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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

Summary of what I managed to complete during my Summer Game Challenge for 2026

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

Summary of what I managed to complete during my Summer Game Challenge for 2026

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...

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

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

It’s been a good week and a busy one too. I have started contributing to Pucar as a technologist. I will blog more on...

It’s been a good but busy week. Lots of work got done. Though I think I am still lagging according to my TODO list. O...

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...

This is the second half of the final part (I, IIa, IIb, III, IVa, IVb, Va, Vb) of our apparently five-part series lay...

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...

Once one of the busiest passenger rail stations in the Midwest, St. Paul Union Depot sat without passenger trains for...

Yeah, I'm stupid—serendipitously stupid. Oh, life's rigged? Okay then, just be so stupid that you come out on top; th...

Fuck self-redemption. I can't do this shit alone. I hate this world, but I love the people in it enough to stick arou...

This morning has so far been going well, but almost too well. I've been feeling more manic these last few days, which...

Sprites are disposable cloud computers. They appear instantly, always include durable filesystems, and cost practical...

We’re Fly.io, a public cloud platform that is both our favorite way to put an app on the Internet and our favorite wa...

Building agents is fun. Rebuilding agents that break themselves… less so. A lot of Fly people are building agents wit...

It’s a little complicated

The Dose (Sept 1)

Last year, I got a text from a friend in public health.

There’s a big crossover between living an active lifestyle and betting on sports. In fact, you can apply a lot of wha...

Life is about making memories, and you should document them however you can. With so much to look back on, you may fi...

There have been so many advancements in treasury management over the last few years, it’s hard to keep up. CFOs and c...

AI is changing the economics of custom software. The future may not be everyone building from scratch, but rather cus...

For decades, we wrote code for humans. As AI becomes both the author and the primary reader of software, developers m...

Software engineering has entered a probabilistic era. As LLMs replace deterministic workflows with uncertainty, the c...

Peter Landin coined the term syntactic sugar in 1964, in the paper, “The Mechanical Evaluation of Expressions.”1 P. J...

Ten times the result, and less work than doubling. I read 10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy1 e...

work-in-progress

I have used Buttondown for almost a year now for All About Berlin’s newsletter. I could not find reviews for Buttondo...

I am subletting my apartment. These are the mistakes people make when they contact me about my listing. Kleinanzeigen...

Immigrants need a space to discuss the challenges of settling in Germany. Those discussions should happen in public, ...

About six months ago, I was offered a presentation slot at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin. I rarely tak...

About 3 weeks ago, Leo Laporte and I recorded the first episode of what will be a new monthly show on the TWiT networ...

It's been one of those months, and by that, I mean one of the 663 months since I was born. This won't be a long post,...

It only takes a few minutes to set up.

I had a great time at a 3-day hackathon

I had a great time at a 3-day hackathon

While it seems to be a thing for most people to optimize every part of their life, to make every part of their life e...

I’m serving as Treasurer for my county’s Libertarian political party. Recently the county board of elections emailed ...

Here in Ohio we can choose our electric supplier… But not who delivers it.

Hello there! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I slowly and patiently di...

Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I exhaustively read the entire...

The Balance is a cooperative card game published by New Venture Games. The objective of the game is to set the top ca...

We develop a formula for counting the number of bags of length \(l\) containing \(d\) distinct elements drawn from \(...

This year is the 60th anniversary of Joseph Weizenbaum’s article “ELIZA—A Computer Program For the Study of Natural L...

My recipe for Hungarian chimney cake.

My Review of Hideo Kojima’s “The Creative Gene”

Building a small temperature display as a weekend project.

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...

Learn with AI and you get something students have wanted since the invention of homework, a tutor that is available a...