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We inherited a frame with no painting. It was a beautiful thing, hand carved, with all the little faults that a human hand creates. We never could agree what should go in it. Every painting we both liked was the wrong size. We hung it on the wall just as

New #typo -- "previs" when I mean "prefix". Good stuff

🖇️ This has in turn inspired me to sort out my entire folder of Markdown notes. Started today - with two twists. All is staying local for use within Obsidian - no Wiki needed. The starting point is a lot of notes with various degrees of completeness and meaning - lots of dup...

Bought for $30 at an Estate Sale, This Long-Lost Gertrude Abercrombie Painting Could Now Fetch $250,000

This is exactly the kind of come up I need. I should go to more estate sales 👀

🏗️ I am using Claude to co-build my Wiki and have now got a nice flow to it. Claude has access to a specific folder on my drive - we edit together and Claude does things like cleaning up my tags and other YAML - as well as pushing the local folder contents up to Git. Blot picks it up from there and pushes it out to 🖇️ https://wiki.philpin.com … like all good web properties it is an eternal WIP. Not ready from prime time - BUT as I say on the Wiki:

“we have leaned into the design philosophy of ‘build in public’ and not wait for perfect”

I also use the whole thing locally with Obsidian.

Download open source emoji images in multiple formats, with 2D and 3D variants. 👌

Pentagon details ‘enormous’ problems as Marines’ boots fall apart in the Arctic

American-made boots issued to U.S. Marines began falling apart within days during training in the Arctic, forcing some troops from the field and leaving commanders scrambling for replacements.

This might be a hot take, but “Made in the USA” rarely translates to quality in my experience. We are not the manufacturing powerhouse we were 50 years ago. I’d trust a pair of Chinese-made Doc Marten fashion boots in the Arctic before some off-brand combat boots that won a Pentagon contract simply because they were made here and priced low enough.

Site release a6dae75: speaking: transcripts of 28 talks, panels, podcasts and classes, with audio on IPFS (#180). Every build ships a signed manifest; see /mirrors/ for verification.

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Tomoz is a simple calendar app for iOS. Tomoz makes it easy to plan for tomorrow today. Pick and choose calendars, add in reminders and get a clear unified view of tomorrow.

What’s Changed

• Speed and performance improvements
• Pipeline improvements

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ShortKeys is a text-expander multi-line replacement productivity app for people who live in text. Build multi-line snippets, drop them behind memorable keyboard ShortKeys, and fly through forms, support replies, or daily journaling.

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• Bug fixes and performance improvements
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Hiyd is a jekyll companion app, that makes writing jekyll/markdown blog posts from iOS easy; saving to iCloud ready for further dev work, or publish directly to GitHub using up to 5 different configs/PAT tokens.

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 About EngMan is the coaching card deck for Engineering Managers and Heads of Engineering. EngMan is an iOS app for engineering leaders who want rapid access to coaching prompts, frameworks, and conversation starters. Dip into focused topics whenever you need a nudge a...

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Hiyd is a jekyll companion app, that makes writing jekyll/markdown blog posts from iOS easy; saving to iCloud ready for further dev work, or publish directly to GitHub using up to 5 different configs/PAT tokens.

What’s Changed

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About Mltply is the chat maths buddy for kids, in a chat-like interface kids can be quizzed on maths questions in increasing complexity - fully customisable in the settings to target particularly weak areas or simply at the age appropriate level e.g. simple addition 1-10 fo...

You’re driving along the information superhighway when suddenly you hear a siren, so you pull over. It’s the internet police. The officer gets out and comes over to your window. “What seems to be the problem, officer?” “I had to pull you over because I noticed you used the w...

Is there any truth in it? “Near the film’s climax, Penelope talks to Odysseus and finally realizes the truth—they are the Sea People. The ravaging horde destroying civilization is simply their triumphant warriors, returning home, having lost all sense of civilization or decency amidst the horrors of war.” https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/did-odysseus-cause-the-bronze-age-collapse/

Contest to Open for Ed Sheeran Flooded With Free Palestine Videos and Fart Memes

Guitar Center started promoting the “Open for Legends” contest on September 14, the same day Macklemore announced he had been removed from the last 10 shows of the U.S. leg of Sheeran’s tour.

What a beautiful coincidence lol

*do not start any shit and there will not be any shit* is not a bad philosophy to abide when programming in C

There are many ways for the same receipt to enter Expense: forward it by email, drag the file into the editor, let the MCP tool fetch it, connect a mailbox and have it imported for you. Each route used to look at metadata on its own, so the same PDF

Milestone in Atlantis development, the new version of Frontier that runs on modern OSes. I'm going to start showing what's going on in the development of the product. To kick off, here's a screen shot of my blogroll displaying the latest new part. The updates flow through an RSS 2.0 feed, which is new for Frontier. It used to require a server that managed updates and responded to XML-RPC calls. But once RSS was part of the web, it was a better protocol for releasing code parts. Truly a milestone. There will be lots more little things we can do now that we couldn't do before. But under it all -- it's Frontier.