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I behold London; a Human awful wonder of God! William Blake (1757-1827), Jerusalem
I'm apparently doing it wrong. According to Andrej Karpathy, There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding', where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. You just talk to the AI and...
It was good fun last week to share my experience of unpacking my new book, The Spiritual Imagination of C.S. Lewis. The front-porch video got a few thousand spins on social media and hundreds of comments from friends. It was … Continue...
I’ve been sharing notebook images from this blog on Pinterest for quite a while (as well as re-posting lots of other people’s notebook images). Over time, I’ve built up a surprisingly large following there, but in recent months I’ve...
This week I kicked off our Hanakai sponsorship drive for 2026, and shared an exciting new stretch goal — if we can raise another $15k for this year, we’ll be able to pay an honorarium to our active maintainers.The response so far has...
Built a small tool jotta-canary which alerts your phone when a machine's Jottacloud sync folder stops syncing. Private repo for now, unless there's interest.
The Regicide Report came out in January 2026. Traditionally I wait for the paperback before writing one of these spoiler-laden crib sheets, but there won't be a US paperback edition and the UK one isn't until the end of the year: if you...
For this week’s AI Skeptics episode we talked to Daron Acemoglu, economist at MIT, about his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Apple Spotify YouTube
The day is August 16th, the time is 6:42 am, and the temperature is a very enjoyable 16°C. The sun is about to rise over the mountains, and I can see it appearing behind the car I just parked at the same parking spot where we ended our...
From the New Yorker issue of July 6 & 3, 2026, under the heading “A critic at large” (on-line, 6/29/26, “What happened to your face: How the human countenance become something to study, edit, optimize, and scan”; in print, 7/6/26,...
Kill ShotsA shooter can choose to give up movement and evasion to get a +1d damage bonus for their successful hits. Attacks against shooters going for a "kill shot" are at +2 that round. GrenadesGrenades can be used safely at a distance...
From a history book I’m reading: He drew charcoal portraits for extra money, but talent didn’t save him from [unpleasant work in] the tannery. After work, he would lie down in a corner of the shirt factory where some apprentices slept....
There’s a lot of propagandist idiocy in that regard, so I want to sort it out Read more
Spotify, it seems, will be adding a button to skip all the ads in a podcast — except for ads sold by Spotify. I have no idea how good a podcast player is Spotify. I have no desire to find out. ~ Link: Spotify's Unskippable Podcast Ads,...