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, Nov 12th, 2025 is when we lost our cents.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/penny-production-cessation-faqs
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.
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 (distinctive translucent red cap).
The Tomb of Horrors is a classic adventure in D&D history. It was posited as an epic “thinking man’s” dungeon of traps and death to challenge the highest level characters.
In reality, it’s hardly a “thinking man’s” dungeon. Like 90’s era King’s Quest games – it’s all about arbitrarily killing you at every turn. Curiosity or touching 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.
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.
Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of the porn site OnlyFans, has just died at age 43 of cancer. Radvinsky is famous for taking a 75% stake in the website and became a billionaire in just 3 years of ownership. He had an estimated net worth of $4.7 billion at the time of his death.
A reminder that all the money in the world cannot add a moment to your life. The money, houses, companies, and all your possessions go quickly to someone else. The only thing you carry into eternity is what you did with your life.
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
Matthew 25:31-46
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Despite at one time being the microbrew capital of the country, since Covid the city has seen a 10-15% drop in the number of people drinking. This follows a national trend of people giving up alcohol.
When places are charging $15-20 for a drink, and $10 for a pint, it’s no wonder so many breweries in Portland are closing.
Local film studio Laika’s new movie Wildwood is set to arrive in theaters on October 23, 2026.
We’ll see how well it matches one of the most popular trails in local Forest Park: Wildwood trail. It’s not the first time there was a reference to something about the local neighborhood in one of their movies.
The Pragmatic Engineer shares an interview with Dave Anderson, formerly Tech Director at Amazon, shares an look at Amazon’s engineering culture.
He covers things like levels, the ‘Bar Raiser’ role, oncall, Amazon’s extreme frugality, the need for a strong relationship with your manager, and exiting with financial independence and early retirement.