2026-06-27 01:51:27
by Slqnt and 98006
Half Life 2 running fully through your browser? Sure! Why not?
Definitely not the best way to do it, but walking around in one of the best games ever on my browser is a pretty cool concept. Especially since there’s no way to run it natively on a Mac nowadays.
2026-06-26 22:26:56
by Jim Nielsen
I often look at my own posts and think, “There’s nothing novel, or important, or deep in here at all — is this even worth saying?”
Yes! Me too! Lots of drafts got abandoned because I eventually caught myself thinking that while writing it. Past couple years I’ve been trying to detach myself from that way of thinking but it’s a slow process.
Sometimes a blog post will only have a target audience of one (the writer) and that is perfectly fine.
2026-06-23 20:00:00
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
1979, Douglas Adams
My rating: Decent
I remember loving this book when I was a pre-teen so perhaps this rating is a bit unfair. I was looking for some light reading before bed and landed on this one, but I guess the humor doesn’t work on me anymore. Some good quotes here and there, but most of it felt like an adult’s attempt at saying things kids would find funny. It probably works for a lot of people but I think I outgrew this specific kind of silliness (but not silliness altogether, mind you).
I read the pt-BR version, if that matters.
2026-06-22 22:16:56
by The New York Times
Incredible visual demonstration of how the absurd size of modern SUVs turns them into even deadlier machines. Not only the hood height makes them deadlier in a possible collision, but the vastly increased blind spots make collisions more likely to happen.
2026-06-21 17:59:31
by Caue Napier
This is so cool! TownSquare adds a small virtual square at the footer of a website, on which visitors can walk around, jump, high-five and talk to each other. And this can connect multiple websites together!
Strongly considering adding this somewhere on my website.
2026-06-20 08:00:00
I still can’t believe I was able to see Iron Maiden play Infinite Dreams, Powerslave and Rime of the Ancient Mariner live.
Child me would only ever dream of seeing them live at all. Teenage me realized that dream, in 2011, after traveling 600km to be barely able to see my idols as small dots on the stage.
I’d seen them two more times after that, in 2013 and 2019. Each time was amazing, a dream come true, and each had a handful of songs that I was seeing live for the first time.
Iron Maiden famously has repetitive concert setlists, something that is a bummer for diehard fans like me, but makes sense — most of the audience is there for the hits. But they always add at least a few less-known gems in there for those that go often.
But seeing my favorite songs live? That was something I didn’t dare dream of. I missed my chance to see Powerslave and Ancient Mariner live in 2008 due to being too young and having no money, and thought I’d never have the chance again. But Infinite Dreams? That one was last played in 1988 — 38 years ago, seven years before I was even born.
Bruce said on the stage, right before the song: “38 years ago, I don’t think we would have been able to dream that we would be standing here¹”. Well, yeah Bruce. Neither did I. But we did.
1 - The concert was in San Siro, a legendary stadium for football fans, in Milan.
