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Visualizing my Electric Energy Options

Today’s the day my electrical contract expires, so it’s time to choose another one.

Offpunk 3.0 "A Community is Born" Release

Offpunk 3.0 "A Community is Born" Release For the last four years, I’ve been developing Offpunk, a command-line Web, Gemini, and Gopher browser that allows you to work offline. And I’ve just releas...

Carbon Dating

Weekly Robotics #347

Hopefully, this will be the last issue in the coming months to arrive later than usual. On the other hand, it brings some very fresh news about Ouster and Stereolabs. Let's look into some robots! T...

The Conductor’s Model for Enterprise Go-To-Market

Go-to-Market (GTM) mishaps are often coordination failures rather than execution failures. Every smart person in the team works at their best; marketing is busy, sales are active, product is shippi...

Eversource EV Rebate Program Exposed Massachusetts Customer Data

I recently claimed a rebate for installing an electric vehicle (EV) charger, only to discover that Eversource, my power supplier, was publicly exposing personal information of customers who applied...

Weekend flights along the pareto frontier

I was curious to see whether I could find cheap cross-country flights for this upcoming long weekend. Spoiler: guess. The problem with sites like Google Flights (gflights) is that the interface onl...

Step Aside, Phone!

I read this post on Manu's blog and it immediately resonated. I've been spending more time than I'd like to admit staring at my phone recently, and most of that consists of a stupid game, or YouTub...

Slouching Towards Tokyo Episodically

The Sutra of Pale Leaves is a Call of Cthulhu campaign set in 1980s Japan and sold in two volumes – Twin Suns Rising and Carcosa Manifest. Rather than being developed in-house by Chaosium, the proj...

Daily News Stuff 8 February 2026

Simon And Simony Edition Top Story The robot revolution will not be televised in 8K. (MSN) The recent fuss over AI-only social network Moltbook is deflating somewhat as it becomes clear that the fi...

A look back on 40 years of Japanese schools banning stuff

Mr. Sato leads an office roundtable discussion on weird things Japanese schools have said “Nope, you can’t do that” about. As we’ve touched on recently, Japan is currently in the grip of sticker fe...

2026W05

My AI Adoption Journey — The most practical thing here is the “reproduce your own work” phase: doing tasks manually and then redoing them with agents. Painful, but it forces you to learn where agen...

In the Age of AI Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel

The venerable text editor feels timeless and timely in the age of AI and enshittification. A novelist argues that it is perhaps because Emacs is the embodiment of FOSS ideals

Weeknotes 2026-02-08

The World USPol: Still more Epstein files drama, Vance getting booed at the Winter Olympics, Trump being openly racist, etc. Not much new I guess. Locally: Impeachments mostly. My Week Had some rou...

Blogging As Self-Care

It’s a timeworn and tired tradition that bloggers love to blog about blogging. So much so that if any particular blogger has done an especially large amount of it, there’s probably some degree of r...

Cold reboot

Today is Sunday! What a great day. Today was absolutely freezing, and I just about froze my ears off while walking around. Luckily my friend Nathan saw me and spared me a beanie. This week was good...

Newsletter Leaf Journal CCLXVI 〜 Little White Lies

Leafy Introduction Welcome to the 266th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal ("NLJ") and its short-...

Daily News Stuff 7 February 2026

Bedraggled Edition Top Story A trillion here, a trillion there. Sooner or later, you're talking about fake money. The global semiconductor industry is on track to hit $1 trillion in sales for 2026....

LAN Overview 2026

LAN Overview 2026 The last time that I blogged about my personal LAN setup was more than a decade ago. Meanwhile we moved into our own house and one of the major things we did, was adding Ethernet ...

Pelgrims Path part 01

Hiked part 1/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 17.3 kilometres from Amsterdam to Amsterdamse Bos. Every year in Amsterdam, approximately 7,000 people walk the Stille Omgang, which has its origins in a Eucha...