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Posts by Michael
There is probably more consistent new content on the Puzzles incubator than any other community I've seen on the site. Is it time to promote?
I'm not sure if I'm doing this right, but I have a pentagram that passes my test. #! /usr/bin/env python AB = 1 AC = 0 AD = 1 AE = 0 BC = 0 BD = 0 BE = 1 CD = 1 CE = 1 DE = 0 triang...
I tried to make this one just a little tricky to give your players something to think through. Thirty White Horses, the hardest of Gollum's riddles,[1] was short with a persistent metaphor. I'm aim...
Could the pipe be leaking nonetheless? Yes. I had a pipe leak (inside) that was extremely slow. So slow, in fact, that we only noticed when the stairway door had remained shut for a week or mo...
Are there any negative effects[1] when sending an email wherein the From header is an email address on my server's domain but the Reply-To header is an email address on a different domain, specific...
Philip K. Dick would posit[1] that the surface war is all done by robots. The robots lie about what is happening on the surface, and ended the war as soon as no one could independently verify the s...
Jon Ericson[1] is working on pretty much what you asked for. It seems to be Discourse with a different base configuration that emails collaborators by default. There is a free open Beta for small c...
You can use ASCII representations of hexagonal grid maps as shown on Rogue Basin.[1] If doing so feels less tedious than making a picture directly, you could take this map and write a script to bui...
I first heard this riddle in a Reader's Digest of bygone year, where a bear took the jaunt. The actual question in that version was: What color is the bear? to which the answer is, of course:...
Unless Stephen Ostermiller[1] comes back, I think that ship may have sailed. Stephen and Matthew Snyder provided the overwhelming majority of the questions and a lot of the answers, too. I haven't...
Jon wrote Building a Lord of the Rings keyboard this week about getting a mechanical keyboard. I definitely commiserate with his membrane keyboard complaint: But then I discovered that the "A" k...
I asked the city and they told me that just dumping it in the garbage bin is fine. I doubt you're going to have a more authoritative answer than that. I take mine to the help desk at Staples o...
Relevant to you A single certificate is easier to manage, rotate, etc. Borderline Before Server Name Indication (SNI), you could only bind one certificate to each IP/Port combination on ...
[Does] information content scale linearly with length, regardless of topic? Information content pretty clearly doesn't scale linearly with length. I used to joke that The Scarlet Letter author...
On sandboxes For sandboxed development and test environments, I have found mkcert to be pretty helpful. It creates a root CA and happily creates certificates for whatever DNS you want. mkcert war...
I used to use AbeBooks, which I understand to be owned by Amazon. My experience has been good. Most of the books I've purchased appear to be purged from various libraries (for shelf space?) in pret...
I do not think this list belongs on Codidact. I am not opposed to asking on Codidact if such a list exists, though. Sam Carter suggested looking at OpenStreetMap, a suggestion I endorse. You could...
I submit that neither direction is completely the case, but laws are typically the formalization of norms. They may be widely-respected norms[1] or merely codifying the norms (or hoped-for norms) o...
