Jersey City Drank It First
The water in my glass this morning fell as rain over Morris County, some twenty-three miles west of my kitchen....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/10/11/jersey-city-drank-it-first/
This is my 3rd pride event today, Scarborough Pride, but the first one with my partner and his first. It’s fun seeing so many different people with different gender and orientation expressions. Pride is a protest and a party.
#WordWeavers 11 Oct: Share a passage from your WIP where the setting is doing as much storytelling as the characters.
This is a passage from 'Management Apologises for the Inconvenience':
#thementalmansion
It must be very frustrating to magats that Ukraine destroyed the Russian bot army just as they were trying to circulate their big lie attack on Talarico.
This is exactly how I expect solar geoengineering to actually play out: according to self-interested, paranoid, delusional politics, and entirely in ignorance of science.
https://www.wired.com/story/they-war-gamed-dimming-the-sun-it-went-even-wor…
On my way to my first @… to talk about teaching software architecture.
https://scaladays.org/session/teaching-software-architecture…
Kundin kauft neuen HP Drucker. Erreicht mich nicht. Fragt Copilot nach einer HP Hotline. Bekommt Nummer. Ruft dort an. Mensch mit indischem Akzent geht ran. Lässt Fernwartungssoftware "Ultraviewer" herunterladen. Meckert, dass der ganze PC ja verseucht sei. Lädt "Driver Optimizer", "Total AV" und noch einiges mehr runter. Die Tools zeigen, wie schlimm doch alles ist. Er öffnet eine Webseite, auf der sie Kreditkartendaten angeben soll.
Toll, alles dank Copi…
Shopware 6: Every shop that's lived a few years is dragging around gigabytes of dead product images and forgotten campaign banners. Shopware has a command that reclaims that space safely — with a dry run, an audit trail, and one veto hook your plugin needs to know about first.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@scaladays/117258081390527410
First time at Scala Days - looking forward to it!