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Mina the Hollower uncovers novelty in its pastiche.
Graduation season is upon us, my friends, and I for one couldn't be happier. Not only do I get to revel in the fact that I'm a "prefessional adult" who's DONE with school [NEENER NEENER], I also get an excuse to drag out some of the old...
Syntactic sugar ...
Right around the time of Trump's re-election, I discovered European Alternatives, a page dedicated to—well—European software alternatives. It was the first time I reconsidered my software choices in terms of origin. With that in mind, I...
Over the last few days, I’m grinding out a bit of text based on an assemblage of frneware from Polis on Cyprus. This is in the service of a larger project that I’ve been describing over the last few weeks. It’s been slow going and quite...
Ghost Pipe flower (not a fungus!) spotted while hiking near Asheville, NC. Thanks Beth and Jonathan for teaching me about this plant!
AI is great when it extends your brain. It gets dangerous when it quietly replaces the part that was supposed to think.
Walking in the Malvern Hills. Party, Pendle and Puddleducks in Lancashire. From log stove to sweltering heatwave. Up very early on Tuesday for the drive to Malvern to do the Malvern Hills End to End and Back Again with Malvern Walking...
From In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette, by Hampton Sides (Knopf Doubleday, 2014), Kindle pp. 245-247: In high spirits, De Long and his men began their long march across the frozen … Continue...
What a Chicago restorer's YouTube channel reveals about how a hurried culture remembers, and the slow hands that pull faces back into the light
A thoughtful review of AI-generated frontend code in a real product: strong in isolated spots, but increasingly inconsistent at the system level. It also makes the case for using AI as a candidate generator and validator, not as the...