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On a short vacation. Typing on my phone. Back home Tuesday. No new posts until then!

(Continued from my last post.) The essential vibe that Uncle Harry’s Will had that felt “original” wasn’t necessarily the car aspect as much as deciphering a riddle while applying it to a large landscape. Many adventures have had cryptic instructions as part of their gameplay, but they usually don’t involve what might happen in a realistic “puzzle hunt” where there’s an enormous amount of extra space, and you have to …

I came across (by accident) the link to all of the BEATCS complexity columns from 1987 to the 2016. See HERE. (If you know a link to a more recent webpage then email me or make a comment. There is a link to all of the issues of BEATCS here; however, I want a page with just the complexity theory columns.)This gave me a trip down memory lane and a …

I do love me some video-games. But one genre I have loved since almost the beginning of my hobbyist career has been racing games. And any keen reader here will note that I almost always have a racing title in my most played of a month (or week, when I did that to myself).I also have a beefy PC that I a built at the tail-end of Covid. In part …

Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. Donate to #TeamEvie and the Literally Healing program at the Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. Go to TinyURL.com/TeamE24, pick a book and make sure to pick Team Evie as the shipping location. I’ll have more ways to donate soon, so watch the feed. We are back with a supersized episode to talk all the …

The website that hosted this review is no longer online so I would like to keep it here. The below review was written when I was sighted. I am fully blind now. Side note, nearly 15 years later, this game seems like some serious fun now! I’d gladly go back and time and tell my younger year old self, hey, trust me, when AAA games get flooded with AI junk …

I’ve been in Essex all week, briefly visiting the hospital every day. I don’t know what else to say about that. § One benefit of being here is that there’s a nice swimming pool 20-25 minutes walk away, so I usually go there every other morning or so. Back home the nearest pool is 25 minutes’ drive away, which feels like a much bigger hassle to get to than the …

Bing use-case! AKA One Weird Trick Time And Date Sites HateIn my prior post¹ I noted that I use 'b' as a Search Shortcut for #Bing. Here is why: * quickly view a Gregorian calendar month display, with readable days, days of the week, and weekends & holidays highlighted.E.g. I type this into my Firefox address bar:b dec 2024then press return and immediately see:Only Microsoft Bing search supports this. On …

(Skippable Backstory) A few months ago, Tammy Winter published a thread of advice for precocious young people. My addendum to it was the following: Build a technical foundation. Opinions differ, but I’ve found it very hard to develop deep technical skills later in life: responsibilities eat into the necessary huge...

I’ve got plenty of fishy plans for the coming weeks but on Saturday afternoon I found myself home alone so figured I might as well go fishing, the question was where? I hadn’t fished in the sea for a month and hadn’t planned to head east again this autumn but with high tide due around 1900 if fit the time slot perfectly. So I put some gear together, rummaged in …

An old countess has a secret: she knows the three cards to play in order to win every time she gambles. When a military officer learns of this, he becomes obsessed with gaining the knowledge and will stop at nothing. Home Media Availability: Official DVD release is out of print but there are unofficial versions […]

September was fairly action-packed. I enjoyed getting out on a friend’s boat around Poole and the Solent. The Isle of Wight’s needles Old Harry’s Rocks I made it to the Labour party conference in Liverpool, which was fascinating albeit wet. I am apparently firmly in the tax-raising sights of the Government, but I wasn’t the only potential target at the conference. I enjoyed some work drinks with an elevated view …

“If I could wave a magic wand, and change one thing about your life, what would it be?”These are the types of questions uncles ask, I suppose. At least curious uncles like me.The younger nephew’s response was to be allowed more time for video games, and to not have to go to school (because he would learn everything “directly”).His older brother’s response eventually settled on having the ability to teleport …

Although I’ve been working alongside the team at Humane for over a year, this week I made the leap to join full-time with the generous support and encouragement of the founders. Imran also caught this photo of me using my SX-70 which for me, makes the moment all the more special. I was lucky when GK3 first brought me in to meet the design team and it’s been a great …

I thought it would be fun to revisit Known, the open source publishing platform that powers my site.How it worksKnown allows a team or community to publish news on any topic to a single, searchable stream of content that’s easily accessible from any device. It is not a full CMS, and nor is it designed for independent publishers to sell subscriptions; instead, it’s optimized for publishing to a single feed.Every …