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Makers on Manager's Schedule

AI Game Worlds and Humane Games

I learned about Project Genie and similar "world building" AI tools. While I suspect their best use will be generating slop for social media consumption, I take my critique as an opportunity to exa...

The Shipwrecked Hackathon by Hack Club

Shipwrecked was really fun, actually.

Precommitment

“Take me and bind me to the crosspiece half way up the mast; bind me as I stand upright, with a bond so fast that I cannot possibly break away, and lash the rope’s ends to the mast itself. If I beg...

Installation

COB LED Lighting for my Son's Room

About a month ago I upgraded the lighting in my son’s bedroom to a COB LED strip.

Do not apologize for replying late to my email

Do not apologize for replying late to my email You don’t need to apologize for taking hours, days, or years to reply to one of my emails. If we are not close collaborators, and if I didn’t explicit...

How You Show Up In The Room Matters More Than You Think

Every interaction is a deposit or a withdrawal. The post How You Show Up In The Room Matters More Than You Think appeared first on Above the Law.

The Customer Is Not Always Right, But Sometimes They Are

Read The Customer Is Not Always Right, But Sometimes They Are Me: "Aw, I'm too late." Employee: "Yes, I'm sorry, but we're closing." His manager calls out from inside. Manager: "[Employee], be a st...

Changing theme in my terminal

So after more than 20 years using a dark theme for coding, I realised that a light theme works better during the day. Which is not a big surprise. Like it shouldn’t be if the light theme is not alw...

The Death of Listening

Somewhere in the past decade or two—pick your own cultural ruin-marker— it stopped being a side quirk that people don't listen and became a full-blown civic emergency, an extinction-level collapse ...

Daily News Stuff 10 February 2026

Last Thursday Edition Top Story Get your ass to the Moon. (Ars Technica) It may be a harsh mistress, but it's a lot closer to the shops. SpaceX is refocusing on lunar colonies as a short-term goal,...

Man in Japan takes four parakeets hostage in attempt to force woman to meet with him

Tells woman that “There is no way for you to save the parakeets except to come home.” On February 7, in the hours between 1 and 2 a.m., a 20-something woman in the town of Nanyo, Yamagata Prefectur...

This Tool Brings macOS-Style Installer for AppImages on Linux

AppManager offers drag-and-drop AppImage management.

Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:32 Every once in a while you learn something new that makes you completely rethink how/why an event actually happened.  And th...

TrumpRx, Super Bowl commercials, flu B is here, and more

The Dose (February 10)

Simple Residential Network Design (Fiber To The Home)

Design a simple home network with a fiber provider.

Sights & Scenes: Downtown Cleveland

In town for a business trip, The Jaxson's Ennis Davis shares a few sights and scenes from the streets of a snow covered Downtown Cleveland. - The 52-story Terminal Tower was the second-tallest buil...

On Intersecting Interests: Fandom And Photography

Zachary is hosting IndieWeb Carnival this month with the thematic prompt at the start of my title here, and for the past couple of weeks I’ve been pretty sure I was going to have to sit this one ou...

Understanding Email Authentication: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC

A beginner-friendly guide to email authentication protocols. Learn what SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are, how they work together, and why they matter for email deliverability and security.