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Three Minutes Of Hate

There’s a semi-accidental “silly things I hate” blog challenge making the rounds lately. So far I’ve seen Andrea, Sara, Kev, Manu, Pete, and David pick up the gauntlet. My problem is that I don’t r...

Curiosity, some intuition

I figure I’ll publish this long post in a couple parts, over today and tomorrow or perhaps the day after (as tomorrow is going to be a busy day). In today’s post I plan to go over curiosity and the...

Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination

Analog Photography Assistant - 1.2.0

Home Screen Light Meter Analog Photography Assistant (APA) is a free, ad-free, privacy-first android app for film photographers. I have just released v1.2.0 which introduces a Depth of Field Calcul...

Judge Preliminarily Blocks Military Disciplinary Measures Against Senator (and Retired Navy Captain) Mark Kelly

An excerpt from Judge Richard Leon's long (and exclamation-point-filled) opinion today in Kelly v. Hegseth (D.D.C.): United States Senator Mark… The post Judge Preliminarily Blocks Military Discipl...

A Song Of ICE And Firing

Good news! The Trump-DOJ is hiring. The post A Song Of ICE And Firing appeared first on Above the Law.

The Dog Returns, The Worker Doesn’t

Read The Dog Returns, The Worker Doesn’t Me: "So to be clear, the dog is fine, your girlfriend is fine, you’re fine, and you can’t come in because… you’re emotionally tired?" Employee: "It was very...

Boredom? I don't even know 'em

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Braunshittification

When the OEM shaver heads on the Series 7 are just as poor as counterfeits.

Asakusa’s Yoi no Yoi bar crawl is one of Tokyo’s best local nights out

Just 1,000 yen per stop lets you drink, eat, and mingle with friendly strangers through this historic neighborhood. Here at SoraNews24, we’re always on the lookout for fun and exciting events to pa...

Mitchell Hashimoto Launches 'Vouch' to Fight AI Slop in Open Source Ecosystem

New tool helps open source projects manage the scourge of AI slop.

Workaround For Issue With Shared WAN Ports After FortiOS v7.4.8 Upgrade

Summary This may be one of those nuanced scenarios. But, I have serviced a location that requires I utilize the shared copper/fiber WAN ports. Basically after upgrading it to FortiOS v7.4.8 a bug w...

The Internet is a Hamster Wheel

I was listening to a recent episode of The Rest is Science (fantastic Podcast, by the way - go listen), and in this particular episode Michael and Hannah were discussing boredom. At one point in th...

Willie Singletary will you please go now?

(Previously: [1] [2]) Welcome to Philadelphia! We have a lot of political corruption here. I recently wrote about the unusually corrupt Philadelphia Traffic Court, where four of the judges went to ...

Convert a React app to a Desktop app with Electron

Convert a React app to a Desktop app with Electron

Daily News Stuff 12 February 2026

Sushification Edition Top Story Why the economics of orbital AI datacenters are so brutal. (Tech Crunch) It doesn't make much sense unless you're both a major AI company and the world leader in orb...

Isn’t This A Pretty Fall

Since last March, I’ve several times here referenced Stanford Beers’ heuristic that the purpose of a system is what it does, applying it in some fashion to the system that is me, to the general sys...

Real Numbers?

I had two assignments due today, and working on those consumed most of my time, so unfortunately today’s post will be rather short. One iconic quote from a classmate in my mathematics/philosophy cl...

Refactoring English: Month 14

New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and founder of small, indie tech businesses. I’m currently working on a book called Refactoring English: Effective Writing for Software Developer...

When Execution is Cheap, Judgment becomes Scarce

When Stripe was still small, the Collison brothers decided to focus on a handful of their Startup cohort at Y Combinator. They had interest from hundreds of potential customers but chose depth over...