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Doctor Who: Seven’s Sonic Seasons, Part 8

Last time we checked in on the Seventh Doctor’s audio adventures, I was left a little dissatisfied, feeling that the experiments in presenting the Doctor travelling alone prior to the TV movie had ...

Using !bangs without the duck

Since I started using DuckDuckGo in the early 2010s, one of my favorite features that made me stay around to this day was the !bangs. Essentially, if you want to search on a particular website, you...

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I don't know. I've been spending a lot of money, but generally I feel like the purchases have either been something I would buy later anyway or are actually something I've thought about and the pur...

Creative Ways To Market Your Austin Business

Marketing is essential for promoting your business, launching new products and services, and enticing new customers. It’s a competitive world, and you need to create effective marketing strategies ...

Fireside Friday, January 23, 2025 (On the Cowardice of the Statue PfPs)

Hey folks, Fireside this week! Hopefully everyone enjoyed our series on the running debate over hoplites! As a social media note, I am going to attempt to start setting up a presence on Threads (wi...

Overhead Projector #2: Knot Sure What I'm Doing, But It Works

Retraining myself to tie my shoes a different way lead to reflecting on how I teach my lessons.

Overhead Projector #2: Knot Sure What I'm Doing, But It Works

Retraining myself to tie my shoes a different way lead to reflecting on how I teach my lessons.

“Skip Level” Interview Questions

I recently had a final round “skip level” interview which was with high(er) level leadership folk; think directors, VPs, and similar. Those that you wouldn’t interact with on a daily basis but perh...

Trumps Sturmabteilung

Lange habe ich nur vorsichtig Parallelen zwischen den Nazis und dem Trump-Regime gezogen. Nicht mehr.

Pardon Underwrites a Year of Palladium

Sustaining ambitious governance journalism and sponsoring PALLADIUM 20: Noblesse Oblige and beyond. The post Pardon Underwrites a Year of Palladium appeared first on Palladium.

Weekly Notes 04/2026

I have a sore throat and a cold. I think I got it from Uma, and she got it from school. I have also been talking a lot in meetings this week, and that’s not helping. Also, it’s very cold.

Creating NLJ QR Code With QR Code Generator

I decided to create a QR code for The New Leaf Journal's homepage. After some research, I tried nayuki's QR Code Generator on GitHub.

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Avoid Losing Items - Assign Places for Them

I like to believe that everything has a place, especially for smaller household items that usually go wherever and “have to be found” later, leading to frantic searches.

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift

There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct i...

Cog in a great machine VS building one from scratch

Working in a big tech company feels like being a cog in a powerful, well-oiled machine, while launching your own startup means building a smaller machine from scratch and owning every decision. Bot...

CGMs Part 1 - Great FOSS tools for an OK Quality Consumer CGM

A Stelo CGM I had was expiring so I decided to try out xDrip+. One of those two things works really well. In this part I talk about CGMs in general.

Books: Soul Music by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #16)

“Oh, no!” said Asphalt. “How long were you asleep?” “Same as I am awake,” said Cliff. Finished reading Soul Music, Discworld book #16. I like the idea of Susan as a character; she's a good addition...

Modern Solution: Good riddance!

Modern Solution, bekannt für Inkompetenz in der IT-Sicherheit und das Verklagen eines Entwicklers, der ihnen diese Sicherheitslücke mitgeteilt hat, ist wohl insolvent.

Adding noai.duckduckgo.com as Custom Search Engine

A short guide to adding the no AI version of DuckDuckGo to Chromium-based and Firefox-based web browsers as a custom search engine with shortcut.