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I’m getting old. I know I’m getting old because (a) at this gig, at one point, I knelt down to take a photo and seriously had a moment of wondering exactly how I was expected to get back up again, and (b) because Alfie Saunters (git)...
Andy Emler pianoClaude Tchamitchian double bassEric Echampard drumsRecorded July 17-18 and mixed July 21-22, 2026, by Gérard de Haro at Studios La BuissonneMastering by Nicolas Baillard at La Buissonne Mastering StudiosSteinway grand...
A very short workweek, with Bank Holiday Monday, the GitHub Maintainers Summit and Matt's funeral on Thursday Had a chilled Bank Holiday Monday Was nice to be invited to the GitHub Maintainers Summit, and found it a good time! I didn't...
Notes on LLM RecSys Product – Edition 5 of a newsletter focused on building LLM powered products. Four posts into this series on how LLMs are changing product building, we’ve spent all our time on what we build. We’ve talked about why I...
+ MATCHMAKING PARTY
“Vegetarian pizza”, “So this is the Ortolano pizza, it has augergine, zucchini, mozeralla, artichoke and pepperoni” “Peppeoni is meat” “Without the peperonni then”. I’ve been wandering through historical Rovereto for about an hour and a...
I’ve just put out a review of various Star Trek: Lower Decks spin-off publications over on my books-movies-and-TV blog, one of which may have crossover appeal to regular readers here – that’s Warp Your Own Way, a...
I recently started listening to Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (read by Meryl Streep, no less) and quickly decided to pause. I don’t know how much of the novel is about putting on a production of Our Town (1938) by Thornton Wilder, but
Lower Decks has gone the way of all Alex Kurtzman Star Trek shows – getting cancelled before it can undertake the sort of epic hundreds-of-episodes run that Star Trek shows enjoyed back in the 1990s. As Strange New Worlds and Starfleet...
A British comedy about a man who orders cheese and beer, and is surprised to discover a rather unique infestation inside… Home Media Availability: Released on DVD. More Fun Than Temperance R.W. Paul’s film company was among the leaders...
Inspired by Sam, Pedro and Iván, who started this wonderful quirky series, Little Things (which is a bit like Three Good Things, but weekly) I thought to set aside Sunday...