LunaSea – Self-Hosted Controller »

A handy app for connecting to some self-hosted services (e.g. Sonarr, Radarr, Sabnzbd). It’s replaced a whole folder of bookmarks on my home screen.

Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » L’Affaire Dittmann »

Danny O’Brien on mystery of whether Elon Musk is Adrian Dittmann:

I feel like I’m spoilering about a week or so of social media entertainment for you here by not trying to lead you down the rat-hole of evidence in favor for Dittman-Elon, but this Spectator piece, apparently based on research conducted by crimew and frends, lays out the counter-argument — in that they kinda doxxed the real Dittmann. It’s not as the lawyers say, dispositive, but I think it holds water better than the pro-Dittmann!Elon arguments. (I’m using the fanfic bang notation here, where Dittmann!Elon is an official variant of the canonical Elon).

Morty: Every escape room. Every haunt. Ever. »

Every year, my wife and I do an escape room for my birthday (this year’s was Incognito’s “Prohibition”, which was ace!). Morty is like Yelp but for escape rooms and immersive experiences. Very handy for nerds like me!

Visual Sorting aka The Sound Of Sorting »

This is a great tool for learning about the different sorting algorithms but also if you bump the delay enough, you get the kinds of beeps and boops that make for some wonderful nerd ASMR.

Deanna Dikeman - Leaving and Waving »

27 years of photos of parents waving goodbye. This wrecked me. I’m ringing my mam right now.

Hugh Grant Answers the Proust Questionnaire | Vanity Fair »

Hugh Grant has fully entered his idgaf stage and I love it

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe.

What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Scandiwife. Sociopathic children. Cunty cats.

Night Train Map 2024 - Back-on-Track »

Erik Braa’s train series on Calm, specifically his Nordland Night Train sleep story has been the thing I reach for whenever my anxiety spikes pretty hard at night. And I guess it’s influenced me enough that now I really want to go on a sleeper train around Europe. I realise this isn’t likely to happen any time soon, at least until my kids get a bit older. But this map makes for some wonderful daydreaming.

Lucasfilm EGA adventures appreciation - superrune »

For olds like me, you might remember playing Lucasfilm adventure games back on EGA displays back before they got uprezzed to glorious VGA. This is a collection of comparison shots between the 16-colour EGA and the 256-colour VGA versions of Loom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade so you can appreciate the amount of work that went into the more limited display.

3D Workers Island »

An excellent bit of creepypasta about a screensaver and told through screenshots of forums.

I love that horror has apparently left VHS and is now in its Windows 95 phase.

Why I Lugged My 27-Pound Toddler to a Rocket Launch — Wait But Why »

Tim Urban:

As the father to a smiley little gnome, I desperately want to shield her from the negativity that will swirl around her as she grows up. I won’t be able to do that. But what I can do is continually redirect her attention to the rocket, showing her all the ways our species is incredible. I can use “rocket launch emotion” as a parenting compass and try, as many times as I can, to give her experiences that fill her with that particular magical, high-minded feeling.

This morning at breakfast, my son was asking me if we could bury some of the conkers we’d been collecting and grow a tree. And I was explaining that we could, but we’d have to wait a while. He’d probably be my age and it still wouldn’t be a proper “tree” yet. But that’s okay, because sometimes we do things for the people that will come after us. I feel like space exploration is like that.

Anyway, go read Tim’s whole piece, it’s beautiful.