You can now create and manage real estate: parcels of land and buildings alike. Most importantly, you can move items to parcels/buildings.
Zingor now has an importer for Alexis Smolensk's trade table spreadsheets, which contain weights, prices, sale units, descriptions, and other aspects of player-purchasable tradegoods.
User Interface
The navbar now sticks to the top of the page as you scroll down, allowing access to it without having to go scroll all the way up.
Various links and buttons have had their heights and shapes standardized.
For small screen widths, including mobile devices, the navbar now condenses down to a fold-out menu.
This osprey was hovering above the Yellowstone River in southern Montana, looking for something to catch. Although the picture isn't perfectly focused, I like the bird's pose.
I caught some Brewer's blackbirds taking baths in the Yellowstone River. The focus isn't perfect, but the birds are so cute that I had to share.
This one is so plump and comfy as it cools off near the rocks.
I like that they were all looking in the same direction (more or less). Right after this picture, the one on the right derped himself into birdbath mode, looking much less dignified.
I’ve had a few pager shifts before now, but as the secondary pager: fewer calls.
This weekend I’m carrying the primary pager for the first time. Tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday, from 1 AM to 1 PM, I’m the first line of defense. Here goes nothing!
For a couple years now, maxwelljoslyn.com has been sorely in need of a facelift and some new functionality for user-friendliness. Over the last few weeks I've finally gotten around to that, and if you're reading this, you're on the new version of the site.
The rest of this post is a showcase comparing what the site looked like before and after mid-September 2026, for the sake of future visitors (including me).
A Better Homepage
The homepage is a better experience for new and returning readers alike. "Greatest Hits" comes first, is updated for 2026, and is slimmed down to make room for a photo gallery! After that, we segue cleanly into new posts.
For historical content, this book is strong, and it effectively forms a man-on-the-ground narrative from the battles of the Chosin Reservoir campaign of the Korean War. But considered purely on writing quality, it's only decent. For instance, the author has a strange and persistent love of comma-splicing clauses that are nowhere near full sentences. I can accept it as a stylistic quirk, but it makes for uneven reading.
