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When I get bored and have access to claude.ai… I build html quine apps 😄 My newest creation is a personal financial planner app. I love this format, self contained and easy to backup. Too bad cross device usage is still a pain.
I’m not sure if this is a sign of hitting a certain age — like a sudden interest in bird feeders (check, and please tell me about yours), or beekeeping (well, in the TikTok sense, not sorry), and animated conversations on the best...
Read the full post at - This Dark Road To Mercy by Wiley Cash This Dark Road to Mercy is another memorable novel from Cash. Without getting into too many spoilers, the book follows two young sisters in 1990s North Carolina who find...
“’If you think the AI output looks like a good paper,’ I tell my students, ‘you don’t know what a good paper is.’ It is bad enough when students don’t grasp the working methods and critical premises of literary study, but it is our job...
Several months ago, I moved into a new condo. Shortly after, I noticed the arm in my condo’s dishwasher was loose. It seemed to chug along fine without. Then, a real hiccup, a few days ago: the dishwasher stopped 10 minutes into a cycle...
I put my Pixel 10 on a Belkin MagSafe wireless charger. Today it dawned on me that it would be cool if when the phone is on the charger that if a phone call comes in the phone would automatically operate in speaker phone mode so I could...
Funnels, logs, and LLM traces combined cannot explain AI agent failures
Previously in tech, the joke was that Microsoft’s org chart was a bunch of divisions in a Mexican standoff. Fast-forward to now, instead of pointing guns at each other, every division at Microsoft is yoked to the other via KPIs and bonus...
Today's Write Now interview features Charlie Greenwald, author of JEFF O'LANTERN.
Mariner’s conspiracy board from Star Trek: Lower Decks s01e05 appears in full in The Art of Star Trek: Lower Decks (IDW, 2026).
Kevin Warsh was nominated by President Trump in January 2026 to replace Jerome Powell as Chair of the Federal Reserve. He was confirmed by the US Senate last week and sworn in as the new Fed chair earlier this week. What are some of his...
I have been going full tilt since I quit my job in 2024 trying to make this work-for-myself gig actually keep us afloat. This is not a plea of any sort. It’s just me admitting that I’m exhausted this week. But honestly, everyone I talk...
Most of my career in distributed systems has been as a tester, performance engineer and formal verification specialist. I’ve written performance benchmarking tools in the past, for RabbitMQ and Apache Pulsar but in recent years I’ve used...
Another unusual orchid from the last Hilo Orchid show. This time it’s the color, though to me it looked on the purple end of blue. Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here.