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...
Admin
Dear Friends,Registration is now open for the Dutch Open 2026 Impressioning and Lockpicking competitions, taking place in Arnhem on 27 and 28 June 2026. (Competition registration deadline: June 22 (23:59) 2026.) You can find the link to register in the text below.This year’s event is focused on...
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:...
blank
I like to take walks and sometimes on those walks, while I am admiring the nature/scenery, I realize how insane it is for me to be experiencing. For my mind to give me the ability to think, have memories to feel, to think about my own thinking. These days it boggles my mind to think about how many...
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....
billhook
This is going to be a living document that I'll add to as I need. Mostly it's just for my players, especially Nicole who's playing a Priest (Priest is a gender neutral noun when translated from Thracian, fight me), but also Miranda because she was curious. Gods of LawMithras - Soldiers, Oaths,...
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...
Bangkok Glutton
I love fried chicken. It’s one of the things that I feel betrays my true Thai-ness. I mean, I may not really act like a Thai person, or speak Thai perfectly, but at least I eat like a Thai person. … Continue reading →
fluffy
Oh yeah so a lot has been going on, this past week especially has been bonkers, and I’m super happy about things right now. FuralityFurality went great! I had a lot of fun seeing folks I hadn’t seen in a while, a heck of a lot of people checked out my booth, I gained a lot of new fans, and I...
Alex Aitken
In the previous post, I wrote about deciding which parts of an expense workflow should be automated first. Some decisions are better handled with ordinary code. Some need model judgement. Some should surface information for a reviewer without making the final call. Over time, the goal is to...
Mark Callaghan
This has results for modern Postgres and MySQL using write-heavy tests from sysbench and a large server. I think there are regressions in Postgres that arrive in some of versions 16, 17, 18 and 19 beta1 but I am far from certain and this blog post is just another step in my journey to figure that...
bcengine
Cleared on first try. Really intense and epic. Incredible visuals, like maybe the most visually impressive shmup I've played so far. Fun, want to replay. I like the coins and unlocks that don't impact gameplay, fun way to get me to want to replay the game. The visual signals of incoming enemies...
Mohammad Azam
What’s New in SwiftData for iOS 27
Marc-André Moreau
MSIX solves real packaging problems, but package identity and filesystem virtualization change where applications and settings live. For ISVs, the settings path is the bigger risk: customer state, rollback, support workflows, and migration from MSI all depend on predictable paths.
Allan MacGregor
Kubernetes is overkill for most applications. I've watched teams spend months building deployment pipelines that could have been replaced by a single SSH command and a process manager; the tooling became the product and the product became an afterthought. The industry's obsession with container...
82MHz
A few weeks ago I gave myself permission to skip the intro of these posts if I can't think of anything interesting or clever to say, and I skipped it twice since then. Well, I've been informed that people miss the intro, so I'm going to do my best to bring it back ;) There's just not a lot...
Brian McQuay
Every fix to an AI code-review prompt risks silently breaking a previous one. Here's the case for behavioral regression tests — pinning a PR, a commit, and an expected flag — so your agents actually improve over time instead of trading one caught issue for another.
Chris Weigant
As the Beatles sagely put it, a very long time ago: "I don't care too much for money / Money can't buy me love." Tom Steyer just found this out, for the second time. Or perhaps we should look to Silicon Valley, which adopted a slogan from the advertising industry a while back: "It doesn't matter...
prasangika-matters
Alexandre ZANNI
InformationRoom#Name: SupportProfile: tryhackme.comDifficulty: MediumDescription: Pentest the Support Ops platform to exploit vulnerabilities and achieve RCE.Write-upOverview#Install tools used in this WU on BlackArch Linux:sudo pacman -S nmap ffuf legba curl john var ctx =...
obsvr
Kristian
Here is a comic for the whiny crybabies in my Instagram comments! Every time a bigot gets offended by rainbow colors in a comic strip it truly feeds my soul.
Unknown
To cut a long story short, I was recently on a long-haul flight and ended up watching The Empire Strike Back and part of Return of the Jedi on the in-flight entertainment screen.I haven't watched a Star Wars film since The Force Awakens came out at the cinema and I don't believe I had seen any for...
Aras' website
A tweet by @VehiclePhysics sparked my interest. It basically says: For most math functions (Sqrt, Sin, Cos, Log, Pow…), prefer System.MathF over UnityEngine.Mathf. Unity’s Mathf casts to double, calls the double version, then converts back to float. System.MathF calls the float-native...
Akseli
I prefer ice tea or chocolate milk. Just joining the blogspam shitposting dont mind me. Context: https://www.gordonmclean.co.uk/2026/06/11/yes-buy-me-a-coffee https://michaelharley.net/posts/2026/06/11/re-no-i-wont-buy-you-a-coffee/ https://hakkerman.eu/blog/i-wont-buy-you-a-coffee/
Adrian Roselli
Hi, just me heading off some bad advice I’m starting to see in developer venues. Background The proposed Document Outline Algorithm, where headings would automatically reset themselves to the appropriate level based on their position in the DOM structure, was never part of a final HTML...
adumbchildindogschool
My wife teaches undergrad art, and I was talking to one of her students, who is hilarious, about making your own website. She had some experience with that kind of thing, but still felt like she didn't really know what she was doing. I was answering her questions, and then she stopped, and said...
Andi
I reread Mayne’s (2019) on contribution analysis today and see he also allows a “what works for whom”: “… a more interesting and important contribution claim is around this evaluation question: How and why has the intervention (or component) made a difference, or not, and for whom?” (p....
miquel-tort
La transición hacia una vida con menos recursos materiales no es una opción ideológica; es un proceso ya en marcha para millones de hogares.
Fredrik
Hutcherson is dope. View...
blobfood
having a fun time with the last dinner party lately! i listened to their first album (prelude to ecstasy) a while back and really dug it. sort of waffled on their second album (from the pyre) when it came out late last year. it was one that didn't catch my attention on a first pass-- kind of felt...
Bill Bennett
In this edition:Five-year fibre regulation on the tableIndustry calls for connectivity strategySpark fights impersonatorsOne NZ tops benchmark tableNext fibre price-quality regulation to run for five yearsA Commerce Commission draft decision paper makes a case for extending Chorus’ fibre...
fluffy
Hey y'all! My birthday is coming up this Sunday. I have the following things going on: I’ll be spending some time in VR for the Trans Academy Trans Pride festival, and in particular will be speaking on the music production panel which is at 10:45 AM, Pacific time I’m going to be seeing The...
dignitybydesign
A note on Leanne: She is a composite character, assembled from research, interviews, and the kind of experience that belongs to millions of specific people rather than any one of them. If you recognize her, that's the point.
anureet
Luna my friend my confidante ever present seen in times in part as I am parted from the one who seeks me As I yearn in the dark moon glow comforts & I don’t feel so alone
Hugo RoJo
No me ha sorprendido lo más mínimo descubrir que Giuseppe Sellaroli, co-creador del estudio Relatively Painless Games y programador además de co-diseñador/co-guionista/etc… de la aventura Uncle Lee’s Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster, sea físico matemático. No porque el personaje que da nombre...
ArizonaBikeLaw
In some ways, this is a typical fatal crash, a negligent driver kills another person, in this instance, a fellow motorist. In other ways, something else must be going on because precious few drivers who kill go to prison; and ones that do nearly always involve DUI, yet there’s (apparently) no...
Jo Brodie
Viking Saturn has just left Dover (actual time of departure 18:28 Thu 11 June) and is due to arrive in Greenwich tomorrow morning (possibly 4am, possibly 11am – see below). Note that VesselFinder uses UTC which coincides with GMT, not BST so add an hour to the times above.Image comes from...
Alexander R Pruss
In order to give valid consent, the subjects in an experiment need to be informed about all the harms that the experimenter plans to impose on them. Being deceived is a harm. Therefore, in order to give valid consent, the subjects in an experiment where the experimenter plans to use deceit need to...