In our 88th episode and WAY AFTER the book was published, Lyle and I talk about the Software Developer’s Career Handbook. Yes, this book was published a year ago. Enjoy it now, or download for later. Here’s a handy feed or subscribe via Overcast or iTunes. https://traffic.libsyn. … | Continue reading
Elon Musk wants to be a major force in the next administration but is that partly for selfish reasons that could lead to ethics violations? The post Musk And Trump — The Road Ahead Is Strewn With Ethical Challenges appeared first on CleanTechnica. | Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, Presh Talwalkar released this Mind Your Decisions video in which his original attempt to solve the video’s puzzle was, he says, incomplete because he was led astray by plotting the function at the heart of the problem. I say he didn’t do enough plotting. | Continue reading
🌞 I am still in Brazil at my mom's place in my hometown. It's hot (20°C to 32°C everyday) with occasional rain. It's definitely dryer and it took me a day or so to get used to the heat. The main difference here is that everyplace seems smaller, the streets are narrower, t … | Continue reading
Got the ratio of chipolatas to bacon wrong for your Christmas pigs-in-blankets and now have more cocktail sausages than you know what to do with? No, just me? Here’s my planned solution, anyway – teeny tiny toads-in-the-hole! (Toad-in-the-holes?) Let’s see how it works out… | Continue reading
Deep Space Station 23, NASA’s latest addition to its Deep Space Network, recently reached a major milestone with the installation of its 133-ton reflector dish. This cutting-edge antenna, located at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California, will enhance commu … | Continue reading
Found this first edition, signed copy of A Song for Arbonne at Half Price Books the other day and had to get it. Read it so long ago that it’ll be like reading it for the first time. I’m always on the lookout for old Kay books, they seem in short supply. 📚 | Continue reading
iOS 18 introduced an “Enhanced Visual Search” toggle for the Photos app. | Screenshot: iOS 18 Settings app Apple occasionally makes choices that tarnish its strong privacy-forward reputation, like when it was secretly collecting users’ Siri interactions. Yesterday, a blog post fr … | Continue reading
This is a test. I’m experimenting with adding rss only posts to my website. This post should only show up in rss feed readers, and, hopefully, leave no other trace on any directory pages on my website. Each rss-only post will also have a html rendered page, but there won’t be any … | Continue reading
“How I Leased a New EV for $0 Down and $0 per Month” (Car and Driver, December 2024): During my morning scroll, I came upon news of a Denver dealer offering a Fiat 500e lease for $0 down and $0 a month. The minimal fine print said lessees had to be Colorado residents, which I am, … | Continue reading
The newest Spider-Man cartoon promises some fresh animated adventures for Peter Parker, and it looks well worth the wait. | Continue reading
Ms. Qin, the owner of a hot pot restaurant in Chongqing, China, serves food to her customers while moving like a humanoid robot. | Continue reading
The findings could lead to more tailored treatments for cardiovascular disease. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have achieved a critical milestone in understanding the mechanisms behind the accumulation of “bad” cholesterol, or low-density lipoprotein choles … | Continue reading
A touching story from Flatbush Cats features a little boy who describes fostering and adopting Ginger Beer, a beautiful elder orange cat. | Continue reading
Added a new blogging page to the Micro.blog website when you’re not signed in. This is the start of bringing back some more text and screenshots. Just a Mac screenshot for now. Also might reuse some of this for Micro.one. | Continue reading
Braised short ribs make a flavorful, rich, and hearty family dinner. This comforting classic recipe is much easier than most people think. It starts in a Dutch oven on stove-top and then, finish cooking in the oven until completely soft and tender. Braised short ribs is an extrem … | Continue reading
Posts from this holiday-shortened week include (with a photo yesterday from Tompkins Square Park by Derek Berg) ... • A fundraiser for ABC No Rio's late director, Steven Englander (Monday) • Rai Rai Ken, a longtime East Village ramen shop, has closed (Friday) • Ferns announces Fe … | Continue reading
It seems New Atlas readers like tent camping in all its forms – from backcountry to safari resort, and from ground to rooftop. The year saw some highly innovative tent designs, with some designers intent on minimizing weight down to the last milligram, others daring to go much bi … | Continue reading
Vivek says ‘fewer sleepovers’ is the route to teen success. I say it’s the cornerstone of American childhood—or at least it was my own. | Continue reading
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This article is an installment of Future Explored, Freethink’s weekly guide to world-changing technology. You can get stories like this one straight to your inbox every Saturday morning by subscribing above. It’s 2030, and more than two-thirds of the population of sub-Saharan Afr … | Continue reading
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'After it's established, it's relatively low maintenance.' Gardener shares surprisingly easy before-and-after landscaping transformation: 'Your garden is gorgeous' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Aimi Kobayashi in 2021 So, to start with, did you know there are a lot of great movies on YouTube for free right now? I'm in the middle of Licorice Pizza, which I watched half of last night. I'm perilously... Related Stories Open Mike: Judged (Editorial) Open Mike: How to Say Kam … | Continue reading
Something interesting has been going on with Tesla Cybertrucks. Tesla has been quietly replacing their battery packs, seemingly a lot of them. At least since September, Tesla has been swapping out Cybertruck battery packs for new ones when they are brought in for other maintenanc … | Continue reading
Caught the final concert of the year at the venerable Bird & Beckett, a book and record store in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood that doubles several nights a week as a music club, mostly jazz. The evening’s event, on Saturday, December 28, was a quartet led by guitarist D … | Continue reading
The Batman's second installment has been knocked back another year, and the only we can do is let Reeves do his thing. | Continue reading
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As the planet warms, atmospheric rivers, those mighty storms that sweep across the West Coast, are undergoing transformative changes. New research reveals that these storms will intensify differently in Southern California compared to the Pacific Northwest, bringing about varied … | Continue reading
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I’m not looking back at 2024 with lots of excitement. I spent it mostly feeling burned out, grumpy and tired, and that carried detrimental effects for my family and my colleagues. Reading back last year’s overview I see I felt much the same then at the time of writing (my burn-ou … | Continue reading
In 2023, at least 20 civilian aircraft flying through the Middle East were misled by their onboard GPS units into flying near Iranian airspace without clearance—situations that could have provoked an international incident. These planes were victims of GPS spoofing, in which dece … | Continue reading
The T1 camper is on track to be available in spring 2025. Startup founders push the envelope with state-of-the-art camping trailer — and it's hauled by an electric tricycle first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Adrien Brody in The Brutalist | A24 Brady Corbet’s 3.5-hour saga is a tale of one man’s journey through architecture and assimilation — and one of the year’s best films. The director tells The Verge how he got away with it. Read the full story at The Verge. | Continue reading
Big enough to impress yet small enough to hold steady, the Nocs Field Tube 8x32 monocular offers crisp, colorful views and a rugged, waterproof build. | Continue reading
An artist's interpretation of a black hole surrounded by stars | Continue reading
Maybe I say this every year, but each year grows further from the past and each year, I think of how distant we have grown. I think about how long it’s been, between then and now.It’s been 35 years.35 years is a long time.I think about the accomplishments and the achievements tha … | Continue reading
The Enhanced Visual Search feature in iOS 18, activated by default, has been overlooked amidst the furore surrounding the app’s aesthetic redesign. I explore settings in new software updates and during the developer beta period I noticed the EVS setting was enabled by default wit … | Continue reading
This is the nineteenth part of a fiction serial, in 800 words. As Tony was in the storage unit counting piles of cash and covering up bags of drugs with some blue plastic sheeting he had bought on the way, things were happening without his knowledge south of the river. Reuben was … | Continue reading
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2024 What does a broken toy sound like? Has an incoming American president assembled a playroom of broken toys? If so, what does a broken toy sound like? Using seasonal language, a broken toy can also be described as a nut-ball or as a fruitcake. By long-stan … | Continue reading
Katherine Ellison in Knowable Magazine: When asked why he didn’t begin writing novels until his 30s, the celebrated Czech author Milan Kundera said he didn’t have the requisite experience when he was younger. “This jerk that I was, I wouldn’t like to see him,” he added. Many of u … | Continue reading
Finish returning unwanted holiday gifts, read the blog posts. Oh and follow me on Bluesky. Using AI to talk to animals [Ina Fried/Axios] – Animals probably talk. So it seems reasonable to believe that AI will help us decode the ‘language’ of at least one species in the near futur … | Continue reading
It took me a long time to figure out that when people respond to you on twitter-like systems they aren't actually speaking to you, they're talking over your shoulder to the masses they imagine are reading what you posted. Three comments. 1. There are no masses. You can see this b … | Continue reading
There are major boatloads of brilliant things on Amazon. I’ve done the legwork by compiling a top-tier clever collection — all of which are genuine bargains — for you to check out. | Continue reading
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