I spent the last few months cramming to finish off the soccer stadium book, and I purposely stacked the first week of January with every annoying obligation I had (oil changes, teeth cleanings, etc) so the rest of my month was free. I planned the second week in January for | Continue reading
The iReader Ocean 4C which the company had launched just days back is now available to buy online. It can be ordered via JingDong where it is priced at 1699 Yuan, which comes to around 231 USD. The new Ocean 4C is special in that it comes bundled with the company’s first stylus o … | Continue reading
Strange Horizons, for those of you who don’t know, is the magazine where I had my very first science fiction short story published (well, the very first I ever submitted for publication, and which also turned out to be the last I ever submitted for publication, but I’m getting ah … | Continue reading
Jane Mayer, reporting for The New Yorker: As recently as the spring of 2023, according to an account shared last week with The New Yorker, Hegseth ordered three gin-and-tonics at a weekday breakfast meeting with an acquaintance in Manhattan. “It was an extremely strange experienc … | Continue reading
I made a new release of PINPal today and that made me want to remind you all about it. | Continue reading
Speaking of new (“interim”) Sonos CEO Tom Conrad and Scott Forstall, here’s an interesting anecdote from Tyler Hall’s terrific piece for Motherboard in 2021, “How Pandora Won Its Royalty Battle but Lost the War to Spotify”: After pushback on only allowing web apps for the iPhone, … | Continue reading
Sonos interim CEO Tom Conrad, in a company-wide memo obtained by The Verge: With my stepping in as CEO, the Board, Max, and I have agreed that my background makes the Chief Product Officer role redundant. Therefore, Max’s role is being eliminated and the Product organization will … | Continue reading
Rails is able to automaticaly infer which HTTP verb to use when generating forms for Active Record models in form_with. How can we get the same for our plain old Ruby objects? Problem We want to avoid having to explicitly specify the method when rendering a form for our custom Ca … | Continue reading
Integration simply isn’t enough I’m thrilled to announce the release of Superglue 1.0. First announced a year ago, Superglue is a library designed to make building interactive Rails and React apps as productive as the classic Rails stack. In every client project we’ve used it on, … | Continue reading
How to submit a package to MAX Builds | Continue reading
For more than four years, California has had a law on the books meant to protect homes and buildings during an urban firestorm like the Palisade and Eaton fires. But it’s never gone into effect. In theory, the policy was simple. It directed state officials to develop new rules fo … | Continue reading
The first veto of Joe Biden’s presidency, in March 2023, came on a bill that would have overturned a Department of Labor rule allowing retirement funds to consider environment, social, and governance factors — commonly known as ESG — when making investment decisions. At the time, … | Continue reading
Nick Wingfield, writing today’s The Briefing column for the paywalled (alas) The Information: Sonos has always been a bit of an odd duck. There aren’t that many consumer electronics startups of its size created in the last quarter century (Sonos was founded in 2002) that have sur … | Continue reading
Just days by Amazon had a sale going which offered the new 2024 Kindle Scribe for a 19 percent discount. That had made the latest Kindle Scribe model even cheaper than the original. While that deal has since been withdrawn, here is the original Kindle Scribe that is now on sale f … | Continue reading
E-book reader devices these days come in various shapes and sizes. There are what can be termed the conventional e-reader devices of the sort of the Kindle Paperwhite or the Kobo Clara. There also are the likes of the Boox Palma (Palma 2 being the latest iteration) which happens … | Continue reading
When GNOME 48 is released in March it will debut with a brand-new audio player. Per a recent merge request, Decibels graduates from GNOME Incubator to GNOME Core Apps as part of GNOME 48, making the software something GNOME recommends downstream Linux distributions include to giv … | Continue reading
Wi-Charge, one of the pioneers when it comes to wireless electricity announced it has partnered with E Ink to power the latter’s large-format Spectra 6 color e-paper displays. Wi-Charge provides the means to transmit electric charge wirelessly using infrared beams. With this, Wi- … | Continue reading
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Mike Davidson: I grew up on Iliff Street, right in the middle of the ashes that up until a few nights ago, was a sunkissed neighborhood known as Pacific Palisades. It was 1978, and I remember my dad climbing up on our roof with a garden hose. Every couple of hours, he would wet t … | Continue reading
Every Frame a Painting explores at how the director's vision and intention for a film inform the placement of the camera. | Continue reading
Who here has experienced Tesla Full Service Driving 13.2? A friend who is very tech-savvy and skeptical says that it was awesome on a couple of trips that he did in a sister’s car in Los Angeles. As a joke I asked a venture capitalist/Bitcoin bro friend in Miami when he’d be gett … | Continue reading
A new stable release of Flatpak is out with a wealth of improvements in tow. Flatpak 1.16.0 is the first stable release in the new 1.16.x series, coming more than two years after the Flatpak 1.14.x cycle began and containing features, fixes, and other work undertaken from the 1.1 … | Continue reading
Matt Thompson of Thompson Woodworks constructed a model train that runs along his backyard fence with a snowplow at the front. | Continue reading
Sticky and fixed navigation sound similar but serve different purposes. In this post, I look into their distinctions, use cases, and best practices to design navigation that satisfies users and drives results. The post Should navigation bars be sticky or fixed? appeared first on … | Continue reading
The best of last week’s big and small data visualizations | Continue reading
The Waiting is Michael Connelly’s 39th book from the Harry Bosch Universe. Renée Ballard from LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit is going to chase a number of different cases at the same time, with the help of Maddie Bosch. Two of the cases are serial killers. Harry Bosch also makes a bri … | Continue reading
Bryan Cranston spoke with Dan Rather about how a small role on an episode of "The X-Files" led to his leading role in "Breaking Bad" | Continue reading
Salvador Dalí (Luna Luna)My biggest "vice," one I thankfully share with my wife, is that we like to go out to dinner. If I die broke, that's where the money went. It's not necessarily the food. I'm not bad in the kitchen and, after 40 years of cooking for my wife, I'm confident I … | Continue reading
Batya Ungar-Sargon and Brianna Wu debate the week’s news | Continue reading
Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Ross Douthat face off against Adam Carolla and Michael Shermer on February 27 in Austin, Texas. | Continue reading
Despite living in Norfolk since 2012, we had never been to the small town of Downham Market, which is 28 miles west of Beetley. So I suggested to Julie that we could drive over there today, and find somewhere to have a birthday lunch for her. The town is on the banks of the Great … | Continue reading
[Is it really you, yuxingbeng.ziefen-1981mijingtan_cishikang@gmx.us?] Two days ago, I read an article about scammy text messages that request you reply to them. The very next day, I received the following: Can you guess why this text wants me to reply “Y”? It’s because the“Filte … | Continue reading
When she was a toddler, a little girl named River thought that she was a dog and so did the five German shepherds and a giant mountain dog. | Continue reading
TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2025 ...of our failing nation: We awoke today to what we'd call a stumblebum conversation. It occurred in the first half hour of this morning's Morning Joe. At issue was the FBI background check—or the lack of same—which has been conducted—or possibly not—on … | Continue reading
Demand for faster UI development is skyrocketing. Explore how to use Shadcn and Framer AI to quickly create UI components. The post Building a UI in 60 seconds with Shadcn and Framer AI appeared first on LogRocket Blog. | Continue reading
About programming, AI and devops | Continue reading
Current conditions: Nearly 10 million people are under alert today for fire weather conditions in southern California • The coastal waters off China hit their highest average temperature, 70.7 degrees Fahrenheit, since record-keeping began • A blast of cold air will bring freezin … | Continue reading
Unlike generic prioritization methods, customer-valued approaches place user and/or client impact at the heart of decision-making. The post Customer-valued prioritization methods for effective PMs appeared first on LogRocket Blog. | Continue reading
How to avoid being left behind when these technologies reach maturity. | Continue reading
But replacing U.S. workers with foreign talent isn’t as easy as supplying them with ChatGPT. | Continue reading
A guide to becoming more conscious about what you consume, when you consume it, and how it affects you. | Continue reading
A conversation with Cornell’s Dr. Sunita Sah on pushing back effectively. | Continue reading
The deep cold has returned, bringing silence and a bitter wind. The just-past-full moon slips behind a cloud in the west and never returns. From under the house, the sound […] | Continue reading
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain you should use compact table columns when designing your database schema. By using compact table columns, you can cache more table records and index entries and, therefore, speed up your SQL queries. Database caching As I explain … | Continue reading
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Biden’s transgender prison policy goes to court. Is Taylor Swift a threat to free speech? And much more. | Continue reading
The country has a dire shortage of nurses, so to fill the manpower gap, it’s using AI for preventive care. | Continue reading
Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy Two storefronts have gone dark at 68-70 Avenue A between Fourth Street and Fifth Street. Angels Boutique, which sold vintage fashion collectibles and accessories, closed at No. 70 last Thursday after seven months. It was a spin-off business of v … | Continue reading