Days of Atonement by Walter Jon Williams
Oct. 28th, 2025 08:55 am
How could a man die in front of Atocha Chief of Police Loren Hawn when that man died twenty years before?
Days of Atonement by Walter Jon Williams



A short list of clocks which do not update themselves:
The electronics (and the big living room wall clock, and the heating controller) all look after themselves, which is just as well, as there are quite a lot of them.
Which 2020 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
1 (2.6%)
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
33 (84.6%)
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4 (10.3%)
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
12 (30.8%)
The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
1 (2.6%)
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
18 (46.2%)
Good morning, afternoon, and evening!
We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)
I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.
Ta for now!

Which of these look interesting?
Abyss by Nicholas Binge (May 2026)
6 (12.5%)
Testimony of Mute Things by Lois McMaster Bujold (October 2025)
27 (56.2%)
Morsel by Carter Keane (April 2026)
4 (8.3%)
The Cove by Claire Rose (May 2026)
6 (12.5%)
Outgunned by Riccardo “Rico” Sirignano & Simone Formicola, with art by Daniela Giubellini (December 2024)
6 (12.5%)
And Side by Side They Wander by Molly Tanzer (May 2026)
16 (33.3%)
Lightning Runes by Harry Turtledove (March 2026)
8 (16.7%)
A Long and Speaking Silence by Nghi Vo (May 2026)
24 (50.0%)
Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)
Cats!
37 (77.1%)


We have made the difficult decision to end development on Sigil. T
https://dotat.at/@/2025-10-24-tetrapod.html
Concrete tetrapods are used to dissipate wave energy in coastal defences.
There's a bit of a craze for making tetrapod-shaped things: recently I've seen people making a plush tetrapod and a tetrapod lamp. So I thought it might be fun to model one.
I found a nice way to describe tetrapods that relies on very few arbitrary aesthetic choices.
Click here to play with an animated tetrapod which I made using three.js. (You can see its source code too.)
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