We go now to DC:

The murderbots need not love us, so long as they fear us. At one point, three Waymos were all stalled, seemingly confused: Selika Josiah Talbott, a transportation mobility policy expert and former federal advisor with decades of leadership shaping autonomous vehicle ...

Making XML human-readable without XSLT In response to the recent discourse about XSLT support in browsers, Jake Archibald shares a new-to-me alternative trick for making an XML document readable in a browser: adding the following element near the top of the XML:

Please vote for us! As always, it is validating. But our long winning streak has also proven helpful when applying for grants and stuff, and so has been instrumental in allowing us to continue to exist... Categories for your consideration: Best Pizza: DNA Pizza. Best ...

Friction is a force of resistance. Overcoming friction takes energy. More friction takes more energy. Reducing friction frees up energy.

Another short book in [this series](https://kevquirk.com/tag:Murderbot%20Diaries) and I'm *really* enjoying it. Being so short, they don't feel like books, …

I love visiting personal websites. It's been a good replacement for doom scrolling...

Contrary to what I had planned, I didn’t post weekly updates on my challenge throughout August. No particular reason why, I was just busy doing various other things and posting updates on the hikes was low on my list of priorities. But, I am happy to report that I have successfully ended the month at 5033 meters of elevation gained, which is easily over my target goal of 4810!

Rich Pixels Neat Python library by Darren Burns adding pixel image support to the Rich terminal library, using tricks to render an image using full or half-height colored blocks. Here's the key trick - it renders Unicode ▄ (U+2584, "lower half block") characters...

The detail on this is astounding.

Following our recent enhancements to the documentation of Get the details of an existing time off request endpoint, we’ve now applied the same enhancement to three more endpoints: