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Sanrio to release own rhythm game for smartphones next January

Hello, tired fingers. Sometimes I wonder if there’s a corner of existence that Hello Kitty and her friends from Sanrio haven’t established a presence in. Electric guitars? Check. Gundam? Check. Hau...

Distro With an Expiry Date?Gravity Linux is a New Distro for Apple Silicon

Its first alpha targets the M4 Mac mini and runs on a Fedora base, with all driver work aimed at the upstream Linux kernel.

Adobe Premiere mobile arrives on Android, bringing professional video editing to millions

Adobe has officially expanded its Premiere mobile app to Android devices, marking a significant milestone in mobile video editing accessibility. The update brings the professional-grade editing too...

How to Forgive Yourself for a Small Mistake Without Excusing It

A small mistake does not need an endless punishment. Separate the facts, make a proportionate repair, and choose one useful change without dismissing anyone's feelings.

A Burned Iron Age Wall Under a Paris Hospital Could Be the Gaulish Lutetia Caesar Described

Nobody expects to find a two-thousand-year-old fortification in the courtyards of a working hospital. But that is what archaeologists have uncovered at the Hôtel-Dieu, on the Île de la Cité, the is...

New website! (Again)

Well, here we are again. Another website, another attempt at pretending I have a proper online identity and a plan for it. This time, I built the whole thing by hand, without any external tools or ...

ArrangementView: Think Before You Arrange

In the first time I saw the `ArrangementView` API, I had a vague sense of discomfort, though I couldn’t quite put my finger on why. It wasn’t until I actually used it in Xcode 27.1 beta that the fe...

Swap, ZRAM, Zswap and Hibernate on NixOS

If you want to use hibernate you need swap space and that complicates your choice around ZRAM and ZSWAP. I made several wrong choices before I found the correct one.

The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same

This post previously appeared in Poets and Quants. 15 years ago, my Lean LaunchPad class changed how entrepreneurship is taught. The class is now taught in hundreds of universities worldwide and he...

In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825)

An illuminated Persian manuscript about customs, culture, and caste, written by an enigmatic figure of the early British Raj.

Totila in Rome

In 546, Goth King Totila walked into Rome after a year-long siege.The city was nearly empty due to starvation and suicide brought on by the siege. The siege had been so devastating for the inhabita...

Medicare for All: Separating the slogan from the substance

People are fed up with the U.S.

Noting another house repair chore victory

Yesterday I reported about how much I despise home repair, how I feel I'm really bad at it, how it sometimes goes terribly wrong for me, and how my work diary had demonstrated that a seeming failur...

Higurashi Mahjong

I have played and reviewed many little-known and niche visual novels. But I am also familiar with some of the classics. For example, I am a fan of the much-esteemed Higurashi: When They Cry series,...

Reviewing What You Are Reading, Watching, or Playing

On first reviewing the show you're watching (or book you're reading, game you're playing, etc.) before thinking about what it should have been.

Sugar Hill: Images of a Lost Jacksonville Neighborhood

Historic photographs from the General Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church offer a rare glimpse into Sugar Hill, once one of Jacksonville’s most prominent African Ameri...

Ah ouais, quand même, on en est là !

Ah ouais, quand même, on en est là ! À ce point immergé dans notre propre stupidité. Durant la dernière vague de chaleur, je suis tombé sur un article dans la presse nationale belge vantant les mér...

Who actually fetched the page?

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Voyager Instruments

Cover the Mirrors, Uncover the Crime

Russell Stone is a Rabbi whose career is on the slide. His run-down synagogue has been deserted by more or less everyone other than his cantor, Josh; the downbeat, miserable, occasionally outright ...