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Japan Extreme Budget Travel! A trip from Tokyo to Izumo for just 30,000 yen [Part 1]

Can we make it from the capital to the land of the gods, sightsee, eat, find a hotel, and make it home for just 30,000 yen (US$195)? Our Japanese-language reporter Go Hatori has never been one to l...

Introducing Pure Comments (and Pure Commons)

A few weeks ago I introduced Pure Blog a simple PHP based blogging platform that I've since moved to and I'm very happy. Once Pure Blog was done, I shifted my focus to start improving my commenting...

The Blinkered Flâneur: Walking with Franz Hessel in 1920s Berlin

Does the flâneur, that curiously modern figure who wanders metropolitan streets, have a political consciousness? For Franz Hessel — author of Spazieren in Berlin, “a memorization while strolling” t...

checklist for learning programming language

h1, h2, h3, h4 ,h6 { font-size: unset;} § the language keywords primitive types integer, float, string, array, slice, pointer… numerics boolean & operators composite types (class, struct …) control...

Melisende and Fulk, Part 2

After a rocky start to their life as King and Queen of Jerusalem, Fulk of Anjou and Melisende started to work together.Melisende was particularly angry, however, at Rohard the Elder, a one-time ret...

The test of open dialogue

In the face of Jay Bhattacharya as the new CDC Director

HTTP/2 From Scratch: Part 2

Diving into the binary framing layer and byte-shifting in Go

It’s surprisingly hard to reliably paste the current date at the cursor on Linux

Long, long ago, in a dotfiles directory far away, I had this snippet: bindsym control+semicolon exec date '+%Y-%m-%d' | tr -d "\n" | xsel -i -b && xdotool sleep 0.5 key "ctrl+v" Isn’t it a beauty? ...

Hype Mode

Speaking, as I was, of hype: SmugMug and Flickr are launching something called Mode, or perhaps MODE. It claims to be “the next big thing in photography”. Their welcome email says it’s “the biggest...

Shiroi Printer – Visual Novel Review

My review of a very short 2018 Japanese horror visual novel called Shiroi Printer. It was released with an English-language version ("White Printer") that can be selected on the title screen.

Little Red Dots

Tech Interview: Aftertaste

Interviews take a lot of energy. In general but this one in particular. And getting through it also deserves a little celebration. Whatever the reason, it is sort of a ritual to go to a nearby food...

What Separates Rainmakers From Service Lawyers

It comes down to understanding the business of a law firm and committing to client development early, even in small ways. The post What Separates Rainmakers From Service Lawyers appeared first on A...

When They Say It Takes A Village, They Also Mean Supporting Bosses

Read When They Say It Takes A Village, They Also Mean Supporting Bosses Manager: "[Coworker], are you drunk?" Coworker: "No, but I am sleep-deprived, and there's not much functional difference." Re...

Doctor Who: Oh, My Giddy Audio! – The Second Doctor At Big Finish, Part 1

After the first and second seasons of The Companion Chronicles test-drove the concept, Big Finish would regularly return to the Second Doctor era in the context of that series – a special format de...

Dave Cowens’ 1995 NBA Comeback That Wasn’t

After learning that 1972-73 NBA MVP and Hall of Famer Dave Cowens apparently considered making a comeback with the San Antonio Spurs in 1995, 12 years after his last game, I had to conduct an inves...

New in City Journal: "Trump's Tariff Loss Is the Worst Judicial Defeat in Presidential History"

"From Jefferson to Lincoln, Nixon to Bush, no president’s agenda has been so thoroughly undercut by the Supreme Court."

Daily News Stuff 24 February 2026

Hardly Working Edition Top Story Is age verification a trap? Yes. (IEEE Spectrum) Online age verification intrinsically damages user privacy, while failing to work in both directions:False positive...

Collections: Warfare in Dune, Part I: Fighting Faufreluches

This week, time for something a bit silly: we’re going to think about the plausibility of the warfare in Frank Herbert’s Dune! In particular, I want to approach the question in two parts: first ask...

Family Mart’s Shibuya Cat Street shop hosts first-ever rescue cat photo exhibition for Cat Day

In addition to selling delectable cat-themed sweets, the convenience store chain wants to increase cat adoptions and pet food donations. Family Mart has celebrated Japan’s Cat Day (February 22) sin...