Chicken’s as alarm clocks for kids
I’ll stand by my thought that chickens were created solely to be entertainment for farmers.
Polyrhythms
Musical language – Speak what you play
I had no idea with tabla playing, how you say it is how you play it.
That’s some flying
2025 is the year we lost our cents
As of late 2025, the cost of making a penny rose to 3.69 cents. So as of Nov. 12, 2025 – no more pennies will be minted.
So, November 12th, 2025 is when the US lost its cents.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/penny-production-cessation-faqs
Hook up Claude + Figma via MCP
Things are moving fast. Create your UI in Figma and now let Claude have at it via the Figma MCP hookup. Or maybe just use Google’s own ‘vibe design’ tool Stitch.
Airpod/iPod cleaning that actually works
I bet like a lot of folks, you have a set or two of airpods. I have an older set I use for running since the sound in them after a year or so was starting to get quieter and duller. Then, it got to the point I could barely even hear out of the right one.
Before I tossed them, I decided to see if cleaning them out would help. There wasn’t any obvious ear wax in them. So I looked online and sure enough Apple itself now has a video and procedure on how to do this.
I tried the method out. The first go seemed to improve things, but I wasn’t sure. The next day I tried it again, and the right airpod suddenly had a lot more volume. I tried it a 3rd time on the 3rd day, and low and behold – they were practically like new (well – except the battery life was still only good enough for a 60 minute run – but that’s another story).
I had tried this method before, but using isopropanol alcohol. It largely gave poor results. It seems the key is to use micellar water – usually for removing makeup and dirt on sensitive skin. I use Bioderma – Sensibio – H2O Micellar Water and it seems to be what they use in the video (it has a distinctive translucent red cap).
Speedrunning the Tomb of Horrors
The Tomb of Horrors is a classic adventure in D&D history. It was one of the first big convention dungeons run by Gary Gygax himself and shown up in all kinds of cultural references like the book/movie Ready Player One.
The Tomb of Horrors was posited as an epic “thinking man’s” dungeon of traps and death to challenge even the highest level characters. In reality, it’s hardly a “thinking man’s” dungeon. It’s more like a 90’s era King’s Quest game that is all about arbitrarily killing you at every turn. Curiosity or touching almost anything will kill you without warning. It’s clear this was a dungeon designed to kill high level characters that irked Gygax off with their bragging about being able to defeat anything.
Runesmith decides to give this dungeon the same treatment other games from the era got: a speedrun. He does a hilarious job describing the dungeon and his solution that speed-runs the whole thing with only one character in just 21 rounds or 2 minutes and 6 seconds.
Wild looking FPS
VINCIT looks like total chaos, but it has a very distinctive art style. VINCIT is the work of solo developer OchPuch and will be published by Cowboy & Clown Games.
The gimmick? Every bullet has a unique effect. Red bullets ricochet off walls, and yellow bullets home in on the nearest enemy. After you shoot, the bullets hang in the air as glowing trails and they can be fused midair to create devastating combinations.