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This is my entry for AuguStory, a blogging challenge from Robert Birming to tell the story of your blog. Once upon a time, Newsonaut was called Newsloops. The name was a mashup of news and Kamloops, reflecting my frequent commentary on...
From On Library Holds by Parker Adey:Holds appear on a special shelf in the library with their spines turned away. Each book wears a printed band showing who it is being held for. Elastic bands hold the printed slips on the books. When...
So, you’re a person who has decided to embark on a creative journey of self-expression — to make art, in other words. First off, this is awesome! The universe needs more people making art, whether that art is writing, painting, music or...
With judicious application of ice-packs, tiger balm, ibuprofen, walking up and down the garden and lying on my side, my bad back has slowly gotten less bad. I can now sit upright for more minutes than previously and occasionally forget...
This week on the podcast: Stephen and Myke are joined by Jason Snell to talk about CarPlay on boats and the new version of Pastebot, before useful consumer advice is given about weather stations and network-attached storage.
We’ve been a bit busy lately and the heat has made it unbearable to do much outside. This evening was cooler and the boys were itching to go for a walk, so we headed towards a footpath that had been blocked by nettles a month or so ago....
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine asked me if we wanted to exchange mixtapes. I was actually deeply afraid. Despite working with music, I'm very self conscious about my taste, probably due to some bullying during my formative years...
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“OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits...
In this blog post, we will tear into ChatGPT's code execution sandbox. We will decipher and benchmark the real compute and memory limits behind the claims of 56 cores and 4 GB of RAM.
Another fairly local harvest with Glorious Grasslands, at a farm near Sapperton. When I got there, I realised I’d done it previously back in 2023, but this was a different field. Two harvesters today so we set up a large tarpaulin and...
Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation? I’ve been asked twice now: if the generated code doesn't matter—if the AI is doing the heavy lifting of writing the syntax—why do I vibe code in Common Lisp? Why not target Python, TypeScript,...
Just had a little trip up to my favorite city of Juneau, Alaska. So lovely. Here’s just one story from the trip. There is a Big Thing going on there right now which is essentially an impending flood that is going to happen any day now....