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A standing ovation from me this morning for this great post:

My hobby/craft/profession/practice/way of being isn’t about the things I’ve made; it is not about value, (the) economy, outcomes or output. It is about me; about what is insid...

ABC News:

The Canberra to Sydney rail link is set for a $100 million upgrade in a bid to reduce the passenger train trip time to under four hours.

Initial upgrades will inc...

I recently updated a MariaDB server to 11.8 LTS, their latest long term support release. Immediately I started seeing issues on Textpattern 4.9.1 sites I sysadmin for people. Creating new articles works, but editing existing articles results in the following error shown across the bottom of the...

I invoked a Betteridge headline here not because I’m not willing to commit to answer, but because I have no idea what’s going on. Yes, it’s time for another Shaggy Dog post where I think out loud about something without arriving at a useful or even interesting conclusion. Today it’s regarding desktop (aka, not workstation) Arc.

The BOOK 8088 was released a few years ago to massive fanfare among retro computer tragics like me. It was a modern laptop with newly designed parts wed to an Intel 8088 CPU and CGA graphics. The keyboard is mushy, and the screen acts more like an external panel that requires regular resolution and positioning adjustments… but I just love that such a device exists.

I n...