I don’t miss much about Texas, but Torchy’s is very high on the list.
Specifically, the brushfire tacos that were tonight’s dinner and which I can still taste.
Also high on that list: HEB. Other grocery stores should send ambassadors to HEB like …
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Finished reading: The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden 📚
I finished this years ago, but apparently didn’t blog about it.
This third book takes the calm dark winter fairy tale of the first two books and turns it into an action movie that …
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Finished reading: The Enchanted Greenhouse by Sarah Beth Durst 📚
A worthy follow-up to The Spellshop, about Caz’s creator continuing her forbidden magic. Sort of.
I like this world, and I enjoyed seeing another part of it. Felt a bit long in places, …
First session back on the yoga mat after a three-week business travel extravaganza (I am so tired) was brutal.
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Finished reading: The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst 📚
Not sure what I thought I was getting—something like The Spell Shop, probably—but this is not that.
Three teenage girls go to a summer camp, but when they arrive, it’s been burned down, the …
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Finished reading: Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson 📚
Outrageously detailed, as usual for Isaacson, with all kinds of facts and stories I’d never heard, despite having visited Milan’s da Vinci museum.
Highly recommended, with the caveat that, …
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Finished reading: Quicksilver by Callie Hart 📚
A quick read with faeries and vampires and magic and gods.
Checks the romantasy boxes: brooding hero, gorgeous magical special girl, companions on both sides.
Some rough prose, but if you don’t expect …
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Finished reading: Twelve Months (The Dresden Files, #18) by Jim Butcher 📚
A fun palate cleanser. Important plots move forward. A few important bits of lore get revealed. Nothing gets quite enough attention. (Dresden and Lara could have used an …
Suddenly it’s winter again in Denver.
Maybe it’s a good thing we brought our skis after all…
These thoughts from Thought Shrapnel are in conflict:
a Japanese farmer who rediscovered the old ways, and paying more attention to the seasons
and
Essentially, everything is emergent, and all your brain is doing is making links between things. …
Brazilian sandwich for lunch at The Garage Food Hall before my flight out.
Today’s LinkedIn CrossClimb puzzle used “Patriarch in the book of Exodus” as a clue for MOSES.
Quick, name any descendant of Moses.
I send you out for exciting new designer drugs, and you come back with… tomato sauce.
I have worked very hard to eliminate the possibility of infinite scrolling eating my time.
Some days I get to the end of my RSS feed and Micro.blog and start looking for something else to read before I realize:
I have constructed my world this way, …
OpenAI is planning to unify its ChatGPT app, coding platform Codex and browser into a desktop “superapp,” a step to simplify the user experience and continue with efforts to focus on engineering and business customers. …
The plural of “doozy” as in, “it’s a doozy” looks weird to me:
doozies.
Why does the singular look okay, but the plural looks so bad I want to write around it?
(Not to be confused with Doose’s Market, the grocery store next to Luke’s owned by …
Wow, these plugins look amazing! Years ago I built some of this for Jekyll, but I didn’t take the very hard extra step of publishing them for others to use.
Awesome work, @rscottjones; if you need testing, I’d love to help.
I love all the breathless stories about data centers in space that seem to forget the biggest problem with launching compute.
You have to read to the very last paragraph of this Payload article to learn that they still haven’t overturned …
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold:
He knows it’s probably not the right tool. It doesn’t matter. It never did.
The reviews can tell you what a computer is for. They have very little interest in what you might become because of one. …
When writing that last post, I instinctively went to the Wayback Machine because it’s a post about censorship from the publication being censored.
About halfway through the process I remembered Micro.blog already auto-archives pages. That …
Rose L. Thayer at Stars and Stripes:
The Pentagon has released a modernization plan for Stars and Stripes that affirms the publication’s independence while expanding Defense Department oversight, introducing new restrictions on content…
This …
Speaking of puzzles, the author of today’s Apple Quartiles must be feeling pretty good about themselves.
Rosa canina, the dog rose, is a variable climbing, wild rose species native to Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia.
Learned a new plant from today’s LinkedIn Pinpoint game. I have a bad tendency of just accepting …
A Brief Story of Codex and Technical Debt
Confession: my Chapter By Chapter build pipeline is a messy hodgepodge of Make, Python, Pillow, webkit2png, pandoc, Image Magick, and probably other stuff I don’t want to think about any more.
Typing make works. Usually. Well, actually, I have …
That chapter (1 Kings 17) brings me to 700 total chapters with notes. Only 489 to go!
