https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Actually Random Hugo en-us Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:20:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/does-earths-rotation-affect-flight-time/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:20:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/does-earths-rotation-affect-flight-time/ Flying east is faster, but not because the planet turns underneath you. The rotation does move bullets, change what an aircraft weighs, and it once cost a freight train 42 femtoseconds. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/bosch-pof-1200-ae-dimensions-and-specs/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/bosch-pof-1200-ae-dimensions-and-specs/ The official specs for the Bosch POF 1200 AE, straight from the manual. Plus the base plate hole pattern, which Bosch has never published, and which every source online gets differently. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/you-muted-ai-in-2023-what-did-you-miss/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:40:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/you-muted-ai-in-2023-what-did-you-miss/ A practical catch-up guide for anyone who muted AI in early 2023 and has just returned to a world of reasoning models, coding agents, AI search and synthetic video. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/can-pistachios-spontaneously-combust-during-shipping/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:20:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/can-pistachios-spontaneously-combust-during-shipping/ Large shipments of pistachios really can self-heat and catch fire, but the claim that all pistachios are officially dangerous goods needs some qualification. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/building-a-content-farm-in-2026/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:15:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/building-a-content-farm-in-2026/ AI has made it almost free to produce articles, but that does not make them useful. Here is what building an honest content farm looks like in 2026. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/bacteria-vs-human-cells-ratio/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:10:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/bacteria-vs-human-cells-ratio/ The famous 10:1 ratio of bacterial to human cells came from one back-of-the-envelope calculation in 1972. The real number is about 1.3 to 1, and the true story is better. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/caspian-sea-salinity-vs-ocean/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:05:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/caspian-sea-salinity-vs-ocean/ The Caspian Sea has a salinity of about 12 g/L, roughly a third of seawater. Here is why it is salty at all, why it is not saltier, and why one corner of it is ten times saltier than the ocean. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/s-grade-vs-h-grade-polystyrene/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:00:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/s-grade-vs-h-grade-polystyrene/ S grade EPS is 16 kg/m3 and H grade is 24 kg/m3. Here are the densities, R-values, compressive strengths and the colour code that tells them apart, and why the manufacturer's numbers beat the standard's. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/mining-2286-chatgpt-conversations-for-blog-posts-people-actually-search-for/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:25:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/mining-2286-chatgpt-conversations-for-blog-posts-people-actually-search-for/ I have three years of ChatGPT history. I tried to turn it into a keyword research pipeline using only free tools, and found something uncomfortable about the results. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/best-hugo-comment-plugin/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:20:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/best-hugo-comment-plugin/ I compared Cusdis, giscus, FastComments, Remark42 and other Hugo comment systems, installed Cusdis, found two bugs that silently lose comments, and took it back off again. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/why-ssh-broke-on-macos-26-but-usr-bin-ssh-still-works/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:00:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/why-ssh-broke-on-macos-26-but-usr-bin-ssh-still-works/ Homebrew's ssh could not reach my home server and returned No route to host. DNS was fine, the server was fine, and the real cause was macOS Local Network privacy blocking one binary but not another. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/setting-up-and-publishing-a-new-hugo-blog-in-about-10-minutes-using-claude-code/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:30:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/setting-up-and-publishing-a-new-hugo-blog-in-about-10-minutes-using-claude-code/ I gave Claude Code an empty directory and a domain name. About ten minutes of agent work later, a Hugo blog was live on GitHub Pages with Cloudflare DNS, HTTPS and Google Analytics. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/the-benefits-of-verifying-your-domain-for-github-pages/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:25:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/the-benefits-of-verifying-your-domain-for-github-pages/ I ran two custom domains on GitHub Pages for years without verifying them. Verification is free, takes five minutes, and stops someone else from taking over your domain. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/how-to-make-ai-sound-less-like-ai/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:05:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/how-to-make-ai-sound-less-like-ai/ I use AI to help write ActuallyRandom.com. The open source Humanizer skill removes the habits that make useful AI writing sound like ChatGPT. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/does-adrien-brody-eat-thai-food/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/does-adrien-brody-eat-thai-food/ Does Adrien Brody like Thai food? Yes. A surprisingly answerable question about curry, celebrity and the ordinary lives of famous actors. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/are-bats-good-at-echolocation-or-do-they-just-heal-fast/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/are-bats-good-at-echolocation-or-do-they-just-heal-fast/ A wonderfully plausible TikTok fact about bats, broken bones and echolocation turns out to be false. Here is why it was so easy to believe. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/the-most-random-posts-on-madebynathan/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:30:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/the-most-random-posts-on-madebynathan/ An index of the most random posts from my original blog: simulation theory, Half-Life 3, Prussian wargaming, steppe etymology, and a timeline of all the wealth in human history. https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/hello-world/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +1200 https://actuallyrandom.com/posts/hello-world/ The first post on Actually Random — what this blog is and why it exists.