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In September there seems to have been some blockchain spam repositories (see ycombinato, Git Coin) that tagged quite a few people, triggering GitHub notifications for those people. While GitHub reacted and removed the repositories, they...
Lovely readers, I promise this is not turning into an AI blog1. I am merely documenting my baby steps. I use JIRA all the time. It’s our bug2 issue tracker of choice. And, now that I am slowly incorporating Claude Code in my daily...
The OatmealArtists hate using it. Consumers hate consuming it And yet it thrives, like an Arby’s built inside a protected forest.This whole comic nails it—especially that line. The only people excited about AI art are those who see it as...
After sleeping in this morning, my day has been rather slow. I decided to skip the gym today and just chill with some radio, a cup of coffee, some cinnamon toast, and vibes. I slept in because I had some edibles last night and they were...
September 2025. Sheffield. A lot of short posts, as I don’t want to keep you from Strictly Come Dancing or Softly Softly repeats or whatever you lot watch on telly. Back in Sheffield, I decided to have another go at the Sheffield half...
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I didn't like all the time lost while going to and from work, but there's a certain joy to it that I've learned to appreciate a bit more.
I attended IAC 2025 last week in my home city of beautiful Sydney! I figured I would publish some of my notes from the week. Apologies for not posting any photos of the event. It never occurs to me to photograph the random things I see,...
Shared an afternoon, takeout food, thoughts, favorite bands, albums and songs with friends today. Collected music in a playlist. +
For a while now, I’ve been considering running my own RSS aggregator … for a couple of reasons (that don’t matter here). In my shortlist were two popular candidates: Tiny Tiny RSS (ttrss) and FreshRSS. Due to lack of time and other...
Remembering my mother, one year later.
There's a practical wishlist and there's an aspiration one, and it's fun to make it into a collage like this. After all, what’s the point of online window shopping if not to mix and match them into a moodboard of wants? As usual, I...
An update on my web design business
I am super-excited to invite you to Open Assembly on October 29, 2025, 1:00–3:30pm EST, a global online festival where artists, coders, and educators come together to present their work on and with Processing tools. This year’s event...
The weekly update, plus bits and bobs that caught my attention this week.
The astronauts, who may depart as soon as February 2026, will not land on the Moon though. Their flight sounds like it will be similar to Apollo 8 in 1968, which yielded this incredible photo, taken by William Anders. The Artemis program...
Write a book review of the last book you couldn’t put down. How to Sell a Haunted House, by Grady Hendrix I don’t want to give anything away from this book. Just read it, because its one of these horror stories that is so well written....
The Public Philosophy Network has published the first volume in its series of “Guides to Public Philosophy.” The guides are intended to provide useful advice about engaging in public philosophy. Some of the guides cover subfields of...
Spent the morning and first part of the afternoon in the hospital to discover the reason for a problem. Blood work and tomography came back normal. Thankful for that. Doc thought it might be a bacteria. Gave me antibiotics. Typical doc...
online webinar, octboer 7th 2025, irish uplands forum I am delivering the first webinar for the annual Irish Uplands Forum autumn series of online talks on October 7th 2025 at 7pm. My talk considers folk traditions in uplands burning,...
🌎 AERIS Figure 1: arXiv:2509.13523 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling Finalist @ SC’25 We demonstrate a significant advancement in AI weather and climate modeling with AERIS by efficient scaling of window-based transformer...
Now that the evenings are getting dark earlier I feel more inclined to put some of my time aside to make a few changes to this website. I’m thinking of adding search functionality for this blog, as well as some ActivityPub functionality...
I am not “on” social media. Both in the sense that I don’t have accounts on them, but even when I do I do not use them. As I have briefly mentioned earlier this has some minor consequences, but I will not discuss them here. Instead I...
Title: Chris Dodds Website: chrisdodds.net RSS Feed: chrisdodds.net/rss.xml The personal blog of Chris Dodds, an Oklahoma based software engineer, writer, musician, and woodworker. RSS users are my people 🫶 If you appreciate what I'm...
A brilliant daylily at Hokyo-in temple, captured on Kodak Ektar film. 宝筐院の鮮やかな萱草。コダック エクター フィルムで撮影。
The eyeball'll never seethe color of its iris.The hand will never scratch its back.The skull will never kiss its nape.The clock will never measureits keeping of true time.Unless, that is, they get external help.But what aboutthe living...
On or around September 20, 2025, attackers compromised a third‑party customer service provider used by Discord. Discord reports that the intruder accessed data tied to support interactions for a limited set of users. Impacted users are...
Macromedia homepage, June 2000; via Internet Archive. After the hype and fear of Y2K (a.k.a. the Millenium bug) quickly faded in January 2000, the internet continued its mostly joyful rise in the culture. Sure, the dot-com bubble got...
La sociedad colapsó a nivel mundial, uno creería que es por causas naturales, con la cantidad de advertencias que el mundo nos dio, pero no, la sociedad colapsó irónicamente por su capacidad de avanzar y crear nuevas tecnologías. En el...
AutoDescriptor: Added page description via AutoDescriptor bot [[wikipedia:Donald Trump|Donald Trump]] as President and presidential candidate has coined or popularized a whole bunch of phrases that are now in the common lexicon. == The...
Organize Go tests with in-package, external _test packages, and integration tests. Learn white-box vs black-box testing conventions.
Blake Watson – ManuLet’s start from the basics: can you introduce yourself? Sure! I’m Blake. I live in a small city near Jackson, Mississippi, USA. I work for MRI …I enjoy reading Manuel's People & Blogs series when I want something low-key
I watched this movie a couple of days ago but didn't have time to post it because of moving out from one place to another. Anyway, Leonardo De Caprio is very picky in selecting a movie and that's why the expectation of movie to be good...
I recently went to the local at gallery with my visiting Ma & JB. I've been in Broken Hill for five years and had never been. My first year or so was written off by the great pandemic panic and it only just re-occurred to me that a...
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