Discovered: Jul 22, 2026 15:23 (UTC) Gujarati Jalso was as awesome as Fernando said it would be :-) not that I ever doubted him :-)

• Gujarati Jalso was as awesome as Fernando wrote in Scout Magazine

Previously

• April 5, 2026: Gotta try it! 50 minute bicycle ride or take the sky train to Edmonds and walk; Fernando Medrano:: Gujarati Jalso: The Burnaby Restaurant Giving Gujarati Food Top Billing – Scout Magazine

Discovered: Jul 22, 2026 15:20 (UTC) omg i love hong kong “art house” movies: go see In the Mood for Love if you do too!

• Wikipedia: In the Mood for Love

Discovered: Jul 22, 2026 15:16 (UTC) omg i love hong kong “art house” movies: go see chungking express if you do too!

• Wikipedia: Chungking Express

• Draft created: Jul 21, 2026 07:02 (UTC).

Previously

• December 19, 2025 ME:: Podcasts should be 15 minutes or less, prove me wrong :-). Substack is funded by terrible people and supports terrible people on its platform (as well as great people who don’t realize that they are helping those terrible people) part 88888 ; Joan Westenberg:: Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation

Discovered: Jul 21, 2026 06:22 (UTC) The Americans killed thousands (if not tens of thousands or 100,000 or more) Filipinos in this war and we’ve forgotten about it even though it’s not a hidden conspiracy theory. See Karnow’s In our Image for a biased American history of t...

Discovered: Jul 21, 2026 05:42 (UTC) ME:: Home taping is not killing music, capitalism is of course!!!! ;Eden DaSilva:: The Lost Joy of Music Piracy: WhatCD, Oink, and Spotify ¦ Pigeons and Planes

Discovered: Jul 21, 2026 05:37 (UTC) ME:: Women have done all the STEM things including software forever and have forever been ignored ; Olivia Guest:: Cryptogyny QUOTE: Read the whole thing: Olivia Guest:: Cryptogyny Obfuscating women’s interests in and contribu...

tl;dr Please donate to my ride up Cypress (er Seymour) Mountain on July 26, 2026, the Cypress Challenge. 100% goes to Pancreatic Research. On the occasion of my birthday on July 11, 2026 I’d like you to consider donating to the Cypress Challenge in honour of my mother So...

Discovered: Jul 5, 2026 00:20 (UTC) ME:: everybody thinks they know what a free market is; most us are wrong myself included and it requires strong, enlightened regulation ; Stefan Schüller:: The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn’t QUOT...

Discovered: Jul 2, 2026 01:19 (UTC) Amazing, thanks Les! ; lmorchard’s strudel.cc cover of the intro to Stripdown by Agent Side Grinder <- Music in the browser who could ask for anything more :-)

Discovered: Jul 1, 2026 16:17 (UTC) Andrea Pitzer:: ‘You can make a principled stand for what you believe while welcoming in alienated voters looking for hope and community’ ; You don’t have to swallow frogs

Discovered: Jun 24, 2026 19:11 (UTC) Permanent summer time BC Timezone boondoggles part 8888 ; British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres ¦ Crunchy Data Blog <– QUOTE: On March 8, 2026, British Columbia moved their clocks to a year-round Pacific Daylight Savings Time. In March, they did the spring forward one hour with their clocks to UTC-7, but they won't fall back to UTC-8 in November. Going forward, the UTC offset for America/Vancouver timezone is permanently UTC-7.

Discovered: Jun 23, 2026 13:45 (UTC) ME:: learning debt because of “broken coding scene” :-) ; Catherine Hicks:: OSF ¦ “It’s Like Coding in the Dark”: The need for learning cultures within coding teams QUOTE Read the whole thing: Catherine Hicks:: OSF ¦ “It’s Like Codin...

Discovered: Jun 22, 2026 20:51 (UTC) AWESOME,gotta try this JS-less Web Audio API implementation! Heydon Pickering:: Hyperblam Docs Home : HYPERBLAM QUOTE: HYPERBLAM lets you make music with HTML. It’s a declarative implementation of the Web Audio API and is completely dependency free. ...Create pedal boards, drum machines, sampled instruments. And don’t write a single line of JavaScript in the process. Unless you really want to.

Discovered: Jun 15, 2026 14:01 (UTC) I agree with Alexandra Pierce in Locus: ‘Shroud is the best first-contact novel I have read in years’ Highly recommended ; Shroud (Adrian Tchaikovsky novel) - Wikipedia

Previously

• May 29, 2026 I really loved Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Especially the alien life’s ability to take over other life and its emergent intelligence. Highly recommended if you are interested in a different sort of life and insights into a fascist, totalitarian regime. Sound familar :-) ?!?

Discovered: Jun 15, 2026 13:40 (UTC) ME: somebody with the DVD or Disney+ do a ‘David Kaylor’s Rogue One: The Andor Cut’ showing for me :-) ; David Kaylor (2026):: Rogue One: The Andor Cut - Full PDF.pdf - Google Drive QUOTE Read the whole thing David Kaylor (2026):: Rog...

Discovered: Jun 12, 2026 13:50 (UTC) Greg Wilson explains monads in a way I can understand: ‘a way to chain operations without explicitly passing extra arguments’ and more ; Greg Wilson:: Monads

QUOTE:

• Read the whole thing: Greg Wilson:: Monads

If you’re coming from Python, the cleanest way to think about it is that a monad is a way to chain operations without explicitly passing extra arguments. Monads aren’t just for input and output; they can also be used for:

• possible failure (None, exceptions)
• async execution (await)
• logging
• random number generation
• dependency injection
• parsing context

Discovered: Jun 9, 2026 14:28 (UTC) ME:: Stlite, WASM version of Streamlit enables interactive client side graphing with sliders that works on web assembly, no backend required! ; Stlite <– Stlite Serverless Streamlit Running Entirely in Your Browser