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Reading Time: 34 minutes HELLO I AM BACK HELLO! What have YOU done with the past few weeks of your life? I have singularly failed to take a holiday of any sort (how does one …

A flood of users left X and moved to Bluesky over the weekend. I’ve written a bunch of times in the past about Bluesky, and have gone from grumpy frustration to general acceptance of the …

I went off to see Megalopolis excitedly knowing that a lot of people think it sucked, because even if it sucked I figured it would have some interesting thing to say about “the Future” and …

As part of a grand experiment to encourage recycling of those oh-so-essential cardboard drink carriers from the Main Street Bakery on Main Street U.S.A., a few recycling cans have been blessed with what can only …

Dear Readers, Over the years, some of us (the past and present members of the collective that runs this blog) have been fortunate enough to meet some of you. We say fortunate, because such encounters …

It’s always so quiet up here. I think the lack of noise makes it worse. Oh, there are the machines humming away everywhere. The thousands of crisp little noises from the computer and all the …

A bunch of years ago, I threw together Sauntering verse. Based on an individual going on a walk, it uses what3words as a source for collecting words, related to the locations the person moves through, …

‘There’s no such thing as privacy anymore: Whatever you’re up to, someone, somewhere has all the details. Even if you take heroic steps to mask your online activity and scrupulously protect your privacy in real-life …

So I've been revisiting N. Robin Crossby's Hârn setting, a cool sorta low-magic medieval world that been around since the 80's. Hârn has its own system, HârnMaster, but no mechanics appear in the setting book. …

One of the biggest complaints new creators have is that they hate dealing with stretch goals. it’s a common customer complaint too, because if you do stretch goals wrong (you are), you’ll overburden your project …

Министерството на носталгията предупреждава: този продукт може да съдържа печени чушки. Както лошото време отминава и е неразделна част от природата, така и лошите моменти от миналото са важна част от живота. Според Защото обичам …

It has five letters. Why must you keep inventing wrong spellings? - Tagged: Rant, Naming

When developing apps for multiple platforms, providing a native experience is key to making users feel at home. Android users expect certain behaviors that differ from what iOS users are used to, and vice versa. …

When building forms in React applications, React Select is a popular library that offers nearly everything you need to create customizable select inputs. Some key features include: Multi-select Async options Fixed options Full accessibility Advanced …

It’s Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, so I’m out at Squam, eating delicious food and spending time with family. When I was living on the west coast that wasn’t really in the cards, so we’d host our …