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Hello, loves! Tout le monde déteste l’IA. I had in mind to do some pleasant Making App additions to the program. I’m afraid that the code may not agree. Result: whining is never really wasted. Next on my agenda for the program is to...
Posted on July 27, 2026 Tags: madeof:atoms, craft:sewing, FreeSoftWear The recurring joke is that because of some health issues, in summer I dress like a Victorian Vampire. But how would an actual Late Victorian Vampire dress? Picture...
The New York Times has an interesting article by Kashmir Hill, about her reaction to discovering a 90-page AI biography of herself on Amazon. Here’s a link to the piece at The San Francisco Examiner. To say the biography wasn’t very good...
Tara Clerkin Trio - Somewhere GoodA blissfully dubbed-out Broadcast? A trip hop-infused Young Marble Giants?! Whatever! The Bristol-based group was one of the best totally-new-to-me things I saw at Big Ears this past spring. I don’t...
Remember when your heart was broken and you wanted her to tell you, just once, why she left you? Why she cheated on you? Why she didn't tell you this before, when there was still time? You said you wanted closure, but there's no such...
Building Having a bit of a problem with figuring out what I want to make. I used to be much more creative than I am now. Mostly drawing. I was never particularly great at it but it was always a passion of mine, right up until I finished...
While I have discussed the AD&D DMG in great length on this blog, my interest has largely been in interpreting the general feel of the game: I mostly unpack the implications of specific rules, worldbuilding conceits, and explicit...
TL;DR The AI infrastructure bubble has reached a point where companies just can’t actually spent all the money they might (notionally) have allocated. There might be money on a balance sheet somewhere, but good luck exchanging it for...
Plans for the future of this website. To keep this brief, it’s probably best served as a list: Probably won’t write any more long and detailed web dev guides and tutorials Killed the /notes section, and the respective RSS feed Old /notes...
I’m pleased to announce the 2026 edition (17th edition) of my Internet Law casebook, Internet Law: Cases & Materials. The book is available in multiple formats: a PDF for $10, a Kindle ebook for $10, a softcover version for $20, and a...
Here’s another one from HongKongFoodies.com! Go check ’em out as they’ve got a treasure trove of hard to find Demae Iccho variants! This isn’t ramen – it’s macaroni. It’s not macaroni and cheese but macaroni and broth – should be quite...
It's summer, and that means it's time for our annual run at another BDR (Backcountry Discovery Route). We've been doing these for a decade now, and - at least for the western states' routes - we're starting to run out of options!...
Fatale - July 2026Photo by Brian SweeneyWith thanks to PANINAROAhead of the release of their debut, vinyl only, EP entitled Saint Mungo, I caught up with Fatale guitarist and songwriter Christopher Jollie to find out how things are...
Ars Technica on plans by Xona Space Systems to launch a constellation of low-Earth-orbit navigation satellites. Compared with GPS, the satellites would be much more resistent to interference because their signals would be 100 times… More
I use an M1 Mac mini for testing different major macOS versions. Currently the Mac has six boot volumes, macOS 12 Monterey through macOS 27 Golden Gate. While booted into macOS 26 Tahoe, I noticed a couple of strange things in the...