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Evidence-based UK review of apigenin for longevity, sleep, and healthy ageing. Updated 2026-08-18.

I really wanted to stick with Sublime Text, and I gave it my best shot ever. But VS Code has pulled me back in again.

This time is was format on save. It’s a must-have I forgot to mention — the code you mess up becomes tidy again when you hit save.

Three packages and a few hacks later, I couldn’t make it work the way I wanted. Meanwhile, with VS Code, it takes zero effort.

But what about those slow cold starts. They’re still there — 23 bounces in the dock plus eight seconds of non-bounce waiting. So a total of about half a minute compared with near instant for Sublime Text. And this is after another round of Claude helping me optimize.

My solution is the same one I have for Bitwarden, another slow poke. Just leave it running.

Site release 66d09b3: Recover the rotted blog image, and stop upscaling the rest (#128). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

If you are using a Chromium-based browser, why? Hahaha. Anyway, be careful. lifehacker.com/tech/this…

What could go wrong? futurism.com/artificia…

Site release 267bd6d: Footer: move Status to the build line, next to I ♥ RSS (#127). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

• Distance: 13.06 km
• Duration: 0:34:23
• Calories: 250.363
• Avg power: 127 W
• Max power: 629 W
• Avg heart rate: 158 bpm
• Max heart rate: 177 bpm
• Elevation gain: 98 m

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I’m having a new exhibition here in September this year, once again returning to 1200 Postcards on Queens Road in Hastings: Flesh & Bone A...

Another busy day programming with Claude on Frontier. I still have to come up with a codename. But we got to a milestone today. I was able to create, edit, publish and revise a web app using the new version of the app still running on the old machine. When it's done I will get to retire this old Mac, keep it around so we can test the new code to make sure it does what the old code does, incredibly important when porting a development and runtime environment. Claude works on its stuff at night. The workload it's going to do tonight is the equivalent of several months time for a skilled human developer who manages their time well. As people get used to working this way, I imagine the AIs will learn how to better work with humans, if that is their destiny. I still can't believe we're doing what we're doing.

Site release 4a2e2fc: infra: Manchester live, looking-glass link; mirrors: own-network IPv6 anycast copy (#125). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

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I pushed out some updates to my OPML viewer app to add a toggle for expand/collapse for the outline – check out this demo, and download from Github to try it out!

Ouch. “We are 4 years into this ‘revolution’ and the industry has almost nothing to show for it. Software has not improved in quality, got faster, become cheaper to produce (when you exclude the mountain of poor-quality demoware that no reputable organisation would touch with a barge pole), or become more capable. It’s certainly not… Read More »Why I remain a skeptic

Github down… 404 on any repo I visit, just another reason I’m going to switch to code.rmendes.net as primary and github as mirror for my own repos.

Moving Orgs repo : that’s beyond my current scope for now

GitHub status page show a day in hell for the engineers working over there

I’m at WordCamp US in Phoenix Monday through lunch on Wednesday. Feel free to say hi. I have “I ❤️ RSS” stickers! Andrew at WordCamp US

Hard to conquer place like that. “After 900, only about two foreign invasions of the Pannonian Basin succeeded. One was none other than the Mongols.” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-is-hungary-so-small

Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) at Heathcote Meadows Preserve in South Brunswick Township, New Jersey.

Google Workspace now receives mail for 21.8% of MX-publishing domains and Microsoft 365 for 16.8%. Together that is 38.6% of the measured Internet’s inbound mail behind two companies. Nobody else comes close: the next named provider, Proofpoint, sits at 1.9%.

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A friend told me about someone at their company who got caught using ChatGPT to answer client questions during a live meeting - copying the questions in, reading the responses back, right there in front of the client. They'd been in the role long enough that nobody had been ...