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Leaving Mastodon and Bluesky earlier this year was a great decision and I don’t regret it one bit—except for the part where some of my friends don’t blog at all and I miss them terribly. But that’s okay because the intense doomscrolling burnout continues to be too big of a tradeoff, and up until about ten days ago my time away from the electrically charged firehose of rage bait and …

The Wayback Machine, Archive.org, Archive-it.org, and OpenLibrary.org came up in stages over the week after cyberattacks with some of the contributor features coming up over the last couple of weeks. A few to go. Much of the development during this time has been focused on securing the services so they can still run while attacks continue. The Internet Archive is adapting to a more hostile world, where DDOS attacks are …

Well, huh... here we are.This post has been in the queue for two weeks or so now. It's involved a lot of note-taking, thinking, writing, and rewriting—rinse and repeat.For this post, I wanted to jot down a bunch of random things, take a step back, and then come back later when I had some additional thoughts sorted out in my brain.And don't fret - I won't get into politics here. …

Pulled from a memo posted around the Idaho State Correctional Institution Nov. 15, 2024. IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO __________________________________________ Reuben Cortes, Pete Kimball Roberts, et al., Plaintiffs v. Josh Tewalt, et al., Defendants __________________________________________ Case No. 1:18-CV-00001-BLW Notice of Petition for Payment of Attorney Fees and Court’s Intent … Continue reading "Notice of Petition and Intent to Grant Payment for Attorneys Fees in …

Micropayments, microbilling, microtransactions, call it what you will; it is one of those ideas people say they want but actually do not. In particular, micropayments are not a viable replacement...

Who are you, and what do you do? I'm Michelle, and I'm a member of the team at The Pudding, which is a publication of visual, data-driven essays. Some of my favorite projects are about the sounds of Mexico City, monkeys playing piano, and the most extra national anthem performances. Creating these stories involves data analysis, data visualization, front-end web development, design, and writing. My background is in computer science, …

With panto preparations in progress across the country, Dick Whittington is making his annual trip to London to seek his fortune. This year, Dick finds himself in Greenwich Theatre, where panto veteran Anthony Spargo is writing the show for a third time. Spargo is joined in the cast by panto regular Louise Cielecki, who played Muddles in last year’s brilliant production of Snow White. We caught up with them to …

This was (I think) a CapnAhab design. I added a pilot and some engine detail, but that's all, and I printed it on my Mars Pro at 1:200 scale.The model has no wing-rib or control surface detail at all, and I've just painted some in. The effect is fine, for a gaming piece, and having smooth surfaces instead of ribbed certainly does make applying decals a bajillion times easier.I've messed …

The original: Vagammo tutto il pomeriggio in cerca d’un luogo a fare di due vite una. Rumorosa la vita, adulta, ostile, minacciava la nostra giovinezza. Ma qui giunti ove ancor cantano i grilli, quanto silenzio sotto questa luna.\ Two young lovers are looking for a place where they can “make one life out of two.” All the afternoon they wander around under the sun, surrounded by the noise and the …

In early May 2017, a tree at 16th Street and Meridian Place NW began to sag:Within a week or so, somebody did a bit of trimming to let the pedestrians by more conveniently:But earlier this fall, somebody just dealt with it,leaving some child from the neighborhood to decorate what was left.

One of the odd things about the social media era is becoming "friends" with musical legends and cult figures that you've never met. Musicians you've interviewed and interacted with in real life - that's one thing, that makes sense. But I get a little shiver when I see a name like Annette Peacock, Michael Rother, Peter Perrett and John Perry, or Andy Ellison (of John's Children renown) pop up in …

I've just read Exploring JavaScript Symbols, and it's quite good. It includes a tiny JavaScript nugget that I wasn't very aware of. JS symbols are an underrated language feature that I probably should use for more things. And let alone the nicely nerdy well-known symbols that help you to really understand how JavaScript works under the hood. One of these symbol use cases is hiding properties in a good old …

Pricing & AvailabilityWhat comes in the box?Design & ConstructionSize & MeasurementsUser InterfaceEmitter & BeamMode ChartRuntimeDriver & RegulationSwitchCarry & ErgonomicsBatteries & ChargingOLED DisplayCompetitionConclusion Pricing & Availability Nitecore sent me this light in exchange for an honest review. Here is the official product page where you can see current pricing. At the time of writing, MSRP is $110 USD. What comes in the box? The box is Nitecore’s typical black printed retail …

Today I revived my Tech Aloud podcast1. Since the last time I published an episode, the infrastructure has changed, in that the Anchor FM platform I was using has been subsumed into Spotify. While in the longer term I want to move to my own podcast platform (perhaps Castopod), I wanted to get a new episode out, specifically a recording of my recent long-form blog post Five reasons to use …

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