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Thu Jun 18
Losing Alexandria all over again.
At this point it’s becoming increasingly clear that I can ask Cursor to read any of the implementations of my Conway and translate that into any other programming language that I want; this is what I’ve done last year with NASM, Scala,...
Today is a rest day for me from watching the World Cup matches. There are “meh” teams playing today at a decent hour for me: Czech Republic vs South Africa (Group A) – 5pm BST Switzerland vs Bosnia-Herzegovina (Group B) – 8pm BST Canada...
I run Tailscale on my laptops, phone and NAS, and wanted to add an exit node so I could route traffic through my own connection when I’m out and about. The obvious place to put it was the NAS, since it’s already always on, but the NAS...
This is an excerpt from a private exchange. I am sharing it with the permission of my correspondent, without disclosing their identity. I was wondering how do you have the courage to become who you are today, you know, making speech and...
Hoy se cumple un mes desde que empecé a trabajar para Codere, una empresa de apuestas española. Con esta incorporación se cierra un ciclo y vuelvo a trabajar para una empresa española. Además, sin saberlo se cierra un círculo bastante...
Recently I wrote about mocking auth in CAP for a rapid local-first development loop that allows you to embrace auth design rather than defer it to later. In development mode, unless otherwise stated (i.e. unless you add appropriate...
Not much about work - in fact, nothing at all about work - but quite a lot of links, for those of you who are link-leaning.
The American Philosophical Association (APA) has announced the winners of its Spring 2026 prizes. 2027 John Dewey Lectures Three annual lectures, one at each divisional meeting of the APA, given by a prominent and senior (typically...
When I moved my blog, I based the new one off of the eleventy-base-blog starter kit. At some point I noticed there was a fade effect when I’d click around my site. It was subtle enought that I ignored it for a bit, thinking perhaps it...
I sent this email to all workshop attendees. It made sense to publish it as a post as well. Thank you for attending the “Back to Basics: Build Your Own LLM from Scratch” session. It was great to see so much curiosity and many questions...
I enjoy this time of year a lot. Mornings are most often the most beautiful. Blue skies and cool breezes and later when I walk down the street for coffee I get this cool breeze which gives time to enjoy. I’ll go sit for coffee at this...
Anyone is capable of creating pictures more aesthetically pleasing than any renaissance artist. Cameras made sure of that. This led to the many attempts to redefine what art is, as it could no longer be defined as just a "pretty...
The conversation continues in favor of physical media over streaming (or at least working some physical media into your listening rotation). I’ve been listening to CDs, vinyl, tapes, even the occasional 8-track, especially in the evening...
I was at a baseball game with my folks yesterday, and it was a good time. I didn't really spend much time watching the game, but it was cool to see those guys playing; it was a visceral experience compared to watching it on a television....
Ever since I was a kid, I would always eat the crust of the pizza first so I could have the yummy part after. This is how I know I'm #disciplined💪🏾
I recently discovered that Bubbles offers the option to embed a widget on your website, to show how often your post has been upvoted and also to nudge people to go upvote in the first place. I'm not sure if I really want this on my blog...
Almost exactly a year ago I wrote about my new Garmin Forerunner 570 and how it compared to my previous 255. I partly bought it for some new features and metrics, but also because I was experiencing some rather annoying bugs on the 255....
For forty years, the best empirical work on policy responsiveness has produced two findings that do not fit together. The first: when the preferences of low- and middle-income Americans diverge from those of the affluent, the...
Vivimos en la era de la distracción. Para muchos sentarse a escribir sin caer en ellas es todo un reto: estamos solo a una notificación de distancia de perder el foco. Es por eso nacieron los WriterDeck, dispositivos con una única...
Liked Daily News Stuff 18 June 2026 by Pixy Misa (ai.mee.nu) Amodei is every bit as much of a weasel as Sam Altman. And while Altman is a sociopath and a compulsive liar, Amodei is something much worse: He's whiny. I look forward to...
Tercera versión menor de la versión 3.3 del reproductor de música Amarok creado por la comunidad de KDE El mítico reproductor de música Amarok de KDE recibe una nueva actualización. La anterior versión 3.3.2 se había publicado en enero...
June 2026. Leeds to Bradford. Comfort break at Newlay’s Abbey Inn over, we resumed Day 2 of the Cask Camino with a route from posh Leeds to almost posh Bradford. Today’s “Identify the bird” is a tough one. Lots of interesting canal...
Ayer se completó al primera fecha de la fase de grupos del mundial de fútbol que se está disputando en Canadá, Estados Unidos y México. Las 6 selecciones sudamericanas enfrentaron a 3 rivales de África, 2 de Asia y 1 de la Concacaf....
I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive. Town Square. A script that creates a little town square in your website’s footer. (Scroll to the...
Following on from the initial release of Wasat yesterday, I've got a very basic proof-of-concept client up and running. So far, so good. Here it is loading up my own capsule on GemCities: There's a lot to do yet, it'll be some time...
I hate AI generated images. Not a bold or unique position, but to some surprise, I used to love them. Years ago. In 2020, I was publishing a niche webcomic involving aliens, and I wanted a unique and visually outstanding way to portray...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop Tues 06/16/2026 - Torkoal Generally I like turtle and tortoise style pokemon but something about this just rubs me the wrong way. Maybe the whole coal thing? A symbol...
This post was inspired by David Meissner's and Thomas Rigby's posts. Sometimes, I remember a bunch of stuff that I kept at home. But then, I either gave them or threw them away for different reasons. Even though these things are now...
Problem statement: prek can’t clone a repo: that lives in an internal (private) GitHub repo — https:// clone fails without credentials. I forked my personal pre-commit-hooks into an org-owned repo and updated all our...
Driving has always been a study in contradictions. It’s liberation and confinement. Capability and diffidence. Exhilaration and terror. More terror than exhilaration, sometimes. My dad scared me silly when I first learned how to drive,...
Named slots are one of web components’ biggest superpowers ✨. Imagine a Button component with an optional icon; in Web Components we don’t need a separate Button and IconButton, a single Button component with <slot name="icon"> will do....
A CHE editor asked me to redo this post as a “letter to the editor” which they have published here, and which I reprint below: To the Editor:In the interview with four authors of the “Report on the State of the Humanities and Humanistic...
For those who subscribed to my RSS feeds you should, at some point, see a new title. It’s taken me far more tweaking and PHP hacking than I would’ve liked but it’s been irking me and now, I hope, it’s fixed. I’ve also removed some...
Non, ce n’est pas un titre putàclic, ni une publicité cachée, mais une métaphore. Suppose you had a pull request for SQLite. “Hey, I’ve got this new feature for SQLite. Here’s the pull request.” When you want me to pull that into the...
Apple is putting stronger AI image tools directly into everyday devices.That is good for creativity.It is also going to make trust harder.Apple says Photos will use more powerful image models for editing, with AI-adjusted photos...
The early life of musician Michael Jackson, from the discovery of his talent as the lead of the Jackson Five to the artist whose creative ambition fueled a pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world. It’s hard to make...
Un niño árbol un árbol niño se encuentran los dos juntos, piensan que han visto un espejo pero no son lo mismo, por dentro no son lo mismo, en el fondo del tiempo tampoco son lo mismo. Uno nació de un humano nació de la sangre tiene un...
Just 3 days ago (6/15), it was the mantric pleasures of my ball: Key lime cheese ball, Key lime cheese ball, Key lime cheese ball. And then today (6/18), the Pinhead citizens of Dingburg have taken to chanting for their remarkable...
So here's a thing that's been mildly irritating me the past few months. The problem If I'm watching a video on the YouTube website and send it, via AirPlay, to AppleTV from my laptop I get the wrong audio. I get the video just fine, but...
I like these pictures. Construction at Expo/Budy: A new scooter company with newly anthropomorphized scooter undercarriages: Mexico World Cup fans on the escalator at 7th Street Metro Center:
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Gentle A gentler world begins in the way you touch your heart. Be soft with the light inside you. Caress your body with this breath. God is nothing else but the place where the sun comes up in your chest. You are the glimmering...
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I'm greatly enjoying Piers Brendon's Eminent Edwardians, finding it rather more agreeable reading than Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. Reading about the egregious press baron Lord Northcliffe brought home to me what a very...