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Caitlin, Caitlynn, Katlynn, Catelin, Kaitlin, And Kaitlynn All Agree

Read Caitlin, Caitlynn, Katlynn, Catelin, Kaitlin, And Kaitlynn All Agree Receptionist: "Can I please get your name?" Me: "It's Katherine, K-a-t-h-e-r-i-n-e, Lastname, L-a-s-t-n-a-m-e." Receptionis...

Constitutional Challenge to Texas Law on "Prurient" Drag Shows Sent Back to District Court

From Judge Kurt Engelhardt, joined by Judge Leslie Southwick  in today's Woodlands Pride, Inc. v. Paxton (Judge James Dennis, who… The post Constitutional Challenge to Texas Law on "Prurient" Drag ...

Rollenspielszenen: Transzendente Graffiti

Wenn man im Traum einen Zug beschmiert, kann man damit die Realität beeinflussen?

Daily News Stuff 25 February 2026

Spinning Wheel Edition Top Story AMD and Meta have entered into another of those infamously vague and circular deals with an estimated value of, well, nobody knows. (Tom's Hardware) The Wall Street...

ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 Brings PDF Editor Upgrades With New Signing and Editing Tools

You get a range of improvements across the other editors too.

What is the YandoriRSSBot?

I just happened to have my NLJ logs open (I had opened them when the site was slow for a moment). I saw something called the YandoriRSSBot requesting the NLJ ATOM feed. While not unprecedented, alm...

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...