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Weekly Notes 10/2026

Work has been hectic. But I can see the end, which is good, I think. Also, my orthodontic work is coming to an end. I should be free of steel cables in my mouth in three months.

On prayer

Years ago, an AA sponsor said something to me that bypassed every defense I had against the idea of God. I was in early sobriety, a committed atheist, unable to square the program's spiritual langu...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-06-26

I am workng on a few “work” projects today. But I have enough time for a new set of daily Pook-Emu Bee links. If you enjoy the links, you can follow via feed (although I personally recommend follow...

Swift at scale: building the TelemetryDeck analytics service

The decision to go with Swift brought a lot of unexpected advantages for us. We come from a world of iOS in the frontend, Python, Node, or Ruby in the backend for server-based applications. Compare...

Game Review: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 for PS5

Previously: Marvel's Spider-Man (PS4), Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Steam) I finished and completed Spider-Man 2 last night! This is the first game I managed to finish after borrowing a PS5!...

Silicone testicle covers banned from Japanese sauna following cups being left behind and on shelves

“People don’t forget to take their testicles with them when they go home” says sauna in explaining new policy. Most of the posts made through the official Twitter account of Sauna Monkey, a sauna a...

Reflections on vibecoding ticket.el

It has now been a month since I started playing with Claude Code “for real” and by now I’ve mostly switched to Codex CLI: it is much snappier—who would imagine that a “Rewrite in Rust” would make t...

Nur ad-Din

Born into the Zengid Dynasty, Al-Malik al-Adil Abu al-Qasim Nūr al-Dīn Maḥmūd bin Imad al-Dīn Zengī, known as Nur ad-Din, became Emir of Aleppo in 1146 when he was 28 years old.He set out to elimin...

Prehistoric Hands and Discs in a Cantabrian Cave Guided a Sacred Route Through the Cavern, Archaeologists Discover

The El Castillo cave, in Puente Viesgo (Cantabria, northern Spain), is one of the most important prehistoric sanctuaries in the world. On its walls, the men and women of the Upper Paleolithic left ...

How Many Holes Does a Straw Have?

I was recently listening to an episode of The Rest Is Science, specifically the episode The Evolution Of The Butthole. As always, Hannah and Michael put on a great show and I came away thinking abo...

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Read (A colleague just showed me a funny video which is a parody of Adele’s “Hello” in which several telecallers offer increasingly absurd products until the recipient of the calls snaps. My phone ...

Formatting External Hard Drive Using Disk Management On Windows 11

Summary Decided to provide notes on some other aspects of system administration that not everyone knows how to do. But, everyone definately can do on their Windows workstations. I move back and for...

Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next

What started as age gates on adult websites has quietly crept into app stores and operating systems.

Dinit, the init system systemd should have been

systemd is great as an init system, but - as you know - it's not an init system anymore, it's a behemoth of a monster.

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Beyond Privacy

I've been thinking more about my position on tech privacy. My position is one that I haven't really seen anyone else articulate, and I think it would be valuable to share. I've read several sites a...

You’ve Had Enough. Now What? How To Make A Law Firm Move Actually Work

If you are going to make a change, do it for the right reasons and make it count. The post You’ve Had Enough. Now What? How To Make A Law Firm Move Actually Work appeared first on Above the Law.

The Zizians and the Second Amendment

For the backstory on the Zizians, see Investigations Into 6 Killings Look to a Fringe Group Known as the Zizians… The post The Zizians and the Second Amendment appeared first on Reason.com.

Cause For Pregnant Pause, Part 26

Read Cause For Pregnant Pause, Part 26 My sister is a twig. Whenever she eats a lot, her stomach balloons up and looks like she's pregnant. We went out for her birthday to her restaurant of choice,...

Kremlin Suspends Internal Russian Passport Issuance in Abkhazia

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