andi
Interesting comparative interrupted time series doing the rounds in the press at the moment. Chamberlain, R. C., Hodsoll, J., Cai, C., Griffiths, C., Kelly, F., Beevers, S., Stewart, G., Blangiardo, M., Elliott, P., Davies, B., & Fecht, D. (2026). Association of vehicle emission...
Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist
Everyone asks if AI will replace them. The better move: replace yourself on purpose. What I automated, the numbers behind it, and the playbook to start.
Ben Crowder
Unimportant administrative note: I’ve imported the posts from my original blog back in 2001–2005, when the site was called the slate and, later, Blank Slate. (The posts were in a handful of PHP files I left behind and forgot about when I moved to Blogger in 2005. I stumbled across them recently...
Undine
Welcome to this week's Link Dump, where the Strange Company staff is off on an early summer road trip!Daniel Webster prosecutes an "extraordinary case."Is there a planet hidden behind Neptune?A woman's unsolved disappearance.A medieval domestic violence case."London characters" of the early 20th...
behindthehelm
As adventurers venture further and further into the Odd World with each passing session, it begins to… rub off onto them. They will it to do so themselves. The Odd World (or Mythic Underworld, or just “the dungeon”) obeys different rules than surface-reality, you see, and thus it requires...
Andy Leonard
Recently, I was developing an SSIS package that read from an Azure SQL DB table and wrote to an on-premises SQL Server 2025 database table. I encountered the following error: [ADO NET Source [41]] Error: ADO NET Source has failed to acquire the connection {<ConnectionManagerGUID>} with the...
Paul Bailey
I'm going to Shoreham for the day this Saturday, I told Mrs PBT's, little thinking that my good lady wife was thinking that I meant the seaside town of Shoreham, in West Sussex. I quickly put her right, and explained that I was off to the much smaller and much less well-known Kentish settlement of...
Dr Marcus Bunyan
Ontworpen wereld: Door de ogen van Tata Ronkholz (1940–1997) Exhibition dates: 14th February – 21st June, 2026 Curator: Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, Director of Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur in Cologne Tata Ronkholz (German, 1940-1997)Trinkhalle / Kiosk,...
Darren Devitt
Private health tech companies are increasingly building data platforms with FHIR at the center. The logic is sound. Consolidate data from multiple sources and systems into a single “Platform”, and store it in a structured and well understood format. Make it available for AI, for research, for...
dignitybydesign
Mark V
Audrey Watters
Despite a last minute call from Senator Elizabeth Warren to delay the IPO, SpaceX is set to go public today, making Elon Musk, already the world’s richest man and surely one of its most unsavory, into the world's first trillionaire.In a letter to the SEC, Warren said she has grave concerns about...
Andrew Woodward
Interesting non-announcements from #Icom. The new ID-5200 will come in two models – 20 watt and 50 watt. They also say they have no date of shipping as it’s awaiting FCC approval in the USA. The brochure in Japanese is online here. 12 June 2026
Andy Balaam
More Jez+Andy coding, working on our gunzip clone. Jez figured out we need to iterate bit by bit through the input, so we write a Biterator to do that. The code is at https://codeberg.org/andybalaam/ggunzip. Read Jez's blog at https://www.jezuk.co.uk/ Follow Jez on mastodon:...
Shikhar Sachdev
My girlfriend asked me to write a piece titled Jabulani, so here we are. And I have to publish it in 30 minutes. Vamos. World cup season is upon us and what a wonderful time of the year it is. The fact that it’s hosted in North America this year is also really cool because […] The post Jabulani...
Richard MacManus
Around July last year, I discovered an open source project called MCP-UI — which provided a way to add web-based user interface components to AI agents. The project was brand new, having only been released in May 2025. In early August, I interviewed its two creators, Ido Salomon and Liad Yosef;...
Florents Tselai
One of my favorite definitions of mastery is simple: making the impossible look effortless. We have all seen masters at work. Take football, for instance. Players like Robinho can do spectacular tricks, but they often feel flashy, out of place, or self-serving. Then there is Zinedine Zidane....
Steve
Between last week's exciting trips to the pub(s) and next week's trips to Colchester, Southend and Stoke, I've had a dull but productive week. Yes, it's back to the back-breaking job of cleaning up artwork.Not back-breaking really, but I hunch up and I'm making delicate movements with the mouse to...