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My posting out-put has been subpar of late, but today the Pook-Emu Bee links return for the first time since Septembe...

Before July’s Nagoya Basho (July grand sumo tournament), I predicted which wrestlers I thought would reach 10 wins. N...

We went just over one week without daily Pook-Emu Bee links. Sickness (probably mostly allergies) and work intervened...

We are living in a tempest of a time, and my mind seeks the familiar. I picked up an 8” android eink tablet, and was ...

Announcing “Curse of the Herder”, a screensaver experience for the web. It’s about a pissed-off little herder learnin...

No AI was used to draft this post, these are my words fully.

I'll say up top that this part was unfinished before I moved on to my second attempt. So think of this more as a coll...

Though I've done longer races before, this was my first time targeting my training for a 10k distance.

No one, not even Google, knows when a site is indexed or not. Thankfully there are other search engines out there.

A few days ago I read Git at any scale. Although I managed to follow the architecture and the ideas behind it, I coul...

The revolt of the reader — This is the sequel to the “intellectual fly is open” piece I flagged a couple weeks ago, a...

Imagine you join a new project with a clear goal, improve ClickHouse performance, so our biggest customers can run th...

Last weekend my wife called me over to show me something on her phone. She was going through her old emails and came ...

Nelly the pup absolutely loving life in the field! 🤣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you...

Because a basic sitemap would be boring! https://kevquirk.com/sitemap Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ac...

Check your domain's SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records in seconds with a free online DNS checker — plus how to read the res...

Signup confirmations, billing receipts, and downtime alerts pile up when you run a game server or community. Here is ...

Step-by-step guide to opening EML email files on every platform — in Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird, or directly in...

Atlas Games seem to be in the process of evergreening Ars Magica. Rather than rolling out a 6th Edition to replace th...

The option to play a dwarf or elf has been part of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay since its first edition – an inheritanc...

A while back I covered the first wave of products for Free League’s Blade Runner RPG – based off the Year Zero engine...

Seasonal slump is the unofficial name for something millions of people feel every year around October, a slow leak of...

Finish the year strong is advice that usually arrives in December, wrapped in urgency and roughly eleven months too l...

Evening routines get a fraction of the attention that morning routines enjoy, which is strange, because the evening i...

Changelog is taking over PlanetScale's HQ We’re getting together IRL!! On Thursday, September 17th, Changelog is taki...

It’s officially official. I just turned off our last Slack integration. We’re no longer announcing new episodes there...

We’re kicking off 2025 with some big changes. Starting in January, we’ll be focusing all of our efforts on producing ...

Jacksonville is once again being asked to decide the future of the Skyway. -

Gateway Jax seeks DDRB conceptual approval for its Riverfront Plaza Hotel & Residences project at the former Jacksonv...

Jacksonville’s historic warehouses and industrial buildings tell the story of a city shaped by railroads, shipping, m...

This entry coming in on a Monday because Sunday was busy. My Week Google Fit says I walked 70,320 steps from last Sun...

I was originally going to post this on r/ipad, but when I tried to submit my post I got a warning that I might be vio...

It is September! Officially Christmas season over here. My Week I spent most of the week at home. It was kinda lazy a...

Soyez humains, communiquez ! Pourquoi le moindre humain écrira toujours mieux que le chatbot le plus perfectionné. Da...

I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots My AI policy is "I don’t want any kind of interaction with that thin...

I Don’t Have a Smartphone… …or, at least, I wish I didn’t. "I don’t have a smartphone," is what I tell people and pro...

Today in Weekly Robotics: a robot doing magic, an interesting approach for looking around on a humanoid robot, robots...

Today in Weekly Robotics: A modular skid-steer UGV you can build yourself, a winning SLAM implementation, balancing a...

Weekly Robotics 374: an insanely cheap robot duck, a guide to autodocking, highlights from the 2026 World Humanoid Ro...

Leafy Intro Welcome to the 297th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

Leafy Intro Welcome to the 295th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

Leafy intro Welcome to the 294th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

Lately I've been reading Orwell's collected work from 1945–1950, which was being deaccessioned from the library. It o...

Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals I...

Previously: Ordinal numbers and basic set theory Ordinals as nim-heaps Nim always ends, even with infinite ordinals I...

I have been looking for a full-fledged smartwatch for a while now. I have a Pebble and a BangleJS; I use them all the...

It’s been a hectic week. I had quite a bit of work both at work and at home. I’m still lagging on my home TODO list. ...

The primary reason I bought this watch was the ability to display and navigate using proper offline maps. Garmin does...

After Kaizen #4, I knew I had to act quickly to force myself to set up the actual backups, and do it properly. And th...

Back in August, SourceHut wrote about their terms of service regarding LLMs. I was behind on my RSS-reading, so I did...

Back to work, back to kindergarten, back to routine, and back to writing my monthly recently post! 🍀 Life Going back ...

A quick review of the shoot-'em-up game Super XYX on the Nintendo Switch. A great game for shmup fans, and everyone e...

A review of Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 2 on the Nintendo Switch, a good collection for fans of Toaplan shmups

Apidya‘ Special is a blast to credit feed and one of the rare games that I might have liked to own as a physical edition

A quick review of the shoot-'em-up game Super XYX on the Nintendo Switch. A great game for shmup fans, and everyone e...

A review of Toaplan Arcade Collection Volume 2 on the Nintendo Switch, a good collection for fans of Toaplan shmups

Apidya‘ Special is a blast to credit feed and one of the rare games that I might have liked to own as a physical edition

This week, at long last, we begin our long-delayed but always expected something that we blog for: the Hearts of Iron...

Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,00...

This week we’re doing another one of our series of military theory primers, this time focusing on a fairly simple con...