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I like to read a physical dirty (ink dust, not content) finger newspapers whenever I can get them. At a bakery / cafe a few weeks ago, sitting outside having cherry Danish and an Americano (the international special), I was reading the NYT and the SeaTimes section by section. It was awesome. Comics, international, regional beats, magazines. I realized somewhere in the middle of the caffeine and sugar rush, just what a huge effort it takes to put out a DAILY newspaper. It's incedible, even without considering the cheap price.

There was a couple nearby looking at the mess of papers on my table. I realized I needed to tidy my donnage pile of sections, and impulsively offered them to the couple. They almost jumped. If I didn't know better I swear they were living out some fantasy of holding a newspaper for the first time.

100% agree. It's a fun name, but it ends up begging the comparison. The look and feel of it was an instant download for me. It's actually exactly what I want and even tried / failed to build on my own for years. I'll be supporting this project.

I've had several clients bought up by PE over the years. Usually just after my work with them refactoring for growth. It's fascinating to me to read about them having anything not go their way. Every deal was so clean and efficient - like a robotic butcher from a Looney Tunes cartoon. It also makes me wonder about the extended time frame since PE are often far better at the deal making than they are running businesses long-term. In other words, they can make a business efficient through strategic cuts, but building and managing it afterward is very different when that wasn't necessarily part of the plan.

Sisyphus was a stone carver. I use that idea in my game Bouldering. The joy of wearing out these stones until they are small enough to carry in a pouch - the size of marbles. Only to be given another boulder. For free. And, he gets to live forever! Meh. There are worse fates in the myths.

I didn't get there on my last visit, but https://www.casafilmbar.com is apparently doubling up on their 3rd place karma by combining a bar with video rental.

I've been thinking about offering free videos in town somehow. Taking my collection of various movie media. Anyone have something like this? Like a free library for film, or a corner of someone's storefront?

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Can't not mention https://scarecrowvideo.org if we're talking video rental survivors.

There's also https://anonradio.net which is less about hacking and more just hackers with music to share. It's classic SDF-based fun.

There are at least a couple of outfits claiming a nano coating or a nano glass surface for solar panels that are so smooth as to not collect dusts. Their other claim is greatly improved angular photon capture since the panel is just that flat. The two companies I've seen claim ~20% improvement - and less maintenance.

Just had the same here in Washington state for the Little Giant fire. Great image in the article. We had another fire cloud behind Rainier the other day, and saw it from the Rount Mainier farm - it really looked like the volcano was smoking up and ready to top-off. <clench>

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/little...

Woohoo for civilian first responders!

After years of trying dozens of tools for invites, I was just about to build my own. Our last tool was a Mac-based Outlook / Word / Excel mail merge - way more complicated than it used to be. I'll take a look at this one, but if anyone has a suggestion for a solid, simple, no ads, tool / work flow, I'm open. General requirements are about 6 events a year with about 125 invitees, another dozen smaller dinners. RSVP, followup email day prior to event. Nice to have a graphic in the email. [edit] I don't want my invitees to have to sign up for anything.

We just had our first bear crossing on a wildlife here in the Northwest.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/first-black-bear-u...

I know these things are more complicated than they seem at first, but whenever these stories surface, I immediately go to an idealistic childhood cartoon land where we have a prime directive that tells us to go forth(!) and watch out for each other!

No cartoons, but the NYT also offered up an obituary:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/arts/pat-oliphant-dead.ht...

I made some charcoal in a tin a couple years ago from branch ends of an arbutus tree. I didn't realize how much I was really making. It's great stuff. Very enjoyable feel and marks nearly all the papers I use it on.

Never tried the process your describing. I'll try watercolor paper first, and then canvas - I assume you mean a primed / gessoed canvas?

Might be obvious, but their videos and tutorial articles are way over the top for a little importer / retailer. Fair warning, they'll either have you grabbing your current supplies inspired for a project, or shopping for stuff.

When I read these stories of bibliophiles and their stacks, I really wonder more about their book flow. How many are they bringing in, processing (reading, skimming, reviewing, studying, etc.), and then what's the output look like. Are they selling them back, donating, or dropped back off at the library.

I used to buy a lot of books. Library book sales were fun - returning with boxes of books. These days I leverage interlibrary loans and reservations to a couple thousand titles a year, but only need a couple of shelves for any given week. My flow is steady and adaptable to the content. Notebooks, Zettle card / bookmarks, and plain text files for deep dives. And straight to trading platforms for certain magazines like BottomLine.

As someone who has lived as you describe for 50+ years, it might be wise to embrace it. "Generalists" often benefit from seeing the similarities between systems, sets, and sciences, leading to insights that specialists can miss. This is how I've been leveraged in places where specialists with deep knowledge have failed (MBAs, lawyers, etc.) It doesn't mean I'm always the best tool, but when there is a project that's really stuck, sometimes I get to be the hero.

You might also relax a little one day and ponder what the core interests have in common. For example, I found I had a few different threads in my studies. Building of any kind - metal, wood, programming, world. So when I drew comics, it wasn't the art of line and form as much as it was the idea of creating a world for my characters to live in. And my science interests turned out to be a spiritual search for truth. Conversely, my religious studies were a way to connect to the early wisdom (pseudo science) and how it shaped modern society and culture.

Even if it isn't some net profit benefit, I'd probably still advise to make the most of it, lean in, and be your ever-lovin' self.

Agreed. I've figured it out during the drier months in the NW of the States. Plenty of work in the woods, workshop, maintenance, and helping neighbors with the same. But winter and the rains I would inevitably put on 10 pounds and lose my super old guy muscles. My mildly successful campaign against the trend is long rain walks and Convict Conditioning workouts.

Witness. I've built three small projects from idea to pilot runs with Ai. Some parts of the process I had some solid experience with, and other parts I was holding the hand of my Ai and hoping he was sober and benevolent. I often had laughing fits of glee when things worked AND I understood them. As good as Ai is at just doing stuff, it's better at explaining and teaching. The back and forth made all the projects better, cheaper, tougher, and ultimately more usable.

Both. I need two covers: one for a wood yard and another for a concrete slab for wrenching on the car. The rest are going to the library for shelving. I say the rest, but I have a feeling there's going to be a lot more finished board than I actually need.

I've got two trees on the property to deal with and need to do so in place. This might be my best option.

1999 or maybe 2000 for me. Dollars are votes for how I want to see the world.

Big believer in this tool. It brings pride and even further diligence to the conscientious reader. And in the case of the slacker, a silent knowing without shaming them, which rarely helps performance. Instead, you can manage the situation stealthily.

This article and others are describing tech workers are leaving their jobs. Or being let go. I'm wondering what people are doing who may be leaving tech in general. Artistic pursuits, new business, or other projects?

If retirement, what does that look like? Seems like very few people retire and do not have some pretty engaging projects, volunteer work, etc.

And if you are under 45, are you turning to other career paths?

And I can't disagree with either, especially the riff raff usage, but the term "takeover" was the one intended to play the important role in the sentence. And it wasn't for the unhoused - but the dealers and traffickers.

Seattle used to have a top notch zine scene - entire sections of stores (music, magazine, comic, game) would have hundreds of local and national zines.

Recently, Seattle's been trying to make a comeback downtown. We lost gobs of tenants and the riff raff tookover. One element of the comeback strategy is this Seattle Restored project. Basically, rent free storefronts to small businesses.

For father's day my ladies brought me to one of them:

https://seattlerestored.org/locations/paper-pushers-print-sh...

They had about a thousand zines and variants. I was told my minimum spend and nailed it. So much fun. In the area, go!

You'd be right. Flash backs of course to BBS homepage / door designs. Getting the -=[[UNIX]=- to look just right. Or the layers of ///FILES\\\ to flash. The graffiti style was beyond me, but the tables and sketches were very pleasurable time sinks.

I once saw a TUI adventure game that had windows - game scene, profile, comms, etc. It required a substantial screen size to really work well, but it was outstanding in brevity and communications. And no colors.

Almost word for word what I was thinking! The UI doesn't really get in the way but it feels like it isn't quite designed for people. And the content is excellent. I'm oddly tickled by the uniqueness of it.

As I think it would be lost with a ASK HN, I'll just beg here, what other sites have you seen that take a completely different / odd / "special" approach to UI for ordinary presentations / purposes?

Just in case anyone wants to pretend it's still that other century:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc10008.txt

Have to say, the headline alone had me reaching for the pointy hat. Wonder if it was the statistical anomalie or the content that got the parent comment to post?

I bet you're right. First time using a chain clamp, and it was brandnew. Broke on the third pull. Might have to watch a video - maybe I used it wrong? Seemed pretty straight forward and I wanted something that would span several filter types.