If you zoom way in to the mark on top you will see that it reads “Stephenson Blake,” which identifies the British foundry ...

I’ll be voting for Amir Zuccolo for Mayor of Charlottetown in the November 2, 2026 municipal election.

Ton writes, in The PHP Interruption: This site, and my other ones, and my business ones (including our NextCloud), were offline as precaution since yesterday afternoon. I was at LegoWorld in Utrecht ...

I don’t understand what exactly he was there to talk about, other than that it had something to do with memes. What saved the piece for me, though, was this paragraph, referring to Maher: ...

I don’t understand what exactly he was there to talk about, other than that it had something to do with memes. What saved the piece for me, though, was this paragraph, referring to Maher: ...

OpenStreetMap is not, at its heart, a 3D map, but it supports tagging buildings and other objects with information about the ...

Anything except the fact, for me, that social media is heartbreaking. And sickening. So to some degree, this is a replacement for social media for me. And that means that I hope to hear from people. I ...

Peter Bihr, in Do we all want to be middle-managers for AI assistants?, writes: These AI assistants are like putting an intern in charge of your life. Do you really want to middle-manage all of this, ...

I can’t imagine giving up my frictionful everyday human encounters. The inconvenience is the cost we pay to encounter each other, to stumble onto a new discovery, to expand our ways of seeing. These ...

From Of Triumphal Arches by Margaret Atwood: When I heard A Certain Orange Person say that every country had a Triumphal Arch and so the United States had to have one too, I wondered if Canada had a ...

Back on August 12, I made tweaks to this blog’s setup with a goal to improve its speed. I can now see the effect of these changes in Google “Core Web Vitals” report: This chart shows that before I ...

Elizabeth Day interviewed David Sedaris for her How to Fail podcast, and asked him “What’s crystal meth like?”. His reply: Oh, it just gives you, you know, you’re brilliant when you take crystal meth.