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Link: Mamdani invests in tech capacity to “solve real problems”, by Pamela Herd in Can We Still Govern?There’s a lot that newsrooms can learn from Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral administration in New York City. His latest announcement is the...
“A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.” - John O’DonohueHello friends! I hope your week is off to a good start. The trend here this week is hot and drying out. I hope my trend...
A deep dive into the Laravel Scheduler, from event registration and cron evaluation to mutexes, background processes, sub-minute tasks, and production-safe scheduling. Read more
How about this fantastic Cold War color image of “NAWC-47” (Bloodhound 47), a red-trimmed QF-4N drone (BuNo 152253) with an on-board crew assigned to the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Weapons Division, Point Magu. The curious ordnance...
A few months ago I got to read one of the most entertaining scientific papers I’ve seen in a while.* It’s a study by Stefano Mammola and colleagues that documents patterns in the use of jokes in scientific talks – in particular, talks at...
The Damen LST 100 design, which was picked last December to be the Navy LSM– coming to a shipyard near you TOTE Services in Jacksonville yesterday picked up a $2.6 billion contract from Naval Sea Systems Command’s PAE Maritime to serve...
Golden Brown / Silverness / Melodies Never Lie - The Let It Be Stage, Denver, Colorado, June 12, 2026We’ve been digging into the Aadam Jacobs Collection for over a year now … but of course, Jacobs is just one (extremely prolific) taper....
Golden Brown / Silverness / Melodies Never Lie - The Let It Be Stage, Denver, Colorado, June 12, 2026We’ve been digging into the Aadam Jacobs Collection for over a year now … but of course, Jacobs is just one (extremely prolific) taper....
Unless you are under a rock, you have no doubt heard of the passing of Irish-born Kiwi actor Sir Nigel John Dermot “Sam” Neill. While everyone else is talking Jurassic Park, we, of course, remember Mr. Neill as the fictional though...
We don't have a Midnight Special vs. In Concert or Kirshner's Rock Concert comparison this week, and it's probably just as well, as Special has a highlights show featuring the best of 1978, hosted by Wolfman Jack himself. You can see the...
Armin theorizes that this is because more recent Anthropic models have been specifically trained (presumably via Reinforcement Learning) to better use the edit tools that are baked into Claude Code. This has the unfortunate effect that...
Email-to-SMS gateways were once a popular tool for email geeks and savvy sysadmins to ping themselves with important notifications. Nowadays? They're either dead and gone, in the process of shutting down, or problematic enough that we...
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society, by Eleanor Janega, published 2023, history, 286 pages. An interesting book. Among other things, it makes a point which hadn’t occurred to me before, that what a society...
Absolutely ripping your hair out reading Claude referring to everything as “honest takes” and "load-bearing seams"? You’re not the only one. But what if I tell you there’s a way to take this massive source of frustration and make it so...
Coding agents write plenty of PL/SQL, but they need a feedback loop to write it well. Here's how to hand dbLinter to Coding Agents and teach it to check its own work.