Started playing Hades! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXpsCEqaRUo | Continue reading
ShareOpenly is a simple tool for sharing links to the fediverse and fediverse-compatible sites like Threads and Bluesky. The tool is made by Ben Werdmuller (Some ShareOpenly updates is his most recent post on the matter.) I've been meaning to give this a try, so I've added it to … | Continue reading
So, the Fallout TV show on Prime Video. First season has 8 episodes. This isn't really an adaptation but more of an original story set in the Fallout universe, signficantly expanding the lore. First: the look and the aesthetic and the sets and the costume are all great and remind … | Continue reading
The World I see so many posts about the Aurora Borealis (?) from people in the North. Once again we citizens of the tropics are discriminated against! StackOverflow announced a partnership with OpenAI. People are upset. Yahoo. Ars Technica. Apple announced a bunch of iPad stuff I … | Continue reading
We attended our second quiz night at Don Conejos (the first time was last month). They actually have these quiz nights weekly I think, but so far we have only attended when Jason is hosting. Some other person hosts on the other nights and so far we haven't felt up to trying him o … | Continue reading
Does anyone have any info about a local PH 90s game called "The Song Begins"? May 8, 2024, 11:23 a.m. via reddit #philippines #reddit_submission | Continue reading
A few months ago, my uncle visited us from the province and he brought us this boardgame that he says has been in his house for the longest time. It is a presumably locally-made song-guessing game called "The Song Begins", supposedly made in collaboration with Jose Mari Chan. It' … | Continue reading
Previously This is the part 8 in my continuing insane effort to try to read EVERY MARVEL COMIC EVER PUBLISHED. You can see previous posts using the tag "complete-marvel-run". This one is all about the Guardians of the Galaxy. (Note: All volume nos. are based on the Wikipedia list … | Continue reading
It is a new month! These weeknotes are coming in a day late because I was out the whole weekend and exhausted even when I got back. My Week As mentioned, I spent the weekend out of town, getting together with family to celebrate some recent happenings. Lots of swimming, eating sn … | Continue reading
It is a new month! These weeknotes are coming in a day late because I was out the whole weekend and exhausted even when I got back. My Week As mentioned, I spent the weekend out of town, getting together with family to celebrate some recent happenings. Lots of swimming, eating sn … | Continue reading
🔗 Back up everything: corps don’t care about your data but you should May 2, 2024, 9:32 p.m. via web There were soooo many services from the aughts where I regret not having a proper backup/export of my data there | Continue reading
🔗 Bill Gates, Man United and 20 other sites that ban linking to them – Malcolm Coles May 2, 2024, 9:31 p.m. via web #web | Continue reading
🔗 What Precious Things Does The Corporate World Steal From Us? — Ludicity May 1, 2024, 4:59 p.m. via web "I thought I was being paid to turn up at an office, but I was actually being paid to no longer have the time or energy to seriously better myself." A long and rambly … | Continue reading
🔗 Save the Web by Being Nice May 1, 2024, 4:58 p.m. via web As someone who has always been a bit reserved when interacting with strangers, even online, I probably need to work more on "commenting to say how much you enjoy the content" or "dropping a quick note of apprecia … | Continue reading
TOC The world My Week Media Diet Walking and Health Website Changes Some Links of Interest This Coming Week The world US colleges are experiencing a wave of pro-Palestinian protests demanding Universities cut their ties to Israel, etc. Some authorities have responded with militar … | Continue reading
🔗 Passkeys: A Shattered Dream - Firstyear's blog-a-log April 26, 2024, 8:20 p.m. via web "We missed our golden chance to eliminate passwords through a desire to capture markets and promote hype." TBH, I never got around to figuring out how passkeys were supposed to work, … | Continue reading
The next set has been out for a while, so I'm doing my MTG set recap for Murders at Karlov Manor! Arena Limited Stats Events Win Loss Total Winrate Archetype Total 21 63 60 123 0.5122 With splash 9 18 18 36 0.5 By Main Colors WU 2 2 6 8 0.25 Detectives WB 3 13 7 20 0.65 Pint-Size … | Continue reading
🔗 The Man Who Killed Google Search April 24, 2024, 10:38 p.m. via web "These emails are a stark example of the monstrous growth-at-all-costs mindset that dominates the tech ecosystem, and if you take one thing away from this newsletter, I want it to be the name Prabhakar … | Continue reading
TOC Spoiler-free Review Spoliery Show Notes Blackthorne Toranaga Mariko Yabushige Other Characters The ending That's It Spoiler-free Review The final episode of FX's Shogun miniseries aired today and I watched it as soon as it was available on Disney+. The original remains one of … | Continue reading
🔗 NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth – Voyager April 23, 2024, 3:52 p.m. via web I can only imagine how godlike it must feel to be one of the engineers who managed to successfully remotely debug software running on 46-year old hardware some 24 b … | Continue reading
I consider myself a fully-functioning adult, but sometimes I still get hit with episodes of anxiety that just seem silly right afterwards. This is a story about one of those episodes. Sometime last month, I had a voucher worth P1000 (a bit less than 20USD these days) for a certai … | Continue reading
🔗 Stop Acting Like You're Famous April 21, 2024, 8:12 p.m. via web "The most egregious thing you can do with any activity is daydream about how you can make money off of it. That’s the quickest way to optimize for the wrong things and suck the fun right out of it." | Continue reading
The world Trump's criminal trial is proceeding apace, finishing jury selection just as a man chose to immolate himself outside the courthouse. The whole Iran / Israel conflict has not yet escalated... so far. Bitcoin halving is done! Tesla had to recall all their cybertrucks! OJ … | Continue reading
🔗 I pray you're born with gills April 20, 2024, 3:31 p.m. via web A comic about climate change anxiety #webcomics | Continue reading
TOC Thunder Road Vendetta Arkham Horror LCG: The Innsmouth Conspiracy Our friend from the US was back in town again for a couple of weeks, and that meant getting together and playing some tabletop games he brought along. Thunder Road Vendetta Our main plan was to play another cam … | Continue reading
🔗 Scrabble: Mattel launches new version of game which is 'less competitive' April 20, 2024, 10:26 a.m. via web As someone who used to kinda play Scrabble competitively this is sooo not my preference, but I understand the need to make things more accessible for people of d … | Continue reading
🔗 Making version noir April 20, 2024, 10:24 a.m. via web I liked this discussion of how a new homepage design was made, especially the part about making the comics responsive #blogs | Continue reading
🔗 We Need To Rewild The Internet April 20, 2024, 10:20 a.m. via web "Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments … that madden the creatures trapped within." | Continue reading
I think this is our first time back at the Vault for the year? The quiz wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, but we screwed up the Ace, using it on the one round where we missed the Ace question. If we had used it on any other round we would have won, but instead we ended up … | Continue reading
Managed to hit infinite in #MarvelSnap for the 3rd time as a f2p player! Screenshot showing me hitting level 100, featuring Dan Hipp Iceman [2024-04-29 11:28] Season recap stats! (Wait, the season isn't over yet?) #marvelsnap | Continue reading
The world Iran launched a drone attack on Israel. Trump's first criminal trial begins this coming week. The weather continues to be punishingly harsh. My Week My week was exhausting, mostly because I was out of the house for most days, disrupting my regular routines. Tuesday and … | Continue reading
Jason, who used to host quiz nights at Amici Greenhills invited us to a quiz night at a new place: Don Conejos near Greenhills. The event was scheduled for 8pm and we were there on time, but it started late, almost 9:30pm I think. =/ We had a special guest from Sixsikan with us l … | Continue reading
I've lived in this neighborhood for more than 20 years, but I really only started walking around the area regularly around 7-8 years ago when I started freelancing. There's like an area within maybe 2km of my house that I feel like I know pretty intimately because I've walked the … | Continue reading
🔗 NYC Chicken Shop Replaces Cashier With Woman in Philippines On Zoom April 10, 2024, 1:01 a.m. via web That is... certainly something. Pinoy pride! Wut | Continue reading
The world Israel's Gaza genocide lost further support as they "accidentally" killed some aid workers from World Central Kitchen. China continues to bully and harass PH ships in our own territory. Earthquakes and eclipses. This weekend is Wrestlemania weekend. My Week We had our 5 … | Continue reading
🔗 Cap Watkins – The Sliding Scale of Giving a Fuck April 7, 2024, 3:32 p.m. via web "Similarly, if I'm a ten-out-of-ten on every single decision I'm ever a part of, how can anyone know or trust me when I say something's very important to me? Having an internal barometer f … | Continue reading
🔗 the biggest threat facing your team, whether you’re a game developer or a tech founder or a CEO, is not what you think | by Doc Burford | Mar, 2024 | Medium April 7, 2024, 3:24 p.m. via web (TW:Medium) Long, rambling, highly opinionated post about leadership failures, s … | Continue reading
🔗 Growth is a mind cancer – Manu April 7, 2024, 3:21 p.m. via web "Because they need to make money. More money. There's no end state here. "More" has no end state." #capitalism | Continue reading
🔗 Why we prefer computers over consoles when introducing kids to gaming | Bryan Braun - Frontend Developer April 7, 2024, 3:20 p.m. via web "Similar to smartphones, gaming consoles are polished, user-friendly, walled gardens that guide you down a pre-destined path. Gaming … | Continue reading
🔗 The one about the web developer job market – Baldur Bjarnason April 7, 2024, 1:36 p.m. via web Outlook is bleak. Article is a bit long. | Continue reading
Finished reading Interesting Times, Discworld book #17. This book focuses on Rincewind and his adventures while accidentally fomenting revolution in the Agatean Empire, the Discworld analogue to China. There are actually two halves of the plot here; in addition to Rincewind as th … | Continue reading
🔗 Oh Hello Ana - You don't have to be a “content creator” to have a website. April 6, 2024, 9:56 a.m. via web "Give yourself permission to exist and be seen regardless of whether you have a blog, side projects or “content” - whatever it means." | Continue reading
TOC Quick Review Character breakdown A Video Completion Screenshots What's Next I finished Tales of Arise earlier today! I played the very short PS4 Tales of Arise demo in 2021 and I was planning to get it after beating Tales of Xillia 2 on PS3 first but never got around to that … | Continue reading
🔗 I am not a supplier | Musings about software April 5, 2024, 11:25 a.m. via web "What it means is that there is no supply chain here. Because there is no supplier. I am not providing you something that you bought from me. There is no relationship." Re: open source mainte … | Continue reading
TOC Changelog Layout and Sidebar Floating TOC and Back to Top Webfonts Background Image and Custom Styles for Tags Other minor changes To Do List CSS Notes That's It Previously: 2021 Site Update I've had "Site redesign" on my to do list since at least January 2023 so today I am f … | Continue reading
TOC Movies DC League of Super-Pets (2022) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016) American Fiction (2023) Dune: Part Two (2024) Ricky Stanicky (2024) Road House (2024) TV Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan season 3 and 4 Abbot … | Continue reading
Today is: the last day of March Easter Sunday Also apparently Trans Day of Visibility, which pissed off right-wing types when Biden happened to point out it falls on Easter Sunday this year The world The open source tech world was rocked by a new vulnerability that came out a day … | Continue reading
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