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Last year, I started learning how to sew. So far, I haven’t sewn much stuff but every once in a while, I’ll sit down and sew something. The things I’ve...
May 6, 2026 Such a wonderful painting: Our VERY determined heroine might find that she wants to change her color palette; the blue at the bottom of the sky (yes, the lovely teal/petrol blue) is almost impossible to find in clothing. And...
I recently watched a video that put a name on something I'd been feeling. The author splits an LLM's context window into two zones. There's the smart zone, where the model is sharp, and the dumb zone, where attention drops off and the...
So I spent a lot of time talking about John Byrne’s 1980s run on the Fantastic Four, probably focusing too much on the specifics without saying, in the big picture, that it was classically-done superheroing. Imaginative, usually...
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Sharlene from Real Life Reading that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up...
It’s funny how sometimes your reading seems to connect, with one book leading naturally onto the next, albeit with no previous planning. That’s been happening to me lately, with the Eliot/Pound adjacent books, and now appears to be...
Olive Bread from VesuvioOne of my great joys at Tools for Working Wood is steering our visitors to great local places, whether great Mexican food in Sunset Park or worthwhile museums they might have otherwise missed. In that spirit, let...
Imagine you’re trying to deliver groceries in a busy city using a map that was published in 1971. You’ll find yourselves looking for houses, apartment blocks, entire neighbourhoods that didn’t exist when the map was drawn. This is what...
Earlier today, I saw this news on my Threads timeline: Guy finds Google Chrome is quietly installing a 4GB AI model on our devices. I must confess, I am still using Google (Chrome and the likes; especially Chrome) on my laptop and my...