Tue Oct 20
Taking a second after trying to reconcile some weird work documentation differences to play with clouds some. Low scatter, high haze, zeroed out Mie scatter, high rayleigh scatter, low star temperature. #rasdFastwalkerLeague View on Bluesky
As you may have noticed, September was a productive writing month, while October seems not be; you would be mistaken, for I have taken upon the challenge to write my Sunflowers story more thoroughly than the previous. For the whole of October I’ve been brainstorming, writing draft after draft — currently on attempt...
AutoDescriptor: Added categories via AutoDescriptor bot [taxonomy v3] The upshot of the whole "AI Solving Mathematics" thing is that these people with generally sympathetic viewpoints on their field are suddenly becoming protectionists at a rapid rate while simultaneously struggling to not sound that way. This...
Things are pretty tough right now. It feels like the terrible people read Gibson and Stephenson and decided they were a roadmap rather than a warning. Every day is scary. But dystopias aren't inevitable. A real dystopia comes from people and their actions, which means we have a choice.I started writing this about a...
Oh hey there. ö/ It's been a while. Long story short: things n stuff. I do have an upcoming blog post titled something along the lines of "Getting on Stage for the Very First Time to a Completely Empty Room". So if you've been wondering where I've been - that's a thing that happened. And if you're new here and the...
Sydney, Australia, based author and journalist Richard Cooke explores the inner workings of online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, is his recently published book, The Last Best Place On The Internet: In this entertaining book, journalist Richard Cooke delves into Wikipedia’s fabled creation, its extraordinary success and...
By this point I’ve written too much about my conflicted attitude toward generative AI. The TL;DR of it is that, in theory, “enhancement vs. replacement” is a way to determine whether a given use of generative AI is ethical or not: Asking Claude to write an Emacs function for me saves me a bit of time; asking it to...
I have 15 books on my small “To Read” bookshelf that have been sitting there for a while. Some of them I have had for years and still haven't read yet. I just ordered another book. I think I have a problem. I love to read. I probably do most of my reading online, these days, but I try to be intentional about sitting...
20 Lounge | INDEX | 22 Beacon Anyone who will do this for me when needed more than deserves to be called a hero! A note to non-Australian residents: the truth is we don’t see these guys as often as you think we do. All the ones that won’t kill you are completely harmless. Aussies love to tease the rest of the world...
PEA Soup is running a new series of posts on philosophical puzzles and thought experiments. photo by Martin Wacker The idea of the series to “try out ideas and for informal discussion of issues and questions in moral and political philosophy.” The proprietors of PEA Soup write, “All are welcome to join us in this...
October 2026. The Strand. London. Two hours between trains in London was enough for a couple of ticks in Aldgate and Charing Cross, but really life these days is more about the smiling child on the Circle Line than the cask in Charing Cross. Note the local artwork depicting the chopping down of trees in 1294 to...
Took a stormy but scenic route up from Helena and stopped in Bigfork, Montana for lunch. We were told in so many words to have bear spray on hand if planning any hikes up in Glacier. We lamented the cost of bear spray and the person behind the counter said there was a shack along the way with free supplies. And...
I recently learned of Ubuntu Workshops. In short, Workshops allow you to create an isolated development environment to safely work with AI agents. You get a configured (via YAML) sandbox where you can safely run an agent without the need for permission checks and guardrails. Workshops allow you to expose or block...
The 6th Generation iPod Classic has been my go-to for analogue music playback. Whether it be background music, party shit, if it has a 3.5mm input jack you best believe the iPod’s getting shoved in there The thing is, ever since I got a Škoda Fabia MK2, It has found a full-time job at the AUX. Gone are the days of...
There are really only three contenders for the most popular spreadsheet software: VisiCalc, the first computer spreadsheet and a system-seller for some home computers in the late 1970s, Lotus 1-2-3 dominating early PCs in the 1980s, and then Microsoft Excel (preceded very briefly by Multiplan). Excel dominated the...
I became a software engineer because I wanted to create products. Not because I wanted to write code.
A friend sends me an article that explains how an AI can predict a disease you’ll have in twenty years. Across the world, free-market peddling governments are diligently at work to dismantle public health services. At the same time a massive amount of fossil fuel burning data centers are being built, in a AI...
Get to know me: the food editionAfter a lively discussion among some members of the Web Writers' Collective, a challenge was born. It involves a few food-related questions which participants are encouraged to answer on their websites. James' original post on this is linked above. Here are my answers. What was your...
As a fair warning, this will contain spoilers on the Street Fighter movie as I will discuss elements of the film I enjoy. I am a massive Street Fighter 2 fan. The game came out when I was 7 but it dominated the arcade when I was a kid. I was enthralled by the characters and the action and just ate up every bit of...
Intelligenza Artificiale agentica: gran fermento, poche certezze e molta confusione all’orizzonte. Almeno per me. Ciononostante prospettiva divertente, in un certo senso, per chi ci lavora, perché ‘apre’ a fantasia e creatività. E ad imparare come perdere qualche chilo di troppo, in un certo altro senso. Scrivo qui,...
Given that I typically take a wait-and-see attitude when Apple introduces a new product, I was surprised to find myself ordering a HomeView within a day of its announcement. I was even more surprised when lots of otherwise pro-Apple people—this guy, for example—were skeptical about its value. Why is this? Well, one...
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-111813 for Apache Traffic Server, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to patch systems running its experimental magick plugin. In its default unsigned configuration, the plugin lets unauthenticated clients control arguments passed to...
A song you didn’t realize was a cover? The Pet Shop Boys were a formative band of my youth. In an era of Stock, Aitken, and Waterman cookie-cutter pop, they stood out both with their sound, and their art house stylings. One of the few bands of that time that I still follow, I had most of their albums and was lucky...
Tended With Care mtift Tue, 10/20/2026 - 06:38 For the vast majority of my life, I told people I don’t like doing dishes and that doing them is a bummer. I understood this as a fact about myself, the way you might say you don’t like cilantro.However, in recent months, I’ve noticed that I don’t mind doing the dishes....
So, a bunch of my services run, or rather, ran, on an old Intel NUC 8 that I bought back in 2020 and have mostly used as a “random stuff goes here” server. A year and a half ago the fan on it died, so I bought a cheap replacement fan on Amazon and all was good. And over time I started hosting more and more stuff on...
I get a lot of packages, so I sit staring at the Fedex tracking page a lot. They recently redesigned it (to become more “mobile first”, I guess — just a couple decades too late), and I’m just fascinated. I mean, it’s just a minor thing, and it doesn’t matter HANG ON: We’re on the Internet, right? OK, SO THIS IS...
October 20, 2026 Meta is now charging to post links. Business and creator accounts get two free links a month. After that, they need a paid Meta One subscription, with tiers that run up to $499 a month per account. Creators and small business owners are upset, and I get it. They built their audiences organically,...
This is an entry from my journal. I am an introvert. This means that I expend energy when I am in the presence of other people and store energy when I am alone. Introverts are often mistaken for being shy. While there is overlap, the two are not the same. Specifically in my case, I am not shy: I mean exactly what I...
2025 Books A list of books I've read this year. The rating system: 1 star = Didn't finish it 2 stars = Finished it but can't really recommend it 3 stars = Good book - recommended - you can have my copy 4 stars = Excellent book - you absolutely should read it 5 stars = A classic, keeping it for the library The Ballad...
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Searching for a sustainable breakfast. Note: all of this is based on my own opinion and internet research. I am not promoting any sort of nutrition/health lifestyle; I'm just trying to find a breakfast option that will work for me. Lately, I've been a bit paranoid about my health. Ok, maybe paranoid is too strong a...
This morning was enjoyable and I decided to sustain that with a stop at an old favorite for a final coffee. I used to come to Time Coffee just about every day. It was here I met my friend Russell years ago. We would talk life, philosophy, our times. It always seemed fitting. Like each of our times while completely...
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After a year, I decided it was time to do a proper write-up of my "stack system" so I had something I could point at. This update also introduces an entire new section of my website for creating things with cardboard, including two new photo-illustrated articles about creating "stack displays" for your stacks.
resembling a pair of acorns as theypushed against the fabric of her blouse— Han Kang, The Vegetarian: A NovelYou wake up in the morningwith the sap run outof your veinsinto a bucket at your bedsidethe sunrise has already come and swept away.You whistle for the feet you’dcurled like rootsinto the steep of dreamsbut...
“The poem is nothing but information. It is the Constitution of the inner country.” “We die. That may be the meaning of life,” Toni Morrison asserted in her spectacular Nobel Prize acceptance speech. “But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” We do language not merely with our words — which are...
Above you see two sketches of a shipping box. I doodled it because I’d just received a new sketchbook in the mail, it was one of the options for a sketchbook/journal to bring to Ireland, and I had to test the paper. So I doodled a box. The first of those doodles is on the right side, and boy, it is WONKY. I took a...
Hand drawn emojis. Frank Rausch, the author, shares the set as a font (*.ttf and *.woff2), images (*.png) and vectorized (*.svg). “Remember when the computers were fun?” he asks.
I’ve been seeing a few folks around making posts about their laptop stickers, and thought it would be a fun little diversion to post about. I have far too many stickers in my craft supply…erm…collection (which is a whole different part of crafting), so you know I jumped at the chance to decorate my newest PC. One...
2026 • LP, Red, Gatefold • Cassette • CD To see all 8 photos, visit the article page. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/records/omul-cu-sobolani-distopia-povesti-de-adormit-parintii/
I’ve long be Linux curious, and my wish finally came true over the weekend when my son installed Fedora and GNOME on an old ThinkPad for me. As I understand it, Fedora is the name of one of the Linux distributions, a.k.a. distro, and GNOME is the name of the desktop environment. The distro is the guts of the thing,...