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Exploring different ways to make sense of OpenStreetMap data.

Let’s talk about the basic concept of the "making app". I’ve written about this before, and demoed it in some of my public project walk-throughs, but there’s no single straightforward explanation out there, so let’s …

This week, US Presidential candidate Kamala Harris announced that her choice to join her on the ballot as running mate is Tim Walz, who's currently governor of Minnesota.A number of people on Bluesky, in the …

What are dreams like, experientially? One common view is that dreams are like hallucinations. They involve sensory or sensory-like experiences just as if, or almost as if, you were in the environment you are dreaming …

It looks like that Orson Cart has been playing with his caravan again. Jack Plane

This is what happens when you hire Florida Man as your attorney: Attorney William F. Koegler had been acting as special prosecutor in the Miami (Florida) Court of Crimes all the week. Then he changed …

A recent collection of Lovecraftian stories I got is The Doom That Came to Dunwich, subtitled “Selected Stories of Lovecraftian Mystery. Edited by Philip Harbottle, it collects nine stories by Richard A. Lupoff (1935-2020). Harbottle …

This is a short but perfect synopsis of the internet in the form of an Iron Man transforming helmet cosplay. How people even come up with stuff like this I will never know, but I …

Hey. Thanks for reading this. And, more so, thanks for reading and commenting on everything else before this on TV-VCR. But, I’m sorry to say, this is all there will be to read. This is …

🔦 Convoy S2+ Brass Flashlight Review on ZeroAir Reviews 🔦The Convoy S2+ Brass flashlight - finally brass! It offers high CRI in an extraordinarily photogenic brass host. It's the same S2+ as usual, but so …

French watchmaker Charlie Paris has developed a bit of a fan base here at The Time Bum. I discovered the brand through their excellent Condocrdia dive watch and was delighted… The post Charlie Paris GR …

Notes for season 5, episode 13, “return 0“ 08:26 Even with HR removed, it’s apparently not hard to find a bunch of cops at the precinct that would execute fellow officers for “a nice fat …

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Idea to be interrogated: Selective ignorance might actually save your life. It is OK to care less. What matters most is to attend the things you can control/change/affect. The more you try to control the …

Earlier today I got a surprise invitation to Google Foobar,1 a series of coding tests presented as a text adventure. You’re presented with a normal terminal interface, and a few familiar commands like ls, cd, …