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I wrote a simple script that translates text at the command line, completely offline. Here’s an example of how it works on my computer: echo '¿Cómo estás?' | translate # = How are you? It combines a few tools: TranslateGemma, a...
Best Record of 2001: Day 30 Good morning! Today we’re taking a look at Lucinda Williams’ Essence as it faces off against Superchunk’s Here’s to Shutting Up. Note: As many of you saw, I recently wrote about a Best Record of 2001 challenge...
In the aftermath of the Copy Fail bug being (very unceremoniously) disclosed, the security news organization Decipher published a (maybe not serious?) “Mt. Rushmore of branded bugs”. The list is as follows… BEAST Heartbleed Rowhammer...
Watched: The Holdovers 🍿 A lovely story that perhaps could have shaved off 30 minutes of runtime.
Next out inspired by the Build with Micro.blog page: an automatically updated now page for my Bear blog. ✏️
The Iran War continues to drag on. I neglected to mention last week that Tim Cook announced he will step down as Apple’s CEO at the end of August. He will remain at Apple but instead take the position of executive chairman. Given that...
Long thought lost like so much of the silent era, a copy of the 1924 thriller-melodrama The Signal Tower was eventually discovered in 16mm. Directed by Clarence Brown before he became famous for his handling of several women’s melodramas...
When I wrote about the weakness of Russian propaganda, that may have raised a question.
From Hellhound On His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt In American History, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2010), Kindle pp. 284-286: IN THE HISTORIC quadrangle at Morehouse College, the mule-drawn wagon wound...
I think many engineers would be better contributors if they started to think more about the customer impact of their work.
walking new paths
In 2025, writer-artist Mike Mignola did an original hardcover graphic novel, Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown. Not set in the “Hellboy Universe,” this was a collection of short stories written and drawn by...
Better deaf than deafened.— Formerly, one wished to acquire fame and be spoken of. Now that is no longer enough because the market has grown too large; nothing less than screaming will do. As a consequence, even good voices scream till...
Neal.Fun makes lots of great games and game–adjacent amusements. Every one is a winner, and Cursor Camp is just the latest of the lot. When you load the page it’ll inform you that the page wants to take over your cursor. Let it, but...