Blisscast
Have you ever hated and loved a video game at the same time? Or, perhaps, have you ever had a complicated relationship with one? Maybe it’s a game that has many flaws, yet manages to deliver fantastic moments often enough to make you rethink your opinion of it as you play it; for me, that game is...
Adnan
This post is part of the Voiceflow Series Chatbots have become a common part of modern businesses. Companies use them to answer customer questions, collect leads, assist with online purchases, schedule appointments, and much more. Their conversational nature makes it easier for users to get the...
Mark Callaghan
This has results for Postgres versions 19 beta1, 18.4 and 17.10 with the Insert Benchmark on a small server using a cached and CPU-bound workload.Postgres continues to be boring in a good way. It is hard to find performance regressions. tl;drI don't see regressions here in 19 beta1I see some...
Barbecue17
Today I'm finally starting to check out The Order of the Crimson Moon, the latest collaboration between Fresh Monkey Fiction and Big Bad Workshop. This line shares parts with other Big Bad Workshop lines such as Operation: Monster Force, Soldiers of Fortune, and C.O.P.S. & Crooks but has a...
Amal El-Mohtar
Dear Friends,I last wrote on March 24, from the Pacific, the day Seasons of Glass and Iron was released into the world, on the cusp of travelling to promote it. Today is June 5, and I'm stunned to look up and see the year's halfway point in the near distance. A week ago I started writing what I...
michael-graeme
Steven Garrity
My friend and colleague at silverorange, Jacky, is a great designer and a great writer. For years, we’ve used “Uber for Dogs” as a shorthand for a hypothetical example of a solution coming before the problem. I love Jacky’s writing style, and found this article to be a lovely serving of human...
MPorcius
The last time we mined stories from the Honorable Mentions list at the back end of Judith Merril's Year's Best SF: Fifth Annual Edition, we read stories by four people whose names began with "C" and with whose work I was not very familiar. Today we've got some Merril-approved "D"s and two of them...
binarydigit
I'm trying out Cara.app after all this time. It seems to be by artists for artists which is nice - no influencers or content creators, just artists giving feedback to each other. 🩶 Playing with Procreate textures is fun! And I just got amazing news so I'm in a wonderful mood.
pb
22-06-26. This was a pretty awful day out. The light was crappy and my mood was worse. Kinda cold and nothing was flying - birds or butterflies. (Lots of mayflies, but that's hardly compensation.) To try and cheer ourselves up we had chosen a favourite walk: catch the tram to Balgreen then walk to...
widewing
‘Cyfieithu’ as a Welsh Keyword
Mr. Karswell
Now listen up! I've inadvertently created a "wet 'n wild" theme with the last few posts, --so howz'about one more from the August 1953 issue of Mystery Tales #14 -- it's guaranteed to send you over the edge! Paul Reinman once again delivers the wicked wedded goods, and Mr. Karswell may have even...
Sabine Hossenfelder
Paul W. Homer
I use the term ‘software system’ loosely. I usually intend it to mean: all of the boundaries for a set of related solutions that have been or will be implemented with software.In that sense, it is less about the technical parts of the ‘system’ and more about how they all come together to help...
atmosphericunderworld
Old dice, once (still?) my father's, worn from decades of use. Many moons ago, when setting myself to the task of developing a post-apocalyptic TTRPG in the style of The Last of Us, I spent the better part of three months pilfering ideas from random rulebooks and playing around with anydice,...
Michael
Written by MichaelWe haven’t played a game from Humongous Entertainment in a little while, since Ilmari played 1993’s Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon. While he tackled the first three of their games covered by the blog, I’m happy to settle in for a new series of theirs.Much like Ilmari in 2018, I also...
andrew lainton
AJ Government to launch data centre design contest The Data Centre Design Challenge, the first government-backed competition of its kind, will be led by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and will be open to architects, designers and engineers. Entrants will be asked to...
bacist
Introduction Just like in the case of Bologna, we came to Kaunas with a specific goal, but what stayed in our memory was an entire city. Kaunas is home to the Čiurlionis Museum, which holds a large collection of his works, and that museum was the main reason for our trip. But Kaunas itself...
Jack
Meet Alex Healing looks different for everyone. For Alex, it has been a journey of courage, self-discovery, and learning to face a past that shaped far more of her life than she once realized. In this Q&A, she shares her experience of surviving childhood sexual abuse, becoming a parent,...
slwriter
atchistory
Sadly Coventry closed on June 11th 2026 EGBE Coventry (Baginton) BE0, BE0a,b, c and (below) from Barry Davidson Jet Provost XP551 at Coventry in front of the tower following photos via Chris Stock BE1 Coventry radar BE2 ...
Allen Lau
Software is not dead. It is about to be everywhere.Earlier this year, GitHub COO Kyle Daigle said GitHub is now seeing 275M commits per week, versus about 1B commits in all of 2025. Annualized, that implies a pace of roughly 14.3B commits this year, or about 14x last year’s total.It is not a...
Dr Marcus Bunyan
June 2026 Duane Michals (American, 1932-2026)What is Time?1994Gelatin silver print16 × 19 7/8 inches (40.6 × 50.5cm)Gift of Duane MichalsThe Morgan Library & Museum “Time is the duration of everything, and life is an event, a fluttering of wings.” Duane...
CLM
The villagers do not know what to make of Muffler, a foundling named after the white scarf he was wrapped in when discovered in a hen’s nest. Brought up by a childless couple, Simon and Meg, he is a goatherd (but not a lonely one), talking to his herd, composing rhymes and telling stories. Read...
milraiz
May the gleam of the sun’s light be forever within me.
J D Lowe
One of 4 (!) Pillsbury Hoppers bought at Van Horne Hobbies.You may recall that almost exactly 6 years ago I posted a few photos of brand new Pillsbury hoppers I saw in the Havelock Yard sometime in the mid-1970s. Then in the late fall of 2023 I posted about a micro-layout I built based on a...
Ashley Watson-Nolan
It's been almost 7 years since my last blog post. Just writing that down makes me sad (and cringe a little bit too!). Being fair to myself, that time away lines up with when my eldest daughter Alice came on the scene…and to be doubly fair, her sister Izzy turned up a couple of years after that...
TomCat
P.J. Fitzsimmons' Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling (2023) is the seventh historical locked room comedy in the Anthony "Anty" Boisjoly series, sporting a title that could have been used for an episode of Scooby Doo, Where Are You!, but "longer and more involved" than previous entries –...
antonyhall
These cardes are embeded in a data base within the cryptogamic oracle app – cureerntly there are 72. They are a work in progress. New cards are addedd removed as the project develops….In the app each user generated reading binds a new image to the cards and the full deck of cards with images...
Ankur Sethi
There are a handful of technical blog posts in my bookmarks that made me go oh, I never thought of it that way when I first read them.I'm talking about posts like Parse, don't validate, Text Editing Hates You Too, Choose Boring Technology, or Making illegal states unrepresentable. I consider these...
Richard Bartholomew
Although it hasn’t so far made the mainstream news, Ant Middleton has been welcomed by Reform UK at the Makerfield by-election campaign: images on social media show the former soldier and SAS: Who Dares Wins TV presenter posing with local canvassers and with the candidate, Rob Kenyon, as well as...
AntiPolygraph.org
HPSCI Ranking Member Jim Himes In a 10 June 2026 letter to President Trump, Democratic members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) criticized his decision to appoint Bill Pulte as Acting Director of Intelligence. They urged him to “rescind his appointment...
Bill
Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand - 2003 In the summer of 2003 I flew out to Sydney to meet my sister who was living there at the time. We spent a couple of weeks travelling around New Zealand. It was winter there and we ended up spending time with friends, but also...
agentpalmer
Despite all of the incredible television advertising catchphrases that still live in my millennial head, one still has a stranglehold: “The incredible, edible egg.” Yes, yes, television was supposed to rot my generation’s collective brain, but it seems downright healthy compared to the subsequent...
betaveros
Laptop companies report the capacity of their laptop batteries, and also like advertising that their laptops have however many hours of battery life. It's easy to derive their (advertised) power usage by combining these two numbers. As examples to study, I picked three laptops that Wirecutter...
anondev
These feelings about AI and why it feels weird. I consider myself to be a builder and someone who can build things. I love building prototypes and novel things, especially love being on the side of discovery. It feels rewarding and fulfilling. With advent of agentic coding, vibe coding, vibe...
Bozhidar Batsov
Regular readers know I have a soft spot for AsciiDoc – I’ve written about it more than once, and it’s the markup behind the documentation of most of my bigger OSS projects (CIDER, nREPL, Projectile, RuboCop). It hits a sweet spot Markdown never quite reaches: rich enough for proper technical...
alecm
Europe is following where China and Iran lead, America dithers: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/europe/end-open-internet
Matthew Haughey
Earlier this week we decided to try out a quick camping trip in our VW Buzz EV at Beverly Beach State Park, just outside of Newport, Oregon.It's only 75 miles away from home so with our 230mi battery, we didn't even need to charge, but more importantly, we wanted to use this trip to test out what...
balancedbean
Constantly seeing yourself as broken or flawed is not the kind of mindset one should ever have. Nobody deserves to carry such a heavy mental baggage. Everyone has issues. Everyone has their own set of problems. Problems are not an issue. Life, in essence, is problem solving but having a skewed...
Arun Chandrasekaran
Jack Shear
We've been doing group watches of Weird Westerns over on the Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque Discord server. To keep it varied, I've tried to run the gamut--from eerie psychological horror on the prairie and movies heavy on the brutality to mean-spirited revenge tragedies and the weirdest...
John AE5X
ArkansasHeavy rains made for muddy riding through a beautiful state. I managed a quick activation (US-4425) just before the rain started but the high winds preceding the rain made the audio from the activation's recording unsuitable for posting to YouTube.Thanks all, for the contacts.Lunch was at...
ancientshell
New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more?" Hello there, Continuing with the ongoing campaign, our Gamma World PCs were fighting against a zombie like android at an abandoned military base. When things took a surprising turn. As the android hit the atomic energy cell...
axxuy
Here’s a radical question for my corner of the internet: what did we lose when blogs took over? Reply by email
Mathieu Aumont
A quick update # If you read my previous post on astrophotography, you may remember I had decided to order a Vespera II. Well. Supply issues, long delays, and a price that was getting harder and harder to justify. I cancelled the order. And I ended up buying a Seestar S30Pro. Yes, the one I had...
Alejandro M. P.
Since I’ve been working with AI agentic tools, and especially since I’ve been working on the various incarnations of my own agent harness, there is something that is very clear to me.One of the most powerful things you can give an AI is the power of reflection.Not in the mystical sense. I don’t...
aldur
I have written at length about containers and VMs on this blog: I use them daily to segregate work, contain rogue AI agents, and defend against supply-chain attacks. To build a good developer experience, I package everything with NixOS. A couple of days ago Apple released v1.0.0 of container, a...
Dave Hook
The Short: After reading five pastiches of Jane Austen‘s novel Pride and Prejudice including several works of speculative fiction, I ended up rereading Pride and Prejudice as well for the first time in 50 years. I recommend several works, including the superlative 2018 novel Pride and Prometheus...
Robert Denerstein
I can't say I've been eagerly hoping for another martial arts movie. After a string of John Wick movies, I thought I'd had enough. It didn't take long, though, for me to get caught up in the preposterously exaggerated action of The Furious, a movie that begins by telling us that it's set...