Next version of the Odyssey I want to see: written, directed and starring Danny McBride

Maybe “nowhere“ is the place one talks about one’s Brave Decision to Trade In an Apple Watch. But Bsky takes second. Six years later, I’ve swapped out the black glass slab for … an Ollee Watch. www.olleewatch.com An F-91W from Casio, 1989, the most-sold watch in the world. With a custom chipset.

Ollee Watch

Ollee Watch is a smartwatch modification for classic digital watches, primarily the Casio F91W and A158W. We aim to provide a low maintenance smartwatch experience, minimize the noise of the modern wo...

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Hot new job: telescope ranching. "People from all around the world send their telescopes here to observe the night sky from this place with no light pollution. We set them up and they can all access their stuff through a computer remotely." [kottke.org]

Telescope Ranchers

Rockwood, Texas is home to a unique business, Starfront Observatories. Owner/operator Bray Falls hosts hundreds of other people’s telescopes in perfect conditions — ultra-dark skies (Class 1 on the Bortle scale), clear w

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Backlit mammatus, a red-backed rainbow, and a fiery sky to close out the day. #dc #dcwx @capitalweather.bsky.social @popville.bsky.social @thehillishome.com @hillragdc.bsky.social

D.C.’s Capital Weather, formerly with the “Gang” appendage, has moved out of the Washington Post for reasons most of us can gather. Supporting their new thing (@capitalweather.bsky.social) is a good use of old Post subscription money.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

If you’re one of our many readers who wants an electric car that won’t track you, Slate might have what you’re looking for.

Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup

With no embedded modem, the Slate Truck is the antithesis of today's connected cars.

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I wrote a post at Ars Technica about an OSS garage opener device and 1/3 of the comments were demanding that I paint the raw drywall in my garage. Ars really trains you as a writer in, like, fourth-dimensional defensive objection thinking.

Kevin Jones@vcsjones.dev · 3mo ago

This was fun I got to talk to folks about Tailscale and @thepurdman.com about painting garages.

"Scrabble that doesn't drag" is some (unwitting) freelance marketing copy I did for my friend @qrush.bsky.social and his new game, Wordtrak: wordtrak.com/blog/2026-05...

I built a new word game

How Wordtrak started

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Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 3mo ago

if i were a shareholder of an american automaker id want to know why my ceos were so stupid and shortsighted that they not only didnt see this coming but actively fought it

Paperless-ngx + Tailscale for a secure, searchable stash of all your actually important documents. Local AI tagging entirely optional. tailscale.com/blog/paperle...

Paperless-ngx + Tailscale: More secure, searchable, AI-enhanced documents

Set up a searchable, self-hosted archive for your important papers—secured by Tailscale so it's accessible from anywhere, but only for you.

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"[T]hey want to be both the best browser for people who hate AI and the safest browser for people who love AI" Alongside the bold plan to win users by... building a better browser. I'm here for it. www.pcmag.com/news/firefox...

Firefox’s New Boss Has a Very Old-School Plan: 'Build a Better Browser'

I spoke with Firefox's head, Ajit Varma, about why the company is returning to fundamentals after years of decline.

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Things I didn't expect to see today: Mamdani opening a statement about improving New York's heating infrastructure by quoting Val Kilmer in the "not fully appreciated 1995 Michael Mann classic, HEAT".

Everyone’s saying “Miroslav Šatan” and they’re absolutely correct: Miroslav Šatan.

Adam Gretz@adamgretz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Let's remember some Buffalo Sabres. Maxim Afinogenov

Until we start charging $7.99 a month to look at it, we will never unlock the full potential of The Moon

there may not be a more fun name to say than Sabres goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 🦬

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

Slackbitrage (n.): Posting slick memes and links from one Friend Slack full of clued-in people to another Friend Slack that has no membership or interaction overlap, such as to boost your own slickness. Usage: "Did he just stumble across that John Wick meme, or is this Slackbitrage?"

Here’s how Tailscale handled MacBooks “notching” its menu bar icon—starting with a coy little code fix and ending with a whole new windowed Mac UI. tailscale.com/blog/macos-n...

How notch traversal works on MacBooks

Tailscale now has a full windowed UI. Before that, our app had to learn how to tell you it was hidden by The Notch.

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I've been giving out advice on battery charging and longevity—in paid writing, to friends and family, any time it comes up—pretty much my whole adult life. This is one of, if not the best, summary of what actually matters: randsinrepose.com/guides/apple...

Since the Metro opened in 1976, DC has consistently had some of the highest transit use among any big US city—higher than Chicago, Philly, or SF. The share of residents using cars to get to work is the lowest in the country outside of NYC. That's been made possible thanks to Metro.

DC was the only postwar US city where residents successfully fought back against new freeways & chose to reallocate transportation funds instead to a brand-new metro network. Rather than just a line or two through the city center—like Atlanta, Miami, Baltimore—DC got a real network. It paid off.

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

I'm turning 36 years old this month which means it's time to put childish things behind me. This way everyone can see my collection when I'm on a Zoom call.

Had a real “Get right with @obsidian.md ”’day. Amazes me how unobtrusive that program is to new ideas and systems. Just a modern marvel.

Would you be a good leader of a communal fallout shelter in the event of World War III? Fortunately the US Department of Defense created a self-assessment quiz in the 1970s so that you can "rate yourself as a potential shelter leader"… doomsdaymachines.net/p/take-me-to...

"Take me to your shelter, leader!"

Do you have what it takes to be a shelter manager after World War III breaks out? Take this quiz from 1973 and find out!

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Hey, weirdos (adulative)! Here's a thing about getting iMessage on all your devices, if you're the type to keep a Mac running all the time. tailscale.com/blog/bluebub...

Tailscale + BlueBubbles makes an iMessage on Windows and Android less complex

Let Tailscale set up the encryption and permanent IP, and avoid port forwarding, for a BlueBubbles server.

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Who even hates the Bills that much? It is a suffering brought forward out of deep time by the Old Gods, suffering not compassed by any mere human spite or schadenfreude, but immense—implacable—indifferent—and whose meaning is its meaninglessness.

Using a combination of glitches in Super Mario World, Yoshi can be taken into the final battle, where he can eat Peach upon Bowser's defeat. With Peach gone, the ending will not play, and Mario and Yoshi will simply stare at each other forever.

1. Pirates! (NES) 2. Maniac Mansion (NES) 3. Chrono Trigger 4. System Shock 5. Jagged Alliance 2 6. Fallout 7. X-Com 2 8. Elden Ring 9. Disco Elysium 10. Satisfactory