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There's been too many AI articles in Hacker News recently, and it's become so boring that I was thinking about removing Hacker News from my RSS reader, Newsboat. Then, I suddenly remembered something I had read in Newsboat's manual a...
I did a workshop titled “Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch”, which kind of included some basic theory on how a transformer works, and then building a very small LLM. The idea was to demystify an LLM (or transformer) by...
Rishi’s most recent newsletter sent me down a rabbit-hole on the Palakkad Gap - the lowest and most significant mountain pass in the Western Ghats in India. It all makes sense now - The weather patterns, our ancestral migration, the...
Liked AI review: Time Witnessed by Fake History Hunter (Fake History Hunter) Also woman is merged with a table, although the witch fear wasn’t that big back [in Medieval London] (yet) I’m pretty sure someone walking through tables would...
Now (March 2026) We went on vacation For my kid's birthday + mine & my wife's wedding anniversary, we went back to Disney World. Mostly perfect weather, experience on how to get around and what to prioritize, and a camera for my kid made...
Cartoons that especially moved me in the latest — 6/1/26 — issue of the New Yorker: two by artists who are old acquaintances on this blog (Drew Dernavich and Frank Cotham), trafficking here in their brands of absurdity (their gags made...
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I caught a ride to Slippashep. Shah agreed to my unplanned vacation with no hesitancy, like he was expecting it. Every interaction I have is just one emotional abstraction weaved into another around a secret core truth, and maybe that...
Dear reader,As an AI skeptic, Apple’s this year’s WWDC presentation was painful to watch. While the improvements to speed, responsiveness, and the Liquid Glass design were welcome, the biggest talking point was AI, which felt obnoxious...
Yesterday's announcement of David Hockney's death was greeted by a wonderful outpouring of affectionate and admiring tributes – and quite right too. He was that rare thing, a genuine artist who was also widely popular and well-liked –...
One of the hardest parts of being an independent creator is getting anyone to actually look at the stuff you've made. Like, writing a comic? Writing a novel? These are things I know how to do. But making things is not the same as...
Hi hello. Happy #Caturday! I would like to introduce you to our sweet boy, Linus. Linus in his natural environment. If it fits, it sits.Richmond, VA · April 2026 We brought Linus home from the local Richmond SPCA at the end of November,...
The London Ohio Strawberry Tour has been on my radar for years. Yesterday I finally got a chance to participate! I opted for the 44 mile route as I'm not nearly as in-shape as previous years. It was a really nice, mostly flat ride. The...
Brad East: The gospel does not promise you health. It does not promise you wealth. It does not promise you anything in this life except the person and work of Jesus. You may or may not get married; you may or may not have children; you...
So after the screw-up by Openreach and EE, where I was promised full fibre and then it never happened, I'd assumed that nothing was going to happen for quite some time. I was told that (likely) Openreach would contact me when they'd...
(image courtesy of unknown artist) it came to me tonight, a small parallel to the absurdity of ED recovery. embarking on a seemingly endless highway, in a car whose petrol tank has a gaping hole bored in the bottom. such that you must...
Silly name but works wonders. I have been using this search engine called Uruky for about a week: https://uruky.com/ As a software dev, big part of my workflow is searching for information. As search engines in general keep getting worse...
My recent hifi splurge has me excitedly exploring music. Before I go on, I want to make clear: It is empirically true that nobody needs “nice” gear to have a blast with music. You can do it with $8 headphones. I believe that...
Alex Hsu is hosting this month’s IndieWeb carnival, and the theme is “No way!?”. Thanks, Alex, for hosting! I really like the theme of this month’s Carnival, although I find it a pain in the ass because it’s so challenging, I’m trying to...
The U.S. government just gave the cybersecurity industry a preview of what AI export controls can look like when policy moves faster than implementation.It is not pretty.On June 12, the government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to...
2026-06-13Back at the river boat showcase...Hello!I've realized that a lot of my shots are not quite minimalist, but definitely not busy and overloaded. I position myself at a reasonable distance away from the hotspots and the chaos, and...
This morning was a total stinker. I woke up with a dull headache, teeth grinding, fists clenched. Sometimes my body becomes haunted, a vessel for a thing; total and all consuming. It could be a conversation the day before or a problem...
Roshan: Wikipen In [[wikipedia:The Selfish Gene|The Selfish Gene]], Dawkins argues for a gene-centered view of life. In this perspective, the rest of the organism is a vehicle for itself as far as any gene is concerned. I loved this idea...
A couple of days ago I, like apparently the entire Indie Web, came across that "No, I Won't Buy You A Coffee" blog post, and, oh boy, did that hit me at the "right" time. In it the author complains about the "rampant capitalization and...
Sunday Steamy Sunday I was supposed to get up and go birding this morning, but it was going to be 87F (28C) and very humid by the time we finished, so I'm here blogging from the comfort of my air-conditioned home instead. We planned on...
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Happy weeknotes number 40! I thought about doing something special for this, but realized I have too many unfinished projects that I would rather work on instead. Perhaps when I hit 50. Once again, too much time has passed since the...
A support ticket that reads “the app is broken” is a request for help. A ticket that reads “the checkout service returns a 500 only on Tuesdays, only when the cart payload exceeds two megabytes, and only after the nightly cron job has...
Version 1.6 marks the biggest upgrade to CalAction since its release in March, adding additional ways of ingesting and managing events in your calendar. Of course, in the meantime some bugs have been squashed and some rough edges have...
I'm remiss it took 'til June to dust off the bike for the summer.Currently Listening: Kevin Morby “Little Wide Open”Reply via email
I’m not the biggest fan of Richard Strauss, whose later years were murky to say the least, but i have to admit that Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks and Also sprach Zarathustra are two of the most awe-inspiring pieces of music ever...
When Japan broke up its national railway in 1987, the new companies agreed on one thing to keep the same.
I took a bike ride this morning on a portion of the I&M Canal Trail from Romeoville to Joliet and back. It’s a fairly short ride, eight miles each way, and that distance got me thinking about using Mathematica to do some calculations...
I heard via ava and Manu that Rishabh had created a blogging challenge about AI usage so here I go, hopping on that bandwagon. How was your first experience with AI models? My earliest memory is messing around with image generators and...
June 2026. Preston. A night in Preston, but an afternoon in Lytham, and that meant no pubs in one of the world’s great pub cities. No, it really is, even with the demise of the Greyfriar Moorbrook, with a proper mix of boozers (ugh). A...
I just read vidknights' post "I feel that the internet gotten too close" and I really agree with the message. Forums were awesome. A great organized way of chatting and sharing information. Also they were great for finding said...
I attended and spoke at KeyCon 2026! KeyCon is an annual mechanical keyboard convention in the United States. I’ve always wanted to go! It rotates locations every year, and this year it was in Chicago, so I had to attend on my home turf....
Antecedently: a man the Supreme Court is allowing to exist for now; Battle of the Linguist Mages fanfiction; I regret answering ‘Cebuano’ when William asked me for a random language The First Ride Of The Xibalba Corps (Aspect-Generation...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X100VI 🎞️ 23 mm focal length – 1/35″ at f/8 – ISO 125 📍 San Francisco, California, United States – Ohlone, Ramaytush, and Muwekma land
En distribuciones basadas en Arch Linux como CachyOS, el uso del AUR (Arch User Repository) es una parte fundamental del sistema. Permite instalar software adicional que no está en los repos oficiales, pero también puede generar...