2026-06-08T22:17:22.348Z
it didn't even work after doing all that
2026-06-12T16:07:04.168Z
I'm not typically one for an [excessive citations] but this might need it

2026-06-13T05:46:52.276Z
Sometimes you're looking at a map and you go "I wonder why there's no path up this hill?" and you look up a photo and this is the hill

2026-06-15T01:51:50.253Z
think I'm finally done updating drivers
that only took about a week
2026-06-15T23:04:59.450Z
what am I supposed to do with that three-door room in the middle?

what I've always wanted in an apartment: a pentagon that one or two people can stand in
why not just knock out that wall and have it be part of the living room?
(or, well, not build the wall in the first place)
I guess the corner could be a load-bearing pillar, but it seems like that could be shifted slightly to the bedroom-living room corner
2026-06-16T04:16:50.499Z
Idea: listicle-style quiz "Am I ovulating or aviating?" with extremely obvious answers
2026-06-17T03:59:21.676Z
I think I've mentioned this before but I do really enjoy Xonix-style games, I should play them more
and in particular, Cubixx HD is a great modern take on the formula
2026-06-23T01:53:20.114Z
turns out if you go to type "test" but your hand is one key to the left, you get "rwar"
this is the quality content you get when I haven't posted on Thinkblog in almost a week
2026-06-23T03:31:29.497Z
pattern matching is sometimes useful

2026-06-24T02:16:16.848Z

2026-06-24T14:10:32.758Z
just saw an ad for Pokopia, didn't realize they were still advertising that
2026-06-24T18:29:10.034Z
I wonder how many gluten-free genderfluid girlfriends there are out there
2026-06-27T23:25:00.318Z
I'm looking to set up some accounting software, and I've settled on GnuCash, at least as a first thing to try

there are a number of warnings about the "steep warning curve", but I figured I could work through it
the first option it presents you with is "do you want to set up some accounts?", which is pretty reasonable
the second option it presents you with is "Day Threshold for Read-Only Transactions (red line)", which turns out to be a feature which lets you lock old transaactions as read-only.
nice option to have, I suppose, but perhaps not the second thing you need to present the user with, and maybe it should also be explained in the "tutorial and concepts guide" (it is explained in the manual)
the method of adding transactions is also a bit cumbersome at first but I expect I'll get a feel for it fairly quickly
2026-06-28T02:26:41.632Z
interesting bug https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8385926
2026-07-04T14:37:35.969Z
I'm glad that someone has calculated the refractive index of the human liver to three decimal places

2026-07-06T23:55:14.478Z
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_showing_Falls_Church_city,_Virginia.png
2026-07-08T22:32:44.111Z
There's no such thing as software bugs
All bugs are hardware bugs because the computer didn't do what you wanted it to
2026-07-10T01:20:13.548Z
C'mon I feel like I earned the full five stars there

Related: gosh the guitar levels are just so long
2026-07-11T01:33:14.761Z
nobody should use computers actually

2026-07-12T12:27:55.574Z
There's an active Among Us OC roleplay community on Tumblr
2026-07-16T00:55:40.459Z
PCI-SIG sells "CD1", a CD with PDFs of all current PCI specifications, for $6000 to non-members. Or, you can pay $5000 to become a member and buy it for $75 (or just download all current and past PCI specifications for free and burn them to your own CD)
(you can download them for free as a member)
2026-07-16T22:51:05.077Z

2026-07-17T11:45:42.519Z
Udvar-Hazy Center? More like Udvar-Hazy Center!

2026-07-18T18:28:38.553Z
it's such a joke that this still doesn't work in the latest version of Windows 11 in 2026

2026-07-19T03:00:33.727Z
You know most airports aren't silent so I'm curious how they pulled that off