Blogs tagged "writing"

I think I saw it today. “My farmhouse.” The inspiration for the ghost story, “Eight for a Wish, Nine for a Kiss.” Rec...

Flask? It’s only a roguelike deckbuilding autobattler with art by John Kenn Mortensen. Who wants that? Who would even...

SimEarth was $70 USD when it dropped in 1990. That’s $180 in 2026 dollars. It was Maxis’s third release. Fortunately,...

United Kingdom · 2006 · Heist — An armed gang kidnapped a depot manager and his family to breach a Kent cash vault, s...

United States · 1989–2001 · Scam — For twelve years, security director Jerome Jacobson embezzled winning McDonald's M...

Germany · 1944 · Escape — Allied prisoners of war built a 102-meter tunnel under Stalag Luft III, enabling 76 airmen ...

I finally started that email client/RSS reader project here. As you can probably infer from the docs folder, this is ...

The Zillennials are embracing new sincerity in full swing, thanks to me! It's been such a bitch getting back into my ...

I'm not a liar, just creative! I've been feeling more restful lately, coming down off a tangential heat of mania, but...

After a nine-day work/NLJ/newsletter-induced lull in the Pook-Emu Bee, I return with my sometimes-regularly-scheduled...

I receive remarkable amounts of comment spam on The New Leaf Journal’s Guestbook page, but I seldom receive pingback/...

I documented my then-new Gingerbread Man Soap Dispenser on The New Leaf Journal last December. I then documented my s...

On reverse honeypots, rewarding close attention, and finding your people

Although I’m a semi-professional musician, most days, I listen to far less music than my friends. I generally work in...

I have written before about how to link to a specific segment of a youtube video, and how to link to specific words o...

Virid Intro Welcome to the 302nd edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

Virid Intro Welcome to the 301st edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially v...

The Newsletter of 300 Leaves Welcome to the 300th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of ...

The AI Pascal’s Wager Should you accept contributions generated by LLMs in your Open Source project? Let’s put aside ...

Ah ouais, quand même, on en est là ! À ce point immergé dans notre propre stupidité. Durant la dernière vague de chal...

Fuir le numérique ou bien le reconquérir ? Le numérique est-il intrinsèquement mauvais ? Comme le souligne Sandra, le...

Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one.

In the late nineteenth century, visitors to Maine observed something strange: French-Canadian lumberjacks who, at the...

Postcards that summon medieval grotesques and brightly coloured folk art, but also feel distinctly modern.

As a software engineer, LLM-use is non-negotiable at work. When I wrote 🌰 loot boxes, casinos, and work chat, Slack w...

We’re on the verge of democratizing only the worst part of celebrity: the pervasive hovering cameras that are always ...

[Macklemore is] the hottest act there is right now, but you’d never know it from looking at his popularity on Spotify...

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.

On the way to lightening up Even the dry sparkler takes a while

Physical space brings ambience An opportunity to dive within Suitably it manifests from within Neither more nor less ...

Sound of my master All over in me His breath in my being That sharp heartful bleeding gong of Shiva

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...

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 ...

Time to don our coats of many colours once more for another round of Sixth Doctor audio stories. Last time, we bade a...

It’s time once again to check in with the Fifth Doctor’s audio adventures. Last time, we had a mini-season of further...

Russell Stone is a Rabbi whose career is on the slide. His run-down synagogue has been deserted by more or less every...

The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present

On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it

God games like Civilization and The Sims offer a fantasy of control based on miniaturization, giving us little ant hi...

I found a deflated Jack-'o-lantern Halloween decoration in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Before publishing my expose, I deci...

Days after publishing a local Halloween joke about the Carroll Gardens Library not reopening in 2026, I read news tha...

Day and night reports on an inflatable spooky Halloween tree ensemble seen in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.

“Debate” as a sport is one of the most degenerate sports there is. I say this as a former participant in the sport, h...

The phrase “Sarkic” is a Greek word, meaning flesh. It’s a phrase used by the Gnostics to refer to carnal urges: thos...

Often, I write my work with a presumption in mind: Progress is bad. This view is based in various points of view, som...

Note: This has been cross-posted to my company's blog, in case you think there is some use in sharing with someone in...

Pre-script: I've got a podcast episode out with Ed Zitron available here. It has been a year and a half since I quit ...

It’s my last day of writing for the year, so I’m going to try keep this one quick – it was knocked out over three hou...

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredie...

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredie...

Most people used to presume the Earth was the centre of the Universe. It sounded bizarre to others when Nicolaus Cope...