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I maintain a page linking to comments I have left (or when I’m referenced) on posts at CSS Tricks and Smashing Magazine:
http://a11y-tricks.com/
I started this as a gag, but it’s been hella useful for me to go back and find posts that resulted in me having to debunk them face-to-face with people who believe…

'One hour a day for better moods, less anxiety and feeling closer to their friends and family, all of it achieved by something as enjoyable as play.
Perhaps by fall, a zest for outdoor fun with phones left indoors will become a habit.
... encouraging children to go swimming or play street hockey is hardly a horrible way to give such a boost to their physical and mental health.
Open the door. Go outside and play. Put down your phones. Summer is calling."

The (not so) lazy days of summer
Canadian children aren’t getting enough exercise, and smartphones are partly to blame. The remedy? It’s right outside your door

Super-Resolution Radiography by Mechanical Supersampling and Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction using High-Z Photon-Counting Detectors
Moritz Weigt, Karl Hugo E. Helin, Nicolas Karl Fix, Peter Bronsert, Frank Goldschmidtb\"oing, Thomas Thuering, Matthias Habl, Spyridon Gkoumas, Thomas Stein, Paul Martin Fleing, Thomas Billoud, Jakob Neubauer, Dominik von Elverfeldt, Martin Peter Pichotka

Super-Resolution Radiography by Mechanical Supersampling and Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction using High-Z Photon-Counting Detectors
This study presents a practical and dose-efficient strategy for resolution enhancement in planar radiography, based on mechanically supersampled acquisition with high-Z photon-counting detectors (PCDs). Unlike prior event-based or cluster methods, our approach operates in true photon-counting mode and supports clinical flux rates. Using detector trajectories spanning multiple pixels and image registration-based shift estimation, we achieve sub-pixel sampling without requiring mechanical precisi…

We accidentally wore a matching outfit for the first session of a new campaign.
Paul is wearing the tee I made at the start of the last campaign and I’m wearing the tee I made at the end of the same campaign.

Memoirs of the CP/M creator released:
“Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don’t know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he ‘missed’ the opportunity to become Bill Gates by going flying instead of meeting with IBM. Unfortunately, this tall tale paints Gary as a ‘could-have-been,’ ignores his deep contributions, and overshadows his role as an inventor of key technologies that define how compute…

In His Own Words: Gary Kildall
Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote programming language tools, including assemblers (Intel 4004), interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M). He created a widely-used disk operating system (CP/M). He and his wife, Dorothy McEwen, started a successful company called Digital Research to develop and market CP/M, which for years was the dominant operating system for personal microcomputers. Thousands of programs were written to run under it, and a million or more peo…

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#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

Multi-messenger dynamic imaging of laser-driven shocks in water using a plasma wakefield accelerator
Mario D. Balcazar, Hai-En Tsai, Tobias Ostermayr, Paul T. Campbell, Qiang Chen, Cary Colgan, Gillis M. Dyer, Zachary Eisentraut, Eric Esarey, Cameron G. R. Geddes, Benjamin Greenwood, Anthony Gonsalves, Sahel Hakimi, Robert Jacob, Brendan Kettle, Paul King, Karl Krushelnick, Nuno Lemos, Eva Los, Yong Ma, Stuart P. D. Mangles, John Nees, Isabella M. Pagano, Carl Schroeder, Raspberry Simp…

Multi-messenger dynamic imaging of laser-driven shocks in water using a plasma wakefield accelerator
Understanding dense matter hydrodynamics is critical for predicting plasma behavior in environments relevant to laser-driven inertial confinement fusion. Traditional diagnostic sources face limitations in brightness, spatiotemporal resolution, and inability to detect relevant electromagnetic fields. In this work, we present a dual-probe, multi-messenger laser wakefield accelerator platform combining ultrafast X-rays and relativistic electron beams at 1 Hz, to interrogate a free-flowing water ta…

A new Bowen Fluorescence Flare and Extreme Coronal Line Emitter discovered by SRG/eROSITA
Pietro Baldini, Arne Rau, Riccardo Arcodia, Taeho Ryu, Zhu Liu, Paula S\'anchez-S\'aez, Iuliia Grotova, Andrea Merloni, Stefano Ciroi, Adelle J. Goodwin, Mariusz Gromadzki, Adela Kawka, Megan Masterson, Dus\'an Tub\'in-Arenas, David A. H. Buckley, Francesco Di Mille, Gemma E. Anderson, Sabina Bahic, David Homan, Mirko Krumpe, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Kirpal Nandra

A new Bowen Fluorescence Flare and Extreme Coronal Line Emitter discovered by SRG/eROSITA
The nuclear transient eRASSt J012026.5-292727 (J012026 hereafter) was discovered in the second SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey (eRASS2). The source appeared more than one order of magnitude brighter than the eRASS1 upper limits (peak eRASS2 0.2-2.3 keV flux of 1.14 x 10^-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1), and with a soft X-ray spectrum (photon index Gamma = 4.3). Over the following months, the X-ray flux started decaying, with significant flaring activity on both hour- and year-timescales. By inspecting the multiw…