Krista gives a handy primer on Fields of Mistria 1.0, covering its farming, magic, romance, festivals, and cozy life-sim hooks.
Wilhelm checks in on Warp Point’s old-school gaming webring idea, plus the familiar headaches around discoverability, WordPress limits, and AI rules.
Jimmy announces a 1999 ebook and previews a stacked year ahead with The Sims, Deus Ex, Diablo II, Anno 1602, and more.
Andrew Plotkin releases Visible Suspended, bringing Infocom’s robot-juggling cryogenic nightmare to the browser with recreated map art and source code.
Anarchae’s weekly digest mixes job-search annoyance with thoughts on sci-fi anthologies, Ayatsuji mysteries, Taskmaster, Traitors, and more Zelda.
Tobold muses on holidays after retirement, arguing crowded Instagram tourism is miserable and quieter, off-season trips make more sense.
Tofutush dives into Umineko EP1–4 with a delightfully frantic pile of red-text theories, locked-room questions, and Beatrice-related brain melt.
Jamie Zawinski unloads on San Francisco’s expanding police surveillance push, from drones to businesses being nudged into camera-sharing partnerships.
Jeff pushes his Mac Studio to 25 GbE over Thunderbolt, then wrestles with iperf3 limits and a NIC enclosure running dangerously hot.
Bruce spotlights the Squid microscope, which helped researchers discover 31 new marine species in just two weeks.
Brennan offers a timely Blaugust reminder: your site doesn’t need a blog, and creative life doesn’t have to be gamified into posting quotas.
CrazyKinux reflects on Silo Season 3 as a book reader, mourning how adaptation changes make the show feel like a different story.