Blogs tagged "variety"

Last year I wrote Subscribe via e-mail. I made it possible for people to subscribe to the blog with an e-mail instead...

I must be getting older, because it feels like I just wrote my previous recently-update. I must’ve kept busy this mon...

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about moving away from US-based services, and social media platforms in general....

Showcasing the latest tabletop roleplaying games from: Ghostfire Gaming, Splattered Ink Games, Wet Ink Games, Bright ...

I ran twenty 45-minute demos of Daggerheart at Gen Con 2025. Here is a list of big takeaways I have for game masters ...

Its that time, friends! The festivities of July 2025 has come to an end. Its been a fantastic opportunity to host the...

A couple of years back I was discussing the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus (RMP). It includes a table expressing as a sum...

A couple of days ago I recounted a common complaint: I keep seeing programmers say how angry it makes them that peopl...

A number of years ago I wondered how many movies I had seen. The only way I could think of finding out was just to ma...

In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically ...

The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventu...

Hiked part 21/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 11.2 kilometres from Elspeet to Echoput. Left Elspeet along a quiet lane...

Hiked part 20/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 11.8 kilometres from Garderen to Elspeet. Walked from Garderen past the ...

Hiked part 19/25 of the Veluwe Wander Trail, 13.5 kilometres from Rozendaal to Arnhem. Left Castle Rosendael behind a...

Three things to consider this week.

The Periodic Table of Questions, ICA’s ORID, Liberating Structures’ W3, and more. How might we organize questions, an...

Two passages from the architect and writer on the fourth anniversary of his passing.

I tried to use Claude Code with Opus 4.6 to implement a connector between Youtube Music and opensubsonic. The end res...

I've seen a continuous degradation to the UX of Claude Code over the last two months. Now with the release of Opus 4....

I got to see Griffin at his only event about his new book The Stowaway where he did a live reading and gave advice on...

examples of revision to fit layout constraints

in the atmosphere

ancient errors in itunes

The title - Hiding - is a pretty good description of the state of mind I find myself in right now. I could leave it a...

If you had told me a year ago, that I’d be living in a new apartment now, I wouldn’t have taken you seriously, laughi...

A list of 40 Questions to ask yourself every year. I saw it elsewhere, and decided to give it a go. – What did you do...

Messaging as a customer channel and its relationship to cost of labour: interesting thoughts from Mark Zuckerberg in ...

I upgraded the blogging engine for this site from an outdated version of Hugo (0.92.2) to the latest release (0.147.0...

My attempt to write more frequently by sharing random updates clearly failed (just look at when I published the last ...

A guide to digital privacy for 2026, a manifesto to refuse complying to new measures, three suggestions for this new ...

A satirical post about alternative Android operating systems

In honour of CSS Naked Day, I will disable CSS until tomorrow

Grandmother's Death Anniversary and Tomb Sweeping Permalink to section 'Grandmother's Death Anniversary and Tomb Swee...

Eid al-Fitr 2026 Permalink to section 'Eid al-Fitr 2026' # Happy Eid al-Fitr to those who celebrate! While I am not a...

I was officially diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) on 30 November 2024 when seeing an eye doctor, then I wrote...

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Archiving the old blog CSS. Just in case.

I like things that make me think.

I opened my news app this morning. By the fourth headline my mind stopped reading and started mapping. The map it mad...

Download PDF There is a man named Plinko who used to work as a clown on kids' night at a Ground Round restaurant in J...

Download PDF In 1953, Samuel Beckett wrote a play where two men wait for someone who does not come. They insist he wi...

A guide to digital privacy for 2026, a manifesto to refuse complying to new measures, three suggestions for this new ...

A satirical post about alternative Android operating systems

In honour of CSS Naked Day, I will disable CSS until tomorrow

From computer security to writing the MTG rulebook, there are some failure modes that everyone tends to fall into.

A modest proposal to reform the system of summoning judges to assist players in need.

A tool to help with top 8 math, designing prize structures, cEDH tournament structures, etc.

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

I've seen this Blog Question Challenge going around for a while now, and recently Brandon was nice enough to challeng...

Lately, my son has been obsessed with asking us to tell him stories. At first, I eagerly jumped on every opportunity ...

The World Iran crisis is still ongoing... sorta? Trump says the US is blockading ships to and from Iran and there's a...

The World Pakistan brokered a ceasefire between Trump and Iran just before the deadline! TACO etc. However, Israel vi...

The Banner Saga is a trilogy of turn-based tactical combat RPGs about a caravan of survivors trying to stay ahead of ...

The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale provides a way to measure how susceptible someone is to corporate bullshit.

Researchers evaluated different explainable AI designs for disinformation detection and found some surprising results.

Valse vrienden naaien je er altijd bij op een moment waarop het je niet uitkomt, dus je kunt maar beter goed voorbere...

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A very serious critique of American spellings of English words.

I talk about rewriting Notex and integrating it more deeply into my website pipeline.