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There is no theory too stupid to believe in. If there exists an idea about something, people will defend it. So I no longer wonder how people can believe in a theory that is so far removed from reality that you have to abandon all reason...
Another weekend, another Saint's Day in our village in Spain. Someone arrives very early in the morning and creates this just outside our door, at the foot of a set of about fifty steps up towards the church. There will be a procession...
3 is the best number of list items, as Russell Davies explained in his PowerPoint book. Other good numbers are 5, 6 and 10. The worst number is 9. There you go, I've summarised the blog post in the RSS feed update so you don't even need...
May 2026. Congleton. A first visit to Congleton in, ooh, four years. That was for a short-lived Brewhouse Tap north of town, and so is the Guide newbie. Excitingly, the Beer Guide describes an exciting “alternative” route to the...
There's an upcoming exhibition at the Azabudai Hills Gallery about "The Monsters" by Kasing Lung. They've put up these big window stickers, and I've been walking past them every day when heading to work. I was surprised how much I liked...
This morning in yin yogaI looked up at my left armMy mind focused on the asanaSuddenly distracted by a thought"My goodness, look at those wrinkles!"A smile bloomed on my breathWrapped my judgement in joyMy heart whispered into...
Practically all of my work happens inside a terminal. Git, kubectl, tmux, ssh'ing into a server, open practically the entire day. Something I use that much has to be fast. Any lag in opening a new tab, typing a character or hitting tab...
Of course I found this in a Hacker News comment. Some background “AI tells” have been a thing for nearly as long as this heLLM-scape has, and they’re just about as bad as the actual machines they supposedly unearth. The whole problem...
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So one of the biggest challenges for a lot of indie authors who self publish like me is getting our books in front of other people's eyeballs to begin with. One of the easiest solutions is getting real, honest reviews onto platforms like...
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I have a number of part time jobs in process or lining up for the next few months, and I have been joking for a while that I would buy myself a Switch 2 after my next payday (which, for one of my gigs, tends to come every two months or...
A quick update carrying on from this morning's release: as mentioned towards the end of the post, there was a small problem with the lint command where it would raise an error if a page or post linked to any page related to the new...
It’s June, and June is Pride. Fuck the bigots, let us hear it for queer stories with happy endings. And if a few xenophobes get their innards in a twist over it, all the better. Beware: racism and xenophobia; drinking to dull pain;...
Hello hello hello! We missed last weekend due to it also being the beginning of the month and putting out a polished zine (here and QB), plus the Media Guide on Monday was more than enough for one weekend... A lot of fun stuff has been...
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A short essay on a rare epistemic habit, and how to spot it from the outside There is a kind of person who pokes holes in things. They hear a confident claim and reach for the exception. They take the unpopular side at dinner. They...
Not a webring - maybe some day - but an even cooler one! My wife and I went to the jewelry workshop our friends gifted us for our wedding last year. I had a moonstone at home I wanted to turn into a ring (yes, I do love big chunky gems...
Been doing some work on the website to bring back post types on the site properly (something I haven't had since switching from Kirby). I now have articles, links, notes and books, all on the homepage and filterable. Hopefully nothing is...
Mirroring a static Hugo blog onto ATProto with standard.site and Sequoia, plus the GitHub Actions wiring that republishes the records on every push without any manual steps.
Liked September becomes a pile-up as publishers swerve to avoid GTA 6 | Opinion by Rob Fahey (GamesIndustry.biz) Watching the impact that GTA 6 is having on the rest of the games market this year reminds me of an underwater nature...
It’s been 25 years since I first heard Chester Bennington growling into a microphone, and ever since then I’ve been a fan of both hard rock and crossover. My goodness, what gems these guys from Linkin Park delivered in the 2000s....
Right now, I'm at the airport waiting on my flight back home to take off. This weekend was wonderful, and the whole wedding was beautiful—intimate, efficient, low-key. My buddy was fielding some ideas for his vows, and we talked him...
When I visit a restaurant, I care a lot about the food I’m being served, and I want everything I order to be delicious. But arguably, my favourite part is understanding and appreciating the decisions behind each item on the menu, as well...
I've been a software engineer for basically my whole life, at least ever since I first taught myself to write HTML code when I was 12 years old, and in the modern era when Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models are...
Today I used my bike as a tool and not just for excercise or hobby! My mom wanted me to go with her to some place, and even though she would just take me with her on the car, I decided to simply go ahead and take my bike to meet her...
Eu já mudei o título e o rascunho desse post umas duas vezes e eu estou frustrado com isso. As anteriores eram títulos mais negativos e era o exato oposto do que eu queria escrever. A intenet nunca foi um lugar positivo, não vou ser...
Hace unos años me compré una webcam de pinza de la marca Ewent de la que estaba muy contento porque fue barata, funcionaba bien y tenía buen soporte para GNU/Linux, pero con los años una de las patas de la pinza se partió por la presión...
This weekend has seemed odd. Or maybe different. Oddly different. Something like that. I went out for beer last night and chatted with the Khmer people that work at viva. They are a fun crew and all speak very good English so joking and...
We are the survivors of immense and minute events — violent cosmic collisions and subtle genetic mutations, the deaths of innumerable suns and the births of innumerable cells, the splitting of continents and the splitting of atoms. Out...
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Every week, I share something I learned in the previous seven days - This week I learned about beavers and the London Underground
Just hours before Game 1 of the 2026 NBA Finals, I was feeling a little confused and a lot exasperated. In Decentralized Disrespect I ranted about the apparent cluelessness of Polymarket's sentiment machine, which somehow had the...
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[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] We’re finally here, at the end of all things. In this post, we’ll use a Fourier series to get...
A dear friend of mine is no longer working. She was laid off last May 2025 and hasn’t been able to find a new job for a year. A whole year without work. She was a copywriter. Today, her job is done by an LLM. Bad, but sufficient for the...
Flying over the Santa Monica mountain range in Malibu. The white at the top of the frame are clouds covering the ocean. サンタモニカ山脈 マリブのサンタモニカ山脈の上空を飛んでいる。画面上部の白い部分は、海を覆う雲だ。
I took my bike out for a short ride again yesterday. The last days it was rainy and stormy, but yesterday, there was a bit of sun again. Also wind, but I took it relaxed. Nature also really calmed me down. I haven’t really realized...