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Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Friday, 24 July 2026 The average temperature today is 15.79˚C, With highs of 16.09˚C and lows of 15.39˚C, It may feel like 15.59˚C with overcast clouds The wind speed is 1.93m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressur...

The day I heard, the air was so still that the clouds seemed to be painted on, and I had lain watching them for so long that I could not see them otherwise. The idea had pressed itself into my vision, and for days after it was impossible truly to

I occasionally see misguided comments like this one on Bluesky the other day: “Folks have a lot of pet peeves with movies these days, but my biggest one is probably that an absurd number of score composers are afraid of…

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Telephone line? Give me some time.

The rumors of the irrelevance of humans are greatly exaggerated.

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The concept of coast FIRE is having the ability to cruise along until retirement date. Like riding a bike down a hill, there is no need to pedal. FIRE stands for financial independence retire early. Such that there is enough growth and income from one’s financial situation t...

After deleting corporate social media, I'm returning to Beeminder, a commitment tool that charges you money for failing to complete tasks, to reclaim my productivity. I explain how Beeminder works through externalizing willpower, share my current 17 goals across personal development, learning, creative work, and productivity, and integrations that make it seamless.

A new feature on RSS.chat, images. Up to 2MB per. User interface couldn't be simpler, get the image on your clipboard, start editing your post, put the cursor where you want the image to appear, paste. Prior art was GitHub and Slack. It was driving me crazy not having this feature, sometimes to explain something you need a picture. I think perhaps I should add this to textcasting. It's a feature I needed to be reminded is essential. The first browser to support inline images came from Univ of Illinois in 1993, NCSA Mosaic, it didn't come from TBL, but it is most definitely a standard feature of the web.

Amyloo, a longtime friend from the early days of podcasting, has made an appearance on demo.rss.chat. So happy to see her. Here's one of the bits we did, back then in the very early days of podcasting in 2005. A duet of Green Acres. Ten seconds of dead air at the beginning, it was pretty common in those days. But I think the spirit of it is lovely. BTW fwiw I cracked my voice on purpose. 😄

Every now and then I’m reminded of a technology from the early days of the web and wonder if I imagined it. This week, it was Mohammad using WebAssembly to run Perl in his browser. Which led to me thinking about PerlScript. If you’re a certain age, and you spent any time developing web applications […]

The post Remember PerlScript? When Internet Explorer Could Run Perl first appeared on Perl Hacks.

Early this morning we got a report of a security issue in the rss.chat server, quickly fixed and tested the new version. So, if you're running your own instance of rss.chat, you please follow the instructions and do the update asap.

Something to keep in mind in press reports with AI apps breaking out of their sandbox, it works the other way too. If you give a big piece of code to Claude and ask if it to find any security issues, it not only finds (at least some of) them, but it also suggests fixes. Quickly. I've done it the other way, where you have a small team, and someone discovers a hack, and you have to find the right answer and implement it, asap.

Life-sized archival photographs pasted onto decaying walls bring Ellis Island's immigrants back into view.

Check out this little guy we found stuffing his face with bird seed in the driveway this morning. This chipmunk is a relatively new tenant that lives in the flower garden by our home. He has recently taken to raiding the feeders and other areas where sunflower seed is left, much to the chagrin of […]

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Homebridge plugin for the Yale Sync Alarm system built for Homebridge 2.0+

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Chore(Deps) bump version from 2.4.1 to 2.4.2

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Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Thursday, 23 July 2026 The average temperature today is 15.18˚C, With highs of 15.95˚C and lows of 14.26˚C, It may feel like 15˚C with overcast clouds The wind speed is 1.82m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure...

A woman in a museum lanyard was writing on a little white card. From time to time, she stopped to look Carl over. From inside the glass case, he couldn't see what she was writing. He felt his neck prickle as she caught his eye, and he wondered