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HTTP/2 From Scratch: Part 3

Decoding HPACK and the evolution of the HTTP header

Register for State of the South: Jacksonville

We’re just two weeks out from State of the South: Jacksonville - sign up now before registration closes at the end of this week! - MDC and LISC Jacksonville are partnering to host a convening March...

An indie blog’s directory of indie blog directories

Blogs are back. RSS is cool again. (Said the blogger to his RSS feed.)Here is a collection of small, independent directories of blogs, personal websites, and smol/indie/slow/human web sites that I’...

Paypal can charge you a 'Dispute Fee' even if you did nothing in a transaction

On the 15th of January I got the following email from a stranger: Good day Roy, I just sent money on your PayPal by mistake. Accidently I typed the wrong email and sent you money that was supposed ...

Choices

Early yesterday afternoon, I fell asleep and slept throughout the rest of the entire day and through the night. That antipsychotic I took the night before really wiped me out. I woke up this mornin...

Solar Warning

Neopack is live

Slowly emerges from the sixth sea of silence. Hello! I’m back for the time being. I started working on a handful of projects, and those have been taking up my blogging time. Sorry for the inconsist...

Autonomous AI In Law Firms: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

This is not an argument against the use of AI agents. It is an argument for discipline. The post Autonomous AI In Law Firms: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? appeared first on Above the Law.

Save A Penny, Lose A Person

Read Save A Penny, Lose A Person While I was working for this company, we sometimes had to file papers in person at municipalities. If they were close enough to our office, someone from the office ...

Equal Protection Clause Challenge to Single-Sex Public School Classes Can Go Forward

Plus, some allegations of some unusual teacher behavior in the boys' class.

Russia Uses Past to Justify Indoctrination of Ukrainian Children

Tatiana Vorozhko and Yuliia Khimeryk

GrapheneOS-Motorola Partnership

Motorola and GrapheneOS announced a new partnership for developing phones that meet GrapheneOS’s security standards (see Motorola News and GrapheneOS Forum Post). This strikes me as good news after...

Another Tomato

I’m still enjoying programming in OCaml, but because most of the code I have written to date is a toy compiler that may not go anywhere at the end, I realised I didn’t have anything to show my prog...

Geese in the Snow in Brooklyn Bridge Park

Sharing photos of geese on a snow-covered lawn in Brooklyn Bridge Park, all captured on February 13, 2026.

Sabbatical #05: Rotorua Lakes

A travel journal from my visit to Rotorua Lakes, New Zealand.

My 'Oh My Opencode' Setup

I’ve been bouncing between AI tooling lately: editor copilots, chat UIs, CLIs, agents, you name it. The thing I kept wanting was a repeatable setup that lives in a repo-friendly config file, works ...

Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley's cover of "Sixteen Tons" sounds very much like one of my favorites, "Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover". It's interesting to compare. Thinking on that it suddenly occured to me that his n...

Dark Matters

So I’ve slowly been making my way through the Once We Were Spacemen podcast and in the episode with Melissa O’Neil, who without specifics say she is neurodivergent (a term Nathan Fillion has to loo...

Daily News Stuff 3 March 2026

Mineralogical Edition Top Story Motorola and GrapheneOS have announced a partnership to produce Motorola phones running GrapheneOS. (Liliputing) Though I'm not sure what else they would announce. G...

Microsoft Locks Down Discord Server Over “Microslop” Posts

Microsoft banned "Microslop" on its Copilot Discord community, locked the server, and then blamed spammers.