This year started off pretty light when it came to programming because I’ve been addicted to the video game Against the Storm since last winter. But I eventually started working again on various projects – some old and some new. I didn’t do any programming in January, so we’ll st … | Continue reading
Just before the weekend started, the animation space lit up when someone suddenly leaked a lot of never-before-seen internal material from Disney. We won’t link to it, but included in that material is a sizable amount of stuff from the company’s TV animation slate across its Disn … | Continue reading
Palermo, 29 April 2024 The development of the Greenway Kaggera-Vita-Salemi is part of the pilot coordinated by GAL Elimos in the frame of the INCULTUM project. The encounter of 29/4/2024 hosted by the University of Palermo is the occasion to present the results of … Continue read … | Continue reading
…in England and Wales From 1696 until 1851 a “window tax” was imposed in England and Wales. Sort-of a precursor to property taxes like council tax today, it used an estimate of the value of a property as an indicator of the wealth of its occupants: counting the number of windows … | Continue reading
The original Skycamp from iKamper was a true innovator in a now-overcrowded rooftop tent (RTT) market. IKamper has built out the Skycamp brand over the years, adding smaller, lighter models and improving upon existing designs. It is now spinning off the Skycamp DLX sub-line. That … | Continue reading
Last night I woke up in the middle of the night from a dream where I was at a programmer convention. A bunch of devs were arguing and they came to me to be the deciding factor for the future of the KDE Plasma 6 project. Each was very passionate about the direction they wanted […] | Continue reading
Banská Bystrica, 25 April 2024 An international conference dedicated to the Mining Cultural Heritage of Central Slovakia was held in the city of Banská Bystrica on April 25, 2025, as part of the international innovation project INCULTUM. The goal of the conference was to present … | Continue reading
Good afternoon, readers, I hope you are having as good a day as I am. Today I started playing "Midnight Suns" (PS5) and so far, it's a heck of a lot of fun. Yesterday was one of those days that was so good, I almost got a bit paranoid that something bad was going to happen. (It d … | Continue reading
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Jeannette Cooperman in The Common Reader: In need of silence, I booked a room at a Trappist monastery. The following Friday, I snuck out of work early and headed south, not realizing that Ava, Missouri, was four hours away, down at the border of Arkansas. I sped down the intersta … | Continue reading
SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2024 The novelization of news: Back in August 2018, Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in federal prison. Cohen had been Donald Trump's "fixer." Among his various duties, he was deeply involved in the "hush money" payment to a certain "porn star." (Phras … | Continue reading
Anne J. Manning in The Harvard Gazette: The endangered bonobo, the great ape of the Central African rainforest, has a reputation for being a bit of a hippie. Known as more peaceful than their warring chimpanzee cousins, bonobos live in matriarchal societies, engage in recreationa … | Continue reading
For about three years, I had the opportunity to work in the most interesting setup I have ever encountered in my professional career. It may sound complicated to maintain at first, but trust me, it is not. The results speak for themselves. Pair Programming was the default in our … | Continue reading
Ian Berlin at CNN: I do not deny that there has been a shocking and upsetting rise in antisemitism over the last few months, including several instances of antisemitism right at Yale and in New Haven. Last fall, one professor’s post on X (formerly Twitter) appearing to praise Ham … | Continue reading
From Hume Texts Online: My family, however, was not rich, and being myself a younger brother, my patrimony, according to the mode of my country, was of course very slender. My father, who passed for a man of parts, died when I was an infant, leaving me, with an elder brother and … | Continue reading
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Links! Get your red hot links here! There Are Plenty of Power Publicists. But Only One Works for Taylor Swift [Allie Jones/WSJ] – Tree Paine (as the owner of what I think is also a great name, I salute you Tree) seems incredible competent. It’s amazing how compelling that is thes … | Continue reading
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Junk mail is an extremely wasteful practice. Resident shares frustration with photo of absurd junk mail received: 'I find it infuriating' first appeared on The Cool Down. | Continue reading
Ryan Reynolds, co-owner of Aviation Gin, is having the company release six specialty bottles inspireed by Marvel Studios’ upcoming film “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which he also stars in. The Details To celebrate the release of the film in US theaters July 26th, Aviation American Gin … | Continue reading
the actual encampment at Columbia—i'm here after teaching my final class of the semester—is downright tranquil, impossibly sweet. there is a "nut zone" for the safety of kids with allergies. — Vinson Cunningham (@vcunningham) April 25, 2024 The robust young activists of USC can b … | Continue reading
Since it debuted back in 2021, Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa’s Radiant Black has become one of Image Comics’ biggest books. Now that it’s got an entire universe of its own full of equally colorful characters headling their own books, it’s just a question of what’s next for the s … | Continue reading
While the first season of The Dangers in My Heart missed my 2023 top-six list, the second season proved to be the first genuine anime of the year candidate for 2024. | Continue reading
Rarely do I link to something just because I want you to go read it, but this piece by Alex Ross in the New Yorker is just such an occasion. It is a wonderful piece about how we sometimes embrace noise and sometimes reject it, and what “noise” even means. (Via Matt.) ⌥ Permalink⌥ … | Continue reading
Tom Wheeler, former FCC chairman, writing for the Brookings Institution in October, following a vote to begin the process of reclassifying broadband as a “Title II” telecommunications service, regarding efforts to paint net neutrality regulations as no big deal: It is the conduct … | Continue reading
When you are reading a tweet, watching youtube video, or looking at an Instagram post, ask yourself: "What About This Excites Me?" The post What About This Excites You? appeared first on thejaymo. | Continue reading
4-28-24 Behind a couple days in BED journal, but just writing today and working backwards in prompts. Its […] | Continue reading
While many people on the political right think internal combustion is going to be the norm forever, it’s becoming harder and harder to maintain that position. The talking points have to change every year because they keep being disproven, so many anti-EV trolls have simply resort … | Continue reading
More Electric Buses For Kenya As Roam & County Bus Service (CBS) Partner To Deploy 200 Electric Buses By 2026 The transition to electric mobility is progressing around the world at different rates. Norway is of course the leader when it comes to electric car market share of new v … | Continue reading
Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic to the fake domains is typically similar to what the legitimate site records and it is even higher during holidays. [...] | Continue reading
Zed Decoded: Rope & SumTree Text editors like Zed need in-memory data structures that are optimized for handling large strings where text can be inserted or deleted at any point without needing to copy the whole string. Ropes are a classic, widely used data structure for this. Ze … | Continue reading
I hate the eye strain that often comes with peering through a telescope at the night sky—I’d rather let a camera capture the scene. But I’m too frugal to sink thousands of dollars into high-quality astrophotography gear. The Goldilocks solution for me is something that goes by th … | Continue reading
In an attempt to study the spine, scientists in Portugal accidentally created a mouse embryo with an extra pair of hind legs, where its genitals should be — and the strange turn of events could improve our understanding of human embryo development, metastatic cancer, and more. Wh … | Continue reading
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The move will allow the company to avoid the release of 58,000 tons of carbon dioxide every year from mining practices. Jewelry brand snubs traditional industry practices to achieve unprecedented milestone: 'Precious metals can be recycled forever without any loss of quality' fir … | Continue reading
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A bird I see year round in our southeast Michigan area, the slender, graceful Mourning Dove is a bird I see or hear daily. Their coo-coo sound is often the first sound I hear in the morning. This morning, with our constant rainfall, this pair of Mourning Doves joined the local Ho … | Continue reading
The original Happy Death Day in 2017 was one of those “why hasn’t this done before?” horror movies, wherein college girl Tree (played by Jessica Rothe) got stuck in a time loop that always ended with her getting murdered. That first movie did really well, and its sequel Happy Dea … | Continue reading
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We have covered various aspects of 3D printing here at Readwrite over the last few months, looking mainly at how… Continue reading How to make your own Meta Quest 3 3D printed accessories on Creality’s K1C 3D Printer The post How to make your own Meta Quest 3 3D printed accessori … | Continue reading
Colin Jost’s set at the White House correspondents’ dinner Posted on Sunday, Apr 28, 2024 10:25AMSunday, April 28, 2024 by Azra Raza | Continue reading
Julie Cadman-Kim in MQR: In Dur e Aziz Amna’s gorgeous debut, American Fever, readers can expect to find all the hallmarks of a bumpy adolescence—destructive confidence, crippling self-doubt, steamy crushes, social gaffes, obsession with looks and style, and pervasive loneliness. … | Continue reading
Commissioned by a couple with teenage children, Giudice House designed by ARKITITO Arquitetura rises from a unique narrative—transforming an existing structure while embracing environmentally friendly construction practices. Continue reading | Continue reading
Some Google Chrome users report having issues connecting to websites, servers, and firewalls after Chrome 124 was released last week with the new quantum-resistant X25519Kyber768 encapsulation mechanism enabled by default. [...] | Continue reading
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Let’s have some fun and rattle through some relatively spicy takes I have about tech! Movie theaters are awesome and people still like them. Yes, home theaters and high quality headsets like the Vision Pro make the at-home experience better than ever, but there are still major el … | Continue reading