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I took an extra dose of an as-needed sleeping pill last night with the intention of going to bed early and waking up well-rested. I fell asleep easily, but woke up this morning feeling rather tired. I still feel tired this afternoon, but...
The last few months have been busy ones for me. Between August and September, I was at four different in person conventions, recorded an entire season of The Meatgrinder in a cabin in the woods, presented at the virtual event...
[ This is a development note. Things might change before the release of modus-themes version 5.0.0 and ef-themes version 2.0.0. ] In previous entries, I outlined how my ef-themes will be built on top of my modus-themes and then how the...
Move over Blaugust, it's time for Blogtober!! Talking a bit about how streaming my Japanese studies has been motivating me to keep up this habit
The more I use AI, the more I realize that cognitive biases have a significant influence on my decision-making process. I unconsciously rely on Al’s output whenever I task it to do something and use the result as confirmation of my...
My final chosts were on 9/30/2024
I slowly read this paper while brushing my teeth at night. I really enjoyed what it demonstrates about language design...
PlatformerOn Tuesday, OpenAI introduced Sora, an iOS app that lets you create and share 10-second, AI-generated video clips in a feed. It was designed to look familiar, OpenAI employees said in a live broadcast on Tuesday morning, and...
Title: Ritik Sahni Website: ritiksahni.com RSS Feed: ritiksahni.com/rss.xml I enjoy coffee, building products for the internet, and writing about tech & culture. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm doing consider...
You wouldn’t know it, looking at the tiny elderly woman in the white lab coat bent over a table in a halogen-lit government office, you wouldn’t know she had spent her youth doing science with her whole body: extracting herself from a...
I've been thinking of writing some small toy-programs / games. Preferably in Elm if it's just UI, and Purescript if it involves some backend. Honed in on something to do with "levenshtein distance" so, basically, a word-ladder game. In...
# September update
#Arte #Delosnuestros #escritores #blog #ElSueñodelArtista #Benedetti El pasado 14 de septiembre pero de 1920 nacería en Paso del Toro Uruguay uno de los escritores que logró incursionar en casi todos los géneros literarios desde la...
Some mornings the mirror is a customs agent. Papers, please. I present a face I didn't consciously choose and a biography I didn't audition for. Born into a longitude, assigned to a specific moment in history, stamped by the weather of a...
Shawn Fanning from Napster wearing a Metallica shirt to the 2000 MTV Awards; via Reddit. In May 2000, Napster’s poster boy, Shawn Fanning, was featured on the cover of BusinessWeek magazine in a suit and bowtie, alongside four other...
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Check out As in guillotine... for more. Books I read, games I played, things I watched in September 2025. Do we have similar tastes, or will you be questioning how we ever got connected? Let's find out! Media Notes: September 2025, by...
Who needs Spirit...
Unveiling a new direction and purpose, legacy keepsake services. Perfect gift for the holidays. Combining my love of people and interviewing into a new chapter of my life. In June, I had my 50th birthday, and that milestone made me...
Previously. Whenever I want to upgrade any one of my systems, I run sd-world. Now the script has evolved, being hosted in pancake: it handles interruptions (Ctrl-C) more efficiently (it was my biggest gripe) the output is more...
本文分享了作者购买德生PL-330收音机的体验，并科普了AM、FM、SW、MW、LW等不同电台调制方式的原理与特点。文章详细介绍了PL-330的功能，如ETM自动搜台和SSB接收，并结合实际使用感受，分析了不同波段的收听效果。此外，文章还探讨了收音机作为应急通信工具的实用性，并对比了其与网络电台的优劣。作者也表达了对收音机的情怀，唤起对广播时代的回忆。
Today we were introduced to the extraordinary LISA: our sophisticated companion on the IQ2300 expedition to Antarctica later this year...
The distinctive peeling bark texture of this popular tree
Finally took some time to update my subscriptions and... It hurts.
Organize Go subtests with t.Run nesting and parallel execution. Learn patterns for setup, teardown, and readable test hierarchies.
Giant Gundam action figure "salutes" the sunset at the Osaka Kansai Expo. 大阪・関西万博の会場で、巨大ガンダム像が夕日に向かって敬礼する。
Perhaps it's no bad thing that they don't make'em like this anymore...
In this era of AI, “can we still rely on take-home writing assignments to assess student learning? And, should we allow students to use ChatGPT in order to complete such assignments? My answer to both questions is ‘yes’.” That is Carlos...
Gisteren promoveerde Rowin Jansen aan de Radboud Universiteit op zijn proefschrift “Toezicht op de AIVD en de MIVD”. Rowin arriveerde een aantal jaren geleden prominent in de scene rond de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten, en ik kan...
September 2025. Sheffield. From the Itchy Pig (2) I took a walk through Sheffield’s genteel southern suburbs, along Psalter Lane with its solid housing, “Do not take the bowel” sign and “help yourself” apples. The next pub on the half...
Update October 2025: further enhancements. Patrice Roy’s new book, C++ Memory Management, has made me more conscious of object lifetimes. C++ is stricter than C about lifetimes, and common, textbook memory management that’s sound in C is...
A reflection on the overenthusiastic embrace of AI in education and business, highlighting the long-term risks of ignoring junior developers.
Quick disclaimer: Mastodon does not provide a master list of “who blocked me.” That is a privacy and anti-harassment design choice. You can only verify specific accounts, and you can sometimes see if specific servers publish that they...
Notes on a chapter from "The Psychology of Creative Writing"
by Joel Glover
I got out of the house again, rolling the dice on yet another band I barely know. It was a'ight. Too loud, but I got out and for that I'm grateful.
A mental model or set of values starts as a shelter from the unrelenting chaos of reality. We need these shelters. Living without them isn’t really possible. We can’t take...
Fana likes to go ride the faoli, and it worries me out of my mind. They are only permitted in zoos back in the core, and for good reason. When I was in school, one of the trips was to a local zoo, and they had just received a shipment of...