I seem to have somehow gotten myself into a niche with audiobooks that for some reason aren't available from Libby, like The Culture series books by Iain M. Banks. I would gladly pay a subscription to an audiobook *rental* service, I don't understand why the only options are library or buy.

Welp, from now on I am only buying sensors that are also cute.

This dude is intense and correct

lol, I've been added to a "techno-pessimists" list, which has also been hidden by bluesky moderation

Does anyone else have to "work up" to their final sleeping position every night? I'm a stomach sleeper but I can't go right to it, gotta spend some time on my back and side before I'm tired enough to fall asleep quickly prone. I have been this way for as long as I can remember.

Had a dream that certain combinations of letters in a name makes it a "power name". I didn't figure out what the rules were but something tells me "Cory Hughart" is not a power name.

I have successfully begun capturing my AcuRite Iris weather station data with an RTL-SDR antenna and the great open source software rtl_433. This is the first step in being able to actually use the measurements myself instead of just sending them all to The Weather Co for free. triq.org/rtl_433/

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Just realized that I was a contributor on #WordPress 6.9. Nice.

New year new me. I am now a weather station nerd.

good links

FYI if you build a #Gutenberg field that uses getEntityRecords to fetch users, you need to have the list_users capability to use it! #WordPress

Me, waking up this morning, to 2026:

Just bought a personal weather station so I can "know which way the wind blows" and join Weather Underground. No, not *that* Weather Underground. Probably. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather...

The final day

Starting to feel a bit burnt out on certain manwha that seemingly go on forever while getting dumber and moving further away from what hooked me in the first place.

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

how much of internet traffic is just computers yelling at each other even though they've been blocked or otherwise cut off years ago?

All Sundays should begin with this:

The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE. www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...

If anyone reads this - meet me at the top of the tower.

Well this is good news for #a11y Germany rejects Accessibility overlays for EAA compliance and says regulators won’t audit any website that uses an accessibility widget chrisyoong.com/blog/germany...

If you want an excellent video explainer for why we created @nogamesforgenocide.com, People Make Games just made one for you. After watching it, think about whether you might want to pledge to boycott Xbox and then sign up if you do.

the good news is that the media attention and support from an audience has helped Horses do well enough that Santa Ragione has been able to pay all its owed royalties and loans. so it's not in debt. the bad news is it's still not enough to keep the studio together. www.ign.com/articles/hor...

Finished this up after the stream, had so much fun with carra sykes and @ryanselvy.com on @adobelive.bsky.social today! checkout the replay www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbUm...

Today's the day! Come hangout, and play along with us live! www.youtube.com/live/EbUmN_B...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Finished the first Nonary Game. I really like the structure of a branched narrative that wants you to play through all branches to get the full story, and man are the folks at @spikechunsoftinc.bsky.social good at that. The way they weave the mechanic into the actual story every time is incredible.

Normally when I start a book series I binge it until I reach the end, but when my Libby hold on the audiobook for The Decagon House Murders pinged while I've been working through The Culture series I decided to jump on it. Glad I did but now I'm craving more mystery.

hey, I remembered to post this week! I'm on the @adobelive.bsky.social winter holiday games Wed. 12/17 at 12pm CT, and YouTube & Twitch 12/19 8am CT, 12/20 2pm CT jackwatson.live Firefly Discord events, Mon-Thurs 10am CT. Come hangout!

Who is Cory and what does he like and post about? • Front end #WebDev, #WordPress, and #OpenSource • Indie games & #GameDev • #food, #gardening, & #fermentation (check out @crockoftime.com) • #SciFi, #horror, & #mystery books & podcasts • @jackwatson.design & my boys Alphonse and Hermes

Connect with me on @thestorygraph.com if you like sci-fi and mystery books! app.thestorygraph.com/profile/cr0y...

Trying out @libro.fm since @libbyapp.com for the first time this year did not have a specific audiobook I wanted to listen to. They're both great!

he is best boy

As newsrooms shutter and paywalls rise elsewhere, public media delivers critical, unbiased reporting without fear or favor. That's the promise of a free press in a democracy. Click here to support the network of voices that keeps our public conversation honest and informed: n.pr/4pCcFIx

Can we bring back vacations prescribed by doctors? Health insurance should cover it as a preventative.

6 years of thinking I can make a better portfolio. 1 year of actually building it. My new portfolio is LIVE 🚀 Please, don't break anything! 👉 bruno-simon.com

Stoked to share that True Terrors (@strange.website) and I have turned this riff of a post into "Strangers By Spring", a creative project about escapism, romance, and rebirth: strangersbyspring.com Sometimes it's really good to just sit down and make the things you wish existed in the world.

Wikipedia: The word "joystick" was coined by a French pilot in the early 1900s. Me: That does not really clear things up.

Hello, HERE ARE THE LINKS to get the actual podcast when it comes out on Sunday. For now, if you would like to 'follow' it at your chosen podcast emporium, that really helps. See you soon! podcasts.apple.com/podcast/murd... open.spotify.com/show/2di2tB8... feeds.acast.com/public/shows...

Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf

Fuck you, Ohio. Thankfully I'm just visiting.

I highly recommend @piccalil.li courses to all web developers, and the Black Friday deals are ridiculously good. If you have a continuing education stipend at your job, use it here! piccalil.li/black-friday/

Finally got around to playing The Forgotten City by Modern Storyteller since I was on a time loop game kick. Highly recommended, both for the time mechanic as well as some great historical/mythical fiction. store.steampowered.com/app/874260/T...

A now- infamous review, hysterical and worth a cheer up read

400,000 US troops died fighting against people wearing swastikas in World War II.