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Several weeks ago I saw my doctor for my annual physical. Thus far into middle age I have been blessed with generally good health, and for the past many years my exams have mostly resulted in routine lab follow-ups that haven't yielded...
Subscription-based coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex famously have 5-hour and weekly quotas on their LLM usage. Both of these are understandable: 5-hour quotas help stagger usage so the servers don’t get overloaded, and weekly...
Let’s start this post off with a quote from myself back in February last year when I let you all peek into my stationary drawers: I keep telling myself I don’t need more but somehow I think I do. There; the search can already stop before...
When we were kids, my generation was dutifully warned about the evils of substance abuse. We were warned of complete strangers wandering oh-so-purposely into our paths with the sole intent of giving out free dope so as to perpetuate...
In the 1781 publication of two Coptic fragments of the “Life” of St Colluthus, the preface begins by describing how the pages reached the hands of the owner, Francisco Borgia. It then continues by printing the entry for St Colluthus from...
Synology just released DSM 7.4 highlighting their new “storage efficiency” feature. Note that you can’t actually use this feature unless you’re dumb and/or rich enough to fill your NAS with only Synology’s own overpriced drives. It’s...
A few years ago I published vanity-keygen, a small Go program that brute-forces ed25519 SSH keypairs until the public key matches a regex. It did about 250k keys per second on my 32-core machine: a minute for love$, days for...
Located on the southwestern outskirts of Xinying, Tainan, this was a former transshipment station for salt produced at the solar evaporation ponds of the Qigu Saltworks (七股鹽場) and Budai Saltworks (布袋鹽場). In the mid-1950s salt production...
I went to a hi-fi store in Luxembourg called "L'Audiophile" today. (If you are ever in the country, they are extremely friendly, helpful and super knowledgeable. I feel they have a bias toward speakers, but they still have a good...
Fried green tomatoes!
Hot on the heels of my ESP32 display detour–which went from Cydintosh to Flying Toasters on an ESP32-S3 and then, inevitably, R-Type–I ended up with an M5Stack Tab5 on my desk as a very indirect consequence of chasing e-paper displays. I...
I just like saying that. Clearly you should use whatever you want. “What is the SLAP stack?” you ask. Well, I just invented the name on Mastodon a few days ago. I don’t even want to do a web search to see if it’s already taken because...
This quilt is one of a series of quilts I generated following Election Day 2024. There were so many changes to laws, funding, access – especially related to my discipline and my research – that I used my sewing machine for Processing the...
Time for the second variety from the mega bucket! Found this at the new Y&Y Supermarket in Lynnwood, Washington. Was the only thing I got but there were quite a few other things I wish I had. It’s a big bucket maybe 15 orso inches tall,...
We don't believe in the sweater curse in this house.61 words · 1 image