Home
Mon Jul 27
The experiment took one word. Hearts of Glass is a story from this site — written with models, as most of the fiction here is, but outside the pipeline the archive documents: it began as a conversation about human hibernation, and the...
Jason Grigsby has a great article where he surfaces an opinion from the Safari team about how AI agents shouldn’t get special treatment: An agent acting on a user’s behalf is, in effect, assistive technology: it should operate a site as...
I am considering going deep into the subject of the Reading Act. Starting with history. So I am brainstorming how to go about this and do a sort of self-study syllabus. It would be nice to know if there are courses out there. I only find...
The twelfth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:In Episode 12, I chat with Georgie, the author of Hey Georgie about, among other things, writing about travelling, blogging as a self-reflection tool, why someone should start a...
My war against Screen and against Online is over and this is the peace treaty: No screen without a matching TODO item. I can spend any amount of time online or on devices or watching TV and do anything on there as long as I do this: Away...
I'm doing the DeepLearning.ai + RedHat vLLM course. Here's a dump of some of my handwritten notes (from the ReMarkable 2).
The Garmin Cirqa has been out for 3 days now, so of course I'm qualified to write a not very comprehensive review. I want to go over why I bought the thing in the first place, the fit and finish, battery life, the software situation and...
♠ Problem statement: ctrl+d in pi took several seconds to quit. The culprit was pi-memory’s session_shutdown handler. It sent one last LLM request to summarize the session, wrote its answer to the daily log, then ran qmd update. Pi...
Today, the world is made of people. This gives people a tiny measure of leverage: factory workers can sabotage the machines and halt production, truck drivers can strike and halt the entire economy, the police can stand back and let a...
Four Big Books is the title of a course I’ll be teaching this coming term — my last as a university professor! What follows is an outline of what I’ll be saying to my student on the first day of class. • • • • • Back in 1982, at the...
Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, joins forces with an unlikely companion on an interstellar journey of vengeance and justice when an unexpected adversary strikes too close to home. This feels less than a superhero movie and more like a mashup...
In 2025, the number of people in Germany paying by credit or debit card overtook the number of cash payers for the first time. At first glance, it seems that cash (coins and banknotes) will eventually become completely obsolete here too....
Go’s proposal to allow examples with any signature was accepted on July 8. Today, an example must look like func ExampleXxx(). go/doc skips the function as soon as it sees a parameter or result. The example doesn’t appear in go doc or on...
Why read the book? Peter Thiel explains how to build companies that create new value instead of improving on old ideas. He shows that the best businesses escape competition by solving unique problems and securing monopoly positions. The...
Notes from building BrandGEO, an AI visibility tool for our agency’s clients. For almost 30 years, being discovered worked one way: someone typed words into a search box, an engine returned ten links, and an entire industry, mine...
My last post was about things that I never want to run out of. And it got me thinking. Are there things that I would very much like to run out of, properly, all the way down to nothing, and never get to? Turns out there are. Here's the...
I’ve collected 113 items for the year 1995.
Something about the last two years has eroded my ability to focus. I find myself doing less deep work and more context switching. I’ll give you three guesses why. It is what it is though. I used to be an i3wm zealot, and I remember it...
Powershop is in the process of updating all their clients to their new mobile/web application. With this change, the old import Powershop data from downloaded CSV, does not work anymore. That needs fixing, of course.
Some link titles have been slightly modified for style. EntertainmentIt's not about physical vs digital games, it's about ownershipPopcar explains why digital ownership is important in the gaming community. On K-pop and generative AI(CW:...
I remember when Hollow Knight: Silksong came out and people playing the game demanded an easier and less punishing experience. Soon articles came in questioning the decisions Team Cherry made while developing the game. Terms like...
My jj experiment is going well As mentioned, I’ve been trying jj lately, and I’m beginning to see the light. Or at least some of it. Here are a few key changes I’ve noticed. Disclaimer: I am mediocre at git and a total beginner at jj....
A propos this, another old study from 2006: This study examined which schools are most successful at placing their graduates in “top” law school teaching positions. “Top” law schools for this purpose meant schools that either (1) are...
One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course, never breaks.) The moment I stepped out of the airplane, the...
It’s funny how silence can be a cool, refreshing glass of a water or an oppressive force of nature.
Vamos a viajar un poco por la historia de Google y desmontar un par de mitos de esos románticos que te pueden hacer pensar que también puedes hacer esto. 1. La historia del garaje siempre es mentira 2. Un rápido crecimiento 3. El proceso...
Introduction I recently published an article about creating and publishing a new visual novel in ONScripter-EN titled Under the Alien Sky from beginning-to-end from July 17-19. I created that piece within the restraints of two Itch.io...
How do I find a balance between growing as a person and being genuinely myself?
I fear this might turn into a collection of products which have sacrificed themselves to the slop overlords. Standard Notes They use HORRIBLY BAD AND UGLY AI generated images on their front page. Never have I been so repelled by a...
AusAlert is a new, nation wide, emergency warning system being rolled out by the Australian government. Should there be a crisis or disaster of some sort, authorities will be able to send warnings to mobile phones in the vicinity. The...
Estas palabras las estoy escribiendo al vuelo, casi en una especie de ejercicio de escritura automática, en el porche del bungalow en el que me estoy alojando unos días. Hace sol. El paisaje está ligeramente turbio y huele raro, quizá...
Dear Creative Soul, There is always going to be someone who does something you don’t get. There is always going to be someone who doesn’t treat you with respect. There is always going to be someone who says something that make you feel...
Writing-wise, I’m stuck. I’ve been stuck. Hot, nasty summer day and the nearly-expired flies caught in dangling sticky paper are like, “at least we’re not as barbequed as that poor sod.” I mentioned the gist...oh, six months ago. That's...
A decade ago, when I was still speaking at conferences and heavily marketing myself, I’d often think of personal branding ideas. We’ve seen the trends. The business cards. The t-shirts. The stickers. The buttons. The socks! Can’t forget...
Photo by Tyler on Unsplash The small web and self-hosting are cool and all, but what if you want to deploy a homemade Node or .NET app in a Docker container somewhere? Pretty quickly, you end up needing (or wanting) something like: A Git...
📝 2026-07-27 17:54: The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so...
The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so clearly something was wrong. Luckily my wife was able to get hold of a local falconer who was able to catch him and hopefully nurse him back to health. 🦅...
Antirez, the creator of Redis, recently argued that expert programmers using AI should think of themselves as being Linus Torvalds. The key part of his analogy is this: Automatic programming, instead, in the hands of people that are...
August is a week away, which means I'm on the cusp of three distinct yet overlapping seasons: portfolio, primary, and tomato. Meditations ensue. portfolio Like a good Boglehead, I rebalance my portfolio once a year. I do mine in...
One nice thing about being depressed is that it almost feels like I have the luxury to tell God, "No, Lord, turn your back on me. I don't need any favors." Because I'm just so tired and incapable of doing most things, it kind of feels...
Writing my response to Michael Harley’s blog post arguing against the merits of weeknotes has, ironically, had me think more about weeknotes and seek out more weeknotes to read. I’d toyed with the idea of creating my own weeknotes for a...
I have a thought experiment for you. Imagine if the next time you go to sleep you wakeup in someone else’s body-mind. And they wake up in yours. A full swap. What would that be like? If your first reaction to that was, “Oh I would be...
Ich habe Angst, dass hier viel von Gestern wiederholt wird, aber das soll niemanden davon abhalten, auch diesen Post mit Vorsicht zu genießen. [24/1000] Eine Frage, die im Halbschatten (und am Ende) des Posts von Gestern steht, verdient...
I haven’t written a post in a long time but it’s been on my mind all these weeks and months. Writing these notes offers me some relief. Things have been busier and not the good kind of busy. My father-in-law hasn’t been well; my wife has...
I had a Honda Element back when it first came out, and what an interesting vehicle it was. It seems mostly remembered for its boxy shape—noted in the second sentence of the linked article—but it was quite a bit more than that. For one,...
I had the sudden inspiration to post on here since I haven’t in a while. Here are a few things I am grateful for lately: my little corner of the world good rooftop views bánh mì flowers in a cute vase semi-spontaneous travel wide open...
Table of Contents Nuclear Strategy for Individuals Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes Diplomacy Studying at the Swedish Defence University gives you an odd way of thinking, where everything can be modelled through the lenses of nuclear strategy,...
I watched it in flight to Delhi last month and later after landing I completely forgot its name. Then I found it last week in the flight from Delhi. What an adventure LOL. The movie is about three people who experience life after death...
This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the...
Here’s (usually weekly, but during the summer, monthly) report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources, new reviews of philosophy books, and new podcast episodes. (If we’ve missed anything, please let us know.) Stanford...
The pitched roofs, overhanging eaves, curlycue flower petal motifs—is this really the entrance to the Third Avenue Elevated at 28th Street, or is it a house from a fairy tale? Painted by Staats Cotsworth around 1940, this depiction of an...
Hace de unos meses que estoy sin pagar ningún servicio de streaming de películas (lease Netflix, HBO, etc.), una razón es la de reducir costos debido a la reciente mudanza que llevó una considerable cantidad de dinero, la otra es que las...
Having spun up Port70 as a support library for my effort to add gopher support to Rogallo, the next thing I needed was some code to parse the "gopher map" responses that you get back from Gopher servers. While this could have been some...
July 2026. Whitchurch (Shropshire). OK, they’re not all “wonders“, but illiteration innit ? Whitchurch (Salop, there’s loads of them. See also : Newport) is a pretty little town, overlooked by those on the way down to bigger hitters like...
It feels like not a lot happened this week. My workplace has been rather boring, my gym-going is pretty standard, there were a lot of things happening on my gaming side, and such, but well, here’s a summary of things. Oh right, the...
From you the tireless honeybee I draw an example for my own life to remain consistent in my commitments to never make discounts on my principles and to always contribute with whatever way I can to the common good that unites us Από εσένα...
I’m writing much less because I’m thinking, much less. I’m thinking much less about what I watch, what I read, what I use or what I eat, what I do and who I am. It’s a period, it must be summer, it’s a period in which I watch, read, use,...
actualizacion de activity pub para wordpress version 9.1.0 corrige lo siguiente: Fix repeated deliveries of a like or repost creating new comments after the original was marked as spam or moved to the trash. Origen
There were ducklings waiting for me when I arrived the other morning at the office where I was beginning my work day. They were in a box stacked atop the morning’s delivered mail. This is not an infrequent event out here in the woods....
On this evening 14 years ago, I was watching, aghast, the television coverage of the London Olympics opening ceremony. My memories of it are mercifully vague, though I do of course remember the James Bond stunt with the Queen, all those...
The person who opened the “issue” asking for better E-Ink screen support in the Readeck app for Android, whom I mentioned in my first impressions of the Boox Go, gave us a gift this Sunday: they submitted a pull request toward this goal,...
In which I challenge myself to draw a pokemon every day until I stop (and that stop has come!) I got sick last week and it kinda messed up my rhythm; I've traditionally been able to be sick and keep drawing these but I had enough other...