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I spent the last few days alternating between reading, thinking, and muddling around with NDQ using Claude Code. About 50% of my time involves cleaning up the data so that I can do more sophisticated analysis with this text. To get a...
A reader asked me a very legitimate question about the coming segmentation of the computing marketplace I’ve been writing about. Essentially the question was why I thought it was a bad trend. Here’s one reason why. While it is somewhat...
My primary reason for leaving GitHub was not about a single feature or a single outage, but about the “enshittification” of the platform under Microsoft’s ownership. The web interface got rewritten into a sluggish pile of JavaScript that...
"Shall we retire to the living room?" said Mrs. Lovechild. "Unless of course you would like another piece of cake, Mr. Plumbtree?"Harry had already had two slices of the chocolate cake, and he could easily have devoured a third, but,...
After racing through Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl series this year, I finally finished the last book, A Parade of Horribles. (Of course, this was the audiobook version narrated by the inimitable Jeff Hays.) It still remains a fun...
Arthur's written a play. And it's being performed. And it's quite short. You should come!
Fashion can be many things, from frivolous to functional, with stops in between. Here’s a dozen plus fashion links that center on the functional, the famous, the frivolous and more. Functional You don’t get more functional than this:...
ICM 2026 starts today in Philadelphia; ICM 2030 will be in Glasgow I am now in Philadelphia after a two-day meeting in New York of the General Assembly of the IMU (International Mathematical Union). Among its many activities, the IMU...
If you want it then you have to want it.Nothing can stop this. Nothing is allowed to get in your way and nothing, no matter what it is, no matter how big the obstacle is and no matter how thick the walls might be and no matter how high...
OpenZFS Mastery is starting to pick up momentum. Don’t look at it too closely. You might scare it. First, note how ridiculously wide this VDEV is. A fourteen-disk VDEV will have suboptimal performance and experience slow death by...
Here at LSOZI, we take a break every Wednesday to explore the old steam/diesel navies from 1833 to 1954, profiling a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest...
The dragons hoarded what could be found here. The city was soon stripped bare. Dragons’ gaze wandered lands far and below that they desired to explore. Perhaps they could grow their hoards with new things from strange towns and distant...
I turned this Journal Comic drawing into my Kindle’s lock screen wallpaper!
Source: im sorry This is a video after my own heart. In the early aughts, I learned how to write LaTex because I thought I was going to go to graduate school and then get a doctorate. I was also inspired by The Art of Computer...
With my morning reading I switch from reading fiction to non-fiction after about 45 minutes, and I don’t pause. There are only seconds between me finishing the fiction and starting the non-fiction. My wife says that I do everything too...