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Meadow Gold Mack – Tulsa, OK – Fujifilm X-E5 – Retro Slide This new Fujifilm Recipe began with a stack of slides. Some were mine from the late-1990’s and early-2000’s (captured on Kodak Elite Chrome 100 and Elite Chrome 200), some were...
I’ve never worked with another person who knows Markdown. Is it too much to ask? I despise having to put shit into a Word document.
Power Cat 2026-08-10
Where We Left Off Part 18 was a Friday-evening update to Vaultwarden's version, making sure I was ahead of a Bitwarden app update before it could cause me any issues — one service, one box, a couple hours. This one is not that. This is...
Every time a new open-weight AI model is released, people say that local models are the future. Why spend billions of dollars building out datacenters when everyone will just be able to run AI models on their laptops or phones? I think...
(man-on-man sex, riffed on in street language, so not suitable for kids or the sexually modest) I have tons of news, much of it truly wonderful, some of it just eccentric bits of stuff I’ve come across, but all postponed after an...
Jolt now provides opt-in support to run go blocks on fibers instead of OS threads. This post will discuss how that works along with the different trade-offs made compared to other implementations, and why core.async turns out to be a...
Now that we've installed bun, Anthropic's package manager, scaffolded a Playwright framework and closely examined the results, and added typechecking with TypeScript's compiler, it's time to add ways to check the code with lint, and...
Desert Brat 2026-08-10 dog music
We usually talk about engineering like it's a technical discipline. We focus on the technical aspects — algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, the right partition key, etc. It's not wrong to think about it this way, but...
# The kindness of strangersYesterday, we went out on one of our usual Sunday drives. After stopping off for a few bits and some lunch, I wanted to take Sal up to Surprise View — a beauty spot with views over the whole of Derwentwater in...
Worthy Read is an ongoing series here at the blog where I link out to a piece I think is worth your valuable time. Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: “Zuckerberg suggests that using an AI to assist me in these tasks will let me accomplish...
Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours Simon Carter, Keeper of Collections at St Paul’s In a hidden chamber within the roof of St Paul’s sits Christopher Wren’s 1:25 model of the cathedral, looking for all the world like the...
got to check out the new stations for the SkylineThis was the one at Middle Street, it is called Kahauiki Thought there were more riders especially with bicycles than when the rail first started runningThis is the bus station at Middle...
Movies Double Danger (1938) D: Lew Landers. S: Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Donald Meek, Cecil Kellaway, Samuel S. Hinds. Inoffensive but mostly charmless B picture about police commissioner Hinds inviting his two prime suspects for...