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Don’t be swayed by the sound of environmental protest: these songs were first sung in the voice of the cutter, not the tree - by Richard Smyth Read at Aeon

I have a slight problem where I have too many computers in my office. These extra computers are my homelab, or a bunch of slack compute that I can use to run various workloads at …

Jakob’s Law of UX goes something like this. I, as a user online, spend my time on many sites. As such, when I come to your site, I am already used to the way the …

I watched the animated film ‘Wolfwalkers’ again last night, and marvelled again at the beauty of this gorgeous film. I think I’ve seen all of the feature length ‘Cartoon Saloon’ films now (some, like Wolfwalkers, …

In the span of two posts here I’ve witnessed two astronomical events! First the total solar eclipse, and then more recently the aurora borealis. Both were amazing, especially the aurora. I’d never seen either before …

The following are notes I took from the "Where to Live" chapter of David Pogue's book "How to Prepare for Climate Change". If you are thinking about what life in your area may be like …

Changing planes to go drinking in Cleveland 2024-03-01T00:00:00+00:00, by Emma Humphries, from Infinite Wishes 🏳️‍⚧️🚀 “Doors are Portals”* is one of my favorite tropes, and Otherwise Award Winner Maureen Mchugh has a wonderful take on …

I found myself wanting to host a private website that I could reliably update, but only serve it to users on my tailnet. I didn't find anything obvious that could do the job, but I …

Oops! Usually when I fail to post on time and then illegally backdate the post, yielding a penalty of -1,000 points, it's shortly after midnight. Like, as I'm trying to fall asleep (which of course …

Recently, somewhat by accident, I stumbled into reading a couple of monstrously racist texts, and I’m going to need to update the Wikipedia entry for a famous British author. But I learned a few things …

SteamOS 3 (“Holo”) is the Arch-based Linux distribution built for the Steam Deck, Valve Software’s portable PC gaming device. It’s a very interesting Linux distribution even when you only focus on how it updates itself: …

A new city has been proposed in California, and I’ve never been more captivated by a vision for the future of my home state in my lifetime. This post is part of a series I’m …

This is an adaptation of an internal doc I wrote for Wave. I used to think that behavioral interviews were basically useless, because it was too easy for candidates to bullshit them and too hard …

I've been feeling kind of ... broken lately. Broken in the way that a car breaks down. Like I have a flat tire or two, the alignment is screwed up, the A/C doesn't work any …