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Today is one of those days. I don’t feel like writing code today, but I’m at the coffee shop, head in hands, trying to motivate myself. I will work on Stream for Mac today because there’s so much to do. Maybe I’ll tackle OPML and Refresh...
May 24, 2026
Bullshittery, AI psychosis, prompt injection pranks, forgotten Voyager engineers, exotic island safaris, and the radical neuroscience of play.
My girls convinced me to take them to a local Barnes & Noble because they were searching for something called a Squeezy Squishy toy — or something like that. So we braved the unseasonably cool, dreary, rainy weather to drive the short...
I am driven to write this post because of repeated disappointing experiences where coding agents seemingly don't know how to make hyperlinks. It occurred to me that this may just be a sign of the times, and maybe many younger human...
The summer moons will soon be over. You should not wait until the grass is yellow. (Happy AAPI Heritage Month!)
Walking and birdwatching on the Camargue, near Saintes Marie I have just finished reading Frederic Mistral‘s Mirèio in English through a florrid but free translation hosted at Project Gutenberg. I was slowly reading it during the two...
Princo is a brand which might be quite divisive. On the one hand, they aimed to bring affordable high-quality recordable optical media to the market. But on the other hand, many of their recordable discs failed rapidly due to poor …...
§ Almost exactly 14 days after sowing and at the first sign of warm sunny weather, the beans I planted all suddenly started sprouting. Also, I found a lone breba crop fig on our tree. It’s obviously not much but maybe a sign of more to...
How do I stop a chunk of artificial bad traffic to my sites
Today, I feel like using Ghost. Tomorrow? Who knows?I've been having so much fun the past few days with computers. I had some new ideas and installed some new software and worked with Claude to link 'em all up and it was a blast. I may
Walking back from the screening of Josh Geer’s wonderful film Leaves of London at the Castle Cinema, I stopped on the bank of the River Lea to capture the sound of the birdsong on my phone. They were in full voice, determined to sing...