The September 2026 release of CAP is out. This is the first minor release following the major release upgrade in June of this year, and brings CAP Node.js to 10.1 and CAP Java to 5.1. It's "only" a minor release, but goodness me there's a lot of great stuff. Let me take you through some of the highlights, which are...

Winner of the 1989 Booker Prize, The Remains of the Day is perhaps Kazuo Ishiguro’s best known novel, in part because of the Merchant Ivory film adaptation. As adaptations go, I enjoyed it very much, but it’s also one of the reasons I put off reading the novel for so long, and I’m sorry that I did. The story is...

What’s a guilty pleasure song? I do not believe any pleasure is guilty. If something brings you pleasure then that is a good thing! Celebrate it!! I understand the thinking though, I’m sure there are some songs that we enjoy that fall outside the genres most of our friends would recognise as “ours”. For me, my...

Heute gelernt: Kardamomsnurre. Das ist ein skandinavisches, kunstvoll verschlungenes Hefegebäck (“Snurre” bedeutet auf Dänisch oder Norwegisch drehen oder zwirbeln). “Sonne, Kardamomsnurre und Kaffee im Bett”, schreibt Lili, und ich: “Heute möchte ich mich in ganz vielen kardamomsnurrigen Momenten räkeln”, und, oh...

Photographer Maya Barkai gathered dozens of depictions used at the green light of pedestrian traffic lights around the world and exhibited them outdoors in some cities in the early 2010s. She also made another collection with “men at work” images.

Yesterday was a lovely day to go to apple orchards and pumpkin patches. I did look for the farm I didn't buy, the farm on the way to the orchard, which I blogged about in this post yesterday. The house no longer exists, and I'm almost sure that the property has been transformed into a housing development...

My library in progress #3So happy with this! After playing with the flat version, I decided to apply the logic to individually cloned shelves, about 5 hours later this is the result! #blog #pixels #website #redesignThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.

I’ve said in the past that I find posts written all in lower case to be hard to read, and I stand by that. I need a few capital letters here and there to get my bearings. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have an appreciation for lower case. In fact I downright prefer it. Capital letters have a boring lack of variety....

Josh Withers, quoting Chris Martin, quoting a post he saw on Twitter: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence.

If you have also been waiting for a way to play this game without involving yourself in the Microsoft ecosystem, the time is near Ok so to catch you up; Young Suns is the latest game from KO_OP, creators of Goodbye Volcano High and so many more. It's an ambitious, multiplayer life sim that is set in the orbit of...

I met with a friend yesterday and the conversation got to what the next hype might be after the current bubble pops. We live at the height of the “AI”-hype and bubble, the hype that took over from the short Metaverse hype which in turn came after the crypto bubble. And the main actors are often the same. The same...

September 2026. Goldthorpe. South Yorkshire. A real ale gain in the unlikeliest of places, as Goldthorpe becomes the latest South Yorkshire mining village to get a micro, and a CAMRA Pub of the Season micro at that. What are those numbers below the letters ? Scrabble ? In a village of 6,051, any pub needs to appeal...

1:4 It’s like a curse… on the first matchday after the coach was fired, the guys (finally) scored 2 goals and beat Fortuna Köln at home to nil, only then to concede 3 goals at home against Duisburg within 15 minutes of the first half just 4 days later. OK, MSV is currently at the top of the standings and on a hot...

Consider a client who wants multi-factor authentication turned off because the extra prompts are getting in the way of work. The complaint deserves attention. The requested fix deserves scrutiny.Something may be wrong with the setup. A session policy may be too aggressive, a device may not be registered correctly,...

The anonymous source behind one of the stories the White House cited to justify banning POLITICO was none other than Vice President JD Vance, Status has learned. On Monday, Vance himself also defended the White House’s decision to ban POLITICO. “They can still report on the Trump White House,” he told reporters....

Il disco del mese va ai Dreadnought con Wars of Spirit // Wards of Light: prog metal, folk e atmosfere psichedeliche!

I was listening to the episode “Make Your Own Thing” from the Off Protocol podcast where Jim Ray interviews John Gruber. They cover a variety of topics, including Gruber’s thoughts on the dilution of personal brand by publishing through “chain” platforms like Substack (I quite enjoyed the metaphor of a personal...

Actually a little sooner than I was expecting -- look what turned up today! When I saw this morning, based on tracking, that it had made it to the national distribution centre down in England, I was expecting it to head up this way today and perhaps be out for delivery tomorrow. But, no, a little later in the...

Llevo ya unos meses trabajando presencial en oficina, luego de dos años trabajando home office. En este último tiempo observé como cambió por completo el trabajo de muchas áreas con la IA y la forma en que las personas trabajan con ella en el trabajo diario. Veo que ahora hay muchos informes que se hacen de un...

“The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us,” James Baldwin wrote. “Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets.” No matter how slant they may tell it, that truth tells us back to ourselves, helps us tell each other what it is...

I've more and more become passionate about trying different fiberarts, and it makes me want to be an advocate for crafting, especially when the world overwhelms. I'm a long time crocheter and knitter, and lately I'm adding more and more to my arsenal. I'm learning a lot of (sometimes ancient) crafts, and I love it....

I woke up this morning and saw my disk usage bumped up slightly. My first thought wasn’t “maybe I built something and it took up space”, my first thought was “it surely fucking isn’t”. I left it at that. I disabled siri, surely it must’ve not installed the bullshit models that are a time and space waster Then I went...

a half-assed review"> Discover the breathtaking landscapes of Japan in over 550 real-world cars and become a racing Legend in Forza Horizon’s biggest open world driving adventure yet. Japan awaits! youtube • video ID: oZkvQ9I_iKQclick image to load player First I wanted to say that I was considering to start this...

I’ve been thinking about where I stand in respect to the current state of the industry. This is more of a journal note than a post, apologies for that. I usually leave this stuff private, but I thought I’d post this as a trial in case someone relates to this experience and feels less alone. All opinions are my own.

Eight years, and doneby Bryce WrayA departure post from Bryce where he talk about his exit from blogging and his motivations for doing so.Read post ➡ It's always sad to read these kind of posts. Yet another blog has fallen by the wayside, but I understand Bryce's rationale. I've been quietly following his blog for a...

I have written about the importance of tutelary figures in several articles. Although it is clear from the context what I have in mind, I have not elaborated in a standalone piece. A tutelary figure is a person who watches over you while teaching you something that is valuable for life. Parents typically perform...

It's the afternoon after some walking, coffee, and then a great lunch or dinner or whatever it was my wife made for me. Today it was French fries, bbq chicken with chili and other goodies, and fresh broccoli. I don't get Khmer food a lot here but when she feels like it she will make soup or curry or some other...

James and I setting up today's meetup before the other participants joined. Web meetup for all things personal websitesFor those unaware, Homebrew Website Club is a series of regular events hosted by the IndieWeb community where participants talk about personal websites. You don't need to be a coder to take part;...

💡Read Dinosaurs Are Too Big now!So what do you have against heavy-duty, industrial sized dinos like the Triceratops? What did they ever do to you?!You know what, this is a valid point, it really isn’t fair to the dinos to put this all on them. In real-life I have an intense amount of anxiety around motor vehicles. I...

There's a quote I saw somewhere on the internet around 2012 and I used to repeat to myself whenever I was preparing to give a talk at a university. I can't remember who said it, or even the exact wording. I've searched for it more times that I care to admit, but it either disappeared from the internet, or my...

Cuando me paso el peine por la cabeza sus dientes empiezan a escarbar en mi piel y entonces todo pensamiento se va, se esfuma toda la maraña, se desenreda al mismo tiempo que se deshacen los nudos del pelo. !Funciona tan bien! No puedo esperar a mostrárselo al mundo. Solo falta programar unas cuantas funciones más,...

A void? More like some weird chasm with funny little floating things in it, if you ask me. I've had to take some extended breaks from writing, such is the effect of a near-daily cadence for over a year. A vocation such as this requires a weird sort of attention; learning to appreciate negative space can be a...