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Under partial failure, retry loops can rearrange history. If order, duplication, or staleness matters, retry needs state.
It’s been pretty quiet around here for the past couple of weeks. I’ve had my head down, working on projects for the 9-5 gig, and it’s been too goddamn hot to be outside doing much of anything. The dog is going mental because for various...
I’ve cancelled my Claude Pro subscription. It wasn’t out of any dissatisfaction with Claude; on the contrary, I still think it’s the leading LLM for general use and especially for coding. No, my choice was more because I realised I was...
DESIGNING (THIS) DUNGEON'S THEMEIn the last post, I talked about how easy it was to make a simple dungeon that could fit on 2 sheets of paper, but random stocking can only get you so far. Intentionality can really help a dungeon sing!...
The characters finish their business with the asshole pixies and help lead out the inmates from floor 2, then run into some snakes and toads. Party Members Tina the Titanic - Level 6 Fighter Telperion Desh - Level 6 Magician Vaco...
I came across this webpage by Sheeva Azma entitled, “Here’s every scientist I have found in the Epstein Files so far.” She’s missing a few big fish: Dan Ariely (professor at MIT and Duke, Ted talk star, and teller of a story about a...
Vacation time is a good time for experiments and trying out new things. So over the past week I’ve been forcing myself to sit down and write something new for my blog every day. I guess this is sort of an exercise in practicing in...
Finished reading: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan 📚 Finished up this series with the kiddo. On to the next!
I was recently a ‘guest’ on Dan Hon’s new online event type thing – How People Work…LIVE!. The session is on Youtube – I will never, ever look/listen at that but maybe you will. It was a pretty nerve wracking occasion given some of the...
How do I get the audio output from my stereo to somewhere else?
For most of us, I think the picture is obvious. The job we did for years, picking up a ticket, opening Figma, digging through the codebase, typing code into a file, adding a test, debugging the test, jumping to Stack Overflow, getting in...
18 July 2026 ISAs are getting more complicated - here’s what is changing. The government wants to encourage retail investors to invest in growth rather than just save cash 1. So it is changing some of the rules. Cash ISA limit reduced to...
I caught Nelly sleeping comfortably on the couch when I came in from reading on the balcony for a moment.
I posted this earlier this morning on Mastodon In the middle of the night I have an idea for an over due blog post: let me now cogitate and procrastinate for a while. Stew on it until the idea is overly cooked, inedible and abandoned. Or...