Blogs tagged "variety"

MonsterID as Gravatar Fallback Today I stumbled across a link at Simon Willison's blog: Visual Security: 9-block IP I...

My new favorite Terminal I have been using the XFCE terminal for decades now and it has always been good enough. Howe...

Home Assistant Transplant I have been running Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 4 for about five years now. A short wh...

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I was going to start with “it has been a while since we had one of these” but then I saw that the previous one starte...

The Fibonacci sequence is so-called because in Western mathematics is first appears in connection with a problem from...

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...

Holy shit, I didn’t know what I was missing out on. The other day I was setting up a new home-server for a friend, th...

Time flies 🪰 or is it ✈️, I don’t know, and I don’t have a proper intro this month, so let’s not get hung up on unnec...

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...

Ripping the band-aid off a topic I’ve avoided writing about directly. But I want to share my experience. Three jewels...

Learn the secrets of running great meetings, classes, and groups in this free, collaborative series.

When in doubt, look outside.

Kicking rocks, it feels like.

Some lists of Bourdain's that I liked.

Thinking ahead.

Can't find your drive to make a live USB? No problem, PXE boot has your back. I used it to provision a NixOS machine ...

The Tangled code forge has really hit its stride in development and offers a lot of interesting features like vouchin...

These notes are a little raw, I'll come back to clean things up after the conference. On this page As I mentioned in ...

Woke up. Went to gym. Lifted weights. Came back home. Showered. Had coffee. Turned on computer. Replied to some work ...

This post covers versions 4.2 to 4.5.1. Content and Pages This section provides an overview of content and pages with...

A couple of months ago, I got lost in Starfield. I didn’t do much else, and I hardly played my guitar. It’s only been...

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 ...

Three Halloween-themed games for 2026, including Freddy Farmer, Silver Bullet, and Cotton

Things I read and liked in September 2026

Things I read and liked in September 2026

Daniel Fletcher shared some very sad news with me. His father—my friend—Ted Fletcher, passed away today. Ted Fletcher...

I can’t help but feel that blogrolls are now suddenly more relevant than they have ever been. I found myself revisiti...

I wrote a book review on Tony Warriner’s Revolution: The Quest for Game Development Greatness. The post Tony Warriner...

It is a Mid-Autumn Festival custom to gift mooncakes. In this Mid-Autumn Festival in 2026, we both bought and receive...

28 July 2026 marked my 34th birthday. Being the birthday person did not mean I did not need to do chores when it was ...

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced Permalink to section 'Cassette Beasts 2002 Announced' # Casset...

Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. A two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A two-time ...

Bill Walton was a one-man Venn diagram. He was a two-time NCAA champion at UCLA under the legendary John Wooden. A tw...

Everyone said NO. Not this year. Not this time. Not this team. We were all wrong. But never before has being so wrong...

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 ...

Three Halloween-themed games for 2026, including Freddy Farmer, Silver Bullet, and Cotton

Things I read and liked in September 2026

Things I read and liked in September 2026

The world is still sad and annoying, let's talk about classic video games instead! Previously: SNES Games I finished ...

The World It feels like the situation in Ukraine is about to come to a head, with Trump and Musk almost openly siding...

I was maybe 10 minutes into a late night walk some time past 9pm when the phone rang. The guy claimed to be from $BAN...

Chuniversiteit has a fresh new look and more convenient packaging! Mostly for myself, but maybe it will also benefit ...

People with parallel careers simultaneously hold two different jobs not because they have to but because they want to.

Data scientists and clinicians provide their perspectives on how humans and AI can safely work together in intensive ...

I talk about the fun that comes with missing part of a story

I talk about our recent migration of ticketing systems, AI slop, and toxic positivity

I talk about my evolving opinion on AI, A failed attempt to run local models, and a broken Macbook.

Time for another round-up of RPG supplements I’ve been reading lately. This time, it’s a bunch of Chaosium supplement...

Secret Passages, spearheaded by James Hoare, is a magazine that bills itself as “A celebration of classic tabletop ga...

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