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Given my blog's domain name, I don't write nearly enough about Shakespeare. Luckily, the good folks at NetGalley have sent me Irene Coslet's provocative new book to review.
Who was the real Shakespeare? It's the sort of low-stakes conspiracy theory which is driven by classism ("a low-born man couldn't write…
I travel a fair bit. My passport is usually quickly scanned and I can enter or leave a country without delay. But every time I use the eGates at Heathrow Airport to get back in to the UK, my passport is rejected and I'm told to seek assistance from Border…
I cracked open my review copy of Room 706 and settled in for an early night in my hotel room. I was up until way past midnight tearing through the book - my heart pounding. Given that the book centres around a woman trapped by terrorists in her hotel room,…
gotta love the Maine elections coming up where people are going to vote for King or Pingree in the gubernatorial thinking they're their parents (Senator and Congresswoman), or Baldacci in CD-2 thinking he's his brother (former governor)
to her credit, Hannah Pingree's yard signs say "HANNAH"
(i think Angus King…
The kids are both in nursery now and I'm back at work after two weeks off at Christmas.
The sticker sales are going well, I've just about broken even if you do some flexible maths and I have a new pack incoming in the next few weeks.
After this post,…
One request I've had quite a bit for EchoFeed is to be able to handle specific, known usernames, between Mastodon and Bluesky where they are different (which is almost always the case). Some pastry-themed apps already have something similar but for EchoFeed it needed to work differently.
For EchoFeed, I've…
Yes, “AI” will compromise your information security posture. No, not through some mythical self-aware galaxy-brain entity magically cracking your passwords in seconds or “autonomously” exploiting new vulnerabilities.
It’s way more mundane.
When immensely complex, poorly-understood systems get hurriedly integrated into your toolset and workflow, or deployed in your infrastructure, what…
Virginia Woolf wrote about the importance of having a room of one's own: physical space for creative work, free from interruption and control. A blog is a room of…
Replacing freshman comp with dozens of small groups run like graduate seminars is expensive and hard to imagine. But it would create a generation of students who wouldn't use an AI to…
In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall.
A fleshed out story, one you just might want to read.
Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.
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cmdr-nova's personal blog and home on the indie-web.
a blog by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
Maker of web things, Lego builder, sometimes blogger, sporadic pizzaiolo, fortnightly podcaster. Cat dad and human dad.
I'm a software developer in Camarillo, California. I write about software development, technology and music.