Fireworks at 5:30PM? Really? I know it’s New Year’s Eve but could you wait until we’ve given the dogs their CBD?

It is very humid in our workshop this time of year but this is ridiculous. Was that roll of filament swimming recently? (yes, I’ve checked that against other devices and it’s within 5% normally)

Some really good stuff in here. I have (in my giant pile of half-written things) a half-written discussion of the Atmosphere and why it's so important, but it's going to have to wait until next year. In the meantime, Paul's got you covered...

S. M. Oliva of Computer Chronicles Revisited has a write-up on the very interesting life of Stewart Cheifet, as well as a small tribute video. computerchronicles.blog/post/stewart... youtu.be/P3tFQw15Ve4

You didn’t think the Hellmouth in Sunnydale was the only one, did you?

Seattle Green Lake / Wallingford / Phinney Ridge / Woodland Park folks:

A 14-inch lazy susan and a whole bunch of 6mm reflective markers should level up my 3D scanning. Should. Let’s find out…

My personal Fortress of Solitude.

The better to disqualify your ballots and charge you late fees, my dear!

Ignoring the many, many other red flags this startup and new CEO are waving proudly… When the CEO of a security startup is personally involved in deciding what alarm sensors they’ll use the startup is already DOA. They just don’t know it yet.

Seahawks defense Seahawks special teams Seahawks offense

I’m actually so stuck on Andrej excitedly sharing this seemingly-impressive use of AI, which actually recapitulates tons of existing work to create new and exciting security issues. Any human engineer would have been like, idk dude just use Home Assistant

If only Justin Herbert could get ANY help from his teammates.

Like, what do you even do with this?? (Besides have fun replying)

I just built a new laptop so I took the opportunity to take a new browser (@vivaldi.com) for a drive. So far I'm pretty happy with the move from Firefox.

You can tell it's the holidays by the flood of new people entering discords and forums demanding that their new toy do what AI said it does, followed by getting angry at the developers who explain politely that the AI is wrong.

this. this. so much THIS.

I have been really enjoying PLUR1BUS but the season finale was terrible.

@obicynkenobi.bsky.social stumbled across this and figured you’d enjoy it: www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Bes...

patch ye MongoDB, there's an exploit for a vuln which has been in the product for over a decade that allows the remote, unauth read of any memory - which includes plaintext creds. Somebody posted an exploit on Christmas Day, Merry Christmas! doublepulsar.com/merry-christ...

Morrigan hopes you’re having Holidays as Happy as hers.

Yaquina Bay in Newport, Oregon

Calling all 6502/NES programmers! We recently preserved and shared a source code snapshot of the lost Police Academy game! Which is great, except it's in a pretty bad state. I'm hoping there's enough to "revert" back to its trade show demo. Any interest in helping? www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pgm4m...

Most of the over/under calls I saw got this one wrong. (in other words, that was fast)

I was fortunate enough to work with Vince a few times and it was always a pleasure. This sucks.

What’s the over/under on when this video leaks?

Reminder: our Techdirt fundraiser is going on right now. Unlike some, we won't pull, or even water down, the stories we write about CECOT.

DK Metcalf just threw a punch at a fan. Really glad that hothead isn’t playing in Seattle any longer.

@jeriellsworth.bsky.social I haven’t jumped into Tilt Five yet, but I’m browsing the website (again)… and a solo developer tower defense game looks doable. Am I reading that right?

I 3D printed this puzzle box - mostly for the look on my son’s face when I give it to him. I’m super happy with how it turned out. Model: www.printables.com/model/844574...

I can’t believe I’m rooting for aTm but

🚨 TRADE ALERT 🚨 The #SeaKraken  have acquired a 2nd round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft & a 4th round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft from Columbus in exchange for forward Mason Marchment.

“Brian Bosworth, Oklahoma QB” LOL ESPN LOL

My @frame.work 13 is assembled and ready for an operating system! Now for the really hard part - deciding which stickers to put on it.

It’s hard to believe that 64GB of DDR5 RAM was only $320 a few weeks ago.

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

This is really nice to see, and yet another reason why I’m happy to be a Prusa customer.

THEY DID IT AGAIN OMFG

I made too much chicken pot pie filling the other day, so…

Asked why no one outside the state of Washington cares enough about its flooded communities that just lost everything they own right before Christmas, today the nation admitted it just kinda assumed the PNW was always living underwater in some sort of giant puddle like that.

I should know better than to browse Japanese proxy purchase sites by now. These are SO pretty.

The endorphins from learning new shit are brilliant and shiny. Me, a baby server admin: "I think there's a network problem" Lazy network admin who didn't check: "The network looks good" [rage-fueled networking study at home] Me: "Actually your network is borked and here's the proof, do your job"

There’s a limited amount available on the US store right now: www.pentel.com/products/gra...

The winter FUNraiser continues at 12pm Pacific: We're dumping a new set of mystery ROMs, live on stream! And we need your help to assemble the data! Based on the labels on these ROMs, there *will* be at least one new unpreserved game in here.

Rah touches on something really key for moderation in this post and the ones that follow. I’ve seen this play out over and over for the last two decades in gaming. The more the bad actors are confused about how you caught them, the more you slow them down and frustrate them. Bewilder and confuse!

In case you can’t quite place the name, this is the writer of classic Trek’s Trouble with Tribbles. Let’s help him out.

Dunn has cost the Kraken their last two games with his sloppy defensive play. I’m over his shit.

Hello, not only do we not use AI we would rather cut off our own arms than do so. Demonschool is 100% human made.

It’s chicken pot pie weather.