The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai
Traveling the Bay Area and beyond to find the best Mai Tai in the world! Tiki, cocktails, and adventures by Kevin Crossman.
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Dr. Funk Tiki Mug and Marketplace
Downtown San Jose was the place to be today for the inaugural tiki marketplace at Dr. Funk at San Pedro Square. There were a number of notable tiki and retro vendors, and the pedestrian-friendly locale …
By Kevin Crossman, 323 words
Daily Records and Other Auditory Musings
A music blog serving up a daily record recommendation, by Pulin Kothari.
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278. DREAMTIME by The Cult
This 1984 debut record by The Cult (after they changed their name from Death Cult) addressed lead singer Ian Astbury's interest with Native American cultures and themes that would continue throughout most of the The …
By Pulin Kothari, 148 words
Daniel Sroka Open Studio
I am a fine art nature photographer, and these are my reflections on making art: the inspiration, the process, and the business.
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About the art: Vaulting
Vaulting, an abstract of a leaf. ©2024 Daniel Sroka. Some leaves seem to stay in motion even after they’ve landed on the ground. When I found this leaf last fall, I was first struck by …
By Daniel Sroka, 86 words
Critical Distance
"Where is all the good writing about games?".
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August 4th
Welcome back readers. It was very painful this week to hear of Game Informer’s sudden shuttering, layoff-ing, and off-lining, as such a long-running publication that has continued to publish good work for nearly as long …
By Chris Lawrence, 990 words
Tim Apple
Stories, poems, essays, and ramblings.
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Veterans Day 2024, Katusas
Last night, I posted to my friends and family on Facebook for Veterans Day. I always try to put something up. On this night, I wasn't thinking of US soldiers particularly. My thoughts were on …
Zettelkasten knowledge and info management
A Zettelkasten is a personal tool for thinking and writing that creates an interconnected web of thought. Its emphasis is on connection and not mere collection of ideas.
By Sascha Fast, Christian Tietze.
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The Collector’s Fallacy and Reward Dependency
Dear Zettlers, During a coaching session, I talked about a specific incarnation of the Collector’s Fallacy: Buying books and never reading them. My client correctly identified part of the cause for his behavior: He is …
The Unconventional Gardener – Blog
Plants. Space. Plants in Space.
By Emma Doughty.
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The Space Gal’s taking seeds to space!
When Emily Calandrelli launches on her upcoming suborbital space mission, she'll be carrying a pocketful of plants.
By Emma Doughty, 24 words
Tao of Mac
Keeping Things Simple.
By Rui Carmo.
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Notes for November 11-17
I have been taking a bit more care of myself–largely by forcing myself out of the house as much as possible, completely shutting off Teams every now and then (focus time doesn’t prevent people from …
Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster
I tend to talk about whatever game I’ve been playing recently, something to do with whatever game I’ve been playing recently, and on occasion tangential game-related thoughts.
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Touhou Genso Wanderer Foresight: An approachable take on a tough genre
Roguelikes—the sort of game where one person (with maybe an ally or two in tow) battles through a series of randomly generated dungeons until death or hunger finally claims them—aren’t known for being kind. Helpful …
Going back to electronic after a 20 years break
By meanX.
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CH32V3, debug in ram with vscode continued
Summary of previous episodes (CH32v3):1- Reallocate shadow ram to have 128k of RAM2- In flash, put a basic harmless loop3- Tweak the linker script to put everything in ram4- Load the code (to ram), change …
Thomas' Random Hackery
Web, hardware and other random hackery.
By Thomas Hollstegge.
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ws2mqtt - Connect WiSafe2 devices to Home Assistant
ws2mqtt - Connect WiSafe2 devices to Home Assistant
colin_morris
I’m a funemployed programmer and deep learning enthusiast.
By Colin Morris.
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Does ChatGPT know about things Wikipedia doesn't?
I’ve spent a lot of time editing Wikipedia. I do it for many reasons, but one of the sillier ones floating around the margins of my consciousness is that I like to think that, by …
A Less Mad March
Blogging, generally about Rust.
By Adam Chalmers.
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My Developer Voices interview
Kris Jenkins of Developer Voices spoke to me on his podcast! We talked about KittyCAD and its language, which I'm building for my work at Zoo. You can listen to it wherever you get your …
RabbitFarm
By Adam Russell.
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Double Luhn
The examples used here are from the weekly challenge problem statement and demonstrate the working solution. Part 1: Double Exist You are given an array of integers, @ints. Write a script to find if there …
Impressions of Vince
Commentary, discussions and random thoughts about San Francisco-born jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi, beloved by many … and affectionately known as Dr. Funk.
By Derrick Bang, Scott McGuire.
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Heart and soul!
Valentine's Day will come early next year.January 17 will see the first-ever release of Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack to Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown.This soundtrack debut will be one of the first highlights during what promises …
By Derrick Bang, 627 words