Seeing the phrase "Spamhaus DBL" brought me right back to my days working in email marketing. Brutal!

DNS setup seems fine; DNS lookups were zippy.

Images and the site's javascript were all reasonably sized; no slowdowns there.

No general internet routing issues going on that I would expect to be related.

The most likely culprit is Squarespace's CDN being slow in some regions.

I checked things out and everything that you have control over seems fine and normal. It does seem like Squarespace is sometimes extremely slow for no reason.

My first page load was nice and zippy, but when I reloaded it hung for 20 seconds or so.

Seems like just Squarespace things to me.

Not super possible because our upstream bandwidth sucks. :(

If I had to bet money on it and this was three years ago, I'd bet a LOT of money that they copy-pasted something similar from stackoverflow without understanding it.

If I had to bet money on it right now... you know exactly where I think they got those parameters 🙄

An old Feminax original box, showing that it contains paracetamol, codine, hyoscine, and caffeine

A new Feminax express box showing it contains ibuprofen lysine

Yes, but I don't know if it was the original or "express" version, but I'm starting to understand why the original might have helped when nothing else did 😮

I agreed with you at the time, but didn’t want to believe it. i’m about ready to start boycotting brands that are replacing creative roles with AI and lying about it.

Funny how a studio like this can work magic if they are given the time and space to do so.

Short answer? Reasonably sized multiplayer maps that are super super super super well optimized. This dev team knows what they're doing.

This game is also by FAR the best running UE5 game I've seen, for similar reasons.

Loving The Hermit!

Since we've decided as a country not to support PBS anymore, I do want to make a plug for PBS Passport the online streaming version of PBS. It's $5 a month and we've had it for 8 years now. Nova, Frontline, nature, Ken Burns, local shows, old house, masterpiece, and more are faves in this household.

I started The Enchanted Greenhouse this week! I was worried about picking it up originally, given the fate of the character as described in the previous book. Once I learned that this book STARTS with that, rather than ENDS with it, it changed my perspective and I got excited for more cozy fantasy!

I'll make sure not to eat mine

I'M SORRY THEY WERE FREE

A sane body of legislators would impeach and remove to counter blatant disregard of judicial rulings, but here we are.

I am and shall always be Bobson Dugnutt

So help me, if they take my semicolons, I'm not responsible for what will happen

I don't know if I'll ever get over that genAI has ruined my beloved em dashes.

There are many reasons I dislike genAI, but this one feels deeply personal.

💔

She was an icon. What a tragedy 😭

Jolyon's whinging is the worst part of watching F1.

Perhaps F1TV will start offering a subscription tier that mutes him?

Oh that's very nice

All of this is making me want a beautiful old radio to play with! @trickycrayon.bsky.social this is your fault - get me one for my birthday

A partial wiring diagram for the KLH Model Twenty One

It's weirdly hard to find good info on how their cord-antenna setup worked, but this wiring diagram makes it pretty clear that it is attached to the power cord, but via a capacitor. You are safe to leave that lug detached, but can always tape it if you don't trust that capacitor.

Unless the receiver circuit is damaged in some way on your KLH 21, I doubt a modern radio would be as selective (or sensitive, for that matter). It's still worth testing on a couple of different radios to see if you have different results, but I agree that fiddling with an antenna is your best bet.

Another thing that may help is a radio receiver with better "selectivity". These days it's hard to find a broadcast FM receiver with much care put into circuit design, but they're out there. Depending on what radio you're using, you might have better luck with a different one.

Yeah!

A cheap dipole *may* help, but it really depends on where the desired and undesired stations are located. A dipole antenna is directional, though, so if the two stations are not coming from a similar (or opposite) direction, it may help.

I should see if I can get some updated maps though. Mine are from the 90s probably

He's ALWAYS famished. I'd bring him my nacho crumbs, but he'd be chasing that high for years

This world needs more people dying on the funny hills

But here's something even wilder - many of the colors we perceive in the world are just as WRONG as magenta. We might see something as yellow, but it's extremely unlikely that it's reflecting only yellow light. It could even be reflecting green and red light in equal parts, and no yellow at all!