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Making the Wrong Things Go Faster at The Department of War

This article previously appeared in Defense Scoop The Department of War (DoW) senior Acquisition leadership (the people who decide what and how the DoW buys equipment and services) now is headed by...

Nipah in India, measles is the first building block to fall, flu increasing again, and US out but CA in on WHO

The Dose (Feb 3)

Itch.io Outdated TOTP 2FA App Recommendations

I noticed that Itch.io recommends TOTP 2FA apps for BlackBerry and Windows Phone. This is notable in that I noticed this on February 1, 2026.

characters for vampire: the masquerade

Ōmori, crime scene photographer. Unaffiliated, Hecata. Reeves, street medium. Unaffiliated, Hecata. Halima, quiet private eye. Unaffiliated, Hecata. Musa, pro bono lawyer. Camarilla, Banu Haqim. An...

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder

Eight years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. Every year, I post an update about how that’s going and what my life is like as an indie foun...

Professional Home-Building Teams

A quick post tonight because I should already be in bed. A lower-bound estimate for the number of calories the average adult American expends exercising a day is about ~150 calories per day (spent ...

Doctor Who: Sounds of the Eighth Legacy, Part 4

Last time I checked in on the Eighth Doctor’s audio adventures, I covered the first season of the Eighth Doctor Adventures, a run of stories which used the revived show’s 45-to-50 minute episode fo...

Making My First Visual Novel: Little White Lies

N.A. Ferrell discusses developing the first-ever New Leaf Journal visual novel, Little White Lies, in collaboration with singer-songwriter Victor V. Gurbo.

Daily News Stuff 2 February 2026

Strange Days Edition Top News Notepad++, a text editor used by every programmer in the world, got hijacked and used to install malware. (Notepad++) You're probably safe to click on that link. I thi...

Monthly update #0429 • January 2025

Posts The following posts were written last month. Books On Democracies and Death Cults by Douglas Murray End-to-End The Worlds Longest Train Journey by Scott Manson Toxic Empathy by Allie Beth Stu...

Polygenic Risk Score for Coronary Artery Disease "At Home"

Way back in the day I used 23andMe. So lets do some analysis with plink and PRSice-2 to calculate a polygenic risk score for coronary artery disease.

Shifting Light, Unchanging Haystacks - Fatbobman's Swift Weekly #121

Two weeks ago, taking the opportunity of attending iOS Conf SG 2026, I visited the National Gallery Singapore and had the pleasure of viewing the special exhibition "Into the Modern: Impressionism ...

Groundhog Day Meaning

Yak Shaving

Or, how you sat down to send one email and ended up reinstalling your operating system.

Weekly Robotics #346

It is my pleasure to welcome Jiga as a sponsor of Weekly Robotics! Jiga is built for hardware teams who want the speed of digital manufacturing with the trust of a long-term supplier relationship. ...

Composing systems in an automated way with Ansible, Podman, and bootc

Landscapes of Giuseppe De Nittis

By the Ofantino channel (1866) Crossing the Apenninesm - Memories (1867) Along the Ofanto River (1870) The Road from Naples to Brindisi (1872) From the top of the diligence (1872) The Arc de Triomp...

Habits and transition points

Whenever you’re at a transition point in your life, I wonder why I’m writing this! moving to a new city, starting a new semester, changing jobs, making a life decision—you need to pay close attenti...

Will They Inherit Our Blogs?

I've thought about this topic more generally before, but this one is specifically about blogging. This blog is by far the hobby I have sunk the most time into over the last 13-ish years, and I'd li...

Daily News Stuff 1 February 2026

Carcainisation Edition Top Story Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has denied reports that his company is not going to invest $100 billion in OpenAI. (CNBC) He explained that the real story is that Nvid...