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The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted that I've add an upvote button above the comments section. Don't worry it's an IndieWeb thing not CorpoWeb thing. If you haven't heard of bubbles.town then where have you been this past few...
"I wonder what Mark Fisher would have thought about the spread across all the end-of-year lists of what is effectively (regardless of genre or sonic specifics) a new singer-songwriter ethos... recordings approached and analysed and felt...
I was in Germany last week for a week which was my first trip out of the country by myself. It was an adventure that I wish lasted longer, although even if I hadn’t bought train tickets in advance, I couldn’t have stayed longer as I’d...
We recently sped up our integration tests by a factor of ten by running many of them in parallel. There were several flaky tests in the new test suite. Claude was really useful in getting rid of almost all flakyness, but I made some...
This morning while I laid in bed relaxing on my day off, I opened up my RSS feed app to play catch-up after having not read anything in almost a month. There was a lot, and I skimmed or skipped most of it (which tells me I need to thin...
There is a vast literature near the topic of this post, much of which has developed specialized vocabularies and concepts. And I can’t be bothered to master enough of it to make this post match it well. So please try to treat my words...
Google launched AlloyDB in 2022. They claimed it is fully compatible with PostgreSQL. Can be up to 100 times faster for analytical queries than vanilla Postgres. Four years later, I haven't personally seen it gain significant traction....
How has it come to this, one wonders
Figure 1. Global mean annual balance (bars) and cumulative balance (line) from the WGMS data set. Each year since 2008 I have been responsible for summarizing the global alpine glacier status for each specific year in the Bulletin of the...
Hello, loves! Weird hours again, but very interesting spike. Have a look! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. So last night, instead of waking up early, I couldn’t get to sleep, which rarely happens. Nothing really bugging me, just couldn’t drop...
I've been a long time user and fan of version control systems, from the early days of SVN to being a daily user of Git for all my code based work, my website and also even my TouchDesigner projects. TouchDesigner is of course a binary...
Hadamard matrices are in the news following the recent announcement of a newly discovered Hadamard matrix. I’ve written three posts on Hadamard matrices recently, one as a sort of introduction and two on applications: the error...
— an arresting dictum from Sundance Kidd, in my short story “The interview” (from my XBlog on 3/15/11 — edited from several 1996 drafts); the piece serves as a kind of vertiginous magic-realist summary of my Sundance and Butch saga...
Looks Unfamiliar with Martin Fitzgerald talking to Tim Worthington about Dallas, The Rock'n'Roll Years, Shoot Magazine's 'Focus On' profiles, Jackpot comic and more...!
Album of the Week, August 15, 2026 When Peter Gabriel released his new album Us on September 28, 1992, it seemed like an eternity had passed since his last pop album, So, in 1986. (How little we knew!) Over the past weeks we’ve looked...