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A weekly digest? But it’s been over a month! Happenings I’m broken up from school for the year. I’ve been working on an extra-curricular project for some of my top students for next year. A couple of years back I did something similar...
This week, I presented this paper at ICCCN'26. This is joint work with Aleksey Charapko (University of New Hampshire) and my MongoDB colleagues Matt Broadstone, Daniel Gomez Ferro, and Akshat Vig. The paper investigates how to build a...
It's August, which means it's time for the annual Summer Under the Stars month on Turner Classic Movies!As always, TCM's August festival started today, on the 1st, and runs through the 31st. During this month the regular franchises,...
Gianni Infantino has scrapped his plan to sell stakes in FIFA's competitions, including the World Cup, to investors. It was always the wrong idea – custodians don't get to sell what they're only trusted to protect. | Read full post >>
Based on the recurring statements from most of my readers, our days of actively acquiring perfumes are in the past. I rarely hear about new perfume loves from you these days. At the same time, the second often mentioned sentiment is that...
July was a month full of unexpected events, milestones, and just busyness in general. It’s crazy that we’re way past the half of 2026, and that we’ll be soon – depending on how you look at “soon” – embarking into the autumn. 🍄 Life At...
This years summer vacation we spent in Italy. Our first stay was close to Lago di Bolsena, at the border of Lazio and Tuscany. It was hot but the pool was refreshing. The large agritourism estate was quite empty – somehow there was just...
I saw the title of Antonio’s post the other day on bubbles.town, “I Couldn’t Live Without My Glasses”, and it intrigued me. > The first thing I do when I wake up isn’t checking my phone or making coffee. It’s putting on my glasses....
I saw the title of Antonio’s post the other day on bubbles.town, “I Couldn’t Live Without My Glasses”, and it intrigued me. > The first thing I do when I wake up isn’t checking my phone or making coffee. It’s putting on my glasses....
Source Somewhere in Colorado’s backcountry, biologists are actively searching for a fish everyone assumes is extinct. In 1889, ichthyologist David Starr Jordan documented a massive golden trout at Twin Lakes, Colorado, up to 12 pounds,...
It took nine years to build the Thames Tideway tunnel from Acton to Abbey Mills, a massive drainage project to detain and divert London's Victorian sewage overflows. But it's taken even longer to finish off the additional public realm on...
Here we are, another Sunday and the last week of July and first days of August. Sundays are the days for my Meals of the Week posts. The day when I gather together all of the deliciousness that I have enjoyed as my main meals over the...
July saw a bit of a dip in my reading. I guess we all have months like that sometimes. Of what I did read there were quite a few meh reading experiences, which didn’t help. On the plus side I did rewatch the TV series, Ludwig at the...
I wrote about setting up Pi a couple of months ago. I still use Pi, but less than before – my daily driver these days is Grok Build, as noted on my AI stack page. I recently discovered OMP (Oh My Pi) – a different terminal coding agent...