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Sabbatical #08: Christchurch

A travel journal from my visit to Christchurch, New Zealand.

Tokyo subway and almost all Tokyo train lines now accepting credit card tap payments

New system allows you to travel with just a credit card on more than 50 lines in and around the capital, but with one major holdout. It was a big deal when train lines in Japan added the option to ...

Daily News Stuff 30 March 2026

Three Pints Of Vector Bosons Edition Top Story Intel's Arrow Lake Refresh isn't even on store shelves yet and it's already had a price increase. (WCCFTech) 10% officially and up to 25% in online li...

After 5 Years, PineTime Gets a Major Upgrade with AMOLED, GPS, and More

The original PineTime stays, but its followup is a different thing entirely.

Jirahgorgon discovered: remains of a new prehistoric predator found in South Africa that challenge the history of early mammals

An international team of paleontologists has discovered in the Karoo desert, in South Africa, a new species of prehistoric predator that is revolutionizing understanding of the origin of mammals. T...

Selecting the King

The question of who should be King of Jerusalem came up after the death of Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem during the Siege of Acre.. He husband, Guy of Lusignan, was only king suo jure (by right of mar...

IRC Log: Reactionary

A seamless session update turns every customer's browser into an infinite loop cannon.

The rise and fall of Talleyrand's C.I. Capps Foundry

Long before advanced manufacturing defined Jacksonville’s economy, one company helped lay its foundation, one casting at a time. The C.I. Capps Company grew from a small foundry into a cornerstone ...

Training a Transformer with 1970s-era Technology

Although generative language models have found little widespread, profitable adoption outside of putting artists out of work and giving tech companies an easy scapegoat for cutting staff, their the...

What's new around R74n? ProtoCog, Census, and More!

Train your own pseudo-baby to speak; Make your voice heard; Try our minigames.

How to keep a draft alive between writing sessions

A draft survives time away when it preserves enough orientation for the next session to resume the work instead of reconstructing it from scratch.

Jazz School No-No

Divine Liturgy was pretty good yesterday, thanks for asking. Even though it's only been about 48 hours since my last entry, it feels like it's been much longer. It really has gotten to a point wher...

🌰 what is your unicorn hair

But if Mandy was a fairy, why was Mother dead? “You’re not a fairy.” “Why not?” “If you were, you would have saved her.” “Oh, sweetie, I would have if I could. If she’d left the [unicorn] hair in m...

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A Poké Ball for My Son's Birthday

This was the easiest cake request so far. So much easier than a Mario cake, a Rapunzel cake, an Ariel cake, a penguin cake, or an elephant.

Birthdays Come And Go, But Billable Hours Are Forever — See Generally

Biglaw Partner Drops Future Therapy Fodder: Asked how she juggles being a working mom, a newly minted partner offered a refreshingly horrifying answer: sometimes you miss your own kid's birthday pa...

Will Not Read The Menu Or The Room

Read Will Not Read The Menu Or The Room Customer: "What's on the menu?!" Me: *Pointing to the menu in front of him.* "It's all there." Customer: "I shouldn't have to read the menu!" Read Will Not R...

Hackaday Links: March 29, 2026

Whether it’s a new couch or a rare piece of hardware picked up on eBay, we all know what it feels like to eagerly await a delivery truck. But the …read more

Weekly Robotics #354

As you will see in the sponsored feature, at Foxglove, we are organizing another Actuate conference in SF this year. I'm really looking forward to attending it. The lineup is already very good. If ...

“What if the [AI] bubble bursts?”

I had wondered before what would happen if the AI bubble bursts, or if the current AI-obsessive moment passes. In my mind, I assumed that companies like OpenAI and Anthropic would be in particular ...