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A Random List of Silly Things I Hate

Apparently this is a thing now, so I'm gonna join in. 🙃 Seafood. 🤢 Rude people. Late people. People who don't like dogs. What's that all about?? The sight of blood. I'll faint. Immediately. Like Ma...

HTTP/2 From Scratch: Part 1

Re-building the web in Go to learn more about it

The Gullah Geechee Roots of Jacksonville’s Cuisine

The story of Jacksonville can be tasted as much as it can be told. Especially amongst Jacksonville's Gullah Geechee community. The Gullah Geechee descended from enslaved Central and West Africans w...

Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, Heart of Stone, Blood and Wine

I first bought and played through the Witcher 3 back in 2015 on the PS4. At that time I wasn't doing my schtick of wanting to write reviews for every game I played, so instead I have added a back-d...

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.

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...

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.

Installation

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...

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...

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The Dose (February 10)